Armstrong powerhouse

[askefant]

I wondring what type of delevring method armstrong powerhouse use. like a file or a steam key,? not goood at modding files in games

[Father Jack]

download a link and run it. very easy

[askefant]

If I have to reinstall game how do I get it to load then?

[E Vilfart]

Install with care, most Armstrong Powerhouse add-ons have no uninstall facility.

[Phase3]

askefant
You create an account with AP when you purchase an item. At any time you can log into that account and download and redownload any item you own as many times as you want. On the home page there is also a facility that gives details of any updates or log into your account - downloads - sort by date updated. When installing you just need to ensure that the installer points to your RalWorks folder.

[atrubrit]

The only thing I’d add Phase3 is that although your account page downloads has the main download file for your purchases the additional files - if the purchase has them - being extra stock and branding files aren’t there. You get those by just going to the item on the shop site (not through your account). There’s usually a copy of the manual there that you can download and look at before purchasing. I’m not sure why the extra stock and branding aren’t in the account section. It seems inconsistent.

On the comment that there’s no uninstall facility, true, but if you ever want to replace sound or enhancement packs just redownload the original Steam item and that will get rid of the modified files.

One thing to be aware of is that patches from Steam or DTG or verifies can remove the AP sounds and enhancements. In those cases you’ll need to reload the AP files. It’s one of the problems about DTG not being more open about what patches contain and therefore being able to figure out if the AP packs may have been overwritten.

With AP packs that impact several DLC, for example the track pack, don’t forget to rerun the AP files if you subsequently buy another DLC that the AP pack can be applied to.

Lastly although AP service is excellent it’s easy to miss important information. They don’t add all news to the website for example, but tend to advise of patches or changes on their Twitter and Facebook pages. For example just about every sound pack has been revised in recent months to feature new fading effects. There are also updates for 64 bit issues, such as with the Class 91s. You’ll find a link to a log of changes via twitter or Facebook.

Great DLC, but if you’re not a big social media user it’s easy to miss updates.

The new Class 31 enhancement pack is stunning. Worth buying now as the newer DLC doesn’t go into their sales for a while.

[Phase3]

Atrubrit
Good points about branding and extra stock.

Sorry, but I'm afraid I have to disagee about AP mods being deleted after a major upgrade verification of the cache, etc. AP has its own, Sound (Audio) folders in ASSETS which do not get deleted unless you do it manually. It installs any mods to locos etc OUTSIDE the .ap file structure and are not deleted. Based on your theory ALL 3rd party scenarios would be deleted after each verification etc and they are not. I have not lost any AP file in the last 6 years after an upgrade etc.

[ginger-welsh]

Originally posted by atrubrit:

Lastly although AP service is excellent it’s easy to miss important information. They don’t add all news to the website for example, but tend to advise of patches or changes on their Twitter and Facebook pages. For example just about every sound pack has been revised in recent months to feature new fading effects. There are also updates for 64 bit issues, such as with the Class 91s. You’ll find a link to a log of changes via twitter or Facebook.

Great DLC, but if you’re not a big social media user it’s easy to miss updates.

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Good point this.

A trip to AP, shows that all 14 of my packs are out of date. (Customer E mail should be the thing).

I've always used the original files to re install after verification.

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[atrubrit]

@phase3 on whether or not AP content could be lost following verifies and upgrades I thought it best to ask AP directly. After all AP have excellent customer service. This is the response Richard Armstrong sent me today

‘For any of our packs which affect original content, then verifying the game cache should remove them and return things to default. This might get more hazy for our recent enhancement packs which don’t actually improve the default liveries. For our stand-alone rolling stock/route packs, this isn’t the case at all.’

So as they say directly from the ‘horses mouth’

@gingerwelsh yes, notification would be nice (personally I’d be fine if they updated the website in news) but I think the bigger picture is that AP not only fix bugs in their content they also improve them over time. Something DTG might want to think about.

As another example of ‘good’ AP changes that I’d missed I could see from the website that the Mark 2 stock I’d bought some time ago had Wessex liveried stock but I couldn’t see it in TS2019 or in the documentation. This was rather frustrating as I wanted to use them with the Class 31 Wessex in the recent AP pack. Turns out that AP had added the new liveries recently, and amended the documentation, so all I had to do was download it again. More content, no charge.