Situation Mode could not be loaded - Map not found!

[Aandreas]

In this game stopping error, I only get seconds into the first screen before the white popup box displays the error message "Situation Mode could not be loaded. - Map not found", and that's it...

I get no game options to work with, no options to 'ignore map loading' or to 'not to load buses' etc, which are the things others are talking about who have similar issues to mine.

[Aandreas]

ISSUE SOLVED: After 2 days and what must have been over a dozen complete uninstalls and reinstalls via STEAM, the issue seems to have fixed itself. But I'm not sure what it is specifically that I did.

None of the individual attempts of altering files, deleting lines or installing into different drives actually worked. The last thing I did, which I had already repeated many times over, was to totally uninstall and reinstall.

I didn't even expect it to work, clicked play and forgot about it, went out and came back in 30 mins later and the game was running! Totally lost as to what I did... But it is fixed and working now! ;-)

All I can attribute it to is conditioning; if that's a thing? And someone else had mentioned this repeated uninstalling and reinstalling thing to me in another post I had made on this issue elsewhere.

[Aandreas]

I've been reading lots of posts here for hours and I'm tired of it. Search does not reveal posts with that exact same problem, or a solution to it.

Unfortunately, in nearly all these posts where the players are reporting OMSI 2 not starting, very few people come back to their original post to say how / or if - they fixed the issue. (I will)!

So the problem here is really with the developers, they should get their act together and professionally and knowledgeably answer these issues people are having, - so that others like me could read and fix our games ourselves.

Instead, we have to rely on random people giving unknowledgeable suggestions (some people who I've noticed are reporting what they think are faults, e.g. 'Bus won't move' is not a fault when you discover they think they are playing a squeeze and go game like GTA, Fortza bla bla bla)... Ha ha ha ha...

I've tried asking for support at Aerosoft-Support via email, but I wanted and needed to play now (immediately; -unfortunately, its the next day now as I write this);

I was in the middle of making a video series and stopped and shut down to go out for a meal that day, without changing anything, no add-ons added etc, upon my return the game just refused to start.

Aerosoft-Support: support@
aerosoft.de
Its been only a few hours since I contacted email support. # However... I've asked for email support in the past and the usual scenario is support asking lots of silly questions about your PC hardware days later: And going back and forth over this scenario before they start offering possible solutions.

LOOK - I'd say, I've been playing (whatever game it is) / OMSI for years without issue, The game was running fine only hours before. Nothing has changed on my PC from the time I shut down the game to restarting the game several hours later...

In this case, I only get seconds into the first screen before the white popup box displays the error message "Situation Mode could not be loaded. - Map not found", and that's it... No game options to work with, no options to 'ignore map loading' or to 'not to load buses' etc, which are the things others are talking about who have similar issues to mine.

[Aandreas]

I would have thought that if the developers went to the trouble of writing an error report message like:-

Situation Mode could not be loaded. - Map not found!

(Or even an error code for heaven's sake).

Then they should also have a straightforward fix with an explanation.

Try searching for 'Situation Mode could not be loaded. - Map not found!' (between the quotes) and I get nothing..

https://steamcommunity.com/app/252530/discussions/search/?gidtopic=3211505894145783707&q=Situation+Mode+could+not+be+loaded.+-+Map+not+found

STEAM SEARCH RESULT: No results were found for your search terms.

Results from the OMSI .de site forums does not help either...
http://www.omnibussimulator.de/forum/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=23498 (Here's the German link and below in Google Translate).

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.omnibussimulator.de%2Fforum%2Findex.php%3Fpage%3DThread%26threadID%3D23498


So - I've done all of this, deleted in STEAM and reinstalled, not working... Manually deleted and reinstalled in STEAM -= not working...
I kept a copy of my original files before I deleted them and I have even replaced them - still no joy. Nothing is working at this time.

[Arnstein86]

How about taking a backup of the folder OMSI2/Situations - Then delete all its contents and try to start. To check if it is one of the situations that has saved wrong or something.

[Aandreas]

Originally posted by Arnstein86:

How about taking a backup of the folder OMSI2/Situations - Then delete all its contents and try to start. To check if it is one of the situations that has saved wrong or something.

Possibly a good idea: I'm going to try that...

I'll do this by replacing the original file I copied to a secure location before I started all this, but I have tried replacing the moved files a few times now and that doesn't work. - This time I will make a separate backup of the OMSI/Situations as you say (from my original files)- then delete and reinstall OMSI 2 via STEAM then replace the OMSI 2/Situations (overwrite the downloaded file)... Here goes..

That did not work, but thanks for the info...

So to recap - I took my original OMSI/Situations file (I know enough to keep my original files if I ever need to delete and reinstall game files, no matter what game it is if you are having problems), and then replaced it over my newly STEAM downloaded OMSI 2 / Situations file -

Neither the complete original game files, not the newly downloaded OMSI 2 files work, and nor doe the new OMSI 2 files with the old original Situations file work... No joy!

[Aandreas]

Here my latest updated log file if that helps

====================
Start logging
====================

Date: 15/05/2018
Time: 06:58:38
Version: 2.3.004

0 06:58:38 - - Information: OMSI is working in fullscreen mode
1 06:58:38 - - Information: TIR - looking for DLL path...
2 06:58:38 - - Information: TIR - DLL path not found - TIR disabled [0]
3 06:58:43 - - Information: Options dialog created
4 06:58:43 - - Information: Weather dialog created
5 06:58:43 - - Information: Profiles dialog created
6 06:58:43 - - Information: Time table running dialog created
7 06:58:43 - - Information: Start dialog created
8 06:58:43 - - Information: Menu 2 created
9 06:58:43 - - Information: Menu 3 created
10 06:58:43 - - Information: Tut dialog created
11 06:58:43 - - Information: Menu pos set
12 06:58:43 - - Information: Bro initialized
13 06:58:43 - - Information: Human engine initialized
14 06:58:43 - - Information: Forms set
15 06:58:44 - - Information: Captions set
16 06:58:44 - - Information: Screen ration set
17 06:58:44 - - Information: Init3D: BackBufferFormat = 22
18 06:58:44 - - Information: Init3D: Hardware vertex processing
19 06:58:44 - - Information: Init3D: Max iso = 16
20 06:58:44 - - Information: Init3D: Hal active
21 06:58:44 - - Information: Creating 3D device procedure finished
22 06:58:44 - - Information: 3D initialized
23 06:58:45 - - Information: Direct sound initialized
24 06:58:45 - - Information: Create main manager...
25 06:58:45 - - Information: Veh array created
26 06:58:45 - - Information: CS initialized
27 06:58:45 - - Information: Station manager created
28 06:58:45 - - Information: OBB created
29 06:58:45 - - Information: Tex managers created
30 06:58:45 - - Information: Tex manager started
31 06:58:45 - - Information: Tutorial manager created
32 06:58:45 - - Information: Material manager created
33 06:58:45 - - Information: Scenery object manager created
34 06:58:45 - - Information: Human manager created
35 06:58:45 - - Information: RV type manager created
36 06:58:45 - - Information: RV lists created
37 06:58:45 - - Information: Spline manager created
38 06:58:45 - - Information: Time table manager created
39 06:58:45 - - Information: Currency manager created
40 06:58:45 - - Warning: Did not find texture file "30er_reihensiedlung01.bmp"!
41 06:58:45 - - Warning: Did not find texture file "SD_Rad_v.bmp"!
42 06:58:45 - - Warning: Did not find texture file "reifen.bmp"!
43 06:58:45 - - Information: Visual helpers created
44 06:58:45 - - Information: Audio Mixer erstellen...
45 06:58:45 - - Information: ---
46 06:58:45 - - Information: Download Internet Textures...
47 06:58:45 - - Information: Input Manager erstellen...
48 06:58:45 - - Information: Tastaturbefehle laden...
49 06:58:45 - - Information: Game Controller laden...
50 06:58:45 - - Information: Progman initialisieren...
51 06:58:45 - - Information: Partikelvertices initialisieren...
52 06:58:45 - - Information: Lichtquellen initialisieren...
53 06:58:45 - - Information: System-Scriptvariablen initialisieren...
54 06:58:45 - - Information: Redline initialisieren...
55 06:58:45 - - Information: Traffic Path Manager initialisieren...
56 06:58:45 - - Information: Plugins initialisieren...
57 06:58:45 - - Information: Spline-Helper initialisieren...
58 06:58:45 - - Warning: Did not find texture file "path_car_1.bmp"!
59 06:58:45 - - Information: Loading Situation mode...
60 06:58:45 - - Error: The file "mode" could not be loaded!
61 06:58:47 - - Information: Deativating TIR...
62 06:58:47 - - Information: TIR was not available
63 06:58:47 - - Information: OMSI is closing...

[Aandreas]

I had to go out mid-stream of that (sorry about that). Well, - I then tried again - deleted the Situations folder and run the game from STEAM - that doesn't work either, in case that's what you meant. This didn't work.

I replaced the file and deleted everything inside the folder...Still same result...
Replaced situations file - still no joy!

[Aandreas]

I've been going through the SITUATIONS folder files and deleting various groups of files, then running the game to see if one specific set of files is causing this error. no joy... None of that worked.

[Aandreas]

Uninstalled and reinstalled only the main OMSI 2 files via STEAM, (for about what seems like the 10th time), without any of the added DLC's I have, all which where previously working. The core game is still generating this same error!

[Aandreas]

Added the DLC / whilst that is downloading I've Re run Diect X DX Setup from the game files, (I've done this already before), and still not working. -

Result: Still not working...

[Arnstein86]

Do you even get to the menu? Or is the error message popping up before you get a chance to do anything?

And one more thing - do you have the "mode" situation present in the situations folder?

[Arnstein86]

It seems like the config file has hung up, so you don't get access to the main menu.
I may found a solution for you.

Look here: OMSI 2 Forum[translate.google.com]

Look a bit down - you can edit the config file to see if you get access to the main menu.

[Aandreas]

Originally posted by Arnstein86:

Do you even get to the menu? Or is the error message popping up before you get a chance to do anything?

Exactly - I don't even get to the menu! From clicking 'PLAY' the OMSI 2 1st loading screen shows and within 8 seconds, I get the white box pop up over that... So I don't even get to the menu.

[Aandreas]

Originally posted by Arnstein86:

It seems like the config file has hung up, so you don't get access to the main menu.
I may found a solution for you.

Look here: OMSI 2 Forum[translate.google.com]

Look a bit down - you can edit the config file to see if you get access to the main menu.

Thanks - looking into that now...

HERE'S WHAT I FOUND -
I think, since my file is a new one, ref I redownloaded the whole OMSI 2 game from STEAM, that it should work, else everyone that gets this game from now on should have the same error as I have the same files as everyone else.

Here's my options.cfg file - it already had the correct last map line as per that post, but that is obviously different to my original options.cfg file, I will post the first few lines of my original old .cfg to show the difference in the next post.

However... for now, as I said, I don't think it can be the options.cfg file as this is the same as any other new persons game will be as it is a fresh download now.

(If I have to go with a totally new game, I will lose over 100 hours of good bus driving records)... But, I'm not as concerned with that as not being able to even load the game anymore.

GENERAL ------------------------

[last_map]
maps\Berlin-Spandau\global.cfg

[last_driver]
Drivers\OMSI-Fan.odr

[currWeather_ICAO]
EDDT

[driverview_moving]

[no_collision_terrain]

[no_collision_vehToVeh]

[wear_lifespan]
0

[ticketselling]
0

[see_own_driver]

[radio]
http://www.fresh80s.de/flashplayer/index.php

[font_typewriter]
Courier New

[language]
ENG

[nopreview]

MULTITHREADING ------------------------

GRAPHICS ------------------------

[performance_realreflexions]
economy

[performance_reflTexSize]
9

[no_stencilbuffer]

[no_humans_on_rain_refl]

[sunglow]

[shadow_stencil]
off

[performance_tiledistmax]
1

[performance_maxObjDist]
750.000

[performance_minObjSize]
0.013

[performance_minObjSizeRefl]
0.046

[maxcomplexity]
2

[maxcomplexity_map]
1

[performance_dyn_redrefl]
20.000
40.000

[performance_dyn_tile_red]
17.000
25.000

[maxFPS]
30

[texFilter]
3
16

[texture]
0
1

[texmemlimit]
401.0

[smokesystems]
1
1000
1
0

SOUND ------------------------

[sound_maxcount]
200

[sound_vol_master]
0.3999999937227

[sound_stereo]
17

[sound_doppler]
on

[sound_ai]

[sound_scenery]

GAME CONTROLERS ------------------------

AI ------------------------

[AIMaxCountRandom]
261
141
0
0
0
0
0
0
0

[AIUnschedFactor]
50

[AIMaxCountParked]
35

[AIPassFactor]
100

[AIMaxCountScheduled]
1000

[AIPriorityScheduled]
3
Editor ------------------------

[Editor_LinkAerial]

[Aandreas]

Here's the first few lines of my old options.cfg file

GENERAL ------------------------

[last_map]
maps\Kbergbahn\global.cfg

[last_driver]
Drivers\ANDREAS.odr

[currWeather_ICAO]
EDDT

[driverview_smooth]

[driverview_moving]

So - as you can see - I did have a different map loaded, but I think that is not the issue.

That's why I was re installing Direcct X from the new game files.
I am desparate and willing to try anything...

I don't understand why ...

1, The game wa working fine then after I closed it as reopened it a few hours later it was not working, when nothing changed on my PC or in the game?

2, Now that I have the simple brand new basic files, the game is still not running?