

PROBLEM: Route doesn't load. "Train World Initialization Failure"
      or:  MSTS crashes when you try to start it, after installing Sea View 4



Sea View 4 uses a new kind of water for MSTS routes. One layer of this water, called
the "reflective" layer, has caused some computers to terminate route-loading with the 
message: "Train World Initialization Failure".
Unfortunately, we've not yet been able to determine the combination of circumstances
which causes this problem. Here are the steps to follow if you encounter it.

First, make sure that Microsoft Train Simulator is not running.

Find the folder on your computer where you've just installed Sea View 4. MS Train Simulator is usually located in:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Train Simulator
(although this may be different, depending on where you've put MSTS)

within which will be a folder called \ROUTES, and within which will be a folder called
\SEAVIEW4. Within SEAVIEW4 is \ENVFILES, and that's the folder we're interested in.
So the whole location is:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Train Simulator\ROUTES\SEAVIEW4\ENVFILES

Inside this folder are nine files of interest:

SV4Clear.env
SV4Rain.env
SV4Snow.env

SV4SunnyDay.env             	
SV4QuietRain.env            	
SV4CosmicTumult.env         	

SV4CosmicTumultNoReflect.env	
SV4QuietRainNoReflect.env   	
SV4SunnyDayNoReflect.env    	


As installed, 
SV4Clear.env is an exact duplicate of SV4SunnyDay.env
SV4Rain.env is an exact duplicate of SV4QuietRain.env
SV4Snow.env is an exact duplicate of SV4CosmicTumult.env

Also, SV4Clear.env, SV4Rain.env and SV4Snow.env are the 
actual files which Train Simulator uses to set the environment of Sea View 4. 

To fix this problem, you should delete SV4Clear.env, SV4Rain.env and SV4Snow.env. Make a copy of SV4SunnyDayNoReflect.env by highlighting it, right-clicking, and selecting "Copy". Then right-click in an open space in the same folder, and select "Paste". A file will appear called  "Copy of SV4SunnyDayNoReflect.env". Rename this file as "SV4Clear.env" (without the quote marks). Do the same with SV4QuietRainNoReflect.env and SV4CosmicTumultNoReflect.env, renaming the copies to SV4Rain.env and SV4Snow.env.

Sea View 4 should load fine by making this change, although the sea will be a little less
than originally intended.

For those folks with Environment Control installed, the process is even easier. Make sure 
that Train Simulator is NOT started. Then open Environment Control, highlight SEAVIEW4 on
the right, and click on the "Select" button. Put a check next to Summer Clear on the left. The three Summer weather conditions are the only ones that Sea View will start with. In the right hand box, select the environment file you want to use. Any of the nine listed above will do, remembering that SV4Clear.env and SV4SunnyDay.env are the same, SV4Rain.env and SV4QuietRain.env are the same, and SV4Snow and SV4CosmicTumult.env are the same; and that each provides the best example of the environment features. Then click "Load".  Do the same with Summer Rain and Summer Snow. Then "Exit" from the window and then from the program. Anytime you wish, you can go back to Environment Control and select another environment file to try.

For those folks who do have a problem loading Sea View 4, and who find that the problem 
is fixed by performing the above procedure, we'd appreciate it very much hearing from you,
and hearing about certain key details of your computer. This is because we're still trying
to track down the exact cause of this problem, and a survey of the problem-causing
hardware would help greatly.

If you experience the problem, please email me at jbush@fullhouseny.com with the following 
info, as much of this as you know:

CPU Name and Speed        example: PIII 1GHz
Amount of RAM             example: 512 MB
Video card or chip        example: Nvidia TI-4400
Operating System          example: Windows ME, Windows XP Home, etc

Those are the four important items. Any other details are fine too. Thanks so much for 
helping, if this problem happens to you!
