Transport Tycoon Deluxe
 

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I once found a weird bug in this game. I made a LOT of money, and suddenly my account got negated. So my amount of money went from a very high sum, to a very high debt. :blink:

I solved it by loading my last saved game, and build a lot of tunnels and other expensive stuff, so my money never got to the turn arround amount. :sneaky:

Yes, that is a quite famous error in the way the game handles numbers. If a number gets too high it turns negative, this can be used to your advantage by building a tunnel from one side of the map to another and getting rich quick :sneaky:

Hehe. I actually never tried it that way. Apparently I did it the hard way :lol:

Transport Tycoon Deluxe can be installed under XP with this Patch: www.ttdpatch.net. It also has features the Game missed before. No Emulator is needed with the Patch. I also recommend the DB Set and all the other Stuff you can use with the Patch.

cu, Spaceball

Well, this is the patched version so no additional patches are needed actually :rolleyes:

Great, then I can make even MORE money this time :P

Gonna eat a lot of my time, hehe :lol: :ok:

Would this be a good game for me (a Railroad Tycoon ORIGINAL nut)

What does it add and/or expand on?

Or should I get Rails 2 or 3?

Transport tycoon is not only about trains. In transport tycoon you can also use busses, planes and ships. One of the games I have used most time on in my life, is Railroad Tycoon 1, and I liked this game very much. There are some flaws in the game, there is no doubt about that, but overall it's a cool game.

BTW I played railroad tycoon II also, which I also think is pretty good. :ok:

Transport Tycoon best way to make cash fast at the beginning is undoubly going railroad.

The first few games I played I used mainly road trucks and transport, but it was extremely slow to improve the cash balance. Was very interesting for me tough.

Boats can make you piles of cash if you know how to use them as they can carry lots and they don't require roads or tracks to run on.

Fell free to prove me wrong, but I don't think boats can even be profitable at the beginning... ;)

Even if they were, it would really be a lot of trouble for not much rewards, and you would completely allow the competition to let loose on land by the very beginning and then it's hard to grab land back...

I use Boats only for goog looking. They produce very less money. The only Alternative would be a Chain System between Oil Tanker and Train. Otherwise Boats are very useless.

cu, Spaceball

At the beginning they're of course not profitable, they'll just ruin you. But if you have 4-5 trains driving on a good, profitable route, they'll bring you the money. Then you can try the boots, and with good planning and enough distance between the stations you'll get good money. ;)

I played the "Scotland" map and I had four oil tankers making ?25,000 per year by taking oil from the offshore rigs to the mainland. I do agree though, trains are the best but don't discount boats as a way of making money.

I never said boats were not profitable, I said boats were not profitable by the beginning of the game... ;)

Boats is very profitable as soon as oil rigs appear on the map. But it take age, and you have plenty of time to build a railroad and even a plane empire before they boot.

Boats???


What is this thing... Boat... strange word.... :wacko:

Boats are those kind of things which are open up in the middle, float on water and is usually used to transport something or someone across a large mass of water... ;)

But I guess I should have used "ship" instead. :D

Ships? :blink:

Boats, Ships

:Tom::whip:

:bleh:

Oh.... one of those!


Yeah, I sometimes pass them with my trains, aeroplanes and trucks... I laugh my ass off everytime I see them. No wonder the other corporations don't have any money LOL

Yeah. Sometimes the computer can be dump as hell. Like starting with an airport when mst cities sre too small to have passengers

Yearh. It's a shame you can't play multiplayer. :max:

I agree on that. Is importing the registry file neccesary for win 98?Can you use the normal trans. tyc. savegames?

:blink:

Whoah!
A quadrouple post! Had to do some deleting :whistle:

TRansport Tycoon Deluxe is not even close to the original. The enviroment may be diverse but the graphics are too slupppy and uncomfortable. Watch with that tropical forest buddy! The first one had much beter graphics because they were practical. The deluxe version is only better in the multiplayer aspect because in the old oneyou could not play online.


:rifle: ------------ TTD

cruddy version I downloaded from some other site.. I'lljust have to get the trusty abandonia version ;)

i believe graphics are same as in first version. however note how costs are different depending on environmnt. eg bulding a road through forest is much more expencive then building it on grass. especially expencive is if you build it over the fields. i didnt' notice it at first so now i have a huge bank loan and still no money came in. i mean i am having profit of 25.000$... stil i am not sure where computer gets so much moeny to build so many railways and bridges.
other things look preety much teh same as in previous version.

how do you use that tunel cheat thing? i tried to build it but it only said you don't have enough money to do it. :help:

It's because the bug is fixed. :sneaky:

Rairoad is the way to go to get big cash quick and for a long time. All you need is to find a good supply of a certain good which is moderatly far from the buying destination (price goes up steadily as distance increase) then build a railroad between the two. You will probably need to have a nice loan to do it, but the cash should get in steadily and nicely.

As the game continue, you should rapidly have enough cash for another railroad under the same circomstances (this time, if you are lucky, without a loan) and as long as you keep upgrading the trains so it takes less time to do the trip and that you build your railroad run correctly, you should be able to easily create a railroad empire all over the map and by the time you hit the big airports and the big planes (in the future era) you should have enough money to build airports all over the place...

Alright, installed the game and ran the registery thing... Now how can I save?

All my attemps failed miserably. I even tryied to save on a floppy, but all what is says (even at end of year at auto-save) is "Game Save Failed"...

It's quite enjoyable to play TTD again, but without saving it's quite pointless... :blink:

aha bug was fixed.
i saw a patch here: http://www.ttdpatch.net/

which aside from bugfixes and windows gameplay it also offers a variety of other cool stuff. like building on slopes, queuing of trucks, building next to already built station.
is it possible to re-patch it to this version?

i now saw how computer got his money. one of them seemd to be plaing wihout loan (maybe he got lucky) while some other competitiors had a loan of 700.000$ :ranting:

the highest loan was set to 500.000 so how did they got a higher loan? a no matter since i am playing for fun on easy and since i already bought (merged) my biggest rival no one can stop me now.....

hmm why did the game start in 50's? is there a setting i missed?

as for savegame problem i dont' have it but my first advice would be to check the game files attributes in case they are not read only or something.
perhaps then a redownload of the game would be in place (especially if oyu have fast internet connection) since there might be errors in the zip file.

Funny.....I wonde why your saves aren't working? Mine seem to be working ok. Annoyingly, the game has crashed twice on me whilst playing the Scotland map (in the 1960s, after I'd built up quite a lot of stuff).

Use the last autosave then? By default it should save at every 1st of January

For the record saving seems to work fine now. I guess something got messed up when or after I watched the tutorials.

I downloaded this game from abandonia site and its not working. I followed the instructions (imported the registry file) but still cant run the game. I have XP sytem. When i try to start te game by clickin "Trasport Tycoon Deluxe.exe" file, the command line just blinks and thats it. Running "TTconfig.exe" doesnt help either - the "Game Installation Error" appears which says "Unable to access Transport Tycoon Deluxe CD!". Whats goin on? Could somebody help me? Thanx

I'm not totally sure, but if I remember right TTD is not compatible with winXP. I only played it with TTDpatch, which is. So I would advise you to download the patch from TTDPatch.net. It has lot of extra features too, like more realism, more vehicles and a lot more.

Hmm... It looks to me like its already patched :/ Strange... TT is awesome game, its a pity i cant play it.
Thanx anyway.

This is the patched version. If this doesn't work, the patched one won't either obviously :rolleyes:

You probably downloaded the original DOS version. Download Transport Tycoon Deluxe for Windows.

If it is the right program, I myself always need to click before seeing anything. I think the demo is quite messed up and it might be your problem. There is probably a way to get the game running without watching the demo, but I have no clue yet about this. I'll check later on, right now I'm on Lunch break.

do you have reducdesave on or something like that? because my version works nice.

I managed to get the same error, but I did not click on the right icon. When I click on "GameGFX.exe", it says something about not being able to find the CD. The right icon is the one named "Transport Tycoon Deluxe.exe", and you need to start it in Windows. Because it is made for Windows it won't work for DOS or DOSBox.

I found the game requires this CD if you mess around with the TTDX Configurator.exe program (ttdpatch.cfg file). You will need to re-open the file in the configurator program and select Options, Use TTDX defaults.

As for the game not saving, I had this also but only because I navigated out of the default save folder. If it opens in the wrong folder, you will need to exit and re-open. Then when you save, the default save folder will open up and just change the save name for easy reference.

Anyone else find the map editor annoying by the fact that it doesn't let you generate flat terrain?.... I grow wary of flattening mountain after mountain...

Yeah, that must be it. I watched the tutorials once and it went crazy when a news popup came out just at the wrong time. The "hand" clicked on it and nothing else worked afterward. I noticed the hand got into the save menu and tryied to do something but it must have been very random because it wasn't intended to be done that way...

Yeah the tutorials are loco, and I also have to click at the start to get the blank screen to change to the starting menu. Whereas it appears automatically on Windows 98.
As for the auto save games, DISABLE THEM! they are a pain in the *:wall:* and fail for me every time thats why I say just to create your own save file in the default directory, don't try to navigate elsewhere.

TT/D/TTDFW/whatever, is much more complex that railroad tycoon. Their is so much more, such as things you deliver, for example, iron ore to steel mill, to factory = goods, a valuable item that is only accepted certain times in certain cities/towns/vilages. Crude oil to refinery = goods, farm products to factory = goods, ect. Towns and factorys offer subsidries(sp), taking passangers from one town to another may pay 4X the normal amount for a year. How you transport them is your idea, train/bus/ship/air. Air is the fastest way, but expensive. Ships are slow, but cost a bit less, busses are quite releaible, but can only hold a small ammount, trains can hold up to 40 pasangners per carrage, but it takes time to fill them up. TTD is a great game.

Hey, I managed to get it to load, but then before any graphics or sounds appear, it dumps me back. I followed the instructions in the txt file. I have compatibility mode enabled, which lets me get it that far. Anyone know what it could be?

Are you trying to load Transport Tycoon or Transport Tycoon Deluxe for Windows?

If it is the second and you can't manage to make it work on your computer, I guess I'm clueless on how to make it work.

The second one, TTDX for Windows, was the one I was referring to.

Perhaps I should just get Classic Transport Tycoon then get the patch?

Wait, there's no Transport Tycoon patch.

I can't help you until you tell me your computer specs and which OS you are using.

Trying to get the original and make it work with DOSBox could indeed be an option. But the Deluxe version has more features to play with, and less bugs.

Man, this game is good. I have it on CD, bought ages ago and I still play it loads. I usually start of with a few small trains which I know will profit. After that, it's straight on with the planes.

Ships can be really, really good, however they are only good on a few maps. Apart from that, this is a great game, especially the way it opens up as it gets later.

Oh yeah, that's another bone to pick. Unfortunately, to upgrade your trains and tracks, it costs a SERIOUS amount of money to get to monorails. When you get to maglevs, it's like.... bugger.... I'm totally not rich any more....

Well, personnaly it's not the money which I really need to invest when I want to upgrade my train tracks... It's really the time needed to change them all! :blink:

Basically what the fatal error when I play TTDX is is that it complains about something to do with language. I believe the error is something like this:

Error: "1033" is a bs language which was defined in some environment variable. You can choose from English, Spanish, etc with lang=english and such.

My System Specs:
Windows XP Home Edition
Intel Celeron 2.2gHz
40GB Hard Drive
256MB DDR RAM
3D Intel Extreme Graphics AGP

I hope that helps.

Hello, I'm new to your forum but not new to Tranport Tycoon!

I used to play the old version, but I've moved and am using a different computer. Since Classic won't work anymore, I downloaded the Deluxe version. I've run the registry files and I've set the configuration back to defaults, however the program will not run from any .exe or .bat and tells me that I need the CD to run the game.

Do any of you know what I could do to get to run properly?

Thank you, I'll check back here or you can email me at bernie_laraemie@yahoo.co.uk. Your help is very much appreciated,

~~Bernie

What I personally do to play TTD Windows edition is to simply load it up with VDMSound using "Transport Tycoon Deluxe.exe". Then the screen goes black (because the demo been removed, I guess) and I only need to click once and the main menu appear.

I experimented some very rare random crashes, but the game run very well otherwise. No need to slow it down etc. Just save frequently and/or use the auto save feature and you should be fine.

You can find a link for VDMSound on the tool link on this site, or just put the word in your prefered search engine and you should find it easily.

Edit: actually, the game runs fine without VDMSound... :)

I own TT and TTD, but i downloaded TTDFW elsewhere.

I run Win98SE and everything seems fine for me. I'm running the TTD Patch made by Josef Drexler (and others) which advances the game alot.

I'd recommend if you get stuck trying to run the game you ask on
Usenet: alt.games.microprose.transport-tyc

There are some helpful people in there (Me included) :bye:

its a great game ive been playing have you got the new open TTD patch - it upgrades the game even more.

I posted the solution for this awhile back, but for those of you that still have problems:

I found the game requires this CD if you mess around with the TTDX Configurator.exe program (ttdpatch.cfg file). You will need to re-open the file in the configurator program and select Options, Use TTDX defaults.

As for the game not saving, I had this also but only because I navigated out of the default save folder. If it opens in the wrong folder, you will need to exit and re-open. Then when you save, the default save folder will open up and just change the save name for easy reference.


Hope that helps :bye:

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One word legend

Can somebody help me I dont know how to start playing the game when I press setup it say

"You have now access to the 'Compatibility' tab when you dispaly a shortcut's properties...

Press any key to continue..." Then I press a key and it says:

"Now setting up registry... Please answer the next question with 'YES'.

Press any key to continue..." Than another window appears and it says:

"Are you sure you want to add the information in ttdx.reg to the registry?


Yes No" If I press no it all turns off. Iff I press yes it says:

"Cannot import ttdx.reg: Error opening the file. There may be a disk or file system error." So please somebody help me.

Is there Any way to get the multiplayer...Working???? :cheers:

:help:
I been play this a few weeks again now and i forget how to update my stuff after they get too old?

i rember i could do this just cant rember, can anyone hel p me plz 50 old bus HEH LOL

I think the game automatically buy you a new vehicle of the same model if you forget to change it past a certain time (I've seen some of my vehicles 2 years older than usual still running) but if you talk about upgrading an old vehicle with a new model and still use the same route, here how to:

Open your depot window and your new vehicles window. Sell the vehicle and immediatly buy a new one. You'll have a small delay for this but make sure you don't wait too long. When done correctly the old route will already be integrated in the new model memory just like the scrapped model. Just make sure it does run at the right target (especially for trains) after the exchange and you are done. :ok:

Also, I tend to make my vehicles get serviced sooner than the suggested default, but I judge this about the % reliability of the vehicle. Anyways, the service time will be default for the new model so make sure to change it back if, like me, you don't like it.

thanks

that work great

:kosta:

OMG if I knew that one week ago... it would have saved me loads of time! but now i know this game is even better, i always thought that that was the only negative point to this game. This game really is loads of fun, once you get the hang of it.

When you begin to feel confident enough you could always try my Transport Tycoon Deluxe 1000000000$ Challenge... I feel quite unchallenged on that one... ;)

i too have the problem that it cant install properly cause of the ttdx.reg file or something (i cant remember at the moment) can someone please help with this?

got it run the runme!.reg in the root directory of the extracted files LOL cant belive i missed it LOL

I had problem resuming saved game. It won't start. Will have to figure that one out later.

When do you reach your first mil?

I can't get this game to work i have XP and everytime i try to run it it gos cannot find transport tycoon deluxe cd somebody help! :angry:

Would it be per chance that you did not run the "Runme!.reg" file first?

I didn't get a runme tag in there? still says i need a cd............ help

ok i found the run me tag, and i ran it, but it still says, unable to access transport tycoon deluxe CD help me!!!!!

I just tryied this myself and vehicules can run about forever without replacement. The trick is that it's reliability will plunge toward bottom as it age and in itself should be the reason why you would buy a new vehicle to replace it. I actually kept road vehicles running 10 years past due in a recent game so I presume you could possibly run them forever if you wanted to.

If you think you are about to get a new version of the vehicle considering to keep it running a little longer than the life time date might be a good choice even if the real saving would be in time and not in money...

Guys I need serious help!! Whenever I download this game when its finished this thing called Dr Watson keeps saying it is an invalid Dr.Watson file. How do I get through this or get rid of Dr.Watson? I used to play TTD all the time and I miss it like hell. It would be great to play it again. Also does anyone know where I can download old Lucas games like Day of The Tentacle and Sam and Max Hit the road? Thank you profusley!!! :D

Well Day of the Tentacle and Sam & Max are still for sale in the same box, try hunting around some online stores or something. As for your problem, I don't know, TTD works fine for me in XP, you could try downlaoding it again.

DR WATSON is an old Win98 troubleshooting program which been replaced by another name in XP. I don't know if you could encounter it between 98 version and XP version but you certainly can see it on Win 95 or 3.1. I don't see why you would want that program to run all the time and I don't see why or how you should have that file working on background on startup unless you are trying to identify a problem on your Windows version.

Make sure that program is not in the startup folder of the start menu. If it is it will start everytime your Windows boot.

Hello, I want to play it as much as you all do, but i can't download a proper version. Can anyone help me to find a good TTDX zip or rar???

Thanks,

Ginuwine

The version on this site works flawlessly.

Go on the first page of this thread and you'll get a link.

I don't read all messages... all TTD fans check this site:
OpenTTD

I have ttd + patch but i can't seem to get dash deisels or manley more deisels back to back or engines at the front and back gimme some help LOL

and i was playing the game a while ago the same train took out 2 or 3 rival busses LOL

You begin at year 1950 if you play with the default setting. As you play more desings will become available. I think there is some randomness in all this but you will always get the new desings sooner or later.

It is usually always worth using the new desings especially with trains. They start at low % reliability but that increase with time when they are first created. This mean that if you get a new very powerfull train (in term of HP) but with around 50-60% reliability and you purchase a lot of them (and reduce the time for maintenance so they don't break so often) you can end up upping their % back up to the 90% and sometime more.

Since you get more money if you bring the good faster to the end of the line, this end up with profits in the long run. Plus the old models end up losing % realibility after a while so you should always consider trying new models to see if they increase or else your lines will be so bugged down with broken down trains that they will become less and less profitable until it's not worth it anymore.

For the trains hitting busses, that's not a bug and you can use this to your advantage. If you want to prevent this happening to your own vehicles tough be sure to create bridges above or tunnels under the tracks (for either the train or the road, doesn't matter as long as they don't both connect) or you can be sure it will happen sooner or later. When one of your vehicle crash (any kind) the % efficiency of the stations will drop to near 0 so you should always try to avoid that too. And try to hit other players road vehicles too. ;)

it was always a 'dash' deisel that hit them might have been the same one dunno but i had 4 of them on 2 tracks 2 with mail cars 2 just solo

Double post because i found out how to have back to back trains and engines at the front and back!!!

please help me, im running winxp pro, and the other pc is running win98, we are unable to get network to work, it just minimises the window and stops responding after we join the game??? please help.. really wanna play this game again

you trying single player or 2 player?

Hello evreyone
I think I know much about TTD and I am supporting and helping with TTD at few forums.
I'd like you all to help to.
In my opinion TTD+TTDPatch is much more better than OTTD in the moment and it's not going to change soon for me so ... TTDPatch Rulez :ok:

anyway

if you would like visit http://www.tt-forums.net , the best source of knowledge about TT stuff (you can easly contact me there via Private Message)

I would like you to point to this release of TTDPatch: http://www.ttdpatch.net/src/latestw.zip (it's alpha developing version, but it has better default switches/settings) also visit http://wiki.ttdpatch.net to get all detailed information about TTDPatch

U DDY This is a niceeee game... my first sim game!!! but is so hard the money is down fast...!!! but i'm have a secret tactics :sneaky:

Hi ppl
i just dloaded teh ttd+patch from this site
the game works fine but cant seem to save my games
whenever i try to save, it says game save error
i run a winxp pro
it really sux if u cant save coz everytime i hv to start a new game
please help me
email me at: mjurulz@gmail.com

i suggest you delete all the files and try reinstalling as it sounds like a corrupted game file,.


if after reinstalling still having issues i suggest trying dos box, i know its a windows version but it may be having compatability issues with your version of XP.

hey talon thx for the suggestion
but the dload from this site is not an installation file but an installed game it self
anway i got some other sites where i can dload it, so i'll try em.
Thanks again,
Mjuboy

bby reinstall i ment delete all the files and redownload them .

In your TTDX folder there should be a program called TTconfig.exe
Run it and access the Display panel.
Turn off safe mode and change the display mode to 4. Click Apply then close TTconfig.
Then Run Transport Tycoon Deluxe.

Worked for me. :cheers:

i just downloaded tt deluxe in instructions it says to import reg file.. where? and where is the file i can find it:)

look for a file with the .reg extention.

Don't move the game directory once you run the .reg file.

Is there a way to somehow run game after moving it to another directory? I ran it once after downloading, then moved to games folder and it doesnt work anymore. Running Runme!.reg doesnt give any result and game ask`s for cd (GameGFX.exe) or disappear before opening (Transport Tycoon Deluxe.exe). I have win xp.

Well usually I would say running the .reg file again would work but you just said it doesn't. So, try to move the game back to the original directory and see if it works again.

I try to install TTD but the error "The switch 'reducedsave' <-o> is obsolete. Please do not use it, it will be removed in a future version."

Help?

I have the same popup and it never actually stopped me from playing. Same for you?

Yep, after I added the registry stuff. I love it.

Ugh, forgot to log in AGAIN.

Im not a member of this site but i really need some help

When i start the game is says tha the file DPLAY.dll could not be found

What is happening?>

ok downloaded the game. GREAT game of course. But have a few questions. Why dont' the American names of the cities show up? And since this says it has the patch already on it, why can't I build on a slope like the patch says you should be able to do or is this a seperate patch and would that patch work with this one?

Depend what you mean by "building on a slope". If you start a bridge and end up at the same level then you'll create a suspended bridge one level above the ground like normal. If you build a bridge over a gap then you must absolutly end at the same level at the other side of the gap and it will create a normal bridge at the same level than the ground (or lower if you do it lower).

What you can also do is create a bridge from ground level and end it up one level higher on a slope. This mean that it will have a decending slope at one end and a level slope at the other. This is probably what you meant but I'm not sure.

For the American names, you should play with the options before actually starting your new game. If I remember well some options are hard setted at startup (like driving on left... Still wondering why? :blink:) and you have to manually change them before starting a new game. Once you start the game you don't have to play with the options again.

Hello: I'd suggest you download the version from this site and try again.

Can helicopters ever make any money? I could never make them profitable. I made aloto of profit once delivering coal to a power plant using some of those supersonic planes though, ehehe. Any you guys do similar things with planes?

Of course. ;)

I really hate using Helicopters because you almost need an airport only for them unless you wish to have your planes clugged when they land. If you still have old small airport from the beginning of the game they can become reliable and give out money by oppening helipads in towns around the small airport. Another use is to build one right next to an extremely busy bus stop and try to take out some of the passengers out from the weight of the bus stop since once you add too much bus the stop is even less efficient. This way you could create some major buck.

I myself usually only use them on oil rigs to be sure they'll have everything and are more likely to grow. I never actually be able to prove my point but I never took the chance since the oil rigs are usually my main source of income for about 3/4 of the times.

I usually didn't bother with helicopters, since the number of passengers at my oil rigs were always terribly low. Maybe they didn't grow because I didn't send any helicopters, but in any case, other sources were more promising to start with.
In the end I always ended up using the largest aircraft alongside supersonic ones, to avoid huge queues at the airports.
Also, the few helicopters I used, never generated much profits, usually even less than a single bus.
I remember when I played the original Transport Tycoon, that I never wanted to use more than 3 buses or lorries at the same stop, since 3 could block each other then, ruining that particular station :wall:
I guess that's been solved in the Deluxe version though, but I never actually tested that.

It is fixed but jams still happen when a road vehicle break down in the entrance or exit of the station. Other vehicles "jump over it" and they all get stuck. It's really hell when you have a lot of vehicles stuck at the same place and you try to unstuck them. It's especially annoying late in the game when you don't really have time to suppervise all your road vehicles... And you then notice that some of your trucks been stuck for well over a complete year. :angry:

Usually when encountering a large pile of vehicles, the best way is to stop them all and then send them of one at a time.

Anyone know where I can get a copy of the manual for this game? Or can someone explain to me how the approval rating system at service stations works? Usually the highest rating I can get is about 70% and thats with trains, cars, and airplanes moving in and out non-stop, however, the computer rarely gets a low rating no matter how long his goods are waiting at a station.

The best way I've found to get higher rating (especially with trains) is to have stations with more than one stop. The lowerst is one and the highest is 4. That way you can have more than 75/80% if your trains are loading non stop all the time.

The tutorials don't work and I've never played. If there a way to pause the game whilst building? The time goes really fast and if you need to change the landscape a lot of time is wasted.

I don't think there was a way to pause the game while building. But usually at the start of the game you'll quickly run out of money when building new tracks, buying new ships, etc.
I've never felt the game went too fast, except maybe towards the end when a lot of vehicles (in its broadest sense) need replacing.

You can't pause the game when building. But beleive me, once you get the hang out of it you won't think it's going too fast. :)

You can build while paused.

You guys should really get the latest patch : www.ttdpatch.net

If you don't try PBS (path based signalling) you never believe it's possible.

http://www.tt-forums.net/files/scr59_641.png

2586!!!??? Is there a point to play that long? I usually get bored very quick as soon as I hit year 2k... :blink:

That long ?

I'm at 3010 right now. :D
I'm a optimizations freek.
I spent hours to optimize a junction.
Then when it's done the game has shifted the production so I need th move trains to other parts of the map with the result of near lockups on the other side of the map.
Then I have to "optimze" another junction.
And this goes on an on and on.....

btw I have now some 448 trains running in this game, and it's getting a bit slow. :cry:

This is a fun thing that XP (at least) does...they changed an environment variable from the "english" version of a langauge name to a numeric code (universal standards...blahblahblah...)

What you need to do is use Windows to reset that language variable (which may make other apps not work right) or setup a bat file to launch the game. In the transport tycoon folder, create a new text file named "ttd.bat". Make sure it renames, you should get a cutesy little "application" type icon representing a batch file instead of a notepad icon.

In this file add the following lines:

SET LANG=English
"Transport Tycoon Deluxe".exe

Then launch that file (or create a shortcut to it). :cheers:

This is a fun thing that XP (at least) does...they changed an environment variable from the "english" version of a langauge name to a numeric code (universal standards...blahblahblah...)

What you need to do is use Windows to reset that language variable (which may make other apps not work right) or setup a bat file to launch the game. In the transport tycoon folder, create a new text file named "ttd.bat". Make sure it renames, you should get a cutesy little "application" type icon representing a batch file instead of a notepad icon.

In this file add the following lines:

SET LANG=English
"Transport Tycoon Deluxe".exe

Then launch that file (or create a shortcut to it). :cheers:

every time I play the game recently it keeps crashing. I'm using WIN 98. It seems like everytime it hits $3 million it crashes either the whole computer or just the game. any way to help this?

Does that happen only with one save game or all the games you play?

I encountered such a problem once. Starting a new game solved the problem. Probably a corrupted save.

(looks at the screenshot)

I would hate to have to try and cross the tracks in that world. Wow.

I never make much with helicopters and planes..I like the trains and land rovers when possible. The boats can be alright too :)

That's a pity.
Planes are the perfect solution when your world becomes congested with tracks, buses and trains. It's sometimes hard to free the space for a large airport, but imo it's worth it. Planes are also great when your trains can't take all the passengers from the larges cities.

What a game this is! I haven't played it in years. I found it here and now i remember why i love it so much! Trains, buses and lorries are best to use at the start. As towns develop then you should use planes and boats

So, uh... what exactly *is* up with the multiplayer mode, anyway? Or is that question going to continue to be ignored in here... javascript:emoticon(':tai:') :tai:

You know, there might be a way to put this a bit more politely... Anyway, for what it's worth, here's what the FAQ section of this page has to say about multiplayer:Mind you, I have no idea what it's all about. If it doesn't help you, I suggest that you do a bit of googling.:)

Multiplayer mode? :blink:

Beats me too...I always thought it was a single player only game.

I didn't mean to be impolite, was just rather frustrating to read all 8 forum pages (noting that others had asked) and to find no response. Sorry 'bout that :)


Thank you for your help ...

The open source version of this game is great. all you do is install tycoon for windows then install Open Tycoon. It asks where the game files are during install. It has many great features like multiplayer (more than 2) bigger maps and much more. check it out its well worth the DL.

Sure, fine... A link would be great tough.

What's with the trend of advertising things and never talking about it or giving links? I know this problem is mainly on Reloaded, but yet... How would someone expect me to check on something if they can't even even lit my curiosity? :blink:

Oh well, at least the above post gave a good description of what it is.

Hello, I have been trying to get this to work for ages now and I finally got over one problem with Kosta's help ages ago but then I formatted the machine (whoopdeedoo) but the program was still not working anyway, now I just get the error that I am missing a dll file and I can't find it on the net:

GameGFX.exe - Unable to Locate Component
This application has failed to start because mpssnd_c.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem.

I would but I haven't got the CD and basically I can't find the file on the net, can anyone send me an email with it attached? Please? Thanks at apoorva.bansal (at) gmail.com.
Apoorva

E-mail address split in two, I'm way too nice to you people - Havell

:ok: Nice! Deluxe edition even. Microsoft should really remake this game. Just for some new and more in-depth managing ofcourse. The game is brilliant just the way it is.

I remember when I played Transport Tycoon the first time.

Difficulty easy, my competitors were eleminated quite fast and after a while no new apeared. Guess they would have had more success if their trucks would not cross my railways. Well, bad luck :angel:

So I started projects like "the highest mounten", "the longest tunnel", "one airport in every city" (which failed cause of the station limit) or "straight track around the whole map"

Then when monorails became available I reconstructed my whole railway system with advanced techniques to save track and stations

Well, not very good for the highscore, but it was a lot of fun :)

Thats how I play too :) I never hit the station limit yet, do you remember how many it was?

I think 8 bus stations in a town and two airfields in it! :D As for trains and docks I don't know how much!!! :unsure:

The only limit I remember from the top of my head was 80 trains, which I always reached way too soon. But that was not in the deluxe version, but the earlier "standard version". I still need to try the deluxe one day...

incredibile game......it is strange that it was forgotten by many but us who enjoy oldware we didn't forget it ..i go my first 3 milpounds in 3 weeks of real life or so but this game is a very good one..............especialy when tou get the Cyclops2 Maglev train..vveeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrryyyyyyyyyyyyyy fast thingy....vvveery ggood ideea of the game.the newest Tycoons don't stand up and are not as good as this one. :kosta: bow to the Tycoon........

I completely agree.

I'd like to remind everyone reading this thread about the Transport Tycoon Deluxe 100000000$ challenge on this very board. :ok:

Really a nice way to play the game. :)

Hello all, I'm a new member, and I'm Bukkwilldd, especially when playing this game!
I have the regular and open source versions, and the open source one does run smoother on my machine. I've read all the posts about compatibility, and one problem I encountered that I haven't read about here is incorrect graphics card settings. I have an nVidia GeForce4 and I had to revert it to the "oldest" display settings to get a few of the games on this site to display properly. I dabble in graphic arts stuff too, so I had my display set to ease eyestrain. :crazy:

Once I got it up and going I was pulled into this game. I'm still not very good at it, but there is a lot to learn, and if you're like me you'll be coming back to it again and again!

Quite a tough challenge!
I've started playing TT again for the first time in well over 5 years, though I'd never played the Deluxe edition. I only got as far as $45 million in 1979. But most cities didn't do well, at least compared to my experiences in the past. I'll really have to try it again :)

I wonder whether it would be better to play on average instead of easy. I've bought up a few competitors so far, and I spend ages improving their absolutely ridiculous idea of track building :angry:

Edit: not that hard after all unless one wants to set the record, I continued the same game and ended up with over $100 million around '92.

strange, by importing the registry files, it means to run the Runme!.reg, right?

I've tried that but nothing happens. What are the adminstrator priviledges about? I thought on a normal PC, the user is always in admin.

I'm not sure why, but I can't get access to the registry files. Again, running runme!.reg doesn't work for me

I really need help.

hi all ... original TTD freak .. cant wait to play this .. its been years

Yes, double-clicking the registry file (Runme!.reg) should cause your system to ask whether you want to add it to the registry. If you then choose "yes", it should work.

Admin privileges usually only matter when there are multiple users who can log in to the same pc. But if you're the only one using it, you should have admin privileges, that's right.

What exactly happens when you double-click the registry file? Any error that pops up?

Right, thanks for replying, once I click onto Runme.reg it prompts me for a yes and no registry option. Upon clicking yes, it states registry is in use.

At this point, as I've found, no change in is done to the current directory. Trying to run the TTD or TTConfig will ask for a CD.

That's basically what happens when Runme!.reg is ran.


So how did you guys get the game to work? Are there any special tricks or procedures to follow? Or must the Runme file be put in some special temp/ foler to work?
There must be something particular...

An update of my above posted screenshot.
It's a bit later now, 8 June 3100 to be precise.
As you can see the junction has evolved into a bit more complicated one. :D
Another obvious thing is the higher resolution, a very nice new feature. :ok:

http://www.tt-forums.net/files/scr5_160.png

Oops, misread the date.
Looked at the wrong screenshot, the date is actually 18 June 3124. :angel:

:eeeeeh: ..........i tough the tycoon only went untill 2100..I reached 2034 and then i installed WinXP and lost the files :wall:

In my computer the transport tycoon deluxe don't work but the transport tycoon doo help me :help:

Have you followed the instructions of adding the .reg file to your registry?

Also, something that happens to me: the intro (those red letters appearing) looks garbled, but the game works fine. Just skip the intro by pressing space bar.

I never see the intro. All what I see is a black screen until I click on my mouse button. I do hear the sound fine tough.

The tutorial seemed quite screwed for me too. Perhaps if you want to see the tutorial you should set the newspaper option for each option so it doesn't "jump" on the screen when something happen. This way the "hand" won't mess up it's commands.

Hi, I hope one of the clever lads here can help me.

I am a stupid mother of a son who wants to play TTD.

We bought the game in the UK in 2001, but never had a PC big enough to play the game.
Now his dream came true and he has the PC, loaded the game (we have XP running) and now? Problems.
When he tries to play a message comes up saying "The system cannot open the com3 port requested by this application. Click on close to terminate."

A choice between "Close" and "Ignore" comes up.

Apon clicking "Ignore" the same message comes up, but now refers to com4.

Is the PC coo-coo or will it work if we download this patch I read about on this site? He doesn't have problems playing other games like Commando's and Stronghold etc.

Please mail me at susie [at] webmail.co.za. If there is somebody in SA we can phone for help it would be appreciated if a contact number can be sent to this address.

He is very disappointed that he cannot play this.

Thanx a mil.

[font=Arial][font=Arial][size=7] you know I have been looking for a site like this. THANK GOD I HAVE FOUND IT!!!! I love this game I played it when it first came out. My sister deleted it and man was I pissed. I have been searching for it online and this is where it is. This has so many other games that I love but this is probably this best!!!!

I found a dirty trick you can pull on your rivals if they start after you. If you use railroad tracks to block their stations or force them to build bridges over your tracks, you can make them spend more money than they need to. If you build two or three tiles of tracks along the path they want to take, their bridges will be longer when they try to bridge over you.

Example:
Rival's intended path: ---
Your block: ||||
(One - is two game tiles, one | is one game tile)

-------||||-------

If you're quick, the rival may even try to build around your block, so you'll have to stop it. When the rival is forced to withdraw tracks, he gains some money back for each, but he doesn't break even. I think if he withdraws bridges, stations, and tunnels, he won't get anything back. I tried this tonight on one rival, and two years after he started, his company was worth about $10,000, and he STILL didn't have any vehicles. You will lose a little money doing this, but it won't be nearly as much as your rival, especially if he has to remove bridges, tunnels, and stations.

Well, that's nothing less than cheating by my own oppinion.

I noticed tough that building tracks in diagonals stops anyone from building a bridge over it. Pretty annoying for the computer players. :)

I wouldn't say it's cheating so much as buying yourself some time. If a company goes bankrupt, the computer will generate a new company later on. Hopefully by then you'll have mustered the financial resources to prevent the newcomer from gaining too much ground. The replacement in my current game started off with two airports and a Dart-class airplane, but didn't make a lot of money.

I've also heard that buying 75% of a new rival company early on is a good idea and brings a lot of cash down the road. This depends, of course, if you're trying to mess with their company to begin with.

Some questions:

1. I had a train hauling wood from a forest to a sawmill, and a company built a train from that forest to the sawmill I was delivering to, and the forest stopped providing my train with wood. Is there a way I can take control back?

2. What determines company value? The value of every piece of property you own?

Well it's not cheating - it's just some friendly cut throat comepetition (that's strategy). :evil:

1. When 2 companies are trying to haul something from the same source, a fight insue. When you look at the company prodiding resources you'll see a % displayed. This shows how much of it's product is being transported.

If you look at your own station there you'll see a % too, that's the % of product you personnaly receive from the company everytime it produce something. This mean that the higher the %, the more you'll have to transport.

You can increase the % by increasing the frequency of your trains at the station (having 2 or 3 trains, even perhaps slower, with smaller loads usually help a lot here) and/or by shortening the time your train wait at the station before it is fully loaded by reducing the number of carts it carry.

2. Company value is everything you own plus your money minus what you borrow from the bank.

I am wondering if anyone can help me. I have downloaded transport tycoon deluxe and i cant get it to run help!!!

mine is working fine it need's windows xp to run ok :D

I can confirm; It works just fine on Windows 98. I had some problems with the music, but that might have just been my MIDI engine.

I have a problem starting TTD in windows XP. I have downloaded TTD, I have run the Runme!.reg file, and then started the game. It started normaly. The second day i've tried to started again but this time the game didn't want to start. Please, can anyone help me?

So far it doesn't look like anyone else has had this problem, so I'll ask it.

Every new train that has come out so far, I have been able to build...then all of a sudden, 2 new trains that came out after the AsianStar, I can't seem to build because it's not listed under the New Vehicles list. I remember seeing the little message pop up for both newer trains so even though they are "supposedly" there, they aren't. I want to use the newer trains so bad, but I can't :cry: Someone PLEASE help me :cry:

I don't have the patch downloaded on the computer that I play on, if that makes a difference.

After a while you will have a new kind of train available and you will need to build a new kind of track to be able to make them run. The track is one rail instead of two. To access them, I beleive you need to click on the train icon and choose either for regular trains or the new kind.

I personally hardly ever played with those trains because I'm so fond in trying to break the record of The Transport Tycoon Deluxe Challenge. This mean that I usually stop playing way before 1990...

By what I remember, those trains are really faster tough you will need to change every track if you want to switch to them. There is no way around this.

I am new to Transport Tycoon Deluxe. Can anybody tell me how to make the boats carry only wood.

You buy transports and refit them for woods. Same for aircrafts.

Here is a great cheat for big bucks
Just follow this :
Step 1:
-------
When a company is about to go bankrupt and asks
you if you would like to purchase the company, say "No".
Step 2:
-------
Open up that company's window and purchase 75% of
their stock. DO NOT CLOSE THAT WINDOW!
Step 3:
-------
Move the window off to the side of the screen and
forget about it for 3 months of game time. The computer
player will be declared bankrupt, but the displayed value
of the company in the STILL OPEN company window will be
in the millions!
Step 4:
-------
Sell the 75% of the company you own and you'll
make a bundle!

Warning!!!
This has crashed my system on several occasions!
SAVE YOUR GAME BEFORE THE THREE MONTH MARK IS UP! :cheers: :cheers: :twisted: :twisted:

press the mouse at the lowest screen when the message is on ok

i think it needs the dos box .
i know what version youre playind i have it too.

a15drian, please try to avoid triple posting, or even double posting :)
Try to edit your posts instead.

i just found a similar problem in my version (downloaded from this site): when i double-click the exe file (Transport Tycoon Deluxe.exe), it opens a window, keeps it for about one second displays flash text (which i can' t see because is too fast) and closes window. Since this is the "windows version" it doesn' t run under DOSBox.

After knocking with my head in a few walls for some time (here' s a sample of that :wall: ), i decided to run a "Dos command line" and run the game from there. there i finaly was able to read the text, and here i leave its transcription:

"Unknown language 'pt' specified in the environment variable LANG or LANGUAGE. Known languages: English, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Spanish
Use SET LANG=language to select the language.
E.G. SET LANG=french"

i' m using the portuguese version of Windows XP, so i' m not surprised to see the "pt" in this LANG variable, so after reading this, i created a BAT file (E.G.: ttd.bat) and inside i placed two command lines like this:

set lang=english
"D:\Transport Tycoon Deluxe\Transport Tycoon Deluxe.exe"

the quotes (") are needed to because the folder and exe file name have more than 8 characters and include the space character.

running this BAT file made the game work again. if someone has a similar problem, i advise him (or her :max: ) to test this option and enjoy this great game :Brain:

ok who needs help at scotland i help him
i am the best 100.000.000.000$ whiout a cheat :angel:
i used all the subsides and build planes whit goods ,wood, from a far distance to edinburgh :cheers: :Brain:
The mogul :Brain:

Scotland and West Country are easily the 2 best maps. I run a company on the west country map that has an airport in every town with more than 100 citizens (in other words all of them). They all have a route into one of my 4 large airports at cardiff. Some towns have upto 10 routes running from them.
If u lot r all still using the old graphics, get the new set from The TTDpatch website and then go to The utility download page of Shadow-XIII to download some good software to maintain ttdpatch.

i create a scenario very difficult, and in1965 my company worth 7.000.000

I've never played this before but was a big fan of Chris Sawyers Rollercoaster Tycoon and this looks easily as good. I've got a bit of a problem though, can you have more than one train operating on the same line? It looks like you can as it allows you to purchase a second train. For some reason I only ever see one train moving along the rails and nothing new emerges from my depot. Am I doing something wrong? I've selected its route and started it just like I did with the other train but no show! When I click on my depot it shows the most recently added train, but only that one (ie train 2 or train 3 if I add another).

You can't have more than one train running on the same track; the solution is to build a second (or third or...) track next to it for another train.
However you don't need parallel tracks along the whole way: with the use of traffic lights you can create a sort of passing place.

For example visit http://home.c2i.net/cecilieTT/begicorn.htm#railwa and scroll down to "railways first". There you'll see 2 images of combinations of single and parallel tracks (it's hard to explain it in words).

http://www.railserve.com/jump/jump.cgi?ID=10957 features some more images and explanation of railway building.

The computer itself also uses this mix of single and parallel tracks, but don't take its way of trackbuilding as a good example... Those tracks will often include unnecessary curves, bridges, etc.

:ok: Thanks a lot for the explanation and links, that makes perfect sense now! I was trying to follow the computers example but then I realised it kept going bust so probably not the best way to go! Thanks again, I'm hooked on this one already.

Please everyone, take note that the official sequel to TTD is named "Locomotion". I just purchased it for then bucks at my local EB Games shop. I'll try it and give out my thoughts on the game later on this week... Which mean when I'll have time to try it. :)

http://www.openttd.com

With this "patch" you can play multiplayer

I dont know if this has already been mentioned but if you want tips and updates you for Transport Tycoon, Transport Tycoon Deluxe, Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe or Locomotion you should check out
http://tt-forums.net/

This is the best game EVER, Reincarnated. I totally recommend that everyone try it, and get your mates on too and play the multiplayer game. It's so totally awesome. We play it at school all the time now that we know how!

For those interested, here is the review I made about Locomotion as mentioned earlier on this thread.

[font=Times][size=1][size=7]What happened to the DOS version of Transport Tycoon Deluxe? :cry: (the one that I have, I mean)

i do agree that trains are the best way to make money if you keep them all updated to the newest engine and the newest railroad but if a town is agry with your companie and you destroy a station to make a meg lev or a monarail they wont let you rebuild. but me personally i only use boats when i abosolutly have to and i normally just use vehcals for short distance subsidys

Put TTDPatch in the Extras.
It is not a fix,It adds extra Functionality and you can run it with extra cool stuff like pre station signals and huge stations and trains and all ths other stuff(But you have to download the graphics as well)

www.ttdpatch.net

I still can't belive! I FINALY found this game (after 5 years looking) and in Deluxe version THANK YOU guys from Abandonia.com YOU ARE THE BEST!!! And this is the best site ever and NOW i'm going to play the best tycoon game ever!!!!
[size=14]THANK YOU AGAIN!!! :Brain: :Brain: :Brain:

LOL dude its about ?5 in most shops

a good way to start off if u do random map is to take out a massive loan and buy 75% of evey new company - then continue the game as normal

then in about 10 game years time ull sell your 75% for lot of money

:ok:

i have windows xp and when i come ingame all the time automaticly exit game.
im in game 6 seconds and exeist...help plz :help:

it is show me message: system cant open ports COM#, wich need this program. Click closer if u want stop program.
what i need there?

you "can" enter the game?
I was about to sugeste you to check this topic, but if you enter the game, maybe it isn' t the same problem...

btw, do you even start playing it, or it just exits in the menu?

i come normaly ingame and when i come exit.

This is market monopoly :not_ok:

I luuuuv this game... :w00t: :w00t: :w00t:
But, can't we rotate the maps???
:cry: :cry: :cry:
Cause it's very difficult to design a road path without rotate the map first.

And can't we upgrade our train station???
In early years, maybe I only need one track. But after that i need more tracks on the same station???

How can we upgrade our fleet (trains / buses).
Are we just put the old one to depot and buy another new ones???
Or we can sell the older models to the market???

And finally, are there others maps???

1) Why do you have trouble building a track without rotating the map (and I don't remember if it was possible to rotate it at all)? If some building or trees are blocking your view, make them transparent, that should help quite a bit.

2) You can either anticipate the need for a bigger station by starting with 2- or more tracks at each station, or wait until the need for expanding your station presents itself and hope that by that time you'll have plenty of money anyway.
Be careful however, if some local authority has become angry with whatever you've been doing, you might not be able to rebuild your station once you've destroyed it... Always check how the city rates you before destroying stations, airports, etc.

3) To upgrade your fleet, it's indeed necessary to bring the old unit to the depot, sell it there (in the case of trains, only sell the engines, you don't need to replace the cargo cars), then build a new one. The newly built unit will automatically copy the route settings from the previous one. You'll get some money for the old units you've sold, but it's not much...

4) What about the random maps? I'm not sure whether they are completely random, or picked from a prebuilt set, but I've never had the feeling I'd seen a particular map before, so I guess they're built randomly from scratch.

U also can buy the land by placing a mark, but when upgrading, wacht out for local autority. Another option it´s too add another type of station, for example heliports are small and copter can give u good money if u math the carry capacite.

I had visited TTDpatch and I already download the newest patch.
It said that we could bribe the autorithy??? But How???
:blink: :blink:
And I couldn't build on a slope land either (but computer can do that :sniper: ).

To bribe the authority click on the city name and go to City Authority. If you have enough money and your rating is low enough, you should find a "bribe the authority" option in the list.

I still cannot bribe the authority. How low were we before bribe option shown up???
And how much money we should pay for bribery???
I also cannot build an airport although my rating at those city is exellent, why???

Bribe it´s a federal crime!!! :hammer:

Are you sure? If you get a "XXX local authority doesn't let you" sort of message, then your rating is too low. Remember your rating can drastically drop if you do a lot of destruction or even just terrain changes near the city, and you can check it anytime on the Local Authority screen of a city.

Not sure about the bribing, my TTD isn't running for some reason :crazy:

And it's not your overall rating, but how this local town/city/whatever rates you, make sure you're looking at the correct town...
And about this bribery thing, do you mean funding the local government, or is it something new that I don't know?

I had something like that happening, here's a little description (that I've already posted before):

<!--QuoteBegin-Shrek@Aug 10 2005, 12:32 AM

i just found a similar problem in my version (downloaded from this site): when i double-click the exe file (Transport Tycoon Deluxe.exe), it opens a window, keeps it for about one second displays flash text (which i can' t see because is too fast) and closes window. Since this is the "windows version" it doesn' t run under DOSBox.

After knocking with my head in a few walls for some time (here' s a sample of that* :wall: ), i decided to run a "Dos command line" and run the game from there. there i finaly was able to read the text, and here i leave its transcription:

"Unknown language 'pt' specified in the environment variable LANG or LANGUAGE. Known languages: English, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Spanish
Use SET LANG=language to select the language.
E.G.* SET LANG=french"

i' m using the portuguese version of Windows XP, so i' m not surprised to see the "pt" in this LANG variable, so after reading this, i created a BAT file (E.G.: ttd.bat) and inside i placed two command lines like this:

set lang=english
"D:\Transport Tycoon Deluxe\Transport Tycoon Deluxe.exe"

the quotes (") are needed to because the folder and exe file name have more than 8 characters and include the space character.

running this BAT file made the game work again. if someone has a similar problem, i advise him (or her :max: ) to test this option and enjoy this great game* :Brain:[/quote]

I hope it helps!

Nop doesn't helps

I hope it helps! [/b][/quote]
Well I have english Windows, but I had changed the LANG variable for FreeCiv. It works now, thanks :)

Anyways, here's a screenshot of bribing:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y23...uper/bribe.png

Sweet :) Thanks for the info!
Either I've always been playing too honestly, or this bribery is a new feature that I didn't have back then in the version I played.

It's a TTDPatch feature.

Personally I never use it, by the time my rate's near Mediocre I'm caught and it goes back to Appaling :angry:

Statue, fund new buildings, brides, rights, WOW
i only got the old fund road reconstruction and advertisement. :angry:

Then you weren't rich enough for those (exclusive rights are about $1m) ;)

Btw, anyone ever noticed the X-Com references in the game?
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y23...uper/xcom1.png
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y23...uper/xcom2.png
"Train + UFO" disaster.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y23...uper/xcom3.png
Left corner, arctic Snowy Peaks map.

Looks like Chris Sawyer was a fan of X-Com :)

I seen the UFO a lot of times, but I never played the artic map... :ok:

Great, I never saw these before... :D

They are the disasters, :blow: , for monorail a UFO land over the track and it´s blowed off by the X-Com, in water there are submarines(i saw them but never saw an attack over a ship), a smaller UFO can colided with your road units, a zepelin crash over an airport and if a plane try to land in these airport before removed, u will got a plane crash

Anyway, i didn´t know of the X-com HQ :borg:

It might have just been an in-joke, Microprose made both games.

Still pretty amusing though...

The submarines don't do anything, they were put at Microprose's request to link with another game they were marketing at the time.
And UFOs don't just land on monorail, they also like railway and maglev :P though they only show up later in the game.

Xcom? Rock! I really must go find that...

I like this game it was my first game ever played

wow just read the manual and i found out some really interesting things LOL
like did you know having trees around your station attracts people and cargo? :blink:
really worth reading :ok:

Planting trees also increases your rating with nearby cities. Weird task for a transport tycoon :P

Not really. Transporting has a big effect on the environment (not just destroying nature and poluting). I live near a railroad and I can hear every train that passes, were I any closer to the tracks I couldn't even sleep at night. Trees are a sort of a sound barier (they reduce the noise) making it more pleasent to live near by.

I live next to a railroad AND a highway and I don't complain :P

i suppose your right it does make sense

I wish I could play this game without feeling like an evil capitalist pig. I've railroaded in too many small towns for my good conscience.

Mike

LOL thats funny btw did this game ever have a Sequel?

http://www.atari.com/us/games/locomotion/pc
Chris Sawyer's Locomotion, though die-hard fans (like me) don't consider it as good as TT.

is it like tt just on 3d or its not as good?

btw is the multiplayer fuction in trasport tycoon useable? does it work? if it does maybe we can arrange some games :ok:

It's TT with the RCT engine, to put it shortly. Look through the reviews listed here for more info.

And the multiplayer function is designed for network play. With some tweaking you can use it online (look here) but it's very unstable.

I just finished 100 years of this, the most difficult level (except the trains don't break). 2 billions of cash in the end. :D

well done

i played 15 years and i have 1 bil

Hello, i live in Brazil, and i don´t know how to speak english very well.

i have a problem with ttd. i make the download in the site, and a unziped the archive, but i don´t know how to install ins windows wp.
is there a wizard to install the ttd ???
i didn´t find the .exe whose make the installation.

please, some body help me.
thanks.

=o)

Visit http://www.openttd.org/index.php for a new Transport Tycoon Deluxe. (He needs some files of this version)

Hello, i live in Brazil, and i don´t know how to speak english very well.

i have a problem with ttd. i make the download in the site, and a unziped the archive, but i don´t know how to install ins windows wp.
is there a wizard to install the ttd ???
i didn´t find the .exe whose make the installation.

please, some body help me.
thanks.

=o) [/b][/quote]
Well you can speak in brazilian, I understand it, though your english isn't too bad.
Anyways, go look in the Extras section for the game (on the Abandonia website), there's Installation Instructions there :)

Also known as Portuguese :D

2 bil now in 20 years

btw
now i am a fourm hobbit YAY :D

btw what is the hardest mode do you think?
and what are your winning tactics in each mode?

I always use planes at the beginning, costs a lot to start up with, but gives a huge outcome after a little while. Remebmer to check if they are available to modify to your transportation needs before you build the stations.

ok my wining strtegy are trains and lots of them.

Hey Kleine, you should check our Transport Tycoon Deluxe 100000000$ Challenge. ;)

WOW people there are good

Currently im trying to play airplanes at the very start and i have big problem with city growth and passenger service, i can link an airport with 3 other airports using 6 aircrafts and the passengers city provide drop from 170 to 80 and then to 40 or so in less than a couple of years.
Do you know any trick to speed up city growth? does developing their fabs play any role at all ? (my current rates for all airports are about 62% for passengers and +70% for mail -i am using mail trucks too-)
Also how to prevent a station from stop accepting goods? I spent good money (in some games) building factories and steel mills only to have my trains stockpile the goods in the city station for free.

The way I see it, the problem with airfields is that they take up quite some space. Often you have to bulldoze houses in the process, and building an airfield without having a bus station present first often seems to invoke cities' anger.

I usually build a bus station first, then position an airfield next to it (so they belong to the same single station).
I've noticed later in the game bus station often attract more passengers than a nearby airfield, so by joining them you avoid this trouble.
If you've got some money to spare, you can pump some money into a city's development (fund new buildings and such). Personally I hardly if ever do that, I tend to start with linking some industries first, allowing the cities to grow a little before I start connecting them.

Stations stop accepting goods when you've positioned them to a rather small town; you should try to drop goods at the largest/best developed city you have at your disposal, and have a station located quite centrally in that city. It might help if you invest money in that city (as described above) but I'm not sure if it's worth the money...

another_guest thank you for the tip , i ll try the bus&airport thing.
It looks like passenger service isnt reliable for the first 15-20 years and city imrpovement is very expensive at the begining

just a little tidbit about the game as I have discovered this as I have played it recently.

TT Deluxe is fully capable of LAN multiplayer, however, all the machines need to be running XP as it is the only environment in which the multiplayer is stable. I have tried numerous times with a winXP machine hosting and a winME machine connecting (and visa versa) with each time the game (and occasionally the winME) crashing. I later found after googling that the multiplayer was only stabalized for WinXP/2000 machines with the TTDX patch.

what is lan conection?

another side note, i tried the open source version that has worked all the kinks out for running a multiplayer game on a Local Area Network as well as over the internet using master game servers.

so what your saying is i can play with a friend on the same computer but not through the internet even with the patches?

not with the abandonware version man. You're gonna have to download and use the open source alternative which is fully multiplayer compatible via TCP/IP protocol (Internet) :ok:

It's not working :ranting: :ranting:

some details apaer from its not working and a couple of smileys would be nice...

It would not "be nice", it would be an absolute necessity if we are to help him.

It wasn't working for me either so I found this fix a few pages back.

Open notepad, write:

SET LANG=english
"Transport Tycoon Deluxe.exe"

Then save the file in the transport tycoon folder as TTD.bat
(Really you can call it whatever you want, just make sure it's saved as a .bat file)

To play the game go to the Transport Tycoon folder and click on the file that you saved e.g. TTD.bat . The game will run in an MSDOS-style dialog box.

i can't run the game too it says the game was not install properly and i tried the above method all it does when i click on the file is open and close automatically pls help thank you :tai: :tai:

HI TO ALL!
I've played Transport Tycoon deluxe under XP & works well.

you can go look in the Extras section for the game, and there's Installation Instructions . :whistle:

Sorry for taking so long to notice this. You probably will never read this but here goes anyways.

The true way to go at the beginning is trains. Once you get a stable source of income (I usually go coal at the very beginning), then you can concentrate on whatever else you wish. If you still wish to go airplane at the beginning, then consider this a great challenge.

The true reason why your passengers drop so radically is probably because of the % of use you have. Airplanes have this disability, especially at the beginning; they are slow. This mean that you won't be able to maintain your % of use too high, and the lower it will get, the lower the number of passenger you'll get too. You could try to up that by linking the airport with a bus stop by building a bus stop directly at the side of the airport. When you do so, the two stations will "fuse" together, and the more often the buses stop the higher the percetage will get. You can also fuse a rairoad station to make it a 3 way station, and this trick is usefull for widening the area of effect of a station. This lead us to the next point;

The reason why your stations sometime stop accepting goods is because every square of building accept a certain amount of goods. Usually, a house accept 1/3 good, and you can see this by clicking on the "?" icon to the top right of the screen and selecting any building in the town. This mean that you'll need 3 houses to have one unit of goods to be accepted for the station. I'm not sure of the actual amount of goods you need for the station to accept goods, but the point is; if the town change in any ways and you don't have the prerequisite amount of goods in the range of the station anymore, you won't be able to deliver goods to that station until it return. Sometimes when city grows, buildings get flattened and new buildings take it's place. This can shift the pattern of goods your station range cover, and the aforementioned trick could help you bridge the gap to be able to accept the delivery of goods again.

Hope this help you. :)

hello, long time no see ;)

well, i have a "little" problem with tt.
i downloaded the deluxe version, i ran the runme registration editing thingie and...it doesnt, run, when i try to start it it says "unable to access transport tycoon deluxe cd! $"
well, there are to "options" in my opinion:
a) sometime ago i had a nasty spyware infection that also *meep*ed up my administrative right, but i think (or better i thought) i repaired all the damage, perhaps not everything is back to normal and windows won´t accept the registration editing? (though, i get the message that it worked when executing the file....)

B) (<--this was not supposed to be a smilie but a ) + a b --> b-) something else doesnt´t work XD

can somebody help me?

HUH it says i need a cd??

Run the crack. I think you need to run a .reg file.

if u mean that run me.register file, i've already done that

oh never mind it already works :Brain: :Brain: :Brain: :Brain: :Brain:

just read the whole TT section including the challenge bit what a game this is i have spent so many hours on it

i remember once setting the intrest to maximum 6% if i remember right i had so much money it hit a top figure it didnt go minus but my trains wouldnt make money unless i spent enough to keep it below the top amount and my almost perfect rating went through the floor
it took many mountins being built and demolished @ sea to improve things LOL

i also once played for 28 hours straight just grabbing snacks and drinks now and then my eyes were done in so i had to stop but i still wanted to play i fell asleep thinking of ways to improve traffic flow on a very busy train juction such is the power of this game

for me this is the finest game ever made civ 2 is close for re-play factor but this is king

am now gonna dig out my copy add the patch i just downloaded an knowing me al still be playing tommorow morning :Brain: :Brain: :Brain: :Brain:

EDIT: earlyer someone mentioned station limits on the origional game it was 200 stations as i found on 1 long and (with 8mb ram) slow game

wich reminds me didn,t have a pc for a couple of months went from 4mb ram to 16mb of ram loaded up a saved game i had on disc and sat gobbsmacked as all the trains wizzed by :w00t: amazing anything would run at all i have 1024mb of ram now dam gotta go play see ya :w00t:

well as expected i played for hours and hours didnt go to bed till 7 am the following morning :whistle: couldnt find my disc then i remembered i left it in my ex G/f s lap top DOH!! it hadn,t bin as long as i thought since i had last played :ok: so i d/loaded abandonia copy imported the registry as it mentions on here (glad i read through all the posts first :bleh: )
At first i had problems with the trains not stopping in the stations untill i reallsed that the mod had changed the use of "non stop" so u can use stations as way points :ok: it works well stops them getting lost and means u can make trains use your main trunk routes when the game gets more congested later in the game instead of clogging up any smaller side routes as they used to
still love this game how is it so good its rubbish AI silly competitors who seem to have a free buged for moving land countless other stupid bug but it doesnt matter its just awsome and the mod just makes it better :max:

thanks Abandonia for havin this game up your modded d/load is spot on allowing u to play how u want with or without mods (i chose a few mods including longer trains and upped the various vehicle limits) it plays better than the origional glad i couldnt find the disc now :kosta:

ps please excuse double post but it is a few days after the last one :cheers:


:ot: EDIT i just re wrote the last bit of my last post just make it clearer and it got me thinking around 1994/5 i had 4mb ram and went to 16 last year i went from 512 ram to 1024 mb ram so in 11 years i have gone from 4mb to 1024 mb

now excuse me if my maths goes astray but thats 256 times bigger in 11 years if that increase continued a the same rate around the year 2016 i shall upgrade to
716800 mb ram 716.8 gig!!! jats just over 3 1/2 times my current hard drive (sorry about goin a bit geeky with the numbers i just started working it out in my head (realised i needed to make notes) :crazy: and thought ad share the results i want that computer now gues it will still have a bugfest microsoft operating system though :angry: end of :ot:


see ya
hobbs

I need a bit of help. A zeppelin crashed on one of my most important airports, how do you clean up the zeppelin accidents? It appears that none of my planes can take off due to the crashed zeppelin in the middle of the landing strip.

I believe you can't... You just have to wait and it will "clean up" by itself.... (I guess that if you played it for a little longer, you might have discouvered that yourself, but just in case someone comes with the same question...)

How do you get a zeppelin? :blink:

It's a random disaster, you can't actually purchase zeppelins for your own use.

hye i'm having this problem too, i imported the reg file like it says but it still says i need a cd any help on this?

Daemon tools?

would work if i had a cd image to mount, which i don't cause the download doesn't include one

Probably one of those two:

1) you moved the repertory or renamed it after you've run the reg file or
2) you are not using the right file to start the game. You must use the one with 2 "plasters" on the icon, which is because it's the patched file.

1) nope in the same spot since i downloaded it

2) yep thats the file im clicking on and it is still not running

A quick look at the download later, I think you really should update this to 2.5 Beta 1...

What with 3 years and a couple month's worth of new features.

http://ttdpatch.net/src/

On top of that, you can remove the registry file, since TTD Patch has a integrated no-registry feature.

You might also want to mention the new graphics stuff somewhere

:blink: Er, yeah, listen to SpComb, people!

But, that one is not an official version.
So no.
An updater might change the link to the Open Source version to point to that page SpComb posted.

Anyone who can tell me how to build monorail tracks? I don't see it as an option, although the computer is building them like crazy. I even bought a competitor to try to get access to the build option, but no go.

Use the same buttons you're using to build (regular) railroads, but instead of left-clicking them, you have to either right-click them or keep your left mouse button down while dragging the mouse cursor down a bit so that a drop-down appears (been quite some years so I'm not sure which one of both is correct). This will give you the choice between railroad and monorail.

Thanks. Never would have figured that out alone.

I just downloaded and tried to install/run Transport Tycoon deluxe. I can't get it to do anything. I am assuming that since it says it's for Windows it should run without a third party program? I am using XP. Thanks for any help

I recommend reading the review before you download a game.
Look at the Installation Instructions on the download/review page of this game, or in Readme.txt in the game archive :)

I do love this game, how you set up chains for delivering things
best one I had was iron ore- steel mill (fast train) steel - to an island platform (big ferry) then to a factory (little train)
the ferry was v slow but as the fast train was quick it took MASISVE amounts of steel over meanin the small train was always full ^^

The game center essentially around trains. Get a few good train runs early and you can basically do whatever you want in the long term. I usually always start with a coal route.

hi, bene playing the game for a couple of days, and the centred around trains thing is actually slightly annoying, I wish other modes of transport were slightly more practical. Lorries/busses earn frankly pitiful amounts of $$!

still, as I think I have posted before, I do love this game.. Im thinking about getting locomotion (asking around to see what its like)

Well, it's not that it's really centered on trains... It's just that it's both the most easy and most efficient way to get cash. Later on, when the towns begin to grow, airplanes and buses are good too. In fact, I would never go really far in the game without airplanes.

You can read my Locomotion VS TTD article if you want. :)

bussses... hmm...
1. check for subsidiaries
2. build a road to next town (this is cheap)
3. establish a line (or a few) which will cost you only a little bit and bring back quite big profit.


so for only a little bit of money you get quite a lot.

Trains are efficient. again usually with some subsidiary. that's how it is in real life you know. my company exports most producs by train (or at least delivers them to warehouse where they are later loaded on a ship).

However ships, airplanes etc can also be very efficient in this game. i too made most money later by driving passenger with both fast & large plains.

Buses are also useful in keeping cities satisfied: you don't have to flatten half of the town before you can build a bus stop.
Especially later in the game, cities you haven't connected so far can get quite annoyed when you try to build an airport or train station right away.
I usually start by connecting some industries by train, then the largest cities, then link the smaller ones by bus. Heliports can also be nice if you've got too many passengers waiting at a bus stop; just build a heliport next to it, it takes only one square.

Imo aircraft only start being profitable once your cities have reached a decent size (well, a decent number of pax per month), and I hardly use aircraft before the big airports and 592 mph aircraft are available.

ever tried playing the desert/jungle area? well you can't afford to build the road to goldmines (it's too expencive on those terains). and those subsidiaries really pay good money. so best/cheapest way to get them is to get a modified plane that would carry the ore or money or whatever needs to be transported and two airports.

but in any other terain you are right. it's worth waiting a bit and get the plane when there are larger airports and faster/bigger planes available.

:help: How can i build/upgrade normal rails to monorails and maglev?? My e-mail is *BLEEEEP* :help:

That's how you do it:

:kosta: Thanks for help (holding LMB and dragging the cursor a bit down works). Thanks again.

:help: How can i add new trains to my game :blink: .PLease I nedd help :D

build railroad ---> build train depot at the end of railroad --> go to train depot and buy locomotive and wagons. --->you now have a train

ok thanks :sneaky: :D :D

www.openttd.com
open source update for ttd that allows internet play (WOOHOO)

Does anyone know of a way to plat transport tycoon deluxe on a PSP :angel:

sorry that should be play transport tycoon deluxe on the Sony PSP

Nope.

Sorry if it's already been mentioned, but for whatever reason it won't let me save games.
I get an "Unable to read drive" message in the save game window.

Ideas?

i Can't save the game also..

after al thAT hard work to finally get the game going..

i can't save my games.. :(

Someone help me please! If I try to run this game I get an error msg saying i need the CD. I checked some earlier posts in this thread and ran the ttdx configurator, using default settings as recommended. Still, I get the same error message. Please feel free to make any suggestions how I could run this game.

Make sure you've run the .reg file and then use the patched icon to start the game. You'll probably need to reboot before the .reg file take effect in your system.

I realy love this GREAT game, and now when I see there is a lot of people who share my opinion I LOVE IT even more, maybe it will have a littlle of my time these days :max:

I will add my voice to the few who are having problems with the save game option. Every time I try to save the game tells me it "cannot read drive". Whaa? I'm loving this game and I would appreciate if someone could help solve this problem!

Make sure all the files without exception are not flagged as read only. That's usually the problem and unfortunatly this problem originate from some archivers.

Hmmm...I tried to make the files without exception not read only files but I am still having no luck with saving the game. It still says Unable to Read Drive. (I find the files and folders return to Read Only once I have exited the properties window, even though I apply the changes to them. When I open the properties window again it says Read Only again for the folder.) Any suggestions?

I thoroughly recommend the open source version of this game (get it from source forge) i just spent 6 hours playing this game with mates over the net. It gets boring single-player as regardless of AI difficulty it is far to easy. But with mates it can be great competing against each other, backstabbing ect. Do it (just not in exam week as I have done).

Hey, I'm sorry if someone has already brought this up, but is it possible to use both OpenTTD and TTD patch at the same time on this game? Both patches have great features and I would really prefer to use both. If it is not possible to run both, which one should I stick with. OpenTTD or TTDpatch?

Thanks in advance ;)

:sos: Hey guys. I've installed the game and it all seems to be running properly but I can't get any sound whatsoever. I'm running Windows XP.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Guest_mike_* @ Jun 21 2006, 04:51 PM) [snapback]238508[/snapback]</div>Download OTTD patch. That fixed it for me. I think there is also a sound config.exe.

I have played transport tycoon on many differnt system configurations and can confirm that it works well under DOS (assuming drivers are correctly installed) or Windows 95/98. The Deluxe version comes in two editions - Winows and DOS. The Windows one doesn't run on DOS, obviously, the DOS one will run on Windows 95/98 (and probably ME).

Windows XP requires the Windows Transport Tycoon Deluxe + TTDPatch OR OpenTTD. Windows 2000 is probably the same as XP. Hope this helps someone.

I tried almost 2 days almost everything to save the game, just wanted to post all the possibilities which didn't work and believe me, I tried quite a lot. But right now I found the solution. I hope it'll work for all the other guys with the same problem here too.

First: I had this message "Unable to read drive" too, not just on top of the save-dialog but also in the load-dialog.

I could load all the savegame which were included in the zip-archive but there was no save of mine. Neither was there an autosave-file although I checked the options and I never got an error message from the system (no message box at least). Same happened while saving games. There was that message "Unable to read drive" but saving seemed to work.

OK let's stop the palaver: I just realized that there is a small scrollbar on the right side of the dialogs... just scroll down and you'll find all of your savegames and also the autosave.

I know it sounds unbelievable but trust me, it happened right that way to me. I haven't seen this damn scrollbar for 2 days... I was just irritated from the message "Unable to read drive". Probably I thought I couldn't save because (like most of the people here now) I'm used to see the last save on top. But that does not happen at TTD.



btw: The latest patch 2.5 beta 6 from June 16, 2006 at http://ttdpatch.net/src/ works fine with the version you can download here. You only have to start with the ttdpatchw.exe then.

How can i build trains with 2 locomotives???????

You can't. There is some trains in the game which will have two units, but those trains are built like that.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Eagle of Fire @ Jul 20 2006, 05:41 AM) [snapback]244079[/snapback]</div>Yes, but when i buy them i only get 1 unit instead of 2!!!

the glitch in the game made the game too easy and by expoiting the error people lost the satisfaction of the game and left the game on the abandoned games shelf and forgot about it thankfull somone fixed that error now i can play it to the full :sneaky:

When you purchase a train like that and add carts to it, you should have one part of the train at each ends of the completed train. If you can't add carts to this train (I think there is a passenger train built this way), then you won't be able to change it at all.

hi! i can't run ttd on my computer cuz it gives me an error "unable to access trasnport tycoon deluxe CD! $" could you plz help me up on that?[[]]'s

Read the earlier posts in this thread. If the problem was around, someone has likely already posted an answer.

Yeah, this is the oldest problem around.

Run the .reg file... *sigh*

And you'll have to reboot for the file to take effect, too.

tks! it's workin now! :D but it's got a problem! i can't cheat! :S:S i tried the tunnels thing but it didn't work! can u help me on that plz?

I say that that is a good thing, guest :)
I have a problem! How am i supposed to get oil from these things that claim to make oil to the refinary?

Hi, The game want CD =(

"Unable Transport Tycoon Deluxe CD
$
"

Pleaseee Help-me :/

You have some major problems, neodraco. First, you did not read the read me that came with the game. Second, looking at the top of this page , you will find your answer.
Also, i still need mhelp with my problem, look at the post above neodraco

Why do "local authorities refuse to allow you to build here"? Hmm..

Also, is there some way to add a track to a station without local autorities going bonkers? If I demolish it they wont let me build there again.

No. You are really wasting your time with me. If anything, I'd rather prevent you from cheating altogether.

Each towns have a reputation meter for your company. Everytime you build destroy the landscape (lower/raise terrain, chop trees, destroy houses or roads/things belonging to the city) your reputation drop. If it drops too low, you won't be able to build in the town area anymore.

To counter that, you can do several things. Having a viable passenger transport route in the town might help with time, planting trees can help too, you could also fund things like new roads and new houses development. With time your reputation will raise again and you'll be able to build again in the town.

The main problem is that it doesn't magically change overnight. You need to work for your reputation, and it change only slowly. You'd be way better to work on it from early on by not destroying the landscape and the trees and planting trees in towns you know you'll go build later on to be certain.

You can see your current town reputation by clicking on the town name. That's where you do the special actions like funding the town roads and housing too, as well as other things like ads and promotion of your products.

Exactly!
A method I've always found easy is to start early linking cities with bus stations, even if these towns generate few passengers. It will keep those cities happy. Wait too long before linking a certain city and they'll get upset after the slightest action from your side that interferes with the environment.

heh, whenever a town stops me from building a vital station/network I get my revenge by changing their name to something like cr*p town.
Pointless, immature.. but strangley satisfying.

it is possible (but quite tricky) to make and import your own trains for the game :ok:

Boy O boy...gamers need cheats for this also? It's a straight forward and thoroughly enjoyable game, and anyone with a little wits can play it. If you have problems just customise it :ok:

I cant install Tycoon! :tai:
And there is no Readme File!

And there is no a registry file!!!!!
Where is it?

To do this you will have to be logged in
as administrator.<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<What the hell is that?
How can i logged in an administrator´?

There is a .reg file in the archive if you downloaded the game from here. If there is not, then download the game from here. :)

If you can't see the files extention (which I never understood why, it's one of the most basic things to see in Windows), there is an option in your folder options to enable you to see all extentions. By default, this stupid option is turned off.

If you don't have the admin rights on your computer, then talk to your sysop.

ok..i made it!

But if i push the Transport Tycoon Deluxe.exe,then there stand:
unable to acess the Transport Tycoon CD?
I need an CD?

There is one file which it's icon is a patched icon (with band-aids). You should use that file to start the game.

I'm starting to REALLY love this site!

First, X-COM, now Transport Tycoon. Great! =^)

Brings back quite a lot of my youth, hehe.

Anyway, I still have a problem. I once read through the whole thread and found another poster with that problem, but reading though it again I couldn't find it anymore. :blink:

If playing the desert / jungle map, I can't buy electric trains. Steam and diesel trains work, later on the Monorail and the MagLev work as well, and I get messages about the new e-trains that can be brought. But they don't show up in the buy menu.

Can anyone help me? Thats quite frustrating, playing up until 2050 with some 50-60 year old trains. :whistling:

Another question: Is there any chance to start the game at 1900 instead of 1950? Didn't find that in the options.

can't find the runme!.reg file you're talkin' about.

HELP!! pls...

When you unzip the game fully, you'll notice there is two repertories for TTD. In the first repertory is the readme.txt and the runme!.reg file, in the second repertory there is the real game.

You must not change the repertories names after you run the .reg file, and you must reboot for the .reg file to take effect.

Help! I can´t buy trains or vehicles????? Very hard to play the game without..... Can any one help, please?

Did you build depots? Only when you have at least 1 depot for a certain vehicle type (bus/lorry, train, ...) you'll be able to buy such vehicles.
Also, when the game is paused you can't buy any of them either.

Good day folks... have any of you tried OTTD?

I never tryied it, but it been mentionned so many times in this very thread (with some links too) that I would need to live under a rock not to know about it. :)

hmmm i just found a new bug i can't enter the hall of fame where you are listed when you finished the 2050 year can some1 help me ??? :sos:

I wasn't aware that the game could be finished in any ways... So, for the hall of fame... :unsure:

heh if you finish the year 2050 you are declared Mogul if ur good that how it was in my old Transport Tycoon Deluxe .
When i enter the the Show High-Score it doesn't sho me nothing :(

Could someone help me because i have a strange bug. My opponents dont start at all. I have enabled them in options, set them to start imediatley but they just dont want to go. Easy, normal, hard, 1-7, everything. :sos: (maybe they are scarred when they see me :D )

naaaaaah you just have to wait for them and then they will come ;)

i have a problem i cant seem to build railroad tracks because when i do goto it says it has already been built erm why :sos:

LOL just a wuestion, is it right that the tunnel cheat doesnt work in the windows version of TTD? Or am I just not trying hard enough ;)

It could well be that the cheat doesn't work in the windows version. I remember I've tried it and it never worked for my windows version.

Iv'e been trying to play this game in a network with my friend.
Works fine in the beginning, but after 30 mins or so, the game crashes.... :tai:

i can't save my game, is it possible to save my game anyway?

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(help @ Oct 10 2006, 04:01 PM) [snapback]260481[/snapback]</div>Should be possible! Can you describe in more detail what happens when you try to save?
Also, I seem to remember that you couldn't save when the game was paused, or that you could only save when it was paused, so try both...

i just downloaded this game cause i really like to play it, but aint bigger scientist and not very good with english.....but the damn piece of electronics tells me that there is a problem with accessing the cd, wtf should i do

Read the previous posts in this thread.
This problem has been discussed, revived and discussed to death twenty times over.

Reboot your computer for the changes to take effect... <_<

[font=Comic Sans Ms]this game is great. so additctive. just show games dont have to be super high graphics to be awesome :brain:

If you enjoyed this or TT, you should check out -

www.simutrans.com

- a free version that's under constant development - so if you're Japanese you can play with Japanese trains, if USA with US trucks, if Belgian with Belgian horse-drawn carts in 1860 etc... And if someone hasn't drawn the vehicles, you can do your own and post them for others to try. Endless variety - and the programmers are incredibly active so if you find a bug, post it and they'll get right on it. Runs on Win, Mac, Linux BEOS... And if you're not techie, use the Win version and use the installer.

I havent read through all the posts so im sorry if this has come up before..

I running MS Vista RC2, I use compabilety mode XP SP2. but the game crashes before I can get it to start. either its the gameRX or whtever the file name was.. or its some dll file..

anyone got this running on Vista?

Whee....i was expanding business like always,replacing trains etc...and WHAM a ufo landed!Well i looked at it (heey....that looks like a UFO battleship...)then i saw a quite familiar craft flying over it...and WHAM! Some of my precius railroads went to railroad heaven... Now i wonder,should i prepare for an alien invasion and start raising land and buying fighters (LOL)

great game tough pretty difficult for beginners :P

hi
i need help i dont now how to makethe boat to shipin the docs can some one help thanks

GOOD 2007

You either take a Tanker for oil, or take the goods transport and refit it for whatever you need to move. You can also refit aircrafts to move goods. :)

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Eagle of Fire @ Jan 4 2007, 01:31 AM) [snapback]273184[/snapback]</div>[font=Impact]I know that there is a cheat that you build a huge tunnel and it gives you money instead of
uses money when you build it at the edge of land to the other side at water level but ive tried this and i cant get it to work,how exactly does it go?

I need some help. I can't manage to start it. I think I have done what stand in the readme file.

What have I done wrong?

Restart your computer.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(X-spress train full of coal @ Jan 18 2007, 06:24 AM) [snapback]275450[/snapback]</div>[font=Impact]I know that there is a cheat that you build a huge tunnel and it gives you money instead of
uses money when you build it at the edge of land to the other side at water level but ive tried this and i cant get it to work,how exactly does it go?
[/b][/quote]

doesn't work cause the game is pathched. but you can look for info in one of the text files that have infomration on patch. therein you will find how to increase your money by cheating as well as some other usefull/interesting settings available to you due to the patch.

I'm not sure that I understand the manual.
I'm supposed to move the regestry-file into the Railroad Tycoon folder?

I'm a supposed to open it before or after i have moved it?

Please help me.

Greetings from Norway. ;)

Try after, though that shouldn't make any difference.

Then restart your machine.

Hey, it's me againg. No way in hell that TTD will work on mye computer.

I have tried everything I can think of.
Restart after restart.

Someone have any idea about why it doesn't work on my computer?

I greatful for any kind of help.

- Someone from Norway. :)

You could open a thread in the troubleshooting forum. There is no way we can help you if you're not a little more specific about the problem. I have no idea what your problem might be related to right now.

i noticed you have a competition to 100,000,000 posted somewhere on here. i i have a game that i did 112,681,958 on 2/4/1971.
wdd
williamduff.com

i love transport tycoon

but now you can upagrade the game and play online (much more fun)

see on. http://www.openttd.org

you still need the original transport tycoon, you can use this from abandonia!

Play whicht new grafics, new opcions, new veicules ect ect and play online in the same company whict others players! :max:

i have the original Transport Tycoon Deluxe box, is thiz a collector's item yet? jus gonna d/l the TTDX for XP seen as it doesnt work now LOL! ages since i played this game! i LOVED it back in the day :D

My experience is that boats are usually good to transport oil from rigs, so usually only in the later part of the game. If you want to get REALLY rich without cheating, try busses from town to town and see how quickly the towns grow. When the towns are big enough try Yate Haugans (over VERY long distances) or trains (over slightly less distance). The busses let the towns get so big, and the additional transport from planes or trains let it grow even further. In the end you'll see that the passengers will be the ones that really make the money. In the beginning though it is good to start with coal because that's the easiest money when towns are still small.
Oh and the AI in "hard" level is still very easy to leave behind if you do things the right way. But nevertheless it's a brilliant game and despite the fact that it's very easy it still gave me hours and hours of great fun.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Guest @ Feb 6 2007, 09:48 PM) [snapback]278272[/snapback]</div>Hi Norwegian guy!

It of course depends on your computer. I have a slightly new one with XP and got it to work easily like this: First you download the game from abandonia, then you unpack everything in some directory. Then you'll see a directory "Transport bla bla" and a readme file and a "Runme!" file. Run the Runme! file and then you can start Transport Tycoon Deluxe.exe in the directory "transport bla bla". You first don't see anything, but then, after a while you hear the sound. The screen is still black but if you press "enter" you reach the main menu and you're ready to play. Good luck!

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(X-spress train full of coal @ Jan 18 2007, 05:24 AM) [snapback]275450[/snapback]</div>[font=Impact]I know that there is a cheat that you build a huge tunnel and it gives you money instead of
uses money when you build it at the edge of land to the other side at water level but ive tried this and i cant get it to work,how exactly does it go?
[/b][/quote]

As said before the patched version seems not to include the money trick with the extremely long tunnel, but if you still want to make easy money (very easy, that is, although it's not as much), try buying 75% of each starting competitor (even if you have to loan more money for it), then wait until they make something out of their company and see how their value rises. Once you think their value will not rise anymore, sell your share in the company. This usually gives me around 100% profit in less than a year for each company. Sometimes, especially if your competitors are any good, the profit can be huge! Remember that money devaluates quite quickly in the later part of the game, so don't wait too long. Good hunting!

Helloo? Is somebody there? I've download this game but the registry file is damaged! What should i do??

Redownload it.

Or restart your computer. The changes will not take effect until Windows read the registery again... Which mean at startup.

As for the problem "it's not working" (on WinXP): I had to create a .bat file with the following content:
(of course, you can also set it to "English" or something, it's just that TTD doesn't recognize alternative language codes like "en" or "de"). Now it works fine - except I wasn't able to save last time :angry:

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(aaberg @ Oct 13 2004, 01:28 PM) [snapback]17337[/snapback]</div>


I have tried railroad tycoon 2 and i think this game is much much funner.

best game

I used to play this game a lot when I was younger, it's still brilliant.

I have yet to see a decent use for the cars. And by that I mean the automotives in general.

Unless you're really, really close to where you want to go, using cars feels pointless imo. :/

Even when you're right next to where you need to get, the cars are slow and cumbersome, and by the time you build enough of 'em to get any sort of decent rating, you could easily have built a similar train setup for about the same price, and without the fear of the cars randomly getting stuck at the loading points, not to mention a lot faster cash flow.

Also, while I'm thinkin' about it, it occurs to me that I have no idea how to actually finish a round. I'd originally assumed buying out all the compitition would do the trick, but it doesn't.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Sol @ Mar 29 2007, 09:59 PM) [snapback]285491[/snapback]</div>It helps to keep cities happy in the beginning when they don't generate enough passengers for a train or boat. I noticed that if you wait too long connecting a city, they'll get fed up with you, preventing you from building any train station or dock. And they are cheaper than trains for tiny goods/passenger volumes.
But indeed the bug where 3 vehicles get stuck is extremely annoying!

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(another_guest @ Mar 30 2007, 11:44 AM) [snapback]285555[/snapback]</div>See, I generally overlook these cities and go for the bigger ones. Especially in the begining.

Not if you place the load/unload points last. And even when placed first, it's never ticked 'em off that bad for me.

Erg leuk maar ???
:wallbash: DOWNLOADEN??? :wallbash:

:hysterical:
http://www.abandonia.com/games/240/Transpo...eforWindows.htm

does it work with windows vista aswell? i seem to have problems installing and playing it :l

I presume you did run the REG file and restart your system?

I get a 'Could not initialize a screen mode' error when trying to play it. Then the screen goes funny and I can play it but the images are messed up? :sos:

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Guest @ Jun 4 2007, 01:03 PM) [snapback]292851[/snapback]</div>
download the transport tycoon deluxe for windows in the abandonia, unzip, then go to http://www.openttd.org/downloads.php download the open ttd and play from open ttd!

is easy, is better is more fun! and can play multiplayer!!!! :titan:

Forgive me for not reading all 27 pages of the thread, but time is short.

Basically, I've downloaded and installed the version of the game from this site, added the registry info, and restarted, so all should be well and good.

But when it comes to saving games it says "Unable to read disk", and won't save the game anywhere other than the default folder. Also, when saving in the default folder, it overwrites the same save file each time, so I can only have one game on the go.

Is it unable to read the disk because it's NTFS? Have I made some elementary mistake?

Solutions please, I'll be very grateful.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Guest_Sam_* @ Mar 8 2007, 09:58 PM) [snapback]282538[/snapback]</div>MANY THANKS!!!!!!!!!! Using this trick all works now perfectly! I can play again with this fantastic game! :brain:
Thanks again!

Matteo

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Squire_Bev @ Jun 29 2007, 02:59 PM) [snapback]297099[/snapback]</div>
Ahh, well. I've fixed the "Unable to read disk" error by moving the game into the old school C:\MPS\TTDLX folder, but it's still overwriting previous saves every time.

At the beginning you have to use trains, then you can take the boats, have them drop off the fuel at land, have the train pick it up, and bring it to the refineries. I made about 50000 a year per tanker by doing this in scotland. Also, since the competition uses alot of road vehicles, when i have enough money I buy armored trucks and make road blocks, it really works well.
:ph34r:
Great game in almost every aspect~10 out of 10

Hi to you...

I desesperatly :wallbash: try to run the TTDFW on my XP pro and I read all the 27 pages without finding why the game is not working...

So I unzip the files, run the patch, .reg, restart after that. Double-click on the patched .EXE and I always have the classic dos pop-up that disapear after a half-second.

If someone have a solution, I want it!

Thanks in advance.

Tried to change the options in Properties --> Compatibility for the executable?

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Eddie30 @ Aug 1 2007, 03:03 PM) [snapback]302276[/snapback]</div>start->run->cmd.exe

type "set lang=english"

btw somebody should add this to technical notes of the game, the game exe on slovak language in xp gave me
then after i changed the language it worked

I check it out for the language, it's okay.

For the compatibility I tried it out but there is no success...

run the game via cmd and the black window wont close, then you can see an error message. post it here

after the year 2070 i cant play the game anymore
since the year goes from dec 2007 to jan 2007
trains wont go for mainainence anymore
how can i fix this?

thanks Caleron

It's a bug inherent in the original game. TTDPatch should fix it.

Does this version work with the new windows vista? Because I would really like to play this game on my comp...

did you try it?

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(_r.u.s.s. @ Aug 16 2007, 07:53 PM) [snapback]304938[/snapback]</div>Yea, dunno if I made it wrong or something but says I'm missing a "DPLAY.dll" file or something

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Guest @ Aug 16 2007, 04:26 PM) [snapback]304920[/snapback]</div>According to the Transport Tycoon Forums, TTDeluxe will work in Vista if you use either OpenTTD (easiest to setup, + multiplayer available) or TTDPatch (more customizable they say, se the above forum link for more information)

- Arand

I wont be able to have a social life for months :( Already downloaded like 5 games i used to play for hours without end today :(

hi
i have the transport tycoon deluxe cd but have windows xp, but obviously trying to install the game doesnt work and i get to the install screen and theres a nice unavoidable freeze without me being able to do anything but turn the computer off.

but anyway thats not even really my point i have downloaded the version from this website, done a whole load of crap and spent an hour checking this forum and trying out anything.

pleeeeeeeeeeeease help me.

basically i've done everything that should be done, but when i click on the game it says "unable to access transport tycoon deluxe cd", for many of you this may be very annoying as you've heard this question so many times but seriously what do i do? does anyone know in simple terms (im no pc dunce but this seems pretty rocketsciency to me) what to do? or does anyone know where i can get a version of this game where i can just download it, click an install file and wahey game presto rather than messing about with registry things and all else?

greatly appreciated if so :) xxxxx

You need to run the .reg (registery) file, then restart your computer for the change to take effect and use the patched (band-aid) icon.

Post back if it's still not working, but it should do the trick. :)

This game is so awesome, love it, played it as a kid and bought it like 3 times to be able to play it again :P

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Guest @ Aug 19 2007, 10:48 PM) [snapback]305566[/snapback]</div>As arand said, another 2 alternatives would be ethier OpenTTD or TTDPatch, but I recommend you OpenTTD. If you need help with those just look into my profile and add me on MSN Messenger

For anyone who loved this game, i have tried Open TTD, and it really gives the game a facelife, it has online lobbies, new crafts, new build styles and alot more without even ruining the game.
This game is the best and the first of it's kind, nad i love that people still play it, it deffinately has to be oine of the most successfull games ever.
If you wanna play it, with a lot more capabilities, including an expanded multiplayer function, try out Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe or OTTD as it is called :P

OTTD: http://openttd.org/
Game files, including the one needed for OTTD: http://tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=3407

Enjoy i know i did :)

I dont know if its just me but my mouse runs very slowly on this game... its hard to click somewhere as it always slides on the side... I looked for an option to increase the speed but I couldnt find one. Is there a patch or a way to fix this? Thanks!

You have got slow computer, haven't you?
or fast?

My computer is fast. It can run games like The Sims 2 without a problem. As soon as I go back into Windows everything is fine.

Hi I have an old version on CD, 1995 with world editor. It has to run off of DOS, but i have lost the instruction manual and don't know how to install it. Anyone know where or how to install this classic game?

Cheers

Use DOSBox if you don't have access to DOS and are using Windows XP. As for the installation in itself, it's just as easy to install in DOS than it is in Windows, except that you have a lot more typing to do. If you have any questions about that, just ask here again. :)

And as for the other guest who have a mouse problem: look here. It was sitting there for you in the troubleshooting archive, quite clearly labelled...

I installed DOSBox using Abandonia's very own handy-dandy tutorial and was able to then use the TTDX disc to install it on to there and it's been running perfectly. ^_^

get TTDPatch: www.ttdpatch.net and run game everytime with ttdpatchw.exe so TTDX will work without dosbox on XP/Vista

OK, read all pages and stil there ist this problem!

I download the zip.file. I unzipped the datas to my pc. I put the .reg file in the game directory and start the .reg file. I restart the pc. And then I try to start the game by clicking the Icon with the plasters (Transport Tycoon Deluxe).

And still there is the same failure....everytime I tried (and I tried it often today): There is a black window opened up. Then the window closed and nothing happened. If I click another Icon there comes a failure of needing a cd.

Solutions anyone?

The same question has been asked here. You might want to read that topic for a few ideas.

Are you using Vista? This procedure never really failed in the past...

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Guest @ Aug 16 2007, 08:22 PM) [snapback]304942[/snapback]</div>Had the same problem with Vista. Got it working by copying a file called DPLAYX.dll from system32 directory to the game directory and renaming it DPLAY.dll. Does anyone know if this will harm my computer or something?

Most likely not; I've been doing this sort of thing every so often for a while now and have yet to experience any ill effects.

somebody??

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(maverick @ Oct 13 2007, 07:13 PM) [snapback]315981[/snapback]</div>how to play tycoon deluxe on windows?? Please help me..

who are you and did you read the messages posted before?

To start an application, you usualy need to double-click on an icon...

is there a way to increase some industries production like a forest?and is there a way to transport 100percent of products?

Industries only increase (or decrease, which sucks) production through random events. I think I remember that the creation of a new industry had something to do with how much money you gave to the nearby town(s) but it might have been just a rumour.
And what do you mean by 100% of products?

It is possible to get to 100% of products in theory if you have lots and lots and lots of stations and trains for the same industry... But it's not rentable.

The way it works is that the game calculate how much time it take you to take the products out of the industry stores and the faster you go, the higher the rating. To rentabilise everything you should look in how much products you'll be able to haul more for a given increase and try to stabilise your line before it cost you too much in engines and maintenance.

Breakdowns can slow down lines to a crawl unless you put up a well designed lines with at least some crossovers to go around the broken down trains.

Some problems
 

Hy, i have some problems with the game, i cant seam to make some options from the configurator get saved in game, like bribe local authoritys for example. I am curently using ttdx 2.8.8 configurator from andres and it sometimes works, but if i save and reload the game then it dosnt, anyone know how can i fix the problem ?

And by the way, even if the bribe dosnt work, how can you increas your ratings afther you cant build anymore in a town and your record is appaling ? Couse the advertising says its just to get more clients, not to make local authoritys love you more and allow you to build.

Plant trees, lots of them.

And another thing, how can i make my vehicles go on the right side of the road every time ? Sometimes even when i change the option from drive on left to drive on right they still drive on the left, its frustrating :mad:

Some options don't work unless you set them before the game start. You should try that.

unequal treating
 

Question I have:
Why, and/or how does computer taking my stuff from industries? E.g. I have 2 train stations by oil derrick for long time, estimated in early part of game, profitable, with very good level of transport service (always above 70).
Suddenly, new computer company launched, built own station by those derricks and... he started to take MY OIL!! :mad: and there was much less for me, profitability of line suffered severely...

That depends on how frequently you pick up the goods from the station. If you can pick them up in shorter time periods from your station, the demand for them raises, you are evaluated as more proficient by the respective facility and it delivers more goods to your station than to the one of the opponent.

That's part of the game: competition... you just have to be better than the computer ;)

Scatty is right, get a smaller number of wagons for each train to decrease the waiting time, and get more trains assigned to each station (you can run a single line station with two trains quite easily, you just have to provide a few "crossings" - don't forget to place some light rulers); this way, you can have one train loading while the other is making the trip and when the first train is loaded, the second is about to arrive empty.

There is another way to turn around this - it's not a pretty one (in fact it's quite dirty :unsure:) but it works: when your opponent is building his railroad network between his stations, place a few diagonal railroad ahead of his way to block him the passage. He'll spend most of his cash trying to go around, building bridges, tunnels and modifying the terrain until he'll be broke :amused:

difficulties
 

i was able to run the game on my desktop, no problems. i did the same way on my laptop, but the game immediately jumps out (the DOS window opens and closes very quickly). i tried a lot of different things but it still doesn't start. can anybody help me here? (I use XP) thank you

i remember this, it is an issue with country settings. try diggin up my posts this topic. if you fail, post in here and i might look into it again

I was able to run the game on cmd.exe it asked me to change the language. the biggest problem was that de cmd line didn't recognize de file Transporter Tycoon Deluxe.exe, so i changed the name of the .exe file to "transport" and it immediately recognized it as an exe file. i think it should be some problem with the fact that the file has 3 separated words (i remember that ms-dos didn't accept spaces between the words on file's name). thanks a lot and enjoy the game!

you can run an excutable with spaces in commandline by putting it into quotes "transport tycoon deluxe.exe"

im confused
 

im a comlete newb when it comes to this stuff but i remember this game from when i was a kid.

ive downloaded it and put it in the registry but i dont know how to start the game if i open it and click run game it wants a cd

can any kind soul help me out

Did your reboot your computer after installing the registry fix? If not, do it.

People, people! TTD is obsolete by now. Try OpenTTD!

It's a vastly improved clone and is fully compatible with modern PCs (Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Mac OS X, and Debian/Ubuntu i386). You need to download the game on Abandonia since OpenTTD uses its graphics, and then install OpenTTD itself, which you can download from its official site. The link I posted takes you to the About page, which describes all the major features.

i tried that and it still says it wants a cd when i click on the ttconfig icon then run game.and when i click setup it says registry error: cannot inmport ttdx.reg: error opening the file. There may be a disk or file system error

Sounds like you have an incomplete or corrupted archive.
And you still didn't say jack about what operating system are you using, either.

Heed my advice, really. OpenTTD is the same game, only with tons of more features (like bigger maps, larger resolutions, more customization, etc.). It runs natively on modern operating systems, so you don't have to go through any trouble to get it running.

I sound like some sort of door-to-door salesman, but it's really that good. :laugh:

:nuts:
I wasn't aware of the existence of OpenTDD...
*runs of to download it*

i have tried to iniciate that game, but i didn't... what happened with this download link anyway? i've downloaded it a lot of times but every time it gives me the same answer: that have an error with the disk or the program and can't be started... i think this one is a corrupted file...

* You didn't happen to try running it from inside the archive, did you?
* Did you run the included registry file?
* Did you remember to reboot your computer afterwards?

Please remove the (stupid) option in your dearchiver which automaticaly run the setup program, or which try to run any program automaticaly from the archive when you unzip it.

hey hey,

now i have read approximately 300 posts (that is for 4 years posting)

but still i didn't see my questions and answers came along.

i have currently 2 computers where I have tried to play this game on

however, I failed....:doh:

the main com is a Xp Home edition and the secondary a Xp Pro edition.

with the main comp the game starts I hear the muzz play but see nothing,
I already read that I could espect that.. so i did not flinch and presd a button
then... the game continus the muzz but the screen disappears, an error appears what tels me: there is an error in the ttdloadw.ovl.

with the secondary comp.... it dosn't do a thing... i see a flash and that is that:(

i'am getting rather frustrated :doh: :wall: :rant: :hypno:

i tried the bat fille thingy already... same resuld.


sorry for my sloppy eng

Thanks for even consider to help me:3:

well, do you have the file ttdloadw.ovl in your transport tycoon directory?

Sir Pillas: When you unarchive everything, you will notice that you will have two directories: one in which you have another directory which contain the real game, and some other files (including the RUNME!.reg file which is critical).

What you need to do is unarchive the game where ever you want... But once it is done you need to run the .reg file to add the game to your registery. Once it is done you can't move the game again to another directory or it won't work. This is very important.

Also of note, you need to reboot your computer once before the changes take effect in your registery.

You also need to have the administrator access to the account you are using for those changes to work.

Once it is done, you need to use the patched icon (icon with bandaids), or again the game will not work.

Hope this helps. :)

no not realy...

quick reply though

i've read almost all of the posts, so i know all of this options they are repeated over and over again, coz people dont read before ask (also dont listen and keep asking for help, quite irritating:noworry:)

_r.u.s.s. --> yes i have the file ttdloadw.ovl in the right place

thanks

i hope for more assistance

are the write/read file rights of ttdloadw.ovl appropriate for your user account in a specific directory? is the file read only?
(vista doesn't let other non admin user programs to write on other places than their document folder afaik)

yes coz I don't use vista (:XP:) and I am the admin...

I...I... don't know what to do.... my TT energie is runnning low.....:cold:

It is the first time I ever suggest this, but it is worth a try:

Try opening TTDX Configurator.exe. If it works, load TTD .cfg file and make sure the last option bottom right, "use Windows 2000/xp Compatibility settings" is checked.

If it still don't work, or it is already checked... Try selecting the option right above, "rebuild ttdpatch.ovl on every run".

It seems like setup.bat also try to enter something in the registery. You could also try that.

Edit: also, make sure you don't have an anti-spyware or any kind of spyware which prevent other programs to write in the registory. Norton Antivirus could possibly fall in that category too, depending of your version... If you use it.

after a lot of:doh: and :rant:
i had decided to try the opensource version.

BAHM both computers WORKT!!

OMG why.. why...!!! if i did that like...uuhh. 4 days ago...:wall:

but.... it is working and i have played it already for 24 hours (in 30 hours).

maybe I can set up a online conquest :perv:
if there is any animo??

thanks guys for your input!!

saving the game
 

i'm having a problem saving the game i was wondering if anyone else was?

make sure the files your transport tycoon are not set to "read only"

also, when in vista and not administrator you need to place the game in your local user directory

where is the "DPLAY.dll" file?

If I remember right you have to download it (just google) and put it in the game directory to make the game work (some stupid Vista issue).

EDIT:
Now I remember how I got it working (did some backtracking on the thread). I copied a file called "DPLAYX.dll" from system32 directory to the game directory and renamed it "DPLAY.dll".

@ zirkoni,

u r the hero of the day, your hint worked perfectly. Someone should add this into the Readme.txt of the game DL...

G'day Guy's,

Just a quick question, have the game all up and running but it is only displaying in a small box..... How do I get it to display full screen???

I am running XP...

Thanks in advance,
Brett

Run "TTconfig.exe", click the "display" sheet and choose full screen mode.
Then click "apply", close the configurator and start the game.

Thanks Zirkoni,

Have tried all three of the full screen options in there and also the "In window" ones and they all display in a box?? Any other ideas?

Thanks,
Brett

Did you also try ticking that "safe mode" box?

What is your system's current screen resolution? It's possible that TTD has issues running full screen on high resolutions -> try lowering the resolution (I have 1280x800 so anything below that won't probably help).

And you can always try the open source clone.

Thanks mate, openttd works great!!!!

Those guys at GoG should repair this one(and that awful savegame problem) rather than republishing titles that work perfectly in dosbox like Cannon Fodder. :suspicious:

When did Transport Tycoon Deluxe started to have saving problems?

When I played it couple years ago, I couldn't restore a save game, it was invisible or something, or maybe I was too silly not to click on C: button to look for it?! :mhh:

Anyway, I had a go with OpenTTD(0.7.2) yesterday and I can say it improves TTD sooo much, hours just passed me by. :3:

Me too, I just upgraded from version 0.6. something to 0.7.5 and it's soo much fun to play now. Especially because I can merge stations without having to place them next to each other.:thumbs:

Does anyone know if it's possible to upgrade train tracks with just one click, without having to replace every single track yourself? I've built an entire system of train tracks all across a 256*256 map and really don't have the patience to replace it manually, track by track.

I'm absolutely sure that there is a button (in the train construction tab if I remember correctly) that does this. Just select the whole area you want to upgrade.

Woeps, yeh.. found it. It's the last (?) button in the tab. Thanks.:)