Dirt 3 now on Steam

Combat Fighter · 27 May 2011 at 01:21

Murray said:
How will they change them?

Its got much higher res texture settings plus features that won't normally be on such as forceBilinear="true" (your unmodified hardware_settings_config will be set to forceBilinear="false")

I'm well chuffed with the difference. Amazing. Now it looks like a proper DX11 game.

Murray · 27 May 2011 at 01:22

so that is the whole config?

Will give it a go.

Must admit the cars look much better!

Combat Fighter · 27 May 2011 at 01:35

Told ya it would look better

d_brennen · 27 May 2011 at 01:43

The three things I hated about Dirt 2 was the American ****, funneled courses (ie steering is optional lol) and the car/event type hopping. Is Dirt 3 worth a shot?

Murray · 27 May 2011 at 02:02

There is a lot more rally in Dirt 3 much less American ****, When I crash no I don't just drive round the corner and come out first.

Combat Fighter · 27 May 2011 at 03:08

Murray said:
so that is the whole config?

Will give it a go.

Must admit the cars look much better!

I've upped some of the settings even higher since you last copied and pasted. Definitely looks much better now with more detail IMO as you can tell from the screenies.

Devrij · 27 May 2011 at 08:13

Will have to try this config.

I found that around the third triangle things start to get really good. Harder tracks that I actually had to have a few goes to beat, and the rs200 is still great fun. Ditches and snow banks: bane of my life! Trailblazer is surprisingly difficult now, you think you've had this amazing run and then you come 5th and have to improve on it.

Bgr · 27 May 2011 at 08:31

Smelter when it's raining looks really amazing

Devrij · 27 May 2011 at 08:34

Murray said:
I am getting no where on the Parking Lot Zone 1 I can not do the 180 Spin While Jumping! Any tips?

Yep, took me ages, but you have to land it on the other ramp. Drive up the big dirt ramp and then handbrake it round, the only hard part is getting it to land going backwards on the other side instead of flying off course.

maxilive · 27 May 2011 at 09:40

gareth170 said:
i thought the game has fully remappable controls?

well it better have it!!!!

It does have full re-mappable controls the same as Dirt 2

Deluxe1 · 27 May 2011 at 09:41

Can anyone record audio when doing a fraps movie?

AGD · 27 May 2011 at 09:51

Maybe I'm an idiot but I'm done everything in the first season (triangle 1) of the dirt tour but triangle 2 has not unlocked. :confused:

How do you get to season 2?

RavenXXX2 · 27 May 2011 at 09:52

If you're getting the occasional stuttering in the racing it's becuase of the replay data being wrote to the system drive, try the below fix it clears up the stuttering for me.

3# Frame Skips, Low FPS, Lag
PC version of the game may be experiencing all this due to a massive replay file, too much data writing occurs on that file causing the lag and frame skips, when you go back to the game after having watched a replay.
You can find the file here.

1. Delete original replay folder (and file) by exploring to

ProgramData\Codemasters\DiRT3\DataCache\yourcomputersname\

2. Open Command Prompt with admin privileges (search ‘cmd’ and right click on cmd.exe and select ‘Run as Administrator’)

3. Use mklink to create the symbolic link. Edit it according to your own game directory location.

mklink /D C:\ProgramData\Codemasters\DiRT3\DataCache\yo urcomputersname\ E:\Dirt3\replay

4. When launching the game, the 2GB replay.pbf file will be written to the file location you have specified. If you write this file to another hard drive, resources are freed up for your OS and game performance will increase.

CaptainRAVE · 27 May 2011 at 10:17

RavenXXX2 said:
If you're getting the occasional stuttering in the racing it's becuase of the replay data being wrote to the system drive, try the below fix it clears up the stuttering for me.

3# Frame Skips, Low FPS, Lag
PC version of the game may be experiencing all this due to a massive replay file, too much data writing occurs on that file causing the lag and frame skips, when you go back to the game after having watched a replay.
You can find the file here.

1. Delete original replay folder (and file) by exploring to

ProgramData\Codemasters\DiRT3\DataCache\yourcomputersname\

2. Open Command Prompt with admin privileges (search ‘cmd’ and right click on cmd.exe and select ‘Run as Administrator’)

3. Use mklink to create the symbolic link. Edit it according to your own game directory location.

mklink /D C:\ProgramData\Codemasters\DiRT3\DataCache\yo urcomputersname\ E:\Dirt3\replay

4. When launching the game, the 2GB replay.pbf file will be written to the file location you have specified. If you write this file to another hard drive, resources are freed up for your OS and game performance will increase.

Yup - an old fix that sorted the stuttering for me in both Dirt 2 and F1 2010.

AGD said:
Maybe I'm an idiot but I'm done everything in the first season (triangle 1) of the dirt tour but triangle 2 has not unlocked. How do you get to season 2?

I had to get all gold triangles to proceed.

GJ02 · 27 May 2011 at 10:49

i cant seem to get AB to record video
it records but the screen is black with no sound
it show the recording icon when i press the button
any ides ?

RavenXXX2 · 27 May 2011 at 10:56

Using fraps here, AB vid capture still too buggy for me.

The real time reflections in D3 are superb.

~>Dg<~ · 27 May 2011 at 12:25

Deluxe1 said:
Can anyone record audio when doing a fraps movie?

yes fine have you ticked the box in fraps to record all audio , sorry it sounds dumb but quite a few do it

is there anyway to remove borders from screen in config so you have total screen ?

~>Dg<~ · 27 May 2011 at 12:55

just uploaded this ice race

Dirt 3 buttermilk ice trophy race pc

http://www.youtube.com/user/DGeeeeeee?feature=mhee#p/u/12/s0zEKuoNvos

used fraps.

Jim.Ow · 27 May 2011 at 12:58

Struggling with some of the Gymkana events, I'm only level 11 or something but I'm stuck with only Gymkana evens left to complete, can't get ay better than 5th place.

This is using no assists and highest AI difficulty, maybe ... I'll have to turn down the level for this event

Played Dirt 2 last night online, love the staggared starts for the Rally stages, so I'll have to try the Dirt 3 online play!

alex24 · 27 May 2011 at 13:47

~>Dg<~ said:
just uploaded this ice race

Dirt 3 buttermilk ice trophy race pc

http://www.youtube.com/user/DGeeeeeee?feature=mhee#p/u/12/s0zEKuoNvos

used fraps.

Cool! But did you hit every other car to get to 1st lol!? I'll assume it was a result of FRAPS and not your driving skill! What controller are you using there?