Colin Mcrae Dirt

agnes · 15 Aug 2007 at 00:43

Colin Mcrae Dirt crashing problem

Ok, i have posted a different thread, but this is slightly different and more to the point... im not happy with this game anymore, i kept getting crashes to the dekstop, underclocked everything to defaults, ran nothing else but the game, patched it up, and also went back to 162.18 drivers....

i then uninstalled the game choosing keep game saves due to playing it ALL day long, and just got 50% in the career.... and wow.... aparently thr game isnt uninstalled according to the disk, each time i put it in, it says play or uninstall, like i had it installed, ive ran CCleaner for reg files, history, uninstall from there.... still, it says dirt is already installed on my system, ive deleted the entire folder manualy, ccleaned and restarted, still the same prob, so not only have i lost my game play and crave for it, but also a whole days of gameing lost..... a joke if you ask me.

has anyone got any idea as to what could be casuing this???? im about ready to explode.

ags

Cyber-Mav · 15 Aug 2007 at 01:46

this game doesn;t work well on linux so you need to change your operating system.

Last Kronin · 15 Aug 2007 at 05:19

Thats nothing, get to the very last tier on the last race only for the save file to corrupt, that had me fuming, and lets just say i wont be playing it again unless superglue works on disks :eek:

BunnYPandA · 15 Aug 2007 at 07:03

yea! smash the game up. that'll learn it

agnes · 15 Aug 2007 at 12:28

thatll teach it you mean

well i reformatted last night, after that pi$$sing me off so badly, and ive only just reinstalled it again, havnt played it bare in mind! but i have although, updated it fully to 1.2 without playing it.

so.... im about to play it and see what happens lol

ags

EDIT: im on xp 32, went on my vista 64 last night to install it and vista crashed lol.... f'ing vista, i cba to reformat that as well... i cant be bothered to fix the problem either.

ags

agnes · 15 Aug 2007 at 13:47

ok, now i cant even play one race without the game crashing, which is now causing me to manualy reboot....

is there anything this game doesnt like that i might have setup in 3d settings on my nv control panel?

heres what i got seup at the moment:

the second image is the clocks of my cards (not great due to sli)

ags

markoboyo11 · 15 Aug 2007 at 16:46

i downloaded the demo of this as i was really looking forward to it. love all the other colin macrea games, altho this seemed more of a arcade than a sim.

The game ran like **** but everyone seemed to have that problem.
was wondering if the retail version was any better or if any new patches had helped much?

cheers Mark

Cuchulain · 15 Aug 2007 at 16:56

markoboyo11 said:
i downloaded the demo of this as i was really looking forward to it. love all the other colin macrea games, altho this seemed more of a arcade than a sim.

The game ran like **** but everyone seemed to have that problem.
was wondering if the retail version was any better or if any new patches had helped much?

cheers Mark

The retail version works like a dream on my machine, 1680x1050, 4xFSAA, Perf. Adaptive AA and everything maxed other than shadows (set to medium), the patches never really made a different for me.

agnes · 15 Aug 2007 at 17:41

ok, problem solved, ive declocked my cpu to 3.4 and installed 162.50 quadro drivers, been playing wonderfully since..... hmmm, angre going down a bit lol

ags

p.s. closest race in my life