Dirt 2 - £6 on D2D

Just the fairly lightweight download manager as far as I can remember, though this may include the GFWL ******** as well.
 
creed said:
is this tied to a program manager in the same way as EA + steam games?
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No. You'll download an install file. When you install, an activation screen will pop up. Once you activate, you forget about it.

If a game gets patched, you'll have to install that manually. D2D does have a list of patches on their site. Since they use their own installer which has that activation thing built in, you might need to use their version of the patch.

But other than that minor thing, it's just like installing a retail game that has a built-in NoCD patch.
 
Ive had a nightmare getting this game all set up.

The download worked fine, ran the install and that worked fine, entered the code all ok.

Then windows live started and it all went crazy, claiming i wasnt connected to the internet. Then the game kept crashing, then it kept saying i had no profile even though i used my xbox one etc etc.

Eventually got it working only to find the game has numerous bugs connected with AERO and windows 7. The game will also crash if you try to alter the V-Synch settings. You have to reboot your pc as it hard locks the machine.

Its best to run the game from a shortcut and use the compatibity settings on the shortcut to turn AERO off (select disable desktop composition ) and also run it as administrator... and now all seems happy. Phew...
 
Just installed a had a quick go, seems great and still looks very nice. Didnt have any problems aero or compatibility though. Ran fine apart from GFWL wanting to update before letting me connect to live.
 
AtreuS said:
Ive had a nightmare getting this game all set up.

The download worked fine, ran the install and that worked fine, entered the code all ok.

Then windows live started and it all went crazy, claiming i wasnt connected to the internet. Then the game kept crashing, then it kept saying i had no profile even though i used my xbox one etc etc.

Eventually got it working only to find the game has numerous bugs connected with AERO and windows 7. The game will also crash if you try to alter the V-Synch settings. You have to reboot your pc as it hard locks the machine.

Its best to run the game from a shortcut and use the compatibity settings on the shortcut to turn AERO off (select disable desktop composition ) and also run it as administrator... and now all seems happy. Phew...
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That's a lot of hassle. On my windows 7, 64bit machine I never had anything like that.
When i first tried to run batman AA (another GFWL game), I had the same conenction problems you describe initially. But I shut the game down, and installed the GFWL client manually, outside the game, and then all was well.
I installed Dirt 2 after that, and didn't have the problem - probably because GFWL was already set up.

When playing dirt 2, and other modern graphically demanding games, I did have an aero-related problem, but I wouldnt call it a bug. It's actually a feature, if an irritating one. When playing, it would popup and ask if you want to disable aero, but as you found, you can bypass that by going into a program's compatibility settings and clicking "disable desktop composition"

I never had to set "run as administrator".

You can set those compatibility settings directly on the games launching exe file, rather than a shortcut. I do this, in case I need to create a new shortcut in a different place.
 
I cant believe this is only six quid, I nearly bought if at full price on steam a couple of weeks ago. Really enjoying the game, nice variety of events and some very nice graphical touches - looks great when you blast through a deep puddle and the windscreen is momentarily covered in water, especially convincing on the London night track.

Absolute steal at this price, thanks again OP!
 
Actually you can get it for a ridiculously low price if £6 is still too much (...). Open the D2D US site, buy the game and use coupon code PAX2010 which takes $5 off the price. The US site adds some taxes but even with Finland's tax rate of 23%, the game ended up costing me $1.23. The coupon should work on any number of purchases for the rest of the September but it doesn't help much if you are planning to buy full priced titles as the added taxes are quite a lot for $50 games.
 
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