Dirt 3 crashing issues

[metalmackey]

Hi Guys,

I have Dirt 3 on Steam and it crashes on my PC in sig. Could be say 5th or 6th race and the exe stops responding. Even if the game doesn't crash it doesnt always do back to desktop when I quit, just a blank screen. It quits ok if I run in a window. Looking around the net it seems it could be a threading issue with the engine or maybe its drivers? Any ideas?

Ta

 

[ThomBassmonkey]

Hngh, must....resist...have you tried steering to avoid crashes?...

...damn...

 

[Alex74]

Haha


Are you running latest cats with the latest crossfire profiles? (march 11.3 iirc)
Also have you tried running with crossfire disabled?

 

[Clav]

What Alex said. The latest caps 12.3 fix a Dirt 3 issue if I recall.

 

[metalmackey]

Yep, I've got CAP 12.3 installed but I'm using 12.3 preview drivers. I'll see how it goes with 12.4 when AMD release them, soon hopefully LOL

 

[BassPunk]

This was listed in the software description for the last AMD Catalyst Application Profile - 12.3 CAP1 release

AMD Catalyst Application Profile - 12.3 CAP1

• Dirt 3: Fixes corruption found in particular scenes when CrossFire is enabled

 

[metalmackey]

As I said above, I have that CAP installed and makes no difference. In the games hardware info file it says my CPU has 12 cores and hyperthreading is false, shouldn't it be 6 cores with hyperthreading on true? Can someone with hyperthreading check theirs?