My game is broke big time. Trying to do an eliminator race and it crashes. It's weird as all the other cars just stop and I can keep going and win the race. When I cross the finish line the game freezes, I get a continuous noise from the speakers and it bins back to the desktop ? I have tried it a few times with exactly the same results...
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Dirt Showdown - Destruction
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The DiRT Showdown profile included with the current v30x.xx drivers does not work properly with SLI as it shows poor scaling (25-50 fps in-game @ 1920x1200, Ultra, 8xQCSAA on my system).
It contains what I believe are two errors:
1. It doesn't include the showdown.exe and showdown_avx.exe executables
2. It has the incorrect DX1x SLI flag setting of 0x080100f5 instead of 0x081000f5
This is my profile which you can edit into a profile text file exported from NVIDIA GeForce SLI Profile Tool or use NVIDIA Inspector (the easiest option IMO):
Profile "DiRT Showdown"
ShowOn GeForce
ProfileType Application
Executable "showdown_demo.exe"
Executable "showdown.exe"
Executable "rp6.exe"
Executable "showdown_avx.exe"
Executable "showdown_demo_avx.exe"
Setting ID_0x00a06946 = 0x080100f5
Setting ID_0x00a06946 = 0x081000f5 UserSpecified=true
Setting ID_0x00b82343 = 0x00000002
Setting ID_0x1033cec2 = 0x00000002
Setting ID_0x1033dcd3 = 0x00000004
Setting ID_0x10ecdb82 = 0x00000001
Setting ID_0x701eb457 = 0x2241ab21 InternalSettingFlag=V0
SettingString ID_0x7049c7ec = "웭ꑢ쫐₰" InternalSettingFlag=V0
SettingString ID_0x7051e5f5 = "籭鸙" InternalSettingFlag=V0
SettingString ID_0x705fafec = "웭ꑼ쫑₂쁰₢Υ¢婋籯鸹灰땁厈䃈ޡВ뽉襂" InternalSettingFlag=V0
Setting ID_0x708db8c5 = 0x239978f1 InternalSettingFlag=V0
Setting ID_0x709a1ddf = 0x4b1cd968 InternalSettingFlag=V0
SettingString ID_0x70b5603f = "榻鳈⏹ꢗ" InternalSettingFlag=V0
Setting ID_0x70edb381 = 0x24208b6c InternalSettingFlag=V0
EndProfile
I've tested this in over 8 events and the scaling works better than the default giving me a constant 60 fps with v-sync on using the same settings I posted above. It has also been confirmed to work by two other people, one on the Steam forums and the other on the Codemaster's forum.
Just thought it might save someone some heartache trying to get the game running properly. The game is actually pretty good fun with demolition derby events and an overall light-hearted arcade feel to it. The demo does it no favours really.
It contains what I believe are two errors:
1. It doesn't include the showdown.exe and showdown_avx.exe executables
2. It has the incorrect DX1x SLI flag setting of 0x080100f5 instead of 0x081000f5
This is my profile which you can edit into a profile text file exported from NVIDIA GeForce SLI Profile Tool or use NVIDIA Inspector (the easiest option IMO):
Profile "DiRT Showdown"
ShowOn GeForce
ProfileType Application
Executable "showdown_demo.exe"
Executable "showdown.exe"
Executable "rp6.exe"
Executable "showdown_avx.exe"
Executable "showdown_demo_avx.exe"
Setting ID_0x00a06946 = 0x080100f5
Setting ID_0x00a06946 = 0x081000f5 UserSpecified=true
Setting ID_0x00b82343 = 0x00000002
Setting ID_0x1033cec2 = 0x00000002
Setting ID_0x1033dcd3 = 0x00000004
Setting ID_0x10ecdb82 = 0x00000001
Setting ID_0x701eb457 = 0x2241ab21 InternalSettingFlag=V0
SettingString ID_0x7049c7ec = "웭ꑢ쫐₰" InternalSettingFlag=V0
SettingString ID_0x7051e5f5 = "籭鸙" InternalSettingFlag=V0
SettingString ID_0x705fafec = "웭ꑼ쫑₂쁰₢Υ¢婋籯鸹灰땁厈䃈ޡВ뽉襂" InternalSettingFlag=V0
Setting ID_0x708db8c5 = 0x239978f1 InternalSettingFlag=V0
Setting ID_0x709a1ddf = 0x4b1cd968 InternalSettingFlag=V0
SettingString ID_0x70b5603f = "榻鳈⏹ꢗ" InternalSettingFlag=V0
Setting ID_0x70edb381 = 0x24208b6c InternalSettingFlag=V0
EndProfile
I've tested this in over 8 events and the scaling works better than the default giving me a constant 60 fps with v-sync on using the same settings I posted above. It has also been confirmed to work by two other people, one on the Steam forums and the other on the Codemaster's forum.
Just thought it might save someone some heartache trying to get the game running properly. The game is actually pretty good fun with demolition derby events and an overall light-hearted arcade feel to it. The demo does it no favours really.
Video no workie
For some reason it failed to upload and I have deleted the file.
I will make another later, I have fixed the crashing problem by uninstalling the blue ripple sound drivers the game installs. The cars all still stop mid race but now when you win it carries on without crashing.
It seems the blue ripple drivers are causing quite a few issues with the game.
Been playing this, its a solid racer only thing I don't like is the track design is samey/boring.
I thought it would have imaginative tracks like destruction derby, flatout etc...this is trying to be a semi authentic stock car game.
Did try my wheel but used my gamepad and this game is definetely better/easier with a pad.
I thought it would have imaginative tracks like destruction derby, flatout etc...this is trying to be a semi authentic stock car game.
Did try my wheel but used my gamepad and this game is definetely better/easier with a pad.
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Am looking forward to picking this up, but i suspect i may pick it up on 360, as i imagine the real fun is online and i have more regular friends on there, then i do on the PC 
Do you guys think this game worth is paying £6.79 for ??
http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/gg/en/pc/games/racing/dirt-showdown/
http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/gg/en/pc/games/racing/dirt-showdown/
I just bought it as well....Downloading it in steam now...Just got this from simply games. Loved destruction derby and the flatout games so for 4 quid this has to be worth a punt!
Steam says it a 5.6GB download
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Been playing this tonight and really surprised by how mediocre this game is:
-Handling feels detatched, like you are skating on the road or something and vehicles feel too 'light'
-Stupid gamemodes that are most variants of the same thing
-Very short races
-Dull tracks
-No Rally/Trailblazer type stages so far (done the first tier of events)
Not particular motivated to go back to it, will give the second tier a try probably and then ditch if I'm not feeling it. Initial impressions are this is the worst game of the series so far.
-Handling feels detatched, like you are skating on the road or something and vehicles feel too 'light'
-Stupid gamemodes that are most variants of the same thing
-Very short races
-Dull tracks
-No Rally/Trailblazer type stages so far (done the first tier of events)
Not particular motivated to go back to it, will give the second tier a try probably and then ditch if I'm not feeling it. Initial impressions are this is the worst game of the series so far.