Race driver GRID stability and crashing issue's

[pale sierra]

Well i'm attempting to play the game(in title) from 2008 and checked the pc gaming forum for the most accessable way to play it and once i installed the gog version, it's whole mess of spilled tea and soggy buscuits in a buscuit tin like for example:

• editing some part of a .xml script to remove max virtual memory to allow it to go 1080p
  -creating a profile and some voice saying the thing it cuts to black and crashes
• needed to reinstall the game due to crashing after loading in the save and crashes again
• and the gog forum's are a bit dead
  -and remembering that the game couldn't load the race menu just from my side of the shitshow

Link to the gog forums post:https://www.gog.com/forum/race_driver_grid#1698361728

PLEASE IT WOULD BE AN EPIC JOURNEY AND I DON'T WANT TO BE C####D BY THE STABILITY ISSUE"S

[balmy geode]

Did you try the launcher with extra options? https://www.moddb.com/mods/launcher-extra-options/downloads/launcher-1005

[pale sierra]

lemme reinstall it

[pale sierra]

what extra option's should i try?

Update: it crashed

it did worked a bit without it but after clicking on the world race it just got stuck on a black screen

Another update i tried windowed mode and it worked till the menu for the race

also remembered that i added dxvk to the game file but still no effect

Ok some pogress: i forgot i can add some processors and change the priority but no dice but it did prevent the crashing for now

am i going crazy

Funny thing if i go to the credit's section the shit will go pink but it still works

[balmy geode]

It looks like it does not include the core fix https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/2579-race-driver-grid-6-8-thread-cpus-fix-resolution-fix/

I don't know if it works with more than 32 cores or an odd core number

[pale sierra]

but the launcher can change the amount of core's it can use right?

[balmy geode]

You could try if it works together, the core fix was last revised in 2023 while the launcher was last updated in 2020

[pale sierra]

IT FUCKING WORK'S

IT MC FUCKING WORK'S

[pale sierra]

THAT SHIT WORKED

[balmy geode]

Can you check for all other issues listed on the gaming wiki and then summarize what you use and changed, that I can update the wiki, if you don't want to do it on your own?

[pale sierra]

Ok the 24 core patch fixed the pink credits bug so that's one

the other nuocance for a new guy is to edit the xml file to make the game play at 1080p or higher

[balmy geode]

So you didn't use the launcher?

Or did you set the launcher to 24 cores after installing the GOG fix, and how many cores/threads do you actually have?

[pale sierra]

well i didnt though to make the core count 24 in the launcher cause i thought it would be unstabe

but rn i only launched the game through the exe

[balmy geode]

xatornet mentions a hardware_settings_restrictions xml, is that the one you set the resolution?

[pale sierra]

well yeah but i deleted only the virtual res mem code to remove it

res mem="270" maxWidth="1280"
</data> ``` this is the code i deleted it

[balmy geode]

I'd still need your CPU info

[pale sierra]

the laptop is a msi katana gf66-12uc
with 16 gb ddr4 so-dimm ram
17-12700h
and rtx 3050 laptop gpu

i forgor : the cpu has 14 cores at 2700 mhz

[balmy geode]

Now that's interesting, this CPU has 20 threads and you set the core count to 24?

[pale sierra]

actually yeah it is wierd but it's the patcher that made it work tho so

[balmy geode]

I'll added a new part to the page, maybe someone will come by one day and give me more info, or if Nathan needs something for a quick video

[pale sierra]

prob worth a short video?

[balmy geode]

Yeah, if the credits colour change depends on thread count +4 , core count 24 or something entirely different

The only problem is, you can no longer buy the GOG version