NR 2003 game crash

Pete Hillesheim · **Posted:** Wed May 08, 2013 12:14 am

A couple of time i installed the game brand new on win 7 / 32 bit

After a while the game crashed again and again, online and offline.

Then i unticked the 3d sound button and the problem was gone.

" i love windows " :roll:

Festa_PWR · **Posted:** Wed May 08, 2013 11:45 pm

I think the 3d sound being ticked has always been a problem hasn`t it, even with the older versions of windows?

Ian-S · **Joined:** Thu Dec 13, 2007 8:51 pm **Posts:** 10697

Yeah it's more a hardware issue than OS.

Pete Hillesheim · **Posted:** Thu May 09, 2013 8:54 am

Is the 3d Sound working only with a sound card ?
I havn´t a sound card in my pc.

Ian-S · **Joined:** Thu Dec 13, 2007 8:51 pm **Posts:** 10697

I can't remember the specifics, but I think it's just bad implementation of the code causes instability with some chips, just so happens the particular chip is now found in 99% of PC's.

leD00m · **Posted:** Sun Aug 21, 2016 12:16 pm

Having major issues

since reinstalling my nVidia drivers for win10 anniversary edition, the graphics went blurry again so I tried to do all the changes I did last time but then the graphics went completely broken and now I went back to originals the game does a graphics config every time I run the game and then it crashes :/ any help? Tried a fresh reinstall but its not fixed anything

Thanks!

leD00m · **Posted:** Sun Aug 21, 2016 12:21 pm

Think its down to my graphics driver :/ even if i make it into a test session, if go back to the main menu and go back into a test session it goes back into the config then crashes

Ian-S · **Joined:** Thu Dec 13, 2007 8:51 pm **Posts:** 10697

Make sure the config utility isn't selecting opengl as the rendering engine, and/or if it isn't, try selecting it, see how it performs.

You can run the config utility without running the game, it's called config.exe iirc.

leD00m · **Posted:** Sun Aug 21, 2016 2:32 pm

Hi Ian,

Updated my graphics drivers, now the game runs ok but it still does the graphics config each time i click testing/single race/etc. I've applied the anisotropic settings in the Nvidia control panel so it looks half decent but got all the blurry liveries in game because it keeps changing the core and rend files

leD00m · **Posted:** Sun Aug 21, 2016 2:35 pm

It seems the core.ini doesnt change, its just the rend_dxg. This is what my rend_dxg looks like:

[3D Accelerator Analysis]
PolyRate=144.58
AnisotropicLevel=2
TextureSetSize=13713408
BitsPerPixel=32
TestedFullScreen=1
Height=1080
Width=1920
vSyncMode=0
MipMapLODBias=-0.50
BestStampVOffset=0.50
BestStampUOffset=0.50
UseStencilBuffer=0
MipFilter=2
MinFilter=2
MagFilter=2
Renderer=C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nv_dispi.inf_amd64_72b89f8d71abda5d\nvd3dum.d
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Version=Product 21 Version 21.13 Build 7254
Vendor=NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

leD00m · **Posted:** Sun Aug 21, 2016 2:42 pm

When I run it in openGL it only does the config detection once unless I try to override the settings but it forces it to some butt ugly settings

Ian-S · **Joined:** Thu Dec 13, 2007 8:51 pm **Posts:** 10697

put a - in the texture set size to sharpen things up:

TextureSetSize=-13713408

But if it's running the config each time, it might not work.

Have you tried firing up the game without the nvidia control panel running?

leD00m · **Posted:** Sun Aug 21, 2016 4:33 pm

Ian-S wrote:

put a - in the texture set size to sharpen things up:

TextureSetSize=-13713408

But if it's running the config each time, it might not work.

Have you tried firing up the game without the nvidia control panel running?

yeah the former makes no difference because it changes every time.

Mmmm.... I'll give that a go.

EDIT: no difference

wtf is doing every time?! :wall:

Edit: Is there a way to disable the config tool?

Ian-S · **Joined:** Thu Dec 13, 2007 8:51 pm **Posts:** 10697

no, I suspect it's not seeing your graphics card properly.

Windoze 10 for yer...

(Personally I have a separate hard drive with TinyXP on for NR2k3 and just swap the boot device in the bios every Thursday).

leD00m · **Posted:** Sun Aug 21, 2016 5:48 pm

was running just fine though until whatever I did last night

Ian-S · **Joined:** Thu Dec 13, 2007 8:51 pm **Posts:** 10697

Don't fix what isn't broke

Can you roll back to old drivers?

leD00m · **Posted:** Sun Aug 21, 2016 8:45 pm

Tried rolling back but made no different. I hope the whole thing hasnt gone tits up because I tried to do the cam hack? its since then that it all went fubar

tried a fresh reinstall but no difference, the bloody game insists on doing the bloody config :angry:

Ian-S · **Joined:** Thu Dec 13, 2007 8:51 pm **Posts:** 10697

Cam hack?

leD00m · **Posted:** Mon Aug 22, 2016 1:08 am

Ian-S wrote:

Cam hack?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfExKeFGiGQ

Someone else with an nvidia card is reporting issues.... wondering if the .dll i had to install is clashing with something

leD00m · **Posted:** Mon Aug 22, 2016 1:54 am

Ok so for reasons i can get it to run without the constant config malarky with OpenGL, which now looks absolutely gorgeous but is absolute w*nk in performance... I mean my PC is not the best but I'm expecting more than 4fps in a 13 year old game when I can get Assetto Corsa running pretty smooth on 80% graphics.... Any tips for openGL?

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