Demo Glitches

[ikillratz]

This thread is meant to point out glitches in the demo so that they can be fixed before the full game is released.

I know this is a demo and I haven't searched all the posts, but here are a few things I noticed in the demo that I hope can be fixed in the full game...

Some people (on my friends list or not) are muted when playing online and I never put them on mute and I can not remove the mute status. This has happened to me and other people on line.

Cars appear to be floating through the air at times

[ikillratz]

I am playing on the 360 before anyone asks

[Ttam]

1) I sometimes freeze then everyone is 600 ft in front of me. This has happened to me and my best friend online

2) While running in the middle of the race the countdown timer starts up then the race ends in 30 sec.

Oh and I'm playing on the 360

[MasterGT]

I haven't seen it happen, but PS3 players are having the game freeze on them, too.

One person suggested that it was happening after the host disconnected, but that is no more than a rumour.

[joe pineapples90]

PC version
nvidia 169.21
windows XP

During replays the screen someitmes goes black for a split second, on certain camera's (usually close up ones).

This is the only glitch i've found

[hellrazor90]

People with Ati x1950 (like myself) are experiancing a problem with the textures in the game. When you enter the game there are lines going through the fields where you type your name. When you enter race mode all building, fences, stoped trucks etc. start blinking and come on the race track (the car texture is fine). It's completely unplayable this way. I am running on the latest drivers 8.4 (tryed 8.3- the same)

[brdr25]

cant even play the game http://community.codemasters.com/forum/showthread.php?t=279102

[Dillyracer]

PC version
nvidia 169.21
windows XP

During replays the screen someitmes goes black for a split second, on certain camera's (usually close up ones).

This is the only glitch i've found

I think that's because if they don't show you a black screen, you would see into the inside of a rival car.

[xX Dr Payne Xx]

Im on the 360 and the only glitch I have noticed so far is this:

When going backwards, your car usually goes through the other player not affecting them at all(the desired effect) but I have noticed sometimes that the car going backwards goes through the car going forwards as normal and continues on as if nothing ever happened, but the car going forwards gets totaled. I have not been able to find a way to continually repeat this, it just seems to happen randomly..I have had it happen to myself at least 3 times, and I have seen it happen to other people at least 5 times.

[edulik]

In PC version, the tires must be in the car?
http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/9683/bugfi7.png

[ikillratz]

I meant for this to be just for the 360 version, should of said that in my first post, sorry.

Another thing I noticed like someone else said is that sometimes someone will finish the race way ahead of everyone and the race will end early. This appears to happen when people leave the room, but not every time someone leave the room. I have seen people come and go in a lobby and in a race but for some reason it will randomly pick someone so that when they leave the race it makes them finish and start the count down timer. It also seems to be paired with very quick flashes of someones name on the screen as if they are in front of you. It appears to me to be a ghosting effect of the racer that left the room going around the track in less then 1 sec.

I also get the feeling sometimes that when two cars hit, in certain situation, it is impossible to separate and ends up in a crash. This might be due to a minor physics engine glitch in the demo that is still being worked on (hopefully)

My one friend seems to have a problem with receiving xbox invites sometimes. Their were about 5 of my friends in a room trying to invite one other friend and he eventually came over after a voice message but he said he never received one invite message. This might have something to do with false mute I mentioned in the first post.

The mute problem I mentioned at first seems to mainly effect people on my friends list. I have only noticed one random playing that is marked as mute and I can't hear them even though when I go to the players gamecard the player is not muted. I noticed now a total of about 4-5 of my friends that I can not talk to during this demo due to the mute issue.

[brdr25]

i fell through the ground during an online race(pc)

[Purple44]

PC demo, need to make the buttons bigger in the lobby, hard to read what key button is, that arrow button for Ready up is not up arrow key, it's the Shift Key and I can not make out what button is for chat.

Can someone tell me what key to hit for chat? And does chat work with the demo.

Buttons to small (http://www.flatoutjoint.com/downloads/purple44/GRID/GRID-small-buttons.jpg )

[bmaytum]

i fell through the ground during an online race(pc)

It hasn't happened to me when driving, but other racers in 8-12 person races go into the ground sort-of: lower 3/4 of screen is black, a partial horizon in upper 1/4 of screen, and their car is "stuck" = can't move. I've observed this while Spectating some races. Stuck in ground seems to happen usually after a player crashes. These players show as Totalled in Race Results screen.

[brdr25]

PC demo, need to make the buttons bigger in the lobby, hard to read what key button is, that arrow button for Ready up is not up arrow key, it's the Shift Key and I can not make out what button is for chat.

Can someone tell me what key to hit for chat? And does chat work with the demo.

yeah i cant read it either, what is it?

It hasn't happened to me when driving, but other racers in 8-12 person races go into the ground sort-of: lower 3/4 of screen is black, a partial horizon in upper 1/4 of screen, and their car is "stuck" = can't move. I've observed this while Spectating some races. Stuck in ground seems to happen usually after a player crashes. These players show as Totalled in Race Results screen.

i just was driving allong a strait and i fell through the track completly, i could see acouple of buildings abowve me and the rest was just a white area, the car wasnt damaged at all and the throttle still worked etc..

[AlphaJoe]

PC demo, need to make the buttons bigger in the lobby, hard to read what key button is, that arrow button for Ready up is not up arrow key, it's the Shift Key and I can not make out what button is for chat.

Can someone tell me what key to hit for chat? And does chat work with the demo.

Buttons to small (http://www.flatoutjoint.com/downloads/purple44/GRID/GRID-small-buttons.jpg )

Looks like the Home key.

[ikillratz]

The clouds of smoke when someone spins out or runs into the sand on the euro track is to thick.

Randomly someone will have a white smoke trail behind them the whole race for no reason.

Again this is all on the 360 version

[Linfosoma]

PC version
nvidia 169.21
windows XP

During replays the screen someitmes goes black for a split second, on certain camera's (usually close up ones).

This is the only glitch i've found


I have the same problem. Also, cars float on MP.

[Linfosoma]

i fell through the ground during an online race(pc)

I`ve seen this happen while on spectator mode. Its like when you play counter-strike and move the camera out of the map area.

[HMBR]

in san francisco I gone under the ground to, also the sound stops working sometimes, the game closed itself 2 times... and there are some RANDOM slowndows to like 10fps or less, and it's not my PC...

[Alowgo]

Howdy All: WOW a GRID Demo!

I been waiting for this game to come out of some time now! So when I saw the demo for download I thought COOL!

After installing the demo I found out that my Logitech MOMO Force Forcefeedback Wheel does not work! The game doesn't even see it! The support readme file says that it supports the Logitech MOMO, I guess they we talking about the Logitech MOMO Racing Wheel and not my Logitech MOMO Force!

I guess I wont be paying this game after all!
WOW too bad! Looks like it would of been fun!

Later All

[jigglybean]

Have you actually updated your drivers?

[ikillratz]

I want to thank jigglybean for on this thread. This is what I wanted. I wanted to make this thread so people at codemasters would see it and work out the problems before the game goes gold for the 360 version.

[Alowgo]

Have you actually updated your drivers?

Well, I am using driver/software version 4.60, so no, I'm not up to date. I can't use anything newer then 4.60. The reason I can not upgrade is that I need to use the Centerring Utility Software to... well... center my wheel!?! The Centerring Utility Software stopped working when they released v5.0 !! Guess it should of have a new version updated by now, but as of today they have not released a newer version of the Centerring Utility Software!

So with that said...

First off: I'm running

Win XP all SP2 updates I have not upgraded to SP3, yet!

For Gaming Devices, I have plugged in (all the time):

Belkin N52te SpeedPad
Logitech Dual Action USB GamePad
Logitech MOMO Force USB Forcefeedback Wheel


Day 1: After installation, configuring MOMO wheel

The game does not see any of this devices when I go into the Control Section in the game.
I still go ahead and pick the custom profile tab and press ctrl to edit it. The game has no problem letting me press any button or axis on the wheel and it takes it, but game tells me that I have picked an invalid key and that I should remap another key to it! All I get is to press OK. But my button or axis choice is still show as the key I wanted to use in the list! So I carry on mapping the another controls! All of them said the same thing about being invalid! After setting all control I went into a race. At the start of the race as the camera moves towards my car, I can hear the engine reving at top end! The races start and I sit there at the start just reving! I get no reponse from the MOMO at all! Didn't seem to matter what I did. I just couldn't get the wheel to work!


Day 2: Have More Time to LOOK & TRY Other Things

Today I though I would try something else out. I went into the Control Section and tried mapping the Dual Action gamepad this time. The game took my gamepad setting. So I started a race. At the camera zoomming toward my car I didn't hear the engine reving. I noticed I could use the gamepad. I ran a few races without any problems.

I quit racing and went back into the Control Section and re-mapped the MOMO again. Started a race to find out that my wheel was working!!! YAHOO it's WORKING! But that was all the time I had to spend right now and quit the game!

Later I launched the game only to find my MOMO was not working again! I went back into the Control Section to check things. All my setting were still there but the game didn't respond to the wheel or pedals! I went though and re-mapped all the buttons, axises and pedals. I started a race and found the wheel was working again!

So I don't know what is going on here! My wheel works just fine for all my other games (TDU, TMU, NFS, ...).

Is there anyone having problems like this?


Thanks in Advance for your time
Alowgo

[xX Dr Payne Xx]

I've noticed some pretty bad bugs with the spectator mode(again, im on the 360)

This has happened to me almost everytime I have gone into Spectator mode(not Totaled my car, then gone in, but joined a new room that is currently in progress, and gone into Spectator mode from in lobby) I notice that I will go in, choose somebody to spectate and it will say they are in 1st place, when they arent. Then when I switch to another person it says they are in 1st place. When the race finishes, the results come up, and nobody has a finishing time on the screen of the spectator. Also, sometimes the damage of a car wont load for the spectator. Like I would have gone into Spectator mode(from same situation as said above, from lobby) and somebody will say to me "Check out the damage on my car! It looks awesome!" So I will go to their car, and the car will be in perfect condition with no damage on it at all. I noticed sometimes that if they then go and hit a wall and do more damage to their car, that the damage will update then and will show all the previous damage done to the car.

[edulik]

How to rotate the camera in replay mode in pc version? or is it only available for consoles?

[weta]

People with Ati x1950 (like myself) are experiancing a problem with the textures in the game. When you enter the game there are lines going through the fields where you type your name. When you enter race mode all building, fences, stoped trucks etc. start blinking and come on the race track (the car texture is fine). It's completely unplayable this way. I am running on the latest drivers 8.4 (tryed 8.3- the same)

I've got exactly the same problem, I've tried running my Radeon X1900 XTX with 8.2, 8.3 and 8.4 drivers, hopefully the new 8.5 drivers will solve this when they're released later this month.

[Purple44]

It hasn't happened to me when driving, but other racers in 8-12 person races go into the ground sort-of: lower 3/4 of screen is black, a partial horizon in upper 1/4 of screen, and their car is "stuck" = can't move. I've observed this while Spectating some races. Stuck in ground seems to happen usually after a player crashes. These players show as Totalled in Race Results screen.


Just had this happen to me today racing online. Was going up the San Francisco hills and hit the ground after a jump, part of car sunk into the ground.

Reminded me of some of the sink holes we have found on the Flatout 2 tracks.

[A Tysoe]

I'm having problems with my wheel too. All my other games work but not Grid. I have a logitech but its the Formula Force EX. Not listed in the compatibility chart, but even so the control setup doesn't recognise the wheel at all. No buttons, no pedals or the wheel iteslf.

UPDATE: Ok seem to be having more luck. I closed the wheel driver control panel and in game custom controls, I was pressing CTRL to edit the controls but didn't know I had to also press enter to clear the current selection.

Only had it working long enough to do a few laps, Wheel controls look very promising :)