After race replays disappeared

[ibpalle]

Hi - after updating to 1.2 the game no longer starts replays after a finished race - anyone else seen this?

[nath812]

i did read somewhere on the forum that some people having the same prob if you have less then 5 or 2 gb (cant remember which one) left of disk space.

[ZipherBuG]

i did read somewhere on the forum that some people having the same prob if you have less then 5 or 2 gb (cant remember which one) left of disk space.

Each replay takes up a lot of space as the delevopers apparently saves replay info uncompressed (as they don't know a thing about coding - all the bugs tells us) - so if you are low on diskspace, no replays.

Its all saved in a "cache" folder during a race.

ZipherBuG :)

[ibpalle]

Thank you for that - I'll try to clear up some disk space. Anyone know if you can direct the replay cache to store data on another drive than C:?

[ZipherBuG]

Thank you for that - I'll try to clear up some disk space. Anyone know if you can direct the replay cache to store data on another drive than C:?

Not in any easy way - and even if you did, I expect that the buggy code of GRID would get confused and crash on you.

ZipherBuG :)

[ibpalle]

Could be it's using the system variable for the temp dir, which I could then set to use a different dir than windows/tmp. I'll try that and let you know how I get on.

[ibpalle]

No go with the tmp variable - found a directory in program files(x86) that is probably the one used. Trying to figure out how to move it (Steam install of Grid)

[Salah-ad Din]

So the game stores that info on C: by default? Sorry, but who programmed this???

There is a reason why I have a seperate game partition, there I have enough space. But on my C: partition there is only around 3,5GB free space at any time.

Guess I got lucky as this is enough space needed for the replays. I've had replays after my races. Still it's stupid to save it to C:.

I hope they'll change this in a patch!

[ibpalle]

Would be nice to have a setting where one can adjust this. Using a 32GB SSD with windows 64 already using 22GB of space (!) does not leave an awful amount of space on the system disk.
I suppose I could try moving the "Program files" location to another drive instead of default c but thats a fairly large operation.

[ibpalle]

Found a way to clean out over 1,5 gb of space on my vista install. Open a command line and run "vsp1cln" - that removes backup files from the sp1 install. One cannot remove sp1 after running this but sp1 has been causing no issues on my system so far.

[Purple44]

You could go in and set maximum Virtual memory size to 1500MB and minimum to 1200MB. This would save some hard drive space if XP\Vista is using 3 GB or more of disk space for Virtual memory.

[ibpalle]

Yupl, thats an option. I just put the swap on a separate disk and deactivated hibernation.

[Gomez]

All installs every where only seem to accept the existence of 'C' and anything under 'C' is subject to 'C's constraints - this is not limited to CM (though I do wish somene would take the hint and lead the change...). Try using mounted volumes - then you really get screwed.


:)

[Purple44]

Yupl, thats an option. I just put the swap on a separate disk and deactivated hibernation.

Yup, when I build my computers, I partition one drive just for Virtual memory and one drive to install my games on, one for my downloads ( like mods for Flatout ) and leave C: drive for Windows.