Alas, it was too good to be true...

[ZipherBuG]

I thought that patch 1.2 would fix everything, and so it seemed. But alas, last night GRID crashed as I had just won a tournament and now when I launch GRID, I get to the black screen with the GRID logo and nothing else happens. Left it for 45 minutes AFTER rebooting, nothing.

DEAR GOD - Codemasters - are you making an artform out of unstable code and no errorchecking?

Anyone have an idea as to what might let me LAUNCH GRID again?

OMG - it seems the GRID crash has corrupted my savegame...and I have no backup of that - back to square ONE.

CODEMASTERS <---------- ?

Regards,

ZipherBuG :|

[ZipherBuG]

Further details:

GRID.EXE process stays at 25% cpu usage (I have a QUAD and GRID only runs one one core) and allocates 56.100 KB memory - then just sits there.

Anyone got any idea?

ZipherBuG.

[-FireBall-]

Last night i went to bed with grid working.....although i could not make or save a player profile.....at least the game worked...... Got up this morning and it would not even fire up........ I did a system restore to last night and grid works again.. Try that...... Is grid somehow changing computer configs?
On a side note.... just for ****s and giggles i fired grid up in SAFE MODE and I finally got to save my profile. What a buggy game this is.... there are free games out there with better coding than this one from CODEMASTERS. lol is the codemaster name an oxymoron? Kinda like MILITARY INTELLIGENCE? I did have to do a full window reformat and reinstall just to get the game to work initially. Hope you get it fixed soon... one more bug and im trashing this game. Good luck....... I and THOUSANDS of others feel your pain.

[ZipherBuG]

Re-installing (for the N'th+1 time) and checking if that fixes it.

OMG I am SO TIRED of this game. I have NEVER EVER experienced SO many problems with a game as I have with this...

ZipherBuG.

[ZipherBuG]

So, re-installed GRID.

Applied patch 1.1

Started game.

Created a dummy profile.

Exited GRID.

Copied my "old" profiledata to the profile directory.

Started GRID.

Works, minus the last race I drove before the crash last night (apparently corrupted).

*sigh*

CODEMASTERS: WE ARE PAYING CUSTOMERS - FIX THE GAME!

Notice the HUGE increase in the GRID.EXE from 1.1 -> 1.2 - someone did not do their job well...from 19 mb -> ... was it over 40 mb ?

Anyway, I am staying on 1.1 for now - I HOPE the developers will take the time to do a PROPER test of the 1.3 before they release it...

ZipherBuG :|

[zBobG]

Notice the HUGE increase in the GRID.EXE from 1.1 -> 1.2 - someone did not do their job well...from 19 mb -> ... was it over 40 mb ?

That is NOT true.

GRID v1.0 18900Kb
GRID v1.1 18986Kb
GRID v1.2 18969Kb (US English language version)

Are you using a replacement no-DVD version of the GRID executable? That would explain your different .exe size and your problems with the game.

I apologize in advance if that's not the problem. Not meaning to accuse you of something.

[ZipherBuG]

That is NOT true.

GRID v1.0 18900Kb
GRID v1.1 18986Kb
GRID v1.2 18969Kb (US English language version)

Are you using a replacement no-DVD version of the GRID executable? That would explain your different .exe size and your problems with the game.

I apologize in advance if that's not the problem. Not meaning to accuse you of something.

That was NOT what I meant.

I must remember wrong, I will have to check that.

My bad.

And no, no replacement .exe, even though I considered it - as a lot of people reported that this actually FIXED their game.

ZipherBuG :)