F1 2010 Game freezes on race start

[Rowin Kennedy]

Hi all, I am having a problem at the moment, where the game crashes to the desktop during the race start. I'm not sure if it's a corrupted save, as the game loads fine, and everything works, up until the point where i start a race. The starting montage plays (where the camera pans over your competitors etc.) but when it flashes to your cockpit view, the game freezes, and I have to close the window.

It's really infuriating as I'm doing really well in the championship (3rd in a HRT, up to Suzuka) and I have no backups of my save...

I'm re-downloading the game from steam as we speak, but I'm not confident it will fix the problem... Any ideas?

Cheers

 

[Paul Lock]

Any mods installed? Normally this only affects online gaming, but you never know!

 

[Rowin Kennedy]

Only RealAI. I've had it installed from Race 1, and it hasn't been an issue until now...

 

[Paul Lock]

Just checking. Hmm, it seems that a lot of people hit problems with the game stability or corrupted save data when they reach Suzuka!

Make sure your game is patched to 1.01 (I dont think Steam auto-updated mine so had to d/l from the Codies site) also check out the savegame fix in the Mods section of this forum.

 

[Rowin Kennedy]

Thanks. I'll check this out if re-installing doesn't help.

 

[Paul Lock]

Well, once you have re-installed, its advisible to install the patch and fix as a matter of course.

Good luck.