Race 07 crashes when loading cars in menu (Steam)

[Zpectre]

I bought the SimBin Mega Bundle yesterday and I'm having lots of problems.

Race 07 crashes when loading a car at the car selection screen. The crash happens only in the menu, and only when I'm choosing a car. I can cycle through the cars a few times, then the game may crash if I choose another car. It crashes before loading the model in the spinner, and it gives me a minidump.

It crashes both with and without official addons. No mods are installed.

I tried everything, redownloaded the game, validated the files (Steam says they're ok), deleted the game's content from the SteamApps folder so that it would unpack again, and the problem persists. I reinstalled Steam and the game once more, and the crash persists. I'm pulling my hair over it, since it seemed like a good deal to get ALL of the SimBin games for the price of a digital copy of a new big budget game...

Ironically RACE (not RACE 07) works fine. I figured why RACE doesn't crash... It doesn't have the car spinner in the menu... Only from RACE 07 onwards they brought back the spinner from GTR2. But of course I need RACE 07 to make all the addons work.

DirectX is up to date, GPU drivers are up to date. My specs... Intel Core i7-2600 @ 3.4 GHz, 8GB RAM DDR3, ATI HD 6970.

 

[Dennis Phelan]

I'm sure there are others that know more than I do but I'm here. When you reinstall, I would say start with Race then Race 07 followed by the other addons. When starting the game, start using the Race07 Icon or pick it to run from the menu.

 

[Peter]

Race has nothing to do with Race 07, and the order to install the ad-ons doesn't matter with Steam. You only need to start Race 07 the first time.
What you can do is this, open the User.plr
C:\Users\Peter\Documents\SimBin\RACE 07\UserData\Peter
And search for this line and change from 0 to 1, it makes the cars spin normal.
High Process Priority="1" // Improves FPS on some systems, but may conflict with some background applications

 

[Zpectre]

Hi, I solved my problem. It was completely unrelated to Steam.

I use an application called RadeonPro to create GPU profiles for my games. It turns out I had a buggy version of RadeonPro. Updating it to the latest version fixed it.

Having much fun with the game BTW.

Thanks for the help.