XD kills Race 07!

Dennis Phelan · Oct 25, 2012

My install on Win7 has been running fantastically, until just the other day. It started crashing/minidump on startup for no reason at all, I had not made any changes to the game and had been driving regularly. I re-installed, added my favorite addons but no mods or tracks and bang, minidump again. I went through the folder and when I removed XD it ran fine. I love XD, especially the latest version. I tried to install XD again today and it does the crash bit.

Any clues?

Fabio Mich · Jan 31, 2013

what is XD????

Juergen · Jan 31, 2013

Try this

Dave Flower · Feb 1, 2013

David Faraday said:
Provides on screen telemetry data, tyre temp, brake temp, fuel etc etc

see here:

http://www.vitumo.de/

This link is direct to the creators site.

Tim Ling · Feb 14, 2013

Is this sorted now Dennis Phelan?

Dennis Phelan · Feb 15, 2013

Tim Ling, It's not right yet. Jari Aikio gave me some information the other day, he had the same problem when he installed Win 8 as a dual boot on his machine and he says the two Wins were the cause.

I have a dual boot using two HD's and have yet to pull them out and reposition them so the old XP isn't connected. Maybe try that today.

Tony Gentile · Feb 20, 2013

Dennis Phelan said:
You won't believe this!
XD on the old drive had a modified ini file to move the displays to the bottom center of the screen. Rather than go into the new ini and change a few numbers I copied the old one into the Win7 game, CRASH! So, I remove it and place the original one back from the desktop, CRASH, so I remove the dll and the ini = game runs. I again copy the dll from the XP drive and paste it in Win7, just like last time = CRASH!

was thinking on downloading this to try but dont need any hassles with it so may leave it till next time. looks like a handy tool

Dennis Phelan · Feb 20, 2013

Tony, it's a great tool and served me well for a long time. I expect to get ti back working again after I get rid of my other HD, just haven't done it yet. If you have a normal PC it will work well for you and give great info during practice, Q and races!

Dennis Phelan · Feb 21, 2013

Last night I tried to disconnect my old HD with win XP in it. Win 7 is on a different drive. With it disconnected I went into the bios and put the the 7 drive in the boot lineup.

The system refuses to boot without the old XP drive active! What am I missing?

Tony Gentile · Feb 22, 2013

Hi Dennis have added it to my downloads now how do I get it to work in the game do you have to add it to a file ?

Dennis Phelan · Feb 23, 2013

You place the extracted file in your Race07 folder. Make sure you've downloaded and installed the directx.

It's all in the instructions. When you next start the sim, you'll see it.

To fix my problem, I've been told I have to re-partition and add a boot sector or something. I'll get to it when my league races are over as it sounds messy.

Vaughn Stegeman · Feb 25, 2013

Yeah. If you were booting off the physically seperate HD with XP on it, the the HD with Win 7 wouldn't have a boot sector. Re-partitioning can be dangerous. You MIGHT be better re-installing Win 7, sadly. Of course, if you're going to re-install anyhow, you may as well try re-partitioning with a boot-sector. Nothing to lose really, because if it fails you'll just have to re-install Win 7.

Justin Swan · Mar 2, 2013

Can somebody please tell me how to cycle through/change or rearrange what XD components are displayed on the screen?

Cheers

Juergen · Mar 2, 2013

Justin Swan said:
Can somebody please tell me how to cycle through/change or rearrange what XD components are displayed on the screen?

Cheers

through the ini file

Justin Swan · Mar 2, 2013

Juergen Herrmann said:
through the ini file

Thank you

Justin Swan · Mar 3, 2013

Just installed and love it

Dennis Phelan · May 5, 2014

It's been a while now. I've gone all this time without XD.
Yesterday one of our drivers, Jean-Pierre Blanchy, remembered I was stuck after one of his drivers remembered that he had the same problem with GTR2. The problem has been fixed, MSI Afterburner is no longer on my HD and Race 07 runs XD!

If you're unfamiliar with XD and want to know what it does and how it can help you go here to check it out.

So why did this happen to me? Since this is all began almost two years ago I can only think....after moving to Win 7 I replaced Rivatuner[used for fan speed control] with MSI Afterburner but didn't get it all up and running at once so when I made the one change to it, that killed XD. I had no idea what had caused it. As in, I made a change and didn't go right to Race 07 instantly seeing a change in the games loading behavior.

Strange, when JP told me about MSI I tried turning it off and couldn't, it was always affecting XD for R07! Only uninstalling it would make the problem go away. So I have rplaced MSI AB with EVGA;'s version of Rivatuner for fan control but it also kills XD unless I start it after I go into R07.

EVGA's Precison x gives me screenshot capability along with fan control but no video capture. MSI AB had a very nice vid caprure, but. So, the good news = I have XD, the bad news = still looking for a good replacement for MSI's AB.

Justin Swan · May 5, 2014

You might find thundermaster usuable for your GPU fan control but I don't think it does video capture.

Jempy · May 5, 2014

I never used MSI Afterburner and don't know which ddl it uses.
But after having a look on the Web, guess which one is also used by MSI Afterburner ????

D3D9 dll .... same as ... XD and some other tools.

And once again a new conflict.

Jempy · May 5, 2014

I don't know how to manage this possibility but it might work:

In GTR2 for example using XD together with Map Plugin ... using both this d3d9.dll and a simple ( hum !!! for the one who knows how to do it ) config ini file + renaming one of the 2 used dll allowed to use both tools.

I have no pc knowledge enough ... but is it possible to do something like that in order to operate MSI Afterburner + XD at the same time ???