help me

[cecil-swain]

i was trying to get onto GTR2 today, and the message below appeared:

This application had failed to start because d3dx9_34.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem.

so i did reinstall and it appears again. i'm worried i may have done something. what should i do?:cry:

[Gaiajohan]

Reinstall directX ;). Not GTR2.

[cecil-swain]

link?

[Gaiajohan]

http://www.m3fe.com/760/
Info ;) ALso better solution

[cecil-swain]

and how do i install it back in? do i just put it back into C:/GTR2 or sumtin?

[Gaiajohan]

You have to download your missing file d3dx9_34.dll
it;s a zip. Place the .dll in it in C:\Windows\System32

And GTr2 should work again.
Think MS has upgraded your directx version.

[cecil-swain]

ok, thanks. now to re-install all my carpacks etc.
that's my afternoon booked up, see y'all tonight

[Gaiajohan]

ok, thanks. now to re-install all my carpacks etc. ...

Tip for next time ;).
Before reinstalling the game, copy your gamedata folder to another place on your harddisk ;) After reinstalling you can put it back.. And you've still got all your cars

[GearChange]

ok, thanks. now to re-install all my carpacks etc.
that's my afternoon booked up, see y'all tonight

cecil if you are using gtr2-xd use the link in the gtr2xd readme.txt to download the very latest directx

[cecil-swain]

i'm downloading that right now.

thanks for all your help, guys :)

[cecil-swain]

one last thing bout that directx...

do i have to put that anywhere special? i extracted it, and just wondering if i have to put it anywhere

[MOF]

see post #6, this thread...

[cecil-swain]

i know about that directx, but i had to download a newer thing as well as that...it was from a link in the gtr2 xd readme.

should i see this?

[cecil-swain]

right ive got gtr2 xd working ok, but it keeps turning white. i have all the directx crap installed i think, so enlighten me...

[GearChange]

right ive got gtr2 xd working ok, but it keeps turning white. i have all the directx crap installed i think, so enlighten me...

did you actually run the setup file for directx? or just unpack it?

you should unpack it, then run the setup.exe , then you can delete the unpacked files to regain your hard drive space and keep things tidy

[KarlosDaJackal]

uninstall it cecil, you defo don't need it. You need to learn to crawl before you can walk.

[cecil-swain]

uninstall it cecil, you defo don't need it. You need to learn to crawl before you can walk.

ok, do you have a vendetta against me or something?:mad: coz if you do, just say it, and don't keep making all these comments

[KarlosDaJackal]

ok, do you have a vendetta against me or something?:mad: coz if you do, just say it, and don't keep making all these comments

I'm offering advice, not slagging you off. IMO this is just another distraction, if you can't go more than a few laps without crashing out you don't need 100% live telemetry, and you don't need to spend hours trying to get this to work, thats all.

[cecil-swain]

ok, im not like you guys. i dont own a car. i dont know about driving. i can drive here, but i dont have the same knowledge you guys have. i think that next season, i will buck up my act and get down to driving.

[purplesalad]

hey buddy relax RELAX!!!!!!!

DLL files are dangerous i would never go around messing with them

and cecil i have only one thing to say to ya did you uninstall and other program or deleted some other DLL file? because DLL means dinamic link so d3dx9_34.dll could have been from another program that you may have deleted. i too dont drive but im starting too

[GearChange]

ok, im not like you guys. i dont own a car. i dont know about driving. i can drive here, but i dont have the same knowledge you guys have. i think that next season, i will buck up my act and get down to driving.

your first concern should be learning the track, that means you go out on any setup and drive your ass off until you dont come off the track and do roughly the same lap times every lap, atleast withing 1 sec of each other.

then you can think about altering the setup, because then you would know if it actually makes a difference to the lap times you are doing consistantly.

insert gtr2 xd at this point and learn how to use it to help you go fatser and longer in races or qualify

karlos is right in saying you should learn the basics first, he just needs a better way of getting it across to you without offending :p

[cecil-swain]

ok, that makes more sense greg, i'm just crap a set ups, that's all. i thought gtr2xd would help...

[BuRnY]

ok, im not like you guys. i dont own a car. i dont know about driving. i can drive here, but i dont have the same knowledge you guys have. i think that next season, i will buck up my act and get down to driving.I don't own a car, i don't even have a drivers license:P.

http://www.nogripracing.com/details.php?filenr=4731 Download this handbook, i've learned alot from it.

[purplesalad]

i usually get my uncle to help me with setups he did rally racing in his 20s over 30 years ago

he knows his stuff

[GearChange]

you can always ask someone for a setup then just adjust the steering and brakes to your liking.

i find setting up a car is hard, i usaully pinch someone elses and just tweak it a LITTLE to suit my driving style.

[CX650]

ok, do you have a vendetta against me or something?:mad: coz if you do, just say it, and don't keep making all these comments

Why would you believe that my friend? The Mods on this forum get the job because they are willing to serve the membership without prejudice. :confused:

[KarlosDaJackal]

Cecil, like greg said maybe my words came across a bit harsh, but you know people are happy to spend time helping you with the basics.

I remember driving around with you and advising you how to brake and to be gentle with the throttle and the mantra of all racing "slow in, fast out", and it worked great for a few laps, and I think you were quite happy about the results.

But then you just started stomping on the throttle again and diving into turns to hot, like you forgot it all within 5 minutes. Even with a default setup you should be able to go seconds a lap faster with some basic technique work, GTR2 XD is only useful for people who know the lines inside out, know the setup inside out, have tweaked the death out of the setup and are looking for that extra 0.001 of a second.

Your not that guy yet. Driving first, then basic setup, then advanced setup, then the gadgets :up:

[lowndes888]

Cecil, like greg said maybe my words came across a bit harsh, but you know people are happy to spend time helping you with the basics.

I remember driving around with you and advising you how to brake and to be gentle with the throttle and the mantra of all racing "slow in, fast out", and it worked great for a few laps, and I think you were quite happy about the results.

But then you just started stomping on the throttle again and diving into turns to hot, like you forgot it all within 5 minutes. Even with a default setup you should be able to go seconds a lap faster with some basic technique work, GTR2 XD is only useful for people who know the lines inside out, know the setup inside out, have tweaked the death out of the setup and are looking for that extra 0.001 of a second.

Your not that guy yet. Driving first, then basic setup, then advanced setup, then the gadgets :up:


:lol: I'm still at basic setup yet I finish in the top 10 often:p

[KarlosDaJackal]

:lol: I'm still at basic setup yet I finish in the top 10 often:p


Of course, with just driving a default setup correctly it should be possible to trouble the midfield.

Basic setup might get you the odd top 6 place after that, and more consistant top 10.

Advance setup, you might get the odd podium, this is where i'm stuck, when the setup works its fab, when it does not i'm nowhere, i've finished 3rd in curtiba and 22nd at some other track.

But good driving is the foundation of everything, yet many people start downloading setup guide and gadgets and don't even bother to do teh driving school in the game, which is a hundred times more useful.

[CX650]

You're not that guy yet. Driving first, then basic setup, then advanced setup, then the gadgets :up:

Sorry, even with that magnanimous comment taken into account, you didn't deserve the accusation of vendetta.

[McDanger]

It took me at least a couple of seasons here at NGR until i started learning doing my own setups,i got along fine using other guys setups,no one will ever not give you their setup to try,and as Greg said,its just a case of adjusting brake bias and steering ratio to suit you,i still havent installed Motec or even looked at any of the "custom gadgets" yet,all far too distracting for my simple mind,learning the track and going fast enough to run with the rest of the demons,,and stay on the track,,,phew,thats all plenty enough for me to occupy my mind with :rolleyes: ;).A very slightly tweaked default setup,,and i mean very slightly,,,can be great,especially in 911's.

[GearChange]

It took me at least a couple of seasons here at NGR until i started learning doing my own setups,i got along fine using other guys setups,no one will ever not give you their setup to try,and as Greg said,its just a case of adjusting brake bias and steering ratio to suit you,i still havent installed Motec or even looked at any of the "custom gadgets" yet,all far too distracting for my simple mind,learning the track and going fast enough to run with the rest of the demons,,and stay on the track,,,phew,thats all plenty enough for me to occupy my mind with :rolleyes: ;).A very slightly tweaked default setup,,and i mean very slightly,,,can be great,especially in 911's.

for god sake dont start using gtr2-xd or we wont stand a chance

[cecil-swain]

one last thing. would MoTeC help me with setups?

[fisher racing]

Im not the best at setting up my cars either.
I tried this setup pack and found many I could use,with a little tweaking here and there for personal liking.
It helped me a lot.Good Luck.


http://www.nogripracing.com/details.php?filenr=2494

[sege]

one last thing. would MoTeC help me with setups?

Installing the motec program was one of the first things I did with GTR2, it's totally amazing, a realife data logger for racers that you can use in the game!.......but after my last clean install i haven't got round to setting it up again as, for me (and due to all the reasons Karlos mentions above) it's next to completely useless.....

[Gaiajohan]

I do never use motec. Perhaps I drove quite bad sometimes in NGR GTR2 league, especially the race I really would like to drive.. Road america. Stupid mistake at entering 1st corner.. But I can drive. I know it.
At the moment I'm driving, GTL league, which is fun fun fun, but still I get sometimes too enthousiastic, and those cars can seriously bite if you do something wrong.
Further I'm driving in VGTR league, just a fun league. I drive the 911GT2, and am 2nd in my championship.. With a Corvette in front of me, Corvette behind me, and some BMW M3's etc. Finished both races 2nd. 3 races have been driven, but in first race I wasn't a member yet.

To setup your car is something you have to learn. To be honest, I didn't feel any advantage of having my drivers license in any sim. But I felt an advantage in getting my drivers license because of sims, and fun I had when I was a child. I was driving a skelter back then..
http://www.elphymed.nl/imagesskelters/riny%20skelter.jpg
Perhaps it sounds strange, but with that thing I learned the basics of parking the car! And I could still remember it when I was 18. So my first time, parking backwards on a parking place, went completely correctly! Also other things driving backwards, always were strong things I had, and I believe it is because I drove that skelter back in the days..

The only thing I had troubles with in the beginning was looking well in mirrors :P.

How to setup your car, a thing of knowledge of the track.
Drive the track on and on and on.
Than search a setup fguide,and start with it. You can find out what everything does by driving it, or by googling it.
Change things one by one.

This has to be applied on every track, and if you change a car, you should do it all over again.

[Kristofer]

Installing the motec program was one of the first things I did with GTR2, it's totally amazing, a realife data logger for racers that you can use in the game!.......but after my last clean install i haven't got round to setting it up again as, for me (and due to all the reasons Karlos mentions above) it's next to completely useless.....

Correct its the same software they use in real life GTR racing. Personally I find it very useful, and would never test different setups without telemetry. Because I have always liked that part of a (good) racing game, ever since the old GP2 days. The more hightech stuff you can adjust and analys, the more interesting to me :)

You can compare different laps in every possible detail, like you can see if that particular gear ratio really is faster through that section, how a different line through that chicane gives you an advantage, it also has a time variance function, where you can compare the time difference over a lap and see where you lose or gain time.

Completely useless? :uhm: not imho.. I would never play without it, but as pointed out its quite complicated and you need to learn the basics at first.