replay's corrupting- need help

[night_owl2007]

hey all, i wanna pick someones brains here, its seems that lately most of my hotlap replays are getting corrupted, the replay works fine if i replay right after the lap, while still at track, but if i go back to main menu, then go to the hotlap, and load it, most of the time lately it'll hardlock my pc or at least make gtr2 ctd, its been happening the last few months and its becoming a real pain, at first i thought it might have been due to culmone tex updates, but its happening on tracks i havent updated too such as mid ohio (VirtuaLM), also its happening with stock simbin cars and added cars, so thats not the prob, so anyone got any ideas? its surely happened to one of you guys??

also i have trace added into my shortcut, but i dont understand what the log file is telling me (its probably telling me to p*ss off loser, you suck! )

[tarkus07]

The same problem happened to me in GTL but it was only at one track-Watkins Glen. I uninstalled the track and install it again and the problem was still there. Finally I traced the problem to a couple of add on cars, I uninstaled them and the problem was solved.

[gazman]

down at the bottom of the trace file usually tells you your problem. post it

[aSa]

Just for curiosity, post one of the corrupted replay files also.

I can't tell what has gone wrong, but I'm curious to see what's missing from there this time (that is the case quite often, online replays has been the worst).

cheers.. aSa C[_]

[night_owl2007]

hey thanks for the replies guys, ok im gonna post my trace file and one of the replays that wont work - i say wont work, not corrupted, cos i forgot i have another installation (only for F1- hardly used) on my hd and i put the replay into that folder and bam it loaded fine, which is good in one way, i can still load my replays, but bad cos something is goin wrong with my main (and treasured) heavily modded GTR2

ok i noticed another corrupted replay didnt work on the 2nd vers of gtr2, so its getting corrupted sometimes, and sometimes its just not playing it on my main installation (if you guys follow that- i type gibberish sometimes! )

ok bottom of my trace file looks like.....
specialfx.cp 3583: Entered SpecialFX::Setup()
steward.cpp 4707: Entered Steward::Setup()
dynman.cpp 609: Entered DynMan::Setup()
sound.cpp 723: Entered Sound::Setup()
onscreen.cpp 3161: Entered OnScreen::Setup()
vidman.cpp 1152: Entered VidMan::Setup()
plrfile.cpp 3793: Entered PlayerFile::Setup()
plrfile.cpp 2936: Attempting to save to USERDATA\LeeDavid\LeeDavid.TMP
plrfile.cpp 2959: Retcode: 0 for renaming to USERDATA\LeeDavid\LeeDavid.PLR
game.cpp 770: Entered Game::Init()
Replay.cpp 6604: Loading VCR File for playback
vidman.cpp 1205: Entered VidMan::Init()
ai_db.cpp 2215: Entered AIDatabase::Init()
steward.cpp 4845: Entered Steward::Init()
hwinput.cpp 6584: Entered HWInput::Init()
specialfx.cp 3694: Entered SpecialFX::Init()
dynman.cpp 639: Entered DynMan::Init()
slot.cpp 284: Entered Slot::Init()
vehgfx.cpp 2587: Entered VehGraphics::Init(GAMEDATA\TEAMS\TRACKVEHICLES\SAF ETYCAR\SAFETYCAR.CAS)
slot.cpp 284: Entered Slot::Init()
pitmod.cpp 197: Entered PitAction::Init
vehgfx.cpp 2587: Entered VehGraphics::Init(GAMEDATA\TEAMS\GT\FERRARI 550 TEAMS\BMS SCUDERIA ITALIA\..\FERRARI_F550_STYLE2.CAS)
slot.cpp 284: Entered Slot::Init()
pitmod.cpp 197: Entered PitAction::Init
vehgfx.cpp 2587: Entered VehGraphics::Init(GAMEDATA\TEAMS\GT\FERRARI 550 TEAMS\BMS SCUDERIA ITALIA\..\FERRARI_F550_STYLE2.CAS)
slot.cpp 284: Entered Slot::Init()
pitmod.cpp 197: Entered PitAction::Init
vehgfx.cpp 2587: Entered VehGraphics::Init(GAMEDATA\TEAMS\GT\LAMBORGHINI MURCIELAGO TEAMS\DAMS\..\LAMBORGHINI_MURCIELAGO_STYLE2.CAS)
LensFlare.cp 55: Entered LensFlare::Init()
camera.cpp 4189: Entered CamMan::Init()
sound.cpp 728: Entered Sound::Init()
render.cpp 274: Entered Render::Init()
onscreen.cpp 3167: Entered OnScreen::Init()
game.cpp 905: Entered Game::Restart()
sound.cpp 735: Entered Sound::Restart()
steward.cpp 4967: Entered Steward::Restart()
specialfx.cp 4186: Entered SpecialFX::Restart()
hwinput.cpp 6595: Entered HWInput::Restart()
dynman.cpp 770: Entered DynMan::Restart()
driver.cpp 628: Race Ability: 4.036012 CorneringAdd: 1.481994
driver.cpp 628: Race Ability: 4.858913 CorneringAdd: 1.070544
driver.cpp 628: Race Ability: 4.227241 CorneringAdd: 1.386380
driver.cpp 628: Race Ability: 4.934294 CorneringAdd: 1.032853
camera.cpp 4215: Entered CamMan::Restart()
render.cpp 290: Entered Render::Restart()
onscreen.cpp 3187: Entered OnScreen::Restart()
vidman.cpp 1423: Entered VidMan::Restart()
plrfile.cpp 3830: Entered PlayerFile::Restart()

help appreciated, oh and one of my replays attached- works tho in 2nd installation
Barcelona 1_35_6 Lee550.rar

edit: sorry couldnt attach a completely corrupted replay aSa as i cant remember which ones are and arent, ive got quite a lot of replays there, but i know the attached one wont play on my main/first installation

[aSa]

The lap looks ok. GTR2 loads it fine here. I didn't notice any dropouts in the vcr data part.

How about your GTR2's condition? Much added content like cars, tracks, mods, ok. You wanna test some pre-release, WIP software to check your GTR2 (GTR2 Verifier 1.1 beta)? If interpreting the resulting log file is too problematic, I can check it through. (The log texts must be copied with keyboard commands to the clipboard in this oldish version)

Other, more general problem sources could be video drivers or too little free hard disk space (in %TEMP% and also where GTR2 installed in) or damaged Windows environment like corrupted file system or bad dlls somewhere. It's hard to point my finger at anything more specific, i'm sorry.

cheers.. aSa C[_]

[night_owl2007]

ah any dropouts in the replay huh aSa, sure... neither did i
yeah everythings else is working fine in GTR2, got about 13.5GB folder, many mods, tracks and cars, but very rare i get a ctd for anything other than replays... that software you linked to, i will have a look at it later and see if i can use it, thanks- much appreciated!
im using reasonably newish nvidia drivers (about 3 months old) for my 8800GT OC2, err i have a ton load of adult entertainment but still lotsa room left on my HDD, about 180GB (out of 465 with fresh windows- supposed to be 500GB but they love to mislead people with those claims huh! )
and my windows *touch wood* seems to be good, no probs, and its only been on for about 8months or so...
oh and yeah both my versions of GTR2 are on same main HD, but in different directories, tho the 2nd newer installation only has a few added tracks and F1- so doesnt get used to the same extent....

[aSa]

Well, I guess I shouln't replay to a thread started by an english speaker.. I wonder what I just said??

With dropouts I meant (sometimes huge) blocks of vcr data that has been left away, like in these: hotlap1 (bad example here but funny anyway as a hotlap ..) and hotlap2. The drawing line is a little bit thin.. hope you see something there. GTR2 really saved them as hotlaps, but they were no good for me, obviously.

I have few other samples from the "NoGrip archives" (top3 hotlap section), but they don't have nice graphics readily available for linking.

cheers.. aSa C[_]

[night_owl2007]

Originally Posted by aSa

Well, I guess I shouln't replay to a thread started by an english speaker.. I wonder what I just said??

With dropouts I meant (sometimes huge) blocks of vcr data that has been left away, like in these: hotlap1 (bad example here but funny anyway as a hotlap ..) and hotlap2. The drawing line is a little bit thin.. hope you see something there. GTR2 really saved them as hotlaps, but they were no good for me, obviously.

I have few other samples from the "NoGrip archives" (top3 hotlap section), but they don't have nice graphics readily available for linking.

cheers.. aSa C[_]

yeah speak engrishhh pleashhhh!
ok yeah i understand about what you mean with "dropouts" and my replay seems fine huh, well most of them seem to be playing in my 2nd installation, so i guess i'll have to put up with it on my "main installation" unless some fairy godmother drifts onto this thread and tells me what the prob is and how to fix!

thanks for your imput aSa