Carset(s) crashes game when I click Drive

[LieutenantHardhat]

Put together a roster using the MENCup18 carsets by the talented @JacobTB_14 and it makes the game consistently crash on all tracks.

Important notes:

• Did not have this problem before adding the carsets. Mod runs fine with vanilla cars and my personal cars.
• Roster included StarCom Racing cars from NNRacing. Running a roster with these cars does not crash the game unless Jacob's cars are included.
• Roster included a MENCS mockup of Natalie Decker's ARCA machine. Running a roster with this car does not crash the game unless Jacob's cars are included.
• Allows for track selection, but extremely long loading time occur afterwards and the game crashes after clicking drive.

Assets involved:

• All three of Jacob's 2018 carsets.

Computer specs:

• Intel i7 7700HQ @ 3.8GHz
• NVidia GeForce GTX1050Ti
• 8GB DDR4 RAM

 

[garrett1127]

Go to Splash n Go and get the patch for this mod, supposed to fix this problem.

 

[LieutenantHardhat]

Applied update. No longer crashes upon clicking "drive," however, now we have a different problem.

• Chance for all HUD elements and car to be solid black
• Chance for car to be rendered "transparent" showing details of the car not normally seen unless cut away during damage repair at a pit stop
• Chance for track elements/3DOs to flicker rapidly in and out of existence
• Chance for major other graphical errors (UI not changing/responding after leaving qualifying session)
• Frame rate drops to near-unplayable levels (10-15 FPS on a machine like this is only "acceptable" for ARMA 3, where everyone's machine basically gets that unless running a supercomputer)

Again, it only happens with these cars. Would provide screenshots but game does not want to cooperate with that idea.

 

[LieutenantHardhat]

What all was the update supposed to change?

 

[Thunder98]

Make sure the cars are compressed in Winmip. This 15 year old game can't support a whole field of 2048 cars without them being compressed.

 

[LieutenantHardhat]

Make sure the cars are compressed in Winmip. This 15 year old game can't support a whole field of 2048 cars without them being compressed.

I'll see what I can do about that.

 

[LieutenantHardhat]

UPDATE: After compressing everything - it works like a charm now.