Homestead 2003 (NR Track Designs) - how to get it working?

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mjqt

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I've been attempting to get NR Track Designs's Homestead 2003 track to load, and have been consistently failing to do so. After downloading it from their Dropbox folder linked on their Facebook page, it failed to load. I then researched the track a little, and discovered someone saying it is a modification of Homestead 2009 Revamped Reloaded. So I tried again but this time using the Revamped Reloaded shared folder (which I don't normally use) and still received the "Could not load the track" message. I then read people saying a missing PTF file is the most common cause of tracks not loading... and when I unpacked the DAT, I couldn't find a PTF file for the track, which is concerning - although I'm a noob at NR2003 modding, so I may have missed it.

I see other posts using the track here on Stunod (see this for example), so others have managed to get it working. So... First, if anyone has a moment, could you please try downloading the version of the track currently available, and testing if it loads with your NR2003 install? Second, what fixes do you suggest?

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What MOD are running. All of these files are in the track directory for Homestead 2003 - fast.cup.sim, fast.cts.sim, fast.gns.sim. If you are running a PTA MOD you need to add a fast.pta.sim.

The CUP Mod loaded OK for me as well as CTS & GNS Mods.
 

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You can always try this version: http://www.smiffsden.com/enews.php?id=7

I'm pretty sure it will work "right out of the box" for you with none of this jumping through hoops to get the other version to work. :fist ;)
Fair enough haha! Looks good. Will try this out for sure :cool:

Regardless, am hoping to have a daytime only progressive-banked Homestead with Winston Cup signage like the 2003 race, but something that looks a little better than the PWF track. So I wanted to try out the NR Track Designs 2003 version, see what I think.

What MOD are running. All of these files are in the track directory for Homestead 2003 - fast.cup.sim, fast.cts.sim, fast.gns.sim. If you are running a PTA MOD you need to add a fast.pta.sim.

The CUP Mod loaded OK for me as well as CTS & GNS Mods.
I was using the default Cup cars myself, and no dice. Hmm. That's weird. Are you using the RR shared folder?
 

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I'm using the latest RR Shared Folder. The only issue I had for a track not loading was a missing *.sim mod file.
 

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Interesting. Still no luck on my end. I see fast.cup.sim and qualify.cup.sim in the folder, I have the latest RR shared folder. And you downloaded the version from https://www.facebook.com/NRTrackDesigns ? So I wonder what's going wrong. Interestingly, someone else on the Facebook page left a comment saying it wasn't working for them either, but there's been no response.
 

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Any particular reason you wanted Homestead 2003? These tracks are pretty good.... Homestead_2013_SDT_Night, homestead_2k3_pwf and Homestead_Day_to_Night_V8
 
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Any particular reason you wanted Homestead 2003? These tracks are pretty good.... Homestead_2013_SDT_Night, homestead_2k3_pwf and Homestead_Day_to_Night_V8
Yeah, those are good ones. Thanks!

Any particular reason you wanted Homestead 2003? These tracks are pretty good.... Homestead_2013_SDT_Night, homestead_2k3_pwf and Homestead_Day_to_Night_V8
Basically I was looking for a daytime only progressive-banked Homestead with Winston Cup signage (as would be historically correct for a race with 2003 cars) but something that looks a little better than the PWF track. So I wanted to try out the NR Track Designs track to see what I think. Now, I'm also just intellectually curious about what's going on TBH.

And thanks so much for taking the time to discuss and troubleshoot a bit with me, really appreciate it. :)
 

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I just tried it and it works just fine for me. Is that track folder named the same as the .dat file? "Homestead_2003" Is there a subfolder inside of that folder that contains the track files? If so they should always be in the tracks main folder. Never in a sub folder.
 

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I just tried it and it works just fine for me. Is that track folder named the same as the .dat file? "Homestead_2003" Is there a subfolder inside of that folder that contains the track files? If so they should always be in the tracks main folder. Never in a sub folder.
I think yes to both questions. The filepath for the folder is NASCAR Racing 2003 Season\tracks\Homestead_2003, and the contents are a bunch of files including fast.cup.sim and qualify.cup.sim and Homestead_2003.dat.

I mean, I must be doing something wrong, so I figure there's a learning experience for me here about how NR2003 works. But I don't know what I'm missing. Never had an issue like this before, in any case!

I wonder if the issue is related to the shared folder? I don't know for sure whether the track requires the RR shared folder, but it's possible. So I've tested using both a clean default Papy shared folder and putting the Revamped shared.dat from the download on the WKC site. No dice in either case. But maybe there's something else?

EDIT: At this point, I think I might take a moment later today and do a clean NR2003 install, see if it works there. If it works, that's great, and I'll know there's something I've mucked up in my current install. And if not, I'll know the problem is that I myself am doing something wrong.
 
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So, I tried again (installing the Homestead_2003 version downloaded previously from the link above) with a 100% fresh NR2003 install today. Just popped the Homestead_2003 folder into the tracks directory. For testing purposes, I didn't even do any blurry graphics tweaks or install any other mods! And then tried again after copying the Revamped Reloaded shared.dat in the tracks\shared folder. Both times, I still got the "Could not load the track" error. While default Papy tracks work fine.

Given other people here don't have my issue, there must something the track needs that you have, but I don't (and the raw track download doesn't contain, either). Either that or something I'm doing wrong. Any advice or thoughts? Seems like there's something missing in the mod, a learning experience here for me (and possibly others) about NR2003, or both.
 

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I use the original nr2003 share.dat. Then I copied the shared folder from the Revamped Reloaded 2010_2011_updated_HighRez_shared_combo_Pack to the tracks directory.
 
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Alright, now it works. Yay! Cool track... more or less worth the wait and anticipation haha!

Thank you verrry much @NCR3665 and @JNorton (WKC) for your help! Very glad to have come to a solution. :)

To be clear in case anyone else has this issue in the future, copy the files in the folder from the link below into the shared folder. This is a particular version of the Revamped Reloaded shared folder. For whatever reason, this made Homestead_2003 work, whereas the RR shared folder version from the WKC site did not.

 
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Alright, now it works. Yay! Cool track... more or less worth the wait and anticipation haha!

Thank you verrry much @NCR3665 and @JNorton (WKC) for your help! Very glad to have come to a solution. :)

To be clear in case anyone else has this issue in the future, copy the files in the folder from the link below into the shared folder. This is a particular version of the Revamped Reloaded shared folder. For whatever reason, this made Homestead_2003 work, whereas the RR shared folder version from the WKC site did not.

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