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Game is unplayable for me. I have no problems with other games, including Dirt Rally 1. Almost all times the game just closes and drops me back to the desktop without any messages after it finishes loading the track. I managed to get past it once with Windowed mode and then switched back to Fullscreen from the "garage" section before the race. After that it worked a couple of times, but now it does't work again. I tried Windowed borderless and Windowed modes and I got the camera flying above the track for 2 or 3 seconds and then dirtrally2.exe stopped working. Memory usage is very low, it was 2GB for the game and I had 4 GB of free memory. Very annoying, cant play the game. I have a fully updated Windows 10 version 1809 and the latest 19.2.3 AMD drivers with a Gigabyte RX460 4GB VGA. I'm on the Medium Graphics settings preset and have 8GB of DDR4 RAM with an Intel G4560 processor. A couple of times I got the Dirt Rally 2.0 bug report window after this and sent the crash report. Hoping for a fix soon 🙂

Did you modify your default Windows page file setting?

I have this too.

What do you see in the Windows Event Log?

You can buy calibrated Dell IPS monitors for 250-300 USD. The problem is that most people don't care about the proper viewing experience, so they just use their monitors with crappy settings. All they need is an expert to calibrate their display.

Every hardware is more capable if you throw in a lot of money, lot of time and lot of people. You could make 80% of the games more beautiful on every console, but companies don't have infinite resources or even the same resources for every game.

The Forza series are from a first party developer with a lot of help from Microsoft, exclusive to Xbox and PC. Of course it runs better. On Playstation 4 the Uncharted series, the Last of Us and God of War are the same, they look better than other games on Playstation 4 for the same reason. DR2.0 is a multiplatform racing game from a smaller studio without exclusive partnership... you know, it's harder that way.

Other consoles have much more powerful graphics processor, so they can provide a cleaner and more detailed image. Before you buy a console you can look it up which is the fastest. If you purchase a slower console, the graphics will be blurrier. This is the case with every game.

This doesn't mean the game is incomplete. If you connect a Playstation 2 or Playstation 3 to your TV it will be blurry too, because the resolution is low, not because the PS2 or the PS3 is incomplete. The Xbox one S is the slowest console and it can mean that maybe they can't do anything about it. Still, I would wait 1 more month or an answer from Codemasters, beucase there is support for the game for a long time.

What is you Windows page file setting? Whats in the Windows Event Log when the crash happens? What is the Event ID?

I don't know, but it is harder and definitely takes more time than on other consoles, which are more powerful. I think fixing this comes with other graphics effects looking a little worse, so developers have to find the perfect balance for the best possible picture quality.

This is hard for the devs, because Xbox One and S has even less graphics power than the base PS4 and other games on the console are running at 900x500 or similar resolution too, like Battlefield 5. You can watch graphics comparisons for different consoles with the same game on the DigitalFoundry YouTube channel about this. Sadly Dirt Rally 2.0 is not the only game that looks blurry or pixelated. This console is nearing it's end...

Same here, can't play Argentina with interior cam, because I get dizzy. Australia can be bad too. Camera shake needs a fix, so we can set it to be a smoother experience.

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I saw 3 yesterday in Career mode 🙂

If you don't know that I don't think that is your problem, because the default setting is good. I set this manually after installing Windows. But take a look, hope it helps: 1. Right-click on the This PC icon on the desktop and select Properties. Go to Advanced system settings on the upper left side of the window. 2. Performance settings -> Advanced tab. Click on Change button and check Automatically manage paging file size for all drives. Click OK. 3. You must restart your PC after this!

I SOLVED THE PROBLEM. Even though I have 5,5 GB of free memory of my 8GB and Dirt Rally 2.0 uses 2GB when the race starts (so I have 3,5 GB free still) the game needs a large page file for some reason!!! I set my page file from 1GB to be "managed by my system" and it created a 2GB page file. Codemasters maybe take a look at this. Why the game needs a large page file when you have plenty of free memory.

I disabled Motion Blur and everything below in the graphics settings and the game looks good. There are just a few places where you have excess post-fx in this case and they don't bother me. Try it.

But what it has to do with Dirt Rally? 🙂I think nothing and this has no place in here. You should post these to the WRC 8 official forums.

Version 1.2.1 still crashes. I DNF-ed a daily event because of it.

This is what my screen looks like after the crash. What you cannot see that in the black part of the image I get every opened application window stuck, so I have to log out to fix this, because the game trashes my video cards memory.

Actually crashes are more frequent after patch 1.2, I get crashes more than half the times when starting or ending the race. I fear every time I start a race or end a race, that the game will crash. I sent you about 20 error reports now about this and for some reason, even the bug report window doesn't show up, so I cannot send it to you. The game is unplayable in this state in every resolution.

Today I did 1 daily challenge on Argentina, but the other daily challenge which is in Poland crashed 3 times already again. I can't play it... @ChristinaMc Whats the status of this bug? A little info would be cool, because it has been reported 1 month ago.

Thanks for writing here. Hope that it urges them to fix it sooner.

I managed to get into the race in 1280x720, but when I finished the race the game crashed. As I start the game again, it says the local and the server game states do not match and the game resets my whole carrier..... When is the crash fix coming? I want to play this game normally and I bought it 1 month ago. Every other bugfix is not important when the game has this kind of serious issue. Other players can play the game, so their problem are small compared to mine.