Colin Mcrae

I had the exact same problem!! The problem lies with your 3D card so here's what you do : Save the game after stage 4 (I'm sure you've already done this) In the options screen, change over from your 3D card to just the basic software-rendered version (Device 0, I believe) and play the stage. It'll look pretty awful, and you can barely see anything, but at the end of either that stage or the next (can't remember which) save the game again and go back to the options screen and change back to your 3D card. All will be well again! > I know that CMR is pretty much old news around here but I just bought it today. > And, to my frustration, I can't load Australia stage 5. I'm in a heated battle > with C. Mcrae for the championship, I won New Zealand, lost Monte Carlo, I have > a 2 or 3 second lead in the mitsubishi after 4 stages in Australia but the > computer crashes after loading about 1/3 of Australia 5. And this is on a > fresh reboot. > The game seems somewhat buggy to me. And yes, I have applied the patch. But > if I want to play, I need a fresh reboot on the computer before I have a chance > of getting into the game. Once it's actually running, it's great, but between > races it crashes often and it crashes hard. And yes, I'm sure I've applied the > patch. Great game when it's running though. > So now I need to start a new championship season or what? Australia 5 won't

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> load. > What should I do? > glen > PS: The reason it's taken me so long to buy this game is because I was > unemployed but now I'm not. But I still had to pay $60 for it

( Canadian ).

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> I had the exact same problem!! The problem lies with your 3D card so here's > what you do : > Save the game after stage 4 (I'm sure you've already done this) > In the options screen, change over from your 3D card to just the basic > software-rendered version (Device 0, I believe) and play the stage. It'll > look pretty awful, and you can barely see anything, but at the end of either > that stage or the next (can't remember which) save the game again and go > back to the options screen and change back to your 3D card. > All will be well again!

I had a similar problem with Australia, but in my case it would crash at the same place within the stage itself, and eventually I got lucky and got through the stage without it crashing. I'm using a Creative Voodoo Blaster Banshee with the Creative drivers (not sure what version they are). It probably also depends on whether you're using DirectX 5 or 6. I'm still leading the championship halfway through the last rally (Great Britain), but at that point I bought Grand Prix Legends and still haven't gone back to CMR!

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> > I know that CMR is pretty much old news around here but I just bought it > today. > > And, to my frustration, I can't load Australia stage 5. I'm in a heated > battle > > with C. Mcrae for the championship, I won New Zealand, lost Monte Carlo, I > have > > a 2 or 3 second lead in the mitsubishi after 4 stages in Australia but the > > computer crashes after loading about 1/3 of Australia 5. And this is on a > > fresh reboot. > > The game seems somewhat buggy to me. And yes, I have applied the patch. > But > > if I want to play, I need a fresh reboot on the computer before I have a > chance > > of getting into the game. Once it's actually running, it's great, but > between > > races it crashes often and it crashes hard. And yes, I'm sure I've > applied the > > patch. Great game when it's running though. > > So now I need to start a new championship season or what? Australia 5 > won't > > load. > > What should I do? > > glen > > PS: The reason it's taken me so long to buy this game is because I was > > unemployed but now I'm not. But I still had to pay $60 for it > ( Canadian ).

Have you tried the patch? Go here http://www.3dracing.com/users/cmr/ and go to the downloads section. Personally, the game is worth the $60 CDN. I've also purchased TOCA and TOCA 2, both imports and both $60 CDN. Arthur -- ---- alegardo at home dot see oh em > I know that CMR is pretty much old news around here but I just bought it today. > And, to my frustration, I can't load Australia stage 5. I'm in a heated battle > with C. Mcrae for the championship, I won New Zealand, lost Monte Carlo, I have > a 2 or 3 second lead in the mitsubishi after 4 stages in Australia but the > computer crashes after loading about 1/3 of Australia 5. And this is on a > fresh reboot. > The game seems somewhat buggy to me. And yes, I have applied the patch. But > if I want to play, I need a fresh reboot on the computer before I have a chance > of getting into the game. Once it's actually running, it's great, but between > races it crashes often and it crashes hard. And yes, I'm sure I've applied the > patch. Great game when it's running though. > So now I need to start a new championship season or what? Australia 5 won't > load. > What should I do? > glen > PS: The reason it's taken me so long to buy this game is because I was > unemployed but now I'm not. But I still had to pay $60 for it ( Canadian ).

Anyone know if there's a patch which allows you to use split-axis?

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> Have you tried the patch? Go here http://www.3dracing.com/users/cmr/ > and go to the downloads section. Personally, the game is worth the $60 > CDN. I've also purchased TOCA and TOCA 2, both imports and both $60 > CDN. Arthur > -- > ---- > old news around here but I just bought it today. > > And, to my frustration, I can't load Australia stage 5. I'm in a > heated battle > > with C. Mcrae for the championship, I won New Zealand, lost Monte > Carlo, I have > > a 2 or 3 second lead in the mitsubishi after 4 stages in Australia > but the > > computer crashes after loading about 1/3 of Australia 5. And this > is on a > > fresh reboot. > > The game seems somewhat buggy to me. And yes, I have applied the > patch. But > > if I want to play, I need a fresh reboot on the computer before I > have a chance > > of getting into the game. Once it's actually running, it's great, > but between > > races it crashes often and it crashes hard. And yes, I'm sure I've > applied the > > patch. Great game when it's running though. > > So now I need to start a new championship season or what? Australia > 5 won't > > load. > > What should I do? > > glen > > PS: The reason it's taken me so long to buy this game is because I > was > > unemployed but now I'm not. But I still had to pay $60 for it ( > Canadian ).