Windows DiRT 3

I cannot wait to get home from work today and get that bad boy running!

 

It still haves problem with laptops video cards?

 

Here's a quick video I uploaded from Kenya



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scZy1S8HATg

 

Didnt realise this had unlocked for Steam users already? ! I thought it was Wednesday.

Brilliant, il try and have a quick blast this evening but wont be ablet o get stuck in until Wed anyways.

Typical, just as i unlocked GT3 on Shift 2 and things start to get interesting, another game comes along.

 

showoff...

... i would have crashed a bazillion times over the course of that stage

 

Didn't crash once on the whole stage lol. Just done a snow race, which is a bit easier than I expected tbh but was still fun. Especially going into first corner not seeing a thing.

 

Here's another quick vid.

 

Good vid looks really good. I have a old official xbox steering wheel might have a look and see if I can get that working on pc? Does anybody know if that can be done?

 

And a snow video.

 

I am really enjoying dirt 3. however one thing that annoys me is that there is no option to quit once you have started a race, you either have to finish the race of alt-f4 out and risk corrupting your savegame or something. It's small things like that, that can often ruin an otherwise excellent game for me.

 

One thing that's pissing me off, is that it takes the piss on saving your wheel settings.

 

Load times on my PC are a joke.

 

hey,

to quit a race, press start (i am using a joy pad) and select retire

I thought the load times were ok. it may be your machine

personally i think there is too many snow events! although i love the african rally events and gymkhana. i didnt htink i would like it but they are really fun and i love getting battersea power station to play in and finish missions.


Also, go to my dirt then live and you can download 5 extra cars for free!


now i must get to sleep

 

I am really enjoying it so far. Its a cracking game. The graphics look amazing and make me want to hook it up to 3 screens!

 

I might try hooking it up with 3 screens i have 2 monitors just now on my GTX480 and its water cooled but it may cook me alive if i put a 3rd monitor in....Think i will be jumping to ATI next time i upgrade GPU want a crack at this eyefinity.

 

I'm really liking this game so far, but I can't find a difficulty setting that really suits - i seem to win too easily with it on 5 but it takes me ~20mins per event of restarting to get close to winning if I set it to 6 (the max).

I havent noticed any load times worth speaking of, but it doesnt want to save my control settings for some reason so I have to set it up every time.

Aside from these issues it looks great and is a pretty sweet game.

 

My load times seem fine on a 1TB F3, I wish changing between H-pattern and sequential for different events was easier or both could be enabled at the same time ala shift 2. Not a big fan of the bland techno music in the loading screens, thought that it was well handled in dirt2.
Still - Multiplayer anyone?

 

Heh, Dirt was massively fragmented.

 

When you start the game, make sure you use your wheel to make the first input i.e. to skip the splash screens or at the 'press start or enter' screen. Then it should recall your wheel settings, at least this works for my gamepad.

 

Yeah, I know. But I use the keyboard for the menu and wheel for driving..