tincup wrote on 2025-04-06, 16:06:hmmm ...I still get the "Problem Loading Track" error. […]
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hmmm ...I still get the "Problem Loading Track" error.
Quick question - I've been testing with the free alpha builds as I find it easy to make/tweak standalone installs for each season skipping the launcher. I bought the retail version. Can I just copy the new dosbox/staging folders into my installs? With the app installed now can I still keep configurations local (like dgvoodoo etc)? I prefer not to rely on the system-wide app. Also how do updates work now? I didn't see an option to download as a zip - it just self-installed.
EDIT: the 2 earlier versions of Mexico run, but they are sort of betas. Still can't open the third upgraded version (1-24-2010 dat). However since I have everything unpacked I've been manually "upgrading" the 2nd version with better grass etc by copying mips. - And yes, as Pavel mentioned it's not the correct CART layout - it lacks the turns at the back end that bypass the first part of the big 180. But it's not bad.
EDIT 2: the patched INDYCAR.exe seems to have pepped up FPS across the board which is great. Plus I increased conf memsize=512 per your rec (if I understood you right).
sharangad wrote on 2025-04-06, 13:16:
That Mexico City track works without reduction, straight off the dat. The MIPmaps take a while to load, a bit too long.
I tried it this morning. Since it worked I assumed it was the wrong track.
Thanks for buying a copy. For every store release there should be a matching Alpha release.
You can manually update the files. Just copy dosbox.exe, dosclient.exe, redline.dll and verite.dll and all the other dlls. For staging copy dosbox-staging.exe and the other files. Staging also needs all the files in the staging subdrectory. Staging belongs in the staging subfolder if you're running it through RLauncher.
If you're updating it manually, update the app from the store and copy the files across.
If you're updating it through RLauncher.exe, update it from the Microsoft Store, run rlauncher, launch Dosbox-Rendition, close it then run dosbox-staging-rendition, close it and that's it. RLauncher copies the files across to the execution folder every time an app's launched. It's a bit cumbersome, but it exists because earlier builds of the app had a habit of dying unexpectedly and locking the files, which meant the machine would have to be rebooted to run it again.
If you run it through RLauncher and the files are locked, it'll renamed all the files and then copy the files across before launching.
The config for the wrapper itself is in rendition.cfg, which should be in the same folder as dosbox.exe (or staging). Dosbox-rendition.config and dosbox-staging.config are the arein %localappdata%\temp and is (unless overriden by the command line passed on dosbox launch) are global and unaffected by updates. Some settings may change from version to version, but will only be done if there's a clear improvement in doing that for nearly all systems.
Could you share your copy of the later Mexico City track? The version I tried (https://icr2.net/forum/showthread.php?tid=601 … id=3928#pid3928) appears to work. With the current store release (1.0.40 if you look in settings\apps) memsize is forced to 512 MB and ignored. I've got versions which lock 1.5 GB of RAM and patched versions of ICR2 which can use 1.2 GB of texture heap (system RAM). Larger values don't seem to be possible. With a larger texture heap, ICR2 does in fact allow much larger textures to be used at slower frame rates, ridiculously slow frame rates .
Developer of RReady - Rendition Verité Wrapper.
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