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iRacing when starting practice or race session crashes Simtools Game Manager

Discussion in 'iRacing' started by tdg911, Feb 7, 2019.

  1. tdg911

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    Hello all,

    This is actually my first post. I've been browsing through the forums here for a few weeks trying to learn some things here and there. I recently purchased a DOF Reality P3 system and just got everything setup last week. This week I'm working on trying to tweak the movements. I'm new to the sim world but have a very strong technical background and my troubleshooting skills are pretty good as well.

    I have learned quite a bit from you all and appreciate all of the support here in the forums.

    Here's my scenario. I'm running the latest version of Simtools on a Win10 Pro system (recently installed fresh), plenty enough ram and very minimal system configuration. I'm also running the latest Nvidia drivers for a 1080ti GPU and latest drivers and software for Oculus Rift. I wish I were home so I could post my version numbers but everything is the latest.

    I just setup my iRacing account and began messing around with that and everything has been going ok with two exceptions.
    1) When starting a practice session and/or race session, sometimes the Simtools Game manager crashes with an unhandled exception error. I have the option to continue or quit. I will then start the game manager while iRacing is still loading and will get a second crash. It seems after iRacing finishes loading I can start the game manager again and motion works just fine. This isn't every time. Just some times.

    2) I am not able to get surge working in iRacing but it works in AC. I can post my settings later but hopefully someone can help me out.

    Has anyone experienced the first issue when starting a session from the browser?

    TIA!!
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  2. nclabs

    nclabs Active Member Gold Contributor

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    First of all I always launch both Simtools apps before launching iRacing but I never had this kind of crash issue. I would check your .net framework with the repair tool from MS, for a start. The surge issue it's a lot stranger. Did you already tried to uninstall simtool and start back all over? I got a crashing issue time ago and it was just the simtool's installation gone wrong.
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    If you have a crash error then please post a picture of the full crash report, as that will tell us what is going on.

    I don't use iRacing but suspect them most likely issue with surge is your settings. DOF reality has a thread for support questions: https://www.xsimulator.net/community/threads/low-cost-2dof-3dof-motion-simulator-dof-reality.8570/

    Which includes a link to another link where DOFreality owners can share setting: https://www.xsimulator.net/community/threads/dof-reality-platforms-presets-profiles-and-tips.11273/

    You will find DOFreality iRacing settings posted there: https://www.xsimulator.net/communit...-presets-profiles-and-tips.11273/#post-152578

    Just be aware the Axis Allocations for this and many other DOFreality posted setting have Axis Assignments of many hundreds of % in total, which will result in clipping: https://www.xsimulator.net/community/faq/axis-assignment-percentage-totals.120/

    The proper way to refine a profile is one axis at a time, with an Axis Allocation around or slightly over 100% in total: https://www.xsimulator.net/community/faq/steps-to-create-a-motion-profile.228/
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    I get this too, doesn't happen every time but probably 1 in 5 starts. I'll post up an image of the error next time I see it
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    I correct myself, yesterday I had the same exact issue. I need to learn how to shut my mouth. >_>
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    That will learn you as they say in my home town!

    :)
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    iracing.PNG Resurrecting this old post to see if there has been any solution to this issue. I still have this problem even with the latest version of simtools. Game manager will crash about 80% of the time when I launch iRacing. Is the only solution to this is to launch iRacing before the game manager is launched? I have also tried to reinstall the .Net framework but that did not resolve the issue.
  8. noorbeast

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    Please copy and paste the full error message.
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    See the end of this message for details on invoking
    just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.

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    System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Unable to find the specified file.
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    Does anyone have any insight into this error message?
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    It looks to me to be triggered by a file not found issue, have you tried re-installation?
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    Thanks for the reply Noorbeast,

    This issue is intermittent and only affects iRacing. It’s been happening on more than one PC and with older versions of Simtools as well. And based on the other posts in this thread, others have also reported this issue. I have also reinstalled .Net.
    When it happens, if I restart Game manager after iRacing has loaded, it works fine. It only crashes once.
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    Perhaps @yobuddy can have a look, when he has time.
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    Thanks.

    I hope @yobuddy has some time to look at this soon as it's a real annoyance :).

    Thanks always for the support.
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    My first message, but not last for sure! I'm having the same issue. When I first start Iracing, I get that Net Framework error. However, if I then close IRacing and restart, then it works despite how many times I leave the game and start it again.
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    @value1 or @yobuddy

    Could this possibly be a timing issue with the iRacing plugin and it creating the memory mapped file on startup? Can one of you take a look at this issue? It seems to be affecting a lot of people that use iRacing.