{"id":1703,"date":"2019-07-24T20:09:52","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T20:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/?p=1703"},"modified":"2019-07-24T20:09:52","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T20:09:52","slug":"colin-mcrae-dirt-crashes-when-starting-a-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/?p=1703","title":{"rendered":"Colin McRae Dirt &#8211; Crashes when starting a race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are trying to play some retro rally racing on your i7 modern PC, this is a problem you&#8217;re going to come up against.<\/p>\n<p>Dirt crashes when trying to start the race as it doesn&#8217;t play nice with 8 cores!<\/p>\n<p>1. Open the folder where you installed DiRT, then open the &#8220;system&#8221; folder<br \/>\n2. Edit hardware_settings_restrictions.xml in Notepad<br \/>\n3. Search for the line containing workerMap8Core.xml and change the 8 to 4, i.e. set it to workerMap4Core.xml<br \/>\n4. You may not be able to save the file, if so, right-click it and turn off Read Only<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are trying to play some retro rally racing on your i7 modern PC, this is a problem you&#8217;re going to come up against. Dirt crashes when trying to start the race as it doesn&#8217;t play nice with 8 cores! 1. Open the folder where you installed DiRT, then open the &#8220;system&#8221; folder 2. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[494],"tags":[539,537,540,536,542,538,541,26],"class_list":["post-1703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc-gaming","tag-crash","tag-dirt","tag-fix","tag-mcrae","tag-race","tag-rally","tag-starting","tag-xp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1704,"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions\/1704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}