Hello,

I ventured into Festbierbude tonight with the hope of joining the race. But all evening, and indeed previously on kolschbierbude, I've had an issue where i struggle to get the game to load, despite double clicking the exe file.

I've tried setting to XP SP3 compatibility, running as an admin, starting via the launcher, the shortcut or explorer, and nothing seems to work. Very occasionally, and normally several minutes after i've tried the shortcut, it will mysteriously load.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Separately, i've been moving all of the tracks and cars into one directory under a main GTR2 folder, to save space with duplications. I've done similar with rFactor. I doubt this is causing the issue, but could it?

Thanks
Steve

Hiho,

In fact, it is very likely that this is what is causing the problem. P&G also offers an installation mode where a normal GTR2 version can be used, but it is not recommended. And if this variant works with a Koelschbierbuden installation I doubt it.

Did you read this?
http://www.festbierbude.de/component/ option,com_remository/Itemid,0/func,select/id,145/

Glück auf!

Hi,

I did - using option 2. But currently I cant load any of the 3 installs of GTR2, either the stock game, the kolschbierbude installation or the P&G version.

I should add that when I only had 1 installation of GTR on the system it also took a while to load - sometimes taking 3 or 4 attempts at double clicking the shortcut to get it to come to life!

Did you also tell the .exe in the directory to start as administrator? Or only the shortcuts? And what about the GTR2config.exe? Did you start them before, as admin?
And which operating system?

Glück auf!

Yes, all the files run as administrator. Im on W10.

I've tried again today and nothing will load. So im going to try a reinstall - will report back!

Is this Steam GTR2 version? If so, Crew Chief GTR2 Enhancements Plugin fixes multiple startup issues and other GTR2 bugs. You can find plugin at thecrewchief.org.

Good luck

No, cd version.

I appear to have solved it by doing a complete reinstall of all the GTR installations. Sometimes it takes a while to load, but so far it looks like it works...!

Fingers crossed

The game taking a while to load (especially the first time after turning on your PC) is completely normal due to the added amount of game content.