Codemasters Dirt Showdown Plugin 2.0.0.4

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Codemasters Dirt Showdown Plugin - SimTools plugin for Codemasters Dirt Showdown

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Hi, I cannot get this plugin to work on simtools 2.0. When I start the game, game manager just stays green. I have patched the correct folder (windows 10 x64) and all my other codemasters games work. Any ideas?

I would check the IP assignments you have setup in the software.

Are you using one pc or 2?

Thanks for the advice. I'm only using 1 pc so I didn't think ip would be the problem. Every other game works just fine, it's literally just this one I can't get to talk to simtools.

I couldn't get it to work on simtools 1.3 neither. Same issue.

Here is what i have in the hardware ini that is in your my documents/my games foler......
I use 2 computers so that IP address is to my sim controller but make sure motion is enabled.

Here's mine;

<motion enabled="True" extradata="1" delay="1" port="4123" ip="127.0.0.1"/>

</hardware_settings_config>

No extradata line? Maybe try adding that in.
I can try the plugin with 2.0 tonight.

Thanks, much appreciated I copied from the xml in error, my cfg.bak file looks identical to yours with exception to the ip;

<physics environmentalDamage="true" vehicleDamage="true" />
<input device_type="auto" />
<motion enabled="true" ip="127.0.0.1" port="4123" delay="1" extradata="0" />
</hardware_settings_config>

k, let me test the plugin this evening and I will report back if it works for me. If not the plugin may require further work.

No problem, cheers for your time

Hi all, I managed to get this working after 2 days of messing around with it. If you have the Steam version of Dirt Showdown, change the showdown_acx.exe to Showdown.exe. The capital letter is important, as it doesn't work without it.

Another issue, the plugin for this game seems to break it. Once the game is patched, I can recreate this error every time I complete a race in the showdown tour. Once the race is complete, the game crashes and produces the following error;



If I unpatch the game for motion, the game works perfectly fine, so it appears that the motion patch is what is breaking it.

I wasn't aware, that Dirt Showdown also has this issue with extradata = 1
I will have to change back to extradata = 0

value1 updated Codemasters Dirt Showdown Plugin with a new update entry:

Extradata=0

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Thanks value1, played this for a an hour or so this morning, different modes etc, doesn't crash anymore.