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Allie<p>September 24, 2023 - Day 267 - NewPlay Review<br>Total NewPlays: 287</p><p>Game: Dirt 5</p><p>Platform: Steam<br>Release Date: Nov 3, 2020<br>Installation Date: Sep 9, 2023<br>Unplayed: 15d<br>Playtime: 34m</p><p>Dirt 5 is an arcade off-road racing game developed by Codemasters.</p><p>I don't normally talk about who developed a particular game, but today is a little different.</p><p>I've always had a bit of a love-hate relationship with racing games. Mainly hate; from 1987 (Test Drive) through until 2019 I tried to like racing games, but I just didn't. Racing with keyboard/mouse is awful, and I couldn't "get" racing with a controller (PS2 / Gran Turismo).</p><p>That changed with the Xbox One controller and Forza Horizon 4. It finally clicked for arcade racing. I still don't enjoy technical racing sims.</p><p>Dirt Rally & Dirt Rally 2.0 were both an exercise in frustration. I'd heard that Dirt 5 was different, and I had a key for it, so I installed it.</p><p>They were correct. Dirt 5 is a whole different exercise in frustration.</p><p>As a racing game, it's proficient, and feels a lot like a rally cross between The Crew and Forza Horizon games.</p><p>Dirt 5 was released by Codemasters in 2020. Codemasters was purchased by Electronic Arts in 2021. Which explains a lot about why Dirt 5 has been almost impossible to play since 2021.</p><p>There is a literal gamebreaking bug, in a game that is less than three years old and remains unfixed. Quite simply, my initial start of this game was a fluke, because after that, it crashed every single time.</p><p>It's a known issue. It is unfixed. I put on my technical support hat, and went hunting. It appears that older DRM (Denuvo in this case) does not get on with the e-cores in 12th and 13th gen Intel CPUs.</p><p>Gigabyte released a workaround patch for 12th gen Alder Lake CPUs that parks the e-cores to enable compatibility, and I located an app (ParkControl) that will allow me to do the same, and it works consistently.</p><p>This is for a game that EA *still* sells.</p><p>The Steam forums have multiple posts about it crashing on startup, as do the EA Dirt 5 forums (for Xbox Game Pass PC and Steam).</p><p>EA just doesn't appear to care, which is no surprise at all.</p><p>Dirt 5 is:</p><p>3: OK (for racing)<br>1: Nope (for EA & DRM)</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/Dirt5" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dirt5</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Racing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Racing</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Rally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rally</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Arcade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Arcade</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/MastodonGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MastodonGaming</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaming</span></a><br><a href="https://aus.social/tags/Project365ONG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Project365ONG</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Project365" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Project365</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/NewPlay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewPlay</span></a></p>
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