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    Yet more new problems with Track Central!

    Hey guys

    today I had some problems while browsing Track Central that I didn't have before (the game is really becoming a box of surprises). Besides the fact that Track Central is now at least loading for me, even though still unbearably slowly, there are new problems making it unplayable for me.
    First, when I tried to get to download a track from the "48h top rated tracks" in Trials, it threw me out of the download page for that track and into Redlynx Picks which icons were then half transparent and didn't work. When I backed out of that, the icons on Track Central's landing page were half transparent, too, but they at least worked so I could continue. When I then tried to get into the 48h top rated tracks feed and loaded the track I was downloading, I thought everything was normal. The track was downloaded so I played it and about 15 seconds in I got the popup that you usually get on the download page, saying "User track successfully downloaded". Then the game clipped me through the ground and wouldn't let me restart the track so I had to back out via the Pause menu. After I then reloaded the track, I could play it fine.
    But that's not it. After I then completed the track to my satisfaction, I tried to load the "top 48h" again and then saw that, earlier, it only showed me half of the tracks that were actually available. I was pretty happy because there were many new ones, including the new MIB iteration by landsknecht. Klicking on the track, I was thrown out of the download page to the, now again, semi-transparent landing page. Going back into the "top 48h" feed, it only showed me half the available tracks as before, so no new MIB there.
    Since I really wanted to play the track because this series is always very promising of great tracks, I went to the search function to search for it. I typed in "MIB" and pressed enter, only for the program to search for an eternity and didn't let me quit the search page, neither via Escape, nor via the B button on my Xbox controller, nor the back arrow on the bottom left side of the window so I had to close it via the X of the Game Window (I was running in windowed mode). Since it didn't crash there is no crash report.

    I really don't know what to say about this other than the game really is a problem. I was thinking it might have to do with the amount of tracks I have saved (I never deleted a track since launch), kind of slowing the game down but that doesn't make that much sense. And I couldn't bunch-delete them anyway since there is no option to do so and going through 100 tracks or so, deleting them one by one is not a viable option.

    For the 20€ that I payed and the 120h I played I really got my money's worth from the game so I'm not that enraged by all this crap. But I'm amazed how buggy this game is, how no patches are released and how there are still more problems coming up. If I were buying this game now, I think I'd be incredibly pissed off. And I hope you know not to make these mistakes with Fusion again.
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    Re: Yet more new problems with Track Central!

    I feel you man and sadly don't know of any solution either. Gold Edition track central is currently terrible in that you spend most of the time just getting to a track to download because of all these problems. And then sometimes once you finish downloading and choose play, the game becomes unresponsive and forces you to quit via task manager. Incredibly frustrating. I really hope fusion doesn't have these problems. In my opinion, the frame rate issues pale in comparison to the user interface issues in track central. Search function doesn't work, it takes ages to load up initial screen which is always the same except one tile and menus load up on top of other menus. When game devs willingly decide to ignore a working/tested existing user generated content framework such as the steam workshop, then I think whichever framework they end up using should match/exceed the quality of the one ignored. Unfortunately, gold edition track central doesn't work well and will forever hold this game back.

    Sorry for the rant, I'll be sure to let you know if I ever find a fix for my similar problems.
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