Program gets Frozen at Start Up + Temporary Fix Thread - Stunt Rally

Hi there,

I installed Stunt Rally via Desura on my Windows 7 Laptop. The graphics card I have is an on-board Intel GMA450, so it is not so friendly with Shaders and HQ Graphics. When I played the game with default settings, the program would run, but it was unplayable due to LAG.
When I tweaked around with the settings, it ran without any problems, and I was able to play.
However, when I started the program after I changed the settings, it would not start, and the window would be frozen until Windows gives the option to shut down the process or keep waiting. This only happened to me when I changed the settings. If I kept the program at the default settings, it would not crash.
Thus, I reset the configuration by deleting the "stuntrally" folder in p;pdata%, and re running the program.
This was a bit of pain because I had to delete, and change the options again every time.

I made a simple batch (.bat) file which sort of fixes the issue, and I wanted to share it with the community. This batch file deletes the "stuntrally" folder in p;pdata%, and starts the program. This is pretty much a temporary fix and you will have to reconfigure the settings every time.

For 32bit Windows:

@echo Off
echo Stunt Rally "Frozen at Start" Fix for Desura
echo by Shifat
cd %appdata%
rmdir /s /q "stuntrally"
cd C:\Program Files\Desura\Common\stunt-rally
start StuntRally.exe
echo Done! Now, to avoid lags and such, re-configure the settings.
echo DO NOT CLOSE THIS WINDOW AS IT WILL ALSO CLOSE THE GAME
PAUSE

For 64bit Windows:

@echo Off
echo Stunt Rally "Frozen at Start" Fix for Desura
echo by Shifat
cd %appdata%
rmdir /s /q "stuntrally"
cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Desura\Common\stunt-rally
start StuntRally.exe
echo Done! Now, to avoid lags and such, re-configure the settings.
echo DO NOT CLOSE THIS WINDOW AS IT WILL ALSO CLOSE THE GAME
PAUSE

If you did not install the game from Desura, here's your code:

For 32bit Windows:

@echo Off
echo Stunt Rally "Frozen at Start" Fix
echo by Shifat
cd %appdata%
rmdir /s /q "stuntrally"
cd C:\Program Files\Stunt Rally 1.8
start StuntRally.exe
echo Done! Now, to avoid lags and such, re-configure the settings.
echo DO NOT CLOSE THIS WINDOW AS IT WILL ALSO CLOSE THE GAME
PAUSE

For 64bit Windows:

@echo Off
echo Stunt Rally "Frozen at Start" Fix
echo by Shifat
cd %appdata%
rmdir /s /q "stuntrally"
cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Stunt Rally 1.8
start StuntRally.exe
echo Done! Now, to avoid lags and such, re-configure the settings.
echo DO NOT CLOSE THIS WINDOW AS IT WILL ALSO CLOSE THE GAME
PAUSE

Open up a text editor, Ctrl + C & Ctrl + V the code into it, and save it anywhere as a ".bat" file.

The program assumes that you installed Stunt Rally in the default path provided in the installation. If you didn't, change line 6 into the appropriate folder by deleting everything on that line after "cd" and changing it to the right path. If your version is different, make sure you change "1.8" in line 6 to your appropriate version.

THIS IS NOT A PERMANENT FIX FOR THE PROGRAM. This post is also a bug report and I hope the devs will fix this issue soon.