I didn’t really get much gaming done last night, opting instead to try and clean up my rFactor install a bit.

Most rFactor mods live peacefully side-by-side, but a few have been a bit of a pain. Aside from the previously-mentioned issue of having to restart to get them to initialize properly, a handful of them have vehicles that don’t behave properly when you’re in the “all vehicles and tracks available” mode, popping up error messages and displaying a placeholder model on the track. So far, it looks like the Historic Rally Cars, GP2 2006, and Renault Super Clio mods are the ones that cause trouble for me.

Fortunately I can deal with them by setting up a separate rFactor install just for them. It wastes a bit of disk space, but I’ve still got a bunch free on one drive, and some stuff like the track data can be deleted and pointed back at the main install so that I don’t have to duplicate those. The main problems it causes are that the user profiles can’t really be shared between the installs, so any setting changes have to be redone in each one, and each install will have to be patched separately whenever a new update comes out.

Oh, the things we do for our pretty cars…