Dirt 3 - Fix for Windows Live Sign-In Problem

Gday everyone.

Bought Dirt 3 through steam the other day (that all went smoothly apart from steams obvious server overloading / bandwidth saturation issues) and fired it up and had my first experience with Games for Windows Live.

Eugh.

Anyway, I've put together a quick note on how to get Windows Live to work with Dirt 3 if you're having problems.

To be honest the only reason I wanted to get the sign in working is so the bloody game remembers my controller settings >:|

The symptoms I was experiencing were that whenever I signed into the first sign-in screen, I'd enter my username, password and game key then continually receive an invalid username / password screen.

To verify I wasn't going insane I logged into Windows Live Marketplace and also via the Windows Live portal page with no issues.

I read that a lot of people are having the same problem and just press ESC when presented at the initial login page, then they can sign in at the main menu.

The problem there is that you haven't actually created a profile and therefore no settings will be saved.

Anyway, here's what I did to get it to work.

Press Home at the initial sign-on screen.
Click on Messages
Click link to signup to live (even though you already have an account)
Enter email address you've already registered on web page
Sign in at redirect (i.e. click continue)
Go back to game, sign in again, enter reg code and it works!

Gotta say, Steam definitely have their ♥♥♥♥♥ together when compared to Microsofts Games for Windows Live.

ALSO IF THAT DOSENT WORK


Well so after nearly a day spent finding the correct resolution for this annoying issue I finally find it in the Codemasters community tech support forum
this message was created by user in the Codemaster community forum named "Mantank"
his message is as follows
Quote:
"!!!! About "Save profile failed" issue
okay i just find out why some of us had "Profile Save failed" issue.

my user name for Windows7 is chinese so the game save DIR will be like:
C:\Users\武爷\Documents\My Games\DiRT3

Game can't save profile because this Dir contains unicode

then i created a new user name called Mantank:
C:\Users\Mantank\Documents\My Games\DiRT3

now the game can save.
(dirt2 doesn't have this issue, you guys had new programmer?)
TRY THAT ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

The X liveless Fix

You could also try to download X liveless it worked for more than dirt all you guys have to do is download the rar file inside it there will be 3 files a read me and 2 xlive.dll and xlive.ini Open up Xlive.ini and were it says your name change it to anything you want just click save and your done Grab xlive.dll and xlive.ini and just drop it in your dirt 3 folder for E.G my path is C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Dirt 3 i just drop them there xD and your Done Have Fun with the game :D

[Ze1ss]

I had the same problem with this Dirt 3 game ... i have the CD KEY but it says allready in use ... so alternative to the problem try YAMA Xlive less files. Solved my problem. Thanks!

[War-Ass]

tnx, works now

[Yama]

War-Ass download Xlive less and follow instructions thats the eseyest one to fix and thats what i use to play dirt 3 : http://www.medi afire.com/download/ediqeelc5a31231/x_livel ess_20140518_v2.zip

[War-Ass]

I've been trying all guides now. Nothing works for me.

[Zheiko]

Find the one responsible for GFWL and execute him...

Glassed Silver: Not Codemasters fault, only mistake codemasters did, was implementing GFWL...

[Glassed Silver]

A game failing at using Unicode? Jesus Christ, what is this? Glorious Windows 9x days? Give me a break, Codemasters. You did NOT master your game code there. Let alone Unicode. Bleh!

[Yama]

glad it worked for u guys have fun the game is good i also recomend dirt 2

[cacchio87]

Thanks a lot! You saved me from a big ragequit!

[Yama]

pls rate

[Fab2cent]

Worked, Thanks for the help :)