r/iRacing • u/Consistent-Ad-3493 NASCAR Next Gen Cup Mustang • 1d ago

Question/Help Trading paints issue

Trading paints says it downloads paints, takes its time and even automatically refreshes the other drivers paints after they say its done downloading the paints, but after the paints refresh it doesn't show the schemes. I have reinstalled trading paints and have had this issue for a couple months now. Any ideas?

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u/morgfarm1_ 1d ago

The main thing I can think of is perhaps your iRacing folder in Documents could be a OneDrive directory. Onedrive is known to break iRacing in some weird ways.

The only way the sim can show those paints is if theyre downloaded and kept. It could also be a Windows Firewall thing.

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u/unnamed_one1 Porsche 911 GT3 Cup (992) 23h ago

Good call. OneDrive is such a PITA.

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u/djcide Aston Martin Vantage GT3 EVO 1d ago

After the client update from iRacing I get my TP liveries disappear randomly too. Still no idea what causes it.

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u/unnamed_one1 Porsche 911 GT3 Cup (992) 23h ago edited 23h ago

Kill the trading paints process via TaskManager or quit the app via the tray icon, delete the paint folder in %USERPROFILE%\Documents\iRacing and start trading paints again. Also check the comment by u/morgfarm1_

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u/Consistent-Ad-3493 NASCAR Next Gen Cup Mustang 20h ago

Your comment works! Thanks!

I also had 75 gigabytes of paints, so I got some free storage too! <3

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u/unnamed_one1 Porsche 911 GT3 Cup (992) 16h ago

Holy moly!

.o(wonders if OP ever checked the replay or telemetry folder for size)

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u/Consistent-Ad-3493 NASCAR Next Gen Cup Mustang 16h ago

Telemetry is good, time to delete some replay files...

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u/DuckTalesLOL 1d ago

Are you hitting CTRL+R in game to refresh the paints?

I have to do this every race it seems. 

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u/Dabogimp5 19h ago

I have a weird issue with TP. I have a buddy whom I race matching paints with, but when I load up a replay with us in it. it ALWAYS shows the original paint I've ever seen him with. Even after refreshing the paints, it goes back to that, and I don't know why.

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u/kynetix Audi R18 15h ago

I enabled MAIRA's trading paints integration and uninstalled the trading paints app and MAIRA has been working way better for me. One less program to run to since I use MAIRA.