GTR SEASON 1 - RACE 5 - Donnington

Eagle32 · Post by **Eagle32** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 2:13 am

Yay Donnington

YeeHarr · Post by **YeeHarr** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 9:57 pm

Well the first race was lots of fun.

Unfortunately I had steering failure on the second race. Lost force feedback completely. Amazing how horrible it is to drive without it so after driving off the track a zillion times decided not to cause carnage for innocent bystanders.

Ventrilio worked pretty well for me this time (apart from a couple of full on stutters I don't normally get).

I'd help pay for a uptodate ventrilio server. I hate that we have to run an old version. How much does the full server cost?

Happy · Post by **Happy** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 10:12 pm

Not a bad second race.

I was a disaster in the first race, sorry to everyone I dinged, I might have to change my name to Bite-Me soon

or or or even Sack Wogers.

Bold · Post by **Bold** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 10:13 pm

YeeHarr wrote:I'd help pay for a uptodate ventrilio server. I hate that we have to run an old version. How much does the full server cost?

Unfortunately its a bit more complicated than that. They dont sell the server for private use, only to some approved hosting companies, and then you have to rent it off the hosting company.

famin · Post by **famin** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 10:27 pm

good first race with Bazz. He didnt crack this time!!!

disaster 2nd race as fell off once of own accord and was punted off once by someone in the peloton... but despite that it was bloody good racing again.

Love it... and hey wasnt it nice to see at least 1 porch up on the grid amongst all those eye-talyans...

RedValiant · Post by **RedValiant** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 10:31 pm

race 1 was undrivable due to stutters, so bad, I kept missing apexs and finding the sand. It happened after the chaos of the Craner Curves on lap 1 where everyone used the car ahead as a brake. Two was better, infact the cleanest race yet for fps and non-stutter. Who knows wtf is the cause but its getting kinda annoying. And the stupid game doesn't record your qualifying lap as a record or hot lap even when it is. Sorry too, to the couple of cars I tangled with in race 1 going into cnrs.

famin · Post by **famin** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 10:52 pm

whats yr m/c spec redvaliant?

I suspect memory has an awful lot to do with it as well as throughput from mobo to graphics card.

Have you got the latest motherboard drivers installed?

Biteme · Post by **Biteme** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 12:11 am

Happy wrote:Not a bad second race.

I was a disaster in the first race, sorry to everyone I dinged, I might have to change my name to Bite-Me soon or or or even Sack Wogers.

Name dropper!

RedValiant · Post by **RedValiant** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 1:39 am

I've got 1gig of ram and a 9800pro with 128mb. Don't know what motherboard is used but it's a 3gig PIV chip.Will look into it and see if new drivers help.
No other game really gives me problems, but F1C was problematic too. That 1st race was the worst ever...coming past the pits my FPS dropped to 8! then up to 20, 30 and resting on 50-60. Still logging out and back in, turning every video setting to low seemed to do the trick for race two. Offline I'm getting 100+ at most tracks.

YeeHarr · Post by **YeeHarr** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 7:57 am

RedValiant wrote: 9800pro with 128mb.

The 128MB could it it. There's at least one option which says you have to have a lot of graphics RAM to get good performance.

This is especially true if you run a higher res (ie 1600x1200).

You could try it at 16bit - that reduces your memory a lot and only really makes a big difference to dust/smoke effects.

BAZZIL · Post by **BAZZIL** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 9:02 am

my card is 128 meg and I run it in 1280 x 1024 , doesn't miss a beat ;D

Viking · Post by **Viking** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 9:05 am

YeeHarr wrote:
RedValiant wrote: 9800pro with 128mb.
The 128MB could be it.

I can get reasonable rates (barely) from a 64mb card (older card than 9800pro), at 800x600 with 4xAA. Doesnt look pretty, but it works, and will do till next upgrade. Turned all settings on full and it ran nice for a private practice, have to turn it down for online. Only get an occational pause, dunno why (CPU I think). Setting draw distance to very far stops the cars textures being loaded in and out of memory, causing stutter. Most, myself included, had it set lower to try helping framerates but it makes things worse. That may be it Red.

Try this link for other tips:
http://www.tmcarthur.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=91

RedValiant · Post by **RedValiant** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 4:43 pm

Thanks for the suggestions, I'll work through all of them and see if I can get the online performance sorted. It's such a good game in every other way that the stuttering is destroying the fun factor for me. I'll have an all new system later in the year, and this one has been up to the task for the last year and a half...its just that troublesome ISI engine I reckon. Yay to the coming RFactor mods and their improved performance.

One thing I am going to do is get rid of that bloody helicopter.

Happy · Post by **Happy** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 5:56 pm

Where's ze points sacks ?

Eagle32 · Post by **Eagle32** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 6:30 pm

Busy doing assignments. Be tomorrow evening at best and then it's entirely dependant on my mood

famin · Post by **famin** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 10:04 am

How about posting the pojnts on the simracerhq site?

Liquid · Post by **Liquid** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 10:38 am

Because we dont have control over the site.

MadMarty13 · Post by **MadMarty13** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 11:17 am

Had trouble changing gears and with auto gearbox disabled by the server I struggled make my laps 10 secs slower than most,fustrating

odonohuesp · Post by **odonohuesp** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 11:28 am

Liquid wrote:Because we dont have control over the site.

I think if someone would ask Ron, he would take care of you. I know the first race points were posted.

RedValiant · Post by **RedValiant** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 2:58 pm

Marty, you should practice with the manual gears - they really are faster. Eventually you can ditch the auto clutch too and save even more time. The car just feels tighter and more reponsive. Every game I get, I try and get the car to feel as close to GPL as possible, and these NGTs, with everything off, are a razor edge ride -

- all the way

Eagle32 · Post by **Eagle32** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 6:55 pm

Points

Liquid · Post by **Liquid** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 9:03 am

Bummer missed a race night and down to 17th from 10th, oh well

famin · Post by **famin** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 10:48 am

whats the next track? Anderstorp?

Snake Rogers · Post by **Snake Rogers** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 10:52 am

i can't believe i'm still in the top ten after missing 2 races

RedValiant · Post by **RedValiant** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 1:01 pm

I think it is Spa. I've missed 3 races and am going to miss the next round. Bummer.