Tonights GTR race

[D_Mike]

I was thinking about this just now...

I said on the other thread that we should run it on Watkins Glen but this doesn't have all cool stuff you get on the GTR tracks - the livetrack that means as we go round rubbers goes down on line and marbles build up off it - I think that over a 1 hour race this would make it more interesting so I think we should run on a GTR original track... Not sure where.

Also it might be cool to have weather on.. what do people think about that.

SO I propose:

8:00pm practice

8:45pm qualy

9:15pm race start

1 hour race. 1 mandatory pit stop.

track: Barcelona or Donington National. ?

Weather + safety cars etc. all on.

sound ok?

[docevi1]

Barcelona for me, I'm bored with Donnington. rest sounds good, altough I wouldn't bother with the safety car as most of us get out of gravel etc quick enough

[bad boy]

how about monza? nothing to do with watching the gt's there on eurosport earlier...
oh and i may not be able to stay for the whole race as i have to work early tomorrow, but should be able to stay for most of it

[D_Mike]

safety car could bunch up field every so often and make the racing more fun though...

[chrisbr68]

Sounds good, Im gona get myself a copy sometime and join you

[docevi1]

is this happening then?

[HarryW]

(Harrys Son)

How about a race at Spa? nice circuit and not forgetting the LMES is racing there in a couple of weeks

Simon

[HarryW]

(Harrys son..... again)

Anything???

[docevi1]

doesn't look like it

I can't host either unfortunately as my connection aint the fastest.

[HarryW]

(harrys son)

I'll give it another 5mins, then i'm going to find another server to race on, and i'll post the details here

[D_Mike]

oops sorry I forgot

I'm hosting now/in 5 minutes... Spa as that's a good idea

ip is 81.178.68.177

Sorry guys i forgot!

[bad boy]

the 10catel (if thats right?) are by far the best servers in my experiance

[docevi1]

thats terrible!

[D_Mike]

4 of us now

COme one bb, AJ, PV and FWD

It'd be cool to have a "packed" race.

We're at Spa by the way as I thought it was a good track to choose

[bad boy]

joining now..

[BrianisHHC]

I finally got the game yesterday, so if I can manage to go steal my wheel back from my dad Ill come race.

Still kinda crap though.

[rebelstar]

Sorry guys, the PC crashed again. It only seems to happen with GTR. I've given it enough chances - it's a great game but it simply isn't stable for me.

[turbosei]

Have a look on the semi-official forum - there was a sticky on screen stutter that really helped improve GTR on my machine.

Basically it involves setting up a hardware profile where you disable all but the essential Windows services - this gives the maximum resources for the game. I was able to go from struggling at 640x480 to full detail at 1024x768 with a good frame rate. With just configuration changes.

[FourWheelDrift]

I just edited this line in my players PLR file, chaning it from "0" to "1"

High Process Priority="1" // Improves FPS on some systems, but may conflict with some background applications

Plus I have nothing else running. I run 1280x1024 at 75hz, normally with all details for hotlapping and AI races but I had to turn things down a bit for last nights online game at Dusk_Spa as the frame rate slowed at a couple of places.

Plus if anyone still gets stuttering or low FPS at Dusk/Dawn/Night Spa there are some low res textures here that might help - www.m4driving.it/download/8117.html

>> Edited by FourWheelDrift on Monday 11th April 12:44

[rebelstar]

No problems with the performance - I'm often running at > 100 fps and never lower than 45. It just decides to lock up for no apparent reason and I have to power off the machine.

The only thing that comes to mind is that the PSU isn't up to the job... that's a hassle to change but I'll look into it.