Spa Fun Race - High capacity server

[AdrianD]

Iain, I was a bit surprised when I found you were sitting in the back, I did'nt think there was enough room in a GT3

Pops, I really think apologies are out of the question It was impossible tonight, no way to avoid incidents IMO

[Iain]

Iain, I was a bit surprised when I found you were sitting in the back, I did'nt think there was enough room in a GT3

through this season i am going to be like the minardi of the group

but no matter, slow and steady slow and steady

i will learn

[Simon Gymer]

If any of you are still around can you quikcly come back to the server to test the new max limit set (24)

[Aagramn]

Server was very solid once the number of drivers dropped down. Looks like it's fine with 24, more than that and it's warp city.

[PaulW]

Yeah Spa was a little too frenzied tonight. It was just like a public at times with pit lane speeding, N-GT cars being shunted/bullied off the track and I even got totalled by a car whilst patiently waiting at the red light to exit

I'm sure we'll all get there but, to me, it certainly felt like some of the people there hadn't taken the trouble to read Dave's post race reports and take on board the advice there for fair driving, not knowing the GTR server is a place of sanctuary from all the madness out there 

[Simon Gymer]

I'm sure Simbin know there is some sort of limit of 24 as they often only run 24 on their own servers, it's no coincidence.

If we can work out how to run 2 on the same box with 24 each that would be fantastic.

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

It looks as if these are going to be twenty car races

So what was the limit before things went pear shaped? 20 or 24?

[picnic]

Pretty sure it's 24 Dave.

[popabawa]

Even when we were up to 28 cars, all looked perfect to me.

I had one warp glitch, that was just after Shark asked us to line up so the pings could be checked, we then filed out to start Q's and the warp happened on the straight after Eau Rouge, There were a LOT of cars in front of me at that point.

Where is the server located we used last night? Could it be a geographical thing? I'm in N. London if that helps.

Also, thanks for orgainising the race guys, great fun despite the problems people were having. I'm sure there's a lot of effort setting up behind the scenes we don't see  

Pops.

[picnic]

Distance should make a difference, but number of hops to the server will. A tracert games.avonrise.co.uk from a command prompt will show you that, I get there in 5 hops, the first being the router here.

I was watching quite a few people from the monitor screen and you seem to get snow when the quality goes down. When we had 28 on there were spells when the snow was quite bad, but I was still seeing the effect to a lesser degree with 15 or 16 earlier in the sessions. Server raw bandwidth is not an issue as we were only using about 1Mbit/sec during the race according to the XP task monitor thing (is that reliable anyone?).

I was having some horrid fps issues last night, that's my PC not the server, that probably doesn't help anyone either. But it did seem that 24 or less and people were pretty happy, as soon as we went over that more and more people moaned.

[picnic]

O - I forgot to say the replays from Spa and Donington are now on the UKGTR site for download. Files are

UKGTR_Spa(fun)_2005_05_24.zip and UKGTR_Donington(fun)_2005_05_24.zip

[Simon Gymer]

The server seemed perfect at 24 on the grid, all pings under 200ms. (It's the unwritten rule  ) During qualifying as soon as 25 went on the pings started to rise although stable at a bit over 300 the warping was starting to arise and as we got 28, 29, 30 they shot through the roof.

There was one major warp moment for me during the race when Paul in his SEAT (13 seconds up the road) suddenly appeared right in front of me and i took evasive action, of course he dissapeared again just as I was about to hit him but still, pants moment.

[Simon Gymer]

Yeah Spa was a little too frenzied tonight. It was just like a public at times with pit lane speeding, N-GT cars being shunted/bullied off the track and I even got totalled by a car whilst patiently waiting at the red light to exit

I'm sure we'll all get there but, to me, it certainly felt like some of the people there hadn't taken the trouble to read Dave's post race reports and take on board the advice there for fair driving, not knowing the GTR server is a place of sanctuary from all the madness out there 

Some of it was due to bad warping when we had lots of players, but I did see some flagrant disobeying of the rules like not adhering to the pit lan speed limiter and there were some VERY agressive GT drives which need to be curtailed.

[popabawa]

Pit lane speeding was rampant last night which was a bit sad to see  :'(

As the last to finish last night I think I was probably overtaken the most, the guys in the GT's I thought were excellent in overtaking, very patient and predictable. I guess that's why they were winning!

Pops

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

I'm sure we'll all get there but, to me, it certainly felt like some of the people there hadn't taken the trouble to read Dave's post race reports and take on board the advice there for fair driving, not knowing the GTR server is a place of sanctuary from all the madness out there 

Some of it was due to bad warping when we had lots of players, but I did see some flagrant disobeying of the rules like not adhering to the pit lan speed limiter and there were some VERY agressive GT drives which need to be curtailed.

Sounds like I need to review the Spa race.

PM incident reports to me please.