MY sympathy to Geoffers and his probable Win10 update glitches. Over in GPL, I have experienced updates that totally screwed my install and I have had to start again from scratch, losing all my setups in the process!! Now I have an external hard drive where all my important simracing folders are stored and updated every week. Worryingly there is a Win10 update lurking on my PC that I have postponed since early January and it keeps offering to do it's thing.............I am not letting that happen until I am 200% sure that I have ALL files and folders backed up, with a successful trial retrieval under my belt. I hope you get your PC woes sorted Geoffers it is disconcerting finding you slumming it with mere mortals in the midfield
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I think maybe I was seduced by the easy option for both races, and my liking for big American V8s. So it had to be the Falcon.
I have watched these cars at the Goodwood Revival several times in years past and they are hugely entertaining.
For a while I thought that I was going to be in a lone Falcon for Race 1, the Erling joined the battle and things were very close on the front of the grid. My biggest problem in qually was the immense speed difference between the Falcon and the rest and finding a clear lap where I could exploit all that power. I suspect that Erling had similar issues. I am not complaining at all about the driving of the other cars. As far as I am concerned, if you are on a qualifying lap in a slower car and you are giving 101%, you are entitled to hold your line and complete the lap. Only out laps and spoiled laps require drivers to clear a path.
Race 1 was all about small errors between Erlingand myself. I did fluff a couple of gearchanges which resulted in some buttock clenching moments on the grass in a large piece of Yankee iron, travelling very sideways and tearing up the Goodwood lawns. The mistake score ended in my favour by a single digit and I was fortunate to take the win.
Race 2
Falcon again because I was feeling comfortable with the gearshifts and where they needed to be done ( very important when you are inept with an H shift!!) Although I squeaked pole by the narrowest of margins, Erling was too quick off the line and I was back in 2nd spot before Madgewick.........not part of my script!!
The rest of the race was a re-run of Race 1, but this time my error score was higher than Erlings.
There were a lot of Jag 3.8MKII s in last nights races and some of you might have picked up that I am having an issue with this car. Basically, GTL refuses to let me select it
I have all of the files for the Jag in my Gamedata/Teams/TC-64 directory. #'s 7,9,32,39,71,81 & 87. Tony was kind enough to send me a copy of his own Jaguar 3.8 MK II folder which obviously works on his PC, and I have overwritten my install, just in case mine was corrupted.
On the server I can see all of you guys in your shiny Jags on track.
I can switch CARS and view the internals of your Jag as you drive around.
All of the above suggests that GTL can see and read those files to create the Jag graphics on the track?
However, when I go to My Garage, and select the Jaguar 3.8 MK II car set, I get 7 greyed out icons each with a padlock and no small pics of the various skins. The main pic has defaulted to the Cobra ( which to me suggests that GTL is NOT reading the graphics files?), and I cannot SELECT or BUY.
Weirdly, if I click on the SHOWROOM button, I get a nice rotating picture of the respective Jag in any of it's optional skins. I have clicked on all 7 greyed out icons and all come up with the correct number and colour scheme.
I have reviewed the Snetterton race where AFAIK I was using one of these Jags, but I now think that I must have selected one of the 2 available GTL standard Jaguar MK IIs?
I was relieved that my probs with the Jag did not interfere with anyone else's racing and if there had been any suspicion of an issue I would have quit the race. But at some point I will have to use the Jaguar, so I would appreciate any suggestions as to how I can get me a Jag ( Tony is suffering from a nasty headache ATM
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