Defeat snatched from the jaws of victory !!!!!
It was a really enjoyable race despite the 2 offs and NP guys they were racing incidents.
I tried the server for the 67 race but the sound was again just unbearable despite restarting GPL between the races, so I quit and went looking for an answer............still have not found one!!!!!
Sorry about the touch into Lesmo 1 Clive. I was trying to hold it tight on the inside but I must've slid wide
Luckily someone else dealt with you at the end
Your sound problems are puzzling - but I always had audio issues with XP & GPL - it took a lot of messing around with different audio drivers to get it stable. One solution that I'm pretty certain would work is updating to Windows 7. I went for Win 7 64-bit & it got rid of all those silly little niggles - including the occasional total graphics blackout I used to get during a race :'( (not power save but some kind of graphics malfunction - audio used to carry on grrr)
Hmmm, your comments are interesting Al. I am indeed running XP and for years I had no problems whatsoever, but these sound issues seem to have slowly, but steadily, got worse. Maybe 6 months ago I would get an occasional race when the engine sound seemed to go into a loop that rose and fell in pitch although still sort of linked to the rev counter. During that time I did nothing to change sound drivers or change anything sound related, which led me to believe that is was a corruption of the .wav files. I replaced all my sound files at the same time as I installed the new sound card and thought that I had cracked the problem....it appears not!
Lately the distortion has got so bad that the actual engine sound is indiscernible amongst the noise. It almost seems that each sound that is used by GPL like skid, gearchange, bump against crash barrier etc, is not just played once but once used it continues to loop around on top of all the other sounds just adding to the general noise level until everything becomes unbearable.
The random blackouts have also started over the last 2 months and interestingly the sound also carries on as you experienced. Maybe Santa can be persuaded to deliver Windows 7/ 64 bit next week