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Season 28 - 69X Fun Race - Spa67


The open 69X FUN RACE will be at the new challenging SPA67 in Belgium.


The race will be run under INT rules and you have free car choice  ;D
You can do 2x shift+r but each has to be followed by a stop and go in the pits!

We will use the 60fpsV1 (ftp://ukgpl3.dyndns.org/Replays/Archive/Season27/60fps/).
The lightest track version + lite pack should be used with weaker PCs

Race List	=	IGOR
Server	=	UKGPL_8
IP Address	=	look at IGOR
Race date	=	13-09-2015
Qualification Time	=	~20:45  UK time -> 45min
Race Time	=	race starts at 21:30 UK time
Track	=	Spa67 (http://spa67.gplworld.de/)
Variant	=	67
60fps patch used	=	60fpsV1
Damage Model	=	INT
Race length	=	12 laps
Replay	=	you will get here (ftp://ukgpl3.dyndns.org/Replays/Archive/Season28/Funraces/)

Please restrict chat to emergency messages only, including at the end of the race until ALL drivers still racing have crossed the line.

Have FUN!

Can´t get it going. Driving alone even with 60fps everything is good. As soon as I try a race with the AI(for sure with 36fps, otherwise they don´t appear) I get a freeze around Stavelot. Have tryed several graphic-tweaks, no chance. Had to change my Mainboard recently. Now I got a Gigabyte and a AMD CPU with 4x3,6 Ghz and a 650 TI NVidia Card. I have the feeling that the Mainboard/CPU do not reconized that full Power is needed for that Application and cruise around in a better Idle-Mode. Another thing is: The 67 Original and another Mod runs without Problems.  ???

Andreas set the power savings mode in Windows to "Höchstleistung" as long as you do GPL.

Wich CPU do you have?
How much RAM?
69X is very RAM hungry, set in core.ini:

[ Replay ]
replayMemoryOverride = 256000

Try the other v2 rasterizer. I was recently racing offline at Le Mans. With the D3Dv2 rasterizer, I couldn't complete a single lap without a screen freeze. It was such a bad screen freeze that I had to cut power to the PC. After the 2nd or 3rd time that happened, I found if I waited a minute or two the Task Manager would appear. Then I'd have to wait another minute or two for T Manager to shut down GPL. I switched to OGLv2 and I was able to qualify and run INT short races in all the GTs except the 910. In the 910 I got another screen freeze on the last lap of the race. :(

I've learned that bsarthe has bugs since I started racing online. It's strange though, that with my previous computer I may have run 20 or more, 28 lap races offline at bsarthe and never had a problem. I didn't know what a screen freeze was until I started racing online. I always used OGLv2 with a Nvidia 9500GT or GT220 video card on my previous computer.

I need to switch to OGLv2 with my present computer. I've continued to use D3Dv2 because I haven't been able to change the font size in pribluda with OGLv2. In OGLv2 pribluda hides the chat messages because of the larger font. One of these days I need to sit down and rearrange all the pribluda displays so I can see them and see chat too. Axel has always recommended that I use OGLv2 with my present video card, a Radeon HD7850. OGLv2 seems to give a better frame rate with my present card.

I doubt this info will help you Andreas but I thought Axel might find it interesting with the recent discussions about discos/screen freezes. Axel, from the specs Andreas mentioned I'd guess he's using a FX-4100? I've been looking for a bargain on a used FX-4100 so the the specs 4X3.6 Ghz are imprinted in my brain now.

@ Greg
AMD Athlon X4 750K ;) an FX 4100 would be better...

My Connection in my other residence town seems still to liek UKGPL. No Connection Problems.

Great Race thx to Axels Setup. But no chance to catch up with Axel and Greg. I had three mistakes and to use both s/r.

But even with tow i didn't get nearer to the leaders.

It was fun, thx and cya next time !