SimRacing.org.uk

Password: see above (#post_event_password) (released 24hrs before the race)

Round 7 - Spa Francorchamps

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April 4th - Password entry (on day of race)

Practise: 19:30 (45 mins)
Qual: 20:15 (15 mins)
Race: 20:30   40 minutes

Cars allowed:
Porsche 962 Short Tail

SKINPACK (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=14771.0). Top of driver's list on the opening post.

Track:  Spa Francorchamps


Live Timing: stracker.simracing.org.uk:50041/lapstat (http://stracker.simracing.org.uk:50041/lapstat)

Time of Day Setting: 14:00
Weather: Clear
Start: Standing
Tyre wear: Normal
Fuel consumption: Normal
Pit-stops: Not required

Server track settings:
SESSION_START=100
RANDOMNESS=0
LAP_GAIN=0
SESSION_TRANSFER=N/a

Damage: 70%

Password: see above (#post_event_password)

PLP App - Not used in this series. Cutting will be monitored on replay and penalties issued for excessive cutting.

Notes:
(1) Please make sure you are fully aware of the UKGTR Rules (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3349.0)
(2) Driver lists can be found on the championship standings page


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This should be an awesome combo  8)  sadly I'm away all over Easter whilst you lot no doubt do a gazillion laps of practise  :'( I would love to have had the time to pump some laps in for this.

Bit unfortunate (or fortunate!) we also have the gt3 race at Spa next weekend too  :o  though not sure you can suffer an overdose of Spa  :punk:

I tried to enter on server, it say PROBLEMS DURING CHECKSUM. I did the integrity check, but I didn't solving nothing. Also tried to enter in others servers in Spa, no troubles.
Any help?

I confirm. Very first time i see this kind of server message  ??? . All we needs is Pete's magic  :)

Strange, I was just able to join normally.

BTW The problem is still exist.

Pete, are you with us? Did you done Update Server Content ?  IMHO server containing an absolete ver of SPA.
No peoples was here in 1.16.3. as i see in stracker info. Very last pilot was connected in january 2017.  ;)
It was holidays drunk session when Maikel Kurvers won due was sober  :D

Are you sure?  :o

Yes, as I set a laptime:

http://stracker.simracing.org.uk:50041/lapstat?track=spa&cars=ks_porsche_962c_shorttail&valid=1,2&date_from=2018-03-01&date_to=2018-03-31

 :P

Ok. Porco and i am might make a request  to The Hague Court of Human Rights , any pilots  with us?  ;D
I'll can have a practise only in 2 these days only and if i ca't connect to server it will be impossible to race. Admins, please , double check server and entry list please  :)
I am ( like Porco) can connect to other SPA servers normaly .

Again still problems with checksum.

Darn it - I'm not able to get on a computer with AC installed on it until late tomorrow evening so I can't get the game updated and the files uploaded to the server until then :( Sorry to say this but I suspect you'll have to practice offline until then.

Ok, no problem, Pete  :)

Back home now, strangely I can join the server so I'm doing an integrity check to hopefully force the update it's not giving me

So my install checked out OK as well  ??? So who else can or can't get on? Jeff are you still able?

 :yes:

I am still can't connect to server ( same message as above) . Trying to connect to others SPA servers- in Germany and United Kindom- all is OK here  ??? Very strange things happens. Pete do you have Server DB data files updated in \\ server\content  on server side?
From the end of 2017 we must have 2 updated files here ( surfaces.ini and drs_zones. ini) Plus one file models.ini too. This is the actual Kunos anticheat futures.
The score is 3-2 ( peoples connected\ not connected) . Need more people for statistic...
PS This moment the server statistic link is not working. 

I have some sort of a checksum error too.

I have the same files on the server as in my local game, of course this is why I can connect. Have you got Dropbox (or similar) where you can share your files? Gimme your whole server folder sub-tree if you like so I can check all server files for differences.

2 archives named in sub-tree path. 3 files.
But please, try to do proper way : go steam AC game hash check and than press button UpdateServerContent in acServerManager.exe utility in your server.exe location. And REBOOT the server. It must help, imo.  :)
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/qu3elvczmujqda4/AAD5gTRPA33M83je2y9maufsa?dl=0  

Thanks for those but as I suspected they are the same as the files on my server, done a proper compare between them.

Car doesn't seem to have been updated (well the data.acd) since May last year.

Bit confused, we do have the osrw bigger pit box version on the server. We don't need it for this race so I'll remove that and restart. You'll know when I've restarted it as the live stats will be back too.

I tried at 11.00 am BST, and all working OK for me.

Now is all fixed. Thanks Pete.  :)

Glad to hear you're up and running - wonder why the osrw stuff was causing a problem.

Currently work to me too, thanks for the support!

I'll miss that race tonight as I have to work late  :-\

Enjoy your race!

Can't decide if I have a massive advantage or a massive disadvantage tonight - I've just got back from successfully passing the Nissan off as a Triumph at the TR register trackday at Combe ;D

Massive turbo lag and a nearly locked rear axle - check
A track so wet it looked like a river - check

I'll either be in the zone or asleep come race time :D

If I can pass the field the way the 180 did with the TR's I'll be laughing - sadly we're all in the same cars tonight :P

And that was gearbox nr 2    :'(

I forgot I had the car in gear so around the 20 second mark before the race I started hearing this grinding and screeching noise from the car. So I started the race with a dark yellow gearbox staring at me everytime I shifted. Had a few nice chases/fights but the gearbox just got worse and worse no matter how careful I shifted. So around halfway coming out of La Source I shifted in 3rd and that was that. Guess my porka has an Honda engine in it or something  ;D

Gutted  :'( running 6th with about 15 mins to go and enjoying a great race with Alexey and my bloody connection drops for 2nd week running  :taz: so annoyed as I was really enjoying that  :(

Thanks to Matteo for providing some setup help I was able to run much better than I hoped with so little practise after being away until last night. I was actually 4th in qually with less than half a lap to go  :o but dropped to 8th by end  ::)

Shame my race was ruined again by the disco, darn it.

Great race guys! Was really hard for me, but at least good 5th for me
Sorry for the touch maikel, I miscalculate the breaking point, my mistake

That was intense, as Felix said.

After a great qualif lap I hoped to be able to escape by the pack in the frist lap, but my first Eau Rouge attempt went not so good and Felix could exploit the slipstream and pull the braking at the end of Kemmel straight, taking the lead of the race.
I got a bit nervous during the first laps cause I was too impatient to try an overtake making slight but constant mistakes on my braking point. In that way, even if I was slightly faster on the single lap, I gave some 3 seconds of advantage to Felix in the first half of the race, a bit too much.
Only after mid race I started to make again my pace, gaining slightly on Felix lap after lap, and with two laps to go his advantage was again under the second. Unfortunately for me, I wasn't able to try an attack and Felix crossed the line with a gap 0.8 seconds, taking a deserved victory. Well done mate  ;)

Hope to see you for the next :)

Yes, it was good battle with Mark J. Very good overtake in 1st lap, Mark! I was good surprised. :thumbup1: Then i make 2-3 small slide mistakes, lost 2 pos else. Then return these. And begun to catch MarkJ . Too many small slide mistakes , but i was right behind Mark but he was disco . So sorry... Then tryed to approach to Porco, but race was finished. I am in 6 pos. Good result for me.
Porco, why you was reachable for me in the end? Car damage?
Congrats podium and Felix. Increadible skill and lap times!
Thanks to Larry - he was very good in passing laped cars  :)   

I did two mistake at Stavelot, bit external, after the third mistake the server give me a drive through.
After this I managed my gap, but I didn't know that you was so near, so I kept the throttle up too much!

As I type this I am watching the 962 racing at the 1987 Le Mans 24H on motorsport.tv.  What a car.

Uneventful race for me, but resulted in a 7th place, so happy with that.  Slipped past Alexey when he made a mistake at Rivage on lap 1.  Sat a safe distance behind Mark J who slowly pulled away.  Then Alexey caught me up and as he was clearly faster I didn't risk tangling with him and he soon got past.  With the rubbish set up I had, with cold tyres throughout the race (I really have no idea on setups) there was no way I could keep pace with Mark J and Alexey.  So I settled down to hot lapping on my own and keeping it on the tarmac.  

Congrats to everyone who finished in front of me.

P.S.  Don't forget the Jim Clark 50th Anniversary race next Tuesday  https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=14875.0 (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=14875.0)

That made the disco extra annoying for me as I could see we were closing in on Porco rapidly and a 5th place finish was on the cards or at least a 3 car battle for it,  in one of my fave car/track combos (from a real world point of view). I don’t know why my isp has started dropping my connection since last week  :'( could be software related but I haven’t changed anything.

I think it’s my isp playing up but can anyone recommend a good background task closing app for win10?

There are some decent looking ones here but not sure if they are win10 compatible.

https://www.raymond.cc/blog/safely-close-all-running-programs-in-windows-with-ability-to-restart-the-closed-programs/

Mark, did  yours message was "server not available" ? And when you quit o lobby it was possible to rejoin to session? If so , imho, you call isp and if he will say to you that no resetr connection was, you must to know that is yours lockal problem. Remember- i have the same problems earlier. And it was not isp disco. I remember i clear the system and begun to shut down unnessesary application windows using control panel. Aaaand.. problem was gone!     

))) you answered when i writing a post ))) So.. call ISP about disconnect.
I dont  remember for now how i fixed this issue.. But now i am using windows task manager, and closed Abobe arcobat update serveses, Dropbox servises, updates, disable av first. The main thing was i 've found a error message in windows event viewer and found that diskonnect was with same time when one internal win process was caused a crash! It was really help me in sovling problem. !
So, check windows event logs using event viewer. This kind of app errors will be in log. Sorry i dont have a eng links for here.

Thanks Alexey, yes I did get server unavailable two nights in a row and twice last night. Each time I was able to just rejoin so something is dumping me out or losing the connection. No fault lights on router.
I had shut a few apps before last nights race but didn’t help. Bet it’s something from avast or such like working in background.

That was an epic battle to the end - gutted I messed up Eau Rouge somehow just after passing Fabri.
I'd only been trying to get in front for 35 minutes ;D

The loss of front downforce made passing here very difficult - if I got a run at the bottom of the hill and got close the car would just wash out off of the track and onto the run-off tarmac. Instantly loosing any gain I had made! Same for entering Eau Rouge too close to the car in front, very messy.
I demand a re-run (just because I want to do it again ;) )

When I see yellow things close to me, I have nightmares. Almost at every race I have to fight against you, FMG. Epic!

In the final part of the race some lapped guys (specially my teammate Nuvolari) made a bit of a mess, and I had to start defending myself at each corner.