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Welcome to round 6 of the Porsche RSR Challenge - This week we head down under for the series finale!
Barbagallo is a short and fast circuit, it's fairly technical but good fun once learnt.

This season is loosely based on our first outing in these cars several years ago, so expect very short qualifying sessions.
The 1st series featured single lap qualifying which was a bit awkward to monitor, so I will be reducing the qualifying sessions to only allow time for 2 flying laps.
So make sure you have space around you and get a good 'banker' in before you go nuts ;)

Password: see above

Practice: 19:30 (53 mins)
Qual: 20:23 (7 mins)
Race: 20:30  (30 mins + 1 lap)


Cars allowed:
1972 Porsche RSR
(Kunos Porsche pack #1 add-on)

Skin pack available here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/vp9qetzvztkfnk0/RSR%20Skinpack.zip?dl=0 (https://www.dropbox.com/s/vp9qetzvztkfnk0/RSR%20Skinpack.zip?dl=0)
Drop it into your assetto corsa folder - It shouldn't over-write anything unless you already have any of the skins included.


Track: Barbagallo
Download link: https://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/barbagallo-raceway.4407/ (https://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/barbagallo-raceway.4407/)

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

Time of Day Setting: 15:30
Weather: Mid 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: 60%

Password: see above

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

Server is still on Thomson.

 :-[
I did all the back ground jobs and then forgot to restart it!

Done now  :)

I am back for this one, had another hectic PCGB round this week so couldn't make Thomson.  :)

Looks like i am around this week and its a well known track so hopeful for a better performance.

Sorry, not going to be able to make it tonight. Have a good one.

mmm yet another game freeze.. :'(  Went black screen with just windows circle turning. Can't get these stupid bugs out. Really annoyed as it was a good race so far. I hope my disco didn't affect others.

Unlucky Stefan, you had good pace too and enjoyed the early battle. Sounds like a heat issue possibly? or psu not powerful enough?

My race was pretty pants with an ill handling car. Sadly I hadn’t found time for any practise so meant my setup was being tweaked on the go. Qualified 5th surprisingly.
By the first few laps of the race I realised my third gear was just one notch too long and it cost me in the quickest corners. It also felt like I had no grip despite softening the suspension down.  ???
After a good early spell v Stefan , I fell backwards and was doomed to a dull race until GT caught me and we had a good scrap until the chequered flag  :)
No idea where I finished as stracker and crew chief went haywire within a few laps  :-\

Yep, I must admit I quite enjoyed racing these 911's.  ;D

No I monitor my temps, nothing beyond 60 degrees C. First blue screens indicated GPU related, so I updated and reinstalled drivers and settings.
Might have something to do with USB usage and the Rift. Will be trying some settings and different USB ports now...

are you on USB 3.0 for the Rift? think it needs it. I bought a little USB 3.0 card that plugs in to one of your pci-e slots. Gives you 4 extra USB slots too. What power is your psu?

Yup, both the head set and the sensors are all in 3.0 USB slots. I do have an 3.1 slot which I might try for the headset as it might be on a different controller perhaps. Will also try one sensor on a 2.0 USB..

Did just found a suggestion about Usb Selective Suspend (low power management for Usb from Windows) in the Oculus Tray tool. Will try that one first.

I have a 550W power supply. The XFX Pro 550 Core Edition. Might be a simple and older model, but shouldn't that be sufficient?
I also didn't had any problems during the first months with this setup..

hmm, i think that may be a little on the low side but no pc-tech expert. isnt it a 600w min recommended psu once you start adding s/wheels etc,  higher end gfx cards, faster cpu and/or Rifts? Might be worth searching on the internet or looking at min psu specs for Rift and or gfx card.

I'll be honest - BSOD in Win10 is nearly always hardware nowadays. Driver and software errors normally get recovered to the desktop.
In fact the only BSOD instances I've had on my Win7 and 10 rigs in the last 6 or 7 years have been hardware.
A dodgy SATA cable for a HDD on the old Win7/10 gaming rig, and a dodgy stick of Ram on my new media PC.
Have you been able to get the fault codes off before the PC shuts down/restarts?

If the PSU is old then it might be struggling to provide the power it once did, but unlikely as that's normally the point when they make a mushroom cloud.
I've seen some silly recommendations for PSU's against some modern GFX cards with VR, although can't say I understand why as the maximum draw I've had from my own pc (Ryzen 7 3700X and 1070GTX) is about 220Watts. That has a 750W supply on it doing bugger all most of the time ;D
For efficiency you normally aim for a supply with twice the rating your system actually draws.
Whack a power meter on it before you blow some cash on a new one, XFX make pretty good PSU's so it should be capable pretty much till it goes bang.

For reference I have my Rift and one sensor on USB3.2 (lowest 3 my pc has, it was a normal 3 on the old MoBo) and one sensor on a USB2. Originaly the Rift ran fine on 3 USB3's, then after a few updates they improved it to the point it couldn't see them as USB3's anymore when they were all plugged in due to their utterly carp software (I WILL be going to a Vive Pro when I have excessive cash, just to get away from Oculus' rubbish drivers).

On a different note, despite Team Italy's attempt to scupper my race ( ;) )... for the 2nd season running I've managed to beat Fabri by 1 solitary point :o

I need to stop inspecting lamp posts and pit lanes and pull my finger out!

I'm not a pc or hardware expert, but I had similar issues recently, and 2 culprit that made my pc restart when I was driving on a Sim, or playing at Ghost Recon:

1) GPU termperatures (after some 20 minutes the temps went to 100° celsius, so the Graphic card will go in protection mode, and the pc will restart). When I did some tests to check my temperatures I used a free software (TechPowerUp GPU-Z). So you can download it and run. Go in the second folder "Sensors", and at the bottom of the page flag the box "Log to file". Than go driving as you usually do, until you have a restart. Open log file (is a .txt) and check the temperature column. If you'll notice that temps go at 99° celsius, that is surely an issue, cause your pc will restart. I had a situation like this, so I had to unmount my graphic card, put one small drop of thermal paste on the processor, and temps went a lot better, never going over 70-75° celsius.

At this point I thought that I had solved the issue, but I was wrong. After I put thermal paste on the GPU, I only prolonged a bit the time before the pc restarted, so temperatures were not the only culprit. I checked the CPU temp with a twin software (CPU-Z), and temps were fine. So, the issue was definitely in my 6 years old PSU (600 W). So, if you haven't temps issues after you'll do some tests with the software I suggested, you have a couple of options:

1) test the PSU with a tester (if you know someone that can do it for you without wasting money and time);

2) Buy a new PSU on Amazon (a modular PSU is much expensive but easier to connect). For the future, a 650W PSU should be ok. Install and connect it, than try again to do a long stint, and see if you have the same issue. If the pc won't restart when you're driving, you have solved the issue. If the pc will have the same issue, PSU it's not the problem, and you can return it to Amazon and have your money back. That's the "italian way" I adopted  ;D

Remember that you owe us from 30$ to 50$ for the italian lessons of yesterday evening. I usually charge 1500 $$$$ a day for real life italian coaching  :angel: :angel: :angel: :angel: :P :P :P ;D ;D ;D ;D

 ;D ;D ;D

I think that with my art lesson after the race we'll break even :P

Whahahahahaha  :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

dont think those results are correct?  I was battling with GT in the final stages of the race and crossed the line ahead. Plus i was only one car behind Stefan when he was 3rd or 4th until he disco'd. Only car i remember overtaking me was a late recovering fmg in the gold car  :-\  But my stracker and crewchief completely lost the plot early in the race, maybe when fmg pitted from ahead or a track bug ???

I can affirm MJ was behind me while I disco'ed and I was running in 4th place.


The first failures where blue screens and indicated Kernel Mode trap BSOD, so I did different diagnostic tests and did a fresh install of the latest GPU driver. Now it seems just to crash in game, so my main suspect is the powering of the Rift/USB's.
I always run Hardware Monitor to keep an eye on temps, those are around 60 and 65 degrees for my CPU/GPU on maximum load.

Checked power draw with the BeQuiet site and it says around 328W max without Rift and DFGT. So add another 50W for that and my PSU should be up for the task. Will see if I can have it tested somewhere though.

Latest system change was enabeling XMP profile for my RAM. Did run some stability tests, but maybe I should set this back to default... altough it improved my fps quite a bit.

Yep can confirm there was something odd going on. Stracker was showing you as a lap down so when I caught you I assumed you'd had an incident somewhere  ??? Good fun though  :)

My old DFGT is getting very notchy so I borrowed my son's wheel for this race which was so much smoother and seemed to give me a lot more control. Maybe time to invest.


Might be a good time to mention that as I've not had a gig since March, I'm currently available for online guitar tuition. My fees are £2000 per one hour session which I consider very reasonable  :D

Lol, I forgot about your masterpiece. That was a real Picazzo   ::) ::) ::) ;D ;D ;D ;D

 :notworthy: I'm still learning see?
Now an Italian play on words also, on top of learning new words and sweary phrases Wednesday night ;D

Did you run wildly off track somewhere Mark? I think missing the S/F line should be impossible on this track.
I'll either trundle through the replay or try and improve on my JSON editing from High Plains (The JSON gives all laptimes, so I should spot a 'double') - maybe even a corrected results screen with the correct number of laps showing this time!  :D

no the only place I ran wide was the uphill chicane but even that was a mild detour when the car did its random 'im going to throw you off here for fun trick'  ;D but no major excursions. It all went haywire a few laps in so assume was either when Stefan quit or you (tim) pitted. I started getting blue flag messages and crewchief announced I was 8th or 9th even though I was still 4th or 5th at the time. :P

edit I did see a purple car go very wide twice (as in off into the boonies) so may be that caused the hiccup.

You couldn't have cut the following corner more without jumping the Fence!  :D

Lap 6 the counter didn't reset as you were so far inside T4 the previous lap that I suspect you missed the sector 1 timing point - I'll have to go through the JSON file and calculate what the laps should be, add one, move the rest down and then re-upload the race - it won't be quick! :hammer:

Quick question so I only have to wade through the results file once:

Looking at total time Mark (Spanner) finished behind Mark (Jonzo) - But was spanner on the leading lap, or 1 lap down?

I think - from his total time Vs Fabri's - that the results are correct there and it should indeed be +1 but would like to be certain.

I kinda remember that Fabri did lap someone unlike me, can't say who tho..

It was a nice race here but a tad alone. I managed to make a bit of gap ahead of Stefan after a few laps, comfortable enough. Then I saw his car parked after T6. Too bad he got that hardware or software problem again.

Later I started to lower the gap with Fabri until I started to be hot (how the hell should I keep using the fan for sim-racing in late october ?!  :o) so that I did several little mistakes, needed a cool down moment, then attack again and closed to him a bit again and eventually tires and myself were quite worn/hot so it was just a matter of not waste my position while Tim was flying back up to me.

Thank you mafia guys to have intimidated him before the start ;D, am preparing the pounds now..  :'(

Note that I can upgrade your ability to navigate through the AC UI for only 300£/h guys ! Usually 500, enjoy now !!  :angel:

I lapped only one car, if I remember well. And this car was not the Mark's car from the livery. I don't know if Mark was somewhere in the grass, but I don't think so.

Edit: with Mark, I meam Mark Johnson.
Because there's another Mark (spanner) here too, and he's probably the one I lapped.

Confusion time. :angel:

I beleive i (Mark) was lapped and MarkJ was in front of me in the standings at the time.

Well - I've modified the file so Mark is in the correct finishing location.
For some reason though he still shows as a lap down despite my having edited both the result section and the double-laptime from his short cut.

I can't see anything wrong with my modified JSON file so have to assume that LM2 is carrying some of the result over from the original import ???

If you hover over the '+1' it even gives the correct total time. I can ask Dave to look if wanted - but nothing more I can do here and at the least the positions are now correct.

*Edit, checking the High Plains results and that's exactly what it did to Frex too. I wonder if LM2 isn't deleting the timings/lap status along with the driver order? It clearly doesn't care about individual laptimes as Frex's dodgy lap wasn't fixed, but Mark's was - and same results table shenanigans for both...

Found the bug! I've going to have to make a fairly heavy duty excel sheet if this starts happening frequently, this is an absolute sod to wade through manually.

As that's taken me most of the morning it only seems fair that as a forfeit Mark can loose all points for the season ;)

I think that's right now Tim, as thought I was 4th or 5th the whole race (after stefans exit) with GT following close behind me after we had swapped places a couple of times. Thanks for sorting.  :)

Just a word to say thank you Tim for organising this series ! :clap:

It was a great one, with lovely Kunos Porkas and intersting tracks. I'm all for stock Kunos cars series, even if it has to be Cups.  ;)
Though we definitely need more attendance ! 20 drivers minimum would be sooooo better !  :angel:

No race this wednesday ?  ???

I dont know. This Wednesday I'm supposed to be busy with a Spitfire to defend the Great Britain (there is also Barone), so I don't think I'm racing in any case  :angel:

I told you, get this MkXIV from Great Battles series mate !  ;)
I still didn't re-plug my joystick here.. Need to get familiarised and acclimated to VR yet.

https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=22131.0

Ty, I saw that later, however not my hit.  ;D

I'd recommend trying them at least - they are much better than I expected them.
The Ferrari is utterly fantastic to throw around, at at least was - I haven't tried it since I added a little in the way of restrictors.

I just can't. I've signed up for the air mission this week already. Unfortunately they are also on Wednesdays, Barone has already been participating for a month.

For some reason, players like Wednesdays.  ???

I'm skipping this race, but I'll try to be there for the next ones.
However, I don't have the pack with the 488.  ;D

Haha it's true Fab, why is mid-week that much coveted by everyone ?


I might have a look but as long as the car is driven with buttons, I'm not willing to like it..

Pick the Pagani then - your virtual driver may use the flappy paddles, but in real life there's a sequential stick too so use yours ;)