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Title: UKGTL Season 10 Great German Touring Challenge - Sachsenring 1967 - Aug 16
Post by: Wiltshire Tony on May 03, 2010, 04:58:19 PM +0100
In case you have been away from GTL, there have been GTL lobby problems. But.... it's all fixed now!

This is what you do to connect to the server:

1) Download & run this HOSTS HACK (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3358.msg54518#post_hostshack)
2) Start GTL & select to the lobby
3) Register a new lobby account (I suggest the same name but with a blank email & password)
4) Log in with your new account & you should see a list of servers

:euro:

If this fix has not worked for you, then please check out this thread for more info/questions: https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=6869.msg119486#msg119486

But most importantly, do not suffer in silence (also, don't leave it till the Monday night ;)).
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All members welcome.

Grid/server capacity: 28

Practice: ~19:20 (60 mins)
Qualifying: 20:20 (20 mins)
Race: 20:40 (22 laps = ~60mins)

Track: Sachsenring 1967 Download this (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3358.msg109873#post_sachsenring67)
Cars allowed: BMW 320i Download this (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3358.msg54518#post_bmw320ie21g5), BMW CSL, Ford Capri RS 3100, Ford Escort RS 2000, Porsche 911 RSR, Porsche 914-6. This race will be run using the UKGTL Skin Pack 1.8.0.0 (http://www.humyo.com/9240347/SimRacing.org.uk/UKGTL/Cars/SRou_UKGTL_Skins_1.8.0.0.exe) and the Season 10 Skin Pack (http://www.humyo.com/9240347/SimRacing.org.uk/UKGTL/Cars/SRou_GTL_UKGTL10GGT_1.10.0.0.exe)which will need to be installed prior to racing.

Time of Day Setting: 14:00
Start: STANDING
Tyre wear: 2x
Fuel consumption: 2x

Server: UKGTL GGTC
Password: see above (#post_event_password)

Notes:
(1) It's best if all drivers can make sure they are connected before the Qualifying session as drivers on track during qualifying will not see cars that join after they are on track until they go back to the garage.
(2) Please make sure you are fully aware of the SimRacing.org.uk Rules.
(3) Driver lists can be found on the championship standings page (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=LM2R;group=257;theme=5)
(4) The AI control should be turned off so that you have control of the car at all times, including pitting. Your player file should therefore read
Autopit="0"
Force Autopit Off="1" // Forces autopit always off
No AI Control="1" // AI never has control over car


If you still finding pitting problematic, experience tells us that its less to do with positioning and more to do with approach speed. A slow approach to pit crew chief has proved most reliable.

Special Notes: None


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 10 Great German Touring Challenge - Sachsenring 1967 - Aug 16
Post by: Wiltshire Tony on June 07, 2010, 10:45:33 PM +0100
If you intend to race please download both skinpacks and install the BMW 320i even if you don't intend to drive it.


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 10 Great German Touring Challenge - Sachsenring 1967 - Aug 16
Post by: BillThomas on August 10, 2010, 12:01:28 PM +0100
Nice choice Tony  8),  touch of deja vue here.  ::)  It's my type of track, real roads, villiages, lamposts  the lot.   :jumpjoy: More More.  :rockon: :thumbup2:

Bill


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 10 Great German Touring Challenge - Sachsenring 1967 - Aug 16
Post by: Wiltshire Tony on August 10, 2010, 12:10:23 PM +0100
Yeah, drove it last night as an antidote to Phillip Island and it was a joy


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 10 Great German Touring Challenge - Sachsenring 1967 - Aug 16
Post by: BillThomas on August 10, 2010, 07:26:05 PM +0100
Yeah, drove it last night as an antidote to Phillip Island and it was a joy

Snap!  8)

Bill


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 10 Great German Touring Challenge - Sachsenring 1967 - Aug 16
Post by: phspok on August 15, 2010, 10:21:22 PM +0100
Umm. I now have GTL running under Win7 thanks to some suggestions from Spanner. I didn't seem to have done anything I had
not done before, but now it works, so is good. I ran the hosts_hack 1.3 and registered a new name, can now log in to lobby
but when I try to join a game it says " game not available. host may be running an updated or modifed version" or similar
This happens for any game i try to join. My game says 1.1 in the loading screen.


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 10 Great German Touring Challenge - Sachsenring 1967 - Aug 16
Post by: Ade on August 15, 2010, 10:55:36 PM +0100
Did you set the game up for pro/simulation when you setup your driver name??


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 10 Great German Touring Challenge - Sachsenring 1967 - Aug 16
Post by: phspok on August 16, 2010, 01:37:07 AM +0100
It's a modified copy of the install I've been using for years. If I go into an off line practice, it defaults to pro
The player name is not new. the lobby registered name is new. Must be something like that though, I copied my
original player dir back, but it wouldn;t let me in with the old lobby name.


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 10 Great German Touring Challenge - Sachsenring 1967 - Aug 16
Post by: Navin R Johnson on August 16, 2010, 03:33:47 AM +0100
Wish I could help you out Matt but I'm not much with computers and still using XP, but Henry seems to be a wizard at tracking down problems with WIN7 so you might want to PM him or post at GTLDK and see if he has any ideas ;) Cheers and see ya tomorrow :)


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 10 Great German Touring Challenge - Sachsenring 1967 - Aug 16
Post by: pribeiro on August 16, 2010, 08:32:29 AM +0100
Another race I will miss.  :'(

Sachsenring with the CSL................ :'(  :'(  :'(  :'(


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 10 Great German Touring Challenge - Sachsenring 1967 - Aug 16
Post by: Wiltshire Tony on August 16, 2010, 08:44:12 AM +0100
Don't worry Paulo. I'll be driving the CSL  :D


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 10 Great German Touring Challenge - Sachsenring 1967 - Aug 16
Post by: Hotkeys on August 16, 2010, 08:47:15 AM +0100
Hi guys !

I'm gonna have a go at GTL when I get back from my holliday. Is it correct, that this car/track combo ( awesome track btw ) is repeated on september the 6 th ?

Yesterday I tried the BMW 320 and did a 2.51 lap. What is a fast lap here ?


Stig / Hotkeys


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 10 Great German Touring Challenge - Sachsenring 1967 - Aug 16
Post by: Wiltshire Tony on August 16, 2010, 12:34:35 PM +0100
Hi Stig

I'd say that your time was quite competitive, that is until you see the times our chums at GTLDK start punching in, but they are  :alien:'s

Re: 6th September. Same place, totally different circuit. This one is a purpose built race track, used mainly these days for MotoGP etc. It seems that the old road circuit was dropped due to the number of villagers getting wiped out by racing cars. Also when Germany became unified they decided in would be nice to have a proper race track. Apparently this is the birth place of the Travant?

Anyway all is not lost as we do indeed return to frighten the towns folk later in September (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=7847.msg139150#msg139150)



Title: Re: UKGTL Season 10 Great German Touring Challenge - Sachsenring 1967 - Aug 16
Post by: phspok on August 16, 2010, 03:19:27 PM +0100
Right. I have a working install. Problem was gdb file names somehow, SOmeone had put together a little script
to rename files each time you run the game, dunno why it has to rename them each time, but it is now working
Copied the replacement sound files to fix the little misses in between sample switches (hi low ect)
I have gone with a fresh install, i have run the skins 1.8 and the ggttc10, I can join the server fine.
One thing, maybe it's the order in which you run the skin.exes but my Psuedo car 5w2 Capri is now car number 1
and all red and fancy... wotzthatallabouthen?
 


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 10 Great German Touring Challenge - Sachsenring 1967 - Aug 16
Post by: Wiltshire Tony on August 16, 2010, 03:33:09 PM +0100
I've no idea  ??? Could it be a car res issue? Are you running in 32bit colour? Check stuff like that

But great that your back in business Matt.  :punk:


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 10 Great German Touring Challenge - Sachsenring 1967 - Aug 16
Post by: phspok on August 16, 2010, 03:36:46 PM +0100
It's not just a different colours, it's different adverts and everything, and it's not car 52 anymore.
I'll jump on line early to test that there are no mismatches. I might try running the 1.8 after the 10


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 10 Great German Touring Challenge - Sachsenring 1967 - Aug 16
Post by: Phil Gilliland on August 16, 2010, 05:20:24 PM +0100
Just checked the Psuedo 52 Capri online Matt (I'm taking it tonight too) and it's all looking correct. Are you sure you haven't been
sleep-painting again?


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 10 Great German Touring Challenge - Sachsenring 1967 - Aug 16
Post by: phspok on August 16, 2010, 05:30:31 PM +0100
no sire, not this time. It's car 1, and red and white.
I will run the 1.8 again in case the 10 has mucked stuff up

I get the number 1 capri whatever car I load, unless I try to load a mustang, then i get a 917k.
Is same off line, I see the correct car with correct livery in the loading window, then when i go to game
i get the 1 capri... even if I select a CSL..
Given up tonight,I will run original system.


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 10 Great German Touring Challenge - Sachsenring 1967 - Aug 16
Post by: Ade on August 16, 2010, 09:52:17 PM +0100
Gutted :(  graphics car went mad  ??? had walls on the track, race suit buildings and yellow brick roads :o thought i could make it for the last laps :( wasn't to be.

                                               
                                                              I hate Nvidia


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 10 Great German Touring Challenge - Sachsenring 1967 - Aug 16
Post by: Wiltshire Tony on August 16, 2010, 10:14:17 PM +0100
Replay and results now posted


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 10 Great German Touring Challenge - Sachsenring 1967 - Aug 16
Post by: phspok on August 16, 2010, 10:19:06 PM +0100
Poor race for me, too much time mucking around with computers, not enough pracccy time.
Sorry to all behind when I hit 2nd gear on the grid by mistake. then it steadily went worse. fell off, then fell off lots
more rushing to catch up, hit return in pits and got 130 sec stop 58 of which was replacing the suspension, kept going
but apart from people having problems was too far back to race anyone properly. I'm sure this has happened before
but after selecting everything, and not canceling the damage, they didn;t change my rears, and was all over the road
straight away after stop, perhaps I cancelled rears instead of repairs....
Grats to Pody, and Team mate Phil for a well earned 3rd  :)
Tough on Ade. I was running NVidia 8800GT tonight and kept blowing in it's general direction.


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 10 Great German Touring Challenge - Sachsenring 1967 - Aug 16
Post by: Wiltshire Tony on August 16, 2010, 10:29:59 PM +0100
Just glad to have you back with us Matt. Now you have time to sort out all those gremlins.


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 10 Great German Touring Challenge - Sachsenring 1967 - Aug 16
Post by: phspok on August 16, 2010, 10:53:38 PM +0100
I'm working in Glasgow next week so will miss races. I am getting bored with battling with these WIN7 fixes
all of which seem to have some side effects - sound probs/wrong cars/file names/blank screen I will probably have
another go at it, but I've followed people's guides to the letter, and still have an unuseable system.
I built the new system more for work than games, but it's a good deal faster and the frame rate is noticeably better
so would like to use it.


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 10 Great German Touring Challenge - Sachsenring 1967 - Aug 16
Post by: Pelle_B on August 16, 2010, 11:45:02 PM +0100
Damn phspok, I have not noticed you had trouble in Win7, the GTL I use is free of StarForce. Install GTL & copy your Profile from the previous installation & everything works in under 10 minutes  :D
Maybe you should start over on a fresh install with this version of GTL.


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 10 Great German Touring Challenge - Sachsenring 1967 - Aug 16
Post by: Navin R Johnson on August 17, 2010, 03:09:20 AM +0100
First off I have to give a congrats to GTLDK guys for a great qualy.. Niceeee. Once again I was the darling of fortune. I have had some of the craziest good luck this year. Before the race I made a small gear change using a slightly shorter 5th gear. I didn't think that it would put me into fuel problems as I had done easily 11 laps the night before with the slightly taller 5th gear. Pelle was fast fast and got by me on lap 2 or 3 and was starting to pull away. Till I came around the last corner only to see him spinning out right before the finish line :( Ade was still in striking distance at that point and all I can say is that mean Black Capri really kept me on my toes. It's a scary thing!! :o Whether it was the race pace being faster than my practice and or the gear change I realized I probably wouldn't make it 11 laps and I truly hate rolling the dice only to run out of fuel so I figured I could still get a good finish with 2 stops. I didn't change tires so I hoped that might get me up in the finishing order too. After pitting on lap 10 I came out in 3rd so I had high hopes for a podium at that point and drove as hard as I could to get a big enough gap for a podium. Had an uneventful second stint and was lucky enough to have Henry do a second stop and Ade have his graphics issue right before he caught me exiting the pits. Ade you were really on it and truly deserve the win. Perfect strategy and very fast race pace usually gets the win..unless the dam graphics card decides to go wacky... :(  A big congrats to Henry and Phil for their solid podium spots. Good job to all else that managed to finish that very unforgiving place ;) Cheers


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 10 Great German Touring Challenge - Sachsenring 1967 - Aug 16
Post by: goldtop on August 17, 2010, 08:36:09 AM +0100
Cracker of a race last night. Hadn't done much practice before and fully expected an early exit.

Always find the 320 difficult off the line and again I was mugged as Matt and Phil pulled away in their Team Pseudo Capris. Matt ran wide and Sqter missed his braking point into the s/f straight and I was left in 6th behind Phil.

We had a terrific battle almost up to the pitstop. The Capri was very quck down the "straights" but I was able to pick up a little tow to keep in contention and close up in the tight section. This also seemed to help with my borderline fuel cosumption. We swapped places a couple of times until I selected the wrong gear coming out of the tight hairpin and I spun round and stalled. By the time I got going Phil was 15 secs down the road which was how it stayed until the end.

Congrats to Navin, Henry and Phil on their podies and hard luck to Pelle and Ade.


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 10 Great German Touring Challenge - Sachsenring 1967 - Aug 16
Post by: Pelle_B on August 17, 2010, 09:37:25 PM +0100
Fantastic GTLDK...again 1-2 in UKGTL - Big Grats NRJ - Henry & Phil

A very close battle for pole, 4/10 after NRJ...& Argh, Henry pushing me down on the third starting place, BMW in front  ;)
...but what scared me most...I did not know about 9 laps fuel was enough for 11 laps  ???
Race:
Coming past Henry on the start, but come again & I let Henry go first in T3 & choose to relax behind the two BMW's & save fuel. Unfortunately discovers Ade situation & passes, down at number 4  >:( Henry gives really good place a few turns later 'Thx', struggle with Ade can begin  :laugh: After I passed Ade is next NRJ...wild race over several laps & NRJ must give up...or save fuel ? At this point I really felt I had a winning car & race in my pocket, setup was perfect, it was funny, I can throw the car around every corner...except T'last  :o Spins around & my fingers would not respond quickly enough today to rescue the situation with clutch. NRJ, Ade & Henry is gone...down at number 4 again.
2 laps later start the party again, Ade & Henry is reached, the battle for second place is in progress & I pass Henry in fun race & send a message to Ade: I'm back  :laugh: In the soft right turn before T'Last I try to go on the outside...but now runs rallycross on the grass, Henry goes past again.
Time for a pit stop 'only for fuel', unfortunately gives it a pitlane speed, but I knew the race was over...my strength was exhausted. Four or five laps later I parked the car at a house. I've heard car & house is for sale...very cheap. Yes Goldtop, shame it ended this way, & especially for Ade in the last lap...but gave GTLDK 1-2  :)
...several were not lucky today from GTLDK, Sqter, Senyorlobo & Helle ?
WOW NRJ: Only 7 points behind Goldtop  :whistling:


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 10 Great German Touring Challenge - Sachsenring 1967 - Aug 16
Post by: Wiltshire Tony on August 17, 2010, 10:40:19 PM +0100
Last nights race for me had both extremes.

The joy of fast clean racing for lap after lap against Helle, where both of us exchanged the lead as we caught up with Bill.

Then the ultimate embarrassment of being beached on the grass ridge bank whilst the rest of the field drove by, probably sniggering and pointing.

Lovely, lovely track tho. Thanks to Henry for introducing me to that one. Needless to say were back there in 2011.


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 10 Great German Touring Challenge - Sachsenring 1967 - Aug 16
Post by: BillThomas on August 18, 2010, 11:58:31 AM +0100
Couldn't get in a decent qualifying lap but made a good start and made up a few places.  Had the very slightest of nudges on that fast down hill section on lap 1 (other driver probably didn't notice it), I went off over the grass at high speed and managed to recover before that lone house on the left.  After that I noticed the brakes didn't pull up as square as normal but I was able to correct on the steering by lifting and re-braking.  Tony and helle started to catch me so I tried to speed up but eventually lost it on the slower part of the first villiage we go through.  Eventually got it turned around after a few front/rear bumps which didn't improve my braking problem and I lost it a few more times until about 2/3 laps before my planed pit stop I had a big off and damaged the front right wheel (graphics on Xd showed white/clear).  I managed to limp around to the pits using full left lock on the straights and slowing to a crawl on the right handers.  Just hit return for the lot to be fixed.  When I'd finished I had 11.9 laps worth of fuel on board, about a lap more than normal.  I short shifted to save fuel, people retired and just as I was thinking of a splash and dash Navin passed and put me another lap down so I managed to eke out my fuel to the finish with about 0.1  of a lap left as I crossed the line.

Bill             


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 10 Great German Touring Challenge - Sachsenring 1967 - Aug 16
Post by: Wiltshire Tony on August 18, 2010, 12:22:31 PM +0100
Bill, after I retired I stayed in the pits and watched everyone finish. Must say your car, and some others, were certainly sporting interesting new body shapes/features  :D


Title: Re: UKGTL Season 10 Great German Touring Challenge - Sachsenring 1967 - Aug 16
Post by: BillThomas on August 18, 2010, 12:56:34 PM +0100
Bill, after I retired I stayed in the pits and watched everyone finish. Must say your car, and some others, were certainly sporting interesting new body shapes/features  :D

As I was the last car on the road, so far behind and saving fuel I was a bit too generous in getting out of everybodies way and had a few unforced bumps and scrapes.

Bill