I won't be able to make this one and Wednesday is unlikely too but by next Monday I hope to have things sorted. Oh, can I cede all my championship points to Erling, please?

I'm going to be scared shitless about firing up GTL again after that loud and spectacular total collapse though  

I'm of course so, so sad to miss another round on Oscherschei... erm, I mean: leben ?, yes leben  

Edit; ah, this is about the Weds race, should've been in the Mon race one.

Well, I got the network going again (yay, internet) and even the sound in safe mode which is normally not possible and requires some precarious Registry tweaking so now I can even watch Youtube vidoes in Safe Mode, lol. Never knew that was even a thing.

BUT, that doesn't solve the primary problem of course which I'm now 99% sure to be the GPU. I mean, what else could it be?

So this:
is like a gift from an angel straight out of the sky. 

So here's the plan. This morning I'm off to the PC shop and I'll ask them if they confirm it's the GPU and if that's the case whether an Asus Radeon R9 270 is a potential solution, even if only on single screen. I'd miss triples but I'd settle for single in a heartbeat in the current circumstances. I can always revisit that when/if my jobs recommence after the apocalyptic plague and after all, the monitors are all fine.

You wouldn't happen to be into backyard astronomy, Ehrling? I've got this Tal 2M sitting around I haven't touched in years so a trade would be fine too. It's Siberian and a monster though (45kg or so). Shipping would be a bit of a hassle. Or if you're a bibliophile, there are a lot of options for a trade too. I'll get back to you (on PM) once I know more. But I'm already very thankful for the offer. Can I shine your shoes for the next year or so in any case?

Hi guys,

when I started out for testing here I had two really bad lockups of my PC. At this point it's barely functional, with just safe mode without network (I'm typing this on my neighbour's laptop).
I strongly suspect my graphics card is fried as anything I attempt to do which involves the triple screens just remains on black screen forever.
I tried to warn y'all in case the track had anything to do with it (not likely though) but it took me hours to get this far (you guessed it; all my logins and passes are stored in that PC).
Anyway, I hope I was the only with such troubles and I'm afraid I have no idea when I'll be able to rejoin since I can't afford a new range of cards let alone a new PC. Hopefully ebay will turn out to be an alternative.

I'm starting to take the 2020 catastrophes very personal..... 

Good luck to y'all and hopefully till soon,

Cheers,
Dom

I'm with Clive on this one except that I love the car. In fact, the RSR is the car in which I managed to overtake His Dazness for the first time in my sim career (yes, I still remember that). Though that was probably in P&G come to think off it. Anyway, while at the ÖsterreichRing the car was a joy, nothing whatsoever worked here -many thanks for all the suggested and offered setups though. I spent qually watching all them aliens trying to figure out where the huge difference came from but I didn't see or hear anything that allowed for an Aha-erlebnis. In race, after the first spin the car was pretty much useless and the downhill slide became so bad I just gave up eventually. On nights like this I need full restraint not to throw the whole shebang through the window and never look back. I don't mind that I'll never be an alien but down 6 seconds a lap in a car I like and having no clue why is just aaarrarararrgghhhhh.

Congrats to all who managed to conquer this rotter of a track (gotta blame something!).

It...isn't ?
13 people present as of now.
You installed the track pack?

After some laps here I remembered I hadn't even given the correct pronunciation for this track. It's:
Oscherscheiße....

Sorry, Dan, but you've touched on a pet peeve of mine. I'm over 50 and Belgian-Flemish, which, with the Netherlands to the north, the UK just over that little ditch, Brussels, Wallonia and France a stonethrow away and Germany half a day driving to the east (not to mention the occasional visit from them *cough*), it was very common to speak at least these four languages in Flanders. I've been in business meetings where they were spoken simultaneously. Granted, our youth is -in my very humble opinion of course- catastrophic in that regard but the old(er) guard was all about school books and (often too) strict (because Catholic) teachers too.

Admittedly I'm way better in writing foreign languages than I am in speaking them. My last girlfriend was French of Hungarian descent but living in Germany (how's that for European unification  ) and I spent a lot of time in Berlin back then. Die Berliner often hadn't a clue what I was talking about even if what I said was grammatically entirely correct. Come to think of it, that even happened in the UK, viz. Somerset, lol.

Anyway: huge 

Sind Sie gar sicher?

Heatwave #156 incoming (T: 26C; W:30C; T:30C; F:31C) so I'm unsure for this. The evenings don't look too bad for now, so it's a definite maybe.

Phew, that was both exhilirating and a bit frustrating.
I didn't have much prep (see below) but well, it's Spa and there's a Mini for which I have -I think- an Ati setup, in any case a very good one. Things looked pretty good for a while when after a big pile-up with lotsa cars I found myself in 6th. There were both better drivers and better cars behind but the Mini was great and you never know. Leave it to me then to have a completely unnecessary spin only due to lack of focus which cost me 9.6 seconds and a ton of places. Pretty much the rest of the race I chased Matt and got close a few times but there was never a chance of an overtake. Only in the very last lap did everything came very close yet when -I suppose- Eifel had a bit of an off and Matt, Eifel and myself were battling it out until the very last meter:
Racetimes from the log:

Eifelblitz   0:44:28.007
MattR9   0:44:28.016
Dominick   0:44:28.324

9 thousands of a second (!) between Eifel and Matt after 15 laps of Spa and less than half a second for myself. Which is the reason I asked whether it would be possible to wait a little bit with congratulations and comments until everyone has finished. Sorry for the nagging but things were close and hectic till the last inch.

Congrats to the podiums and winners of divisions. 

Here's how my prep went (and it's not a rare case).

Step1: Ah, it's garbage day
Voice in head: Erm, what day does that make?
Me: Erm, Monday
Voice in head: Does that ring a bell?
Me: Oh, there might be a race, better check: Yes, yes, there is.
Voice in head: What's the dumbest thing you can do now?
Me: Erm, fall asleep in the couch reading a book instead of testing a few cars.
Voice in head: Right, and what did you do?
Me: Erm, exactly that.
Voice in head: Okay, what's the first thing you did when waking up?
Me: Erm, forget about the time difference for the 1178th time.
Voice in head: Correct, so how much time did you have to prepare?
Me: <shyly> Almost none.
Voice in head: Right, and yet, it started well, no?
Me: Yes! I avoided many cars in an incident.
Voice in head: Yes, yes and what did you do then?
Me: <dejectedly> spin for no reason and lose all the advantage.
Voice in head: You'll never learn, will you?
Me: No....

Yeah, that was definitely not the plan. Glad I decided to just stay put and that that worked out.

That unexpectedly went a lot better than anticipated. I don't think I've ever had any decent result with early AM's. Heck I might not even have finished with one. I had at first selected the Ace and while perfectly comfortable with it, it felt soo, soo slow (I'm no Daz!). Since this is a limited car use series I picked the AM with a sense of "Let's get it over with". But practice and qually went quite decently with not THAT much of a gap to the competent drivers. The first 25 laps or so of the race were not bad either. One big spin, many, many small ones but overall ending up in 6th at that point was way above my expectations. With five aliens in front there was little point in keeping up the effort but when I cooled down a little, Matt was gaining scarily fast so I was forced to work for it till the very end. And work it was. The car was all over the place. I don't even have the technical terminology to describe it. After having watched Dimitar's video though (great job again), I reckon my experience was near identical to his. Same problems, same spots, especially in the last 20 laps.

Apologies if I got in anyone's way at any point, but that was all the control I had of the car. I mostly let it do what it wanted to do. Nose goes without warning in the direction of the corner: fine, that'll be a fast lap. Nose goes without warning in the other direction: also fine, slow lap it is.

Congrats to the Aston Martin Aces, Geoff and Coyote and to the Cobra Ace Ace, Daz.

Gonna give this one a pass because the weather is turning (from 27°C to 14°C in two days, yay) and my shortage of sleep then drops on me like a concrete wall. I'll be in no shape to race decently.
Have fun all.

On the contrary, I apologise for reacting like I did.
Sleep deprivation always turns me into a cranky old b*tch. Maybe I should give the summer a miss after all. 

Erm, what's the original Mini in the game (and how can one know that by the way)?
Never mind, got in.