UKGPL Season 23 (2012) - Monza - Dec 18

[blito]

Bad mistake on my part - closed up too quickly on Dave R. Knew I couldn't go to the right to avoid as Blito was there. No excuse for rear-ending you so I retired in shame.
Didn't feeling deserving enough to enter the second race.

There was LOADS of room for you to pull out - I had no overlap and was simply getting a better view of the road ahead to judge the breaking point! Had you pulled out I would have given you room enough
I was disappointed to see you go off like that as I think there was a great battle going on between us with plenty of give and take and some real respect for each other!
Pity race 2 wasn't so good for me - my qual setup was crap crap crap so I ditched it and ran on the default one instead (complete with 50 gallons ) of fuel. I was only 0.5s slower with full tanks than my own setup in qually trim!

[EvilClive]

Defeat snatched from the jaws of victory !!!!! It was a really enjoyable race despite the 2 offs and NP guys they were racing incidents.
I tried the server for the 67 race but the sound was again just unbearable despite restarting GPL between the races, so I quit and went looking for an answer............still have not found one!!!!!

Sorry about the touch into Lesmo 1 Clive. I was trying to hold it tight on the inside but I must've slid wide Luckily someone else dealt with you at the end 

Your sound problems are puzzling - but I always had audio issues with XP & GPL - it took a lot of messing around with different audio drivers to get it stable. One solution that I'm pretty certain would work is updating to Windows 7. I went for Win 7 64-bit & it got rid of all those silly little niggles - including the occasional total graphics blackout I used to get during a race :'( (not power save but some kind of graphics malfunction - audio used to carry on grrr)

Hmmm, your comments are interesting Al.  I am indeed running XP and for years I had no problems whatsoever, but these sound issues seem to have slowly, but steadily,  got worse. Maybe 6 months ago I would get an occasional race when the engine sound seemed to go into a loop that rose and fell in pitch although still sort of linked to the rev counter. During that time I did nothing to change sound drivers or change anything sound related, which led me to believe that is was a corruption of the .wav files. I replaced all my sound files at the same time as I installed the new sound card and thought that I had cracked the problem....it appears not!
 Lately the distortion has got so bad that the actual engine sound is indiscernible amongst the noise. It almost seems that each sound that is used by GPL like skid, gearchange, bump against crash barrier etc, is not just played once but once used it continues to loop around on top of all the other sounds just adding to the general noise level until everything becomes unbearable.
 The random blackouts have also started  over the last 2 months and interestingly the sound also carries on as you experienced. Maybe Santa can be persuaded to deliver Windows 7/ 64 bit next week 

[Cookie]

Strange to read, you still have those sound issues Clive...

The Asus Xonar soundcard should have solved your problems!

- sometimes XP forgets the sound settings after a crash
- I have maxed the Xonar hardware acceleration and conversion quality! (I have a german version of XP. Maybe its different in english...)

XP gives me the possibility to use both sound devices alongside!
When racing with Funliga I use the onboard with the headset for Teamspeak and the race sound comes from the Xonar to the speakers.
Afaik W7 can't do that...

Have you read my former post?
 

[EvilClive]

Maybe I should add that the sound issue does not happen 100% of the time. Sometimes I will join a server and everything is fine, but maybe after 10 mins of quali things will start to go wrong and at other times I can complete a whole race with perfect sound. But the problem is becoming more and more frequent and now occurs in about 75% of races.

It is the fact that the problem is NOT consistant that is so frustrating!!!!


To Axel....

Yes, thanks for your previous post Axel. I looked at all the suggestions and made adjustments. I thought that I had beaten the problem. Also have tweaked the Xonar settings as you advised......

[Al Heller]

Maybe I should add that the sound issue does not happen 100% of the time. Sometimes I will join a server and everything is fine, but maybe after 10 mins of quali things will start to go wrong and at other times I can complete a whole race with perfect sound. But the problem is becoming more and more frequent and now occurs in about 75% of races.

It is the fact that the problem is NOT consistant that is so frustrating!!!!

That is maddening Clive. Perhaps one suggestion (assuming you have a bit of time to faff around in between mince pies this Christmas ) is that you can download Win 7 64-bit for free (legally) - it's widely available online as a 90 or 30 day "trial" version. If you are happy enough to spend the time making a full back-up of your XP system (or alternatively install win 7 as a dual boot option?) you could try it out for nothing & see if it works. That's what I did.

Edit: of course the other nice thing about GPL is it doesn't need to be reinstalled (phew). The only thing I reinstalled was GEM - then pointed it to my GPL folder & that was that.