Endurance Championship - Season 2, Round 1, Barcelona - Feb 19

[Mark J]

Totally agree with Mo, the skins looked excellent in race. Some of the 550's that lapped past looked fantastic. I particularly liked the white & green cars    The other good thing was you could make out almost immediately who was approaching in your mirrors without having to use the 'look-back' key for a name tag.
Very good driving by the GT's too, plenty of patience being shown through some of the trickier infield sections. I thought the racing on the whole was very clean, even in tight racing with other NGT's. Really enjoyed the battles with SBG, Jakob and my own team mate Don for long spells.

Great race and good fun.

[Jon Chadwick]

here here, skins look fantastic instead of hoards of identicle 550's and 911's  .Grats to you too Mo .good to get to the end of a race without 1fps bug,noticed you giving me a wide birth on the warm up lap Rich  got bitten by edza's bug though  does version 1.5 not iron out any of these problems.He got 1fps as i was coming up to lap him and ended up spining trying to avoid him,lucky to get back on just in front of Rich  you had me worried 4 a bit there.Good dice early on Boyd,don't think either of us would have won had your teammate bothered to qualify  38.4's on fuel,mmmmm think my setup needs some work  .Luxury to be in early in Sharks slot,thanks boss,will need a bit more luck to get in next week,hopefully see you all then 

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

does version 1.5 not iron out any of these problems.

Nope. I think it's an inherent problem with the old gMotor engine.

[Simon Gymer]

1.5 does not fix 1fps bug. The patch did originally say "multiplayer enhancements", but they soon removed that line when they realised they balls'd up the dedicated server.

I have read that lag seems a bit better with 1.5, it may be worth giving it a go again as that seems to have been worse for us recently, but we'd have to use a GDB file to set the session lengths on the server and clients. This maybe a little easier now that we have a car pack, although not for the Sprint championship. 

List of changes are:

o Eastern European character input updates

o Number characters input fix for Czech

o "@" character input fix on German keyboard

o Alt Gr characters input fixed

o Various localisation issues fixed

[Simon Gymer]

Oh and you're less likely to suffer from it if you run an AMD 64 and PCI-Express graphics card according to these polls...
http://forum.rscnet.org/showthread.php?t=217899
http://forum.rscnet.org/showthread.php?t=218320

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

If we run another GTR series after Endurance finishes at the end of April we'll probably switch to 1.5. It won't happen before then though.

[silver53]

Hi All My F****,B*******,Puter crashed big time blue screen job. Am on hols at present so am trying to get gtr set up for this evo. It was a bad pin on the main hard drive I think.May see you at tues eve race . gerald grr grr  :'(

[Mark J]

Hehe, i love Geralds one sentence posts. 

A man of few words 

[ginsters sponsored]

I had to do a retake though, at first I thought he was calling me one of his F***** B******  .

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

Hehe, i love Geralds one sentence posts. 

There were at least four sentences in that post.

[Simon Gymer]

If we run another GTR series after Endurance finishes at the end of April we'll probably switch to 1.5. It won't happen before then though.

As we run 2 copies of GTR on Picnic's server, one for the Sprints and one for the Endurance (due to the skin pack), with Luis's help we could easily use a GDB file at the mid-season skin pack refresh and move onto 1.5 (at which point the Sprints would be finished I think).

Not bothered unless it really is going to help the multiplayer in some way though.

[[ZiP]Tyf]

Hehe, i love Geralds one sentence posts. 

A man of few words 

LOL! Noticed that too m8. We've hired him to counter my ranting/spemming...

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[picnic]

As we run 2 copies of GTR on Picnic's server, one for the Sprints and one for the Endurance (due to the skin pack), with Luis's help we could easily use a GDB file at the mid-season skin pack refresh and move onto 1.5 (at which point the Sprints would be finished I think).

Luis has already provided that help and I have a GDB file for UKGTR although it does not restrict car selection. Trouble is you can decide on session length but you cannot skip sessions. Why SIMBIN cannot produce a decent dedicated server after 5 revisions of GTR and 2 or 3 of GTL I don't know. Remember GTL still has its stupid bits, like remembering the car selection correctly or remembering number of cars the server can support. The later always seems to default to 36 now which caught me out again last night as I was trying to do 2 things at once 

[D Boyd]

I agree, it should be easy enough for them to get it setup right. I however dont see what is so important about being able to set session lengths. You can get 90 min practices and hour quals and make the race session whatever you want it to be. Should be easy enough to have someone just advance the server when the time comes.
Heck we ran the game in normal mode for our leagues so we could set the grid and use weight penaltys and ran it all remotely, didnt use the dedi at all. If anyone remembers there was no 1fps bug until the non-dx dedi came out. We also were able to have proper formation laps as well with a true start. I guess the one big drawback was the need for the DX card and resources on the server box.

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

I agree, it should be easy enough for them to get it setup right. I however dont see what is so important about being able to set session lengths. You can get 90 min practices and hour quals and make the race session whatever you want it to be. Should be easy enough to have someone just advance the server when the time comes.

It worked in 1.4, then they broke it. We don't want an hour of qualifying because then we'll get people joining all through the Q session, which is highly undesirable because

• even with "load textures only in pits" turned on there's still a pause when people leave or join;
• we get invisible cars on track because of the fix for the previous bug, resulting in lots of frustrated and annoyed drivers.

Heck we ran the game in normal mode for our leagues so we could set the grid and use weight penaltys and ran it all remotely, didnt use the dedi at all. If anyone remembers there was no 1fps bug until the non-dx dedi came out. We also were able to have proper formation laps as well with a true start. I guess the one big drawback was the need for the DX card and resources on the server box.

It's a very big drawback for us because it pushes the cost of the server up tremendously.