UKGTL Season 15 Fifties Endurance - Bremgarten - Nov 16

[Wiltshire Tony]

Clive, give this a go and see if it helps any? https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=12160.msg218224#msg218224

Also is your hard drive regularly defraged?

[Erling G-P]

Well, my lucky streak had to end sometime..

Shame, as it was shaping up to be a great race.  Had some good dicing with Hayman & Geoffers as long as it lasted, but late on lap 3, I entered a left-hand kink too fast and ploughed straight on into a concrete barrier.  Killed the car  :'(

Grats to the podium and all survivors.

Cheers,
Erling

[roguk]

Nice track and time choice, disappointed with Jag felt sure i had more top speed in praccy, but in race you guys passed me as if i was stationary.

Grats to Geoffers on win

Grats to Podium

[Geoffers]

That was hard work. If car damage had been a little more realistic I would never have finished. Tough car that Aston!  

Made a decent start but messed up the little ess-bend after the jump & dropped to 6th. Regained a few places when Clive, Hayman & Ati went off then eased past Erling into 2nd thanks to the Aston's superior speed. Took the lead briefly when Matt went off only to have the first of many crashes at that damned jump. Battled with Matt & Ati for the rest of the first half of the race until Ati crashed out.

Pitted after 12 laps & got ahead of Matt in the pits only to crash again at the jump on the first lap out. Unfortunately I was still stranded in the middle of the road when Matt came along & crashed into me. Very sorry about that Matt, in hindsight I should have hit ESC instead of ruining your race. Anyhow I carried on & took the lead again when Matt pitted for a second time at the end of the lap.

Now had a big gap to 2nd place so eased the pace a little trying not to make any more mistakes. Didn't work though as I must of crashed at that confounded jump another 3 or 4 times before deciding the best way to take it was to slow down enough so that the car didn't take off. Was amazed that the Aston still drove perfectly after all the abuse, it was only the last crash that caused the lights to go!  

Well done to all who finished , & thanks to Tony for organising  . The time of day setting was just right, great lighting effects & still light enough not to need lights near the end.

[EvilClive]

Clive, give this a go and see if it helps any? https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=12160.msg218224#msg218224

Also is your hard drive regularly defraged?

Thanks Tony, I will try that this evening.  
I already use "Enditall" to shut down any other processes that are not important and I also turn off my AV until the race is over. I have a maintenance programme running on my PC that cleans registry/does defrags/ clears out temp files etc whenever the PC is idle, so I presume that things are OK there.

Is Bremgarten a particularly graphics heavy circuit? did anyone else have issues? It was definitely much worse when I got into the forest section. So bad, that the whole game slowed down and steering inputs and gearchanges were momentarily delayed. It might have been only a tenth or two delayed but it seemed like an age!!  Couple that with a frame rate that felt something like 20fps and it was a joke.

I had no issues offline and everything ran smoothly,  I have a 100mb interweb connection so I would hope that there was no prob in that dept, although a bad connection to the server would screw that I'm sure.

I do have a pile of bits including a monster motherboard and processor, 500w power supplt, 1gb graphic card, sound card and case at home. Might be time to assemble a new machine, just need a decent hard drive I think and install my current HD as a second slave. I also have a Win7 CD ready to load.

Might take me 6 months to get it working  , but I don't think I can put it off much longer.  

[Wiltshire Tony]

Tricky track that one. I must admit that the jump held no fear for me. In fact i enjoyed hammering it over it to try and meet the next pair of bends on landing. The trick was to take the jump as far to the left as possible.   However I still managed to come to grief at various other places around the track especially that right hander in the woods (the one with the escape road on the other side of it) and the straw bales at that last right hander when the road turns to cobblestones. I also managed to get stuck on the RHS kerb after spinning and had to roll back and forth to escape. Lost loads of time there  

Next on is the final so I'll leave the daylight on. Don't forget to vote!

[Wiltshire Tony]

Clive, give this a go and see if it helps any? https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=12160.msg218224#msg218224

Also is your hard drive regularly defraged?

Thanks Tony, I will try that this evening.  
I already use "Enditall" to shut down any other processes that are not important and I also turn off my AV until the race is over. I have a maintenance programme running on my PC that cleans registry/does defrags/ clears out temp files etc whenever the PC is idle, so I presume that things are OK there.

Is Bremgarten a particularly graphics heavy circuit? did anyone else have issues? It was definitely much worse when I got into the forest section. So bad, that the whole game slowed down and steering inputs and gearchanges were momentarily delayed. It might have been only a tenth or two delayed but it seemed like an age!!  Couple that with a frame rate that felt something like 20fps and it was a joke.

I had no issues offline and everything ran smoothly,  I have a 100mb interweb connection so I would hope that there was no prob in that dept, although a bad connection to the server would screw that I'm sure.

I do have a pile of bits including a monster motherboard and processor, 500w power supplt, 1gb graphic card, sound card and case at home. Might be time to assemble a new machine, just need a decent hard drive I think and install my current HD as a second slave. I also have a Win7 CD ready to load.

Might take me 6 months to get it working  , but I don't think I can put it off much longer.  

If you run a regular maintenance program then I doubt it's a PC problem. All tracks are fine on my PC but it is a very powerful rig. If a track don't work on mine we won't use it here.

[Erling G-P]

Clive, give this a go and see if it helps any? https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=12160.msg218224#msg218224

Also is your hard drive regularly defraged?

Is Bremgarten a particularly graphics heavy circuit? did anyone else have issues? It was definitely much worse when I got into the forest section. So bad, that the whole game slowed down and steering inputs and gearchanges were momentarily delayed. It might have been only a tenth or two delayed but it seemed like an age!!  Couple that with a frame rate that felt something like 20fps and it was a joke.

With headlights on (on my own car or Geoffer's behind me), I had some stutters in the first part of the forest section.  Hardware isn't exactly state of the art, but should still be more than enough to run this old game. (Core i7 930 @ 3.25GHz, 3x2Gb RAM, AMD Radeon R9 280x 3Gb)  I do run in fairly high resolution; 2560x1440, but am still puzzled at the slow downs I see occationally, especially smoke can sometimes bring the frame rate almost to a standstill.

Cheers,
Erling

[BillThomas]

I have an all singing all dancing anti virus/malware/maintenance/etc which checks efficiency and shows what needs repair and makes corrections when selected.

[Bob M.]

Well that one sure lived up to it's title as a endurance race.  I've raced some 2.4hr races at LeMans that NoGrip used to run in the past, but was flat out beat after this one.  Took the Masey for it's speed and acceleration on this track, but it was a handful and had to be up on the wheel all the time, no rest for a Masey driver any where on this track.  First couple of laps I played Dodg'Em  with a lot of cars and fell back to almost last place.  Hit the hay bales on L1 or 2 going onto the cobblestones, braked too late on cold tires. No lights, thanks for moving the clock up an hour Tony!!  After that just passed a few cars here and there and gained positions because of drop outs and tried to survive till the end.  Took tires on the pitstop, no way I was going to drive that nasty monster on bad ones..Looking back today it was a fun race, sorry so many wrecked out of the field.  Good fun and thanks for the race.

Bob M.

[SpecialKS]

At least I would like to post the result of yesterday's race:

Results

 

[EvilClive]

Clive, give this a go and see if it helps any? https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=12160.msg218224#msg218224

Also is your hard drive regularly defraged?

Is Bremgarten a particularly graphics heavy circuit? did anyone else have issues? It was definitely much worse when I got into the forest section. So bad, that the whole game slowed down and steering inputs and gearchanges were momentarily delayed. It might have been only a tenth or two delayed but it seemed like an age!!  Couple that with a frame rate that felt something like 20fps and it was a joke.

With headlights on (on my own car or Geoffer's behind me), I had some stutters in the first part of the forest section.  Hardware isn't exactly state of the art, but should still be more than enough to run this old game. (Core i7 930 @ 3.25GHz, 3x2Gb RAM, AMD Radeon R9 280x 3Gb)  I do run in fairly high resolution; 2560x1440, but am still puzzled at the slow downs I see occationally, especially smoke can sometimes bring the frame rate almost to a standstill.

Cheers,
Erling

Hmm "not exactly state of the art" says Erling. 

Well, if yours is any form of art, mine is barely a cave painting!!!  With dual core 2.8Ghz, 2gb Ram and a 1gb graphics card running on XP . The basic box and motherboard is about 9yrs old and I have added that huge graphics card and a sound card.    I know, I know,    technical computer skills like mine are just unbelievable eh??...............are you listening Santa??!!

[Wiltshire Tony]

At least I would like to post the result of yesterday's race:

Results

 

Much appreciated Kurt, thank you 

[Erling G-P]

Clive, give this a go and see if it helps any? https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=12160.msg218224#msg218224

Also is your hard drive regularly defraged?

Is Bremgarten a particularly graphics heavy circuit? did anyone else have issues? It was definitely much worse when I got into the forest section. So bad, that the whole game slowed down and steering inputs and gearchanges were momentarily delayed. It might have been only a tenth or two delayed but it seemed like an age!!  Couple that with a frame rate that felt something like 20fps and it was a joke.

With headlights on (on my own car or Geoffer's behind me), I had some stutters in the first part of the forest section.  Hardware isn't exactly state of the art, but should still be more than enough to run this old game. (Core i7 930 @ 3.25GHz, 3x2Gb RAM, AMD Radeon R9 280x 3Gb)  I do run in fairly high resolution; 2560x1440, but am still puzzled at the slow downs I see occasionally, especially smoke can sometimes bring the frame rate almost to a standstill.

Cheers,
Erling

Hmm "not exactly state of the art" says Erling. 

Well, if yours is any form of art, mine is barely a cave painting!!!  With dual core 2.8Ghz, 2gb Ram and a 1gb graphics card running on XP . The basic box and motherboard is about 9yrs old and I have added that huge graphics card and a sound card.    I know, I know,    technical computer skills like mine are just unbelievable eh??...............are you listening Santa??!!

I built my current rig in 2010, and updated the videocard about a year ago, when the original one started failing.  Before that, I ran GTL on older hardware than yours - a Pentium 4 clocked at 3.2GHz IIRC, 2Gb RAM and a Radeon X850XT (256Mb).  Used to run GTL just fine, albeit in much lower resolution of 1280x1024. Dunno how it would have handled Bremgarden with headlights on though..     What resolution are you running Clive ?

Btw, if you need assistance with putting your hardware together, I'm sure we have plenty of computer savvy in our ranks who'd be happy to help - at least if it can be done via forum or mail 

Cheers,
Erling

[Wiltshire Tony]

How do you manage to run GTL at that resolution Erling? IIRC my highest option in the GTL config is 1920x1080. Is the maximum determined by the GPU or the monitor, or both?