UKGPL Season 28 (2015) - Syracuse - Jan 11

[DLogan]

gents - there will be 2 servers.
Pros drive on UKGPL8 - any chassis you like

Could the "changing rules/cars/start times ON THE DAY OF THE RACE IN QUESTION" please stop?

Announce the race, and run the race as announced if at all possible.

[bernie]

Walter , no probs it was a "fun" race so not to worry and I didn't like the track anyway 

no need for the report ! and apologies accepted , thanks 

[Cookie]

Sorry to hear guys, got disconnected 5 laps from the finish having a dominant lead. Initially drove away but made a mistake, and then it was hard to shake off Axel...nice track, had some FPS drops though now and then...

The result will be counted as the server crashed!

So no worries:

Rob 1st, Cookie 2nd, Iestyn 3rd, Doni 4th, Dean 5th, Greg 6th

[Billy Nobrakes]

gents - there will be 2 servers.
Pros drive on UKGPL8 - any chassis you like

Could the "changing rules/cars/start times ON THE DAY OF THE RACE IN QUESTION" please stop?

Announce the race, and run the race as announced if at all possible.

Dean,
The race post was fairly clear - there were different handicaps applying depending on whether we had one or two grids. My second post was a "Reminder".

Running these races depends very much on the goodwill of those providing the servers - whom I am very grateful to. Whilst we would expect the server provider to make every best effort for championship races, these are fun races.

[DLogan]

...My second post was a "Reminder"...

A reminder that arrived as people are already in iGOR and joining the race servers (4 pm my time), and after I've already closed my browser (and everything else except iGOR) in preparation for the race (gotta save RAM, etc.).

Another reason to not bother practicing, as the "rules" are open to change until the flag drops, apparently, and if you don't check the race thread and miss a (after the) last minute update and join with the wrong car or whatever, too bad. Great.

[NickyIckx]

 :)had a lot of fun .
as to 60fps:
- got steady 60fps during race and practise
- red bar was fine ( low to zero ) all over
- during race cars in front did slightly stutter constanly ( no effect on fps meter, but on steering,braking etc. so missmatched position calculation by server or mine side )

- during practise I got a freeze followed by black screen. Taskmanager told me GPL dosent respond.
I have no idear what the reason for that freeze could be, where to look/investigate ...any hints ?

(my new internet stuff serves me now 46.000 over 12.000. so must be an improvement rather then an prob. Only new hardware to my PC actually is CSW wheel , replaced the RS500. Maybe driver conflict ? Cause I got same freezes offline occasionally, which is new   )

back to online under 60fps:
I got the impression under 60fps these `messages`like `xxx left race`do cause extra massiv stuttering compared to 36fps. ( not to mentioned chat messages during race ) . Any can confirm this impression ?

[Walter Conn]

back to online under 60fps:
I got the impression under 60fps these `messages`like `xxx left race`do cause extra massiv stuttering compared to 36fps. ( not to mentioned chat messages during race ) . Any can confirm this impression ?

I did not have massive stuttering, but my FPS dropped to 45 when someone left the server. I was driving past the front stretch when the chat message appeared at the top of my screen. Then the FPS returned to back to normal, and it did not really cause me any problems. I thought it was strange because I had very good FPS up until then.

I have read somewhere that this is one of the downsides to using OGLv2. There is an option to turn off chat messages that might help.

[Cookie]

There is an option to turn off chat messages that might help.

No chat, will not avoid the red GPL messages!

The best is to modify it with gplshift.ini

[ GPL Font ]------------------
Auto_Set_GPL_Font_Size = 0

This leaves a very small chat but it does no longer make stutters

[dave curtis]

GPL not working since replacing graphics card after the Brands Hatch outing
Although, maybe I should have downloaded the track & tried running in text-only mode with the aim of a point or two  

May have to roll back to the old card & hope all is ok for tomorrow night...

[Cookie]

Dave just leave the new GPU in the PC,

- start Win with F8 pressed to safety mode ( now Win uses his hardware drivers! no NV!)
- now uninstall all Nvidia software and delete any NVidia folders
- reboot
- now install the latest NV driver package available

[dave curtis]

Dave just leave the new GPU in the PC,

- start Win with F8 pressed to safety mode ( now Win uses his hardware drivers! no NV!)
- now uninstall all Nvidia software and delete any NVidia folders
- reboot
- now install the latest NV driver package available

hehe - so the hardware support thread is running into here too...
I found before that my machine didn't work in safe mode,   boots normally [or if screwed,  re-gained this via recovery console] but halts with safe mode.   But after recent changes,  I'll give it another go.

Did uninstall all the nvidia software/drivers that I could via control panel,  then also ran DDU for good measure.
When that found the old Omega drivers for previous card,  but didn't remove them;  manually removed all referenced registry keys manually.
Tried nv driver that came on CD,  then the latest,  then an early one.

GTL runs fine,   but some GPL still fails to start in OpenGLv2.   I think D3D may have sort of worked, but with resolution limitation/pribluda issue.
I did download some other opengl game to test & that also fails to get started.

I'll give it some more time tonight....

Bloomin' PCs...  getting too old for this stuff...

[bagrupp]

I experienced the same problems like NickyIckx.

For the race, i unfortunately hit Nicky while fighting P1. I'm sorry, my fault.

Rest of the race was quite well.

Regards, Bastian

[Turkey Machine]

Just a query re: Ams drivers, how was the server last night?

[il_lupo_mannaro]

Ams Server was OK for me.
I only experienced a couple of freezes: one at the hairpin resulted in a crash but, lucky me it happened on qualify...

[Billy Nobrakes]

Jethro,
No problems connection wise from me.

Would have liked to have been a bit quicker but never really got to grips with the track.