UKGPL Season 29 (2015-16) UKGPL 69 Extra Trophy - Spa - Oct 11

[Ronniepeterson]

This track works with every mod except the 69x mod for me whatever I do. Screen freeze every time. Not hopeful of getting this one to work at the moment.

[maddog]

Not good. Ray.   Spa67 and 69x make a tough combination, for our computers to handle.  If anyone knows of a light 69x carset, it's needed here.

[Marco Mercaldo]

About freeze try to take off the trees from grafic option.............I had a small improvement..........

[Rainier]

I think it's better to race in the good old Spa (Papy track) ...

Any remarks ? else I will quickly announce the change

[FullMetalGasket]

As much as I'd like to race on Spa67, if it's just going to cause issues and a ruined race I have no problems switching back to Papy Spa for the 69's.

[Cookie]

Maybe you have not read all the hints how to get Spa67 working.


In core.ini you have to reduce

[ Replay ]
replayMemoryOverride = 256000 -> 128000 or 96000

I hope this helps, as I had a test session with Andreas who had similar problems of freezes at a constant track section.

[Ronnie Nilsson]

It's a shame to have to revert to the Papy version, but given the amount if issues, I think it is the right decision.  And it's only now that I realise just how different the original track is!  I still suck at it, though.  10 years ago, I just scraped into the black with a 3.19 in the Eagle.  Now with the Lotus 49 and no wing, I can't even break 3.30!    See you at the back of the grid!

[Rainier]

Axel

It is now too riskly to use the new Spa with mod69X and with, probably, a full server with 18 or 19 racers.
For the first race of the season 69X, it seems better to me to use the original version.


By the way, the papy version is ugly compared to the new version ...but it is also more technical from my PoV

[Cookie]

I can do Spa7 and 69x with my eco PC!
(Athlon II x4 640, 4GB RAM, ATI HD5670)

[GregT]

Try the other rasterizer Ray. For some reason my computer won't allow me to run one lap at bsarthe in the GTs with D3Dv2 but I was able to complete 4 out of 5 INT short races there using OGLv2. And everybody else, I think it's necessary to use 60fpsv1 if you want to run the GTs or 69xs at 60fps, so if you're trying to train with 60fpsv2newmod you likely to be unsuccessful.

I think I am using one of the oldest and cheapest AMD cpus that will allow you run 60fps reasonably, a Phenom II X2 560. It's overclocked from 3.3 Ghz to 3.6. Some places I need to turn off all of prib except the position board and I always have to turn off the internet meter (Alt+M).

[Cookie]

In Gentlemen Liga they found that intel CPU users have to check the "disable intel speedstep" in GEM+ configuration!

Of course 60fpsV1 is the only way to run 69X 

Some hints from SRMZ:

I have huge FPS benefit from setting maximum mip size to 256 in core.ini (MaxMipSize = 256).
...
With setting MaxMipSixe = 256 only sub-images up to 256 pixels in width will be loaded and which helps to save more free memory.

[GregT]

I'm seeing a difference in frame rate with and without the no letterbox patch. At Spa67 in the 69xs, I get a fairly steady 60fps without the no letterbox patch. With it, I'm seeing a lot of stutters and sometimes even dropping to 30fps because of vsync. I suspected this sooner but it hadn't been bad enough to actually test it.

And Axel's tip on the max mip size worked for me last Friday season in the Can Ams at Zolder. The GT's were undrivable the previous week because of a bad frame rate. With mapmipsize changed for the CAs I was able to run a decent race even though my dashboard was blurry.

[Ronnie Nilsson]

Hmm... can't connect to the sever using the practice p/word.

[DLogan]

Hmm... can't connect to the sever using the practice p/word.

I just joined, so no problem on server end.

[Cookie]

Hmm... can't connect to the sever using the practice p/word.

Read the comment in IGOR 

PW = 60fpsV1

I make this to prevent 36fps drivers from joining...