UKGTL Season 17 1971 RAC British Saloon Car Cham - Brands Hatch - Jan 16

[55steve55]

All cars tested and work fine here, Tony.

[Ziu Bacubacu]

Yep, the server was OK Sunday afternoon, even if I wasn't!!
I managed to depress myself further by trying the 1275 Mini against Ziu in his 1300 Escort!!  My best lap might have been only 4 tenths off of Ziu, but that was a flukey lap and generally I was more like 1 second+ adrift.
Plus , Ziu will be quicker when it really matters and he is under some proper pressure.
Just in case, are there any likely conflicts between the 970S Minis we are using in this series and the other variants within the GTL garage?

The great thing about this series is that one can go on the server with a Ford Escort 1300GT Sunday, and then can present itself with another car on Monday.....Who can know ?  Of course already i choose the car for today.......Ford Escort 1300GT ?  Maybe yes or maybe no !

[Wiltshire Tony]

All cars tested and work fine here, Tony.

Thanks Steve 

[Wiltshire Tony]

I still have not decided what I will run with. But I will change Class for Race 2.

[EvilClive]

I tried the minis again Tony and all seemed to work OK.

It was the '68 minis that I had issues with yesterday, but I wonder if the probs were because I was trying to graft a setup from a different mini onto those 68's??  I cannot think that GTL would object to a stupid set of parameters, unless I was trying to squeeze a 5 speed setup onto a 4 speed car in error?


@ Ziu...

I can see that there will be a lot of mind games played out in this series!! lol  All you have to worry about from my end is " If Clive chooses a mini, how long will it stay on the track??"!!!!  

Even I cannot answer that question!!  

[BillThomas]

Help! I  have a problem checked Local IP, that's OK. Check Locations Brands OK (works offline) and checked cars all there OK.  When I try both my SROU installations they show SimRacing Monday's Venue as 60s Monza.

Out of interest I used my 63WSC system and that showed the correct track - Brands.  Any suggestions? Don't want to fiddle with that as we have race Wednesday.

Will try and do new installation with correct track and cars but may not make it as I've got other jobs first.

[Wiltshire Tony]

Well our server is now running Early Brands. Hope you can make it Bill. Maybe download all the cars/skins to your 63WSC install?

[BillThomas]

Well our server is now running Early Brands. Hope you can make it Bill. Maybe download all the cars/skins to your 63WSC install?

Download cars and Brands onto a copy of 63WSC and renamed it but although it works it raises other queries!

Will try and update tomorrow.

[Wiltshire Tony]

Replays now posted but, as expected, the results are throwing out some unforeseen problems. Bear with us..........

EDIT: This was a Championship race. Just have to tell the results program this 

[Ziu Bacubacu]

Yesterday i was impressed from tactical maneuvers of Clive before beggining qualy1
i not could how many car he changed.....but this was helpful for my my mistake with keyboard when the race started (joking).
Seriously it s happened that when the race started i saw that it missed the virtual mirror on my screen so i looked 1 on my keyboard but i touched ESC and my race DNF. However i set on other way it so in future not possible i can have the same trouble.
At least i enjoyed the battle between Geoffers and John. Honestly I did not expect that Geoffers pick Escort RS1600, it s clear that he and i have read race 1 on the same way, while i was sure that he drove Class A or B both races.
About me i choose Escort RS1600 because i had great feeling on these track but i had some problem with my set up, it seems me to drive on the eggs every time i was on Striting' s bend...........about this problem i talk on race2 post.

[Wiltshire Tony]

Race results now finished  

[Wiltshire Tony]

NOTE: Drivers, please check the Car roster and let me know if you see an error please, thank you 

[EvilClive]

LOL Ziu.

"Yesterday i was impressed from tactical maneuvers of Clive before beggining qualy1"

If only it was me trying to be clever!!

During practice I was getting disco'd from the server on a regular basis. I was wondering if it was related to which car I was using, so I tried a several different options. But from what I was experiencing, it seemed that I could only remain on the server before being booted. On each occasion I had about 2 minutes of action before the action froze and the track reloaded.
As quali started I selected the car that I wanted to use, ( the Escort 1300 GT )  but if I was too long in the pits checking my setup, the game froze, If I tried to set a quali time I would complete an out lap but a second flying lap ended in a dropped connection.
I therefore started at the back of the grid, but was getting quite excited as I picked off several cars on Lap1 and was feeling like this could be a good race for me.......until...........as I entered Paddock Hill bend to start lap 2 all the cars ahead froze and I knew what was coming!!!
Report for race 2 is better for me.......

[Huggy]

Sorry to repeat this post but in case anyone hadn't seen it under R2, and has any ideas or suggestions:

Now that was really weird!  No problems at all this afternoon in open practice on the track, no problem signing in tonight, but when I pressed to enter the track, the monitor / results screen flashed on and off like a strobe, and the car loading messages flashed on and off. I could get onto the track, I discovered after several attempts, but had no sound from my own car, did a couple of laps to see if anyone else was actually visible, and yes, they were, then logged in again and had sound, just in time for Quali #1.  Every time I tried to leave the game, I just went back to the Monitor/results pages and had to ctrl/alt/esc to get out of GTL. I had a decent result in R1, almost got third  (some contact occurred Wink ) and the same PC capers went on for race two, which I took nice and steady throughout for third, which makes two of the best online race results I've had in some long while. Love the Mustang!    Anyway, I have no idea what my problem was, and couldn't even get into chat to see if anyone had a clue, though I could chat while actually in the car. More weirdness!  Will go over all settings and reboot the machine in the morning.  GTL perfect offline, and as I say, it was online until the actual race session. Couple of weeks to sort it I guess, maybe I'll reload from Steam if it persists, but I won't really find out if it's cured until we're online again.  Thanks for some good racing chaps, had fun.

[Wiltshire Tony]

I sometimes lose sound (except for the odd popping sound). I'm fine up to the point when I enter the lobby then I lose the mouse click "sound". Then I know that once in the sim I will have sporadic car sounds. Only a system reboot will fix it.