Grats to the podium and all those who completed the course, wish I could have been one of you.
Joined from Igor intending to take the safe and predictable Porker and survive the race. I don't think I have driven Targa in over 18months and I cannot say that I have ever truly learnt this epic track just maybe some sections are logged in the memory. I definitely have the first couple of miles from the start sorted and am reasonably confident about that long straight section too
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Still some gremlins lurking in my new rig it seems.
My first time in the pits had basic graphics and I needed to recalibrate my wheel, plus I had joined with the wrong driver profile. Quit, re joined and set off for a feeler drive to check the setup and gearing. After about 30 seconds ....screen freeze ??!!! with a machine gun like sound track.
Crashed the PC/reboot/ and Igor is corrupted. I have a backup copy of GEM/IGOR ready on the desktop so swapped a fresh copy into place and joined again.
Another 30 seconds down the road and .........screen freeze #2!!!!?? with machine gun again
Once again crash/reboot/replace corrupted Igor/ and tried to join again but was just a few seconds too late and was locked out.
TBH I don't think my chances of travelling more than a minute without a screen freeze were slim.
I recall many years ago that several people had freeze issues across GPL and the culprit turned out to be the sound card drivers. When I got my new rig with all of it's power and resources, I turned everything in GPL to max including the sound and patching of car sounds in GEM.
I am going to try turning off the sound patch in Gem and reducing the number of sounds in GPL to around 4-5, ( which worked fine on my old PC) to see if reducing the load on the sound system solves this issue.