UKGTL Season 19 1972 French Formula 3 - Nogaro - Oct 7

[Wiltshire Tony]

I should be around Monday, Weds I will be hotel wifi from Birmingham I will check as best I can....

Please can I have 17?
Ta

Goodwood sprint this Saturday   (for real) See if I can do better than 2 yrs ago  


Hmm, I CTD when I try to run this. It goes to loading the car but the picture of the car doesnt appear in showroom
and it CTDs

I have set show wheels to 1

I should be ok with our wi-fi but it's good to have a backup plan in place, thanks Matt.

Good luck at Goodwood.

Hmm, no-one else has reported a problem, let me look into this for you. Cars not appearing in the showroom is a big clue as to what might be wrong but I need to check the download files again.

[Wiltshire Tony]

@ Matt - In your Teams folder do you have two files called stex.gtl and talent.gtl?

And is the mod in your GTC-TC-76 folder?

[phspok]

I have talent.gtl, TALENT.GTR, stex.gtl and stex.GTR
and the mod is in my GTC-TC-76 folder

My .plr file is in the  UserData directory, not the UserData/MattR7

Also it doesn't remember buying the car.

[Erling G-P]

I'm hoping my hotel has a decent wi-fi, so I will be able to check on race nights that everything is running Ok and do the results etc as usual.

Have you considered using your phone as a hotspot, if hotel wi-fi is dodgy ? (Assuming you're on a smartphone of course)

Wouldn't think you need to transfer much data to govern the server, so shouldn't eat up too much of your data allowance.

[Wiltshire Tony]

I'm hoping my hotel has a decent wi-fi, so I will be able to check on race nights that everything is running Ok and do the results etc as usual.

Have you considered using your phone as a hotspot, if hotel wi-fi is dodgy ? (Assuming you're on a smartphone of course)

Wouldn't think you need to transfer much data to govern the server, so shouldn't eat up too much of your data allowance.

Thanks Erling, I have done that in the past but with my old phone. It should be doable with my current phone so worth investigating, cheers.

[Wiltshire Tony]

I have talent.gtl, TALENT.GTR, stex.gtl and stex.GTR
and the mod is in my GTC-TC-76 folder

My .plr file is in the  UserData directory, not the UserData/MattR7

Also it doesn't remember buying the car.

No idea why your .plr isn't inside a yourname folder. But that might not be the problem (in this case).

If GTL forgets the car you bought, experience tells me that could be because your running GTL in a compatability mode. Is this Windows 10?

I think I may need to ask you to run a trace please. https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=13381.msg241379#msg241379

You can pm me the results if you cannot fix things.

[phspok]

First it said garage.gar was an illegal file, so I moved it and it created a new one which now says:


plrfile.cpp  2510: Attempting to save to USERDATA\MattR7.TMP
plrfile.cpp  2533: Retcode: 0 for renaming to USERDATA\MattR7.PLR
O_BaseGz.cpp 8513: CUBE error loading scene file USERDATA\tmpvehicle.scn: Error loading global material ALPINE_A364_INTERIOR


EDIT:#

I have unzipped into a Steam install, and it works ok

[Wiltshire Tony]

First it said garage.gar was an illegal file, so I moved it and it created a new one which now says:


plrfile.cpp  2510: Attempting to save to USERDATA\MattR7.TMP
plrfile.cpp  2533: Retcode: 0 for renaming to USERDATA\MattR7.PLR
O_BaseGz.cpp 8513: CUBE error loading scene file USERDATA\tmpvehicle.scn: Error loading global material ALPINE_A364_INTERIOR


EDIT:#

I have unzipped into a Steam install, and it works ok

Phew, well done Matt. You may need to copy your UserData stuff into your Steam install. This should prevent you having to create a new profile.

[phspok]

The non steam is a copy of the steam one, just more recently used/modified
The steam one can log in and see the lobby fine

[Wiltshire Tony]

The non steam is a copy of the steam one, just more recently used/modified
The steam one can log in and see the lobby fine

[Geoffers]

Just wondering how people are getting on with these. I initially found them quite tricky on the limit & had to do quite a few setup changes to get them how I wanted. Tony however found them quite easy to drive without altering very much.

[Bob M.]

They seem fairly docile to me, course I don't have the talent to push them to their limits also.  Not as bad as the other f-1 cars we used a couple of seasons ago or even the Pro-cars now.
On another note can some one tell me how you can set the race field up so you only practice race with these cars only offline  and not other GTL cars?  I know we did this with the other F-1's and I believe the CAN AM cars also.

Thanks ahaed
Bob M.

[EvilClive]

Could I take #223 please Tony. That seems rather apt as it is the last car on the list  and my first laps with these machines has been far from encouraging 

Personally I found the default setup just about useless, so I set about trying different diffs and shocks etc. Things improved a little, but I still have progressive and uncontrollable oversteer if the tail slides even a fraction on corner exit. So I am struggling to get any consistency and cannot go sub 1:40 atm.

Just wish that Renault would do something about that horrible exhaust note lol. These cars sound like they are powered by a French tractor engine with a blown silencer!!!

[Geoffers]

Clive, I have power diff on lowest setting & coast on highest, my main problem initially was lift off oversteer with power oversteer on corner exit a lesser problem. Default tyre pressures were way too high which didn't help either. I have softened the rear quite considerably & given it quite a lot of rear toe-in which has made the car a lot easier for me. Can now almost match the AI laptimes.

[EvilClive]

LOL   I am nowhere near ready to mix it with the AI yet and I have no idea how fast they are !!!

I also found the tyre pressures too high and gradually dropped them, have not interfered with the rear toe in as yet.
But I might give your suggestions for diff settings a try to see if I can get a grip on that oversteer issue.