UKGPL Season 38 (Spring 2021) 1967 Sports Cars - Dundrod - Feb 26

[Rainier]

In view of the fact that fatal accidents can easily occur on this track, the shift+r is not limited

Too easy ! 

[Cookie]

In view of the fact that fatal accidents can easily occur on this track, the shift+r is not limited

Too easy ! 

lol

[Phil Thornton]

You have certainly picked a tough combination here Axel. I think the 55s at the IoM TT is easier

[PaulV]

Hope all goes well tonight.

I have decided to stay off the track tonight.  I don't know Dundrod well enough to feel sure I wouldnt be either a danger to others or just become a rolling rear end roadblock.

Also very tired this evening so would have struggled to concentrate.. a bad mix for friends on the track.

So hopefully no collisions or crashes and no disco's etc ... have a good race guys and see you later.

[EvilClive]

Sadly your good wishes did not appease the gods....disco Lap 2

[Phil Thornton]

Well that was a disaster for me. I had a good practice with Mark Jones before the race. We could circulate in close company no problem. But in the race I got a couple of practice laps posted and then the server stopped recording my times. Then I had a disco so I rejoined again. My times were still there. I hoped everything would be OK. But despite putting in a better time (high 1:34s which for some reason has not been saved in my fastest laps?) which would have put me in P4, I was not registered on the grid. So with 4 mins to go I decided to quit and rejoin with a different helmet colour so the server would consider me a new driver. I tried to put a qually lap in but I was so wound-up I crashed. So ended up at the back of the grid. So I was resigned to trying to pick my way through the traffic on a very hard to pass track. Noticed frame rate dropping badly which it hadn't done at all in practice. On Lap 2 I was behind Evil when it looked like he made a mistake at Joey's Windmill (I think) and I thought I was going to get through when I got another disco.

I'll have to do some investigation. Something is not quite right.

[Philippe Girard]

I'm really fed up with freeze  
I think I'm going to stop there because I can't find the cause.
I was 5th at mid-race
 

[Pete Bennett]

I'm really fed up with freeze  
I think I'm going to stop there because I can't find the cause.
I was 5th at mid-race
 

I've turned off Anisotropic Filtering in NVidia Control panel and had no problems for over a week. No freezes since. Try it .

[Cookie]

Clive and Phil seemed to have a disco:

6m41.090s
E vil SC - spotters reporting:
minor problems with left front suspension.
minor problems with left rear suspension.

6m43.090s
Phil ThorntonSC overtakes E vil SC for position 5.

6m43.090s
Phil ThorntonSC gets disconnected while racing in position 5.

6m43.090s
E vil SC gets disconnected while racing in position 6.

6m44.090s
E vil SC overtakes the disconnected Phil ThorntonSC for position 5.

Strange timeline...

[Pete Bennett]

Great fun tonight. I guess that this is one of those mod/track combos that makes perfect sense. Tricky cars at a tricky track but very rewarding when you get it right. I made a fantastic start jumping Tris into 3rd place. Too bad that we bumped a few miles down the road and we both had to work our way back up the field.

Still, a lot of fun. See you a Spa.

( I can't see any points for the Privateers)

[Cookie]

Pete you must drive this track with a big Ford or with my ChapF that's the top challenge, the Lola and Ferrari are the easiest full size cars

[francesco]

Not sure but i think to have touched D.Rainier,sorry.After i had a freeze when i was overturned.

[Rainier]

Not sure but i think to have touched D.Rainier,sorry.After i had a freeze when i was overturned.

No, it was not me.

Sorry for my bad start, I had some troubles with my gear lever and I had to try twice before engaging the 1st gear.
Hopefully, I was at the back of the grid.

[Philippe Girard]

before giving up GPL completely, I try the pete BENNETH solution, (anisotroping), but it will be the last one.

afterwards, i know that i need to have my computer checked by a specialist,
but it's not in my budget for right now.

[Phil Thornton]

before giving up GPL completely, I try the pete BENNETH solution, (anisotroping), but it will be the last one.

afterwards, i know that i need to have my computer checked by a specialist,
but it's not in my budget for right now.

I'm very disappointed too but I think we need to be careful not to jump to the wrong conclusion. In my frustration last night I posted that I had a screen freeze when in reality I hadn't. No amount of screaming at the monitor (which I did a lot of yesterday), hammering the keyboard or throwing the mouse is going to fix the issue. There are 3 ways on-line races end prematurely:

• Crash to Desktop (CTD) - GPL stops mid race, shuts down without prompting and the user is returned to the Operating System (desktop) not iGOR.
• Screen Freeze - GPL stops mid race, the graphics appear frozen and the sound turns into a buzz that increases in volume and pitch. The only way to get out of this situation is to use Task Manager to kill GPL or to do a hardware reset (i.e power off the PC).
• Disco - The client is disconnected from the server. GPL stops mid race and returns to the GPL Multiplayer menu. The user can then close GPL using the normal red button and the user is returned to iGOR.

So I think we need to be careful to make a note of exactly what happened. Because the remedy in each case will be different.

A few weeks ago I had an issue with my Thrustmaster T300RS Steering Wheel reverting to default rotation every time I powered up my PC. The button that allowed me to set a different default was greyed out. It is fixed now but it wasn't anything I did. There must have been a Windows update that fixed it (and probably an earlier Windows update that broke it!).

I'm just wondering if an update is at the root of our problems here? However, I know drivers use different operating systems (Linux, Win10, Win7 WinXP) so it would be interesting to understand what the common factors are.