UKGPL Season 38 (Spring 2021) Mixed Open Wheel - Vallelunga - May 11

[PaulV]

Managed a little bit of practice here this evening.

Lovely track with a nice feel. Flows great.

I predict some good racing here.. and hopefully fun and no disco's. 

Typical of me, I had been practicing at the wrong version.

[Christian Dauger]

Christian,

You drove in the Privateer Class in the 55 race yesterday. You can select from any Manufacturer class, but you will have to stay with Brabham for the rest of the season. (Excellent choice in my opinion).

I don't think we have had a full grid this season. If there is a slot free after 9pm you are welcome to join.

how to see if a slot is free?

[dave curtis]

Christian, just try to join after 21:00 UK.  If the server isn't full, you are in!

UKGPL_10 should be online most of the day if you want to check the connection etc.

[Pete Bennett]

This may not be the place to ask this but I'm going to anyway...

My F2 mirrors look very low-res and blurry in comparison to other mods. Any ideas how I can improve them? I have a feeling that mirrors will be important later 

[Christian Dauger]

Christian, just try to join after 21:00 UK.  If the server isn't full, you are in!

UKGPL_10 should be online most of the day if you want to check the connection etc.

Ok!  how much slot on the servers?

[Cookie]

19 slots - look at iGOR

Just had a big freeze on the server...

PS
but it was the only one after another hour of setup making.

[fpolicardi]

19 slots - look at iGOR

Just had a big freeze on the server...

What kind of freeze had you, server based or driving as client? I never had problems like that neither on servers where I installed to host italian league races in the past, neither as clients. There isn't a server version cause the graphics are light as posted by Achim on track SRMZ thread.
Have you installed the Kenny's update pheraps?
Thx

[Cookie]

was client on UKGPL_10

pure track no updates

mid track ~75m after the pit exit - sound loop - frozen picture -> (ctrl alt back) linux graphics restart

the track is good fun

[PaulV]

Another Freeze. this is becoming a pain in the Butt.


Just got past the Pit exit and ... PC locked solid. frozen Screen and a Banshee ferrari engine.

Have UKGPL raced this online before. ??

hope its not got problems as its a Cracking track to race on. Im really miffed because I was hoping to enjoy tonight. hope it went well for all the rest of you.

[dave curtis]

Practice was fine for me over the last couple of days (and not had a single freeze since the track was running earlier in the week).
But my client GPL locked up at the end of the qual session (approx 21:18) and during the race (21:39), needing task-manager to close.

I had applied the Kenny gfx addon to my client machine yesterday,  after which testing still seemed fine.

Server seems to indicate 13 drivers still in now.

Cheers.
Dave.

[Alain Maurice]

Sry Cookie 

[Pete Bennett]

I need to investigate what's going on. An hour before practice I took my Fanatec throttle hall-sender off to clean it as I had an erratic throttle pedal. This made no difference. I then switched back to logitech G27 pedals (YUCK!) but still the same problem (At least that means that my Fanatec pedals are OK)

The problem seemed to go away in qualifying but on Lap 1 I had major problems (watch the replay from my cockpit and you'll see what I mean.) throttle all over the place. Sorry AG. I took you out at the 2nd hairpin because of this.

I think that I've now worked it out. Problem in 4th and 2nd gear only so I'm guessing that it's the shifter and not the throttle. I'll have to take Logi shifter apart and clean it tomorrow. I dont' want a repeat of this. Otherwise a great track and a lot of fun. Grats to podium.

[dave curtis]

Problem in 4th and 2nd gear only so I'm guessing that it's the shifter and not the throttle. I'll have to take Logi shifter apart and clean it tomorrow. I dont' want a repeat of this.

Is the issue that when changing into 4th (or 2nd) that the 'other' incorrect gear can be selected (maybe if the change is not ultra-precise, or if lightly touching the stick longer than required to change gear?).
With your setup of differernt component parts, is the shifter connected to its own USB port?

I have a small collection of gettng progressivly-worse G25 & G27 shifters,  connecting through a Leo Bodnar adapter.
If you have similar, there is a config utility avaialble which allows you to adjust the horizontal & vertical threasholds for each gear.
Doesn't magically clean/fix a bad shifter, but can possibly extend the working life before resorting to a stripdown.

[Tom Johnson]

Sorry Bastian, I tried to pass you cleanly and you tried to let me pass but the server decided we were to close and sent you off. I didn't feel any contact, but saw you off track after I went by. My replay doesn't show any contact, but the server still determined we were to close. The racing was close and fun with several people, but very hard to pass. Overall, I like this track very much. Thanks for the track, the race and UKGPL for hosting this event.

See you next race,

Tom

[Pete Bennett]

Thanks for the advice Dave. I have G27 shifter going into Leo Bodnar adaptor and all running on Linux. I've found the link here... (looks as though they've updated the adaptor as well).

http://www.leobodnar.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=97&products_id=188

Let's hope I can get it to work on Linux