phew, quite pleased to bag another podium in 3rd place despite all my fps woes this week.
Turned down all the eye candy and set Nvidia panel to 'performance' rather than 'quality' and that allowed my fps to creep up to low 30's but still bloody rubbish for such a high(ish) spec pc. It still meant that as soon as i had traffic around me in the corners it turned to 'jerk-a-vision' and made my braking a little haphazard, i could only really push when i had a clean track about me and then i could pump some fast laps in until lapping GT cars caught me again each time.
Qualied 3rd GT2 pipping Dave by a couple of tenths/hundreths? with my final run despite still being a second off my pb here (1:39).
First half hour of race was spent fending off a couple of Team shark cars in the form of DG and Peter. Had some good side by sides with Dave into a few corners both giving each other room to dance (could really do with trackIR in those instances!) but after a few attempts he made his move stick into T1 and got by me. Nice move.
Then Peter attacked me for a few more laps allowing DG to scamper off but i then saw Peter slide off at the uphill chicane in my mirrors and i had a breather/clean track for a few laps to chase back after DG. Alas i then got caught by some GT1s and lost a load of time with my stutter vision.
Towards mid race my rears were overcooking in the mid 30's heat and getting very oversteery under braking and i started to drop laptimes and finally span just before the final turn allowing Jan to close right up. I pitted next lap, good clean stop, just tyres, but was shocked a lap later to find myself back behind Jan by about 5-10 secs
...my stop was only 28 secs so he must have a demon pit crew!
Chased after him like a man possessed and gave him a very hard time for many laps trying to find a way past until again a stuttering brake zone saw me run wide on a corner entry and i dropped a few secs. Chased and caught him again, only for it to happen once more
I gave up chasing 3rd at that point and thought not worth the risk with my fps issue and was surprised to then see a pall of thick black smoke emerging from Jans stranded Porsche. (most unusual to do an engine on an RSR...how did you manage that?) Unlucky mate with so few laps to go.
So i cruised over the line for a hard earned 3rd.
Well done to Gomez and DG on the other pody slots and good driving.
GT1 boys were great too considering this tricky track, good patience shown by all.
The last round should be a great battle for the top 5 with only a handful of points between us. Hope i can sort my gfx out for that.
