NGT Sprint Cup - Season 2, Round 1, Barcelona - Oct 18th

[Simon Gymer]

I must admit I've never seen so many 1 fps hit cars or just disco's or whatever they were (cars stationary in the middle of the track). Edza had really bad ping for me right through qualifying he was up at 500 or 600ms, but loads of others unfortunately also suffering some wierdiness.

On the 1 fps thing, again since I changed my connection setting to ISDN (in the lobby screen) I've not had any problems on line. I'm pretty certain I've never had the 1 fps with ISDN set, only when I've gone up to Cable/DSL have I had a problem. Probably worth people that had problems trying that out.

[popabawa]

On the 1 fps thing, again since I changed my connection setting to ISDN (in the lobby screen) I've not had any problems on line. I'm pretty certain I've never had the 1 fps with ISDN set, only when I've gone up to Cable/DSL have I had a problem. Probably worth people that had problems trying that out.

Funny you should mention that Shark. I made that change and for pretty much the first time ever didn't get the 1FPS bug at Barca. Top tip.

Very enjoyable race. My best ever qualification effort with a PB to be 7th on the grid. I checked, that was 1.2s better than my qualifying session in Season 1!

Superb qualifying by the NGT Legends team in such esteemed company, we were 6th, 7th & 10th.

Nice, cheeky ( ) move by Greg to get past PaulW & I at the start. Squeezed past PaulW to get 7th back and had a hugely enjoyable 20mins following Greg. Nice driving by Greg, didn't put a wheel wrong so I came nowhere near a passing opportunity despite my best efforts to put some pressure on.

Lord knows how I didn't hit Edza, I must have come within a pixel of disaster, PaulW was right behind me, I probably obscured his vision and he wasn't so lucky

A stupid unforced mistake span me off from behing Greg  tried to chase him down again but as I was coming to some backmarkers I misjudged my run at the final corner and left the track to let Rich A through. To be fair, Rich was catching me pretty quickly anway!

Still, a hugely enjoyable race  Brilliant we had such a full grid. Hope that lasts all season 

Well done to the podium guys (plus JonM & Shark), you guys are in a different class 

Pops

[Jamera]

On the 1 fps thing, again since I changed my connection setting to ISDN (in the lobby screen) I've not had any problems on line. I'm pretty certain I've never had the 1 fps with ISDN set, only when I've gone up to Cable/DSL have I had a problem. Probably worth people that had problems trying that out.

ADC "speedgeezers" have just come to the same conclusion and now advise all their members to select ISDN and it seems to "cure" the problem

[Pedro[PL]]

I have used ISDN setting ever since and never experienced 1FPS bug. My friends from www.gtr.pl league all use the same setting but some of them experience the problem - thus it may not be a solution for everyone. The only 100% solution is to slow down (preferably stop by the track) and ALT+TAB into desktop and back again.

[Edza]

Hi all,

Thought I'd apologise for my car being stuck in the middle of the track and giving people some hairy moments.....

I've got an ISDN connection and have the connection settings set to that. Had a problem at the grid where there was another car overlaid on my own (paniced when I thought my graphics card had decided by itself to draw another steering wheel on top of mine ).

I was driving around the outlap and my ATI fault monitor interupted GTR for about 5 seconds so when I got back into the game, everyone had sped off and I was about 3 corners behind everyone.

Fought back and got past Mike after he had a spin but got a bit close to the pit wall on the last corner and he got by again.
Don't know where exactly my PC froze (was in a bit of a disgruntled rage ) but apologies yet again to everyone.

I have two weeks to get this in check and I will, trust me!

All in all, it was a hugely enjoyable evening and moreso because I got a PB lap in qualifying.

Congrats to the podium winners and just to let you all know - if my shit ain't sorted for France, I won't join in.

Thanks all.

[Rob Bywater "Kerb Crawlers"]

Very enjoyable 

That was my best race to date - loads more consistent than last season. Still 3 or 4 spins under no pressure, but still a helluva lot better, and therefore much more enjoyable.

Im sure there must have been some shananigans (sp?) in the race somewhere that means Im gonna be moved up in to the points!! 

40 mins race was much better.

Cheers

Rob

[popabawa]

40 mins race was much better.

Excellent point Rob, I enjoyed the new race distance too. Just like baby bears porridge it was 'just right'. 

[Simon Gymer]

I've got an ISDN connection and have the connection settings set to that. Had a problem at the grid where there was another car overlaid on my own (paniced when I thought my graphics card had decided by itself to draw another steering wheel on top of mine ).

Have you tried running with the 56k Modem option in game in GTR? That may help.

[Rob Bywater "Kerb Crawlers"]

I`d changed my connection back to cable, forgetting why I`d selected ISDN (I know why now), fortunately with no bad effects.

My 1fps problems seemed to dissappear once I switched off all the replay settings prior to joining the server, as suggested by Shark.

Cheers

Rob

[PaulW]

Lets face it- we're clutching at straws with Simbins wall of silence on the matter. My vote goes to Pentium based systems being a prime cause, through no fault of their own of course! Any of the above can't hurt though.

[silver53]

Hi I was hoping to have a staedy run and was up to 12th having lost some places and made them up again . On lap 16 I was booted from the race and connection lost came up.Hope my car was not stuck on track. Will set to ISDN and hope all will be well. Really enjoyed the race up till then , a few scary moments with the stationary car and bit bit of brain fade but was dissapointed not to finish. Shame that one cannot get back in a race one is in from the lobby. bye for now gerald

[mo]

First race that I've managed to stay on the tarmac for the whole distance so I'm well happy - new pb and my best NGT result too.

The first half of the race I was under pressure from Pedro who seemed to be a bit quicker than me but less consistant.
Eventually Pedro had an off which took the pressure of me and I was able to catch right up to JonM, with whom I had a great dice for second place.
It was very close and clean apart from one ham fisted overtaking effort by me into La Caixa where we exchanged some paintwork - sorry Jon, it was a kinda will i, wont i ?  thing and in the end i backed out but locked a brake and slid across onto your line.

I was lucky to not hit any of the stationary cars , although having the player names visible definitely helps see these in advance.
Congrats to Matjaz on a faultless drive and mind blowing pace.

[JonM_uk]

No probs Mo  Enjoyed the scrap, just a shame I couldn't keep it the track a bit longer, the pressure you put on me was too much for me in the end and I tried to brake a bit too late. Nice race 

[Edza]

I've got an ISDN connection and have the connection settings set to that. Had a problem at the grid where there was another car overlaid on my own (paniced when I thought my graphics card had decided by itself to draw another steering wheel on top of mine ).

Have you tried running with the 56k Modem option in game in GTR? That may help.

Haven't tried that yet but will this weekend.

cheers

[Edza]

By the way....any word on the next fun race?

Do you guys intend on having one before the next French race?