UKGPL Season 20 (2010-2011) Amateurs Trophy (65) - Pebble Beach - Oct 26

[miner2049er]

Tim/Hristo what do you both use to capture video?

[Hristo Itchov]

Tim/Hristo what do you both use to capture video?

I use a cracked version of Fraps. 

[FullMetalGasket]

I actually payed for my version of Fraps! 

I'm considering making a short vid of last night though, so may try playing with gpl>avi and camera control master if I get bored enough - I find performance with fraps in GPL is a bit hit and miss frame rate wise.
Annoying really as in GTR2 and newer games it has very little effect.....

[miner2049er]

OK thanks, I used GPL2AVI for mine but it was slow.

[Hristo Itchov]

GPL2AVI is really slow, yes. Fraps works fine if you reduce the settings a bit. I set it to half-width screen (instead of full) and 50 fps, and it works fine even on my PC. What settings do you use, Tim?

[FullMetalGasket]

I think my prob was that I was trying to run it at either 25 or 50fps - The vid of Riverside was done with the fps set manually to 36fps at full res and ran perfectly 

It's quite possible that my attempts at Sodegaura failled due to a more complex track? Will need to test it again to see.....

[Hristo Itchov]

I had no problem with Soderagua and my PC is very old, so I dunno why you have such problems.

[maddog]

I sometimes used Gpl2Avi for my videos, which date back a few years, so my system and graphics were slow.  I found that things struggled less by using a division of 36fps.  So mine are 18fps, and these days I'd be using 36.  More than that seems like overkill - more than is necessary for good results.  And capture performance will vary, according to exactly what items of trickery, your system has become attached to.   

[G Jonsson]

Yes Al, you were right about the missed gear that let you and Evil by and that was only one of my many mistakes in this race. The final one ended my race some 8 laps from the finish, luckily for me a lot of others had done the same thing earlier so I only lost one position in the process.

I must admit that my preparation for this one was not really enough and I was never in the position to follow the furious speed up front although I managed 4Th on the grid, which by the way was pure luck.

So when things got on the way I was quite happy to hold on to my 4Th position. I never even tried to go with the leaders but focused to stay on track and hold Evil and Al behind. But to do that at least you need to keep the car in gear and of cause I did not.

I must admit that missing gears is one thing I rather ofter do when under pressure so I blame Evil and Al  .  Things could have been so nice ................. well, back to reality. One mistake followed by another and another and so on and then I was defending my position against Clutch4 but to my luck he also made some mistakes and was gone. At this point I was in 5Th and only had to bring it home to keep that position but, the trees finlay got in my way and that was that.

Grats to Tim for a great win, and Tom for a steady drive to second and also to Evil, Al and Bernie for making it to the finish.

Göran

[bernie]

A, fter a dissapointing showing I re- visited "the beach " did some tweeks to the car (mostly gears)  Lap times came tumbling down  "green" sectors appearing everywhere , got it into the low 1m 32 ,s without to much drama  but was suprised how agressive you needed to be to get low lap times , would have expected the car to be a total wreck within half a lap if it were in RL , more like an RAC  Rally forest stage than a motor race 

BTW

If I had used my new set up for the race I would still have finished 5th  perhaps not such a mobile chicane though 

Must be a moral in there somewhere 

Was sorry to hear Phil had problems joining , hope you get it sorted soon mate 

[FullMetalGasket]

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