GBR Touring Car Series Event 5 Val de Vienne 7-11-18

[neverender158]

DATE: June 20th 2018

TIME: Quali session starts at 7:15 PM Pacific / 10:15 PM Eastern, Races begin at about 7:30 PM Pacific / 10:30 PM Eastern.

SIM: Rfactor 2 Build 1110

MOD: BTCC NGTC
Link to Steam Workshop - steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1176380339

TRACK: Val de Vienne
Link to dropbox - www.dropbox.com/s/i2ldhelnnfs56zl/ValdeVienne2017.rfcmp?dl=0

QUALIFICATION: 10 minutes

FLAGS: Black Flags Only

LAPS:
We are going to try to run this at night with headlights. So be sure your headlights are mapped.
Race 1 10 laps
Race 2 10 laps Grid will be finishing order of Race 1
Race 3 10 laps Grid will be reverse of finishing order of Race 2

PIT:
No mandatory pit stop

FUEL: Normal

TIRES: Normal tire wear / Your choice of tires

DAMAGE: 50%

DRIVING AIDS: Auto Clutch only

Setups/Tuning: Open

Server is Online

[neverender158]

Joe, Jim and I were able to get on the server last night after the Croft race. Some weird things happen when running at night with the headlights. The curbs become dark when you get close to them and I noticed the car in front of me would kind of blink bright and dark too. My fps was pretty low from 25-40.

I will look into the blinking issues and see if there is a setting that can be adjusted.

If it causes low frame rates for everybody else or if the blinking is bothersome we will just run this during the day. So let me know what you guys experience when practicing.

[Jim T]

I noticed the exact same thing.The lights around the starting grid did the same.

[Jim T]

I won't be able to make this one, out of town for work and plane won't land until 10:57 central time. Have fun !

[F1Fan07]

Sounds like perhaps an track not updated for DX11 if the night lighting is wonky. I will test.

[neverender158]

Thanks Dale. If it is something with dx11 and that track we will just run during the day.

[F1Fan07]

No major framerate issues or weirdness with other cars (that could be a detail setting) for me but I do see the curbs changing to black.

[neverender158]

No issues with cars for me now. Might have just been that Jim was showing in the default yellow livery. So if nobody minds the curbs going dark I saw we give this night run a go.

[neverender158]

To get in the right mood for some night racing I suggest going to Pandora.com and searching for the band Lazerhawk or try this link

Lazerhawk Radio

This track was very frustrating at first and took me a while to get that hang of but once I did it is really fun.  Looking forward to seeing what Jeff and Jim's times will be. 

[helios16v]

I'm on my last week of mids (hopefully), so I should be able to make the races a bit easier here very soon.

[neverender158]

I know that Joe and Dale won't be racing with us at this track but the rest of you guys need to get on this track. Normally I would push this event since we are going to be down 2 drivers but the following week I won't be able to attend.
Hope to see some of you guys on the server this weekend.

[Jim T]

Well like I said in the post above . I can't make this one either. My flight back doesn't even land until 11pm central time. I hate when RL get in the way. Sorry Jim

[neverender158]

Oh dang! I didn't see your post Jim. Ok we will postpone this race at least a week, maybe 2 weeks.

[Jim T]

Sorry guys, I would much rather be racing with you than attending this meeting in Denver.

[Dan W.]

This comes at a good time, as I was jumping on to say I would not make it tonight also. Last Tuesday or Wednesday I was running some offline practice and my wheel cracked where the buttons are, almost exactly like Jeff's did a while back. I ordered a new wheel and got the three to five day shipping, today is day five and tracking says Friday, so it's running late.