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Ah, that's why you were running a second faster than me, I had a full tank!

Yea, Clear skies are our enemy!
 
After the new build I've done testing sessions on my own at the GT3 track and joined a few hosted sessions, with the correct weather.

I was comfortable in the car from pit exit for a full race distance.

Joined a race tonight and it's like a brand new car again.

No grip at all.

Couldn't get near my practice times and the whole session felt like Ice racing, how is this possible every single time?

I practice off and online with the correct weather, yet come the race, the car feels totally different.
 
Something to do with it affecting the downforce, cloudy or overcast you can be far far more aggressive. I am running minimum rear wing and still i get a lot of understeer.

I forget exactly what it is that causes it now, but it made me respect the weather a lot more!

Barmy, I've never had that personally.
 
The bit where it's different between practice and the race is an odd one, people have mentioned it for years, long before the weather options, yet I've never felt it and it seems to be the majority don't get it, but with the number of people that mention it it has to be something...

Barmy, I've not long got back but did give the Ford GT3 a very very brief spin, I had a couple of unplanned beers so not driving the best but it seemed a bit odd, initial turn in felt great, really nice 'bite', but mid corner to exit it was understeer city, this was using a Q setup I found on the forums. It also seemed to burn the rear tyres after a few laps of not sliding that much, but that may have been down to the setup.

Then jumped back into my trusty Skippy and even not being able to concentrate fully put together a 10-lap stint with some pretty decent times and only 2-3 major slides (held, until the 4th :p) so that makes me a bit more confident about any races I might be able to do :)

Also reminded me how much I love the flow around Mosport, never seem to remember that when I'm slating it for lack of overtaking, for hotlapping it's fantastic :p
 
Well for all my bitching about lacking pace, I just won a RUF Cup race. At least whatever is causing me to have no pace seems to be affecting everyone else equally too :)
 
Iracing has melted once more.

It's getting a bit silly now. Every new build means they break the game in someway nor they don't have the bandwidth to cope with the extra demand they generate from new content.

Premium price without the premium service.
 
barmyllama said:
No grip at all.

Couldn't get near my practice times and the whole session felt like Ice racing, how is this possible every single time?

I practice off and online with the correct weather, yet come the race, the car feels totally different.
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I get this as well and have never had an answer to the problem, people keep saying its nerves but I don't feel nervous in a race at all. Best I can say is that it's CPU issues as the NTM requires more grunt but I'm no expert nor have I upgraded in a long time to confirm this theory.
 
My CPU is an i5 4960K that runs to 3.8Ghz without even overclocking, so I'd be surprised if it's that in my case.

But who knows, the game runs the same on 1 GTX 970 as it does when I've got both of my 970's installed so there's certainly performance issues somewhere.
 
I don't think it's anything as obvious as CPU grunt, otherwise I'd definitely get it as I've not long upgraded from a Core2Duo, and even now just running the Pentiun [email protected] so not exactly a beast :p

If it's an issue with the software it's something incredibly hard to track/minor, like an issue a while ago where doing an odd number of burnouts in an Oval car gave you a very minor increase in grip, barely noticeable anywhere but gave a couple of hundredths of a second around Daytona/Talladega and ended up being a minor rounding error when they eventually found it.

Or, as theorised, it's a 'nervousness' problem, but again, I'm semi-nervous at the start of races.

Anyway, back to racing, just did my first race for a long time, Skippy at Mosport 'top split' but not saying much, average was 2444, I was gridded 11th due to no qualifying so instead wussed out and started from the pits. Once underway I lapped pretty consistently in the 33's, mostly mid-high but a new PB of a 33.2 (bit of a draft), and ended up 8th (ranked 6th) of 16, had a 1x where I screwed up the entry of T3 whilst trying to keep a faster driver behind but I can live with that :p
 
I've removed one graphics card and while I'm testing I average 100-160 FPS with 80-99% GPU usage.

When I join a race, my frame rate plummets to as low as 35 FPS, but I'm only getting 40-50% GPU usage all the time I'm in a race.

I also get stuttering in hosted sessions, even with frame rates well above my monitors refresh rate.

V Sync nor capping a 83 makes any difference.

I wouldn't mind but turning details down doesn't make any difference either, but the low FPS in races is causing input lag and making it hard to be consistent.

It's doing my head in.

Add that to the fact that the iRacing website is still slow and doesn't load session times with any web browser.
 
Yea, something definitely seems up some the largest build. I hosted a practice the other night and when people connected it jumped around all over the place cs adjusting mayhem for me.

Had a decent day in RUF cup, 3rd and 2nd twice. Always just beat to the win! Tomorrow WSCS @Daytona.
 
Doggie2k said:
Oh well I'm all out of ideas as to why my car feels different from practice/quali to the race then haha.
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Last night I was in the Z4 for Testing and the race and it was hopeless.

Tonight it was the Ruf and it was fine. Apart from the massive frame rate drops, stuttering at high frame rates and the loss of 50% GPU usage between testing and racing.
 
Does any one know how to amend a setup to not destroy tyres?

I've developed a nice qualifying setup for the RUF, but I'm having trouble making it last as a race set. Within 10 laps it'll go from low 2:29s to low 2:31s. The major issue is burning up the left front (although I can't check the temps at the mo because the garage UI is broken for that at the moment). I've reduced the rake and camber slightly, but what else will help?

Other than using less right foot, obviously :D
 
Less wing will help, as there will be less downforce/understeer. Check the Toe also as that can burn them up too soon. Also look at your temps, you want 30c as optimal, if they're too hot they'll understeer and too cool then there is not enough grip. Try turning the gurney flap off too, depenmds how loose you like your setups though if you run with no flap or wing.
 
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