[marty]

@ Grat Strange with the custom skins as they are all tiny 16MB for 5 or 6 skins so seems unlikley to me. I think try disable some stuff in win 10 like windows defender being active and disable AV etc while i game. Its not like your going to get a virus ingame but if its doing processing in the bacground this can cause random performance issues.

Was wondering what happened to you Humper I just caught your car then for 1 frame it stopped and smashed in the front of my car then went through the wall and continued on. I che ked the replay and cant even see where the collision came from as the cars werent that close maybe you dropped a landmine as you left. 

[Joe]

Deleting the custom skins seemed to have helped a bit with the stutters. Let's see...

What sort of stutters are  you getting? Do you have an SSD? Ages ago I was getting lots of stutters and it turned out to be Helicorsa loading images from disk.

[grat]

@ Grat Strange with the custom skins as they are all tiny 16MB for 5 or 6 skins so seems unlikley to me. I think try disable some stuff in win 10 like windows defender being active and disable AV etc while i game. Its not like your going to get a virus ingame but if its doing processing in the bacground this can cause random performance issues.

For sure it is not just the skins. I have watched quite a few replays from past seasons between last night and this morning.

Past seasons replays: FPS is fixed at 59.999 at all times except for 1 second at start of race (I do not mind) and randomly drops to 59.998 at random times (on average once a lap?), but I see no stutter at all. This results in a very smooth experience, maybe with an occasional micro-freeze any 15 minutes or so. (this is true for GT3 season, F1 season, Evora season, GT86 seasons.... for heavily packed races and not).

This season replays: FPS is fixed at 59.999 BUT it drops below it and stutters a bit if we are very packed. It also drops to 59.998 without visible stutter pretty often (say every 2 or 3 corners). So clearly this combo is worse for my computer, but not too bad either. The problem is that some nights it just stutters all the time unless I restart it. That... I do not know why.

So it is possible it is the cars plus the skins plus the tracks... maybe I am always on a very marginal performance and this combo makes it drop below the threshold. Problem is that I tried to play with reduced AA, reduced shadows, reduced smoke, reduced reflections... not one of these made any effect by itself. My benchmark results also seem decently solid (11200+ points, 76avg, variance=0). I have tried several NVIDIA drivers and currently I am on the latest. I have tried all sorts of little settings, but it seems this combination is the one giving me the best results... It's possible I am just too marginal and this combo+very packed races do not work too well for me.

As for other software. I am using avast in silence mode but disabling it makes no difference. No defender... as far as I know the pc is really really clean. I use it for nothing else and I have uninstalled pretty much anything else.

Stefano Casillo showed some improvement on fps coming up in 1.8. Perhaps I just wait for it and then see if that does not solve it.

[grat]

Deleting the custom skins seemed to have helped a bit with the stutters. Let's see...

What sort of stutters are  you getting? Do you have an SSD? Ages ago I was getting lots of stutters and it turned out to be Helicorsa loading images from disk.

AC is on SSD, with the documents folder on a bigger HD, so I can keep saving replays forever....

[Joe]

Deleting the custom skins seemed to have helped a bit with the stutters. Let's see...

What sort of stutters are  you getting? Do you have an SSD? Ages ago I was getting lots of stutters and it turned out to be Helicorsa loading images from disk.

AC is on SSD, with the documents folder on a bigger HD, so I can keep saving replays forever....

Not that then. Have you tried turning all of your apps off? Could still be one of them doing something funky.

[humper]

Was wondering what happened to you Humper I just caught your car then for 1 frame it stopped and smashed in the front of my car then went through the wall and continued on. I che ked the replay and cant even see where the collision came from as the cars werent that close maybe you dropped a landmine as you left. 

Wacky Races.
Dropped some tacks, landmines and banana skins.

[trackmeister]

Great fun! I was happy with how I went in one of the lone ranger RX7s

Bruce - your too funny "time/space particle fusion with then safety buffer and my car and it become one!"

Humper - I'll blame your landmines for my 'dive bomb' passes then. They were actually inadvertent controlled slides where I lost the rear end and managed to hold an inside line overtake and rub some paint.

Wally - thanks for adding me to the group. I started from the back of the grid every race which I am thinking is how you set it up for fairness so that if you miss races you start at the back.

Marty - thanks for all the practice sessions. Take my hat off to you for the 1.03 lap times. I thought I was nailing it but those times were blistering.

Freezer - I think race 1 and 2 I could not pass you whilst marty and jeremy and Bacchulum were approaching in my rear vision. that was one wide green machine supra.

I know I tapped one person causing them to take a 45 degree apex slide for which I felt extremely guilty.

Anyway thanks all for having me and the races

[Bruce]

hehe @trackmiester, you have a strange sense of humour too! 

I hate using my phone puter for posting, just read my initial post some of it makes me look wacky!

I was tired, and like slideways, (hope the medication adjustments work out okay), and happy to be overtaken, in fact I am a Past Master at being overtaken!  I still enjoy racing here and I am sure I will get better!

@grat I noticed last week on the hairpin, I had fine stuttering, this week it was noticeable everywhere, and when checked FPS was done to 25!
I have turned off 'heaps of stuff' and now back to 60FPS, this won't help directly, but maybe make you feel better your not alone.

[Wally]

Great fun! I was happy with how I went in one of the lone ranger RX7s

Bruce - your too funny "time/space particle fusion with then safety buffer and my car and it become one!"

Humper - I'll blame your landmines for my 'dive bomb' passes then. They were actually inadvertent controlled slides where I lost the rear end and managed to hold an inside line overtake and rub some paint.

Wally - thanks for adding me to the group. I started from the back of the grid every race which I am thinking is how you set it up for fairness so that if you miss races you start at the back.

Marty - thanks for all the practice sessions. Take my hat off to you for the 1.03 lap times. I thought I was nailing it but those times were blistering.

Freezer - I think race 1 and 2 I could not pass you whilst marty and jeremy and Bacchulum were approaching in my rear vision. that was one wide green machine supra.

I know I tapped one person causing them to take a 45 degree apex slide for which I felt extremely guilty.

Anyway thanks all for having me and the races

Yeah,  anyone with no points yet starts at the back. Next week, you'll be somewhere else.

[grat]

hehe @trackmiester, you have a strange sense of humour too! 

I hate using my phone puter for posting, just read my initial post some of it makes me look wacky!

I was tired, and like slideways, (hope the medication adjustments work out okay), and happy to be overtaken, in fact I am a Past Master at being overtaken!  I still enjoy racing here and I am sure I will get better!

@grat I noticed last week on the hairpin, I had fine stuttering, this week it was noticeable everywhere, and when checked FPS was done to 25!
I have turned off 'heaps of stuff' and now back to 60FPS, this won't help directly, but maybe make you feel better your not alone.

AHah, thank you

[grat]

Deleting the custom skins seemed to have helped a bit with the stutters. Let's see...

What sort of stutters are  you getting? Do you have an SSD? Ages ago I was getting lots of stutters and it turned out to be Helicorsa loading images from disk.

AC is on SSD, with the documents folder on a bigger HD, so I can keep saving replays forever....

Not that then. Have you tried turning all of your apps off? Could still be one of them doing something funky.

I did some experiment, yes... but maybe I did not try to turn all of them off in launcher. I'll try tonight.

[Matthew111]

Pretty fun nights racing for me, kepts out of trouble for some good results. I didnt think it would be a good round starting from the back as it was proving to be difficult to pass in the prac before the race. The race starts were pretty full on i decided to go around the outside for the first few turns to keep out of trouble and lucky for me it was the right lane for all 3 races lol. Good turn around from round 1 where i actually found it harder to pass lol

[LetsTestDrive]

Race 1: I wasn't aware it was going to be a reverse grid start so I mostly just tried to stay out of trouble, and was surprised I managed to get through the whole race without a single contact, go me 

Race 2: DaveO stalled off the line in front of me which I had to drastically avoid but still side swiped. I eventually managed to hold up a pack of 5-6 much quicker cars for 4-5 laps but I didn't want to let them pass easily. I focused on trying to stick to my braking points and keep a good line and was having fun holding them off until I eventually got a tap in the rear which put me into an instinctive drift mode. I planted the throttle in a last ditch bid to drift out of the slide and win a drifting award. Well it didn't work.

Race 3: Again like race 2 when the faster guys started approaching I really tried to hold them off and not make it too easy for them. I managed to get through the whole race without any contacts so that was a positive.

Having a look at the results (http://xgnassettocorsa.blogspot.com.au/2016/08/s13r2-jap-pack-at-tsukuba.html) it's interesting to note how based on start position the rear half of the grid made up 2-15 positions, and the front half of the grid lost 2-15 positions. I can understand how it wouldn't be the most fun experience turning a supposed "race" into a "blue flag/let the quicker drivers pass" event for half the grid.

[Freezer]

Much like LetsTestDrive I had a good night.  I knew that the Skylines would be doing quicker laps but I just drove the Supra to its strengths and had three races that involved very close racing, tonnes of pressure from behind.  I held the tight line on certain bends and made sure I got maximum traction of the bends which ensured those faster had to work pretty hard to get buy.  It was only in R3 when Jeremy gave me a tap and spun me that I lost time (although Jeremy and I had an earlier small rub which caused some chaos).  All up a hard but good night.
I'm happy with whatever format as there are always pro's and con's.

[marty]

Race 1: I wasn't aware it was going to be a reverse grid start so I mostly just tried to stay out of trouble, and was surprised I managed to get through the whole race without a single contact, go me 

Race 2: DaveO stalled off the line in front of me which I had to drastically avoid but still side swiped. I eventually managed to hold up a pack of 5-6 much quicker cars for 4-5 laps but I didn't want to let them pass easily. I focused on trying to stick to my braking points and keep a good line and was having fun holding them off until I eventually got a tap in the rear which put me into an instinctive drift mode. I planted the throttle in a last ditch bid to drift out of the slide and win a drifting award. Well it didn't work.

Race 3: Again like race 2 when the faster guys started approaching I really tried to hold them off and not make it too easy for them. I managed to get through the whole race without any contacts so that was a positive.

Having a look at the results (http://xgnassettocorsa.blogspot.com.au/2016/08/s13r2-jap-pack-at-tsukuba.html) it's interesting to note how based on start position the rear half of the grid made up 2-15 positions, and the front half of the grid lost 2-15 positions. I can understand how it wouldn't be the most fun experience turning a supposed "race" into a "blue flag/let the quicker drivers pass" event for half the grid.

Good effort being contact free for a couple races there, also no need to let people pass easily make them work for it.

I had less contacts then I expected considering I was real close to people ahead quite a bit but managed to avoid hitting anyone from behind. I got 1 tap in the rear race 1 then a bigger one on last lap when Bacchulum got on the grass. Race 2 was just the one contact which unfortunately sent Wally into a wall as I had to take evasive action around 2 cars that spun ahead and blocked the track, I went hard left but Wally was there. Race 3 my only contact was when Humper lost connection then I warp hit him and Mael rear ended me I think in the same incident as we had no idea what was happening.