Had an interesting race night. The new changes to the game has made a big difference to the F40 in my opinion and I've found it now quite drivable provided I'm patient with the throttle. Got a blinding start for the race one managing to be second on the exit of the first corner only for the race to be restarted. On the second restart I got just as good a start but with all the chat on teamspeak about people calling for another restart due to something down the back, I missed my braking marker and hit seanus which resulted in him running wide at turn 1, apologies.  Unsure of what was actually going on, I hung back and waited for him expecting a restart as on teamspeak was there was some voices calling for and asking the question but none never came. Whilst I understand this is supposed to be a fun night, hearing the comment of "shut the fuck up" when asking about what is going on is not what I'd expect in the spirit of these nights.  Some consistency in when a restart is called and an explanation of why/when one is activated could be helpful. After waiting to readdress with Seanus I was deep down the back of the pack and it was fun racing to the flag.

The reverse race was a lot of fun, there seemed to be some disparate moves on cold tyres and I managed to fluke my way around some spinning cars to 3rd rather quickly. I had a tense battle with Phil, until he made an error and spun gifting me 2nd. I managed to chase down Seanus on what became the final lap but was unable to pass him in the last 1/3 of the final lap.

The results of race 2 need to be adjusted as Seanus was first across the finishline.

The session details shows several people did not pit?

Don't believe everything you read. Being one of the ones listed as not pitting, I certainly did more than one stop due to the pit app not functioning properly and causing my car to be short filled on both occasions, resulting in my coming last.....

How many laps are you thinking of making the race on Thursday Phil, and will there be compulsory pit stops ?
Average seems to be about 1m 40s a lap.

I'll be there!
I did a full race run and found that the tires were shagged after about 20 laps which made the last 5 laps lots of sliding fun, but terribly slow....now to work out this pitstop plugin....

Quote from: Joe on January 26, 2017, 01:21:43 PM

Quote from: bradc on January 26, 2017, 01:06:42 PM

Here's yet another dumb, newbie question.....
I've downloaded this track from the link in the first post, placed it into the correct folder but when I go to race online it won't allow me onto the server because I've not got the correct content.....what am I doing wrong?

Should be all good as long as you dropped the folder from the zip into the tracks folder. The server is still passworded from last week, did you make sure the password was entered?

Also check in the content, that you do not have the "track" inside the "track"

Thank so for the tips, turns out the problem was that the download link in the first post of this thread was not the track which was being raced and once I found another link to a different track a few posts further on, the problem fixed itself instantly.

Was nice to have a run around the back of the back as I was mindful that I was racing with 1 laps practice and  I didn't want to be the goose slamming into the field at the end of the long straight out I the middle of the forest, so I took the safely, slowly approach, which got me past 4 or 5 cars in the opening lap. Rather uneventful race, until I realised that I didn't have enough fuel and needed to pit and fell foul of the tracks bugs when it wouldn't let me put until I exited the game and rejoined.

Apologies for the glitch issues at the start of race two. For some reason when I Alt-tab out of Assetto to do something in windows and then go back the game develops some sort of massive lag which chews up huge amounts of processor speed and RAM space and the only way to fix this is a full reboot because if I exit the game, Steam doesn't seem to acknowledge this and thinks AC is still running. Even the Control-Alt-Del and task manager doesn't reset Steam....so I don't know how to resolve this. Knowing I'd be many laps down I thought I'd jump back so I could have a drive and learn some more about the game. I hope I didn't slow the leaders down too much as I tried to keep out of the way and lift down the straights.

Quote from: bradc on January 19, 2017, 08:36:30 PM

guess I'm done before I'm started as I'm getting no love from Assetto Corsa and still hitting the same error message.....granted I've only ever raced online for AC one since getting the game a year ago, but I know it shouldn't be this difficult and obviously there is either a bug, or password, or error on my part that is causing but  after nearly 50 mintues of stuffing around I'll crawl back into the hole I came out from and hope it can be fixed before next week...

Sorry I didn't look at the forum, glad it was sorted and you hit the track.

Thanks for all your assistance and help Bruce, I knew there was something wrong, but couldn't work it out. Turns out it was your idiot filter which was blocking me lol !!!  Love the idea of it, but I could hear people's frustrations on ts (from having the server being reset to accomodate the changes required to allow me in) which was raising my anxiety levels about the whole situation. Luckily the good people at Australia post have my new headset waiting for me at the post office this morning so I should be able to speak for the next race.

After racing rfactor for the best part of 10 years, it is hard changing but I'm slowing getting used to Assetto (except for not having 5.1 sound support via optical), it's certainly a massive step forward. What shocked me was just how volient the bumps were in the oval section of the track and there were times where the force feedback nearly ripped the wheel out of my hands which was pretty cool.

Thanks again and I'm looking forward to being a more regular competitor in the weeks to come.

Thanks for everyone's patience with regards to the starts, I was not aware of the extra information required to race Assetto Corsa with XGN. Having raced AC online only once before, I was wondering if there was a way to show who is in front like you could by pressing tab in rfactor?

Also I heard some people talking about setting up the pits before the race and I'd love to know how as I think in pit lane I asked for 25laps of fuel when I thought it was 25 litres - doh!

Was great to see some familiar names from when I was racing regularly about 18 months ago and I look forward to doing a few more nights and hope to have my new headset working next week so I'll be able to speak

Cheers,
Bradc.

hi guys, dumb question, how do i login so i can race? i tried in multiplayer but keep getting rejected and have entered the  password....

am getting an error message of "SERVER AUTH FAILED: You need a www.minorating.com Grade of ABC to join (you are N)

does this make any sence???

Looks like I'm 24hrs late in getting my rig back together again. Hope to join in next week and make it a regular gig again, as its been way too long since I've been racing. Cheers
Brad.