13-11-2013, 08:33 PM
My race could have been a lot worse as I had a few technical difficulty's during the event.
Qually went very well, surprised myself getting a lap time half a second faster than any I had done before. 3rd on the grid.
Race 1
Tried following Marcel and RikH the best I could but they were just too fast for me, luckily I was puling away from RobbertH and thinking if all goes well a nice 3rd place will be mine. But then my luck started to run out, my screen goes black for a second or 2, no joke, I've had this before, all I could see for a second was just the HUD and the name tags above peoples cars. Missed the corner by a meter and found myself driving on the grass and lost the place to Robb. Then after that before the pits I thought my net was about to go down as all the cars would vanish for a few seconds and come back again. That happened 3 times, so I was driving worried (this happen with you lot?). Bart was very quick behind but I gained lots of time on him in the pits and he was no longer a threat no more. Surprised as my pit was a slow 51 seconds. Me finished 4th.
OK now for the biggest race of the night, more technical difficulty's. At the end of race 1, I though I would do a quick F12 screen shot of the results, but I think I was a bit to late as the game had just started loading in the track again ready for race 2. As I sat there watching the loading screening I noticed the loading bar moving very slowly. After waiting 2 mins the bar had only moved a few centimeters. This is not right and started trying to kill rfactor. I could do nothing, could not Alt tab, or 'Crtl Alt and delete', nothing. Ended up having to press reset on PC. Had to wait for windows to load. Then found my net was gone, so reset my Modem (sometimes have to do this after a reboot, don't know why). At this point I'm in a big panic. Takes a while for modem to give me my connection. Launching rfactor2, grey icon, close and try again, grey icon, close and try again. Finally I'm in the lobby. Quickly type in the password, then load load load. Looking at clock, has 10 minutes passed? load load load!! quick quick quick!!. Loaded just in time, room still in warm-up with 0 seconds left on the clock everyone saying good luck, phewww!. I filmed myself see video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScA7PhDJPJE
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Later I found out why the track loading with so slow. In my screen shot folder I found 35 screen shots all of the same of the loading screen :o. If I had not have reset my PC think it would have filled my hard drive with screen shots lol. Never had that before :o.
Race 2 (or race 3 if the above counts as a race)
Marcel and Riks reports cover most of this, so in brief: Race begins with no rubber on the track, was all patchy (this was because of me just joining the room), so was all slip and slide everywhere. Brake peddle was binding on lap 1 (problem I have with peddles), so had Marcel biting at my tail. Slowly carving through the traffic, I did well to avoid the cars dropping out of the sky (bart), but all that work was lost when I took to the grass trying to overtake around the outside of Nikos. Second half of race had a train of fast drivers behind me wanting my place. My tyres were jelly so they could keep biting. Race was as Marcel said in his report. Was fun.
Thanks for hosting Marcel.
DJC
Qually went very well, surprised myself getting a lap time half a second faster than any I had done before. 3rd on the grid.
Race 1
Tried following Marcel and RikH the best I could but they were just too fast for me, luckily I was puling away from RobbertH and thinking if all goes well a nice 3rd place will be mine. But then my luck started to run out, my screen goes black for a second or 2, no joke, I've had this before, all I could see for a second was just the HUD and the name tags above peoples cars. Missed the corner by a meter and found myself driving on the grass and lost the place to Robb. Then after that before the pits I thought my net was about to go down as all the cars would vanish for a few seconds and come back again. That happened 3 times, so I was driving worried (this happen with you lot?). Bart was very quick behind but I gained lots of time on him in the pits and he was no longer a threat no more. Surprised as my pit was a slow 51 seconds. Me finished 4th.
OK now for the biggest race of the night, more technical difficulty's. At the end of race 1, I though I would do a quick F12 screen shot of the results, but I think I was a bit to late as the game had just started loading in the track again ready for race 2. As I sat there watching the loading screening I noticed the loading bar moving very slowly. After waiting 2 mins the bar had only moved a few centimeters. This is not right and started trying to kill rfactor. I could do nothing, could not Alt tab, or 'Crtl Alt and delete', nothing. Ended up having to press reset on PC. Had to wait for windows to load. Then found my net was gone, so reset my Modem (sometimes have to do this after a reboot, don't know why). At this point I'm in a big panic. Takes a while for modem to give me my connection. Launching rfactor2, grey icon, close and try again, grey icon, close and try again. Finally I'm in the lobby. Quickly type in the password, then load load load. Looking at clock, has 10 minutes passed? load load load!! quick quick quick!!. Loaded just in time, room still in warm-up with 0 seconds left on the clock everyone saying good luck, phewww!. I filmed myself see video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScA7PhDJPJE
.Later I found out why the track loading with so slow. In my screen shot folder I found 35 screen shots all of the same of the loading screen :o. If I had not have reset my PC think it would have filled my hard drive with screen shots lol. Never had that before :o.
Race 2 (or race 3 if the above counts as a race)
Marcel and Riks reports cover most of this, so in brief: Race begins with no rubber on the track, was all patchy (this was because of me just joining the room), so was all slip and slide everywhere. Brake peddle was binding on lap 1 (problem I have with peddles), so had Marcel biting at my tail. Slowly carving through the traffic, I did well to avoid the cars dropping out of the sky (bart)
, but all that work was lost when I took to the grass trying to overtake around the outside of Nikos. Second half of race had a train of fast drivers behind me wanting my place. My tyres were jelly so they could keep biting. Race was as Marcel said in his report. Was fun.Thanks for hosting Marcel.
DJC