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[Saiph]

rachet1, on May 17 2012 - 07:43 PM, said:

hi guys !!!  
I'm still around
finally finished my monster rank for my Oval Rank  
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Grats Rich!   I got so dizzy doing the ovalrank that I gave up on the monster! Nice to see you around!  

[Burnsy865]

Well Done Rich and good to see you still around    I am slowly working towards my F2 Monster Rank and try to drive a few different cars each week at the promo track for the week. I am really enjoying the F2's ATM.

[Dark]

Hi All, I've been thinking about GPL again recently and decided to get my G25 out of the loft to see if it works and to my pleasant surprise it does but my 8 year old GPL inatallation on a new PC isn't so happy. 36fps seems ok but 60fps is fine for a couple of laps and just stutters badly from then on so i think a fresh install for the first time in many a moon is on the cards.

I'm just downloading the all in one installer, F2 mod and 69 Extra mod and will hopefully get chance to have a go later in the week.

Long time no post. I hope every one is ok

[Saiph]

Hi Stewart, glad to see you back!       I think you might like the '69X mod - still just as fast as the '69's, but with a little less grip to make it more of a challenge. It's great fun.

[Dark]

Hi Keith, i'm not quite back yet, i'm aware of how big a job it is to install GPL from scratch nowadays  

I've also been driving karts for a couple of years so i'm kind of a left foot braker now so i thought i'd give it a go in GPL to see if it transfers. I've had a few runs in a 125cc superkart this year which are insane (its like driving a 67 Lotus round somehehwere like Falkenburg)

My quick drive at Kyalami last night was horribly slow (1:22.xx) so it feels like i have a mountain to climb to get back on pace.

[davef]

I am fairly new to SRMZ (less then 1 year),but I have looked at this post
a few times  & understand Dark that you are quite the GPLer

Hope that your re-install goes well & you can return to the fun !  

Edited by davef, Jul 10 2012 - 08:57 AM.

[tooncheesef1]

Welcome back, have you tried the 1.04 installer? Its easy to use and has some great graphics.  

[Burnsy865]

Nice to see you "not quite back yet" Stewart. I hope you have been enjoying the Karting and I look forward to seeing your name reappearing on some of those total ranks  

[Pedro]

davef, on Jul 10 2012 - 08:53 AM, said:

& understand Dark that you are quite the GPLer

It's "Sir Dark" for you  

Good to see U "back home" again Stewart!!  

[Dark]

Hi Dave, yes i suppose i was very active back in the day and i'll admit to missing it. A couple of youngsters i know through work and the amateur kart racing have just installed GPL and are marvelling at it and it re-ignited the bug to have another go. Its good to read there has been some new people join the GPL family since i was last here.

I have literally just installed GPL using the 1.04 installer toon and its a very nice piece of work. I now have the 67's up and running pretty much how i like them. Just done a 21.7 at Kyalami in a three lap test so its running so much better than my old installation.

I am looking at those total rank gaps Craig and also the Oval rank monster. In fact all the ranks but the -70 in the 67's is what i want the most  

Well hello Pedro sir! Thanks for the welcome, its really good to see you're still here brightening the place up  

I'm now debating whether or not to export my times from GPLRank in to the new installation of GPL  

[Rudy Dingemans]

Hi there Stewart, nice to see ya back!     Not been GPL'ing lately (GPL pc = down, while Mac = still up) but keeping meself busy with driving all kinds of cars in all kinds of sims (GT5 included - pretty good in parts).

Regards, Rudy
(GPLRank: -40)

Edited by Rudy Dingemans, Jul 10 2012 - 02:50 PM.

[Larko29]

Great to see you back Stewart and hear you expounding the challenges of GPl to others, the Kart racing sounds like fun.

The 1.04 installer is a masterful piece of work

Craig

[Dark]

Hi Rudy, its good to see you are still around old friend. I think GPL will always be my sim of choice whenever i feel the need to drive virtually

Hi Craig, the karting was fun but fitness is what was letting me down mostly. I've stopped racing them now but i get to have a blast on practice days occassionally. The shifter karts are immensely quick and never fail to shock me how brutal they are. Its what i imagine driving a 69 car would be for real with enough power to spin the rears in any gear and the grip to carry some serious corner speed. Great fun!

I had a longer session last night after using the fantastic new installer and consistency was coming and the feel for it was coming back. Got down to a 1:20.00 at Kyalami left foot braking. I'll have to make some changes to my old setups though i think after trying an unchanged GH2 setup. Greger's although a bit too aggressive actually felt better with the trailing throttle driving technique so i think i'll start making some new setups later.

I still can't run 60fps very well though so i'll go back to 36fps to stop the stuttering and FFB2 doesn't feel right anymore after driving in real life. The standard FF is more realistic for me.

[Dark]

Ok 36fps is terrible after so much running with 60fps which i can't stop going through stuttering fits every three laps. I'm going to give this up as bad job i think   It must have something to do with having two graphics cards (one feeding a central monitor and the other feeding two outer monitors)  

[sky]

stewart.. what kinda setup are you running? i'm running w7 with 2 graphics cards, one gtx260 and one geforce 6600 topsilent (from way back). the 260 drives my central 1920x1080 screen and the ancient geforce 6600 drives the two outer screens. i'm not using triple screens for GPL (i wish i could do that). but that setup runs quite well. i never stray from 60fps - i can't stand 36fps anymore, even if the ai cars ride higher or are crappy. i'd still rather enjoy fluid visuals over slightly akward ai.
and even if you have different manufacturer (as in amd/ati vs nvidia) cards in one machine, that shouldn't be an issue. don't let people tell you it won't work. i had an x1900xt (ati) and this gtx260 (nv) running in the same machine with no issues running their separate drivers.

also make sure that you have the detail level set to 99 in the graphics settings. best done via GEM (you are using GEM, right?). otherwise set it to full in GPL, and click it one notch down, that should be 99. at 100 i have had significant performance losses with no increase in visuals that i could detect. and i consider myself very picky in the gfx department.

also with some of the latest nvidia drivers (if you have a nv card) i was getting pretty bad slowdowns and flake fps. so i went back to a rather old one i knew to be stable and fast. almost 60fps everywhere, except at the back of a field on race start. but that is mostly down to your CPU power, not gfx. unless you have a really old one, but then my gtx260 wasn't cream of the crop when it was new, some years ago and it still does a pretty sterling job.


/edit oh and it's sad to see you get back to doing 1:20s at kyalami in less than a week, where my best efforts of ALL time have only yielded a 1.22.4 ('67)

Edited by sky, Jul 11 2012 - 02:10 PM.