Released 25-11-2016 RaceRoom has been updated

Charles? Is it you Charles? Charles Bukowski?

 

@J-F Chardon , I hope you work on the problem of the joinlag, which is so annoying/disturbing!!

 

always amazing how calm the S3 staff responds to abusive comments.
Clearly the complete opposite from Slightly Mad Studios staff and forum moderators.

If this was the Pcars forum it would rain forum-bans at least 5 times a day. lol

 

Maybe not everyone but most of us! Before the patch only a few had this joinlags.
But all in all it goes into the right direction after the last patch.

 

I don't know of anyone without this problem.

 

I don't understand.
Haven't you been testing before release?
Could something be wrong with Beta-Testers specs, since you were not expecting this?
How are we to understand that problems only appear when a patch is released?
Problems that make the game unplayable for days.
Please explain.

 

Maybe its related to players with higher ping joining the server? Or maybe those who have the game out of focus (alt+tab) as I noticed the game loads slower in those cases.

It happens to me but only sometimes (and when it does happen it happens to everyone on the server), which makes me think its not necessarily about PC specs.

 

AMD FX 6100 @ 3.3 gh
16 gig RAM @ 1600
GTX 970 - 4 gig
System-HD 1 tb sata 3 (For now, will migrate to SSD soon)
Game-HD 256gig SSD

 

It happens when a player join a Multiplayer-Session. Almost everyone who ist already in the Multiplayer Session has a massiv lag / screen freeze. Last friday we made a test run (virtualracing.org). When i joined the session almost everybody had this lag! @Robert Wiesenmüller (Beta-Tester) was on our Server.

 

The probem is if the car itself is not yet at the server then there is apparently a joinlag.
(Every time a driver joins a car that does not yet exist on the server)

That was already before Race 07.
At the Weißbierbude (german community) there was an updater tool where you could adjust when the cars should be loaded (if it is in the box, if it stands, or never)

Please test once, for example GT3 + GT2 + P1 is to be driven, then the problem is very quickly recognizable!

My system:
CPU: i5 3570 - RAM: 8GB Corsair PC1333 - GFX: NVidia GTX 970 - Wheel: TM 500rs - Pedals: Fanatec CSP V2 - Triple Screen - Windows 7 64Bit

 

yes that's what I also think.

When a car is not yet on the server through another player, it has to be loaded during session it it will give you the lag.
People that did not experience the lag may have luck or drive on a private server where most car models are already present, or drive on a server with only one or a few manufacturers.

Just my guess. But it seems the most plausible.

 

I've always had the join lag. Lasts about half a second, just enough to screw up a quali lap.

 

@J-F Chardon , any chance of looking into the AI aggression ?

 

May help whenever you have an AI issue, to always, always.... list what class and difficulty level you are racing them at.

All classes of AI were improved in the November patch, and they all use different AI code. So some classes are better than others.

A generic statement isnt the most useful since there are so many cars that the comment could be about.

 

Thank you, this has already been tested and fixed once already. If you recall about a week ago, there was no issue with this, however, with recent events, invisible cars and what not, the p2p (Peer to peer) connection which smooths out car movements and adds more detail between drivers within a certain distance of each other, had to be removed.
I don't know how they (the devs) did that but, given this issue with join lag is back and the time it would take to rework the MP without p2p from scratch, I'd guess it was a rollback to a previous MP incarnation .
It is a temporary solution to allow everyone to race and see each other. A permanent solution is being worked on, I don't have a time frame so I'll just guess at "Soon™" for now.

 

Also are the DTM 2015 rules going to be fixed? Like a standing start instead of a rolling start and the mandatory pit stop only being in the second race?