James Baldwin also did an interesting review of the Maclaren. I just havent had much enthusiasm for them so far, partly as i havent driven them much and the rubbish practise/ race times now online where i seem to login to drive with 15mins in the session left. Not to mention the 10min gap sometimes between practise ending and the race event start. Just had a good 30min at sebring online to compare, cars arnt quite so communicative as the GTE but seem to make time differently.
Thanks for the link, Rob. Always good to hear what the real life driver's have to say. Sorry i couldn't make the test yesterday, but had other things needing doing. What's your safety rating, Mark? What i do is go to to the weekly and special event servers for practice and setup work. If you still need some safety rating gain to do that, just run a bunch of races where all you're focused on is dodging the dive bombers and spinners (it's also good practice for multi-class races). It doesn't take that many if that's all you want out of it (i think it took me 9 races to get to "silver" - but my first race was a "special" 2.4h at LeMans in week 1, so your mileage may vary, as they say). Sebring is one of my favorite tracks in LMU. Haven't driven it in a GT3 yet, so can't compare apples to apples, but i haven't felt that much difference GT3 to GTE from what it is in rF2, aside from what i attribute to the fact that LMU is a bit more demanding on my ancient hardware.
I have never had to wait 10 min from the practice to the race, so not sure what's going on their.. The practice servers are timed to run out of time right when the race servers start up and the 2 servers are separate, I always leave the practice server with about 5 min to go till race server starts & the JOIN button goes live... I got to silver SR in about 10 races and by my 25th race I was gold ... You just need to stay clean and let the wreckers take themselves out lol . Barrett, what are your system specs? Randys looking to buy LMU but he's worried about his system ,my fault as I warned him lower end systems will struggle, he has a Ryzen 7 and a 4070 so sure he will be fine ..
I'm still a silver, i think S2 but i don't race that much, maybe one or two races a week if the combos are enjoyable. I havent raced since the GT3 dropped as i wasn't confident just jumping straight in with quite different cars and i am bit bored of bland GT3 The practise sessions did used to finish for the race and you got messages saying the race was coming up, but seemingly no one else has picked up on they are now different, since the update and the whole Racecontrol thing. I think the practise servers are on the hours, but the race times are a bit weird
My system is about 6 years old now. AMD FX8350 / 32g RAM / nvidia RTX2060. It does struggle with LMU, frame rates jump up and down massively if uncapped depending on which HY is passing (their "mas" file size varies by quite a bit). But after a lot of optimization of the nvidia control panel, and low game settings, i've been able to cure the jitters and stutters to get a relatively smooth 50fps with in-game vSync. Even with a 51 car grid in that GTE only race at LeMans a couple weeks ago. And i do think i notice the optimization they did with the latest updates. Still... Wish i could build a new computer.
