Round 2 Meadowdale Raceways - Thu Oct 15, 2020

This is a mega track, with regards to the crest lift; only certain cars do it, and with a few setup changes or a quick brake tap/lift it's totally controllable. Glad to see people are warming up to it now that they've driven it more. The cameras will be ace for the broadcast too, does Catlyn check the weekly threads or should somebody send that to her directly to make sure she gets it?

 

Awesome

 

Is anyone else suddenly getting horrific stuttering in AC? 4 days ago I was running 30 car+ AI races at full detail, now I'm getting a massive stutter every few seconds no matter what setting I run or how many cars are on track - or even what track I'm on for that matter.

It's not affecting ACC or anything else I've tried so must be AC/CM/SP or related
I really don't want to have to drive through it on Thursday, I quite literally find myself pretty much out of control every 10 seconds or so - not good for anyone around me.

 

That was happening to me during the Brands Hatch round. Several major stutters/screen freezes. I've come to believe it's because of the huge amount of mods I have installed on CM And frequent CM updates. I'll probably tank my settings for the Meadowdale round, especially the particle effects. I noticed the stutters worst when I was behind another car and it had back-flash coming out of the exhausts on coast/braking for a corner. I think the animated particle effect might be one of the things that can cause it.

 

Try defragging your drive Tim. Expect like me you have tons of mods installed/removed etc for ac and they get packeted all over your hard drive over time. I run de-fraggler and you can See how fragmented many of the AC files are. Has worked for me when I started gettting in game stutters.

 

Well, I've started backing up Setups and car/track files. Going to completely wipe AC, content manager and all that came with it to see if I can fix this.
It's pointless being pretty if I can't drive it.
Only another 150Gb or so to go.

 

It's an SSD - it also won't be touched during a race as I have 32Gb of RAM. The non SSD drives I have all shut down during races.
This is too sudden anyway - I literally was only in AC yesterday to watch the replay and check/re-instate Frex from Wednesdays race, It ran like a dream then.

 

Ah meant to add unless it’s an ssd seems a bit drastic doing a full reinstall though

 

Tim, have a look at this (from the CSP discord faq-knows-bug channel) :

Windows FaultTolerantHeap feature:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/win7appqual/fault-tolerant-heap
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com...r2-fault-tolerant-heap-and-memory/ba-p/374186
https://coronarenderer.freshdesk.co...endent-processes-this-may-have-severe-perform

note: this MAY or may NOT have something to do with replay-size, so maybe DON'T max it out

 

Nope, Can't be that Laurent - I'm on the current build of W10 for AC and they all say that's a W7 issue.
It has to be an AC component/mod that updated since I ran the program last on Friday

 

Stuttering and sudden FPS drop or like 0.5 secs freezes is something I randomly have for a couple of months. Not the thing I want approaching the kink at Road America for example. And it was actually the case of FaultTolerantHeap after checking the logs. I didn't do anything and it was gone last week by itself. Or so it wants me to think. Also, last couple of weeks there were updates to both CM and AC. It could be something related to CM and how it handles AC.

 

Oddly I've found a workaround without having to get overly draconian here.
I was still getting the stutters when I tested with the stock Miura at Laguna even when on my monitor. I had a massive play with settings and eventually forced it to settle when I turned on V-sync (Normally this was considered best left off for VR, and has served me well for over 2 years with the rift). With Vsync active I had a rock solid 60FPS with no stutters.
Trying Vsync when using the Rift didn't work - but then I tried switching to the open-VR setting and immediately all my problems were solved!

So I'd just recommend anyone using a Rift/CV1 checks their game is running smoothly prior to Thursdays race, I've even turned on all of the shader patch stuff I'd disabled with no effect on frame rates - happy days

 

Take a look to the video, works fine for me.

 

Thanks Dennis - that isn't my issue as AC wasn't in there when I checked my registry.
I still suspect that a clean install is my best option (This install dates back to the previous - Intel 4th gen - PC, I'm on a Ryzen 3 now so it's been there a LONG time!
My current work around does seem to be doing it's job for now though

 

Same here I postpone the time where I WILL be forced to do that re-install but I strongly suspect my current one to be dirty as hell..

 

Ok, thanks for the heads up Tim. Altough I have other problems with sudden blue screen failures lately.. Also verry annoying.
Anyway, I only have run AC with the regular Oculus app, but do you mean with openVR that I should try running AC through SteamVR? That is the same?
Sorry for the dumb question.

 

If anybody need a setup for the Lancia. Current lap time 1:38,8 with endurance tire and 30 liter fuel.
The rear left tire are crazy, but make slowly your time will come
We will get the DIV 1 car....... found no more ......