Laguna Seca Race (Games freezes)

If your game froze/crashed during the race, please state so in this thread.

Please also comment what car you was driving and what car graphics setting you was using.

Thankyou.

#28 Elfin.

Everything max except shadow blur. Used everything medium in practice but CTD'd then too.

#1 Lola T300
Qualy : Max everywhere
Race : texture High everywhere, shadow off, fx low, shadow blur enable

#57 team corsair
in every high rate , I was closed four or five times.
In the race it down low and i was almost half the race until it also closed



#57 team corsair
en calificacion todo alto , se me cerro cuatro o cinco veces.
En carrera lo baje a bajo y estuve casi media carrera hasta que tambien se cerro

#10 lola t300

circuit / player / opponent / texture detail levels = high
texture filter = bilinear
special effects = high
shadows = low
shadow blur=off
visible vehicles = 16
mirrors = on
steering wheel = on

during testing thru the week, on and off the server, i never experienced an issue.

dave

#59

circuit/opponent detail - high
everything else -medium
shadow blur off
AA-x4
visible cars 16

shader level dx9
resolution 160 x 1024 32 bit

when I turned everything ingame downa click, got draw errors.
worked fine offline

Surtees TS8

Game locked when I exited first qual run.

Everything was at max.

Turned all to medium except opponent detail at high. Shadows off.

No issues afterwards.

Ben Paulet wrote:

#1 Lola T300
Qualy : Max everywhere
Race : texture High everywhere, shadow off, fx low, shadow blur enable

same to Ben !  

#75 Lola T300

in qualy: return desktop
in race : return desktop

Please indicate how you installed the mod : from scratch or installing it over the previous version ?

I installed over the old.

as always, on an old installation, always the same.

MacLaren 18 #33

Got two issues during qualifications as I was in Full for everything Dx9.

During qualif I switch shadow to none and number of cars visible to 10 during Warm up.

No problems after (other than a miserable performance )

Surtees TS11

ussualy I run all details at high, 2xAA, trilinear filtering...

In qualis, it crashed.
I though its about my old PC
Lessen all the details to LOW, and couldnt enter the server (game wont load)
then I tryed different setups of detail, and found out that if opponent detail is lower than HI, it wont load.

Finally, it crashed right after Jacob Fredericson crashed (few seconds latter).

over and old instalation

After a lot of checking files I decided to change the graphics setting in rfactor and I found that setting Player detail, opponent detail or maybe texture detail to low will stop the cars from loading with a texture error. I've no idea why low detail causes an errror. I have no problems when Player detail, opponent detail or maybe texture detail are set on Full, High, or Medium.

Can we check that this happens for other people.

1. Try loading a race with Player detail, opponent detail and texture detail set to full.

2. Try loading a race with Player detail, opponent detail and texture detail set to high.

3. Try loading a race with Player detail, opponent detail and texture detail set to medium.

4. Try loading a race with Player detail, opponent detail and texture detail set to low.

There is no need to drive the race just check that all of the cars load ok and there are no errors during loading. If the race loading stops press enter to cancel the error, you may need to do this a lot of times on low detail settings.

With all settings on low, shadows off the game freezes while loading. First error message when I Tab our of game is as shown:



With medium+ selected the race loads without issue.

Used 30 opponents

its always a mistery what causes it
and specialy only online
it "could" be a sprl shader issue (track car wise)

the track uses the sprl textures but the f5000 not
i installed the f78 mod (with the shader pages in plugin folder )and f5000 in a clean install and run all FULL exept for shadows ( high) , x 16 AS,
all went smooth , FPS 180 and stable

this track uses very high textures(2048-1024) and im pretty sure if you run to low they won'l load properly
and will crash for a certain time

i had headages to try to get snetterton55 from JP to work even to use for the 60s trackpack, resized all 4096pixel to 2048 but for som odd reason it keeps crashing so i dropped it which is a hughes shame

im aware that some people here dont have computer that are for today standards can run rf1 with eas
so be sure to run in DX9! update it if nessesary, always run the 4gb patch if you have a 64bit windows
and look in google to tweak youre username.plr and Multiplayer.ini

Mike Becnel wrote:

With all settings on low, shadows off the game freezes while loading. First error message when I Tab our of game is as shown:



With medium+ selected the race loads without issue.

Used 30 opponents

I had exactly this message too

Thanks everyone for testing so far , I think that I'm getting close to a solution so stop testing the settings now. It appears that the specular map files are causing the problems.

Can everyone test the patch above and report back stating if you had any problems (please describe) or no problems.

So nobody has tested the patch !

David Sabre wrote:

So nobody has tested the patch !

Still a couple of weeks until the next race. DRM and F1 '78 has kept me busy. Will make to test thoroughly in good time ahead of Edmonton at least!

The problem is that if this patch does not fix the crashes then it could take a couple of weeks (or more) to find another solution. We would like to know that the fix solves the crashes so that we can move on to other work.

I've tested the patch, had no issues with 30 AI Drivers

But I also had no problems before without patch