GSCE v1.15 Bug Report thread

[Renato Simioni]

Please concentrate your bug reports on this thread.

If you may please elect to adapt the following report form below:

Track & Layout Used:
Car Used:
Applicable Settings:
Report:
Steps to reproduce:

Ex:

Track & Layout Used: Montreal 88
Car Used: Formula V12
Applicable Settings: n/a
Report: After losing front wing the car gets airborn above around 100mph.
Steps to reproduce: Crash and lose front wing, drive fast

For any difficulties related to installing, running or setting up the game which are not necessarily bugs in the software, please use the v1.15 release thread.

 

[SimRacingOz]

Our league runs 2 Dedicated servers on different ports.
one is a Vanilla with no mods or tracks, just standard content and we can't get the GSC.sync going.

Any Ideas ?

 

[Tobias Liesaus]

thanks for the info about the cpu cores. the game is set to only one core.

BUT it works now, without changing anything!!! i installed the game 5 or 6 times now, and suddenly the FPS are back to 100+

it seems the is a problem on my side.

Win 7 64 bit
i5 2500K
8 GB Ram
6870
G27

 

[Alex Sawczuk]

i think it will only ever use 2 cores at most

 

[Richard Eriksson]

i think it will only ever use 2 cores at most

Yeah, i think so too. Still, it launched on all cores prior to the update, now it launches on only one. I did some further measurements, and the problem seems to be that physics halts rendering, causing drops. This was not seen before as the second core would step in to offload.

If i look at threads active in the system during running, i can clearly see GSC being put on only one core for all it's subprocesses when launching normally.

Launching with affinity manually changed to all cores, instead spreads GSC across multiple cores, and the framerate drops and stutters are gone, except for the crazy gpu usage stutters with dust and some car lods, but thats a different issue

It is a strange thing to have happen however, by just an update... Since it worked before. My experience as a software engineer, is that if you have the app threading nicely in the first place across the cores, there is rarely something that would lock it to a single core all of a sudden just from an app update... Unless you change a main loop or something.

Strange...

 

[ed091maf]

I don't know if it's supposed to be so, but in single player running a single race with stockcar 2013 i cannot change spring rates. It's locked to two hundred something.

 

[Patrik Saxen]

I have a problem with my g27 steering range. I have set it to 450 degrees both in profiler and in game, and it works fine when I start driving but after some laps it resets the range to 900 which is a bit annoying.

 

[enzocarbone]

Yeah, i think so too. Still, it launched on all cores prior to the update, now it launches on only one. I did some further measurements, and the problem seems to be that physics halts rendering, causing drops. This was not seen before as the second core would step in to offload.

If i look at threads active in the system during running, i can clearly see GSC being put on only one core for all it's subprocesses when launching normally.

Launching with affinity manually changed to all cores, instead spreads GSC across multiple cores, and the framerate drops and stutters are gone, except for the crazy gpu usage stutters with dust and some car lods, but thats a different issue

It is a strange thing to have happen however, by just an update... Since it worked before. My experience as a software engineer, is that if you have the app threading nicely in the first place across the cores, there is rarely something that would lock it to a single core all of a sudden just from an app update... Unless you change a main loop or something.

Strange...

Hope the dev's solve the problem asap. It's even more annoying just because the previous version didn't have the issue.

 

[Alex Sawczuk]

we embedded the full proc command by default in an attempt to make it use two cores on all computers, but clearly something is working correctly and it's not working on all processors, don't suppose people have the issues can list their full spec / os etc please?

 

[Richard Eriksson]

we embedded the full proc command by default in an attempt to make it use two cores on all computers, but clearly something is working correctly and it's not working on all processors, don't suppose people have the issues can list their full spec / os etc please?

I only have the issue after the update to Extreme, done by sync, worked prior to updating...

Specs:
Intel I5 3570k @4.2Ghz. Cpu
Nvidia GTX680 factory OC Gpu on latest whql drivers
Win7 64 bit with all updates to date

As i said, it worked prior to the update...

 

[enzocarbone]

Win 7 64 bit, I7 980x, SLI with 2 Msi 780Ti gaming edition.
Before last update, GSC 2013 working fine.

 

[Miroslav Davidovic]

Not a bug but the second contact address in this thread is wrong or missing a letter.

http://www.racedepartment.com/forum/threads/gsc2013-faq.78951/

 

[Alex Sawczuk]

thanks, fixed.

 

[Jebus]

Really a minor one but Formula V12 Reiza Studios livery has number 14 in description but the skin has number 15 on it.

 

[Mick Aspinall]

Getting the same stuttering problem since the update.
Specs :
Intel i5 2500K @ 4.20Ghz
Nvidia GTX 770 Factory OC on latest drivers
Win 7 64bit

 

[hex]

Unfortunately, I too have witnessed the FPS drop...

don't suppose people have the issues can list their full spec / os etc please?

Intel Core2Quad Q6600 @ 2.40GHz;
nvidia GeForce GT220 + latest drivers;
Windows 7 (x86) SP1 up to date;

 

[Jebus]

FPS drop from 200+ to 140. And at Montreal pit with 23 ai cars as low as to 50 fps, on track the same 140.

i7 930 @4Ghz, 12Gb ddr3 @1500Mhz, GTX770, Creative SB X-fi Gamer, Win7 64bit
Everything maxed out at Nvidia control panel (no Inspector installed)
Drivers up to date

 

[Lou Sytsma]

Tried various settings with the game display options, NVidia Inspector and Task Manager. Hopefully for anyone with poor FPS this may help get some of them back.

Findings:

No Frame Rate Change

Confirmed as posted earlier - adding +fullproc +hiprior to the game executable makes no difference. Checking CPU affinity via Task Manager shows only 1 CPU Core being used.

Image Quality / Performance Settings

Setting the game display options at 16x anisotropic, and NVidia Inspector Sampling at 8x MultiSampling - gives the best image/performance

(Using NVidia Transparency SuperSampling enabled and using SuperSampling gives the best image but at high performance hit(FPS stay around 100) - even when CPU Affinity is set to use all CPU Cores)

The biggest jump in FPS comes when using Task Manger.

1) Open Task Manager
2) Open Processes
3) Go to the Details tab
4) Find the GSC.exe and right click on it
5) Select 'Set Affinity' and the CPU Usage tab will come up - probably only 1 core in use
6) Choose the <All Processors> option

Doing this, doubles/triples the FPS! Instead of 100 I now get 300+ up into the 400s.

You can choose to give the game executable higher priority but I find little to no change.

With these settings, I'm getting ~300 to 400 FPS in practice and between 200 - 300 in racing.

With NVidia Inspector I use these settings:

All other settings are the default ones.

For the Game Display Options I use the highest settings except for Player and Opponent which are set to medium.

Hope this helps someone!

Thanks to @RichardEriksson for the heads up on the Task Manager settings!

Specs:
Intel I5 2500k @3.3Ghz. Cpu
Nvidia GTX670 Gpu on latest whql drivers
Win8.1 64 bit with all updates to date

 

[Dave Simmons]

My sync is also showing the User aborted message with about half to go? any solutions?

 

[Jan Mikuž]

Check the Sync text file to see when/at which files installation is interrupted. It's probably some mod interfering. I had to delete the modded Camaro skins for the Sync to stop giving me the 'user aborted' message.

 

[Dave Simmons]

text file is saying its aborting because of this

"4) Unable to sync file 'C:\GSC2013\GameData\Locations\InterlagosHistoric\InterlagosOuter\InterlagosOutermini.tga'! ErrorReplyCode: -1 Message: Malformed FTP reply: 0 O Aborting ..."

I have no mods installed currently