2012 | 100 Laps of Mid Ohio

[Marco Bijl]

100 Laps of Mid Ohio - INTRO & INFO

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Event: 100 laps of Mid Ohio
Date: Sunday - 22nd July 2012
Platform: rFactor2
Class: Nissan GTR, Nissan 370Z, Maserati Cup 2012, Renault Megane
Track: Mid Ohio Without chicane
Broadcast: If possible
Driver Swaps: None


INTRODUCTION
Welcome to first official Racedepartment World Endurance Series event.
The Racedepartment World Endurance Series, or RDWES for short, is a series of (semi)endurance races we will hold during the year.
For this first episode, we will visit the Mid Ohio track in the USA. Mid Ohio Sports Car Course is a road course auto racing facility, located in Troy Township, Ohio US, just outside the village of Lexington. Since it’s opening in 1962, it has been optimized a few times, which results in the current layout available for rfactor2. The track is perfectly suited to host multiple classes running at once, with its wide lanes and overtake opportunities all around.
There will be NO driver swaps allowed in this event. Total race length is 100 laps, which will equal about 2.5 hours of racing.


AVAILABLE CARS
The cars available will all be from the GT classes. In addition to the GT Endurance Series by ISI, we have decided to include the Renault Megane Trophy, and the Maserati GT 2012.
RaceDepartment will try to stay up to date with the latest patches and releases of these mod’s. This list will be updated according to the latest decisions of the staff concerning implemented patches and releases.
Available choices will be:

GT1
Nissan GT-R

GT4
Nissan 370Z
Maserati GT

One-Make Racing
Renault Megane

SKINS
For this round, a custom MOD will be created. This mod will contain a few skins for each car, in Racedepartment style. Everyone is free to pick a skin from the available options.

SCHEDULE/SESSION INFO - ALL TIMES IN GMT
Official Practice: 16:30 (90 minutes)
Qualification: 18:00 (30 minutes)
Warm-up: 18:30 (5 minutes)
Race: 18:35 100 Laps

All drivers must be in the server at least 15 minutes before qualifying, anyone who joins after the start of qualifying will start from the back of their specified class with the exception of people who experience last minute technical issues. The server will be open for unofficial practice before official starting time, and will be restarted at 16:30 GMT exactly. From that moment on, the server will stay up, so a nice rubber pavement can be made.

Signups.
To sign up for this event, you must have a valid license from Racedepartment. If you sign up, we do expect you to show up!. To sign up, please take a look in the Sign Up Thread.

For now, we have limited the signup list to 28 entrants. If needed, we can expand that number with an additional 20 drivers, so all can have a go at this.


Notes.
· Chatting of any kind during Qualifying and the Race is strictly prohibited in the chat. There is no need to say sorry/thanks/pitting/leaving pits/etc. Anything that needs to be said can wait until after the session.
· If you feel you were wronged in any way during an event and wish to report the incident, simply send the event organiser a private message. Please include a description of the incident along with a video. If you are unable to create a video, please include details such as who was involved and where the incident happened with a timestamp. Do not post reports/accusations in the thread itself - negativity and anger gets us nowhere.
· We encourage all our drivers to use Teamspeak 3, download here. Talking directly to your fellow drivers increases the fun and the ability to share information in an easy friendly way. It will improve your driving skills dramatically, Log in here
· Please take into account that rFactor 2 is still in beta stage and that technical problems might occur. If you spot a bug please post a (constructive) report in the dedicated bug forum here.

 

[Jonas Lex]

seem to be having a few issues with loading into the official server. Works fine when there is no-one in the room, but both times I tried to enter the room today while someone is already there it crashes. I get past the loading screen into the room, but it just freezes in the garage, and I have to close the rFactor window.

Worrying as the practice server worked fine for me

I had the same issue but while being on the server 2 times, I was on track then I pressed escape to get to the garage and the game froze.
Havent experienced that issue on the other server as well.

 

[Frans van der Linden]

Guys,

I experience a strange lost of speed
it looks and feel like lag but it isnt it. more freeze like. but the sound doesnt stotter.
I lose about 5 seconds in a lap when it occurs
I have the replay and it shows it the best at 21.00 minutes.
Please dont judge my driving skills
Then you can also see the car is not fixed after leaving pit.. bugggg
Also my video res attached maybe there i have it wrong

Any one has a idea what can be the problem
I have a 100 laps race sunday
and if this stays this way i will not be able to join.
So thanks in advance

 

[Tim McIver]

I'm also having all sorts of problems. I can't get onto the server most of the time and when I do the game immediately freezes. The problem also exist in single player when I try and use the mod. It was also a problem for me with the practice mod in the last few days though it had been working perfectly. I'm doing a reinstall of RF2 and all packages right now.

Ideas anyone?

 

[Sk3ptik0n]

I just installed the mod, but when I launch it in single player I get multiple errors that say:

"Not enough bones in Anim file WIPER.ANM to match mesh"

I hate when my wipers have no bones. They get all floppy all over the windshield.

Should I be worried?

EDIT: It appears to do that only when I choose the maserati. Also, I don;t know if it's related or not, the maserati looks like it's missing body parts from inside the cockpit. I can see the ground.. Are they trying to save money in Italy or do I have an issue?

 

[Tim McIver]

My wipers also have no bones! They need more bones.

 

[Caramidaru Andrei Bogdan]

to the guys that have problem joining,
1.fresh install rf2
2. be sure that in multiplayer mod manager the mod is selected"RD 100laps"
3.try several times to join,for me also it does not work from first go,and it also freezed allot,but sometimes it freezes a little then all the cars(if any)load
4.for lag.evrything low,even doe i have a decent speck pc since this is still beta i have evrything on low don't know if that helps but i have no lap or spykes
5.be sure to type pass correctly
hope this helps guys

 

[Marco Bijl]

I am going to move the server over to a different machine today. Will update here when done, and then i would like to know if there are still issues.

I think 1 of the servers itself is having issues.

In terms of the whipers,
Thats a maserati thing indeed. I hoped that, by using the default maserati without me re-packing it, this problem would not be there. I suspect (not sure, haven;t tested that yet) that it is related to a specific player detail setting.
I already talked to Tommy, the creator of the mod, and he is on holiday. Will return monday, but can't help before that.
Have to consider removing them from the mod. That would mean that those who practices with the maserati, have to drive another car . If there is no objection to that by those that selected the maserati, I will make a new one tonight. Gives me the option to fix the last isssues as well (selecting white GTR, gives the other one on track, icons are mixed up, same with 370z).

 

[Jimi Hughes]

to the guys that have problem joining,
1.fresh install rf2
2. be sure that in multiplayer mod manager the mod is selected"RD 100laps"
3.try several times to join,for me also it does not work from first go,and it also freezed allot,but sometimes it freezes a little then all the cars(if any)load
4.for lag.evrything low,even doe i have a decent speck pc since this is still beta i have evrything on low don't know if that helps but i have no lap or spykes
5.be sure to type pass correctly
hope this helps guys

When you say fresh reinstall... I reinstalled all mods, cars and components the night before trying to join the official server. Should I try a full reinstall of the whole game or just mods in the mod manager? Are there any special procedures to be aware of with a full reinstall of the game, or just uninstall and then reinstall?

 

[Caramidaru Andrei Bogdan]

When you say fresh reinstall... I reinstalled all mods, cars and components the night before trying to join the official server. Should I try a full reinstall of the whole game or just mods in the mod manager? Are there any special procedures to be aware of with a full reinstall of the game, or just uninstall and then reinstall?

i had done a full rf2 game reinstall

 

[Tim McIver]

My full reinstall didn't fix the problem. Though now I've got it working again. I just ran a single player race with the mod and 35 AI and it ran well. I first got it going without the maserati but now it seems to be working again with it. I don't know what's going on!

 

[Tiens Van Zyl]

I could not connect yesterday but then rebooted my PC and was able to join no problems.
Thought my side was network/ADSL related.

Will test again tonight on the new server

 

[Frederic Schornstein]

I have read and understood all rules for this race, and hereby would like to sign up. I will participate in the Nissan GTR

 

[Namgung Joong-Ki]

I have read and understood all rules for this race, and hereby would like to sign up. I will participate in the Renault Megane.

 

[Jimi Hughes]

Just lost connection from the room 42 laps into a race run

I'm thinking it was most probably something with my internet connection, and I also think it has been running off wireless instead of Ethernet cable. Have removed my network card and will just use cable connection for the race, hopefully it will be ok!

 

[Jimi Hughes]

still getting strange issues with the room, for some reason it always says either 1 or 0 people in the room when in the lobby, even though there is like 10+ people there, and I'm still getting the game crash every now and then when I try to join.

I'm just gonna try spending an hour or so in one of the Clio rooms to make sure it isnt an issue with my internet connection. I will inform you of any further issues

 

[Jonas Lex]

To be honest maybe it would be a better idea to run the event with the preversion of the mod because as I can read here it seemed to work better on the old server, would be a pity if many couldnt even make the first laps of the races because of this

 

[Marco Bijl]

Server has moved now to other machine. If people keep having issues, we can always turn to the practice mod. Lets see what happens now.

 

[Henrik Lek]

I have read and understood all rules for this race, and hereby would like to sign up. I will participate in the Renault Megane.

 

[Jimi Hughes]

I cant see the server yet, sorry if I'm being impatient and it isn't ready yet, is it up and visible to others?

 

[Dan Coldrick]

I have read and understood all rules for this race, and hereby would like to sign up. I will participate in the Renault Megane