Misc ACC Results Companion 1.24.0

[Nada]

Thanks for the answer.
Diagnostics is from qualif at Mr Git Biggrid Nurburgring.
The Acc Result for the race was OK

 

[Doug Duthie]

Thanks for the answer.
Diagnotics is from qualif at Mr Git Biggrid Nurburgring.
The Acc Result for the race was OK

Hi,
It looks like you were replaying old backup files. For each one, can you right click on the session and select Export session Backup - each one will create a backup zip. Can you send these.

Note there were issues between versions 1.5.0 and 1.5.8 if you didn't have ACC broadcast properly set up or if your CPU was maxxed out, then lap detail will have been lost.

However, some of your sessions are salvageable. Right click on the session and select Fix Session and select your car's race number, then press ok

These are for

Date	Track	Race Number
15/4/2020 15:22:16	Brands Hatch	23
15/4/2020 15:21	Brands Hatch	23
10/4/2020 22:18	Hungaroring	23
10/4/2020 21:23	Hungaroring	23
8/4/2020 22:16	Nurburgring	23
8/4/2020 21:24	Nurburgring	23
6/4/2020 22:15	Misano	24
6/4/2020 21:23	Misano	24
3/4/2020 22:14	Suzuka	14
3/4/2020 21:52	Suzuka	14

For the remaining 3 sessions (Nurburring, Bathurst and Hungaroring), there wasn't any lap detail stored (possibly because of issues prior to 1.5.9). It would be best to delete these sessions (right click and Delete session)

 

[Nada]

Thanks for the answer.
I replay many backup sessions after a wipe/reinstall (when Acc Results doesn't work).

 

[Doug Duthie]

Doug Duthie updated ACC Results Companion with a new update entry:

ACC Results Companion V1.5.10

Online race final standings - Times now fastest laps per player rather than last lap Speed up load time - ECU modes not re-initialised each time Damage, ECU mode used plus a couple of other performance metrics added (not SP Race) Average lap time added to session Comparative fuel/power stats added for ECU modes (currently Bentley, AMG, McLaren 720 - others to follow) BUGFIX: Correct ECU modes for Nissan BUGFIX: Fix Server Results load BUGFIX...

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[Doug Duthie]

ACC Results Companion V1.5.10 released
New version released with a couple of user requests, some extra fields and a handful of bug fixes.

Firstly, there is now an average laptime reported on the session. This excludes outlaps but doesn't factor in pitstops, so may be skewed on longer races. To activate, right click the header of the session list and select the average lap time. In additions, there's a couple of others such as average fuel consumption on session and last ECU mode.

In addition, a bunch of new fields have been added to laps (again, to expose the fields, right click on the header and select them)

There are

• ECU mode used on the lap
• Max speed
• Peak sustained acceleration (this is an arbitrary metric I'm using to get some comparative ECU data. Basically the maximum acceleration over 5 seconds at full throttle)
• Damage values. These are heatmap colour coded going from white (no damage), green (light damage) to red (severe damage)

I plan to update the ECU reference to give comparative figures to power & fuel consumption as I was finding it was difficult to make a judgement call whether to switch ECU modes to save fuel. Again, these fields are hidden by default.

Metrics obtained using all same conditions over 5 laps at Paul Ricard (nice long straight for acceleration & max speed tests)

• Max Speed (Km/h)
• Fuel per lap (I know...the column header is wrong at the moment)
• The peak sustained acceleration (this is a bit dodgy to to my low sample rate)
• fuel consumption relative to the default ECU mode
• Power relative to the default mode (this again is a slightly dodgy metric being a composite of top speed and peak acceleration)

At the moment only the 2018 Bentley, AMG and McLaren 720 have been measured. I'll do the others over time. It's interesting to note some descriptions don't seem to cover what actually happen - eg McLaren's mode 7 engine cooling described as very low power and very high consumption - it's not the slowest or the highest consumption mode. So far, it seems only mode 2 on the AMG seems worthwhile fuel saving. You get a huge reduction in fuel consumption (bringing it in line with the more frugal cars) with a small penalty in performance. For mode 3 on the AMG and other modes on the 2 other cars, the small fuel saving doesn't seem worth the performance penalty. It will be interesting to see how the other cars compare.

Also, the CSV export will include the new fields

There are also some other bugfixes, the main ones being

• Fix Server results import fixed
• Final Standings for online race. Now correctly ordered by final position and not by the fastest laptime. Note there may be some differences with the final race order given by ACC
  • I can't get at the penalties given, so if these are applied post race, I can't adjust the order (here ACC gives the better order)
  • If players drop out before the end, player's behind are promoted up the order by ACC whereas ACC Results Companion will still include them in the order (I believe my interpretation is more "correct")

Enjoy racing
Doug

 

[nzjsev]

It will be better to record the air temperature and track temperature

 

[Doug Duthie]

It will be better to record the air temperature and track temperature

OK...these will be in the next release

 

[Kevin Cox]

ACC v1.3.12

I'm getting UNKNOWN for car. I do the fix as in instructions but still get UNKNOWN car

Anyone help?

 

[unpierrot]

You're not alone Kevin.

@Doug : I suppose that ACC hotfix 1.3.12 broke something. using ACCRC 1.5.10.
Here is logs from a SP hotstint session were result show 'Unknown Car'
Track is correctly detected but no time.
Partial log with debug, shared mem and broadcast. Hope it helps.

 

[Doug Duthie]

You're not alone Kevin.

@Doug : I suppose that ACC hotfix 1.3.12 broke something. using ACCRC 1.5.10.
Here is logs from a SP hotstint session were result show 'Unknown Car'
Track is correctly detected but no time.
Partial log with debug, shared mem and broadcast. Hope it helps.

Yes...I've just noticed that. It looks like there were some updates to the Broadcast API. Bear with me

EDIT: It looks like a rebuild fixes it. I'll run some more tests before I release

 

[Doug Duthie]

Doug Duthie updated ACC Results Companion with a new update entry:

ACC Results Companion V1.5.11

• Support ACC 1.3.12 (changed broadcast interface)
• Option to move data folder (currently always on C drive)
• New installs default to My Documents
• Button to start ACC from ACC Results Companion
• Option to start ACC Results Companion at Windows startup
• Add Air/Road temperature to laps
• BUGFIX: Results Stats - some gathered stats were incorrect
• BUGFIX: Result stats - Track stats gathered from broadcast interface were not aggregated with stats gathered before
• BUGFIX...

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[Doug Duthie]

@Kevin Cox , @unpierrot

Guys - update 1.5.11 fixes this and aligns with ACC 1.3.12. Release notes to follow

 

[Doug Duthie]

ACC Results Companion 1.5.11

New update released to align with today's ACC 1.3.12 update. This is a required update or results will not be stored properly due to the change in Broadcast interface.

Other changes:

Data Folder
One thing that has been bugging me for quite some time is that I had made an incorrect assumption of how to reference "My Documents"...as a result, the data folder for ACC results was always on the C (or boot) drive (regardless of where "My Docuiments" actually was. New installs will now go to <My Documents>\ACCResults. For existing installs, if you want to move the folder, go to the settings tab and click the "Move ACC Results Companion Folder" button

It will then ask you for a new folder and then close. Files will be copied across to the new folder on startup. I decided against automatically deleting the original folder just in case something went wrong. You can delete this manually after a successful copy - ie is found at C:\Users\<your user name>\Documents\ACCResults

Launch ACC
Of only marginal use, and if you're lazy like me, there's now a button to launch ACC to save you the effort of one extra mouse click to launch Steam

Optionally Launch ACC results Companion at Windows startup
If you want ACC Results Companion to always be up so you don't need to remember to start it when running ACC, the following checkbox adds it to Windows startup

Air/Road Temperature
New Air and Road temperature columns added to laps. These are hidden by default. To view them, right click the header and select the columns

 

[Kevin Cox]

@Kevin Cox , @unpierrot

Guys - update 1.5.11 fixes this and aligns with ACC 1.3.12. Release notes to follow

Download page still has download link for 1.5.10

 

[unpierrot]

I think it needs first to be validated by RD moderation.

 

[Doug Duthie]

I think it needs first to be validated by RD moderation.

Yes...you're right there

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[xsnakeyx]

Hey Doug!

Great work so far on the App! Now that you've added the Start with Windows option (I know we could have manually done it.. but still..).

Maybe an option to run on the System Tray vs. Taskbar so it's nicely hidden by the clock..?

 

[Doug Duthie]

Hey Doug!

Great work so far on the App! Now that you've added the Start with Windows option (I know we could have manually done it.. but still..).

Maybe an option to run on the System Tray vs. Taskbar so it's nicely hidden by the clock..?

Good idea - I'll look into it

 

[Doug Duthie]

Doug Duthie updated ACC Results Companion with a new update entry:

ACC Results Companion V1.5.12

• New lap columns (Category, Cup, Nationality)
• Setting to allow changing driver nationality
• ECU mode stats added for Nissan 2015/2018

Read the rest of this update entry...

 

[Doug Duthie]

ACC Results Companion V1.5.12 Released

I hadn't intended to put out another the release so soon after the emergency one on Friday to suuport Broadcast API changes for ACC 1.3.12, but this really completes the information from the Broadcast api. The nationality, category (based on player ratings), cup (based on the car) are now available. As usual, these are hidden fields by default - unhide if you want to see them.

Nationality has been around for a short while now but required you to edit an ACC config file as there was no UI option for it. I'd only seen one driver in online races use it so far. Anyway, there's now a dropdown in the settings pane to allow to to set it to any of the 77 countries ACC recognises (unitl ACC provides a UI). Then player's nationality (country or flag or both) will be available in ACC Results Companion (and any other broadcast client that supports it)

Enjoy racing,
Doug