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Bernie ? He has a very special place in my pantheon of 'people I'd be willing to run up and embrace'....under the sub-heading 'whilst wearing a vest containing 20 kg of plastic explosive'.GB_Simo wrote:Don't go into the car setup screen, matey. Instead, select the Engineer option as if you wanted to drive onto the track, then select Quick Set-Up. You can then select from a bunch of presets to suit various weather conditions without needing to know a conrod from a conman. Though given your thoughts on B C Ecclestone you'd probably be able to make that distinction easily enough.
Ha! I'm guessing other members of that list include:davet010 wrote:Bernie ? He has a very special place in my pantheon of 'people I'd be willing to run up and embrace'....under the sub-heading 'whilst wearing a vest containing 20 kg of plastic explosive'.
Without wishing to derail this useful thread with 15 pages of my choleric venting, I shall merely say 'spot on' to each of them, and proffer a couple morepk500 wrote:Ha! I'm guessing other members of that list include:davet010 wrote:Bernie ? He has a very special place in my pantheon of 'people I'd be willing to run up and embrace'....under the sub-heading 'whilst wearing a vest containing 20 kg of plastic explosive'.
Sir Alex Ferguson
Sepp Blatter
Roy Keane
Noel and Liam Gallagher (They are City supporters, though)
Who am I missing?
Too bad you can't just turn off replays.DChaps wrote:There is a site that is compiling all the bugs and workarounds for all versions of F1 2010.Rodster wrote:Any of you guys with the PC version experiencing major slowdowns, like at certain parts of a track the game will pause and start up almost as if it's literally in slide show mode?
I was thinking either my CPU or GPU where throttling back from heat but while bought CPU/GPU are running hot it shouldn't be enough to cause that or I hope not. Btw it's unpredictable as it can strat to happen within 3 laps or 10 laps and then it clears up for awhile then starts back up again.
http://segmentnext.com/2010/09/23/f1-20 ... zes-fixes/
Here is what it says regarding the slow FPS, stuttering, freezing bug.
3# Frame Skips, Low FPS, Lag
PC version of the game may be experiencing all this due to a massive replay file, too much data writing occurs on that file causing the lag and frame skips, when you go back to the game after having watched a replay.
You can find the file here.
C:\ProgramData\Codemasters\FormulaOne\DataCache\Ad ministrator\replay replay.pbf
You can set the replay.pbf file to read only and see if that helps. Or you can try the workaround below.
Windows XP Thanks @Fergo for suggestion.
1. Download Winbolic Link
2. Delete the original replay folder (don’t worry) and create a symbolic link with the name “replay” in that same directory. It will re-create a folder called replay (that’s why you delete the original one first) but this time it will be a link.
3. Create as a “Junction”, because it’s implemented directly in the file system, so you have best performance.
To all applications and to explorer itself, it will look like a regular folder, you won’t be “redirected” to the target one, but any file you copy inside it will also appear in the target (if not, then there’s something wrong with the junction).
Windows Vista/Windows 7 Thanks @n1x1n for the suggestion.
1. Delete original replay folder (and file) by exploring to
ProgramData\Codemasters\FormulaOne\DataCache\yourc omputersname\
2. Open Command Prompt with admin privileges (search ‘cmd’ and right click on cmd.exe and select ‘Run as Administrator’)
3. Use mklink to create the symbolic link. Edit it according to your own game directory location.
mklink /D C:\ProgramData\Codemasters\FormulaOne\DataCache\yo urcomputersname\ E:\Games\F12010\replay
4. When launching the game, the 2GB replay.pbf file will be written to the file location you have specified. If you write this file to another hard drive, resources are freed up for your OS and game performance will increase.
Alternate Fix Thanks @ Mark in comments for Tip.
Go to the My F1 screen and then “Audio” and change the default Rapture setting to Software.
I'm Massa and he's always in my rear view mirror.fletcher21 wrote:Fernando is faster than you!
Aye, that's a bit of an issue, isn't it? Something they're looking into fixing in the upcoming patch, though you surely wouldn't need the world's most stringent, rigorous QA team to pick up on how it seems to happen to everyone once every couple of races.Dave wrote:I'm doing 20% races in my career and it seems that not everyone pits during the race. It was a bit odd to have Di Grassi and Kovalainen both score points in Spain.
I was wondering if it was all my imagination, but your anecdotes suggest otherwise--it certainly seems that cars in front of you simply go faster than you and those behind you go slower.GB_Simo wrote:He qualified 6th, held station in the opening laps, then fell to 15th or so after his pitstop. I'm sure he hadn't been holding people up, his pace was good and yet he didn't ever look like getting back into the points. His team mate Trulli, having qualified 23rd, made a pit stop quick enough to defy science and somehow emerged some distance ahead of our hero in spite of how I still hadn't clocked a loss of pace or a single mistake from the player. Trulli, among others, made a second pitstop later on but still our Lotus was occupying a gentleman's 12th place when my mate slid off on worn tyres with a lap left.
Sure that couldn't possibly be right, he selected Restart Race and gave me the pad. Thanks to a string of rubbish starts from the AI ahead, I took the lead early on and pulled away, so I was somewhat mystified to emerge from my pitstop in 19th place and just sort of stay there. I could feel how the 'dirty air' from cars ahead affects the handling, which I'd never noticed before, and that stopped me making significant headway into the cars immediately ahead of me, but I didn't gain much ground through other cars pitting either. Trulli ran exactly the same pit routine as before, I attained the dizzy heights of 14th before having a spin I couldn't really explain on the last lap and chugging home 18th, and the entire thing made not a single lick of sense.
and i got spain out the way.- Next lap invalidated time trial logic - In time trial the next lap is no longer invalidated for any offence committed in the 3rd sector. It is calculated per track and is predominantly based on the final corner.
- OSD changes – showing split times rather than gap to leader – We’ve changed how the OSD timing information functions so that split times are now displayed on the OSD, showing race time and race time differences to the other cars – I.e. how far ahead/behind are at a sector boundary.
- AI not pitting in dry races where a mandatory pit stop was required (20% or more) – This has been fixed.
- Player held in pit-stop too long – We’ve improved exit logic so that it isn’t too cautious in holding players during a pit-stop.
- Puncture frequency reduced – The likelihood of players suffering punctures has been reduced.
I noticed the same thing myself. After doing some reading, the reason some tracks are easier is that the AI will brake wayy before they need to, and sometimes even slow down on turns that the player can take at full speed. There's an instance where they do this at Melbourne, which helps the player catch up. Montreal is considered the easiest track to beat the AI, while Cataluna is considered almost impossible to keep up with the AI. Monza and Spa also have some points where the AI brakes way too early, so each lap you can gain time on them, or catch up if you are behind. Odd stuff.Zeppo wrote:It's really weird and maybe it's just due to my own lack of ability, but on some tracks I simply cannot keep up in career mode, and then elsewhere i am way more competitive than i should be in my Toro Rosso.
Monza and Spa and Montreal so well whereas tracks like Abu dhabi and Singapore are new to me, but i was pretty competitive at Turkey and i was a terrible mess at Monaco. And somehow i figured out Valencia well enough to be where i was supposed to be, but i will say the walls on the street circuits really mess me up in general.
Nice...I shelved the game because of that little invalidating issue...so if they've toned that down, I'll break it back out. That got so damn frustrating.GB_Simo wrote:Those of you who are still playing may wish to know the patch has now been submitted to Sony and Microsoft, being made available for download as soon as it's approved. Since the list in PK's post isn't exhaustive and Codies have said nothing more about the contents of the patch, I'm keen to find out what else they've done, along with how effectively they've sorted out the pit stop issues, the wet weather settings and the 'Next Lap Invalidated' thing that continues to upset me a little.
This is correct but applies to PS3 users only. If you're a PC or XBox 360 owner anywhere in the world, you're still waiting for the patch to clear with Microsoft, which is why this 360-owning European can't tell you a bloody thing about it.fiore22 wrote:Apparently the patch is out in Europe and Japan. Hopefully soon here in the US.
