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GPL: Online lap time strangeness

Doug Gordo

GPL: Online lap time strangeness

by Doug Gordo » Thu, 22 Oct 1998 04:00:00

I was just in a qualifying session at the Glen. I was running at a pace that
should have been about 1:15, but my lap times came up as 2:45 and wouldn't
get any better? Hey, maybe I was slower than usual, but I sure wasn't
lapping at 1/2 speed. Any explanations for this? I had earlier ran one at
Rouen and those lap times seemed OK.

I was at the bottom of qualifying due to this, but got booted off the server
before the race could start. Oh, well.

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Doug Gordon
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Jeff Vince

GPL: Online lap time strangeness

by Jeff Vince » Fri, 23 Oct 1998 04:00:00

On Wed, 21 Oct 1998 21:29:36 -0400, "Doug Gordon"


>I was just in a qualifying session at the Glen. I was running at a pace that
>should have been about 1:15, but my lap times came up as 2:45 and wouldn't
>get any better? Hey, maybe I was slower than usual, but I sure wasn't
>lapping at 1/2 speed. Any explanations for this? I had earlier ran one at
>Rouen and those lap times seemed OK.

   Did it seems like the racing was in slow motion?  (Like you were
driving a 1:15 in the virtual world, but in real life it took 2:45?)

   What sort of frame rate were you experiencing on that lap?  Maybe
in the high ***s average (about half the max)?

   If the above is true, that's like what I've experienced.  If not
(and particularly if its not repeatable), it's probably a glitch/warp
which failed to detect you crossing the S/F line and that was your
time for two laps.


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