GPL strange lap counting order????? HELP!!!!!!!!!

Hi, This question I am asking was asked by someone else the other day and, although he had about one reply, it wasn't the "right" answer. Let's see if a few of you can try it again please. Okay, this is what's happening. I will use the lap(s) I have just done a few mins ago in Rouen, but keep in mind this happens on EVERY circuit in the sim! I do my outlap to start (Cooper I used), then after TWO useless laps of say 2:20:xx (warming up the tyres,Huge Grin!), I then proceed to do a 2:13:xx on lap 3, then I done a 2:11:85 on lap 4 (Okay so far?). The problem is that on the lap where it gave me the 2:11:85 (Lap 3) I actually crashed and drove the rest of the lap a bit slower! In other words I wrote it off and went around once more and pulled into the pit's! The crazy thing is, when you watch the replay, the 2:11:85 had NO ERRORS!!!! and was a perfect lap (For me anyway!). The sim doesn't appear to be giving me my lap times as they happen in "real time" so to speak! A very strange problem I know. The lap times are genuine enough as the replay's prove but, it is VERY annoying to do what you know to be a GOOD lap and be shown a useless time for it! It tends to put you off as you can't judge what has happened in real time. The answer someone gave to this BTW, was that "because you crashed, you pushed harder/faster once you had recovered and therefore were given a good lap for it). This can't be right because I can assure you that as soon as I crashed out, I took it very easy back around and over the finish line! Lap timings seem to be given out a lap behind the "real" one if you can follow me! Anyway, sorry to ramble on but, I really could use some thought's on this VERY ODD problem! Max

> MAD MAX" <[email hidden]> wrote in messagenews:[email hidden]... > Hi, > This question I am asking .............Lap timings seem to be given out alap > behind the "real" one if you can follow me! Anyway, sorry to ramble onbut, > I really could use some thought's on this VERY ODD problem! > > Max > > Max, In 1967 the drivers and pit crews did not communicate with each other by radio. When you go by the pits the lap board you see shows the result of your *previous* lap, not the one you are currently running. The lap time really is one lap behind. It has to be, your pit crew can't get your time as you cross the start/finish line, write it down on the lap board, and then hold it up fast enough for you to see as you go by <g>. Rick

Nothing misterious or odd going on... the laptimes shown at the default pitboard locations ('cept for the Ring after the V1.2 patch) lag 1 lap behind. I.e. the laptime you are shown as you complete a lap is that of the lap before. Just as they would have at the time (you're being timed by a virtual guy with a stopwatch, not a timing computer). The location of the pitboard can be moved (have to defer to others as to how) and will show most recent lap time if moved some way beyond s/f. If it bothers you much I suggest you look into that. Jan. =--- "Pay attention when I'm talking to you boy!" -Foghorn Leghorn. MAD MAX wrote... > Hi, > <snip>

Oh Dear! (Looks at and inspects fingernails while whistling a tune!). Can we forget I asked that? LMAO... I think it's time I went to bed and try again tomorrow eh? I feel a bit silly right now! Thanks anyway, Max "Jan Verschueren" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > Nothing misterious or odd going on... the laptimes shown at the default > pitboard locations ('cept for the Ring after the V1.2 patch) lag 1 lap > behind. I.e. the laptime you are shown as you complete a lap is that ofthe > lap before. Just as they would have at the time (you're being timed by a > virtual guy with a stopwatch, not a timing computer). > > The location of the pitboard can be moved (have to defer to others as to > how) and will show most recent lap time if moved some way beyond s/f. Ifit

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> bothers you much I suggest you look into that. > > Jan. > =--- > "Pay attention when I'm talking to you boy!" -Foghorn Leghorn. > > MAD MAX wrote... > > Hi, > > <snip> > >

"MAD MAX" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > Oh Dear! > (Looks at and inspects fingernails while whistling a tune!). Can we forgetI > asked that? LMAO... I think it's time I went to bed and try again tomorrow > eh? I feel a bit silly right now! > Thanks anyway, > > Max > If it makes you feel any better you arn't the first to have been publicly puzzled by this " phenomenon." Nor the second, or third or. . . KFG

Just remember Mr Max....can we call you Mad since we are all friends here? As my old teachers used to say: 'There is no such thing as a dumb question, just dumb people asking smar....uhhhh maybe that's not a good saying after all..... cheers dave henrie "MAD MAX" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > Oh Dear! > (Looks at and inspects fingernails while whistling a tune!). Can we forgetI

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> asked that? LMAO... I think it's time I went to bed and try again tomorrow > eh? I feel a bit silly right now! > Thanks anyway, > > Max > > "Jan Verschueren" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... > > Nothing misterious or odd going on... the laptimes shown at the default > > pitboard locations ('cept for the Ring after the V1.2 patch) lag 1 lap > > behind. I.e. the laptime you are shown as you complete a lap is that of > the > > lap before. Just as they would have at the time (you're being timed by a > > virtual guy with a stopwatch, not a timing computer). > > > > The location of the pitboard can be moved (have to defer to others as to > > how) and will show most recent lap time if moved some way beyond s/f. If > it > > bothers you much I suggest you look into that. > > > > Jan. > > =--- > > "Pay attention when I'm talking to you boy!" -Foghorn Leghorn. > > > > MAD MAX wrote... > > > Hi, > > > <snip> > > > > > >

"Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:VskQ6.68581$[email hidden]... > Just remember Mr Max....can we call you Mad since we are all friendshere? > As my old teachers used to say: > 'There is no such thing as a dumb question, just dumb people asking > smar....uhhhh maybe that's not a good saying after all..... > cheers > dave henrie I like the motto at Think Geek: "There's no such thing as a stupid question, but there are an awful lot of inquisitive idiots." KFG

To get your current lap times to show up, go to the track.ini file, and look for the following stanza: [ pit_lane_0 ] pit_board = 30.2 300.0 -100.0 100.0 Change whatever values are in the second position to 300.0 (only exception I have is at Rouen, which is at 600.0 so it comes up just after the right hander past the s/f line) MAD MAX wrote:

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> Hi, > This question I am asking was asked by someone else the other day and, > although he had about one reply, it wasn't the "right" answer. Let's see if > a few of you can try it again please. Okay, this is what's happening. I will > use the lap(s) I have just done a few mins ago in Rouen, but keep in mind > this happens on EVERY circuit in the sim! I do my outlap to start (Cooper I > used), then after TWO useless laps of say 2:20:xx (warming up the tyres,Huge > Grin!), I then proceed to do a 2:13:xx on lap 3, then I done a 2:11:85 on > lap 4 (Okay so far?). The problem is that on the lap where it gave me the > 2:11:85 (Lap 3) I actually crashed and drove the rest of the lap a bit > slower! In other words I wrote it off and went around once more and pulled > into the pit's! The crazy thing is, when you watch the replay, the 2:11:85 > had NO ERRORS!!!! and was a perfect lap (For me anyway!). The sim doesn't > appear to be giving me my lap times as they happen in "real time" so to > speak! A very strange problem I know. The lap times are genuine enough as > the replay's prove but, it is VERY annoying to do what you know to be a GOOD > lap and be shown a useless time for it! It tends to put you off as you can't > judge what has happened in real time. The answer someone gave to this BTW, > was that "because you crashed, you pushed harder/faster once you had > recovered and therefore were given a good lap for it). This can't be right > because I can assure you that as soon as I crashed out, I took it very easy > back around and over the finish line! Lap timings seem to be given out a lap > behind the "real" one if you can follow me! Anyway, sorry to ramble on but, > I really could use some thought's on this VERY ODD problem! > > Max

Your confusion about the lap times is not a bug. It's intended to be that way. In the old days there was not computer timing as there is now. So as soon as a lap was finished and timed, the guy would write the time on the board which could not be viewed by the driver until the next time around. So you will always see lap times that are a lap behind so to speak. If you want to see a current time then go back to the pits as soon as you cross the finish line then esc to the pit and hit event info and it will tell you. [email hidden]