F1RS Bugs or What

Hi, Here are some things that look very strange to me in F1 RS From UBI SOFT: - When Playing I replay, there is no Sound playing !!!! Is it the same for everybody ?? Is it a Bug or What ? - I tried many times to race 25 % length Races with all damaged to the mecanic enabled but I never had any engine blow up, even with pushing the max rate Engine to 17 500 T/ MN. And same for all concurrent. Any solution to this ??? Endly, I have the same probleme than many of you. I mean the game speed Freeze at the Race Start and after , no problem. I have a P 133 + 32 Mo ram + 3DFX. Do people with BIGGER configs have the same problem ?? Thanks for your reply Eric NICAISE

I have given up trying to use the replays.. Why did UBI not put them in 3Dfx as well? SVGA sucks big time!

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>Hi, >Here are some things that look very strange to me in F1 RS From UBI >SOFT: >- When Playing I replay, there is no Sound playing !!!! Is it the >same for everybody ?? Is it a Bug or What ? >- I tried many times to race 25 % length Races with all damaged to the >mecanic enabled but I never had any engine blow up, even with pushing >the max rate Engine to 17 500 T/ MN. And same for all concurrent. >Any solution to this ??? >Endly, I have the same probleme than many of you. I mean the game >speed Freeze at the Race Start and after , no problem. I have a P 133 >+ 32 Mo ram + 3DFX. Do people with BIGGER configs have the same >problem ?? >Thanks for your reply >Eric NICAISE

> I have given up trying to use the replays.. > Why did UBI not put them in 3Dfx as well? SVGA sucks big time! This is fixed in the first patch... Gee, I can't remember if the sound was fixed in replays? I guess, I like racing better than watching. ;^) l8er ronny -- |\ _,,,---,,_ I want to die like my Grandfather, ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ in his sleep. |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Not like the people in his car, '---''(_/--' `-'\_) screaming their heads off!

Actually, Ubisoft can rectify this by making the Sim even more accurate. How? Simple, by releasing a patch that adds ONE single lap to a Grand Prix: THE WARM UP LAP!!!! That would take care of the build up of the track, but still make it possible to keep the car on the track because a warm up lap is driven at "low" speeds, no overtaking, no excessive steering needed, just cassually folow the guy in front or if you're pole sitter, drive whatever speed neccessary to warm the tires. If Ubisoft wants to remedy this, a warm up lap would be IDEAL. Can we see some David Coulthard warm up laps a-la 1995? Or Schumacher and Damon blowing engines in a warm up lap? You might, as I always do, turn of task planner before lauching ANY game in Win95. Taskplanner just happens to access the drive on certain points in time, making the game stutter and wait for the drive to be given back again so it can continue writing and reading data neccessary to create the illusion you're driving an F-1 car at 300+ Km/H. Just a thought. BTW, who uses the Game device profiler for the MS-joysticks? Very handy in the pit. One butten to acknowledge a pit entry, one for the speed limiter and one for the crew to give commands. Just that little tad faster then reaching for the keyboard. And another point, at first I was a bit irritated that shifting up and down isn't tied to the brake or accelerate position of the joystick a-la GP-2. Now, I praise the 2 button shift up and down, since it now is more like reality. You don't see Damon or Jacques or Michael shifting with the same paddle now, do we? "On 5 August 1944 in the vicinity of St. Sever Calvados, France, witnessed a German Mark V Panther tank knock out three M4 and three M5 tanks during and after being hit by at least fif*** rounds of 75mm APC from a distance of approximately 700 yards. All of these shells had ricochetted, with the exception of a six***th round which finally put the Mark V Panther out of action." Sgt. Thomas P. Welborn, Germany's Panther tank, the quest for combat superiority by Thomas L. Jentz [link lost in import] [link lost in import]

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>Hi, >Here are some things that look very strange to me in F1 RS From UBI >SOFT: >- When Playing I replay, there is no Sound playing !!!! Is it the >same for everybody ?? Is it a Bug or What ? >- I tried many times to race 25 % length Races with all damaged to the >mecanic enabled but I never had any engine blow up, even with pushing >the max rate Engine to 17 500 T/ MN. And same for all concurrent. >Any solution to this ??? >Endly, I have the same probleme than many of you. I mean the game >speed Freeze at the Race Start and after , no problem. I have a P 133 >+ 32 Mo ram + 3DFX. Do people with BIGGER configs have the same >problem ?? >Thanks for your reply >Eric NICAISE

Salut, Firstly, I can't comment on the replay, as I never use it... From my observations it tends to slow down the game, esp. because it causes more HD hits... In response to your speed problem at the start of the race, maybe you could try disabling the replay option, that could help some... I use a beefed-up P166, 64 Mo RAM & also experience noticeable slowdowns during the game but it's still manageable on my machine. Basically, the more powerful your machine is, the better it gets, but I'm only stating the obvious here... :-) As regards to damage, I've now played the game for many, many hours :-) & had my car break down only twice. Once it was engine blow-up, the other time it was oil pressure failure. That happened during "essais" (sorry I'm too lazy to check the English word for it...) on a Williams-Renault & full damage on (actually I think the engine blow-up occurred when I was on partial damage only !). Mind that for "essais" & qualifications I usually boost my engine to 17500 rpms to get maximum performance. I was also racing at 25% length but with rpms toned down to 17000 rpms for more security & didn't encounter any failure so far... Maybe YMMV if you're driving in another team (did I hear Ferrari ? :-)) ? I've now set races length to 50% & will see if I can get any failure in that mode... Happy racing ! Fred __________ Frederic Marie Pressimage / Generation 4 5-7, rue Raspail, 93108 Montreuil Cx, FRANCE Tel: +33-(0)149886363, Fax: +33-(0)149886364

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>Hi, >Here are some things that look very strange to me in F1 RS From UBI >SOFT: >- When Playing I replay, there is no Sound playing !!!! Is it the >same for everybody ?? Is it a Bug or What ? >- I tried many times to race 25 % length Races with all damaged to the >mecanic enabled but I never had any engine blow up, even with pushing >the max rate Engine to 17 500 T/ MN. And same for all concurrent. >Any solution to this ??? >Endly, I have the same probleme than many of you. I mean the game >speed Freeze at the Race Start and after , no problem. I have a P 133 >+ 32 Mo ram + 3DFX. Do people with BIGGER configs have the same >problem ?? >Thanks for your reply >Eric NICAISE

Just a thought, have you set the option for proportional wear (?) can't remember what it is actually called or where abouts I found it, but if you turn it on, on a 50% race you use up fuel and tyres twice as quickly. I don't know if this affects wear on the engine or anything but it seems logical that it would. -- Sean Black

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> I run a K6 200 with a Diamond Monster. > When I have loaded the game up, the first lap of a circuit is always > "jumpy" with lots of graphics lock-ups, making it difficult to drive. > Once a complete lap has been done, it never happens again on that > circuit. I haven't tried it yet, but I assume that if I change to > another circuit, then I will get the lock-ups again, for the first lap. > I also noticed, when a friend was having a go, that there were short > bursts of disk activity whilst driving. These were causing almost > imperceptable (SP?) lock-ups. I turned the REPLAY option off, and it > stopped. I assume that on a slower machine, these lock-ups would be more > noticeable. > -- > Cheers, > Richard. > Richard UNDERSCORE Beckett AT ecid DOT cig DOT mot DOT com

having the exact same problem!

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>> Actually, Ubisoft can rectify this by making the Sim even more accurate. >> How? >> Simple, by releasing a patch that adds ONE single lap to a Grand Prix: >> THE WARM UP LAP!!!! >BRILLIANT idea...are you listening Ubisoft?

Thanks. Yeah, I'm using the Dutch version of Win95 so I don't know what the US/English name of the program is. It keeps your drives fragment-free, notifies you when your drives are beginning to fill up, check them regularly. That program does access the drive from time to time to check for the amount of free space remaining. It's a program that binds keystrokes to a button of ANY Microsoft *** device. Very handy indeed. Set in the rules section Speed Limit yes. I've been called back many times to the pit to sit out a 10 second penalty for pitlane speeding. I love this. It's so much better than GP2s "We slow you down for half a minute" penalty. The manual says that TAB is the key for the speed limiter. So, better be careful to press it before going over the radar-line in the Pit. It really is functioning. You race into the pit, you press tab just 0.001 second too late, you leave the pit: "10 second penalty for pitlane speeding. Report to the pit." Truly bliss Sim, Ubisoft, Trulli bliss. :-) About bugs, since that's the name of this thread: Whenever I load a Ghost, be it one of myself or from the net, I get a rear-car view when I enter the ghost-lap and my rear-view mirrors are blanked out completely with white. Anyone else have this problem? I've installed the patch. "On 5 August 1944 in the vicinity of St. Sever Calvados, France, witnessed a German Mark V Panther tank knock out three M4 and three M5 tanks during and after being hit by at least fif*** rounds of 75mm APC from a distance of approximately 700 yards. All of these shells had ricochetted, with the exception of a six***th round which finally put the Mark V Panther out of action." Sgt. Thomas P. Welborn, Germany's Panther tank, the quest for combat superiority by Thomas L. Jentz [link lost in import] [link lost in import]

I think that one is called a "feature" <g> Presumably it has problems displaying the ghost in the mirrors so it blanks them out and puts you in the rear-car view so that the casual driver won't even know about the non-functioning mirrors.... Cheers, Richard