It's basically a restart of the race with the order being taken from when the red flag was issued (or when everyone disconnected) with 11h to go 
To be honest my old sig was you posting one of the funniest things I've ever read on this forum, so I figured I needed to redress the balance.
I just did a HDR on/off back to back test. For me HDR causes a washed out look of the track texture and clearly introduces a lot of microstutters that don't happen without HDR.
Thanks for all the advice guys.
Things that made difference for me:
4x sparse grid supersampling and the other things troy mentioned are magic: even though my average fps has gone down the game has gone from a blurry, washed out, flickering, inconsistently stuttering mess to to a crispy clean, smooth flowing, fantastic looking sim.
This combined with lowering the FOV to 50° has allowed me to actually see where the track is going and lets me get an idea where my car is heading.
Going really low on the FFB gain also does its part in letting me fight the car instead of the wheel.
One thing I'm really enjoying with the DTM M3 at Imola is the way the rear of the car dances around controllably under heavy braking, something I haven't felt in a sim before.
Also the way the balance changes between on and off throttle is great.
Tristan, what happened? Violent snap-back oversteer?
Things that made difference for me:
4x sparse grid supersampling and the other things troy mentioned are magic: even though my average fps has gone down the game has gone from a blurry, washed out, flickering, inconsistently stuttering mess to to a crispy clean, smooth flowing, fantastic looking sim.
This combined with lowering the FOV to 50° has allowed me to actually see where the track is going and lets me get an idea where my car is heading.
Going really low on the FFB gain also does its part in letting me fight the car instead of the wheel.
One thing I'm really enjoying with the DTM M3 at Imola is the way the rear of the car dances around controllably under heavy braking, something I haven't felt in a sim before.
Also the way the balance changes between on and off throttle is great.
Tristan, what happened? Violent snap-back oversteer?
I've been having a go now and then with AC and have been trying to like it. But somehow it doesn't click. When running around below the limit the general feeling is quite good. But when I push the cars start displaying all sorts of behavior that don't feel natural to me.
First there is the dreaded snap-back when correcting minor slides. I am more likely to spin from the snap-back than from the original oversteer. Something you never see in real life.
Then you have the extreme mid-corner understeer that even increases when you add some throttle. Is there a more unsatisfying trait a car can have than power-on-understeer?
Then there's the fact that you can't turn in when you are still on the brakes a bit, the car just goes straight. In real life drivers brake into corners to but vertical load on the front tyres to reduce turn-in understeer.
And in general anything with less than 500 bhp feels sluggish and unresponsive.
To top it off the graphics don't look anywhere near as good as in the screenshots. I've tried all the AA/AF settings and the tracks are just blurred and low-detail.
I know that I've generalized a lot in the above comments and maybe I just haven't driven the right car/track/setup combo. So can anybody give me some advice what I should be driving? Or could it be that my old DFP is just too sluggish to give me enough feel for AC?
On a sidenote, I also tried RaceRoom Experience today and thought it wasn't too bad. So maybe I've just gone crazy?
First there is the dreaded snap-back when correcting minor slides. I am more likely to spin from the snap-back than from the original oversteer. Something you never see in real life.
Then you have the extreme mid-corner understeer that even increases when you add some throttle. Is there a more unsatisfying trait a car can have than power-on-understeer?
Then there's the fact that you can't turn in when you are still on the brakes a bit, the car just goes straight. In real life drivers brake into corners to but vertical load on the front tyres to reduce turn-in understeer.
And in general anything with less than 500 bhp feels sluggish and unresponsive.
To top it off the graphics don't look anywhere near as good as in the screenshots. I've tried all the AA/AF settings and the tracks are just blurred and low-detail.
I know that I've generalized a lot in the above comments and maybe I just haven't driven the right car/track/setup combo. So can anybody give me some advice what I should be driving? Or could it be that my old DFP is just too sluggish to give me enough feel for AC?
On a sidenote, I also tried RaceRoom Experience today and thought it wasn't too bad. So maybe I've just gone crazy?
Yes deko has got his spanners out and is trying to fix it.
Car 25 have appealed against the Drive-Through penalty awarded to them in the above incident. The incident was then looked at another admin not involved in investigating this incident originally. Original decision was upheld. Car 25 gets a 20-second stop and go penalty.
Admin initiated investigation:
Race
2h57 race time
Cars 72 and 71
Turn 8 / CS-8
Car 72 spins and reverses back onto the racing line into the path of Car 71.
Car 72 - Drive-Through - Unsafe recovery from incident
Race
2h57 race time
Cars 72 and 71
Turn 8 / CS-8
Car 72 spins and reverses back onto the racing line into the path of Car 71.
Car 72 - Drive-Through - Unsafe recovery from incident
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Once did that in a 1.2 litre diesel VW Polo with 4 fairly big guys (except me) and a load of lead in it. 0-60 in 16.8 seconds
I was glad to see during the draw that we got our first glimpse of the one best thing about the World Cup being in Brazil. Well.... the two best things......
Cleavage much?!?!?
Cleavage much?!?!?
Wat.
Wat.
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Kangaroos on track.
Or the Summer World Cup in a place where it's 50 degrees every day. Oh wait hang on a second......
I don't get how, if the pit boxes are that small and are right next to each other, how you're supposed to enter and exit your pit box without going in someone else's? They're only like 2 car lengths long :/
When I say hot I mean ~25 degrees apparently, but I would think definitely in the range to give the Mercs tyre problems. Especially if there isn't *that* much rubber down after the rain.
AFAIK it's supposed to be really quite hot here tomorrow
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