Ow! Stay away from the kerbs!

[bobwilliams]

Hello everyone.

I'm opening this topic because I'd like to understand what ever happened to my GTR2 ...

There's a strange bug, de facto: as I place the wheels (of any car) in the kerbs, they suddenly lose traction, as I put the neutral gear and rev-up the engine, and start sliding as they were covered with oil and water...

I believe there's something that should've messed with the GTR2's kerbs grip coefficient... (at the moment I've got the lotus cup, the porsche supercup 2008 and the nissan 350 Z cup mods installed - and the McLaren F1 GTR mod installed as well).

Is there any file I should post here to allow you to check if there are some specific code-lines wrong?

That's the strangest problem I've ever experienced... :?:

Thanks for all the fellas willing to help. ;-)


p.s.: You know, it's so difficult driving efficiently without using those colourful-fine piece of tarmac... :-P

[JusTiCe8]

Hi,

do you told about wet session ? If yes, don't forget kerb's paint is a bit glossy/smooth and is like ice grip I guess, it's mean: nothing. Look at some race under rain and you'll see especially for bike racing how put a wheel on a kerb paint is very nice :D.

Also, under dry condition, it could depend on paint type, some have more grip than other...
Hope that help.

[JWhis]

Could also be bump/rebound and/or power diff settings

[bobwilliams]

Hi,

do you told about wet session ? If yes, don't forget kerb's paint is a bit glossy/smooth and is like ice grip I guess, it's mean: nothing. Look at some race under rain and you'll see especially for bike racing how put a wheel on a kerb paint is very nice :D.

Also, under dry condition, it could depend on paint type, some have more grip than other...
Hope that help.

No, I was (sadly) referring to the dry conditions, JusTiCe8... :-(

I perfectly know (I raced go karts for 4 years) when the road it's slippery, the kerbs become a sort of... fiendish traps.

As well as I remember last time I had GTR2 installed, placing wheels over the kerbs, I mean, the car reaction, was fine and realistic, now it's like running over oil stains.

I tweaked the susps. setup, but nothing came out... still - placing the wheels over the kerbs make the cars totally traction-less. Having the wheel steered while accelerating over one of those things just make you spin away. :-(

It's as if the GTR2 kerb' grip coefficient gone mad... What could've possibly 'drove it wild'?

You suggest I should re-install the whole business?

[David Wright]

Its relatively easy to create a second install of GTR2.

[Prez]

Maybe you DL some new track that altered the specialfx.tec file? Copy the original from cd back to locations folder.

[bobwilliams]

Maybe you DL some new track that altered the specialfx.tec file? Copy the original from cd back to locations folder.

A crime which I highly suspected. ;-)

Thanks for the information Prez... and all your tech support guys, if this will solve the matter I'll let you know. :-)

(otherwise: mass uninstall+reinstall...)

[bobwilliams]

Maybe you DL some new track that altered the specialfx.tec file? Copy the original from cd back to locations folder.

There's no way to extract that single file from the bin file inside the GTR2 setup...

I could post here my specialfx.tec file, but that would be quite useless.

Somebody care to share his specialfx.tec file? :-)

Thanks!

[Jay AK]

;)

[bobwilliams]

;)

Thank you Jay AK!

I've downloaded the Raceking 2008 'Schleife.

The car's behaviour on the kerbs of the track it's absolutely normal.

But the simbin's tracks - still a mess.

Let's see if something's change, now. ;-)