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I feel I need to apologise for tonights race, Its seemed that my CPU was struggling and on many occasions James would teleport back and forth,
Sorry if I gave anyone a suprise or cause a collision due to ths.
On a side note, any suggestions on how to stop this?
Thanks
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sounds more like a connection problem – maybe you had some downloads running in the background?
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Hi James (father and son),
nice of you to drop a message here. It shows you care. I was on the race, although on the front, but I read someone complain in the chat.
I've had that on my old computer, on which I was running already everything as low a possible. As Richard wisely mentioned, full grids and mods can become too much for some computers. One possible solution is downgrading a bit the visual experience. Smoke generation and reflections require a lot of CPU power, so you can begin with those. Try lowering their qualities a bit.
I hope that helps. Glad to see James keeps on improving. I had the chance to meet him on track at Road America and was amazed that he's only eight years old.
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Thanks Javier and Richard,
The CPU is an AMD FX8350 8X 4.000GHz
We have done some testing this evening and lowered the qulity of some effects, However, the biggest factor was how many cars where on track at the same time.
We thought we had resolved the issue and decide to join the Practice, This went well as did Qualifying without any CPU warnings.
But the race was different, With 24 cars and SRS it started to cause problems again, once a couple of drivers had dropped out the last 16 minutes of the race was perfect (apart from some of James' mistakes)
So my thoughts are a new and better CPU is required.
Javier
Thanks for the kind comments, It really does mean alot.
I find all feedback useful but do find somtimes that some drivers blame his age, not his skill or lack of it. I was going to keep his age quiet and was hoping everyone would value him on his skill not his age. But didnt want to decieve anyone.
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How much FPS do you have?
My CPU usage uses rises significantly the more FPS I have, so I limited it to 62.
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If you are on a server, the amount of cars is not important because your CPU didn't have to calculate anything related to those cars. Another thing is when you race offline.
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I disagree with that. I've had this warning several times in online races and it disappeared as the race progressed and people dropped out, so I believe there is some CPU relation to the number of cars.