Multiplayer - screen freezing mid race then continues

Update on "testing multiplayer screen freezes" no hardware/software changes

Running V1.3.8.2

Saturday 9th July 2022

16:45 17 lobbies - N/Rkd - 16 racers (0 ai) - 23 laps - Not Fxd Setup - Spielberg - 8 DNF
NO FREEZE.

17:35 17 lobbies - N/Rkd - 12 racers (0 ai) - 7 Laps - Not Fxd Setup - Salvador - 3 DNF
NO FREEZE.

 

Update on "testing multiplayer screen freezes" no hardware/software changes

Running V1.3.8.2

Sunday 10th July 2022

18:10 18 lobbies - Rkd - 5 racers (0 ai) - 9 laps - Fxd Setup - Buenos #7 - 3 DNF
NO FREEZE.
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Update on "testing multiplayer screen freezes" no hardware/software changes

Running V1.3.8.3

Monday 11th July 2022

12:25 7 lobbies - N/Rkd - 10 racers (2 ai) - 6 laps - Fxd Setup - Buenos #7 - 1 DNF
NO FREEZE.
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Game Restart...

17:20 14 lobbies - Rkd - 7 racers (0 ai) - 5 Laps - Fxd Setup - Bathurst - 4 DNF
NO FREEZE.
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Game Restart...

18:50 15+ lobbies - League/Rkd - 7 racers (0 ai) - 20 min - Fxd Setup - Salvador Street - 4 DNF
NO FREEZE.

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Update on "testing multiplayer screen freezes" no hardware/software changes

Running V1.3.8.3

Monday 11th July 2022

10:40 5 lobbies - Rkd - 7 racers (0 ai) - 5 laps - Not Fxd Setup - Bathurst - 3 DNF
FREEZE lap 3 & end of lap 5!

11:55 6 lobbies - N/Rkd - 9 racers (0 ai) - 10 laps - Not Fxd Setup - Hockenheim - 3 DNF
NO FREEZE
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Can you also make notes of when you are connecting to a dedicated server or a P2P connection? I am inside the NARR community in Discord and from time to time I join their events. When I asked why they were using P2P connections, they replied that dedicated servers have their own set of bugs and are generally less reliable, which left me puzzled tbh, because that's the opposite of what I would have expected.

My question came after a race with the Stock Car 99 at Interlagos 76 Outer. I fought microstutters all race long (not in practice or qualy) which happened in no more than 20 second delays (several users but definitely not all reported this), and had syncing issues where the game would not report my true position in both qualy and race, and would see many cars as ghosted. The day after the event the admin apologized and said they were trialling the use of ranked session, which has gave them troubles in the past, and seeing the problems persists, they vowed to turning that feature off for the time being.

Session was 30 minute practice, 10 min qualy, 30 minute race. There were 22 drivers online, setups were open, damage was on visually and perfomance impacting, cannot recall the percentage of it.

 

Update on "testing multiplayer screen freezes" no hardware/software changes
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Running V1.3.8.3
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Wednesday 13th July 2022
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* Note: Cleared all "Media" files under 1000kb - What are these??
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18:30 13 lobbies - Rkd - 11 racers (0 ai) - 9 laps - Not Fxd Setup - Monza Jnr - 0 DNF
NO FREEZE - Stutter end of lap 3.
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19:00 14 lobbies - N/Rkd - 14 racers (0 ai) - 10 laps - Not Fxd Setup - Oulton - 6 DNF
NO FREEZE.
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* Note: Checked "Media" folder & another 37 files <600kb generated, these <600kb files have been deleted ready for tomorrow.
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Update on "testing multiplayer screen freezes" no hardware/software changes

Running V1.3.8.3

Thursday 14th July 2022

11:50 5 lobbies - N/Rkd - 13 racers (2 ai) - 5 laps - Fxd Setup - Long Beach - 2 DNF
NO FREEZE.

12:15 5 lobbies - N/Rkd - 12 racers (2 ai) - 5 laps - Fxd Setup - Buenos #7 - 1 DNF
NO FREEZE.

15:35 5 lobbies - N/Rkd - 7 racers (0 ai) - 8 laps - Not Fxd Setup - Donno - 3 DNF
NO FREEZE.
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19:00 15+ lobbies - N/Rkd - 7 racers (0 ai) - 10 min +1 laps - Not Fxd Setup - Cadwell - 0 DNF
NO FREEZE.
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19:10 15+ lobbies - N/Rkd - 11 racers (0 ai) - 10 min +1 laps - Not Fxd Setup - Laguna - 0 DNF
NO FREEZE.
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* Note: no new/small files generated in Media folder.
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Just checked my media files and they where empty is it replays stored there and photos?

 

Yes, the .MED files with the crazy long character names are the replays.

 

Are these media files generated only During ranked sessions ?

 

No. The .med files are created when you click to save a replay of a race

 

According to Matt , last session generated 37 files, but none with unranked session.. Indeed it Will be interesting to see if he saved race only during ranked session .... is there more than one file per replay saved ?

 

Just the one file, but it seems something is wrong with some people's games, yeah.

 

Multiple files acces can cause some lag especially on writing if the writing occurs during gameplay... Maybe not the case hère.. just a general comment

 

I wouldn't be able to tell as I don't know how the system works when it comes to replay file generation.

 

If you have a look in game in your replays you will see them & then have a look in the media folder you can match the dates and see what's what & how they looked saved..

 

Got it. I was wondering why 2 race sessions generated 37 files and if this can be ( or not) related to the problem as no files were generated during Matt's another session that didn't suffer of freeze.

This is an interesting point that Matt Found I think... Wondering if a pattern Will occur or this is just a random not related issue

 

Update on "testing multiplayer screen freezes" no hardware/software changes

Running V1.3.8.3

Friday 15th July 2022

13:05 7 lobbies - N/Rkd - 2 racers (0 ai) - 7 laps - Fxd Setup - Bathurst - 0 DNF
NO FREEZE.

* Note: 1x 256KB Media file created BEFORE on entering the event & before any racing started started.

13:50 7 lobbies - N/Rkd - 8 racers (0 ai) - 7 laps - Not Fxd Setup - Curitiba - 0 DNF
NO FREEZE.
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* Note: no new/small files generated in Media folder.
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I checked and I don t have any smalls Media files.

They are going from 18Mo to 250Mo

This is from May ( I did a fresh W10 install) until today

 

Update on "testing multiplayer screen freezes" no hardware/software changes

Running V1.3.8.3

Saturday 16th July 2022

17:35 14 lobbies - Rkd - 11 racers (0 ai) - 4 laps - Fxd Setup - Interlagos - 3 DNF
FREEZE lap 3.

17:55 15+ lobbies - Rkd - 10 racers (0 ai) - 4 laps - Fxd Setup - Ortana Kart #1 - 0 DNF
FREEZE end of lap 4.

18:40 15+ lobbies - Rkd - 26 racers (0 ai) - 6 laps - Fxd Setup - Imola - 6 DNF
NO FREEZE but BIG STUTTERS end of lap 3 + 5

* Note: NO new/small files generated in Media folder.
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