Automobilista 2 V1.5.6.1 RELEASED - Now Updated to V1.5.6.3

I have driven a car in AMS2 where if you rode the curbs too much, you risked getting a coolant leak.

 

Which one?

 

It might have been the F3 at Brasilia Full. I think if you rode the curb on the exit of T4. @TomLehockySVK might remember.

A number of racers in our league had issues on one of the tracks we raced.

 

Well for sure a timed pulse of some sort makes sense if it is confined to ranked servers. That should also be relatively easy to test/replicate. What is your estimation of the proportion of users who experience this (when on a ranked server)?

 

Are you sure you are talking about the same problem as the "exactly 10mins" issue described by the other poster? I had the freezes too (only in MP), but for me those went away over a year ago (still not sure what caused it, but I think it being something related having couple of screens connected that had been set with too high refresh rate, 240Hz on both). Those were clearly the freezes many have had where the screen goes black for second or multiple seconds, but the game continues in the background and very often you crash as a result. ... and actually, I got similar eventually also in rF2 (just more short lived and not as clear) before the problem went away when I stopped using the other screen altogether (again, no proof it was caused by that... could have been fixed even by some automatic update to windows, firewall/anti-virus, router etc.).

So there could be multiple different issues that ends up causing freezes and other similar things. In my earlier message, I was referring specifically to this very specific 10min after MP race start case

 

I had something similar with the F-Reiza, i was running in a league race around kansai, engine damage around 8-10, I took too much kerb into degna one, the underbody went over the kerb and as i came out of degna 2 my engine damage was 40+

 

Hard to say as I haven´t asked people in chat or whatever if they are affected. I also didn´t tab out to windows to see if there was a network or other spike as that would leave my car with no control.

I had hoped it was being tested when the MP beta test sessions were carried out now that you have more people. Maybe you can focus on that next time one is organised. It is usually confined to actual races not qually and for me every 5 minutes was the frequency but not always and it didn´t happen in all races so we are back to the intermittent bug issue.

There are 3 successive freezes where you can´t control the car but because you know when they are going to happen you can kind of predict it and anticipate.

I am open to participating on a one off basis if the schedule permits to see if it can be reproduced.

 

I'm investigating internally. Can you confirm you are not using UDP?

 

For me, the UDF is off. I've tried everything to isolate the problem and the only solution so far is to disable my wifi. There's some symbiotic thing happening between ASM2 and my internet that causes the 10 minute freeze. I thought it could be AMS2 pinging the weather data, but I'm having doubts about that now. I used to start a stop watch before race start and then pause my game at 9min58s and wait for the freeze to happen and then unpause when it's gone. But this is a total emersion breaker. There have been a few other people in the bug report section who's posted about this. One guy even posted a situation report of the multiple times it happens with scenario break downs.

 

Yours is much more likely to be Windows/power saving/something internal to PC or its connection to the WiFi. The UDP setting is most relevant for the ranked server 5-minute cycling issue that @3dquick is experiencing.

 

I wonder if your wifi connection just hangs for a a bit every 10mins for some compability issue and the game freezes when it tries to do something where it needs connection and doesn't get response what it expects (so game probably polls more often, but the 10min timer is in the wifi side). EDIT: if the countdown starts from game session, it definitely sounds like some combability with the game netcode and your wifi setup in any case, but not necessary a "bug" in the game code.

 

As far as I can rememeber it was off and IIRC I also tried it on and off and it was the same. I really haven´t played much recently as we are between physics updates but if there is anything you want me to test or setup a private sesssion let me know.Ideally it needs testing in a mock race environment where people can stop and report events. On a real live server that won´t happen as they will focus on racing and worry about their rating.

I only use 1Gb symmetrical ethernet, never wifi to play (wifi is off on the router when I play) and when it happens it occurs on ranked multiplayer, which i have given up on as this and the assists bug are too much for me at one time!

 

Exactly, the weather data can´t be because this has been happening before that feature was turned on, also it would happen in single player too in that case and for me it doesn´t.

I am curious as to why it is 10 mins in your case and usually every 5 in mine, perhaps race length has something to do with it. My hunch is it is when the game sends the race position data somewhere to be saved - perhaps some sort of anti cheat could be involved? I can actually game the the ranking system by quitting the game at certain points in the race and not getting a penalty in rating so perhaps the two are linked. If I do it before the freeze for instance but I have never actuallly tested the 2 things together.

 

Yes i figured out what was wrong and i have no idea why my 55" tv started change system resolution to 4k, while switching hdmi cable fom my desktop monitior to TV, that never happened before. So I set up resolotion "by hand" and now i can play again with pleasure ...

 

Please confirm if it is on or off (last time you had the issue/when the issue occurs).

 

A wild guess: could it be something to do with the Windows sleep timeout option? That is usually set to a whole number such as five or ten minutes.

 

Will try both option next time I play to be 100% sure.

@Scraper Windows sleep would surely affect other games and apps. And also why not single player? Ranked multiplayer is the trigger, we need to find the golden bullet.

 

It only happens on ranked, not unranked or SP Don´t do TT so don´t know there. Is game mode so smart it knows when I am playing on AMS2 on ranked or unranked? I very much doubt it but I can try. This will be at the weekend.

It would also be nice if someone compared the code of ranked vs unranked as there must be something in there triggering these communications. How and when does the game save data relevant to safety rating and rank? There´s got to be something going on there to stop people rage quitting and retaining their marks. I can workaround that if I quit at the right time during a race so I´bet my house that system is the cause as when it syncs the freezes happen.

Other data for full disclosure.

it happens on two different PCs. Both are gaming laptops plugged to the mains with batteries disabled. No power saving options activated.
Windows 10 and 11, No antivirus or firewall apart from Windows Defender.
No CCleaner
Different Nvida drivers and different cards
Different Intel chip gens.
No other programs running like twitch or explorers.
Frame rate capped using Nvidia CP. to below max monitor refresh rate.
No Nvidia or AMD sync software activated apart from above.
No overlocking or customisation programs for graphics card
Ethernet connection used / wifi disabled
USB keyboard connected but no wheel or controller.