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Heavy AI performance discrepancy. I'm assuming weather-related.

Track: VIR North layout
Class: VW TSI Cup
Game version: 1.6.4.3.2867

The weather was real weather with 5x progression in P&Q and 2x progression in race. Race date 1/1/2021. The actual weather in the sessions:
P - Dry.
Q - Overcast with a "Wet" track. Temperatures about 12/16 C. (Ambient/Track.)
R - Raining with a wet track. Temperatures about 4/5 C.

103 AI skill. 1.00x wet weather scalar. Medium aggression, 3x mistakes.

This put me at P9 in the 5-minute dry practice session. In the 10-minute quali I was P1, 15 seconds ahead of the next car. In the 20-minute race I gained 10 seconds per lap on the top AI cars.

This was first noticed with a custom AI grid and then verified with default AI drivers. I stopped the race with default AI after a couple laps having verified their pace.

 

Tested now a 20 laps race at Interlagos against AI with light rain to heavy rain, sync with race, Formula Ultimate Gen2. Starting with soft slicks I can race with track all wet, after all AI go for inters.

When I change for inters or wet, my car slides like racing over greese. Never happens before.

I don't know If I report this as a bug or try a reinstall.

 

Sorry for the reply to my post, click wrong. But will record a video with HUD inputs, because I don't thing its an AI question, AI race nice, it's player car physics that behave strange.

[EDIT] Reinstall solved the issue. Thanks God.

 

GT1 on Watkins Glen Inner Loop

Seems like the Ai avoids the curbs in the chicane, making them extremely slow at this part, compared to a human player. They break very early and drive very slow through the chicane.

Ai was set to 104, aggression: middle

 

For some reason, my AI co-driver always comes in to pit when there is about 50% fuel left. This occurs at several tracks and with several cars. I didn't test them all, but for example, if I do a 3 hour race in a GT3, come in to the pits to refuel, give control to my AI co-driver, he goes out and runs until about 50% of the fuel is gone. I don't know how to make him run longer. This messes up my race of course.
This was not like this in the initial build. A few years ago, I remember my AI co-driver running almost to empty fuel.
The only time he would come in early was if he received a large amount of damage.
Is there some setting I can change to make him wait to pit?
Or maybe it should be changed so that he runs indefinitely until I come over and force a pit stop. That would be more ideal.
Just wondering if any of you have experience with sharing your ride with the AI and how it has worked out for you.

Jeff