Bug Reports - Automobilista 2 (Read the Opening Post)

Track & Layout Used: Velocitta' quick version with Caipirinha esses
Car Used: Gt4 McLaren
Applicable Settings: any
Report: The "time difference" indicator on the hud (the green/red bar indicating how quicker or slower your current lap is compare to your best time) gives inconsistent values after a couple of laps. The first two laps are usually fine, then suddenly I am shown I am 5-10 seconds faster than my personal best and of course this is not reflected by the eventual time.
Steps to reproduce: run a practice or qualifying session with the car/track indicated above

 

Track & Layout Used: Any
Car Used: McLaren Gt4, others too
Applicable Settings: automatic gearbox
Report: I always use automatic gear shifts in single player.
If I join a multiplayer session, sometimes I am unable to exit the boxes because it's automatically changed to manual shifting! If I go settings I see that it reads "manual" and if I try driving again...manual it goes! Like if showing the settings screen has been enough to solve the issue. If it happens in pratice, ok. Unfortunately, if this happens in race, it means I am stuck on the grid and everyone rams me from behind.
Steps to reproduce: join multiplayer session with automatic gear shift

 

When I was doing a stock car 2024 championship race I pitted and after leaving the pits AI was in control of my car. I couldn't regain control. Is this a bug or do I need to change a setting?

 

Sounds like you put the ai as a driver via the ICM

 

Track & Layout Used: Any track
Car Used: Any car from GT1 class
Applicable Settings: Races only - test sessions work fine
Report: Races don't load, BugSplat troubleshooter opens
Steps to reproduce: Just start a race in GT1 class?

 

Thats not a bug - You joined a server thats forces manual gears

 

No, because if I go to Settings and go back to driving it takes automatic shifting...

 

The same thing happened to me.

 

Can you post a video with that? I never seen that bug before

 

Track & Layout Used: Bathurst 2020
Car Used: Any, but lets go with Porsche GT3 cup 4.0 liter
Applicable Settings: Sunny weather day
Report: Some barriers, like turn 3, have a weird 'veil' visible around them. It's like a translucent surface that is 1-2 feet from the surface of the track barrier. Other turns throughout the circuit have this, too.
Steps to reproduce: Drive the circuit on a sunny day, and pay attention to the track barriers as you take corners.

 

Same thing on the Nordschleife!

 

Hi all. Not sure if I should post this here or in the troubleshooting section. I can’t get the game to launch. Sometimes it locks up in a black screen, sometimes it locks up while delivering “no input” from my pc to the monitor, and occasionally it will go black and then a few minutes later show the option to send a crash report.

Most of the time I have to force power off my PC, but occasionally it will crash and reboot the pc all by itself. I was able to enter the game the first time I ran it. Since then maybe it has loaded 1/100 attempts. Steam shows 2.8 hours in this game, 2.7 of which was spent troubleshooting and/or waiting on a black screen for the crash to resolve. The PC is completely unresponsive until it either crashes, reboots, or I force it off by holding the power button. Every other game I have runs fine.

I have a high end PC with the latest AMS2 update, latest Win10 updates, latest NVIDIA drivers, etc. Everything is updated. I can post those version numbers if it helps. CPU is an AMD7800X3D, 64gb ram, MSI 4090, 850W power supply.

I also have a Quest 3 and I use that in other games (successfully) with virtual desktop, airlink, and steam link. I have a simmagic alpha mini and some logitech pedals that are connected through a leo bodnar cable that make them a standalone device. Since the crashes, I have removed all Logitech software as it is not needed to run the pedals the way I have them setup (didn’t help). I verified the game files in steam, and I tried deleting the AMS2 folder in documents. A new folder gets generated on launch attempt but the game refuses to load. I try launching flat, I try launching in VR, I try with wheel and pedals unplugged, I did full removal of Quest Link software, I tried removing Virtual Desktop, etc. Nothing working.

I am happy to post logs/dumps/etc. But if anybody has any idea of how to get this going, I am all ears. Every other game I have loads fine. One weird thing I noticed is that if I try to launch this game in anything other than Oculus mode in VR, it just goes ahead and opens Oculus mode anyways. Just trying to lauch the game flat with no headset connected gives the same result - usually a hard full computer crash.

Maybe someone can tell me how to get the game to act as if it is a first launch with all initial settings wiped? Thank you for your time and please let me know which logs/dumps are a good to submit as well.

 

some UI bugs...
Top of screen says "Track Wetness", really it should say "Track Condition"

in pitbox -> Quick Setup, the time remaining bar is over the Vehicle Setup title.


Gen2 GT3's all show as having Wets or Hards in selection screen. - in game they have Softs.


In advanced setup the tooltip for Traction control has a typo - prvent.

In the race setup screen the tooltip for the date says something about AI aggression.

 

Update for if anyone has a similar issue in the future: Although I did a manual GPU driver update, I forgot to select custom, then clean install. So far the game is working after that. Looking forward to spending time in AMS2!

 

I'm currently using the Fanatec McLaren GT3 V2 Wheel for racing. I can use most of my buttons, but for whatever reason I can't bind anything to that red "up / down switch" on the right side. the left one is working, while for the right one I get a error message, telling me something like "invalid input".

The button itself is fully functional as I can use it in rF2 just fine

 

Track & Layout Used: Jacarepagua 1988
Car Used: Formula retro gen 3
Applicable Settings: Historic weather on the day 13/03/1983, start at 14:00
Report: Even though it's raining heavily, AI starts on slicks.
Steps to reproduce: .

 

Track & Layout Used: Imola 1988
Car Used: Williams FW13B
Applicable Settings: F1 1990 and 1995 mods
Report: After coming in to the pits for my planned tyre change I was delayed getting away from the pits as I was having "damage" repaired, even though I hadn't picked up any damage and had not asked for any damage to be repaired either.
Steps to reproduce: Difficult, however I've timestamped the pitstop. Also earlier on in the stream when I chose my straetgy everything looked fine and there was no additional damage showing from any would-be damage repair.
Skip to 1:24:51
https://www.youtube.com/live/z1UPMhzi8Mo?si=lTzQtRbx2HNExWCS

 

Track & Layout Used: Any
Car Used: Any, even mods
Applicable Settings: Acceleration on tyre wear
Report: Only the tyre set that I start the race on wears at an accelerated rate. After I change tyres in a pitstop, the new set I just put on wears normally, without any acceleration. The AI however are not affected by this, so you go from being equally matched to the AI on the first stint of a race, to having tyres that last at least twice as long after the first pitstop. This is not due to me having less fuel in the car, since it also happens in races with refueling. This has happened in literally every single race with tyre wear acceleration I've ever done.
Steps to reproduce: Do any race with any level of tyre wear acceleration, and observe the variation in tyre wear between different stints.

 

Track & Layout Used: Kansai
Car Used: Multiclass LMDh + GTE
Applicable Settings: Race Weekend
Report: The game doesn´t remember last settings for the life of me. I started a race weekend with 14 cars, multiclass. When I was in the session, I found that a third car class (some Stock Cars) was added again, even though I removed them already a few days ago. So after a while I left the session, removed that car class and went back in. Only to find that now it was running 33 (or 34?) cars. Really annoying that after every single change of a setting you have to go through all the options and check again.
Steps to reproduce: See report.

 

Not MY bug report just passing on an issue raised by a player ranting on the Steam forums..

Player in question was utterly DISGUSTED to find out DLC cars are not marked as DLC when selecting them in championship mode and that he COULD actually select the class despite not owning them himself.
He selected championship mode and GT3 Gen 2 and was raging that he couldn't change to the car he wanted (The Mclaren 720S EVO) as a result.
Might I therefore suggest Reiza add the "DLC Blue Star" in championship mode to car classes that contain ONLY DLC cars and maybe say the outline of the "DLC Blue star" to classes containing both base content AND DLC cars?

It might well save some frustration for newcomers to the game and save us old hats half a day of questioning, probing and finally answering the question when the OP only gives us 5% of the data and then ignores 2 specific questions of "Do you OWN the DLC cars you were trying to select?.
Just to have said newcomer launch into a tirade ending with.
"So the game will let you pick DLC you don't own, with no indication that it is DLC, and then lock up, crash or graphically glitch out when you try to pick a car. That's fantastic. I was really liking this game but now I know not to invest any more into it."

I DID explain that he at least has access to 80 tracks that ARE DLC content and that only 6 car groups have a single DLC car in them plus, that multi class racing was part of the game hence his ability to add DLC groups he doesn't own to championship mode.. Sigh....