I just realized I won't have time to play in the weekend so I'll try to get this done by tomorrow.

Quoting: XpanderDamn Manta is way too bouncy for Finland stages. Even though i managed to tweak the setup so it wont bounce that much i was still constantly struggling with understeer when it bounced after a big jump.

Maybe you didn't go soft enough. :P


I drove the first two stages with that setup and yes, it was horribly scary.

Finland done. Had a few tiny forest trips in stage 2 and 3, but probably didn't lose more than a total of 15 seconds on them. Most time lost in stage 6, but a lot of good stages.

Catastrophy occured too late to have an effect, on stage 7, where my co-driver spat out "Is the left rear flat? To finish" :P

edit: Anyone else having trouble with the game freezing for a few seconds now and then using the proprietary nvidia drivers? Last upgrade was on November 1st, so it's weird that it only shows up now, but might be something it's not playing well with that got upgraded since last week.

Quoting: tuubiI just realized I won't have time to play in the weekend so I'll try to get this done by tomorrow.

Maybe you didn't go soft enough. :P

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I drove the first two stages with that setup and yes, it was horribly scary.

Haha, Scary indeed, i was doing shakedowns with different setups, used all 10 shakedowns to get somewhat working setup :D still way too bouncy :)

Quoting: Arnvidredit: Anyone else having trouble with the game freezing for a few seconds now and then using the proprietary nvidia drivers? Last upgrade was on November 1st, so it's weird that it only shows up now, but might be something it's not playing well with that got upgraded since last week.

No, zero issues. 387.22 drivers.

Quoting: Xpander

Quoting: Arnvidredit: Anyone else having trouble with the game freezing for a few seconds now and then using the proprietary nvidia drivers? Last upgrade was on November 1st, so it's weird that it only shows up now, but might be something it's not playing well with that got upgraded since last week.

No, zero issues. 387.22 drivers.

I used to get them quite often, but that was a few driver updates ago and maybe the game has been updated as well. Now I might get a tiny hitch or two sometimes, but not even in every play session.

if that makes any difference, i have a script which is keybinded, so when i go into gaming it forces my cpu to performance mode as well as gpu to performance mode. Its been smooth all the time for me.

edit: if anyone interested


performance.sh: https://pastebin.com/R1SCk7u8
schedutil.sh: https://pastebin.com/inL6sP7i


you need "Coolbits" "28" into your xorg confs if you want to use the fanspeed things also.
your distro needs to have cpupower also, if yours doesnt then you can use some other command like cpufreq or similar. pkexec is used to make it not ask for admin password, you need to create a polkit rule for that also ofc. head over to wiki of your distro i guess for that :)

So if i stop gaming i click another keybind on my keyboard which switches it back to schedutil

I found time to do the last stage as well, and somehow managed a good, clean run despite having to pause a couple of times. That usually messes up my concentration. I got close to Arnvidr in the end results, but not quite past him.

First stage was ok with just 15sec of penalty.
Second stage I crashed frontal into a tree after a jump, the car (and probably driver and co-pilot) died. :D

Quoting: XpanderDamn Manta is way too bouncy for Finland stages. Even though i managed to tweak the setup so it wont bounce that much i was still constantly struggling with understeer when it bounced after a big jump.
tried to make dampers firm but then after each harder jump i lost a tire. so i set front dampers a bit softer and rear ones to firm side, that was the best i could do to reduce bouncing. Wasn't too fun to drive like that...

I dunno how you did it. I couldn't beat you in the Lancia, and I had much less mishaps than you. Was also the fastest I think I ever have done there. Still no match for you in your Manta. Great driving man. Wish you had a recording of your run for me to watch.

Quoting: SkullyI dunno how you did it. I couldn't beat you in the Lancia, and I had much less mishaps than you. Was also the fastest I think I ever have done there. Still no match for you in your Manta. Great driving man. Wish you had a recording of your run for me to watch.

I try to remember to record next time. i had lots of mistakes yeah, but im usually really good in finland, those stages somehow suit me really good, so probably even with those mistakes i was still a bit faster then. on the last stage i lost most of the time with my advantures in the forest to try to reverse out of it. i bet around 15-20 sec wasted there

A lot less people finished this time.

Anyway last Rally of the Season will start soon.

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