Champion Motorsports Australian Porsche Cup Series

[Bob Dunlop]

Champion Motorsports presents the 2007 Australian Porsche Cup Series!

The Sim for this series will be GTR2.
Here is theGTR2 Australian Porsche mod complete.7z
It is recommended that you start w/ a new clean and updated install of GTR2 and then add the mod from this thread as it has been reworked a little bit to fix a couple of small issues w/ sound.This version also includes all of the new tracks and cars that have been submitted as of May 1 2007

Additional cars may be submitted up until Wednesday May 9th.Porsche GT3 Australian cup templates.zip
Thursday May 10th there will be one more download of cars if more are submitted.
Remember, only full standalone cars will be accepted This sound fix file must be added to your standalone car file Just unzip and place it in your car folder
Submit cars to this Thread Only

Make sure to check back to this thread for the last download on May 10th before the race.

If you are not submitting a car...pick one from the mod and keep it for the season.
Make sure to pick different cars from one another.

The Server name is.."Champion Dedicated" and the password is "engage" w/o the quotes in lower case


All Races will be aprox. 45 minutes depending on lap times and such.
Fuel consumption will be set to 3x so that you will need to pit.
Races will be held every Thursday night starting on May 10th.
Practice will begin at 9:00 pm Eastern for one hour followed by 15 minutes of Qualifying,5 minutes warmup and then the race.

Official Race Schedule.
Thursday May 3rd will be a practice night to insure everybody has all the necessary files and is able to join the server.

May 10th Adelaide 28 laps
May 17th Albert Park 22 laps
May 24th Winton 32 laps
May 31st Hidden Valley 40 laps
June 7th Ipswich (Queensland) 40 laps
June 14th Macau 16 laps
June 21rst Oran Park
June 28th Sandown
July 5th Bathurst
July 12th Daytona RC get it at NoGrip or right here in the forums
July 19th GoldCoast (Surfers Paradise)
July 26th "The Virginia Gang mid summer 100" at VIR (full course)

A few mods for GTR2 can be found in this thread GTR2 addons

If you are a new member please use THIS thread to sign up

Alright..the server has been up a few days and seems to be working flawlessly.

I highly recommend doing a FPS (use fraps or I believe ctrl-f) check on your computer to make sure you are good to go as we are running FULL weather.

What I suggest is to start a race at the back of the pack OFFLINE at 4:00 pm in the pouring down rain with 20 ai cars and your headlights on.

On the starting grid you should get no lower than 30 FPS.
As the race starts and you go around the track your FPS should go up a little but NEVER below 30 fps.

Setting shadows to medium and using VIRTUAL mirrors and the amount of cars drawn ahead seems to make the biggest difference...at least on my machine

In other words check your machine in the worst possible race conditions as possible and adjust as necessary

I created a brand new install of GTR2 and put the mod in and it works perfectly..if you encounter any problems I suggest you do the same.

Mike and Wes and myself are all here to help if you need.

Post here any questions or problems

Become familiar with pitstops as you WILL be pitting to get fuel at the very least.

ALSO...VERY IMPORTANT!..become familiar with the FLAG RULES as they are set to FULL.
There may be full coarse cautions if an accident is bad enough, and you may get penalized if you don't pay attention to BLUE flags and such

[Bob Dunlop]

Practice this Thursday

[Mike Tribble]

Practice this Thursday

Be there or be square! this is going to be soooo much fun!


EDIT: We are going to have to Buy Tim Collier a new server.. his MUST be smoking by now.. I am downloading the new series and getting 10-12 KB/S on a 10,000 MB/S Cable connection. Going to take over 5 hours to download!

Must be many other people downloading also or the web is just super slow today.

Anyway,,,,, If you haven't started getting all the files yet, NOW would be a good time to start.... it's a 306 MB Load!!

[S.Charlie Gog]

I started it last night and woke this morning to find my "super fast" 5.5k transfer(yes..im STILL on dial up)had dropped to 0.8 k.
Tim..Stop downloading all those naughty movies until we can get the mod...j/k

[Rich Lee]

Will we be at Adelaide this Thursday for practice?

[Bob Dunlop]

Yes

[Mike Tribble]

We have good news and BETTER news!

1st the Good news! Everything has checked out with the server! There were some random "boot as possible cheat" issues that seemed to have no particular reason to happen. I have modified the server files to now give a warning if a mismatch occurs instead of booting you off. We MAY still need to help you verify your configuration and make sure everything is where it's supposed to be but at least you can stay on the server and get into chat and let us try to help.

2nd the BETTER news! We have successfully implemented the CHANGEABLE weather option on the server. So it MAY start raining on you at ANY time (the track meteorologist is NOT very good at forecasting the weather). When the bottom drops out you can pit and put on either hard or soft wets or maybe its just a passing shower and intermediates would be you best choice. You have all the options you need.

I would like to thank Charlie Gog again for his brilliant mod and awesome paints and Bob Dunlop for putting in many hours to build the consolidated download that made it so easy to properly install all the files needed. This has been an ambitious project for all of us. Let's make the most of our opportunity to enjoy this series. Everyone invite one more person and we'll have a full house!

Thanks again to each of you for your contributions to the server fund. (You know who you are)

Mike Tribble AKA Ursamajor

[S.Charlie Gog]

Just hopped up on the server and everything ran smooooth!
Last night when i came on i got booted for having a cheat..so whatever was the problem at my end tis gone

My question is can i start from my regular GTR2 start up to see the weather change or start from the newer weather patched exe?
Or is this a question yet to be answered?

[Mike Tribble]

Just hopped up on the server and everything ran smooooth!
Last night when i came on i got booted for having a cheat..so whatever was the problem at my end tis gone

My question is can i start from my regular GTR2 start up to see the weather change or start from the newer weather patched exe?
Or is this a question yet to be answered?

ALL users start from regular gtr2 startup OR nocd startup. ONLY the server has to start from the weather patch.

[Tim Henson]

Hi -
I seem to have an odd issue preventing me from driving once I connect to the server. I have connected successfully the last 2 days but each time I have connected when other people are on the server my screen keeps showing the players loading message and keeps cycling through these in an endless loop. For instance when it says loaded Wes Tribble, Loaded Mike Tribble, Loaded Tim Henson. It just keep cycling through these messages and never will stop. Has anyone had this issue?

I have a fresh install of GTR2, 1.1 patch, and I downloaded the mod from the original threads and not from the thread created yesterday.

Thanks, I really would like to race with you guys with this mod.
-Tim