a couple of days without gtr due some other activities like skiing and a birthday party. after my 6 hours car trip on friday (for just 330 km! snow and lag of brain is not really a good compination on roads) i was kind of sick of driving a car ;).
i tried to remove all add-on cars for test purposes, just to check if the stuttering is based on add-on cars. i started a 30 cars race on nordschleife day with the original cars but the stuttering was the same. to be consequent, i finished this 1:30 hour race regardless to stuttering and complete freezes for a couple of seconds. unfortunately, my strategy doesnt fit to my current lap times so i run out of fuel and had to pit for the last lap again. even with the slow elise, i was the fastest of my class, so with a better strategy and more concentration it should be possible to win the class. my current lap times are about 8:45 min on med slicks (depends on passes) and a fuel consumption of about 12 litres per lap. tire wear is good enough to stay out for about 20 laps but i have to test this, i had a wear of 6-8 after 10 laps. with the current consumption i have to refuel after 8 laps, so one pitstop for fuel, the next one for fuel and tires could work which will lead to 1:10 hour stints and a driver change after two stints. but i will check if the handling will remain similar with a full tank and an empty tank (i did just tests with a maximum of 75 litres yet which is enough for 6 laps) so if i go for 3 stints of 6 laps on the same tires and if this will give me the chance of saving 2-3 seconds per lap due a better balanced and consistent setup this could be an alternative strategy. especially for the night and the dawn/dusk periods the tire temperature will be the major criteria for pitting. stay tuned 😉
about stuttering, with the above-mentioned tests, i had a couple of things running in the background and this was a terrible scenario. gtr is very sensitive to such things. the next thing i have recognized is memory. a field with more than 20 cars eats up one gigabyte easily. with more than 40 cars on the track gtr started to reload sounds like pitradio during the race which produces lags of seconds.