Daiman Patel
rFactor 2 Technical Assistant
Apologies for not replying sooner - this post had become a little bit lost in amongst all of the Chrome tabs that I have open for messages to which I need to respond.
That is a very good point you have made - tracks developed by Virtua_LM are certainly the ones that seem to exhibit the issue, as we saw it several times during rF2 club races at Sebring with not only the URD mod, but also the BES and Apex Modding GT3 cars (and maybe a few others as well, but these are certainly the ones that come to mind at the moment). But as you have said there are ways in which the problem can be avoided: either increase the ride height or the number of packers, or avoid the ends of curbs if you choose to keep a low ride height or not use packers.
Again, a very good point. I knew that there were fairly significant issues with bumps and lack of grip in the first version of this track to be released on the GTR24h server back in 2015. When I briefly "tested" a later version of the track (in January / February of this year) I found that it felt better, but the surface was still incredibly uneven and I experienced some very strange graphical issues where pretty much every grandstand and track-side object was constantly flickering. (The problem was only with this track; I altered my graphics settings, and cleared my Shaders and CBash directories, but to no avail.) All of this was rather off-putting so I only did a few laps before calling it quits, and it was at this point that the decision was made to use the classic Virtua_LM version of the track, which has been around for a number of years, and is well constructed, reliable and robust, and proven to be stable. Obviously there was the issue with Nvidia graphics drivers not too long ago, but as you have said there is a workaround for this in DX9 and it should not be a problem in DX11.
I don't know if another version of the modern Le Mans circuit mod has been released since I last tested it, nonetheless your feedback is not particularly promising, so I feel as though we have made the right decision to use the Virtua_LM track for this event. We will definitely look at potential alternatives in the future but for now I believe the best option is to stick with what we know, and the legendary Le Mans 1991 - 1996 circuit mod is currently the best option in my opinion.
To quote what you have said, the version of the track by Virtua_LM is "more complete", and I feel the same way. The track development team has had a more solid base with which to work, to customise the track for the RDLMS by adding advertisement boards, garage and pit boxes, "cut corridors", as well as a number of other bits & bobs. And on top of this Gijs has done an absolutely fantastic job to bring the track up to DX11 standards, just so that we have a great looking circuit for the league. All of this may not have been possible with the modern version of the circuit, that is if we were actually given permission to use it and make changes, not to mention that we probably would have needed to look at making improvements to the track surface, etc. As you have said there simply would not have been enough time to make all of the necessary changes and refinements to the modern version of the track.
Finally, your last point is also completely valid and very true - Round 3 is a 24 hour event, so there is plenty of time for things to go wrong, and things will inevitably go wrong... though we hope not too much!
Of course we will do as much as we can to mitigate the risks of problems during the race, or at least devise procedures to deal with things going wrong. And by using a version of the track that we know has worked for a number of years, in both rFactor and rFactor 2, we are doing just this and it is one less thing about which we need to worry. In spite of this there is still the possibility that something could go wrong.
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