Maximum laps limit?

I've solved the last major issue, but I had to lower the new limit to 253 due to problems with pitstop strategies and fuel loads. The game wants to have 2 extra laps of fuel, so a full load with 254 limit would give 256 laps, which does not fit and you end up with an empty fuel tank on the grid. With 253 laps I have no problems anymore.

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Great !!!
253 or 256 should be not a matter. Well done as always and thank you again Master

Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant.

Brilliant!

(Can you tell I'm excited?)

Thank you soooo much René!

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Just out of interest, what is the longest available GP4 circuit?

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I think it must be Interlagos 1979 by Turbo Lover. It's the closest to the 1500 sector/8km restriction I've seen around.

EDIT: I was rather thinking about the Indy 500 (200 laps) and the Bathurst 1000 (161 laps). Should be fun.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/15/2015 11:23AM by Atticus..

Didn't Addie make a quick one exceeding the 8km for testing that feature?

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I don't think it's publicly available, or that if it's a real-world track.

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No real-world track, was only referring to length there. But I think it was public, in the respective gpxpatch thread.

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The longest track I have is from Addie and it's 19.93km. He made it for me to test the limit of 20km. So a 253 laps there would be 5042km. With an average of 300kph (it's a fast track) that would take you almost 17 hours to complete.

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SDI escribió:
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> Yes indeed, GPxCInfo can show it too, so it's
> probably not that important to fix.
>
> > The limit of 254 laps, which is determined?
> Memory o GP4 code?
>
> The limit is caused by GP4 code, which uses 8 bits
> to store it. All access to it was mostly signed,
> so only 7 bits were used (127 laps). Also, a 99
> laps limit was applied at several places. My patch
> makes all access unsigned and removes the other
> limits too.

Thanks René for explanation!

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Atticus. schrieb:
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> I think it must be Interlagos 1979 by Turbo Lover.
> It's the closest to the 1500 sector/8km
> restriction I've seen around.

Why do you still think the 1500 sectors are still a limit? SDI, also called "the great master", made it possible to get tracks up to 4000 sectors (20 km) working in the game. Or am I wrong with this statement?

Yes, 20km, but I'm not the great master, I'm your humble servant

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SDI Wrote:
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> Yes, 20km, but I'm not the great master, I'm your
> humble servant


I thought it's actually an 'enabled' work-in-progress feature that may still carry the risk of some random crashes and things like that.

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There might be some risk, but I think it's quite low. As you might have read in another thread, it even solved a random crash!

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Nice work SDI congratulations

Unless we can get the CC cars to do 6 pit stops I'm afraid the Bathurst 1000 161 laps is not going to work.

If we could make it work I would be the first to build Le Mans 24 hour.

auscain Wrote:
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> Unless we can get the CC cars to do 6 pit stops
> I'm afraid the Bathurst 1000 161 laps is not going
> to work.
>
> If we could make it work I would be the first to
> build Le Mans 24 hour.


Dang, indeed. But we can possibly tell them to pick up enough fuel for just four stints (and three stops).

@SDI: Great news, good to know.

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@auscain: thanks for reminding me to implement this As for the number of pitstops, perhaps it works by limiting the maximum fuel load of the CCs. Then they will simply pit each time they run out of fuel.

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Atticus. écrivait:
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> That's some achievement - EricMoinet will probably
> the happiest of all of us now that he gets to do
> his endurance races. But I'm impressed as well.

Lol, sure, but I think I won't be the only one happy with that nice new features. Thanks a lot René for all the time you dedicated to improve the game and brake those silly limits they put in it.

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