Project cars 2 bug report Q&A

[Seikenfreak]

@Cluck Okay thanks for the heads up. I was just on the official forum yesterday reading about some of this. Played yesterday and didn't have any setup issues. Feels like it gets confused when I create multiple setups with the same car/track, and maybe exiting the mode or game while doing this.

Nice time on the Daytona event btw. I've fallen down the list a bit so I may have to give it another go. I'd be curious to pick your brain about leaderboards in this but that's for a different thread.

@davidt33 Ah, you're on console. It wouldn't surprise me if console is at a different version number. Everything I've been able to find online suggests I'm using the latest version.

 

[Braga]

I have a pro too but never faced this issue. Could it be that I only have a FHD TV?!

That's what I thought at first, but the same applies for my brand new 4K TV (I even tried with another console unit, switching between FHD, a QHD monitor and the 4K tv). It doesn't happen all the time but when it does it's always in cockpit and chase camera. I've also reported the bug on the official forum but my thread has gone apparently unnoticed. Hopefully it will be fixed in the upcoming update.

 

[Georgeagea]

That's what I thought at first, but the same applies for my brand new 4K TV (I even tried with another console unit, switching between FHD, a QHD monitor and the 4K tv). It doesn't happen all the time but when it does it's always in cockpit and chase camera. I've also reported the bug on the official forum but my thread has gone apparently unnoticed. Hopefully it will be fixed in the upcoming update.

Yeah really weird coz I always race in cockpit cam. Something or some setting might be triggering it.
FYI I have turned all post processing effects to OFF in the settings menu. Maybe this?

 

[Daz555]

I have a T300 Alcantara with T3PA pedal set. I use it for PC2 on PS4 and a handful of PC racing games like AC and iRacing. With PC2 on PS4 however I come across an occasional issue.

Randomly (maybe once a week or so) the game loses calibration of the brake pedal. Sometimes it is at the point of changing tracks/cars/sessions but sometimes mid race. It does not happen in any other games on PS4 or on PC so I feel reasonably confident it is a PC2 issue rather than a pedal/wheel issue.

The issues goes like this:

I run the brake mod and so 40% of travel is calibrated on my setup to be 100% of braking force.
Then randomly while in game the pedal suddenly feels "binary" and even the slight touch of the pedal results in 100% braking force.
I then go and recalibrate and the game decides that the same same amount of movement that previously read 40% now equates to 80% of travel.
I can then play fine.
Then randomly it goes back to old calibration now I can't get full braking power because I can of course not get to the 80% of travel with the brake mod.
I then recalibrate and I'm back to 40% again.

Weird.

 

[Braga]

Yeah really weird coz I always race in cockpit cam. Something or some setting might be triggering it.
FYI I have turned all post processing effects to OFF in the settings menu. Maybe this?

I've never thought about this, I'll try soon. Cheers!

 

[fernandito]

I have a T300 Alcantara with T3PA pedal set. I use it for PC2 on PS4 and a handful of PC racing games like AC and iRacing. With PC2 on PS4 however I come across an occasional issue.

Randomly (maybe once a week or so) the game loses calibration of the brake pedal. Sometimes it is at the point of changing tracks/cars/sessions but sometimes mid race. It does not happen in any other games on PS4 or on PC so I feel reasonably confident it is a PC2 issue rather than a pedal/wheel issue.

The issues goes like this:

I run the brake mod and so 40% of travel is calibrated on my setup to be 100% of braking force.
Then randomly while in game the pedal suddenly feels "binary" and even the slight touch of the pedal results in 100% braking force.
I then go and recalibrate and the game decides that the same same amount of movement that previously read 40% now equates to 80% of travel.
I can then play fine.
Then randomly it goes back to old calibration now I can't get full braking power because I can of course not get to the 80% of travel with the brake mod.
I then recalibrate and I'm back to 40% again.

Weird.

I have t3pa pedals too with the brake mod. Had same issue before but the solution is easy.

First off you you must set it to the minimum, I mean next to the back plate where it screws, in order to give the pedal max travel. Once done, you go TM control panel and you can see the issue you're talking about when pushing the pedal for the first time softly. It doesn't give you 100% travel. All you have to do is to press the pedal strongly a couple of times more and it will reach the 100% mark. You have to do this anytime you plug the wheel.

In the Playstation, since you dont have the TM control panel in order to see whether or not it reaches 100%, then just do the same and press it down very hard many times, in order to make sure it calibrated properly to 100% with the brake mod.

After this, fire the game up again (PS or PC), calibrate pedals in the game menu, and all good!.

If you set the conical mod some milimiters forward, or even just a little from the minimum screwed position, you will face serious trouble in trying to reach 100% braking pressure, and thus in calibrating the pedal as well.

 

[Titzon Toast]

Anyone reckon SMS are ever get round to fixing the legacy bug from PCars1?
The one where a new player joins the online lobby right when you're about to grab pole in qualifying and the screen glitches like crazy?

 

[Seikenfreak]

Anyone have issues with custom pit strategies? Maybe I'm doing something wrong but I don't understand. I made a handful of Pit Strategies for different scenarios (only repairs, only fuel, only tires etc)

I just did a 2.4hr Daytona run with some people, it starts to rain as I'm going in for my first pit, I go in, select my "Rain Tires + Fuel Only" strategy via the ICM menu, I request pit stop and go in.. the game gave me small amount of fuel (30L?) and no tires.. I go around the track again, verify my pit strategy on the ICM menu, I make sure it has tires and full fuel set, request pit again, pull in.. they fill my fuel and.. no tires. Another lap around, I change the strategy to one that is only Rain tires and verify it in the "Adjust Strategy" menu again, pit again.. nothing. Another lap, I change something, I can't remember now, pull in.. Nothing.

Finally, I just picked the "Default" strategy and went into "Adjust Strategy" to adjust it to rain tires with no fuel.. and it worked. I had to pit 5 laps in a row. Super dumb.

Should I just not use custom pit strategies? Am I screwing something up by requesting a pit? Is the ICM menu broken the same way with setups that it's not saving my settings when I exit the menu?

God this game needs some polish.

 

[Sentry87]

You might have a recommended tire option set somewhere overriding your pit strategy. Whether within icm or setup, I don't know.

 

[ozwheels]

Anyone have issues with custom pit strategies? Maybe I'm doing something wrong but I don't understand. I made a handful of Pit Strategies for different scenarios (only repairs, only fuel, only tires etc)

I just did a 2.4hr Daytona run with some people, it starts to rain as I'm going in for my first pit, I go in, select my "Rain Tires + Fuel Only" strategy via the ICM menu, I request pit stop and go in.. the game gave me small amount of fuel (30L?) and no tires.. I go around the track again, verify my pit strategy on the ICM menu, I make sure it has tires and full fuel set, request pit again, pull in.. they fill my fuel and.. no tires. Another lap around, I change the strategy to one that is only Rain tires and verify it in the "Adjust Strategy" menu again, pit again.. nothing. Another lap, I change something, I can't remember now, pull in.. Nothing.

Finally, I just picked the "Default" strategy and went into "Adjust Strategy" to adjust it to rain tires with no fuel.. and it worked. I had to pit 5 laps in a row. Super dumb.

Should I just not use custom pit strategies? Am I screwing something up by requesting a pit? Is the ICM menu broken the same way with setups that it's not saving my settings when I exit the menu?

God this game needs some polish.

I hear a similar story every week in my league. Pit strategies need help from SMS asap.

What I do and it always works is make a new strategy once I’m in the race ready up screen. This is because when you make a new strategy it will always give you the correct tire pressures. If you make a strategy before hand it will almost always change the tire pressures to some ridiculous pressure. If you aren’t changing tires you probably have tire change set to Recommended instead of All within your custom setup.

 

[Seikenfreak]

@Sentry87 You know, I bet that has something to do with it. Ugh. I probably thought "Recommended" meant it chooses the tire type for me and not Yes or No to tires. So even if I choose a different compound the game won't change it anyway.

@ozwheels Nice tip on the tire temp thing as well. Luckily I made them during similar track conditions.

 

[fernandito]

Anyone have issues with custom pit strategies? Maybe I'm doing something wrong but I don't understand. I made a handful of Pit Strategies for different scenarios (only repairs, only fuel, only tires etc)

I just did a 2.4hr Daytona run with some people, it starts to rain as I'm going in for my first pit, I go in, select my "Rain Tires + Fuel Only" strategy via the ICM menu, I request pit stop and go in.. the game gave me small amount of fuel (30L?) and no tires.. I go around the track again, verify my pit strategy on the ICM menu, I make sure it has tires and full fuel set, request pit again, pull in.. they fill my fuel and.. no tires. Another lap around, I change the strategy to one that is only Rain tires and verify it in the "Adjust Strategy" menu again, pit again.. nothing. Another lap, I change something, I can't remember now, pull in.. Nothing.

Finally, I just picked the "Default" strategy and went into "Adjust Strategy" to adjust it to rain tires with no fuel.. and it worked. I had to pit 5 laps in a row. Super dumb.

Should I just not use custom pit strategies? Am I screwing something up by requesting a pit? Is the ICM menu broken the same way with setups that it's not saving my settings when I exit the menu?

God this game needs some polish.

It's bugged, like almost every other aspect in the game. It isn't a surprise that devs don't want to post an official list of bugs due to the embarrassing sheer number of them in almost every area.

You have to use the icm menu directly instead of making pit strategies. I usually do this while on a straight line. Pitiful, but the only "safe" way.

 

[davidt33]

I miss how the pit strategy worked in Pcars1. If my memory serves me right, in Pcars1 when you entered the pit a pit strategy option window came up or you could have brought it up, giving you the option to accept the current pit strategy or choose a different one via adjustment or whatever and simply confirm thereafter. That makes it flexible enough just in case you wanted to adjust in between due to unexpected weather changes or whatever instead of generally being stuck with a predetermined pit strategy that once you entered the pit there was no way of changing. That option in Pcars1 worked famously IMO and I don't know why it wasn't carried forward in Pcars2. They should reintroduce that and it would save a lot of heartache.

Anyone else remembers that or am I going crazy?

 

[mattikake]

Hmm I've noticed lately that saving setups is taking longer and longer. Now it's taking up to 30 seconds just to save one (evidence below). This is starting to bother me on 2 counts - 1) You only get 2 mins to set and save a setup before a race with online racing and 2) Of the 160 (?) cars in the game and all the tracks, I only have setups for about 20 cars on 1/3 of the tracks.

Am I doomed to never be able to play online again unless I delete all my hard work? Anyone else starting to get this?

 

[ozwheels]

I miss how the pit strategy worked in Pcars1. If my memory serves me right, in Pcars1 when you entered the pit a pit strategy option window came up or you could have brought it up, giving you the option to accept the current pit strategy or choose a different one via adjustment or whatever and simply confirm thereafter. That makes it flexible enough just in case you wanted to adjust in between due to unexpected weather changes or whatever instead of generally being stuck with a predetermined pit strategy that once you entered the pit there was no way of changing. That option in Pcars1 worked famously IMO and I don't know why it wasn't carried forward in Pcars2. They should reintroduce that and it would save a lot of heartache.

Anyone else remembers that or am I going crazy?

You can still adjust the strategy through the ICM menu when you enter the pits. The main issue is strategies having incorrect tire pressures therefore it makes it hard to have multiple pit strategies as you have to change the tire pressures before the race or create new strategies and you only have 2 minutes to do that.

 

[OdeFinn]

Hmm I've noticed lately that saving setups is taking longer and longer. Now it's taking up to 30 seconds just to save one (evidence below). This is starting to bother me on 2 counts - 1) You only get 2 mins to set and save a setup before a race with online racing and 2) Of the 160 (?) cars in the game and all the tracks, I only have setups for about 20 cars on 1/3 of the tracks.

Am I doomed to never be able to play online again unless I delete all my hard work? Anyone else starting to get this?

That's quick one, my slowest was few minutes.
It started that delay after adding fifth or sixth setup for same car fof "all tracks".

 

[davidt33]

You can still adjust the strategy through the ICM menu when you enter the pits. The main issue is strategies having incorrect tire pressures therefore it makes it hard to have multiple pit strategies as you have to change the tire pressures before the race or create new strategies and you only have 2 minutes to do that.

I thought you could only adjust pit strategy via the ICM while on the track during race or whatever.
Are you sure you could bring up the ICM for adjustments when you enter the pit?

 

[ozwheels]

I thought you could only adjust pit strategy via the ICM while on the track during race or whatever.
Are you sure you could bring up the ICM for adjustments when you enter the pit?

I don’t use the icm menu much, but yes I’ve used it in the pits before. It doesn’t pop up like it did in pCars 1. You have to manually open it and then you can change to a different strategy or whatever you want.

 

[davidt33]

I don’t use the icm menu much, but yes I’ve used it in the pits before. It doesn’t pop up like it did in pCars 1. You have to manually open it and then you can change to a different strategy or whatever you want.

Thanks for the heads up bro.
I myself don't use the ICM because while on track during race the last thing I want to do is lose focus by taking my eyes off the track to look at the ICM for whatever adjustments especially at speed and when other racers may be around also. But now I know it can also be used when you enter the pit I certainly will give it a shot. Cheers.

 

[Johnnypenso]

It's bugged, like almost every other aspect in the game. It isn't a surprise that devs don't want to post an official list of bugs due to the embarrassing sheer number of them in almost every area.

You have to use the icm menu directly instead of making pit strategies. I usually do this while on a straight line. Pitiful, but the only "safe" way.

Incorrect. It's not a bug. He had the strategy set on "Recommended" which won't change your tires if your pit crew recommends that it isn't necessary. Had the same thing happen to me.

 

[XtreamStealth]

This is my first time asking for help. I'm at a loss. I've been Sim Racing for three years now. Come from a long line of racing wingnuts So I've also spent yrs on the track. Got hooked on Project Cars 1, logged over 4200 hrs the first year driving FA. And yes, I'm somewhere near the top. Then Project Cars 2 comes out. So I Drop about $3000 upgrading my Rig...
System parts I didn't upgrade:
Motherboard: ASUS Sabertooth X79
CPU: i7-4820K
Case: Rosewill THOR V2-W Gaming ATX Full Tower
PCU: Corsair AX1200W
Main Drive: 500GB SSD
Storage Drive 1: 1.5TB HDD
Storage Drive 2: 2TB HDD

Parts I did upgrade:
CPU Cooler: Corsair H80 to: Corsair H110
RAM: Corsair 16GB 4x4GB 1600MHz to: 32GB 4x8GB Kingston HyperX Beast DDR3 CL10 @ 1866GHz
GPU: EVGA 980 ti 6GB Hybrid to: Aorus 1080 ti 11GB
Racing Wheel: G27 with Brake Mod to: Thrustmaster T500RS & Ferrari F1 Wheel with full SLI and Button Mods
Monitor: LG 42" LCD TV to: Three ASUS 24" LCD Monitors (VH232H 60Hz 2ms Refresh)
Office Desk & Chair to: Custom MDF Rig with Real Racing Seat
Sound: Logitech Speakers to: 2x BOSS Studio Monitors - Each with internal Amps
1x Bose Digital SondDock
1x Razer Kraken 7.1 USB Gaming Headset
And of coarse, Project CARS 2.
Everything went together great, amazing graphics, 160fps from an air cooled GPU never going above 48C. Great Pedals and FFB that pulled the wheel right out of my hands until I turned it down some. It all felt and look great, but I quickly realized nailing down the Car setup in this new Sim was a problem. Nothing from Project Cars 1 transferred over to Project Cars 2 and for some reason I just couldn't seem to get any real speed out of any of the cars.

Two week went by. It was now mid Feb. and then... my PC Starts to blue screen every time I Close PC2. soon its happening a lot. I start to Trouble Shoot my hardware, part by part. I own a PC company so I have parts. Nothing seems to work. I try to reload my OS, Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit, but halfway through the updates she starts to blue screen. Months go by and soon I've changed every part except the Case, Motherboard and CPU. I already had a bad fan header on the board, so I RMA'd it. But after 6 weeks ASUS tech Support sent it back, stating they reloaded the BIOS and it was fixed. true to Par, that was Bull. So it's now July and I'm back to Blue Screen. But I'd been doing a lot of research on the web and had run across some alarming facts about Microsoft's big February Update screwing up PC's running Windows 7, So I took a chance and got a copy of Windows 10, which I hate. And Wow, Problem solved. Yes, there update made my i7-4820K incompatible with Windows 7.

Now that I've given the Hx, on to my problem.... It's been six months now and I'm still "Rocky the Racing Snail". So something is very wrong, I just can't seem to figure it out. I really need some fresh ideas and thinking. and please try to resist advising my to practice or accept that some people will never be Aliens. Like I said, we race. I've got over thirty years racing drag Boats and open wheel cars. And Yes, I know I broke the number one rule regarding upgrading anything...... only change one part at a time.... (I just went at it like I was building a whole new rig)

So Please, any thoughts would be welcome. Hear is a description of what I'm experiencing.... My lap times are 3 to 5 seconds or more slower than anyone I race online, any car, any track. I can load a world record setup into a GT3, LMP2, LMP1, setups that should make someone with my skills crazy fast, and at first I can feel how fast and loss the car is (in a good way) But I can't seem to help "over driving the car" after a few laps trying to reduce my lap times. and of coarse the harder I try just leads to running the tires and my racing line into the dirt. I can at times settle into spot and resist the urge to push. But the car always seems off always out of control and regardless, my lap times stay the same.

I have been able to dial in a Setup on the Lamborghini Huracan GT3 (what I call a perfect neutral car) I can take just about any line into a corner and she'll stick, hell I can blaze into a corner way to fast, flick it just a bit and drift the dam thing at full speed, but all it takes is someone who just knows how to drive a race car and they're going to be faster, sooner or later they'll catch me at the end of a straight or pull me after leaving a corner at around 3 miles an hour. This is across all tracks, including both Sears Point and Laguna. Two home track I know like the back of my hand, and all cars with the exception of the FA or F1. But that's only because there are no F1 Aliens driving Project Cars. I'm a slightly better than average race car driver in most cars, but as quiet as it's kept, in the top 20 in F1. But believe me when I say. I may start lapping cars before I win a 10 lap race, I'm slow in comparison to my times last year.

 

[Daz555]

I have t3pa pedals too with the brake mod. Had same issue before but the solution is easy.

First off you you must set it to the minimum, I mean next to the back plate where it screws, in order to give the pedal max travel. Once done, you go TM control panel and you can see the issue you're talking about when pushing the pedal for the first time softly. It doesn't give you 100% travel. All you have to do is to press the pedal strongly a couple of times more and it will reach the 100% mark. You have to do this anytime you plug the wheel.

In the Playstation, since you dont have the TM control panel in order to see whether or not it reaches 100%, then just do the same and press it down very hard many times, in order to make sure it calibrated properly to 100% with the brake mod.

After this, fire the game up again (PS or PC), calibrate pedals in the game menu, and all good!.

If you set the conical mod some milimiters forward, or even just a little from the minimum screwed position, you will face serious trouble in trying to reach 100% braking pressure, and thus in calibrating the pedal as well.

Cheers for the response but you have misunderstood the issue. I have no problem getting 100% braking force - it is just that the amount of pressure I need to apply to get 100% force (not travel) sometimes changes and I need to recallibrate. As I said I typically callbrate so that 40% of travel is getting me 100% of braking force on track, but then on random occasions for some reason the game reads that same amount of travel as 80% rather than 40% - which makes no sense as I cannot get anywhere near 80% with my brake mod and nor do I want to.

Does not happen on PC so I'm putting it down to a PC2 bug on PS4.

 

[Daz555]

Incorrect. It's not a bug. He had the strategy set on "Recommended" which won't change your tires if your pit crew recommends that it isn't necessary. Had the same thing happen to me.

Yes but you can have all 4 tyres completely shot (as in the tyre indicator is entirely black with no green left at all) and your crew will sometimes still not bother to change tyres if you have "recommended" set. That's a bug in my view.

 

[MABlosfeld]

For long races (40 laps) the correct one is to start with an aggressive setup, after 10 laps, change to conservative and approaching the end of the race, returning the setup to aggressive. Note that most races are only created with 5 laps, the secret here is to use aggressive setup from start to finish.

edit: When I say setup is aggressive I mean the opposite of conservative.

 

[Johnnypenso]

This is my first time asking for help. I'm at a loss. I've been Sim Racing for three years now. Come from a long line of racing wingnuts So I've also spent yrs on the track. Got hooked on Project Cars 1, logged over 4200 hrs the first year driving FA. And yes, I'm somewhere near the top. Then Project Cars 2 comes out. So I Drop about $3000 upgrading my Rig...
System parts I didn't upgrade:
Motherboard: ASUS Sabertooth X79
CPU: i7-4820K
Case: Rosewill THOR V2-W Gaming ATX Full Tower
PCU: Corsair AX1200W
Main Drive: 500GB SSD
Storage Drive 1: 1.5TB HDD
Storage Drive 2: 2TB HDD

Parts I did upgrade:
CPU Cooler: Corsair H80 to: Corsair H110
RAM: Corsair 16GB 4x4GB 1600MHz to: 32GB 4x8GB Kingston HyperX Beast DDR3 CL10 @ 1866GHz
GPU: EVGA 980 ti 6GB Hybrid to: Aorus 1080 ti 11GB
Racing Wheel: G27 with Brake Mod to: Thrustmaster T500RS & Ferrari F1 Wheel with full SLI and Button Mods
Monitor: LG 42" LCD TV to: Three ASUS 24" LCD Monitors (VH232H 60Hz 2ms Refresh)
Office Desk & Chair to: Custom MDF Rig with Real Racing Seat
Sound: Logitech Speakers to: 2x BOSS Studio Monitors - Each with internal Amps
1x Bose Digital SondDock
1x Razer Kraken 7.1 USB Gaming Headset
And of coarse, Project CARS 2.
Everything went together great, amazing graphics, 160fps from an air cooled GPU never going above 48C. Great Pedals and FFB that pulled the wheel right out of my hands until I turned it down some. It all felt and look great, but I quickly realized nailing down the Car setup in this new Sim was a problem. Nothing from Project Cars 1 transferred over to Project Cars 2 and for some reason I just couldn't seem to get any real speed out of any of the cars.

Two week went by. It was now mid Feb. and then... my PC Starts to blue screen every time I Close PC2. soon its happening a lot. I start to Trouble Shoot my hardware, part by part. I own a PC company so I have parts. Nothing seems to work. I try to reload my OS, Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit, but halfway through the updates she starts to blue screen. Months go by and soon I've changed every part except the Case, Motherboard and CPU. I already had a bad fan header on the board, so I RMA'd it. But after 6 weeks ASUS tech Support sent it back, stating they reloaded the BIOS and it was fixed. true to Par, that was Bull. So it's now July and I'm back to Blue Screen. But I'd been doing a lot of research on the web and had run across some alarming facts about Microsoft's big February Update screwing up PC's running Windows 7, So I took a chance and got a copy of Windows 10, which I hate. And Wow, Problem solved. Yes, there update made my i7-4820K incompatible with Windows 7.

Now that I've given the Hx, on to my problem.... It's been six months now and I'm still "Rocky the Racing Snail". So something is very wrong, I just can't seem to figure it out. I really need some fresh ideas and thinking. and please try to resist advising my to practice or accept that some people will never be Aliens. Like I said, we race. I've got over thirty years racing drag Boats and open wheel cars. And Yes, I know I broke the number one rule regarding upgrading anything...... only change one part at a time.... (I just went at it like I was building a whole new rig)

So Please, any thoughts would be welcome. Hear is a description of what I'm experiencing.... My lap times are 3 to 5 seconds or more slower than anyone I race online, any car, any track. I can load a world record setup into a GT3, LMP2, LMP1, setups that should make someone with my skills crazy fast, and at first I can feel how fast and loss the car is (in a good way) But I can't seem to help "over driving the car" after a few laps trying to reduce my lap times. and of coarse the harder I try just leads to running the tires and my racing line into the dirt. I can at times settle into spot and resist the urge to push. But the car always seems off always out of control and regardless, my lap times stay the same.

I have been able to dial in a Setup on the Lamborghini Huracan GT3 (what I call a perfect neutral car) I can take just about any line into a corner and she'll stick, hell I can blaze into a corner way to fast, flick it just a bit and drift the dam thing at full speed, but all it takes is someone who just knows how to drive a race car and they're going to be faster, sooner or later they'll catch me at the end of a straight or pull me after leaving a corner at around 3 miles an hour. This is across all tracks, including both Sears Point and Laguna. Two home track I know like the back of my hand, and all cars with the exception of the FA or F1. But that's only because there are no F1 Aliens driving Project Cars. I'm a slightly better than average race car driver in most cars, but as quiet as it's kept, in the top 20 in F1. But believe me when I say. I may start lapping cars before I win a 10 lap race, I'm slow in comparison to my times last year.

We need to see some video of your driving before anyone can offer you any constructive advice.

Yes but you can have all 4 tyres completely shot (as in the tyre indicator is entirely black with no green left at all) and your crew will sometimes still not bother to change tyres if you have "recommended" set. That's a bug in my view.

The problem referred to above was tires not changing on the recommended setting which is not the same as not changing when they're shot. I'm not saying it isn't true, but I'd like to see some video evidence before drawing a conclusion.

 

[ozwheels]

This is my first time asking for help. I'm at a loss. I've been Sim Racing for three years now. Come from a long line of racing wingnuts So I've also spent yrs on the track. Got hooked on Project Cars 1, logged over 4200 hrs the first year driving FA. And yes, I'm somewhere near the top. Then Project Cars 2 comes out. So I Drop about $3000 upgrading my Rig...
System parts I didn't upgrade:
Motherboard: ASUS Sabertooth X79
CPU: i7-4820K
Case: Rosewill THOR V2-W Gaming ATX Full Tower
PCU: Corsair AX1200W
Main Drive: 500GB SSD
Storage Drive 1: 1.5TB HDD
Storage Drive 2: 2TB HDD

Parts I did upgrade:
CPU Cooler: Corsair H80 to: Corsair H110
RAM: Corsair 16GB 4x4GB 1600MHz to: 32GB 4x8GB Kingston HyperX Beast DDR3 CL10 @ 1866GHz
GPU: EVGA 980 ti 6GB Hybrid to: Aorus 1080 ti 11GB
Racing Wheel: G27 with Brake Mod to: Thrustmaster T500RS & Ferrari F1 Wheel with full SLI and Button Mods
Monitor: LG 42" LCD TV to: Three ASUS 24" LCD Monitors (VH232H 60Hz 2ms Refresh)
Office Desk & Chair to: Custom MDF Rig with Real Racing Seat
Sound: Logitech Speakers to: 2x BOSS Studio Monitors - Each with internal Amps
1x Bose Digital SondDock
1x Razer Kraken 7.1 USB Gaming Headset
And of coarse, Project CARS 2.
Everything went together great, amazing graphics, 160fps from an air cooled GPU never going above 48C. Great Pedals and FFB that pulled the wheel right out of my hands until I turned it down some. It all felt and look great, but I quickly realized nailing down the Car setup in this new Sim was a problem. Nothing from Project Cars 1 transferred over to Project Cars 2 and for some reason I just couldn't seem to get any real speed out of any of the cars.

Two week went by. It was now mid Feb. and then... my PC Starts to blue screen every time I Close PC2. soon its happening a lot. I start to Trouble Shoot my hardware, part by part. I own a PC company so I have parts. Nothing seems to work. I try to reload my OS, Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit, but halfway through the updates she starts to blue screen. Months go by and soon I've changed every part except the Case, Motherboard and CPU. I already had a bad fan header on the board, so I RMA'd it. But after 6 weeks ASUS tech Support sent it back, stating they reloaded the BIOS and it was fixed. true to Par, that was Bull. So it's now July and I'm back to Blue Screen. But I'd been doing a lot of research on the web and had run across some alarming facts about Microsoft's big February Update screwing up PC's running Windows 7, So I took a chance and got a copy of Windows 10, which I hate. And Wow, Problem solved. Yes, there update made my i7-4820K incompatible with Windows 7.

Now that I've given the Hx, on to my problem.... It's been six months now and I'm still "Rocky the Racing Snail". So something is very wrong, I just can't seem to figure it out. I really need some fresh ideas and thinking. and please try to resist advising my to practice or accept that some people will never be Aliens. Like I said, we race. I've got over thirty years racing drag Boats and open wheel cars. And Yes, I know I broke the number one rule regarding upgrading anything...... only change one part at a time.... (I just went at it like I was building a whole new rig)

So Please, any thoughts would be welcome. Hear is a description of what I'm experiencing.... My lap times are 3 to 5 seconds or more slower than anyone I race online, any car, any track. I can load a world record setup into a GT3, LMP2, LMP1, setups that should make someone with my skills crazy fast, and at first I can feel how fast and loss the car is (in a good way) But I can't seem to help "over driving the car" after a few laps trying to reduce my lap times. and of coarse the harder I try just leads to running the tires and my racing line into the dirt. I can at times settle into spot and resist the urge to push. But the car always seems off always out of control and regardless, my lap times stay the same.

I have been able to dial in a Setup on the Lamborghini Huracan GT3 (what I call a perfect neutral car) I can take just about any line into a corner and she'll stick, hell I can blaze into a corner way to fast, flick it just a bit and drift the dam thing at full speed, but all it takes is someone who just knows how to drive a race car and they're going to be faster, sooner or later they'll catch me at the end of a straight or pull me after leaving a corner at around 3 miles an hour. This is across all tracks, including both Sears Point and Laguna. Two home track I know like the back of my hand, and all cars with the exception of the FA or F1. But that's only because there are no F1 Aliens driving Project Cars. I'm a slightly better than average race car driver in most cars, but as quiet as it's kept, in the top 20 in F1. But believe me when I say. I may start lapping cars before I win a 10 lap race, I'm slow in comparison to my times last year.

As others have said a video of you driving would help a lot. Maybe the Huracan on a popular track. I’m not sure about tuning not transferring from pCars 1 to pCars 2. Any realistic approach I’ve taken to making a setup has resulted in the expected results. The tires are a little different now. They heat up and cool very fast compared to pCars 1. They also fall off a “miny cliff” a few laps in and then are stable for a long time. Are you by chance using soft tires on the Huracan GT3 when your off pace? Posting your setup would be helpful as well.

Cheers for the response but you have misunderstood the issue. I have no problem getting 100% braking force - it is just that the amount of pressure I need to apply to get 100% force (not travel) sometimes changes and I need to recallibrate. As I said I typically callbrate so that 40% of travel is getting me 100% of braking force on track, but then on random occasions for some reason the game reads that same amount of travel as 80% rather than 40% - which makes no sense as I cannot get anywhere near 80% with my brake mod and nor do I want to.

Does not happen on PC so I'm putting it down to a PC2 bug on PS4.

I have t3pa’s as well and they don’t lose their calibration. After I depress them fully the first time on track they stay calibrated to that. Do you have this problem on other games?

 

[TX Executioner]

I hear a similar story every week in my league. Pit strategies need help from SMS asap.

What I do and it always works is make a new strategy once I’m in the race ready up screen. This is because when you make a new strategy it will always give you the correct tire pressures. If you make a strategy before hand it will almost always change the tire pressures to some ridiculous pressure. If you aren’t changing tires you probably have tire change set to Recommended instead of All within your custom setup.

This one hit me over the weekend in my league race at Daytona. My pressure was set to 1.80 bar (26 psi) in my pit strategy, but the tires I got were 38psi. Very frustrating to say the least.

 

[Morgoth_666]

Hey @Morgoth_666 , I can confirm that the timing issues persist. The race starts at dawn (it should be at afternoon) and it ends in the middle of the night.

The 22 car field is also very depressing. Was 40 in the last game.

That is too bad. It should be fixed, period.

I knew car counts were down, so while it sucks I guess it is what it is. Once upon a time you could set the number of cars in a game to the amount of space in the paddock or to whatever your PC could handle. Maybe one day again.

 

[fernandito]

Some cars that are not openwheel actually don't have lights, making night races impossible with them.

Such is the case of the Audi in the glooorioussss GTO category. However, the others such as the F40 in the same category do have lights and can be used in night races.

Bug?, intended?

 

[Peppe_Tod]

Hello, i don't know if it is a bug or not, but some cars ( especially the gt3 ) they have a strange physics. Sometimes it's like I do not understand what the car is about to do. Sometimes it has a strange behavior cornering. In general I think the gt have too much grip. The feeling is not relistic in my opinion.
Does anyone have the same feeling?