Really enjoying the game more now, but having some issues (read below). The GT5 and GT4 class are much more fun than I thought they'd be. Really love railing the Mustang around corners at tracks like the Dubai Autodrome. I'm really surprised at how easily it handles on KB. I seem to recall Shift 2 Unleashed's first GT class races by comparison were fairly hard to control on KB.
The Mustang was so surprisingly well mannered I actually decided to race it in cockpit view, something I rarely do on KB, and I never even adjusted any tuning. In fact the steering sensitivity is actually at 100 and 75 for steering and speed sensitivity, vs the default 50 steering and I think 30 or so for speed.
I'd thought I left it at 75 steering, but just checked and it's at 100. The result was I won by a far larger margin than usual. I'm on Novice for my first play through just to get used to the tracks and cars, but instead of my normal 5-15 second win, I won by over 40 seconds.
This had me so pumped I decided to finally do a practice lap at the 13 mile Nordschleife track, and I stayed in cockpit view. All was going pretty well, save for pushing one turn too hard and spinning out, but I finished the lap. So I go to watch the replay, and was really enjoying it. Nords replays look SO much better. Not just the natural scenery, but the fact that they mix it up between exterior view and in car views. It makes the track repays I've been seeing look plain.
This is where the problems began. At one point in the replay it just froze. I thought maybe it needed to buffer, so I waited a while. I could rewind it a bit and start it again, but it would always freeze at that spot. So I exited game and did some Googling. Turns out some have had the game freeze even while in races. Apparently it starts happening later in the campaign, maybe only on certain tracks, I don't know.
The interesting thing though is people have said the debug file says something about "replay out of memory". There have been a few suggestions like checking file cache and setting frames rendered ahead to 1 vs 2 or more, but some have said the problem lingers no matter what.
I'm also wondering if it's causing another intermitent problem I've been having in general lately regarding my mouse cursor. Every now and then the cursor will get stuck, then after a few seconds I hear a Windows error sound and it goes away. At first I thought it was a pack of several Windows updates I'd installed, but then I realized, Project CARS is the only game I started playing lately that has issues with the cursor often showing on screen.
I will see the mouse pointer show up during replays or the game menu, and yesterday I noticed the more I try to push it off the screen, the more likely that freeze and error sound will happen. This has been happening on and off elsewhere when I'm not playing Project CARS though too. It can happen sometimes in other games, or on the desktop or net.
Does anyone have any idea what is causing this and what can be done about it?
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