Surface Water Indicator

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This has happened to me a dozen times now.

I'm using the B-spec Dream Car Championship for grinding. I'll get to, say, the Nurburgring. I've figured out from experience that if I wait a minute between hitting "Next" and starting the race, the little Surface Water Indicator will come on. So it comes on and says 0%. So I stay with my racing tires, hit start and immediately the race is starting with the indicator now saying 100% and 12 cars swimming through what looks like 3 inches of water. I've also had the indicator say 100% before the race and then when the race starts it says 0% and the track is dry as a bone (& me in rain tires for a whole lap of the 'ring).

I race off-line, & have the latest version upgrade. Is this just a bug and does it happen in A-spec as well?

BTW in trying to research this I've seen threads saying that the rain tires don't work and one is better off on intermediates or even racing soft. But these threads I've found (from 2010 and 2011) may be out-of-date, as the rain tires now (at least in B-spec on Sarthe and Nurburgring) improve lap times.

Rick
 
Yeah its oddly normal. And yes it happens in the ASpec races.

If you can hit it lucky, after a few restarts, with full rain and proper tires, the AI will start on slicks and you can walk off on them as they do a pace lap then pit.

Edit, yeah the racing slicks and inter rain tires are sufficiant till 30-40% depending on the driver. Anything over 50% full rain, (my recomendations).
 
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How a-functional does normal have to be before in constitutes a bug? 0% = 100%?

And you can't do a full restart in a championship, and the championship in question has both the huge Sarthe and 'ring tracks b4u can pit...

Should be fixed in an update if you ask me.

Thanks much, all, for making it clear though.

Regards,

Rick
 
redrick
How a-functional does normal have to be before in constitutes a bug? 0% = 100%?

And you can't do a full restart in a championship

Thanks much, all, for making it clear though.
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*:confused:

* Sorry I failed to realize it was a championship.

*No problem
 
I've had luck with going into the tuning screen before starting any race with weather change. For some reason if you enter and exit that screen, the percentage is the same for pre-race and once the race actually starts. Give it a shot, might work for you too. 👍
 
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I've had luck with going into the tuning screen before starting any race with weather change. For some reason if you enter and exit that screen, the percentage is the same for pre-race and once the race actually starts. Give it a shot, might work for you too. 👍
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I'd noticed that going into the tuning screen can bring up the indicator if it wasn't there before, but it didn't seem to have any effect on the indicator's accuracy. But I'll experiment with that some more. Thanks.

Rick
 
No problem, hopefully it works for you too. Yes, it will bring up rain if it wasn't there before occasionally but I think the times it does that are the times you would get it upon starting the race anyway. :cheers:
 
I figured out what works. Complete accuracy the last dozen times I tried it on Monza, Sarthe, and Nurburgring (B-spec Dream Championship.)

Hit options (as you suggest), come out of it, and the indicator will appear. There's a 50% chance it will be wrong and it won't change while it's on the screen (as it remains even if you hit options again).

So go to your garage, which will blank the screen, and cancel out of it. The indicator will either have disappeared (which means no rain) or will give an accurate percentage. You can now go to options again and select the appropriate tires & then start the race with confidence.

Why this works I have no idea, but it does.

Rick
 

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