Sauerlandring 1968

Sauerlandring 1968 2.1

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The Sauerlandring was a circuit planned in the late 1960s by Baron Karl von Wendt, a passionate racer himself. Located near his hometown of Gevelinghausen, this track was intended to challenge the Nürburgring and Hockenheimring as the third permanent circuit in Germany.
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Unfortunately, the circuit was never realized and has been largely forgotten. Only a few photographs of the proposed design remain. Inspired by these, I decided to bring the circuit to life—at least in digital form—for everyone to enjoy. Of course with the intended location and layout!
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The general appearance is intended to reflect the circuit as it might have looked in the early 1970s, with less stringent safety measures and high curbs. To pay tribute to Baron von Wendt, sponsor boards around the track feature references to him, his racing friends, and his family.
The circuit has a roller coaster like layout, with blind crests and high elevation changes which makes every 5.1 km lap an unique challenge in itself!
The circuit is most suited for sportscars and Formula single seaters from the 1960s and 1970s.
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I hope you enjoy it! :)

Latest updates

  1. Version 2.1 - AI improvements

    Quick one :) - AI (side) lines by @Quark67 , AI now struggles less with race starts and no more...
  2. Version 2.0 is here!

    Thanks to your overwhelming feedback (Especially @ValentinK , @M1GHTY M4VS and @Leopard Skins )...

Latest reviews

nice
hey Olaf, it's a pretty cool one already. It still needs a few tweaks there and there visually, maybe some road mesh and dirt on the side as someone else pointed out, but i already enjoy myself pretty well racing on it.
On a different side, i've seen vids where there's a lot of GrassFX on the sides : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIaTOqEFYm0

But my version is pretty raw for some reason :
https://youtu.be/i3-WroCRAXk?si=LI8L0c4uPgmpvyEO

My guess is there are a few lines missing in the extension file, but i 'd rather have it confirmed from your side ( i tried both the version on Overtake and GTplanet, which seem to be the exact same ones).

Keep the good work and thanks for your work.
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Olaf Hülse
Hi frenchtetri, thank you for your review and feedback!
Quite odd grassFX behaviour, couldn't reproduce that. You might want to play around with the COLOR_FACTOR in the ext_config or try different CSP versions.

I'm always trying to improve the track and your points are on my wishlist/to do list but I'm quite beyond my knowledge of track building... learning, training, hoping for help ;)
Greetings
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Fantastic work, in detail and in the landscape!
+ Fun layout, distant scenery looks pretty good.

- Road texture looks and feels very basic and repetitive, kerbs and track-side objects are pretty basic, road/grass/kerb edges unnaturally clean and neat so they look a bit disjointed, ~30% fps hit compared to pretty much any other track.


TLDR: Nice, fun track. Details need work and whatever causes the poor fps needs optimizing.
It's a nice concept and a nice layout but I'm giving it only 3 stars because of the performance issues. Every tracks I have installed, even EKO's humongous Phoenix, run at at least 75-80 FPS (that one) up to 144 FPS (basically all the other tracks) but this one ? I'm getting 55 FPS on average... Alone :(
When i click on Submit to review to said thank you,nothing happened,so now i can like i always do,the problem was "Stands AdBlocker" extension,so Thank you.
Very interesting layout, and the environment all around the track is beautiful!
It works very well, though I experience some slowdown in fps. Maybe some textures, or some 3d elements?
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