UDP

[John Sherringham]

was wondering if anyone can wexplain whay UPD in gameplay settings is and what it does etc

[Kearsey]

I was wondering the same

[indubious]

http://forum.projectcarsgame.com/showthread.php?40113-COMPLETE-Companion-app-UDP-streaming/page49

[Iron Maiden]

Originally posted by AOD_indubious:

http://forum.projectcarsgame.com/showthread.php?40113-COMPLETE-Companion-app-UDP-streaming/page49

Checked it out but i've not find the answer to the question what upd does? not on page 49 anyway? So i do'nt understand why you respond with a link that helps us no further instead of shortly explaining what gtidrive75 and Kearsey ask?

[Leviathan]

It's used for streaming information from the game to companion apps via network. Similar to Shared Memory.

[mr_belowski]

It's for 3rd party apps to get their race data over the network. Some apps (like my Crew Chief) run on the same PC as the game, and these apps can use the shared memory - UDP isn't important for these apps.

Other apps might be running on a phone or whatever (e.g. dashboard apps). These apps need to get their data over the network. Before this update, such apps would have to have a small 'server' component which ran on the game PC, reading the shared memory data and transferring it to the client app on the phone via the network.

Now the game sends data to the network directly without the need for a intermediary server app. So these phone apps can be modified to use this and remove the server component entirely.

The main reason for it tho is to enable 3rd party apps on the consoles. The PC version of this functionality is most useful for us app developers who can now port their goodies so they work with the console version of PCars

[Iron Maiden]

Thank you Leviathan and mr_belowski for explaining the upd feature. So if i understand it then i now can use the dashboard directly send from the gameserver instead of my pc, because i've tried the dasboard to use with my tablet but until now it did'nt get any data transferred, i've only been able to do that via my second screen and my pc gets slower then because my card is just a gtx 260. When only using 1 screen i have no so many problems to play. I will give this dasboard another go then. Just one question more, you can put the upd up to 9, what would be the number to put in for just being able to use this one app, well actually 2, because i do not play without the crew chief (love your app btw mr-belowski and i've earlier made a positive comment on the facebook page of raceroom about it)

[SlowBloke]

mr_belowski app transforms PC - amazing work and use it all the time :)

http://forum.projectcarsgame.com/showthread.php?38922-Crew-Chief-an-alternative-race-engineer-for-PC-users

[Iron Maiden]

The app should be P-rated cause my crew chief says not to f$ck up the race... verry funny, but i like it