There seems to be a problem with the wrong track loading for *some* players when a server changes track. We've begun to notice it mostly since patch W, but it was first brought to our attention on 26th March. At first we thought it was an exploit but we've since come to realise it's a bug.

I think we've noticed it because we change tracks every two hours on each of the populated STCC servers. We wondered if it was a problem with the STCC manager software, but it turns out that the same faulty information is arriving at LFSW.

eg: http://www.lfsworld.net/?win=r ... stomeq&raceId=1853771

In this race, the racers receiving the unfeasibly fast laps in XRTs and RB4s believed they were racing at Fern Bay.

It seems Fern Bay features most in the examples I have of this bug appearing (either changing to or from a FE track or WE), though I have a feeling I've banned someone for *apparently* cheating at SO City too. I'm trying to remember who that was so I can unban them too

Hope this all helps. I'll try to gather more useful patterns to reproduce the bug if that will help.

It's the LFSWorld thing that's getting at me, with LFSW reporting the track as WE that means i've sucessfully changed the track - but some (and in some cases not all) clients are not following suite and end up on a different track.

Whilst i'll quite happily stick my hand up in the air if it's my dodgy code, and I really dont want to waste Scawen's time - I honestly dont think it's something i've done in my code.

I'm wondering if this is a dropped packet issue on track change, but surely track changes are verified packets?

Some mpr's of a different ocassion when this ocurred.
http://licence.ukct.net/report/1174925550.mpr
http://licence.ukct.net/report/1174925387.mpr
http://licence.ukct.net/report/1174925373.mpr

Sadly I dont have mprs from the incident referenced above.

It happened to me on the bronze servers aswell. Once the server message showed that track changes to iirc SO Sprint 2, but I and some other guy ended up in FE Club. I left and reconnected, to the now almost empty bronze server.
I think at that moment all players(~13) from before the trackchange ended up on diffrent tracks, but not on SO Sprint
Was some time ago, I don't have mpr file

I'm not sure its related, but I just had an interesting wrong track experience.

I went in to spectator mode and BL1, then used SHIFT+F4 to go to window mode and opened a second instance of LFS so I could view a replay (previous BL1 race)
When I had finished, I closed my second instance of LFS and returned to the original one to find that the track had changed, but my local LFS had not loaded the new track (AS3 I think) so the other cars were flying around madly in space - I didn't try leaving spectator mode to join a race.

I wonder if this is a different bug related to a track change while there is a second LFS instance running, or If it is the same bug and is due possibly to having the track change while some other windows app has focus...