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Car handling issues and strange behavior in career mode

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My car handles completely in career mode now and lacks for grip very badly. It's also exhibiting the weird behavior of the inside front tire scrubbing/locking while turning. Nothing in the set up fixes it. It smokes as if it were locking up even if I'm not touching the brakes. I'd never seen this happen before the patch unless I actually was partially locking up the inside front on corner entry.

Second, I can't keep up with AI even on Hard now. I was slowly ramping up my difficulty and was on Expert having been way too fast for the AI on hard (I'm no alien and a bit out of sim racing practice). Now I'm 2+ seconds off the pace of the Manors. I don't think this is actually an AI problem though because the problem is that my car (McLaren) is complete rubbish as I mentioned above. I mean absolute rubbish. I can't even drive it consistently in career mode. It's ok in time trial but I switch to career mode and I am 7 seconds slower. SEVEN! I understand that there may be performance adjustments to the car in career mode vs. time trial but my car is absolutely undrivable. Same settings, same tires as time trial and I am hoplessly slow.

Has anyone else had this happen? I was loving my career mode before and having a great time but now it is nothing but frustration. It's like my car in career mode only has a fraction of the grip it used to have and that inside tire thing seems to be a symptom of that.

UPDATE:

Just ran some more tests and I came up with the same results. Time Trial is about the same but my career car is just horrily off the pace since the patch. Further more, I have issues with DRS not working. This has made career mode absolutely unplayable. I know for a fact that it's not me or my set up. The inside tire locking (it even stops spinning sometimes even though I'm not touching the brakes) is absolutely plaguing me too. It's not a calibration issue either.

Career mode is absolutely unplayable for me now. I can't even hope to keep up. I am also completely unable to meet the practice program times. I used to clear them with no problem at all.

I'm running the PC version with a G25. I never had this problem until the latest patch.

Second update:
I restarted my computer and backed up my career files with the intention of starting a new career to further trouble shoot and found that this morning, the issue was gone.  Leaving this here in case anyone else comes across the problem.  All I can suggest is to close out of everything, restart and hope for the best.

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