Result File Tracker
ACC Tools provides the Result File Tracker to help you view the data captured in files when you drive offline, that is in Single User or Career mode. This is one of the earliest tools we created, before we fully understood how ACC works. Since ACC Tools automatically records all ACC sessions this tool is probably not used my many of our user base, but it is there so warrants some documentation.
When ACC Tools is launched it checks files in the Results folder within the ACC documents folder. These files get overwritten by ACC as the naming convention is based on the session type. ACC Tools checks the last modified timestamp that Windows provides for each file and determines whether it has already imported the file into the ACC Tools database, if not it is imported.
ACC Tools by default monitors the results folder for changes. If a file is modified or added it is automatically imported into the database.
Sessions Table
The top half of Result File Tracker is occupied by the Sessions Table, which lists the ACC sessions that have been imported and displays some basic information about it including your best times.
Selecting a session in this table will update the tabbed section below.
Analysis Section
The lower half of Result File Tracker is occupied by the Analysis Section, which provides three sections each in a separate tab.
Summary
The Summary tab contains the same information as the table row in somewhat more readable layout.
Sadly the result files created by ACC do not include information about the track the session relates to.
ACC Tools allows you to update the imported information in the database to add the track information manually. In the top section labelled Session of the Summary tab a list of supported tracks is provided. Selecting a track from this list will update the database and reload the data so that the selected track displays in the tool.
If you use this tool we recommend returning to set the track after each session as it is easy to forget which track a session belongs to after a few days.
Leader Board
As mentioned the Result File Tracker was created before we fully understood how ACC worked and didn’t realise that it only saved these files for offline sessions.
As the name suggests the Leader Board displays the result of the session and when a row in the left table is selected displays the laps for the selected driver. Of course since these are only offline sessions drivers other than you are AI drivers, making this tab less useful than originally intended.
Player Laps
The Player Laps tab shows a breakdown of your laps in the session. What you see here is identical to what you see in the Leader Board tab when you select your own row.
Why do we keep this tool?
Good question, we probably should have removed this tool some time ago, once we removed the requirement to manually start recording a session. We may remove it in the future, but somehow it reminds us how far we have come with the application so it has some sort of sentimental value, hence we leave it alone.