Drivers using kers when "auto kers" is unticked

This is an old bug that I thought had been addressed, but it's still happening. Basically when you join the race and unselect the auto kers, you have to do it 5-6 times or it doesn't work. If you simply untick it once your driver will still use auto kers.

The best way to avoid it is untick it after it has been fully charged. Always works for me at least

If you untick it after it's fully charged, your driver uses some? (if they are in traffic that is)

That's what I'm trying to avoid.

usually they don't use KERS as soon as it has been charged,so normally I notice it and re-untick auto KERS before they start using it

If this happens in future, try opening your Java Console (if you have one) while the viewer is open, uncheck the Driver KERS option and see if you see two lines in the Console that say something like:

The first line is the viewer registering that you've unchecked option 6 in the Settings (which is Driver controls KERS).
The second line is the viewer telling the game to not allow your driver(s) to use KERS on their own.
Both lines should be right next to each other on the console.

I understand there are ways to work around it, my point is we shouldn't have to. To me the solution would just be to fix it if possible, rather than giving people a list of ways to work around the bug.

Oh, I certainly agree with you there. I only posted the above as an interim solution until the problem is fixed.

Bump, happening again.

Even if you untick / retick the auto kers button 100 times, drivers are still using it at their own will. My driver Prost used kers by himself about 4-5 times today even though I had unselected it about 3000 times lol. Really annoying in the race because unless you're watching that driver in particular you don't notice it. Tonnes of kers getting wasted.

I´ve had this problem as well last 3 days. some times it´s only visual and sometimes it just uses up ¼ of my kers. Today I drove at least 4 laps with the kers thing above me in 2d.

Still happening. Just noticed like some others said in another thread, that the driver controlled kers re-ticks itself at random during the race. If you leave the menu open you can see it re-selecting and un-selecting itself over and over during the race.

I will ask for this to be investigated

Well it happened for me too, Kers unticked but still driver likes to use it. As soon as I see it happen I have to tick and untick the driver controlled KERS and it works fine again

It happened to me as well the other night. I clocked it when one of my driver had used around 10%...

Why are these basic issues happening over and over and not yet sorted?
I don't hold much for the new system when these basics with the current system are still happening daily. It's been well over a year now.... :(
Not this particular bug.. but basic bugs like this one..

This is happening sporadically to all managers in our races too

It happened to me last Sunday as well.

Lost a win because of it, but won't go all emo about it :)

Can you untick this auto-KERS with Live Viewer? Or do I need to subscribe to stop my drivers using all their KERS?

Theoretically, yes, but there's an issue with that.

I had the unauthorized KERS issue a couple of races ago, and when I had it, I was able to determine that if the viewer ticks the Driver KERS checkbox on its own in the Settings, the driver still does not have control. If you click to clear the checkbox, the option actually enables. The control works backwards when the viewer glitches: checked is disabled and unchecked is enabled. Reloading the page (and thus the viewer) resets the behaviour to normal. (The reload forces the viewer to request your settings from the server.)

As I understand it, both the Live Viewer and 2D Viewer have this issue.

HI this seems to be happening again!! last race my drivers used KERS when the box was clearly unticked. Had to activate auto kers then deactivate it again so that it can work!! I prefer using it manually so is there any fix for that?

Not yet Akisch

IMHO, once the team gets a handle on the simulator this should be delt with swiftly.