RaceRoom Teases Super Touring Cars, Launches Free Access Period & Black Friday Sale

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RaceRoom continues what has been a busy year: Developer KW Studios has teased new content, and sim racers get to access all tracks and cars in the sim for free until December 6.

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Remember the discussion about Super Touring Cars that came up in the comment thread of a recent article regarding the RaceRoom DTM 2024 pack? It would seem that developer KW Studios was way ahead of us already: In a teaser for their upcoming Grid Talk, there are two brief shots of vehicles that fit the bill. As Super Tourers are a favorite of many in the sim racing community, adding them to the sim would almost certainly be a hit.


Visible cars in the teaser include the Audi Quattro A4, the BMW M3 E36, and what looks like a Volvo in the background, which would put the era of the cars somewhere in the mid-to-late 1990s. Super Touring Cars were used in the most popular era of the British Touring Car Championship, and they had their time in the spotlight in Germany as well in the STW Cup after DTM - or ITC by its last season - folded after 1996, among other series and events such as the 24 Hours of Spa or the Nürburgring.

Black Friday Sale & Free Access Period​

Meanwhile, RaceRoom has also started a Black Friday sale in its store. From now until December 6, "a wide selection of cars and tracks" can be purchased at a 50% discount. During the same period, all content is free to access for everyone, meaning sim racers get to try cars and tracks to their heart's content before making a decision.


What are you hoping for in regards to Super Touring Cars in RaceRoom? Are you going to take advantage of the Black Friday sale? Let us know in the comments below and join the discussion in our RaceRoom forum!
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what does the command do? -cefEnableGPU
Not knowing RR in any way (so this is my speculation) the name of this command suggests that CEF (Chromium Embedded Framework) is getting forced to be rendered on GPU so that would suggest hardware acceleration. CEF is most likely used to render most (all?) of the RR interface since they reworked that and it was was based on web technologies.

So basically RR interface is one big web page (just like rF2/LMU) that is rendered using Chromium web engine (again, just like rF2/LMU) and that command forces hardware acceleration of that.
 
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What are you planning to upgrade this Black friday?

  • PC

  • PC Hardware (ram, gpu etc)

  • More games (sims)

  • Wheel

  • Shifter

  • Brake pedals

  • Wheel, shifter and brake in bundle

  • Rig

  • Something else?


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