Assetto Corsa: Tech Preview 0.99 Now Available

Bram Hengeveld · Mar 15, 2013

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Assetto Corsa: Tech Preview 0.99 Now Available

A new version of the popular Assetto Corsa Tech Preview has been released by Kunos Simulazioni bringing the PC simulation up-to-date with version 0.99 which can be downloaded from the game website. This version includes one car, one track, various difficulty levels and two game-play modes: free practice and time attack.

Besides the improved gameplay the development team added 18 news official car skins for the Lotus Elise SC and support for pretty much all available controllers....

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InsaneOzzie · Mar 17, 2013

Is there any better download links, link #1 is less than 100kbs and over 45min to complete and link #2 wants me to instal google chrome browser before I'm able to download, why do these D/L sites restrict you from the files and Force you to use their D/L app etc, it sucks so hard it blows. Whats wrong with just allowing you to D/L the bloody file without any hassles, it's not like they OWN the file.
Looks like I'll have to wait till the load is off the servers at Kunos before I can get this updated TechPreview.

Marian Zelenka · Mar 17, 2013

I downloaded from #1 link yesterday and it was 30mb/s. You were just downloading in wrong time, that happens.

Schwud Nelsh · Mar 19, 2013

does anyone have any good setting for the fanatec CSR Wheel and CSR elite pedals? also what is the fanatec button all about? please help i want this game to feel great and it sounds like it can i just don't know how....???

Patroclus · Mar 19, 2013

Downloaded at work. I hope to have time to install and drive 0,99 this weekend!

BanjoMaster · Mar 25, 2013

Are we now at the end of the TP stage? Has it done it's job (bug hunting/optimisation), or is there still more that Kunos want to test on it?

Mapu · Mar 25, 2013

still a chance for a TP 0.99b

JvMr · Mar 25, 2013

Would "TP" 1.0 even be the same as "release version" 1.0?

BanjoMaster · Mar 26, 2013

JvMr said:
Would "TP" 1.0 even be the same as "release version" 1.0?

No i don't think so. Completely different numbering system i think they said.

Barry Mitchell · Mar 26, 2013

had a quick game of this yesterday.. Ill be playing this more!! Its amazin!

Marian Zelenka · Mar 27, 2013

It asks me for a license number. I keep using the same \lic folder, but suddenly it stoped working. I'm not willing to thow away another nKPro license when it worked a few days back.

Justin Swan · Mar 28, 2013

As much as I try and as much as I want to, I can't like this car, the physics, the FORZA wheel screeching...Hopefully the full release has cars in it better suited to my taste. Not a RWD fan, some cars are nice, the Megane in rF2 for example.

Arkadiusz Wawrzyniak · Mar 28, 2013

Justin Swan said:
As much as I try and as much as I want to, I can't like this car, the physics, the FORZA wheel screeching...Hopefully the full release has cars in it better suited to my taste. Not a RWD fan, some cars are nice, the Megane in rF2 for example.

What do you mean you don't like the physics of elise ? This is exactly how lotus handles. So you should say that you don't like elise. And what do you mean by "the forza wheel screeching"??

Justin Swan · Mar 29, 2013

The same horrible OTT screeching of tyres when cornering at low speeds. The car handles ok when pushed and high speeds but feels horrible and unrealistic at low speed. Common sense tell you that the weight of the vehicle will overcome the inertia of a slide and a certain speed. This car will slide out at much to slow a speed without being able to bring it back under control. Basically it's too light at low speed in both under steer and over steer. It's ok at good speed.

Radek Zukowski · Mar 29, 2013

Can't agree with you.

William Levesque · Mar 29, 2013

+1, lol.

Requiem84 · Mar 29, 2013

Justin Swan said:
The same horrible OTT screeching of tyres when cornering at low speeds. The car handles ok when pushed and high speeds but feels horrible and unrealistic at low speed. Common sense tell you that the weight of the vehicle will overcome the inertia of a slide and a certain speed. This car will slide out at much to slow a speed without being able to bring it back under control. Basically it's too light at low speed in both under steer and over steer. It's ok at good speed.

Let's get is straight that you simply offer an opinion, instead of a fact. An opinion which I and many others do not share.

What speeds are these slow speeds according to you? I was surprised to see what speeds you can even take into hairpins. Look at the odometer, much more reliable than your brain ;-).

My Mini Cooper is also very easy to slide on the tight roundabouts around town here..,

Justin Swan · Mar 29, 2013

Perhaps I shouldn't but I'm comparing this to rFactor 2, in particular, the Clio's, meganes and the f2 cars, all of which I would say have a good realistic feel to them. You can actually feel the weight of the car and how much traction I'm getting from the driving wheels. I'm not getting this from the Elise in this sim. I'm not writing off AC but simply saying this sample doesn't feel 'natural' to me.

Justin Swan · Mar 29, 2013

Requiem84 said:
Let's get is straight that you simply offer an opinion, instead of a fact. An opinion which I and many others do not share.

What speeds are these slow speeds according to you? I was surprised to see what speeds you can even take into hairpins. Look at the odometer, much more reliable than your brain ;-).

My Mini Cooper is also very easy to slide on the tight roundabouts around town here..,

Driving a car well is all about feeling the car under you which of course is the most difficult thing to simulate. I can't feel it with this car whereas I can with other cars in other sims.
Everyone has their preferences, I'm just saying its not my cup of tea. I'm most definitely not saying AC is rubbish. I haven't seen enough to make a decision like that.