iRacing.com Motorsport Simulations

[Bram Hengeveld]

iRacing.com Motorsport Simulations check it out

 

[Jan Duin]

A new build has been released just now. Barber Motorsports Park is available as well.. :thumb:

 

[Simon Trendell]

24/7/08 Latest Patch Release Notes

Latest Patch available, here are the release notes

Release notes for 2008.07.23.02 Build

Graphics

Added a new graphics option, RefreshRateHz, to renderer.ini (located in “My Documents/iRacing” on XP). This setting overrides the full-screen refresh rate used by the simulation. The default value is 0, which allows Direct3D to select a safe refresh rate. Use extreme caution if manually overriding this setting, as an invalid value may cause the simulation to fail to initialize or result in other problems.

Relabeled “Your Card’s Video Memory” advanced graphics option to now read “Utilizable Texture Memory.” In most cases the correct value is 30-100MB less than your card’s video memory. It is almost always a bad idea to increase this value from the original auto-detected setting, as setting it too large often results in a large performance loss.

UI

Mini Chat on Replay screen, Chat Tab now accessible from button in Mini Chat

#42(NP) Chat messages now show full names instead of inscrutable abbreviations.
Chat colors tweaked a bit

Adjusted F3 black box colors, it should be easier to distinguish your car from cars lapping you. The colors are:
Gold: Your car & the pace car
White: Opponent on the same lap as you
Red: Opponent that is lapping you, or has lapped you
Blue: Opponent that you are lapping, or you have lapped

F2 and F3 black boxes now show car numbers as “#123” rather than just “123”

Track length now shown to two decimal places

Several small display errors fixed on the Replay screen


Race Control

Pit lane popup UI was not showing in oval qualifying sessions.

The time limit for "slowing down" after cutting a corner is increased to 20 seconds from 15 seconds.

Fixed the bug where resetting while under the "slow down" condition would result in a lengthy black flag.

Fixed the bug where drivers could get pit entrance penalties when reconnecting to a server.


Physics

Fixed Silver Crown ride height issues for remotes (shouldn't bottom as much).

Changed tallest differential ratios for Late Model so doesn't redline at Lowes.

Brake lights are now transmitted to remote cars for Solstices and Radical (there is of course a delay due to the communications latency, so don't follow someone too deep!)

Engine revs and gear are now transmitted to remote cars, should sound much better.

A correction was made to the aerodynamic forces due to drafting--the cars in front will generally get less of a speed increase from cars behind.

A fix was made to the tire wear code which was causing too much wear on lightly loaded tires.

The Formula Mazda and Radical tires have been reworked; they were not quite correct after the camber fixes in a previous build.

There is now no delay when shifting from Neutral into gear with sequential shifting mode, it is now the same as H-pattern (no advantage at starts).


Tracks

Barber Motorsports Park is now available for purchase

 

[Ricky Willox]

Might make me faster - Barber Motorsports

Hopefully with a spider that size on my tail ill drive faster

 

[Simon Trendell]

Could you give us a video of Barber Motorsports Park?

 

[Simon Trendell]

Notice - Subscription Renewal

Hopefully this isn't too late:

If you are not planning on renewing with iRacing then you MUST cancel the renewal in the My Account section. Today is one month since the invites went out so automatic renewals should happen today.

Otherwise you will be charged the $20 renewal.

 

[Ricky Willox]

Radical at Barber

Heres a vid of a lap at Barber in the Radical

This ones cockpit view gonna upload another couple one in chase and one TV
Its still converting at the moment but the wmv is there but large
Cockpit
Radical at the Barber

Chase Cam
Radical At BMP Chase Cam

Tv Cam
Radical at Barber TV cam

 

[Simon Trendell]

From the first corner I knew I recognised the track. It's Birmingham:
NoGrip :: Race 07 Downloads - Birmingham

You learn something everyday

 

[Simon Trendell]

Skip Barber RT 2000 - Infineon Raceway

Just done a race with this setup

Setup for the cup layout, should be good for all of them however.

Fastest Lap: 01:27.087
Average: 01:29.482

 

[Karl Westman]

Great to see that the new official racing season is about to start and I still haven't been able (or allowed) to join. It feels like the fortunate ones will have a huge advantage over the rest of us when we eventually will be able to join in... This really ticks me off...

Kind regards,
Karl

 

[Simon Trendell]

The next round of invites are due sometime this week I believe, the new season starts on Saturday.
There's no advantage as everyone is promoted at the same time. I've gone up to a D now and should go to C in 12 weeks

 

[Thomas]

I agree with Simon... the advantage is imaginery at best. I was beaten by a finn yesterday that just joined. Beaten is a really modest word, i think obliterated is a better one used.

 

[over-rev]

You know that is what freaks me up with iRacing. In the end iRacing is a money sucker system. Why don´t they offer the cars & tracks for free and just use the subscription system for your account like every other MMORPG does? I understand that you shall pay for an "addon package" which contains several things but paying every track and car extra is just cheeky.

I understand,I'm on the same Boat.
BUT I like to view a BRIGHTER/different side.Paying for the cars and tracks could be a good thing,Like the sane "you get what you pay for"...I Think It would give the developer More time to model the vehicle dynamics.the track layout,ETC
Just my $.02

Oh and hello all as this is my 1st post and still waiting on my invite

 

[Grant Waterman]

In the end iRacing is a money sucker system.

Dead right, cos even after you have bought those cars/tracks, you have to keep paying that $20 per month,every month, to use them, cant run them off-line. Thats the catch, if you like it you will be paying out forever

 

[over-rev]

Dead right, cos even after you have bought those cars/tracks, you have to keep paying that $20 per month,every month, to use them, cant run them off-line. Thats the catch, if you like it you will be paying out forever

WOW. yes that does suck.Since we are on this subject, say you sign up for 12 week race, do you need to own all track's(12) to participate?

Thats crazy to charge monthly for a car or track?

 

[Simon Trendell]

There's only the monthly subscription, then you buy cars & tracks on top off that for a one time fee. As long as you have the monthly subscription paid you can use everything you own in test sessions.
Also you don't need all the tracks in a series to participate, if you don't own the track for that week then you can't race, but if you do you can.

 

[Thomas]

If you pay for a year ( ) you pay "only" $156. (which is $13 / month) And you get $60 to buy cars and tracks included. If you buy 6 items you get an discount of 20%.
And you should only buy stuff in the current season your gonna race. Nothing else.

I don't mind paying seeing the quality of mod and the racing i have had and will probably stay with the addictive program to the bitter end. I just can't say stop.

"iRacing wants more money? Here you go. Can i race now?"

 

[over-rev]

Thanx for the info!....still waiting on Invite Im ready to pay for a year.

 

[Ricky Willox]

Next wave of invites date announced

It has been announced on the iRacing members site that the next wave of invites will be on Wednesday the 6th of August.

New members
The next wave of invitations to join iRacing.com will go out on Wednesday, Aug. 6. With several thousand invitations being distributed and a large influx of new members expected, we'd like to remind everyone of our Code of Conduct (section 1.4 of the FIRST Sporting Code).

So for anyone whos still waiting this will be the next chance to get one.

So good luck to anyone wos still waiting that wants one. And if you get one I hope it turns out to be what you hope or expect

 

[Simon Trendell]

Good luck all, IRC i've got another email address on the mailing list so if I do get a code I'll offer it here.

 

[Gareth Hickling]

Im after one