Full coverage of iRacing seasonal build releases and mid-season patches. Includes season previews, release note breakdowns, and patch summaries.
We will be issuing updates to Infineon Raceway and Lowe’s Motor Speedway today, hopefully at around 20:05GMT (4:05pm EDT). The update to Infineon Raceway fixes the course-cutting bug that some have been exploiting shamelessly. The update to Lowe’s Motor Speedway fixes an issue that would impact some sessions in the upcoming 13th Week schedule.
iRacing World has been added. iRacing World is a social networking site and can be accessed by clicking on the “iRacing World” graphic at the top of each page. The clubs have been broken down into regions and this change is reflected in the HOME page Region Standings widget. This widget can be filtered by…
A new Home page “Talking Points” box has been added. This area provides a quick and easy way to join the ‘General Discussion’ chat room and the three most active chat rooms on the service. To join a chat room simply click on its name under the Chat Room column and you will automatically be…
Sim The sim will properly recognise 4GB or more of system RAM. The replayMemoryOverride setting in core.ini will no longer cause sim to fail to load if size is set too large. Fix buffer overflow bug in garage when using long filenames for setups for most cars that could sometimes cause setups to not load…
Some fixes have been made to the collision detection for the Radical SR8, the SK Modified, and the Late Model. A bug that had caused a chat server to crash has been fixed.
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…
User Interface Force Feedback ‘Dampening’ option removed ‘ it no longer did anything. Corrected sorting order for numerical columns in Session screen tabs. Re-ordered sound options to ‘Simulation’ and ‘Voice Chat’ sections to clarify the options’ intents. Cleaned up voice chat notifications. Removed voice chat ‘you are transmitting’ sound ‘ people thought that they were…
Physics Updates Cars which have just reappeared either due to having a large position or orientation discrepancy (usually during a crash) or whose driver has just entered the car are now not collideable for two seconds after appearing. This should alleviate some problems with being taken out by latency effects or unfortunate pit exits. All…
Website The iRacing member site has undergone a major art and design overhaul. Please be advised that the website redesign is not finished and there are still incomplete pages and functionality. There is also quite a bit of work that needs to be done for the site to look as it should using IE6 and…
Website Replays page Saved replays are stored on your local hard drive. The web interface to your saved replays allows you to filter which ones you’d like to look for and easily launch the simulator to view them. STATS > Clubs & Divisions has been removed and replaced by STATS > Regional Here, you can…