Build Notes & Updates

Website: Leagues – Enhanced League and Tournament Gridding Options: · There is now a new grid algorithm called “Top N Inverted”. If you select this and click the “Apply Grid Now” button you will be prompted to enter the number of drivers to invert. Previously you were limited to inverting the top 8 or top 10 drivers. · There…

These are the release notes for Tuesday’s 2014 Season 2 update. Simulation: User Interface – Both the replay and driving screens now have user interfaces where elements can be moved around. Not all elements can be moved, but most can. Press alt-k to activate the UI edit mode, any object that can be moved will…

Lucky Dog – Fixed the bug where drivers with a meatball black flag could get the Lucky Dog. [ads1] Controls – Fixed a bug that could cause the automatic parking brake to release unexpectedly when cars drop into the world or drop off jack stands. – Fixed a bug that allowed anyone using the full…

Account Recharging – Moved the minimum member recharge and gift recharge iRacing dollars (not credits) to another member from $5 to $1 at member request. Gift Card minimum still at $5. Hosted Sessions – Bumped the maximum number of cars allowed for hosted sessions from 4 cars to 5 cars. [ads1] Garage – Improved tire…

Website: League Calendar Exports – You can now export your league calendar in iCalendar format. This allows you to integrate your iRacing League season schedules with your Google Calendar, iPhone, Microsoft Outlook etc. – Calendars are exported per season. In other words if your league is running multiple race seasons simultaneously you will need to…

Auto Club Speedway – Auto Club Speedway is now available for purchase and features four configurations. These configurations are as follows: · Oval: 2 mile Speedway (day and night versions) · Competition: 2.8 mile road course which utilizes parts of the oval and infield road course. · Moto: 2.36 mile road course which also utilizes…

Updater – Improve how the iRacingUpdater.exe identifies if a computer requires a DirectX file update to deal with certain combinations of 32-bit vs 64-bit shenanigans. Controllers – Improved calibration routines to work around detection issues with certain devices. Graphics – The app.ini [Drive Screen] UIOffsetBottomPct=0 setting will now show up in the .ini file by…

Here are the release notes for tomorrow’s new season’s update. Edit: The New Hampshire Motor Speedway update has been delayed. The new Legends configuration will not be available immediately with the new season’s build, but will arrive in an update within a few days. Website: My Account My Account has been updated to be easier…

Simulation – Fixed a bug that was causing a car’s damage state to not be properly communicated with the race server. The bug made it so that you would not see the proper damage on remote cars, and could have seen remote cars magically repair themselves. – Fixed a bug that could cause never-ending tech…

Simulation – Fixed a bug that would cause no timing & scoring information to be sent to you if you connected to an in-progress session where many drivers had already completed laps. Commercial – Fixed the Results and Leader Board displays to include information for all car types in the session.

Simulation – In the garage, the [Apply] button must now be used for all setup changes. This ensures that tech inspection is performed in a more consistent manner, regardless of what specific setup items are altered, or the order in which they are altered. This greatly reduces the possibility of editing a setup in a…

Williams FW31 – Updated with the latest version 5 tire model, along with new setups. Simulation – Fixed a bug that could cause the simulation to crash when loading a setup. – Fixed an issue where setup notes might become incorrect when cancelling setup changes or loading a new setup. – Fixed a bug where…

Simulation – Support for the Oculus Rift has been put back in. – Fixed an issue with the garage physics that greatly reduces the amount of jitter that can occur on some cars. – Fixed an issue in the garage where it was improperly performing an automatic [Apply]. – Improved the efficiency of some data…

Website: Leagues Page Members – League admins can assign members a nick name – League admins can assign members a car number League Info – League admins can tag their leagues with keywords and other pre-set filter options under the Set League Filters button. This information allows members to find leagues through filtering and is…

Kansas Speedway – Now available! Teams – Once a session has launched, you are not allowed to change your registration to the session, with but one exception: you are allowed to initially register for a session as a spectator, then withdraw from the session, then re-register for the session as a driver or a crew…

Graphics – The simulator now loads faster due to programmable shader loading optimizations. – Fixed a memory leak which may have been causing crashes in on-line events containing many cars with custom paint. The simulator also now limits the largest custom paint texture that it will attempt to load to a maximum dimension of 2048….

A small update has been applied today for the simulation. – Includes setups for the various cars expected to run at Kansas. – Includes a longer top gear in the oval gear set for the Star Mazda so at this week’s track the car won’t hit the rev limiter in the draft. – Fixed a…

Dynamic Shadow Mapping – Fixed a problem causing the new dynamic shadows to not render past the rear of the driver’s car in the mirrors, even when “high detail in mirrors” is enabled. – Fixed a bug where selecting “low detail” cockpit mirrors with dynamic shadow mapping enabled on an SLI graphics card configuration would…

This season’s download will be very large – over 3 GB for 100%ers. Due to various updates we’ve made to our process, including migrating to a newer version of our compiler and other changes to improve the efficiency of building our data, many of our data files are now slightly different which has caused a…