Build Notes & Updates

Hosted Sessions Fixed a bug where the “host a race” page wouldn’t work properly if the member’s account had a very small balance.

Account Recharge + Gifting There is a new link called “Account Recharge” at the top of the member’s site that is used to recharge your own account or to give a recharge gift to another iRacer. Recharging Your Own Account When you click on the “Account Recharge” link the system will check to see if…

Kentucky Speedway – Now available! Race Control – Fixed a bug where cars that have been waved around the pace car to regain a lap during a caution would have their pit entrance stay closed once green flag racing resumed. Chevrolet Impala Chevrolet Impala Class B Chevrolet Impala SS 2009 – Updated to support Kentucky…

Website: Spectator Sessions – Fixed a bug where the spectator registration code was not determining car ownership correctly. This could prevent people from registering as a spectator for hosted sessions. Tournament Sessions – You can now create multiclass tournament sessions but please note that the grid builder does not have multi-class support and does not…

Chat Settings Fixed timing issue where chat settings changes would not stick in some cases. iRacing Installer Fixed file extension issue when downloading the iRacing install with certain versions of Internet Explorer.

Here are some more quick updates, simple enough that we can squeak them out without any service downtime – this time for the oval guys! Race Control – We have fixed the recently introduced bug that has been unintentionally black flagging lead lap drivers who have entered their pit lane legitimately just before the new…

Mazda MX-5 Cup and Roadster – We have updated the baseline setups for the MX-5 Cup and Roadster to be much less challenging to keep the cars pointing forward. The new setups are still fast, but are much more comfortable to drive, and give a much better introduction into the New Tire Model update on…

Multi-Class Racing Fixed the car selection/registration when selecting a car from a pop-up selection window. Replays With this update the replays page should remain functional when the stats system is disabled. Previously the page would not load at all. When in this state you will notice that the stats related columns in your replays table…

Our plan is to finally roll out Season 4’s build tomorrow (Thursday). In anticipation of the new build, here are the release notes for you to read. Website: Multi-Class Racing – For multiclass series (this does not apply to hosted or tournaments) you no longer need to own all of the cars in order to…

Video Driver Compatibility Fixes Added a new graphics option to tessellate the entire track surface and walls/fences into static video memory during track loading, which then avoids any dynamic track tessellation during racing. Previously, portions of track would be pre-tessellated at only 2 levels of detail, but the highest levels of detail would be provided…

Bug Fixes – Fixed the issue where objects and parts of objects render incorrectly with crowd detail or car detail set below HIGH DETAIL. The primary symptoms of this bug were the missing grandstand portions at several tracks, and also the opaque gray windshield in the Mazda MX5 Cup car, and white gauges in the…

HPD ARX-01C – Now has all basic and fixed setups for all tracks used by this season’s series. Ford GT – Reduced braking power to allow more brake pedal travel. – Increased power steering strength to help with the heavy steering. – Increased front downforce by 10% to help limit nose light conditions, after re-analyzing…

Misc – Added a new setting to adjust the distance the central UI elements are moved away from the bezels (only enabled in some 3-monitor modes). Previously the UI elements were moved 10% of the screen width away from the edge of the screen. This is still the default, but may be adjusted via the…

Website Tournament Grid Builder – Fixed performance issues with IE. It should now be ok to use IE to build your grids. – There is still a drag and drop issue with all browsers. The issue occurs when dragging drivers from a large driver pool (larger than 60 drivers) down to a server on the…

Website: Race Panel Changes – Added a visual MPR indicator that is displayed between the car and the sessions box. This provides a quick and easy indication if you are racing up, down or equal to your license level. – Added a track confirmation dialog to the race panel. It is displayed when you click…

Website Tournament Grid Builder -Added please wait popups for tasks that can take a long time -Fixed bug with removing servers where the error dialog was displayed repeatedly -Fixed bug with adding servers where you couldn’t add 10 -Fixed drag and drop issue with Chrome -Fixed multicolumn issue with IE -There is still a significant…

Website Car Numbers – Fixed bug on IE where preferred numbers weren’t being saved properly. Awards – Fixed bug with Facebook integration where the 100% Club award could not be published. – Fixed bug with Driving School where awards were not being granted properly. Navigation Menus – Fixed bug with Chrome where the navigation menu…

Replay – When replay spooling is enabled, overwriting the replay file that is currently being viewed is no longer allowed. – Fixed an issue where trying to save the whole replay with replay spooling enabled could fail if you weren’t viewing near the end of the replay. Track Physics – The current tire model can…

Website: Car Numbers – Only 2 digits will be accepted for a car number. – Fixed a problem where some browsers would report an error when entering valid car number values. – Fixed a bug that would cause everyone that did not have a preferred car number, or whose preferred number was given to another…

Website: Hosted Sessions – Added the ability to purchase a session based on number of hours. The options are 2, 4 and 6 hours. – Changed it so you can limit the race portion of your hosted session by laps, minutes or both (laps or minutes). If you select both, the race will conclude when…