Build Notes & Updates

‘- Added new car sponsors for Race For Japan, and Playseat. – Fixed a bug in the admin !clear command so that the driver having a disqualification cleared can continue racing.

Website: Series Stats Changes – Support for combining series stats. In the series pulldown on the series stats page you’ll see new categories for “Combined” series. This will be used initially for the IndyCar Premier Series. With this series there is an oval series and a road series. You will see a new entry in…

Permanent Site Footer – We have added a new site footer that is always visible. We’ve moved some existing functionality from the top of the page down into the footer: – Number of iRacers online. – Number of myRacers online as well as the online status popup. – Links out to external sites (with YouTube…

‘- Fixed the recently introduced bug in the garage where setup changes could sometimes not apply to a car properly.

Website: Region Stats Page – Added CSV exports to existing forms. – Adding region sorting in the region pulldown. – Removed club multipliers. – Added a link to a new driver club points popup. This will display the club points for each driver for the year and season selected in the form. This new feature…

Misc – Fixed bug where you could get into your car with an illegal setup by pressing your enter/exit/reset/tow button while in the replay screen. – Fixed bug where cars mysteriously rotate when sitting stationary for a while, particularly on sloping ground. – Added nVidia logos to the paintkit. Renderer – Fixed an issue in…

Various Cars – Fixed bug where the pit speed limiter on any car that had one would not work during fixed setup races. – Sequential gearboxes can no longer downshift into neutral if the car is rolling faster than about 5 mph. Dallara – Fixed a bug where the aero calculator was using garage rides…

‘- Tour Modified should no longer overheat and blow motors under normal racing conditions. – Fixed a spotter bug where spotter describes which rule you have broken incorrectly. – MX-5 Cup no longer has a brake bias adjustment in the garage, because the adjustment had no effect. We had locked the bias at 72% but…

‘- Removed the disabled Session Ticker – Performance improvements to career stats page – Fixed bug where we were displaying the wrong division on the career stats page – Fixed stats truncation on career stats page – Fixed last races display on the member profile widget – Fixed filtering on the spectator sessions page –…

SIM – Fixed a bug where crashing Spec Racer’s could crash the sim. – Fixed an issue with anisotropic filtering within the sim so that the new shadow maps don’t look so jagged if you have anisotropic enabled within the sim. If you have AF enabled via the drivers, there should be no difference. –…

Today’s update is just a small update to fix a handful of issues that have arisen. The spectator driving issue is kinda nasty so we’re pushing the fix out now to get that sorted out. – Fix bug where a driving spectator could become visible to other drivers in a fully occupied open practice server….

Website Test Panel – No longer reloads the entire page when changing car/track/config. – Added links to car forum. – Fixed night mode handling so it will load a night track when it should. Race Panel – Added car forum links. – Added series schedule links. – The session selection box will be hidden if…

*** New Forums *** Here are some of the features that the new forums will provide. Post Ratings – You can now rate each post in the forums from 1 to 5 stars – Your average post rating (ratings you have received from other members) will be displayed in profile box next to each of…

‘- Bristol can now be raced at night. – Impala A has all default and hall of fame setups updated for this season’s physics. – Impala B has all default and fixed setups updated for this season’s physics. – Lotus 79 has improved timing for shifting with all shift aids enabled. – When spectating a…

Misc/Uncategorized – The pace car has been switched to a Mustang. The Solstice pace car is still there for older replays. – Allow SoftTH 2.0 DLL (pre-release version) to load without causing a loading error. – More cars can be transmitted to clients due to improved compression techniques. – Added in a ticker bar when…

‘- Thompson International Speedway is released. This track is a new free track for everyone. If you see the web site asking you to buy it for $0.00 you may need to log out then log back into the iRacing website to have it show up in your list of tracks. – Tour Modified car…

Miscellaneous – The Ford Mustang FR500S is now available. – Added some Mid-Ohio finishing touches and fixes. – Fixed bug where club stats were always showing 0 on personal stats page. – Fixed lap chart bug where the finishing positions weren’t being displayed properly. – Fixed javascript error on series stats pages. – Fixed license…

Here are the remaining 5 cars that were supposed to have been updated last week but had a variety of little unexpected bugs that required us to un-release them. Those bugs have now been fixed. Car Collisions – The following vehicles have had their physical collision model improved to better match their visual model to…

General – Hosted sessions now have the same wind speed and direction as our online sessions. – Fixed a bug that would cause SR to be computed incorrectly when demoting a Pro license holder into Class A. The incorrect SR would self-correct the next time the driver competed in an on-line session that impacted their…

‘- A bug has been fixed so that replays will no longer generate nuclear explosion sounds, which were particularly noticable in Ford Falcon events. – Tire wear from unloaded tire lockups (such as when dragging an inside front tire into a tight turn) was a little more than we intended, and has been reduced. –…