This is the latest patch and watch out tonight at 17.00 GMT for another surprise addition/change to the survive (since all our bets were way off, I suppose they are still on. Mine are.)
announcement to be found here: http://www.iracing.com
Release Notes for 2016 Season 4 Patch 2 [2016.09.16.01]
CHANGE LOG:
Simulator
- Power saving and screen savers are now turned off when the Sim launches.
Connection
- Fixed a bug that would cause your Options/Graphics/Max cars selection to be sent only to the first server to which you connect while remaining in the simulation. If you registered for a Race session far enough ahead of time, and joined the pre-race Open Practice, the Open Practice server would have been told of your selection. But when you clicked on the [Race!] button inside the simulation to transition to the Race session, the Race server would not be told of your selection, and would instead use the default, maximum value.
Rendering
- Windshield reflections have been disabled at night tracks.
- Fixed an issue where sometimes partially invisible cars would be present with large fields at Le Mans.
- All floating point exceptions (reporting in .logs and/or crashing out) in the FG and BG have been disabled if the SIM is running on Wine (Mac/Linux).
Options
- Fixed a misspelling in the help text for the Far Terrain setting on the Options screen.
Animation
- Fixed an issue where the lollipop guy would sometimes appear in a T-pose.
CARS
Aston Martin DBR9 GT1
- Season setups have been updated.
- Tire warmers are now used for this car. Temperature is set to what we would see with blankets or an oven, as used on GT3 cars.
Audi Quattro GTO
- Season setups have been updated.
- Minor bug fix to selection of number of clutch plates for the rear diff. The change increment was two plates, but the range of plates was 1 plate to 8 plates, resulting in strange selection increments depending on where you started. The range has been changed to be from 2 plates to 8 plates.
- Fixed a car number position issue with the official Audi 90 GTO paint scheme pattern.
- Fixed the misspelling of FELUERLOSCH-ANLAGE on the dashboard.
Chevrolet Corvette C6.R GT1
- Season setups have been updated.
- Tire warmers are now used for this car. Temperature is set to what we would see with blankets or an oven, as used on GT3 cars.
Dallara DW12
- Road course tire wear has been significantly increased to ensure more realistic degradation.
Ford GT
- Slight reduction in fuel consumption to try to hit target stint lengths.
- Tire warmers are now used for this car. Temperature is set to what we would see with blankets or an oven, as used on GT3 cars.
HPD ARX-01c
- Added a starter so the engine is able to re-fire if it is shut down when on track.
- Fixed a distortion issue with the mirror portals.
TRACKS
Circuit des 24 Heures du Mans
- Signage and advertisements have been updated.
- Adjusted several race control checkpoints.
- Le Mans is becoming more and more popular; additional crowds and cars have appeared at the track.
announcement to be found here: http://www.iracing.com
Release Notes for 2016 Season 4 Patch 2 [2016.09.16.01]
CHANGE LOG:
Simulator
- Power saving and screen savers are now turned off when the Sim launches.
Connection
- Fixed a bug that would cause your Options/Graphics/Max cars selection to be sent only to the first server to which you connect while remaining in the simulation. If you registered for a Race session far enough ahead of time, and joined the pre-race Open Practice, the Open Practice server would have been told of your selection. But when you clicked on the [Race!] button inside the simulation to transition to the Race session, the Race server would not be told of your selection, and would instead use the default, maximum value.
Rendering
- Windshield reflections have been disabled at night tracks.
- Fixed an issue where sometimes partially invisible cars would be present with large fields at Le Mans.
- All floating point exceptions (reporting in .logs and/or crashing out) in the FG and BG have been disabled if the SIM is running on Wine (Mac/Linux).
Options
- Fixed a misspelling in the help text for the Far Terrain setting on the Options screen.
Animation
- Fixed an issue where the lollipop guy would sometimes appear in a T-pose.
CARS
Aston Martin DBR9 GT1
- Season setups have been updated.
- Tire warmers are now used for this car. Temperature is set to what we would see with blankets or an oven, as used on GT3 cars.
Audi Quattro GTO
- Season setups have been updated.
- Minor bug fix to selection of number of clutch plates for the rear diff. The change increment was two plates, but the range of plates was 1 plate to 8 plates, resulting in strange selection increments depending on where you started. The range has been changed to be from 2 plates to 8 plates.
- Fixed a car number position issue with the official Audi 90 GTO paint scheme pattern.
- Fixed the misspelling of FELUERLOSCH-ANLAGE on the dashboard.
Chevrolet Corvette C6.R GT1
- Season setups have been updated.
- Tire warmers are now used for this car. Temperature is set to what we would see with blankets or an oven, as used on GT3 cars.
Dallara DW12
- Road course tire wear has been significantly increased to ensure more realistic degradation.
Ford GT
- Slight reduction in fuel consumption to try to hit target stint lengths.
- Tire warmers are now used for this car. Temperature is set to what we would see with blankets or an oven, as used on GT3 cars.
HPD ARX-01c
- Added a starter so the engine is able to re-fire if it is shut down when on track.
- Fixed a distortion issue with the mirror portals.
TRACKS
Circuit des 24 Heures du Mans
- Signage and advertisements have been updated.
- Adjusted several race control checkpoints.
- Le Mans is becoming more and more popular; additional crowds and cars have appeared at the track.
- and I said, partly from analyzing the situation and partly because of Group C fanboyism, that they could be releasing a higher tier car like a GTP to create IMSA competitions from the era. One of the two GTP cars I mentioned was the Nissan (because of license availability and its rich IMSA history and domination with the LM American cousin).
