As announced about a month ago, Simbin has released the 1.2.1.2 patch for their latest RACE On simulation title, fixing various small glitches and problems.
As usual with Simbin patches, this patch is also available to owners of RACE07, GTR Evolution & STCC – The Game as all titles will benefit from the improvements.
To update your title, simply start Stream to obtain the new version. An offline version of the patch is not yet available, you can find the full changelog below (you might have to click “Read More” to see it).
Changelog:
Cars
Artifacts in driver arms corrections in Muscle Cars
Missing needles in cockpit gauges in Muscle Cars
Formula Masters hit the rev limit on fast tracks such as Monza
New rev HUD system, that follows car specs, with visible rev limit.
STCC Volvo C30 : +25 kg
DBR9: + 30 kg
Adjusted suspension on BMS – STCC
Fixes Audi R8 driver disappearing at certain angles
Missing Volvo logo in manufacturer selection for WTCC 08
Fixed brake disks for the Volvo C30 that were constantly glowing
Fixed wrong logo in J. Gene’s Seat cockpit
Fixed incorrect flag shown on Ibrahim Okyay’s BMW
Fixed issue where no Seat TDI were present in a WTCC 08 championship
Tracks
Timer started at the exit of the pitlane in Monza 07 & 08
Code
Changeable weather wasn’t changing when race was too long or set on a time length.
Reload custom skins (CTRL-F5) didn’t work when team folder had subfolders
Blue flags now appear even if the rules are set on black only. The blue flag then doesn’t bring a penalty if not respected
Pit preset menu doesn’t make you think a lost wheel in a Formula Master will be repairable in the pits.
Enter Setup files browsing optimized (time reduced to 1/3)
AI didn’t stop to change tyres in case of a change in weather conditions.
Pitwindow didn’t show in certain cases (no practice or qual session)
Fixed issue where if you don’t own STCC, you couldn’t join a server equipped with STCC with WTCC’08 Volvo.
Fixed screen that could turn black when loading cars in a multiplayer session
Fixed FFB issue with the G27 when FPS hit a certain number
Fixed Fanatec Porsche Wheel being shown as selectable when you didn’t own one
Fixed issue where certain FOV values could make the helmet view texture disappear in 16/9 resolutions
Fixed customskins not selectable in a championship
Fixed an unrealistic grid start order in WTCC races.
Fixed “Music in cockpit” feature that didn’t work any more
Fixed behaviour of cursor in setup notes page when using tripplehead display
Fixed a case where you couldn’t join a Race On equipped server with WTCC’87 if you hadn’t Race On yourself
UncleChuckle
January 20th, 2010 at 01:10
“AI didn’t stop to change tyres in case of a change in weather conditions.”
HOLY CRAP! I can’t believe they finally fixed that bug! That’s been around forever!
Also nice to see they “optimized” the setup menu. The delay on entering that was just absurd.
Still in shock they fixed that AI bug… Excellent!
kill4f00d
January 20th, 2010 at 01:55
Very nice. They finally fixed some annoying bugs.
Could they release a template so we can make our own rev counters more easily?
I’ve been overhauling the hud a little bit. I may release it on nogrip when I’m satisfied with it.
Race07 has such an ugly hud. At least I’m honest =]
orubasarot
January 20th, 2010 at 07:39
When is the environment flickering finally going to go away? I’ve had it on multiple OSes and videocards now. All other GMotor titles don’t have the problem, and it’s painfully obvious when playing on a projector or large screen.
kill4f00d
January 20th, 2010 at 07:47
Oh yeah, I forgot about the environment flickering. That has been around since the beginning. I’ve always played from the hood view, so I never really noticed it. From the cockpit view it’s very bad though.
Stream
January 20th, 2010 at 12:10
Blue flag shown if “Black Flag Only” is selected is a good thing. But they haven’t fixed the bug causing most servers to run with Black Flag Only – which is that drivers can get Blue flag (and be penalized) even on lap one (when all cars obviously are on the same lap).
Another thing I really miss, is that they haven’t fixed the fact that result files saved sometimes miss a driver or two from the session (happens both in practice, qual and race). This makes is hard to keep an automated result-system, since you must always double check that all drivers really are in the result file (and get a copy from another driver if it’s missing on the server).
They should also have done lots of enhancements to the dedi-server tool, and more details in result files (like incidents, pitstops, split-times), but guess we’ll never see that.
Also it should be pretty easy for them to add a feature so that all chat-messages are shown on top of the screen even if you’re in the setup-menus.
UncleChuckle
January 21st, 2010 at 01:33
What is this environment flickering issue? Can you cite an example as I don’t think I’ve ever seen it, but maybe I have and I just never paid it any attention.
Still stunned at the AI fix… I’ve had a friend grousing at me about that for a couple of years!
ScHiRoCk
January 21st, 2010 at 16:37
@Unclechuckle: take the Nurburgring GP track.
Go stand on the starting grid and you’ll see a lot of flickering from cockpitview.
Most obvious is the banner over the track that’s constantly flickering.
DevonK
January 21st, 2010 at 16:54
What’s the big problem getting a patch out the door for the offline version? Get moving Simbin – there are some pretty significant fixes in this changelog.