Assetto Corsa – Technology Update V0.9.8 Released.

Kunos Simulazioni Updated the Technology Preview to Version 0.9.8.

The last update of Technology Preview, contains , among other things, several improvements on the graphic characteristics, ensures a superior compatibility with various peripheral control and adds 18 liveries official Lotus. 

Important!

Please uninstall the old version, delete the Documents/Assetto Corsa folder BUT KEEP THE LIC FOLDER (This contains your activation code).
Then install new version and configure settings again.

Ingame

• Fixed DirectInput controls not getting initialized on lost focus
• Fixed double bound on Cubemap render target
• Optimizations on motion blur
• Optimizations on cube maps depth buffer
• Fixed camera exposure on F5 view after first start
• Fixed spikes strings to a more readable format
• Reduce steer damper
• Added 100Hz cap to FF sends to avoid problems with some steering wheels
• Fixed steer lock management for wheels with <900 degs rotations
• Fixed division by zero with uncalibrated controls
• Improved car reflections
• Improved light glass reflections
• Improved instruments texture
• Improved exposure value for external views
• Improved exposure value for F5 view
• Improved tarmac texture of Magione Circuit
• Corrected rear brake lights. Only inner lights light up.
• Fixed minor issue on 3D model. Closed hole on front bonnet.

• Corrections on the controls options
• Fixed issues with a wide range of controllers
• Fixed various typo errors
• You can assign any analog function to any axis (i.e. braking on clutch and clutch on the middle pedal)
• Improved screen resolution selection
• You can now lock steering wheel movement in cockpit view
• You can now eliminate the driver arms in cockpit view
• Fixed issue with firewall program that locked AssettoCorsa.exe
• Added skin selection button template in .psd in the skins folder.
• Added skin selection

• Ardent Red
• Artic Silver
• Aspen White
• Autumn Bronze
• Canyon Red
• Carbon Grey
• Chrome Orange
• Graphite Grey
• Motorsport Green
• Nightfall Blue
• Racing Green
• Racing Green Stripe
• Sienna Brown
• Solar Yellow
• Starlight Black
• Isotope Green
• Laser Blue

• wind sample corrected

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What Assetto Corsa Technology Preview?

It ‘a benchmark playable, with no time limit, which gives players a taste of the capabilities of the new software engine of Assetto Corsa. This version includes a car, a circuit different difficulty levels and two game modes: Free practice and Hotlap. Playing this version and by reporting performance, impressions and mistakes, players can help the development team to eliminate problems and improve the final version of Assetto Corsa, prior to release.

Who has access to Assetto Corsa Technology Preview?

Anyone who has purchased a copy of netKar PRO from 2006 onwards, you can use the activation code even in AC Tech Preview. This also applies to those who purchased the boxed version of netKar PRO.

All players who purchase netKar PRO until March 1, 2013, in addition to being able to download and activate the AC Technology Preview, also get a discount of 70% on the extraordinary price netKar PRO. And ‘it can buy netKar PRO until March 1 only 4,99 Euro.

Game features:

Assetto Corsa Technology Preview allows you to drive the Lotus Elise SC on Magione circuit, the latter played with the advanced technology of the Laser Scan. This version is compatible with keyboard, Xpad 360, joystick, steering wheels or any other type of controller.

Minimum requirements:

Operating System Windows Vista / 7/8
Processor: Intel Celeron 
RAM: 2 Gigabyte DirectX11 graphics card (eg  Nvidia GTS 450 / ATI Radeon HD5770)  NOTE: The graphics engine Assetto Corsa also supports DirectX 10.1 compliant video card (ATI HD 4800 / Nvidia 8600 GT)

Official Webpage – http://www.assettocorsa.info     –    http://www.kunos-simulazioni.com