rFactor 2 Build 1028 Released

Image Space Incorporated have released Build 1028 of their rFactor 2 Simulator.

This will be the last build to be deployed before the rF2 platform will become available on the steam distribution platform.  Build 1028 contains a large amount of fixes and improvements that should make the product a more solid experience.

ISI has also updated the rFactor 2 demo content of the product. Demo downloaders will now be able to drive the Corvette C6.R and Formula Renault 3.5.

 

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Build Notes (Update 35, Build 1028):

Features:

• Improved detection of controllers by checking device VID and PIDs if it failed by device name (which could happen in some cases – apparently the names are not always consistent for identical devices).
• Removed a couple unused PLR variables.
• Added a new control “Load Vehicles” so you can load the full graphics and sound of temp cars while you are driving down a straight or parked at the side of the road.
• Re-enabled some gizmos for brake wear and temps.
• Defaulting camera zoom in and out to number pad 3 and 1, respectively.
• Now sorting opponent filters alphabetically.
• Added tire wear info to results file. Also, resume-from-replay now restores general tire wear.
• Added HDV variable AIBumpstop in order to control some occasional physics instabilities.
• Pressing Shift with the Increase/Decrease FOV controls will now adjust the seat pitch angle. In turn, that will be stored for the specific vehicle you are using.
• Practice on by default
• Removed tree structure from RFM tree scroll box.
• Moved damage to near the top of the pit menu.
• Added borderless window mode. This mode only works at current desktop resolution.
• Added times for sector 1 & 2 from best lap to the plugin scoring data. (Not necessarily the best sector 1 & 2 times, which are already provided.)
• Added cockpit.ini variable “DebrisIndexInCockpit=” which makes instance DEBRIX visible in cockpit view.
• Now keeping the last 25 trace files.

Multiplayer:

• Added a boundary line between official ISI servers and all others on the multiplayer game list.

Fixes:

• Scale the instant replay text and progress bar correctly.
• Fixed loose objects that would fall asleep and become rather solid.
• Disabled a few lines of code that overrode our intended defaults.
• Reduced possibility of significant halts when someone joins in multiplayer.
• Fix for AI’s incorrectly trying to match non-AI driving lines on superspeedways
• Fix for occasional select box misdrawing at resolutions other than 1920X1080
• Fix for crash that happens when file defining a virtual vehicle doesn’t get transfered to a multiplayer client.
• Handled a potential crash caused by replacement vehicle having less tire compounds than the virtual vehicle.
• Made AIs coming out of the garage at least try to avoid slow cars in the pitlane.
• Fix for displaying a Race Events components from the RFM selector page, even when it’s package file doesn’t exist.

Modding / Public Dev:

• SDK updated to latest Options.
• Recording path should no longer stick the 1st and last waypoint any closer than 80% of the defined waypoint distance.

Notes:

• You can (when available) install the dedicated server distribution from Steam as that works for both Steam and non-Steam matchmaker.

Known issiues:  rFactor 2 Build 1028 (NON-Steam)

• On rare occasion, when using “+connect” command via shortcut on server, users may need to retry multiple times when connecting to a password protected server.
• Launcher Message will display: “Component “Core UI 1.0″ failed to verify, removed from inventory”” In some rare cases this can cause issues with custom UI that also relies on core UI to handle some pages.
• The rFactor2 Matchmaker list will not count clients that join a server using rFactor 2 Steam edition in the “player” column.
• “RaceEvents” on workshop are not served by dedicated server. Non-steam clients and clients not subscribed to the workshop item will need to manually install “RaceEvents”.
• Other known issues still to be found in knownissues.txt

 

Official Webpage:  rfactor.net