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Assetto Corsa: Tech Preview 0.99 Now Available
A new version of the popular Assetto Corsa Tech Preview has been released by Kunos Simulazioni bringing the PC simulation up-to-date with version 0.99 which can be downloaded from the game website. This version includes one car, one track, various difficulty levels and two game-play modes: free practice and time attack.
Besides the improved gameplay the development team added 18 news official car skins for the Lotus Elise SC and support for pretty much all available controllers.
The new build addresses the framerate spikes problems, corrects some issues with control devices and has several other fixes and improvements:
Ingame
- Fixed high spike % due to incorrect thread synchronization
- Fixed car remaining on gas when returning to pits
- New system to avoid redundant calls to DirectInput
User Interface
- Potential fix for the laggy launcher UI after returning from a session
- More debbuging output during the controller configuration screen
- Further .ini validation and formatting on launch
- Fix for kmh/mph unit selection
Steam Greenlight
Assetto Corsa has been officially submitted to Valve’s Greenlight. If you wish to support the game developers and you want this game to appear on Steam you can cast your vote here.
Only available for netKar Pro owners
The Tech Preview is available only for netKar Pro owners. You can pick up your copy for a reduce price (Eur 6,99) here if you want instant access to the preview. A free-to-play demo will be released for everybody at a later date.
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Do we uninstall the last preview and then install this one?
To be sure everything works correctly I’d always go for a clean install. You can however also try to overwrite the files.
If you go for a full re-install make sure you always first backup your \documents\assetto corsa\lic folder and place it back after installation.
Saves you another license request
Yep, that`s how we do it. Your settings in C:\username\Documents\ACTechPreview won`t be affected. Just uninstall as you would normally under windows.
Tx guys Got it
Nice going to give it a go.
Has anyone noticed that the game needs to be installed in the C drive else it won’t work? It happened to me the first time as I install all my games in my D drive. With the second release, I installed it again in the D drive and again it didn’t work, so I just moved the installation to the C drive and started just fine.
When installed in another drive, once started it shows a white page with the drive files on it. The files look like links, but they are not.
Still getting the same amount of spikes and now some micro-stuttering also….this game hates crossfire it seems
I didnt grab this version yet but I have 0.98 on my PC in D drive no problem. I just tried to test and it’s fine.
Did you maybe install very first version in C and it left settings files in your docs folder perhaps? This version is the 3rd one now.
And I thought I was going to bed early tonight… no chances…
Thanks for the replay. I installed my version first in my D drive and it didn’t work. Since that happened once before with another game, I tried the default location and it worked. With the second one they issued, I tried again, this time making sure to restart after installation (which the first time I didn’t do because I didn’t see the prompt) and yet I had the same issue.
At this point, I am not sure what can be causing it, but as far as I am concerned, C drive is where it goes. It’s the only game there anyway since I have an SSD I try to install all my apps on D.
Mine is a sat on my F drive outside of windows. it works fine on my machine.:)
Mine is installed on drive K:, no problems at all….
Runs a lot better on my AMD 955 and 6870 ..
Getting hardly any spikes atm.
Used to get a lot with the previous build especially while watching replay cameras 6, 7 and 8.
Now its silky smooth :thumbsup:
I am REALLY eager to see how this engine will handle with more cars on track ..
Test the collision detection etc. Atm its allmost to good to be true.
Whats the catch? .. there must be a catch!
Same here! On my 5850 it’s now even better than 096. Just perfect. :thumbsup:
Finally peeling myself away after a 100+ laps….By disabling crossfire I am able to run HDR and driver head locked to horizon unchecked and get 70+ frames smooth almost to the point of silky smooth. Don’t know if anything was tinkered with on the tire model but it somehow seems even more responsive and just overall all somehow better. (could be placebo effect, who knows)
The waiting gets even harder now, this sim is genius.
Well, as a number 0.9.9 is extremely close to 1.0…
I believe only 3-4 weeks are separeting us from a final release.
@ Michael i think the responsive feeling has a lot to do with the frame rates .. So far AC is looking like a true gem. Again i cant wait to test more ..
Going to be a good year for us Sim lovers. Lots of interesting stuff just around the corner!
Is there any better download links, link #1 is less than 100kbs and over 45min to complete and link #2 wants me to instal google chrome browser before I’m able to download, why do these D/L sites restrict you from the files and Force you to use their D/L app etc, it sucks so hard it blows. Whats wrong with just allowing you to D/L the bloody file without any hassles, it’s not like they OWN the file.
Looks like I’ll have to wait till the load is off the servers at Kunos before I can get this updated TechPreview.
I downloaded from #1 link yesterday and it was 30mb/s. You were just downloading in wrong time, that happens.
does anyone have any good setting for the fanatec CSR Wheel and CSR elite pedals? also what is the fanatec button all about? please help i want this game to feel great and it sounds like it can i just don’t know how….???
Downloaded at work. I hope to have time to install and drive 0,99 this weekend!
Are we now at the end of the TP stage? Has it done it’s job (bug hunting/optimisation), or is there still more that Kunos want to test on it?
still a chance for a TP 0.99b :p
Would "TP" 1.0 even be the same as "release version" 1.0?
No i don’t think so. Completely different numbering system i think they said.
had a quick game of this yesterday.. Ill be playing this more!! Its amazin!
It asks me for a license number. I keep using the same \lic folder, but suddenly it stoped working. I’m not willing to thow away another nKPro license when it worked a few days back. :O_o:
As much as I try and as much as I want to, I can’t like this car, the physics, the FORZA wheel screeching…Hopefully the full release has cars in it better suited to my taste. Not a RWD fan, some cars are nice, the Megane in rF2 for example.
What do you mean you don’t like the physics of elise ? This is exactly how lotus handles. So you should say that you don’t like elise. And what do you mean by "the forza wheel screeching"??
The same horrible OTT screeching of tyres when cornering at low speeds. The car handles ok when pushed and high speeds but feels horrible and unrealistic at low speed. Common sense tell you that the weight of the vehicle will overcome the inertia of a slide and a certain speed. This car will slide out at much to slow a speed without being able to bring it back under control. Basically it’s too light at low speed in both under steer and over steer. It’s ok at good speed.
Can’t agree with you.
+1, lol.
Let’s get is straight that you simply offer an opinion, instead of a fact. An opinion which I and many others do not share.
What speeds are these slow speeds according to you? I was surprised to see what speeds you can even take into hairpins. Look at the odometer, much more reliable than your brain
.
My Mini Cooper is also very easy to slide on the tight roundabouts around town here..,
Perhaps I shouldn’t but I’m comparing this to rFactor 2, in particular, the Clio’s, meganes and the f2 cars, all of which I would say have a good realistic feel to them. You can actually feel the weight of the car and how much traction I’m getting from the driving wheels. I’m not getting this from the Elise in this sim. I’m not writing off AC but simply saying this sample doesn’t feel ‘natural’ to me.
Driving a car well is all about feeling the car under you which of course is the most difficult thing to simulate. I can’t feel it with this car whereas I can with other cars in other sims.
Everyone has their preferences, I’m just saying its not my cup of tea. I’m most definitely not saying AC is rubbish. I haven’t seen enough to make a decision like that.
What about setting up your wheel properly then ?
AC is definitely up there as far as feel goes.
How can you conclude that from 1 car on 1 track with virtually no car setup options?
Funny.
It doesn’t take a gazillion cars to assest what a simulation feels like, unless the devs cut corners on some cars (Like what pCars and rFactor 2 have been doing, apparently), and the Lotus definitely isn’t botched, it feels exactly how a lightweight mid-engined road car should feel. Don’t forget it also has high performance tyres and more agressive suspension, which makes it snappier than a normal version.
I find most people who finds flaws on what are widely regarded as very good sim cars just plainly don’t know what they should feel, or are terrible drivers (Which can or can not be a result of the first reason).
Ok you’re right, I have no idea how a car should be driven or how it should feel!! *shakes head*
You have no idea what driving experience I have in my 44 years of life. I take offence to your remarks, I was simple giving MY opinion on MY experience of a WIP sim.
Aaaaaaaaaaaand someone else has an ego the size of a building, yeeeeah, joy.
Look, figure your wheel out because obviously you’re doing something wrong, everyone who isn’t a fanboy from some other sim agree that the sim feels awesome. As I said, what you think you should feel through simulated FFB might be completely off leading you to not being quite able to drive properly.
Ditto buddy!
….
This is definitely hopeless.
So far you’ve accused me of being an egotistic fanboy who is a useless driver! What kind of reaction do you expect in your neck of the woods? You need to get off your high horse mate! I was simply sharing my opinion on it, I wasn’t suggesting anyone or everyone had to agree with me. Get some sleep mate.
Ultimately, we are all entitled to our opinions aren’t we?
Even with his wheel perfectly setup and sound knowledge of driving real cars, Justin can feel that AC isn’t as realistic as other sims. In the end it is all feeling and opinion and very little facts. It just happens to be that a lot of people feel the TP offers very realistic driving.
Nothing wrong with a different opinion though. Keep an open mind guys! There is no right or wrong here.
Will you stop trying your best to get insulted ?
Right, I shall try again. What wheel do you have ?
[USER=10150]Requiem84[/USER], a car feels like a car, so yes, there is right and wrong in that case…
G27
Stop being insulting then. If you want to give me sound advice I’m more than prepared to listen.
Here:
LOGITECH G25/G27
(tested and suggested by Aristotelis Vasilakos)
In Logitech Panel
Overall effects strength: 100%
Spring effects strength: 0%
Damper effects Strength: 10% (Play with this value according to your tastes)
Centering: 0%
Degrees: 900
Allow game to adjust settings CHECKED
Combined Pedals MUST BE DISABLED
In AC -> Controls -> Advanced
Force Feedback Gain: 80%
Also, sorry I sound rude, but yeah, I get slightly ermmmmmm…. Agitated when I feel people have their stuff set-up wrong and then complain about a sim that is in fact pretty darn good… Heck, even stuff like Field of View can put you off when it’s adjusted wrong.
Cheers, I’ll have a go at these settings and hopefully it’ll change my mind. I’m definitely not a fanboy of any particular genre, sim or game and just love sim racing in general and I’ll go where the majority goes if it’s gonna get me some decent online racing. I’m equally disappointed in R3e and rfactor 2 but for totally different reasons.
I have to say, I honestly agree with EVERYTHING you said about A.C.
I find it worrying that sometimes, if you give an opinion on a forum, there is not a respectful differing of opinion but a an arrogant response in ridiculing your own opinion.
Often this is from people who have never driven a lotus elise – how many honestly have on here? Throw in the mix another sim to explain your thoughts (e.g. rfactor 2) and the ridicule is even greater. lets face it, RD respects everyone’s opinion as much as the next but some don’t and then the forum descends into a slanging match and a locked thread.fortunetely, not everyone is like that…
my opinion – I have waited like everyone else, eagerly, for the sim of 2013 to come forward.
I really like rfactor 2. Even though it is still lacking somethings such as crash physics, it has excellent driving physics and road feel. the connection of pedal feel and road vibration is unmatched. Problem is, not enough have caught the bug. It’s been in beta too long and got a negative reputation. So as the racing clubs have not been full too often, I waited for AC. I bought Netkar Pro which felt pretty good physics wise! I expected amazing things – if only the graphics are better in AC (I thought) then this could be special.
In truth, I found the tech preview to be a lot like Forza. That’s not all a bad thing and we know how Forza has had a great following. However, for me, it’s not the full sim and I’m just crossing my fingers it will be changed by the time of full release. The graphics are better than rfactor 2. THe tracks are lazer scanned. There will be cars that we’ve always dreamt of driving – ferrari’s (wait, don’t tell me, most of these "experts" have already driving the ferrari’s?). Problem is, the braking is unrealistic. My gf’s Hyundai Getz can accelerate to 80mph easily and deccelerate quicker than the lotus elise (abs should help if anything) and the understeer…I concur with Justin. I hear it’s meant to be an understeery car. Well, if it had that amount of understeer at 40mph, I wouldn’t be paying out money for it, even if I won the lottery. The issues with forza are the issues with AC (for me). The ffb and steering going lighter at speed are better than forza. That’s it. There has been a lot of hype about this SIM. It will be good fun. It will have masses of members joining the racing clubs – I hope so. Kunos have teased us a little (who can blame them?) and now they have us like putty in their hands, waiting to buy. Begging. Throwing money at the screen. It’s going to be a hit.
I will buy it regardless because I see a lot of fun in it. I just hope that the understeer and braking aren’t the same in other cars. Things like that might be the difference between people buying it and playing it for 1 year or playing it for 5 years.
Couple of questions: Why did people stop playing forza? When is this sim due out now? Initially it was end of 2012, Then 1st quarter 2013… and there is a demo due before the full release?:-S
I’m excited but I won’t rave about something until I have the final product and it all makes sense. The flip side is, I will be paying out my hard earned money, so I have the right to an opinion regardless of what other "experts" say. Oh, and I have driven a range of real cars all with brakes which work in a similar way – all which steer where I want them to go – very responsive- and they weren’t all 1.1 litres ! Cheers and feel free to disagree (with respect) but don’t think I will necessarily agree with you response "Whoever you are".:confused:;)
In a lot of cases, people over-drive the car, they also tend to over-turn the wheel, leading to some pretty severe understeer (and snap oversteer in powerful cars as they ease off and find grip again). An Elise is very light at the front, you almost have to forget everything you know about driving a normally balanced car and start from scratch again, quite like the older 911′s. If you want to go fast that is.
Braking is excellent too, I don’t really know what you are experiencing in that matter. Quite possibly, as often happens, you are under-estimating just how quick you are going, due to lack of awareness staring at a monitor, not having the G loads, a realistic sense of speed, etc…
Simracing is extremely complex, and it’s easy to find yourself lost if some of your hardware and in-game settings aren’t set-up properly. It’s probably a massive reason as to why it isn’t more popular.
Sim racing is more difficult than real racing. Real racing you have all your senses about you, evaluating whats going on, hell even your ass is giving you feedback lol. Sim racing you have your eyes, ears and some synthetic feedback through some motors on your wheel and that is only ever going to be as good as it’s programmed to be…. No matter how good or bad I, me or joe bloggs feels the car is, you learn to deal with the tool you’ve been given…
I don’t like the feel of it but I will learn to put it to reasonable use.
Andrew, you are suprised that at 40mph you got understeer while turning into a tight corner? Have you ever drove a car? When you turn violontly at this speed you got tons of understeer.
Ypu should probably post a video of you driving in AC, maybe you are doing something horribly wrong. Because when elise is driven properly you don’t get understeer.
A question then and please, I am not trying to offend you. Why don’t you ignore AC. Go for a lookout to find your "cup of tea" instead of stirring the pot. You could have expected the (partly biased) reaction you get now by coming here (into the AC forum) and putting your opinions for a tech preview down. Call something into question and you have to defend yourself. Anyway at least you could have waited with your impressions until the final product has been released (a demo will be released too).
The latter is what I am doing. Anyway who would care about personal opinions anyway. Take it or leave it.
Just to say… telling old tales about the difference between reality and sim-environment is not necessary I believe. Please let us not getting started with that.
I’ll quote my original post,
"As much as I try and as much as I want to, I can’t like this car, the physics, the FORZA wheel screeching…Hopefully the full release has cars in it better suited to my taste. Not a RWD fan, some cars are nice, the Megane in rF2 for example."
Where there am I putting down AC? I do believe I used the words "better suited to my taste". I didn’t say anywhere that AC is bad and was putting it down….wrong end of the stick my friend.
I will keep my opinions to myself in future.
Being not your "cup of tea" is kind of implying it. Anyway the choice is yours.
did i say a sharp corner? :cautious:
actually, i’ve been told that the lotus elise should be understeery by many experts.
my driving style is now pretty smooth. you are taught to have gradual inputs on everything – braking, steering, line etc. i do recall one successful guy in the top 30 tt times for AC recommending that people drive at apex and try to spin back end around – trying to induce oversteer.
personally, i try to steer with as little steering as possible. however, you seem to need to apply massive amounts of lock to get the car to turn – even with steering rotation at 360 degrees.
p.s. no, I have never "drove" a car :roflmao:
i don’t understand this. surely whilst some people like ac and some people arent’ fully happy with it…surely there are some people who want to know what others think e.g. those who haven’t tried the game or the preview – or those who have and not sure if they are feeling/sensing what others are? by reading differing opinions, you get to see if they match your own. there can be some use in that.
yes but an argument is not helpful
It’s not only "up there", it’s even better than rF2.
No Marcel ! I had managed to half fix the fight ! :laugh:
I use 900deg and while the steering in the Elise isn’t the quickest around (I think somewhere around 15:1 ratio), it is certainly plenty quick enough.
You have to point the car out of the corner earlier than in a front engine car, use some clever 4 wheel drift (like in the old days, not the rubbish stuff that we have today, lol) in some corners and just really adapt more than anything else. I’m seen as an extremely smooth driver (Very easy on tires), and I usually turn the car with the throttle more than the steering, I like a tail happy car better as I can make it do what I want easier.
I find the Lotus quite understeery for me, but as I said, if you’re clever you can find how to make it go around corners like you want
I don’t have that issue. I turn exactly how I expected. And I never used more then 100 degree to turn even though I have 900 degree rotation. And my lap time says that I am doing it right.
I’m glad to report that the more positive side of our conversation proved useful as the steering feels much comfortable like this and I’m getting much less uncontrollable oversteer. Maybe my wheel setting where giving me too sudden steering changes. I’ve never really altered wheel settings as I’ve only had the G27 a frew weeks, I tend to just get on with what I have…
so, thanks for your help.
On another note. Is it safe for me to be running at approx 6% spikes in this? the fan isn’t kicking in, so I’m guessing the GPU is happy with it? temp after 30 mins of play is around 56-60deg
Sounds about right I would think.
i’ll give that a try when I get back from my mates stag do in a few days. thanks for that
an argument is backing up an opinion with reasons/evidence. ridiculing is different. I’m giving an opinion/argument but not belittling anyone. Thanks to WIlliam for his suggestions. I always try to keep an open mind but it’s also fair to give your own opinions and impressions based on experience.
mayb
maybe we have different wheels. i use a fanatec. i’m glad for you that you have worked out how to manipulate the game to get a fast lap outcome.:thumbsup:
I have Fanatec too and I have to be very carefull not to turn more than needed. You can overshoot it very easily. Actually, it doesn’t matter which wheel you have.
I think Justin is FWD guy. I’m not and have problems with FWD cars, practically in every sim.
I just don’t get it. For me, AC is the best sim I’ve tried so far. Don’t forget this Lotus is just a roadcar and if you preffer racing cars like me, you may be confused and jump to conclusions. We just have to wait for other cars.
manipulating the game… oh my, that’s exactly the keen jibe I am talking about. That’s not helpful for anybody to build an opinion.
:rolleyes:
Could say the same about your Fanatac wheel. These wheels do have a certain reputation. And sometimes the problem is down to the user. :p
Driving properly in sim is much harder then in real life no doubt about that. We are left without some senses in sims. You have to learn how to feel the car in sims and rely on other indicators like sound. You have to hear if you have a grip. I "hear" the amount of grip on tires and make corrections.
I drove AC after driving nKPro and GSC2012 and I’m not sure whether I like AC FFB anymore. I’m somewhat confused today.
What a chance for you, twince are release, you don’t have to wait AC like us…very Lucky guy…
Oh, come on, you know that I meant TP.