1.2.0.1 Patch (Steam)

[Sander Hogendoorn]

Patch 1.2.0.1 is about to hit Steam anytime now.

Changelog for 1.2.0.1

Features:
• Added possibility to run several championships at the same time
• Moved user data folder to My Documents for Vista and non administrator support
• Updated mounting of expansion packs. Now one or more expansions can be uninstalled independently of each other.
• New track category and model select button layout
• New scroll boxes for car setup filters
• New layout of credits page
• Maximum FOV is now 150 instead of 120
• Changed upper limit of opponent skill to 110%
• New infoscreen in main menu
• Mouse over server information in lobby
• AI uses headlights in rainy weather
• Updated draw distance for most tracks

Bugfixes
• Fixed "weird force feedback feeling"-bug, happened after have had a digital control assigned to steering ( button or keyboard )
• Fixed propagation of pit menu presets from old plrfile folder to doc & settings folder
• Fixed heavy CPU usage in offline mode (reported for Windows XP x64 computers)
• Fixed "black texture bug", seen on track reloads
• Various championship fixes
• Various spectator mode fixes
• Multiplayer stability fixes
• Fixed bug with locking force feedback when exiting to garage
• Fixed spectator shown up as server in chat
• Fixed rain effects in 100% rain (multiplayer)
• Fixed opponent generator to not select duplicate cars
• Fixed non restarting SEAT Toledo engine
• Fixed vertical seat postion not being saved correctly
• Fixed fuel tank capacity for STCC Alfa Romeo 156 and BMW320si 6 speed sequential

 

[Yves Larose]

you all have something in common hardware wise and its that you have a nvidia 9000 serie and that i have a nvidia 8800 GT (512 ram) so one of my guess is that the new patch might have a problem with the nvidia 9000 serie graphic card. i have 2 other guess that might be worth testing, the first one is that i run with the default setting for my graphic card in windows so if you have change them might be a good test to put them back to default and test the game. the other guess its the anti virus that your using, i'm using windows one live care so if your running something different try to disable it and test the game.

Same issue here, running on XP Home, 9600GT.

My card is NVidea 9800GT.

Unfortunately i am in the same shoes as Warren and Jari, since the last patch i also have this freezes, 5-10 secs, when it comes back everything is normal again for me, "only" the freezed time is lost... also updated drivers, played with graphic settings both in Windows and ingame, nothing helps. Running Vista 64 bit, 9800 GX2, and usually even at max settings i have fps above 200...

 

[Andrew Evans]

i get it too, with 8600 gts

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Me too with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260. Havent been able to finish one single race longer then 20 minutes last weeks

 

[Ben Tusting]

I have a ATi card(4850 512 mb) and i still get freezes for around 2-5 seconds. The graphics come back to how they were before.

 

[Michael Herrmann]

8600 GT and from time to time i have such a freez too after all its ok no messy gfx just the time is lost on the lap
realy wired

 

[Mike Coleman]

New patch freezes solved!

The secret is in the config.ini.

Open your config.ini and look for these two lines:

SYSTEMRAM=0
VIDEORAM=-1043

It seems Race 07/Evo does not detect these properly.

Change those numbers (in megabytes) to reflect your system. In my case it should be this:

SYSTEMRAM=8190
VIDEORAM=1024

Because I have 8GB RAM and 1GB video card.

I have not had any freezes since I changed those numbers.

*note* Every time you re-run the video options config.exe, the config.ini goes back to default, so you will have to go back and change those nunbers again.

 

[Ben Tusting]

Someone has just posted this.I'm not sure whether to try it or not.
http://forum.racedepartment.com/gtr-evolution/15245-new-patch-freezes-solved.html#post263724

 

[Péter Bártfai]

Well I looked in my config.ini and it showed system RAM ok, but I noticed a strange thing, it shows that my video RAM is 733, but it's only 512 Maybe this is what causing the problem... I don't know.

 

[Ben Tusting]

Peter my ram setting was on 2 and my video ram was on -1400. So I've changed them to 4096 and 400

 

[Dietmar]

Peter my ram setting was on 2 and my video ram was on -1400. So I've changed them to 4096 and 400

Should it not be 4096 and 512? (You said above you have 512 video ram)

 

[Ben Tusting]

I was told by the wizard just to put it lower. I'm no pc geek so i don't know why but i'm sure someone can.

 

[Ben Tusting]

Was that thread none sense?

 

[Péter Bártfai]

Tried that, it doesn't work. I hope they'll fix this problem soon, thank God it only happens rarely, about once /computer start, then all is OK.

 

[Warren Dawes]

The secret is in the config.ini.

Open your config.ini and look for these two lines:

It seems Race 07/Evo does not detect these properly.

Change those numbers (in megabytes) to reflect your system.

Can someone advise what I should set mine to.

Currently it says:
System Ram: 2047
Video Ram: 674 (a strange number??)

My system is:
Ram 3GB (2.44 GB Available) I actually have 4 GB RAM but it is limited to 3 GB since I'm using XP.

Video Card RAM: 512 MB

The config.ini numbers don't look correct but I'm not sure what to put there??

 

[Mike Coleman]

Can someone advise what I should set mine to.

Currently it says:
System Ram: 2047
Video Ram: 674 (a strange number??)

My system is:
Ram 3GB (2.44 GB Available) I actually have 4 GB RAM but it is limited to 3 GB since I'm using XP.

Video Card RAM: 512 MB

The config.ini numbers don't look correct but I'm not sure what to put there??

I would put 3072 for system RAM and 512 for video RAM.

 

[Warren Dawes]

I would put 3072 for system RAM and 512 for video RAM.

I tried these settings and it made no difference. Still getting freezes. issed-off:

 

[Mark Guy]

I only get the 2-5 second freeze once when the game is started and then does not happen again till I run the game again....???? Everything else is working fine.

 

[Andrew Evans]

i changed my config settings to match my system last night and still got the big freeze during the event...

 

[Attila Domján]

Ok, i think so far i am the winner in strange numbers
This is what i have:
SYSTEMRAM=-2
VIDEORAM=-1810

I have 4G RAM and 1G on the 9800 GX2, so i changed to this:
SYSTEMRAM=4096
VIDEORAM=1024

Should this be ok? Any other settings to advise?

 

[Ben Tusting]

I had the same settings aswell Atti(strange numbers)
That is the correct settings for your ram and graphics card.