RaceRoom Racing Experience Update Deployed

[Paul Jeffrey]

Sector3 Studios have today pushed live a new update for their RaceRoom Racing Experience title, addressing several issues that have crept into the game in recent weeks as well as back end enhancements to improve loading times amongst other miscellaneous fixes.

Sector3 recently released a major new update to RaceRoom Racing Experience to mixed reviews. Although the latest patch has brought significant changes to the simulation it has not been without its issues. The studio have been quick to address several of the problems introduced by the latest patch, however outstanding issues do still remain with the software. In order to resolve the these problems, a new patch has been released today (25/11) containing several fixes and updates to the title. Let us know in the comments section below this article if the new patch has resolved all your remaining problems, or if not what are you still struggling with in the game.

The full change log can be read below:

Game

• Fixed an issue with rules presets not functioning in Single Event Mode.
• Made the Manual Control of Depth of Field bindable in control settings
• Fixed so mandatory pitstop window is now defined by a percentage of the total race time.
• Fixed a rare crash that was occurring when coming back to main menu.
• Added support for Thrustmaster TS-PC Racer steering wheel.

Multiplayer

• Fixed so Race 2 / Race 3 sessions are working as intended.
• Fixed so reversed grid option in MP is working as intended.
• Made a potential fix for cars that would disappear and remain invisible for long periods.

Sounds, Cameras, Physics, AI

• Bathurst : New sets of TV cameras

Art

• Hungaroring : Resurface job to reduce bumpiness.

Portal & Backend

• Various fixes and further optimizations in backend to improve loading times caused by certain packs containing too many items.
• Changed so the packs are no longer re-purchasable after it gets a new content added.
• Added so the Car Class Packs appear under Packs section.
• Fixed cancel and close buttons on some portal popups not working.

RaceRoom Racing Experience is available for PC via the Steam Network. You can download the game with limited content for free - additional car and track packs can be purchased in the game store. Currently RaceRoom have a Black Friday sale with large discounts. Check out the store for details.

Take a look at the RaceDepartment RaceRoom Racing Experience forum for news, discussions, setups and of course our superb Racing Club events!

Have you checked out the latest update for RaceRoom? Has the patch fixed some of the recent issues for you? How are you finding the new content? Let us know in the comments section below!

 

[Christian Moreau]

You know something is really messed up when someone with 310 meg upload and 4ms response times is getting lag and flickering.

The good news is, Sonat probably got a lot of informative data from that session and hopefully he can continue to narrow down the issue and put out a fix.

 

[Vangelis Parginos]

Yeah i hope for something like that too.
Strange thing is that the problem is different for every user. So you cant ask someone that flickers to leave from the race because for someone else is another user.
Crazy things

 

[Kurupt CDN]

I know nothing about software programming but i have a suspicion its a combo of software and a server side hardware failure.
When the 503 error and and others started popping up several months ago, wasnt it due to server hardware failure?

 

[Christian Moreau]

I know nothing about software programming but i have a suspicion its a combo of software and a server side hardware failure.
When the 503 error and and others started popping up several months ago, wasnt it due to server hardware failure?

At this point, I'm kind of interested in seeing how their game framework operates. Before the game and portal update, any flickering or lagging cars were directly due to poor connections. If your connection was solid, you basically had no issues.

Now, with the recent tests in closed environments as well as on our own servers, it's easy to take notice that even people with strong connections are having the same issues. Could it be that something in their portal update is bottlenecking traffic going to the server and therefore impeding the information that is relayed back to the user? It also seems that the invisible or flickering cars could be a severe desync issue that happens during the P2P connections.

I'm a networking guy so this stuff is peaking my curiosity.

 

[Andi Goodwin]

My take on it is this is the Herpes bug ...; that is to say it takes more than one person carrying the virus to cause the symptoms
I spent 8 odd hours with Sonat and georg and a few others in the last day or so triggering the disapearing bug .
So : the bug appears when two or more people come into P2P range and they both have the "illness" ; as they come into the zone so to speak for some reason the ping flies through the roof and people disappear?
So sat on the grid your in P2P range of about 8 cars this is why we see it alot at the start...
for me i believe this has existed for a good while ; but some recent change has caused it to be more prevalent
So removing P2P until the exact cause has been found is the solution
Andi