Stock Car Extreme v1.50 RELEASED!

[Renato Simioni]

Stock Car Extreme V1.50 is now available on Steam & via GSC Sync!

But remember folks, every time someone doesn't read the release notes before updating, a baby seal gets clubbed:

Spare it and yourself the pain and read on

INSTALLATION (Non-Steam users):

Update to v1.50 by running GSC Sync.

If you are having any trouble updating via GSC Sync, you may download all the update packages from the links below:

v1.25
v1.252
v1.27
v1.30
v1.31
v1.33
v1.35
v1.38
v1.50

NOTE: If you are manually updating from a v1.21 base install, you will need to install all the above packages in succession.

This is a significant milestone build for us as it will be the first with executables compiled in-house - there are some substantial changes, so to ensure you do not encounter problems after updating It´s fundamental you take note of the information below.


IMPORTANT!!

• Current users MUST create a fresh player profile (delete the old one from \USERDATA) otherwise the game won´t launch;
• New users MUST note that GSC Config may not launch directly from Steam, which will result in a Crashdump - run it from game install folder:\SteamApps\common\Stock Car Extreme (will be fixed in a following update).
  
• After creating a fresh profile, make sure to double-check your driving aids & controller speed sensitivity to make sure they match what you had before;
• If you get a crash on startup, make sure you have installed the DX9.0C that comes with the game (by running \Support\DirectX\Install\DXSETUP.exe);
• If you do the above and still crashes, or if you get a black screen when escaping from a session, delete d3d9.dll from the game root folder;
• If you get a blank screen after hitting escape from the track, delete d3d9.dll from the game root folder;
• Make sure coreshaders.mas is the only file in Gamedata\Shared folder;
• Delete dinput8.dll, FanatecLEDs.dll from root folder & G27LEDs.dll from Plugins folder (if you have them);
• Since there are several new parameters for both cars and tracks, it is possible that some MODs will not work 100% and will need to be updated to use the new features (please consult this thread to learn you may update your mod);

For the new STEERING ROTATION feature:

All Logitech & Thrustmaster wheels with adjustable rotation should be working with this feature. Fanatec wheels should too, except for the V2 wheelbase which is still in development.
If you have any of the supported wheels, it is recommended you set Enable Custom Steer Rotation to NO from OPTIONS > CONTROLS, and let the game customize the appropriate rotation range for each car:

If Enable Custom Steer Rotation is set to NO, the rotation range below it has no effect so you may ignore it.

Some cars will also allow some range for adjusting rotation from the garage menu - ex. F-Extreme is defaulted to 360º, but you can increase that 450º from the garage. Others (like the Lancers) are fixed at 900º.

Logitech users should make sure "Allow game to adjust settings" is ticked in your profiler:

In case you do not have a controller with adjustable rotation, OR if your steering wheel is not yet supported by this feature, you should set Enable Custom Steer Rotation to YES, and define how much rotation range you have in your controller in the setting below - the game should then work same as before (with any adjustment per car done manually both here & controller profiler) and STEER ROTATION SETTING in GARAGE1 menu will have no actual effect.

Please note that in either cases, using old controller presets is NOT recommended - we recommend you start one from scratch.

Further known issues with this version (to be addressed in the next release):

• GSC Dedicated is unstable when running from Steam;
• DRS activation & tire compound selection are not stored in replays;
• No compound restriction per track in F-Extreme & F-Reiza;

These issues and the ones aforementioned will be fixed ASAP.

Main changelog for v1.50:

Cars

• Adds Mitsubishi Lancer Cup Series (Lancer R & RS models, recommended to run with TC & ABS on low as per the real car)

Track:

• Adds Velo Cittá Circuit (2 layouts);

Features & Fixes:

• Added support to 6 USB controller devices (increasing the previous limit of 3);
• Added sensitivity & deadzone sliders for up to 6 controller inputs in CONTROLLER 3 menu;
• Added feature to automatically adjust Steering Rotation for each vehicle so use no longer needs to exit game and manually adjust controller rotation (see recommendations above);
• Added option to adjust steering rotation in garage menu & adjusted default steering lock settings to provide a suitable default steering ratio for all cars (Custom Steer Rotation must be set to NO in controller menu);
• Added option to map commands for adjusting anti-roll bars from in-car (for the cars that have the option: Stock Car V8, Super V8, F-Extreme, F-Reiza, F-3, F-V12, F-Classic )
• Added option to map commands for adjusting Vertical FOV from in-car;
• Added support for 24h race length;
• Added Stock V8 rule which restricts tire stops to one tire change at a time;
• Tweaked AI to perform less strategical mistakes (such as pitting in the last lap);
• Rewritten all car classes from the previous standard "ReizaXX" to a nomenclature that better represents their respective series;
• Introduced native support to 9-speed gearboxes & fixed bug which would lead to F-Extreme occasionally disappearing when hitting 8th gear in a multiplayer section;
• AI drivers now use 8th gear & DRS;
• Added "Opponents Filter" option to quick race menu (for multiclass racing)
• Replaced AI aggression UI slider with a set of presets low-to-max (max being 50% agression in old currency to prevent AI misbehavior in overly agressive settings);
• Fixed bug with other cars occasionally "inheriting" 8 gears, DRS functionality from F-Extreme
• Fixed championship scoring bug;
• Fixed grid position setting when qualifying is disabled;
• Fixed performance issues with the SuperV8;
• Revised pit menu rules & pitstop timing for all series;
• Fixed bug with AI behavior being over agressive with the throttle on corner exit leading to occasionally losing control;
• Revised AI performance for all cars (balancing for consistency from car to car, track to track, session to session);
• Updated ambient, curb, road & grass roll noise for all cars;
• Revised aero & tire physics in all cars;
• Revised realfeel values to reduce FFB clipping;
• Tweaked alpha channels in skins from Metalmoro MR18, Opala86, SuperV8, StockV8 series to reduce excessive shiny look;
• Minor graphical optimization;
• Fixed bug with Safety Car entering the pits in Curitiba Oval;
• Fixed behavior of driver labels.
• Minimap is now toggled with CTRL+M (no longer NumPad0)

Please direct your bug reports (besides those already aknowledged in this post) to the v1.50 bug report thread.

 

[Wilson Santos]

Deleting the excedent plugins in the folder worked for me and some of my friends.

 

[hummer444]

Deleting the excedent plugins in the folder worked for me and some of my friends.

I had problems too, but when deleting the Plugins folder and running GSC Sync afterwards again, all worked fine.
THX Reiza for this update to this great game

 

[Andrew Macpherson]

Make sure you check the gamedata\shared folder - delete everything there but "coreshaders.mas".

This fixed it, I had two extra files in there. Thanks Fabio!

 

[jfChampagne]

Don´t delete the entire Plugins folder though, that will lose you important stuff like Realfeel...

I did that cause each I loaded the game, it stall in the garage and a dump file was created. So I delete plugin folder and rerun gsync and it woks for me

 

[P*Funk]

Well I can say that after only using the new version for a few minutes that Reiza has implemented the auto-rotation adjustment better than Kunos. I am thrilled that I both get to adjust the final rotation and steering ratio (which AC doesn't let you do where applicable), get to see what it is (which AC obscures from you), get to do it manually where desired (AC doesn't let you do) and most thrilling for me is get my FFB lock stops which I've never been able to get AC to do.

Now I need to try out the new content.

 

[Kobay]

I'm running the non-Steam version. It would crash when loading a track. I did every step on the troubleshooting page and nothing worked. Only when I saw this thread and the suggestion to delete the plugins folder (and then run sync again) did I get it to work. Reiza says don't delete the whole folder, so they need to track down the specific file(s) causing the problem.

Edit: I saved the old plugins folder. I ran the sync to re-populate the folder and then GSCE worked. I compared the old and new plugins folder and the difference appears to be that the old folder had the file ReizaGSC.dll and the new folder does not. This has always been a pure installation (no mods), so perhaps this is the general problem not addressed in the troubleshooting thread.

 

[Bert Austen]

I'm running the Steam version, did all test the options the saying here before.
Game not starting, chrash dump what every guy had here.

Reiza whe are waiting of the right solution....before i am playing no GSC Extreme.
What a tough way to updating the game

 

[PATR10T]

thx for the great update, everything is working fine! no problems, my gt3s working fine too (always good to make mods using games standards)

but please for the next updates i wont setup my game again editing the plr, steering wheel settings etc is always a pain

 

[ThatRacingGuy]

Poor Baby seals who were clubbed to the death because of these 3 pages of question.

 

[PATR10T]

thats the problem in our world too much people who are too lazy....

i can see this good when releasing a mod, nearly noone is reading a readme and so there always coming the same questions...

 

[P*Funk]

Okay I just a couple races at Velo Citta with both versions of the Lancer and my god is that good. Very tame even tempered cars that make perfect novice trainers. Very forgiving but very easy to lose time asking just a little too much out of the corner. Unlike the Vee you don't pay for your mistakes in spins and tire squeal as much, but you do pay in time. Perfect online club racing cars.

I did a 15 minute race after spending about 5 mins in the Lancer RS and did the whole race without making a fatal error. Such great platforms for practicing your consistency. Another fantastic addition.

I'm chuffed to say the least.

 

[Challah Rajni]

I'm running the non-Steam version. It would crash when loading a track. I did every step on the troubleshooting page and nothing worked. Only when I saw this thread and the suggestion to delete the plugins folder (and then run sync again) did I get it to work. Reiza says don't delete the whole folder, so they need to track down the specific file(s) causing the problem.

Edit: I saved the old plugins folder. I ran the sync to re-populate the folder and then GSCE worked. I compared the old and new plugins folder and the difference appears to be that the old folder had the file ReizaGSC.dll and the new folder does not. This has always been a pure installation (no mods), so perhaps this is the general problem not addressed in the troubleshooting thread.

I'm also running the non-steam version. My game would crash at start-up. I did everything to prevent the baby seals from being clubbed, but in the the end, the above fix saved me a ton of frustration. Thanks, Kobay!

 

[ThatRacingGuy]

This has nothing to with the New update but why are the seals clubbed and not shot?

With one shot to the head the seal doesn't have to suffer so much pain.

 

[Jan Mikuž]

My game was crashing after i hit ''start'' in the garage and the view moved into the cockpit.
The sound went off and the image froze. There was a crash dump error message when i alt-tabbed.

This worked in my case, but i don't have the map now:

delete d3d9.dll from the game root folder;

 

[Renato Simioni]

Edit: I saved the old plugins folder. I ran the sync to re-populate the folder and then GSCE worked. I compared the old and new plugins folder and the difference appears to be that the old folder had the file ReizaGSC.dll and the new folder does not. This has always been a pure installation (no mods), so perhaps this is the general problem not addressed in the troubleshooting thread.

The bizarre thing is that ReizaGSC.dll file was always embedded in the exe and not supposed to be loose in the Plugins folder at all. It is not loose in any of the update packages, so go figure that.

But yeah, you should not have that file loose in \Plugins folder. Don´t delete the others though.

 

[ThatRacingGuy]

I found Something cool in this update

RFM:
F-V10
LANCERDIRT
STRUCKS

do you have something to tell us @Reiza Studios ???....


And why is the all tracks/cars rfm suddenly so laggy?

 

[William Wester]

...
And why is the all tracks/cars rfm suddenly so laggy?

It's not so laggy if the duplicate is removed I had two All Tracks/Cars rfm's on my stand-a-lone installation (GSC Sync), not in my Steam version though. - not sure why but I removed one (older one) - I forget what they were both named but the one I removed I think was reiza18.
May not be related to your issue.

 

[TeSL9]

Great update! Thanks again and again ☺

 

[dzk76]

Thank You Reiza, everything works fine (Steam).

 

[Will Mazeo]

Anyone here knows the creators of XD plug in?
Would like to know if they can update it, it's not working in this version