F1 2010 Steam users can now pre-load F1 2010

[Ramon van Rijn]

On Steam you are now able to Pre-Load the game. Almost done as we speak

 

[Rob Simms]

I looked at the folders last night and under ai I see catchup.

 

[Ingemar Petersson]

I´m waiting for the disc should arrive in my mailbox on friday if so i´ll be of my social life all weekend

 

[David O Gorman]

I looked at the folders last night and under ai I see catchup.

Is that an xml file,ive checked dirt and dirt2 and both have a catch up xml files
Dirt has individual ones for each difficulty
and Dirt 2 has just one but its 7 times the size of the ones in dirt
which i would assume mean they just put all the difficulties in one file.
Funny thing is that the devs had stated that there is no catchup Ai in this game,
wonder what the file is for.
Anyone got GRID installed as this had very easy to see catch up ,be interesting to compare the files.

 

[Andrew Macpherson]

Sample tag from catchup.xml for Dirt2:

config   
user name dirt_tour_1_star    
R params enabled true 
minDistance 50.000000 
maxDistance 200.000000 
powerAtMinDistance 1.0 
powerAtMaxDistance 0.45 
minSpeed 12.0 
minRaceDistance 500.0 
playerCatchup false 
useLeadForMaxDistance true 
reverseEnabled true 
reverseMinDistance 50.000000 
reverseMaxDistance 400.000000 
reversePowerAtMinDistance 1.0 
reversePowerAtMaxDistance 1.2

It's reasonable to assume that for F1 2010 they simply use the settings to disable the "catch-up" behaviour.

 

[David O Gorman]

Would that mean that catch up(rubber banding) is built into the ego engine(is this usual)
that they need to keep a catchup file to disable catchup,
Would it not be easier to delete the file so it cant made a difference.
If its not in the engine or game why would you need to disable it ,if it doesn't exist.

 

[James Johnson]

Would that mean that catch up(rubber banding) is built into the ego engine(is this usual)
that they need to keep a catchup file to disable catchup,
Would it not be easier to delete the file so it cant made a difference.
If its not in the engine or game why would you need to disable it ,if it doesn't exist.

It probably needs to be in the game for it to run but the settings wont allow the rubber banding to work.

 

[David O Gorman]

Thanks for the info James ,might play around with the file when i get the game just to see if it does or doesn't affect anything.

 

[Will Marquez]

I checked Steam right now and for me it says, "Available: September 21st, 2010. Game will unlock in approx 20 hours."

 

[Kristopher Alcordo]

Mine says sept 25

 

[Ryan Vickery]

4days wait for me, probably a good thing as i would get no work done if i got it before the weekend, already preloaded, fairly small game at 8gb, considering grid was 10gb.

 

[slider916]

Less that 18 hours here.

I pray that at the last hour Steam doesn't add more days to the countdown.

 

[Rob Simms]

I hope, they do not delay it!!! I have seen it done in the past or not released until hours later.

 

[Connor Caple]

I have become used to Steam releasing things a few hours late, so I will not be sitting here on Friday hitting my refresh button on the store page

 

[Rob Simms]

Steam is late as usual

 

[Will Marquez]

Was about to say the same thing. :tongue:

 

[Andrew Macpherson]

Weak sauce. Why bother giving a countdown if nothing happens when it reaches zero?

edit: countdown timer just went back up to 3 hours. Nice job Steam.

 

[Rob Simms]

Yeah, they seem to be the best in the business of delaying and after the time expired.

 

[Will Marquez]

Yeah it now says ... will unlock in approx 3 hours.

 

[Andrew Macpherson]

It's going now, decrypting in progress. But I have to go soon :frown:

 

[Nick Deeley]

Still saying 2 days and 22 hours till its unlocked here...are you guys almost 3 days ahead of me?