netKar PRO Community Update #5

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Vediamo un po' che news ci porta Jaap.

Finally, a new community update!

It has been silent from the netKar PRO team for a while. However, the netKar PRO has been working hard. The netKar PRO team has worked on various projects, for example on a big promotion campaign for the Singapore Formula One Grand Prix. The result of this work was a free public download including the Formula SingTel car on the Singapore track, allowing everyone to have a 'taste' of what 1.0.3 is looking like. Besides the projects, the team also worked on improving the customer version of the netKar PRO simulator. Since the SingTel release, a lot of things have happened and 1.0.3 became more mature. Some new features appeared, and with them came new bugs which needed to be removed.

I will take this chance to inform you about the key changes that will appear in 1.0.3 and what the current status of the new release is.

The changes in 1.0.3 compared to 1.0.2

• Improved online performance

  A big problem of the current netKar PRO release is the performance in online racing. This has been widely reported by netKar PRO users all over the globe. The netKar PRO devteam acknowledged this and therefore improving the online performance was a key issue to address in 1.0.3. Huge FPS (framerate) drops occur, which lead to weird behaviour (flying cars, lots of warping, wrong physics due to too low FPS). This is a major problem and a big focus of improvement for 1.0.3.

  Some big improvements have been made, enabling a huge performance gain overall. In some builds framerates were perfect and then, after some finetuning it turned out to be worse again. It took a lot of time and effort to find the right balance. Currently, 1.0.3 finally has the right balance between quality online racing and good client performance. In a full field (15 cars), framerates do not drop to critical values anymore on a decent machine. Framerates are higher compared to 1.0.2, but not a lot. The key difference with 1.0.2 is that the framerates are much more consistent, finally allowing solid and stable online racing, regardless of your position on the globe or internet connection speed.

  With the latest 1.0.3 build, about 6 hours of online testing has been done over the past 4 days. Never in those 6 hours a huge lag or warp moment occurred to any of the testers. Close racing was possible at all times and some of the testers described it as

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belle notizie davvero.

[McHallo]

tutto bello, anche se i toni di Jaap sono sempre un po troppo "da commerciale" (tutto bellissimo, vedrete che roba, ....)

lasciamo la crew processare i feedback della RC2 e speriamo per Natale di avere la FR

speriamo soprattutto che, una volta uscita, non ci siano grossi problemi e che tutti possiamo finalmente battere le mani alla crew (Kunos in testa, ovviamente), ma soprattutto dire ai detrattori che questo

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qui c'