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Il team di iRacing inizia a presentare quale sarà il menu della prossima Build Season 2 del simulatore americano, attesa nel mese di marzo. Dovrebbe essere certo l'arrivo di vetture e circuiti da sterrato (il famigerato "dirt"), anche se non abbiamo ancora la conferma ufficiale, mentre è certo il nuovo ovale corto del Las Vegas Motor Speedway, che vedete nelle immagini qui sotto. Attention short track fans - the 3/8th mile Bullring @ Las Vegas Motor Speedway is coming to iRacing! Due this March for the Season 2 build

Our first major team endurance race of the year - the 2017 iRacing 24 Hours of Daytona - kicks off tomorrow around 13:30 GMT (8:30AM EST). Watch our broadcast of the top split LIVE here on Facebook or on iRacing.com/live, with coverage from RaceSpot, Global SimRacing Channel, and v8sonline.

Con il trailer che potete ammirare qui sotto, il team di iRacing annuncia la nuova licenza Porsche per il simulatore americano, con l'arrivo entro gennaio della nuovissima Porsche 911 GT3 Cup. iRacing today announced a partnership that will see the popular online motorsports simulation service create digital models of the German automaker’s iconic race cars, beginning with the recently updated Porsche 911 GT3 Cup (991 II). The new 911 GT3 Cup is employed by customer sports teams to compete in 20 race series organized by Porsche across the globe, like the Porsche Carrera Cup Germany, the GT3 Cup in the USA and the international Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup – making it the world’s most produced and most used GT race car. Now, the 911 GT3 Cup finally arrives in the online racing world. Additional Porsche models will be announced as they become available. This post has been promoted to an article

Our 2017 Season 1 Release Notes have been posted! Notable additions to iRacing include: • World State Triple Buffering that should eliminate some framerate choppiness • Replays can record voice chat • Heat haze effect • Animated support characters • Additional spotter commands • Visor tear-offs • Hand-over-hand steering for some vehicles • Telemetry upgrades • New V8 Supercar tires • New peripheral lighting functionality Full details on the release are below. Welcome to 2017 Season 1! This season release includes a host of updates and balance tweaks. Some highlights include: • World State Triple Buffering that should eliminate some framerate choppiness • Replays can record voice chat • Heat haze effect • Animated support characters • Additional spotter commands • Visor tear-offs • Hand-over-hand steering for some vehicles • Telemetry upgrades • New V8 Supercar tires • New peripheral lighting functionality Full details on the release are below. For an in-depth description of what’s coming to iRacing in the near future, check out this post from Tony Gardner: http://members.iracing.com/jforum/posts/list/3510448.page Have fun out on the track! CHANGE LOG: Website – Added some more pre-race information for drivers in the Drivers’ Meeting pre-race page. – The Sporting Code URL has been updated. – Fixed an error on the What’s Hot page that mistakenly showed Time Trial Sessions. – Fixed navigation of the Quick Start Guide to allow smooth navigation transitions when viewing it after the initial required time. Simulation – Several settings for an upcoming feature named “Browser Mode” have been added to the “app.ini” file. These additional settings will be fully described when Browser Mode is released, and have no effect at this time. Loading – Track loading has been restructured to reduce the peak memory usage of the Simulator. Race Control – Fixed a bug where cutting a course to take the checkered flag would not properly award the black flag penalty due to scoring being finalized on the car before the cut course penalty was processed. Dynamic Track – The marbles texture has been updated to provide more accurate information on marble density. – Fixed an issue that could allow the server to create track dust when processing client updates. World State Triple Buffering – This upgrade fundamentally alters some aspects of how the Sim’s “realtime”/”BG” thread (the one that keeps the world moving) and the Sim’s “drawing”/”FG” thread (the one that paints the frames) interact with each other. Virtually every UI widget, including the “3D world” widget, uses data from the realtime world to determine what should be drawn. How this data is safely copied for the FG to draw a frame so that it doesn’t get confused should the realtime world “wake up” and start advancing the world is now different. – Previously, the FG would lock-out the BG, make its copy, enable the BG, and then draw its frame. The main problem with this method is that if the BG is in the middle of updating the world when the FG is ready to start a new frame, that “lock-out” must wait until the BG finishes updating the world. Only then can the FG make its copy. But that means the FG gets stalled, preventing it from drawing frames until that world update finishes. The lower-end your machine, or the more complex the world update (mostly the more cars in the session), the longer it takes the BG to finish its world update, and the more likely the FG will get stalled, and the lengthier the stall is likely to be, leading to choppiness in the frame rate. – With the new method, the “copied” state information the FG uses to draw is instead generated by the BG itself when it finishes updating the world. And to keep the BG from overwriting the state the FG is currently using to draw a frame, that copied state information is triple-buffered (in fact, some things use triple-, some use quad-, and some use quintuple-buffering, depending on their needs). The mechanism that the FG and BG use to not step on each other’s toes is now “lockless” – meaning that neither thread “locks-out” the other thread in the normal course of business. DirectX 9 – Our support for the DirectX 9 version of the Simulation has essentially ended. New features, such as the graphical enhancements that are part of dirt track racing, will only be implemented in the DirectX 11 version of the Sim. We will stop shipping a DX9 version of the Sim soon. If you are having issues running the DX11 version of the Sim, please work with our support team at support@iracing.com to resolve them. DirectX 11 – Improved Alt+Enter so that it now attempts to transition back to the original full-screen monitor and original full-screen mode instead of transitioning to a screen mode on the monitor where the window is located when Alt+Enter is used. – Fixed several bugs with Low Res. particles for multi-views. – Fixed an issue where high detail mirrors at night tracks could cause the car reflections in the mirror to render without car paint and with missing polygons. Weather – A heat haze effect has been added to the environment. This effect aims to create the appearance of “heat shimmer”, a visible distortion in the air. This effect is tied into the ambient and track temperatures. This effect can be toggled on or off in Graphics options. Driver – Visor tear-offs have been added to all drivers of vehicles that do not have a windshield. – – The default manual control for performing a visor tear-off is Alt+T. – – Automatic visor tear-offs can be toggled on or off in the Options menu, and will occur when the helmet visor becomes excessively dirty. – A first-pass of the hand-over-hand steering animation has been added to some vehicles. The list of vehicles includes: – – Global Mazda MX-5 Cup – – Legends Ford ’34 Coupe – – McLaren MP4-30 – – NASCAR Camping World Chevrolet Silverado – – NASCAR Camping World Toyota Tundra – – NASCAR Sprint Cup Chevrolet SS – – NASCAR Sprint Cup Ford Fusion – – NASCAR Sprint Cup Toyota Camry – – Street Stock Spotter – Two new options have been added to the “[sPCC]” section of the “app.ini” file that let you control how the default spotter behaves when you also have a live spotter spotting for you: – – reduceVerbosityIfLive=1 ; Reduce the spotter’s chattiness if you also have a live spotter spotting for you. – – muteSpotterIfLive=1 ; Mute your spotter if you also have a live spotter spotting for you. Pit – Pit team support members that are behind the wall are now animated for the player’s car (or focus car). These characters can be seen providing support and managing the team from behind the pit wall. – – The “Pit Object Detail” setting in the Graphics Options menu works as follows for animated support characters: – – – High = Fully animated pit crew characters (currently only pit support crew members) – – – Medium = Static pit crew characters – – – Low = No pit crew characters are displayed, only pit box objects – – – Off = Nothing at all – Many cars have stacks of tires which appear near their pit stall, placed among their other pit apparatus. These stacks were generalized and shared amongst all cars. Now, each car should have an accurate stack of tires which is appropriate to that car. Pace Car – The pace car has transformed from a Ford Mustang FR500S into a Ruf RT 12R. – The official iRacing skin has returned to the pace car. Replay – All voice chat that you send or receive is now saved to the replay. To review it, activate the new “Replay Chat Review” control in the replay controls area on the Session screen. While active, you may continue to use the transmitter on your radio to talk, but the scanner part of your radio becomes disconnected from the radio’s speaker. Instead, the radio’s speaker is connected to the replay, and the voice chat that you hear, along with the notification of who is speaking and on what channel, comes from the replay. However, the scanner is still active, and any received messages continue to be saved to the replay. – – The Radio black box (F10) will also indicate that your scanner has been disconnected from the speaker by flashing the SCANNER title, and graying-out all the radio channel names. Though when watching a saved replay, or watching the replay after the server disconnects you at the end of the session, the F10 black box is not changed in this way. – – Voice chat review mode is automatically set to “ON” when you load a saved replay, and it is automatically set to “OFF” when you join a session. It is automatically set to “OFF” when you get into your car or when you begin “Spotting for team”. – – The Options/Replay settings page in the Sim can be used to adjust which radio channels have their communications saved into the replay. By default, voice chat on all radio channels is saved to the replay. You can select to exclude communications on any custom channels you add to your radio. You can also select to exclude custom channels plus the @TEAM channel. Or you can select to disable saving any voice chat to the replay. Changing this selection takes effect without restarting the simulation, but will not erase any voice chat already saved in the replay, or cause prior messages that were not recorded earlier to be added to the replay. – – – Remember, these settings only affect what gets saved to your own replay. They do not impact whether what you say gets saved to replays by anyone else in the session. Video Capture – The video capture API has been updated to work around an NVidia driver issue. – – This should fix the issue where videos are coming out black using the most recent NVidia drivers. Telemetry – New telemetry variables, “PlayerTrackSurfaceMaterial” and “CarIdxTrackSurfaceMaterial” are now available that indicate what type of surface is under the car (concrete, sand, grass, etc.). Surface materials are defined in new “irsdk_TrkSurf enum.” This is measured relative to the center of the car, just as with the “PlayerTrackSurface enum” that indicates how the surface is scored (race, pit, offtrack, etc.). – New telemetry variables, “TireLF_RumblePitch”, “TireLR_RumblePitch”, “TireRF_RumblePitch”, and “TireRR_RumblePitch” are now available. These represent the pitch in Hz produced by the tire going over a rumble strip, or 0 if the tire is currently not on a rumble strip. – A new telemetry variable, “PushToPass” has been added which reports the state of the Push to Pass button. – A new telemetry variable, “dcMGUKDeployModeToggle” has been added that indicates if the in-car MGU-K deploy mode is set to fixed(0) or adaptive(1). – New 360 Hz telemetry output has been implemented! – – 360 Hz telemetry logging is disabled by default. The option for enabling 360 Hz telemetry logging has been added to the “app.ini” file here: – – – [misc] irsdkLog360Hz=0 ; 0 = 360 Hz logging is disabled, 1 = 360 Hz logging is enabled. – – The XXshockDefl, XXshockVel and SteeringWheelTorque variables will now log out at 360 Hz, if enabled. – – 3 new (memory mapped file) variables have also been added that always log at the rate of 360 Hz, but not to disk. This is for use by motion platforms and base shaker plugins: – – – XXshockDefl_ST = Shock Position – – – XXshockVel_ST = Shock Velocity – – – SteeringWheelTorque_ST = Steering Wheel Torque – – This data is output as a 6 element array, with a new flag variable header indicating that ist should be treated as a subdivision of time. You will need a new version of the ATLAS plugin to properly view the data, however the old plugin, and any older telemetry tool, should continue to read the data just fine. – A new McLaren ATLAS importer version 1.05 is available for download from the member site. This adds some new unit conversion parameters and adds support for properly viewing 360 Hz telemetry. EasyAntiCheat – This build uses an updated version of EasyAntiCheat that should reduce the likelihood of encountering EAC alerts that are caused by internet infrastructure issues. Peripherals – Support has been added for controlling backlights of all Razer devices, Logitech mice, and single color keyboards. Code has been added to indicate the current flag. – Added several new options the [External Displays] section of the “app.ini” file: – – enableLEDFlags=1, Set to 0 to turn off LED backlight flags animations. – – enableLEDShiftLights=1, Set to 0 to turn off LED backlight shift indicator animations. – – enableLEDHotKeys=1, Set to 0 to turn off LED backlight hotkey indicators. – – colorLEDHotKeysByType=1, Set to 0 to set all hotkeys to the same color. – Fixed a bug with keyboard LED shift indicators on Logitech keyboards. CARS Aston Martin DBR9 GT1 – Weight has been increased by 70 kg to bring it closer to the minimum weight under which we understand it competed circa 2008. – Minor adjustments have been made to the aero to bring overall performance back in line with the Chevrolet Corvette C6.R GT1. – Downforce sensitivities of the rear wing have been modified to ensure the car does not reward minimum rear wing settings at all circuits. – Fuel economy has been slightly increased. – The external engine sound transitions between close and distant sounds for this vehicle have been improved. – Fixed a bug that caused headlight flashing of opponent cars to be invisible. – Season setups have been updated. Audi R8 LMS GT3 – Fuel consumption has been slightly increased for GT3 BoP. BMW Z4 GT3 – Slightly increased aero drag for GT3 BoP. – Fuel consumption has been slightly reduced for GT3 BoP. – Realigned the external mirrors with the appropriate bezel. – Fixed an issue where a driver could not see all of the digits on the blue backlit display. Chevrolet Corvette C6.R GT1 – Downforce sensitivities of the rear wing has been modified to ensure the car does not reward minimum rear wing settings at all circuits. – Inner headlights are now enabled during the daytime. – Season setups have been updated. Chevrolet Corvette C7 Daytona Prototype – The external engine sound transitions between close and distant sounds for this vehicle have been improved. – The driver’s seatbelt has been fixed so it no longer protrudes out the bottom of the vehicle. Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS – Season setups have been updated. Dallara DW12 – Increased tire wear for oval tracks to increase degradation and prevent running tires for multiple stints. Also, Indy tires are now used at Motegi to improve quality of racing. – A pitboard has been added for this vehicle. The custom paint template has been updated to reflect this. – Season setups have been updated. Ford Falcon FG V8 – Construction and compound changes have been made to the vehicle tires. These changes should produce more realistic grip levels, improve drive-ability around the limit, increase degradation, and improve out lap grip in cold ambient conditions. – Power steering has been increased to help balance this vehicle with similar cars in the Sim. Ford GT GT3 – Season setups have been updated. Ford Mustang FR500S – Driver viewpoint has been adjusted to better suit VR. Holden Commodore VF V8 – Construction and compound changes have been made to the vehicle tires. These changes should produce more realistic grip levels, improve drive-ability around the limit, increase degradation, and improve out lap grip in cold ambient conditions. – Power steering has been increased to help balance this vehicle with similar cars in the Sim. HPD ARX-01c – This vehicle now uses PBR shaders. – The color of the wheel rims for this vehicle can now be changed. – Fixed an issue with the pivot of the right-front wheel. Kia Optima – Mirror quality has been improved. Lotus 79 – This vehicle now uses PBR shaders. – Fixed a corruption issue with the rear rim textures. McLaren MP4-30 – We’ve implemented an alternative MGU-K deployment strategy. The internal combustion engine reaches full output at less than full throttle, and the MGU-K supplements smoothly between full engine output and full throttle at the pedal. The goal is to have smoother power delivery, and the hope is that the cost to efficiency of deployment is minimal. The throttle pedal position at which the engine reaches full output and the MGU-K begins to deploy is configurable by the user, and varies from 67.5% to 90% in 2.5% increments. Note that the old deployment smoothing strategy has been disabled. Mercedes-AMG GT3 – Fixed a minor bug with the definition of the drivetrain components that was causing the portion of the drivetrain between the engine and clutch to have too much rotational inertia. This would cause the drivetrain to spin up the engine under very specific conditions. – – For more information, see: http://members.iracing.com/jforum/posts/list/0/3509108.page#10177419 Modified – SK – Season setups have been updated. NASCAR K&N Pro Chevrolet Impala – Season setups have been updated. NASCAR Nationwide Chevrolet Impala circa 2011 – Season setups have been updated. NASCAR Sprint Cup Chevrolet SS – Season setups have been updated. NASCAR Sprint Cup Ford Fusion – Season setups have been updated. NASCAR Sprint Cup Toyota Camry – Season setups have been updated. NASCAR XFINITY Chevrolet Camaro – Season setups have been updated. NASCAR XFINITY Ford Mustang – Season setups have been updated. NASCAR XFINITY Toyota Camry – Season setups have been updated. Pontiac Solstice – Fixed an issue where the fuel gauge needle would rotate incorrectly on opponents’ cars. Pro Mazda – Star Mazda has been officially renamed Pro Mazda! – Star Mazda wing decal has been replaced with the Pro Mazda decal. Ruf RT 12R Track – Season setups have been updated. SCCA Spec Racer Ford – This vehicle now uses PBR shaders. Silver Crown – Season setups have been updated. Skip Barber Formula 2000 – This vehicle now uses PBR shaders. Street Stock – Season setups have been updated. Super Late Model – Season setups have been updated. V8 Supercar Ford Falcon circa 2012 – Construction and compound changes have been made to the vehicle tires. These changes should produce more realistic grip levels, improve drive-ability around the limit, increase degradation, and improve out lap grip in cold ambient conditions. – Power steering has been increased to help balance this vehicle with similar cars in the Sim. TRACKS Circuit des 24 Heures du Mans – Additional tweaks to checkpoint placement and added one additional checkpoint. This post has been promoted to an article

Sul forum ufficiale di iRacing, Tony Gardner in persona conferma per il 6 dicembre l'arrivo della nuova build del simulatore americano. Gardner ci parla anche delle numerose novità che arriveranno in iRacing nel corso del 2017, come la modalità dirt (lo sterrato), la funzionalità time attack e molto altro ancora. We are excited about the build next week! You will see multiple enhancements and improvements to the simulation and overall service. Right now the plan is to do the usual quarterly software update on December 6th at about 8:00 AM EST. However I wanted to discuss just a few things that are NOT going to be in build next week and provide a brief update. You will see soon enough what will be in the build next week! Dirt: As you probably are aware we are very excited about “dirt” and have heard the same from so many of you. Major pieces of it have been finished for months. There are so many details, facets and challenges to this new form of racing for us graphically and physically. We had many new development challenges to tackle and many new and unique features to develop. I think you will be very impressed with all the work and detail put into this when you get a chance to see it and drive it. However, a few smaller things are still lingering and we want to nail this down to our satisfaction. The small things can make a big difference. We would not expect to release it by year end either with the year winding down and holidays etc. The good news is we feel we are close and are still optimistic to release before the March build. We would do a “mid-season” release if the feature/Dirt was ready. As far as content we have Eldora, Williams Grove and a dirt version of USA Speedway about done and more tracks in the works already. We have 305, 358 and 410 versions of a Dirt Super Late Model. We have a wingless dirt 410 sprint car. We have a winged Sprint Car including 305, 360 and 410 versions. We are putting the cars through our CFD “wind tunnel” to get better aero data, especially for the Winged Sprint car. We also will have dirt versions of our NASCAR truck and a dirt version of the legends car out of the gate. Much more coming and already in the works including global rally cross. Thanks for your patience. It is heart-breaking not to release some of it for year-end with all the work we have put in and being so close but it is the right thing to do. Time-Attack: This new hot-lapping competition/feature we think is going to be a great fun and will be something that almost everyone from rookies/time constrained people to veteran sim-racers will really enjoy. We are also close on this new feature and also would release at a point in time, not necessarily needing to wait until a season end build. We will be doing a video about it soon to give you a better idea of it. Other: We are also still working on many other things discussed previously like the new damage model, new in-sim UI, web interface, improved and new sounds including working on utilizing XAudio 2, animation and graphics, new forums, physics, incredible content and working on many other things not yet discussed! This post has been promoted to an article

Con il comunicato ed il trailer di lancio che vedete qui sotto, il team di iRacing annuncia il prossimo arrivo nel simulatore americano della spettacolare Ferrari 488 GTE, protagonista della 24 Ore di Le Mans e del mondiale WEC. iRacing Motorsport Simulation, LLC today announced plans to create digital versions of Ferrari’s models. The first product of the partnership between the renowned eSport racing service and the iconic brand will be a virtual Ferrari 488 GTE as raced in the 24 Hours of Le Mans and other events in the 2016 World Endurance Championship. “This is a landmark moment for iRacing and online racing,” says Steve Myers, Executive Vice President and Executive Producer for iRacing.com. “Ferrari is synonymous with world championship caliber race cars and high performance automobiles. The Prancing Horse logo famously inspires passion among racing and automotive aficionados everywhere. iRacers are also passionate about online racing and I have no doubt they will be thrilled at the prospects of racing the 488 GTE and other Ferraris in the future.” The Ferrari 488 will join iRacing’s stable of more than 50 meticulously-modeled open wheel, sedan, sports and stock cars which race on laser-scanned versions of the world’s legendary road courses and ovals in private leagues and officially-sanctioned series including the Blancpain GT Series, the iRacing World Championship Grand Prix Series and the NASCAR PEAK Antifreeze Series. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVdYmeirJw8 This post has been promoted to an article

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Il Logitech ARX è in sostanza un plugin di comunicazione (gratuito) che permette di interfacciare le informazioni provenienti dal PC per mostrarle su un dispositivo esterno basato su Android o iOS. Seguendo la procedura descritta qui di seguito, potrete avere per iRacing, sul vostro tablet o telefono, le informazioni relative a tempi e distacchi, oppure persino la telemetria in tempo reale. Insomma una risorsa decisamente utile e persino gratuita, che richiede solo un pò di attenzione in fase di configurazione. Il video qui sotto spiega tutti i dettagli. This is an introduction to the Logitech ARX client and how you may go about developing new plugins for it. With the rewrite of ARX, I felt it was time to launch a new thread. First off ARX is a communication layer provided by Logitech that allows communication between an application on the PC and your Android or iOS based device. It basically allows us to act as a web server sending pages to your phone, along with a simple bidirectional communication channel so we can push live data to the phone and receive inputs back. ARX is provided to you in two parts, there is a client that runs on your android and ios device that you can pick up in your favorite app store and a server that is built into the Logitech Gaming Software (version 8.87.166 as of this writing) that supports the logitech gaming mice and keyboards. Both the client and server are available for free and Logitech has graciously allowed you to use the ARX software even if you do not own a Logitech gaming mouse or keyboard. http://support.logitech.com/software/gaming-software To use the ARX functionality you need to install both the LGS and phone app from above, and make sure both are running and connected together. From there simply launch the sim and we will push out a display to your phone. Inside the sim youYou can go into the options tab and under external display you will find a check box to turn ARX off and an ARX mode: dropdown that lets you choose what page to display on your phone. Dettagli e download qui http://members.iracing.com/jforum/posts/list/3344813.page This post has been promoted to an article