Shortly after the release of Grand Prix Legends the sim racing community looked forward to another title that promised to offer a similar insight into historic racing. Trans-Am Racing ’68-’72 ultimately never released, a victim of a publishers shady dealings, but as a part of my research I uncovered a VHS of a never-released trailer for the game. Watch the trailer and read about what sim racing missed out on.
RSC contains a database of 153 developers, 468 software titles, 374 cars, 42 bikes, 242 tracks and more...Legendary British game developer whose career spanned a 20 year period and included groundbreaking simulations of Formula Three and Formula One, including arguably the first ever racing sim: Revs (1984).
Most famous for his Grand Prix series that were published under the MicroProse label until 2000, his career unceremoniously ended when his studio was shut down by Infogrames and the Xbox version of Grand Prix 4 cancelled just prior to release.
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Kunos today released v1.5.7 on Steam. This update fixes a number of issues and balances the 2019 GT3 and GT4 cars.
GAMEPLAY:
– Fixed pit exit erroneously triggering blue flag when driving near the wall at the start-finish line on Laguna Seca.
– Fixed pit entry erroneously triggering blue flag when driving near the pit entrance wall on Kyalami.
– Fixed a potential inconsistency with track limit warnings accumulated on existing pending penalties.
– Fixed an inconsistency when serving a drive-through penalty without having the serve penalty checkbox selected.PHYSICS:
– Slight adjustments to the 2019 GT3 season balance of performance.
– Slight adjustments to the 2019 GT4 season balance of performance.GRAPHICS:
– Decreased streaming memory pool in EPIC texture setting preset to prevent potential video memory overload on mid/high-range cards.UI:
– Fixed a refocus issue with the MFD in Multiplayer when the session went from multi- to single-class due to all clients of a car group disconnecting.
– MFD info panel now includes stint timer and a track limits warning counter.
NOTE: the MFD info panel is recommended to be set to “Always visible” in the HUD settings.
– Pitstop MFD: added tyre pressure control for all tyres simultaneously.
– Fixed tyre status indicators not consistently showing wear on previously used tyres in driver swap scenarios.
– Fixed an MFD pitstop page issue that was allowing the same tyre to be selected and applied for an upcoming pitstop with the default setup loaded.CONTROLS:
– Exposed “EnableManufacturerExtras” in controls.json; if set to false it prevents the game from making any calls to external libraries from wheel manufacturers (Logitech, Thrustmaster, Fanatec)
Useful for troubleshooting controller-related issues.
– Fanatec LEDs setting now defaults to off.
ACC is a Blancpain GT, British GT and other SRO series simulator featuring GT3 and GT4 sports cars.
