V1.3 what's the buzz

Yeah, this way developers would have less questions about night and rain, cmon forum admins, give the videos a chance on this place, there's so many $hitty threads. Unless @Lord Kunos is not ok with that, they definitely belong here, and the would be watched even more, 3000 lousy views have them each, with the last one having 7000.

 

Just a little thing, but I'm liking seeing other car's skids online. It just adds a little more ”life” to the track, which otherwise would just look the same lap after lap.

 

I raced with 458 last night, in a server with fixed setup with semis. I may be wrong but there is something that i don't really like about hers EDL.
I was able to power oversteer this car in 1.2.X but now , the diff acts like it's open. I see the inner rear wheel spining, the oversteer is dying and the 1% of available of Chris Harris in me is crying.

Am i doing something wrong?

 

Possibly. When I tried the 458 after 1.3 it was just brilliant. Couldn't stop drifting. So much easier to maintain the drift.

I could be wrong too but that's how I remember it..

 

Sounds like you unknowingly had TCS on @liakjim

 

Nope, server had fixed setup, TC forced OFF (i always have electronics app ON and i can confirm this ). Ok i just suck.

 

setting something like 3-4 seconds faster times in the 458 at imola since 1.3.3

 

After 1 month without my trusty PC I am finally able to enjoy 1.3 in all it's glory less the DLC for 2 more days.
I instantly fired up the good old Tourist track to see what all the buzz translates to in sim feel. I love it. Manhandling the Yellowbird around the track is pure joy even if you make the occasional mistake and she bites. Just exploring turbo settings to see the car on minimum/standard/full boost is like trying 3 different cars. I guess it is true and the cars are more lively, and its insane fun. Can't wait to try the RT12 and Akrapovic during the weekend.

Still need to sort out setups on the Yellowbird. Haven't touched toe settings yet and can't find the right camber setting but she definetly likes lots of rear camber. Would love pointers here. Like I don't understand why running realatively high neg camber in the rear is very good for a rear engined car. Seems counter intuitive when trying to brake from high speed.

The heating cycle of the tires is a beautiful experience in itself. Cars bite you in the a88 hard on cold tires just like they should and the cleaning of dirt off tires is so much more natural.

Thanks K for making AC even more epic.

 

1.3.4
- Replay in x64 are now capped at 1Gb instead of 500mb
- Fixed turbo in form gears
- Physics multithread is now disable with less than 4 cores
- Fixed backfire animation on Lamborghini Countach
- acServerManager: admin password is mandatory
- acServerManager: fixed uploader not saving surfaces.ini of multi-layout tracks
- Fixed Lamborghini Countach S1 UI for customers who do not own DLC2
- Fixed Alfa Romeo 4c peak slip angle value on rear street tyres.
- Fine tuning of tyre heating model for GT2 and GT3 cars. Tyres now might need 2 laps to heat up the core temperatures. Core temperatures are now much more stable during a lap and cool down slower.
- New power loss calculation for GT2 GT3 cars engines
- Corrected rolling resistance calculations for GT2 and GT3 cars tyres
- BMW M3 E30 Drift and M3 E92 drift has new tyre heat calculation following the GT2/GT3 logic. Experimental.
- Balancing of GT3 car performances. The balance does not make all cars equal, but just brings their performances closer. Leagues can now add a small amount of ballast to equalize the cars performances even more.
- Fixed dirt texture and headights in Ferrari 458 Italia
- Fixed headlights indicator on BMW Z4 GT3
- Fixed transparency issue on Ruf Yellowbird
- Added leds to Mercedes SLS GT3
- Fixed TrackIR support for x64
- Added Force Feedback Controller app
- Fixed acServer corruption of internal buffers leading to packet losses
- Added benchmark mode
- Realtime app now uses magenta to signal fastest lap in the session
- New "camera facing" spectators are now controlled by the "world detail" settings. Allowing users with older machines to achieve better FPS
- Minor AI race craft tweaks (a bit faster to change lane but bit less "punchybumpy")
- Remapped some functions associated with numpad "+" and "-"
+/- = Change Force Feedback (disabled in replays)
Ctrl +/- = Change onboard FOV
Ctrl Shift +/- = Change saturation

 

I've also noticed that the 458 feels it got open diff now.

50% of the time is spins the inner wheel in a turn and the other 50% feels like the diff is locked.

Maintaining drift in the 458 now is way more difficult than before 1.3.
But apart from the open diff feel, the car drives/feels better and more complete now.

 

The Mclaren should be like that, not the Ferrari, wtf....

 

Is this hyperthreading thing (where more cpu cores are used) already implemented or will it come in the future?

With 1.3.x we got 64 bit version but as Lord Kunos already said this has no impact on performance. Therefore my hope for future performance improvements (hyperthreading?)...

At the moment I have performance problems with PP-effects ON. So can I expect improvement in the future?

 

There's multi threaded physics since 1.3. But not multi threaded graphics. I think they are a thing too, just like physics, but probably in future updates. I remember something about this from the streams.

 

Does the game use the 64 bit version, although, if I open the task manager (ctrl-alt-delete), I read "AC launcher 32 bit"??

 

AssettoCorsa.exe is only the launcher of the engine. If you want to see the engine exe, start a race and look at acs.exe. It use more cpu and ram and run in 64bits.