F1 2006 Patch 1.1 released
2009-04-06 23:30 by Daniel Senff
New patches fixes remaining bugs and extends physics.
The initial release of F1 2006 was very liberating for us and we were very happy about the reactions we got. We received a alot of good feedback and are glad that all our work and effort is appreciated. Thank you!
Before the release we tested the mod for more than a month, but at some point it had to leave the nest. With a mod of this size it was clear, that there would be slipups - there always are - and so we could only hope there would be no big issues. In the first few weeks we got a couple of reports, most of them could be sorted out, everything was collected and reviewed in the last few months. There were two bigger issues which caused crashes, which were annoying and one case, where we simply forgot additional physics-settings, which was embarassing. We fixed all the bugs and added the missing stuff. We even fine-tuned and extended the physics. This will require you to check your setups and update them, otherwise the cars will feel more delicate and nervous. Physic changes mostly involved the tyre model and the traction-controll. We provide a small article about the necessary changes to your setups. We also updated the manual and the readme. We suggest to take a look at the changelog, especially if you are running a league.
The patch grew alot in size in the past few weeks and we are sure some people would like to slap us for our filesizes. To avoid having to download the full mod a second time, we prepared a patch, which is only half the size (800 MB). Still heavy, but better than the Full-Installer with 1.3 GB. If you have Version 1.0 installed, you can install the patch and you are fine. If you haven't installed the mod yet, We advise you download the Full-Installer.
We also updated the Dedicated Server Edition and we stripped this one down to its bare skeleton. This is for servers only, features only the mod structures and pretty much no models, textures or sounds. This results in the filesize of 78mb. In the past there have been several confusions about the editions, I hope the difference in filesize makes it clear which mod you can play and which one you don't. Users of the Dedicated Server Edition please make sure to deinstall the old Server-Edition before installing the new one.
The Patch, the Full-Installer and the Dedicated Server Edition are now available for download.
For the release of 1.0 we came with a setup of 11 mirrors, which broke in the following 3 days. Since we don't see a point in bringing in even more servers, we decided to release via torrents only for the first couple of days. Once the initial storm is over, traditional download links will be added to the project-page later.
Before the release we tested the mod for more than a month, but at some point it had to leave the nest. With a mod of this size it was clear, that there would be slipups - there always are - and so we could only hope there would be no big issues. In the first few weeks we got a couple of reports, most of them could be sorted out, everything was collected and reviewed in the last few months. There were two bigger issues which caused crashes, which were annoying and one case, where we simply forgot additional physics-settings, which was embarassing. We fixed all the bugs and added the missing stuff. We even fine-tuned and extended the physics. This will require you to check your setups and update them, otherwise the cars will feel more delicate and nervous. Physic changes mostly involved the tyre model and the traction-controll. We provide a small article about the necessary changes to your setups. We also updated the manual and the readme. We suggest to take a look at the changelog, especially if you are running a league.
The patch grew alot in size in the past few weeks and we are sure some people would like to slap us for our filesizes. To avoid having to download the full mod a second time, we prepared a patch, which is only half the size (800 MB). Still heavy, but better than the Full-Installer with 1.3 GB. If you have Version 1.0 installed, you can install the patch and you are fine. If you haven't installed the mod yet, We advise you download the Full-Installer.
We also updated the Dedicated Server Edition and we stripped this one down to its bare skeleton. This is for servers only, features only the mod structures and pretty much no models, textures or sounds. This results in the filesize of 78mb. In the past there have been several confusions about the editions, I hope the difference in filesize makes it clear which mod you can play and which one you don't. Users of the Dedicated Server Edition please make sure to deinstall the old Server-Edition before installing the new one.
The Patch, the Full-Installer and the Dedicated Server Edition are now available for download.
For the release of 1.0 we came with a setup of 11 mirrors, which broke in the following 3 days. Since we don't see a point in bringing in even more servers, we decided to release via torrents only for the first couple of days. Once the initial storm is over, traditional download links will be added to the project-page later.