Patch update

[picnic]

nkPro will never take off until they implement some sort of SR system 

[mo]

Apparently its getting closer :

http://forum.racesimcentral.com/showthread.php?t=328596

..... since the last update governments have come and gone, they've landed probes on Mars and even built the biggest particle accelerator in the world..... but fear not the NK patch is almost ready 

Seriously though, if this works and fixes what they say it fixes then I'll be back on board for sure.

[ginsters sponsored]

Seriously though, if this works and fixes what they say it fixes then I'll be back on board for sure.

Interesting iR hasn't captured me in the way NK did, in fact its nowhere near. When/if this patch arrives hopefully it can draw me back in again as I'm still desperately seeking the single seater experience.   

[mo]

Woohoo! there's two of us now 

I knew I wasn't alone, cheers Ian!

[fozzmeister]

nK is superb in some ways, but it's like a girl with a wonderful personality...

[spanner]

http://www.virtualr.net/netkar-pro-new-community-update/

Looks like its getting closer and closer to the relase of the patch and they have decided to allow the demo to be used online so hopefully it gives people a second chance to play it.

[ginsters sponsored]

Tis now out, complete with a demo I've not tried   http://www.netkar-pro.com/download.htm Sadly, no mention of a SR system Piccers.

[mo]

Yep, your right Ginsters - hell has indeed frozen over and pigs are flying past the windows.... but, yes the patch is out 

I should be able to give it a blast over thje next few days, might see you out there

[Ken Murray]

Gave it a go last night. Not bad, encountered one or two wreckers online, as we might have expected. Did manage one or two clean races. The physics don't do anything special for me, in the f1600's only of course, don't know what the other cars are like. Not the feel of GPL or iRacing. Is it a game feature that bodywork and suspension can be repaired in the pits but not engines?

[ginsters sponsored]

Glad to see the servers are reasonably full with people trying out the demo and the racing isn't too bad. This patch has definitely improved network stability.

Not the feel of iR Pffft, each to their own I would say that the F2000 is the best car but if you don't like the 1600 it really isn't that different. Although the Abarth thats coming look brilliant

[Ken Murray]

Glad to see the servers are reasonably full with people trying out the demo and the racing isn't too bad. This patch has definitely improved network stability.

Not the feel of iR Pffft, each to their own I would say that the F2000 is the best car but if you don't like the 1600 it really isn't that different. Although the Abarth thats coming look brilliant

Well I didn't say I didn't like it, just it didn't feel any better than the sims mentioned. Maybe I need to play with the FF settings. It's all about familiarity too, I mean the tyre screech sounded really high pitch, which may be accurate, I don't know, but not what I'm used to so took a bit of getting used to.

I was getting some opponents cars showing as plain box polys only. Is that a limitation in my connection or cpu?

[ginsters sponsored]

Blue box thingy is explained in manual thus-

In the chat window, you will see a message that someone has connected, but the 3D
model and the textures for the car are not loaded. Instead, the new car will be added
as a simple transparent box with bright blue borders. This requires minimal loading
time (therefore not disrupting your lap). The blue box will look like this:

Like the cardboard car thing in RF the last time I installed it. True enough it doesn't really feel like iR (no bad thing ) but the 1600, especially, feel like the slippery GPL cars to me.

Got to say that its better than I remember it. Had much fun already. After 2 years its finally near what it should have been but at least it feels free to us gents who stumped up an age ago. Bet Shark is gutted now

[mo]

Good to see you on track again Ian

Patch looks good, they've certainly solved the show stoppers wrt join lag and warping. I raced VERY close to cars last night without any issues. Contact and damage modelas are good also (Oops!). NK is still the only sim that gives me that wind through the hair feeling.... so to speak.

There's still a few rubbishy things going on though, like AA not working for me from the game, and the 'new' sounds which are fairly grim tbh. I resolved both last night, but why did I have to?

btw how many servers are you seeing in the lobby? I'm only seeing 4 or 5 servers at a time with the message "Contacted 5/120 servers" ....bit confused by that one too....

[ginsters sponsored]

Keep pressing "refresh" button Mo and more magically appear (don't ask me  ). This is not just a private chat by the way, I beat the cwap outta Edam tonight He seemed to enjoy it? Be nice to see a few more UKGTR's giving it a go before dismissing it 

[Tibernius]

I might try the demo tomorrow. I assume from the website that you don't have to pay a subscription?