iRacing 2024 Season 1 Patch 4 Hotfix 1 Released

A global bug causing phantom collisions (often referred to as netcode contacts by sim racers) will hopefully be fixed with iRacing 2024 Season 1 Patch 4 Hotfix 1 released.

Netcode refers to an issue with all online games, where the time it takes for your PC or console to communicate with the servers can mean your position or that of other cars is different to what’s on your screen. But the hotfix refers to something slightly different, where the steering of opponent cars could cause them to be in a different lateral position from their actual position, which is a particular problem in corners.

It follows two other recent iRacing updates which made changes to the UI rather than the racing sim itself, and therefore didn’t require any downtime for maintenance.

iRacing 2024 Season 1 Patch 4 Hotfix 1 Release Notes

• Fixed a global bug with the steering behavior of opponent cars which could cause them to be in a different lateral position from their actual position.
• – – This issue could cause phantom contacts where a driver may not appear to physically contact another car from their perspective, but according to the race server processing, contact was made. This effect was most noticeable in corners, where cars would be actively changing lateral position rapidly.

iRacing 9.13.1 Release Notes

• Full width modals once again maximize on monitors up to 25×9 aspect ratio.
  On monitors with an aspect ratio greater than the 25×9, the modal will maintain a 25×9 ratio regardless of the window width.
  Car Modal will be this new “full” size only when on the showroom tab.

iRacing 9.13.0 Release Notes

General

• Streamlined the language and flow of the initial dialogue box when loading iRacing Web for the first time.
• The car modal will now open at a reasonable size on ultra-wide monitors.
• Fixed links not working on My Content Cars & Tracks modals.
• IndyCar branding and references have been restored throughout the application.

AI Racing

• Fixed a bug in Create Single AI Race that caused an unrecoverable error when selecting a roster from a retired class.
  • This also allows users to clear their AI cache settings if they get saved with bad data.
• Single Race AI results will now show the Race session results first rather than practice.

Create a Race

• Selecting a date and time works as expected in Heat Racing.

Hosted Races

• The option to open the Paint Shop from the Hosted Session modal has been restored.

Options & Settings

• This update rearranges the display of install directory information to put the most used directory (Sim Data) at the top of the list, and adds a tooltip describing the content of that directory.

Protests

• This update corrects the protest expiration date in the alert banner to be one week after the event occurred.
• The Select a Violation dropdown will now continue displaying all options as available rather than requiring a user to delete their prior selection before choosing a new violation.

Replays

• The Subsession ID and a link to the session results have been added to the Replays list.

Results & Stats

• This update changes the initial load of the Results page to show the users last 30 days of results as opposed to the previous 90 days of results.

Team Registration

• This update fixes the About Team Driving button in the Team Registration modal so that it takes the user to the correct link.

Time Attack

• When loading into Time Attack, users will be prompted for the Display Mode to use if it has not already been chosen.

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