torcs

I found that there is not much manually driven TORCS footage on the web, so I ran 40 Laps on Corkscrew and captured videos of them.

• Setting up the steering wheel and 5 laps practice.
• Quickrace, 10 laps against 11 AI opponents, first try.
• Quickrace, 10 laps against 11 AI opponents, second try.
• Setting up the gamepad and 5 laps practice.
• Attempt for 10 clean laps in a row with the gamepad.

I used vanilla TORCS 1.3.4-test1 with no custom car setup whatsoever, so I run the same thing you got from the shelf.

Enjoy, Bernhard

This is not related to TORCS, but today the CERN announced interesting findings. Maybe this is one of the rare moments during our lifetime where the horizon of mankind gets extended, so do not miss the moment (of course this is the result of a very long process, but I mean the moment of announcement).

Follow this link and Google for "higgs boson".

Enjoy, Bernhard.

TORCS version 1.3.4-test2 is available, as patch against the 1.3.4-test1 and as all-in-one source package, get it here.

This release adds support for Valgrind runs, and has lots of memory leaks fixed (beware, for the ordinary users there were no significant leaks, but during development it is annoying if you get spammed even with practically irrelevant leaks by Valgrind, so for further development it makes sense to clean this up). TORCS has no "definitely lost blocks" (caused by TORCS) anymore in the ordinary running path, I reduced as well the "still reachable" count (the console mode is even there almost clean).

For details about running TORCS under Valgrind have a look at the README file. As usual, hit Read More below to review the full set of changes. Please test this release very hard, because it is easy to introduce errors when fixing memory leaks. After having done the boring stuff, I will start now working on the feature part of 1.3.4.

Enjoy, Bernhard.

TORCS version 1.3.4-test1 is available as patch against the 1.3.3 all-in-one source package, get it here.

This is an intermediate release (so 1.3.4 will not follow too soon), but it is a tad better than 1.3.3, hit Read More below to review the full set of changes.

Enjoy, Bernhard.

Update:
I have uploaded as well a windows installer.

The first race of the championship is done, tooner (Marek S) uploaded a video summary (thank you very much).

• Watch the video here
• Review the standings of the championship

If you want to join there are still empty slots, and joining is possible up to the last race in November.

Enjoy, Bernhard