Changelog TORCS 1.2.3

Changes since 1.2.2

• Better sound (Christos).
• New track (Christos).
• New and updated robots (Christos, Bernhard).
• New car (SpeedyChonChon).
• Lots of bugfixes (Eric, Bernhard).
• Option to disable sound (Bernhard).
• Optional "Compatibility" video init for broken GLUT/GLX/OpenGL drivers (Bernhard).
• Added -fPIC, are AMD64 builds now working out of the box (Bernhard).

Changes since 1.2.3-bw-unofficial-test1

• Reintroduced gear switching flames (Bernhard).
• Fix/Retest track selection crash (Bernhard).
• Hunting lost open filehandles (done, all I have found so far and are caused by TORCS) (Bernhard).
• Updated open wheel car (Speedychonchon, Bernhard).
• Fixed championship saving bug (Bernhard, SF report by Eugen).
• Fixed mouse-scrolling crash (Bernhard, SF report by Frieder).
• Collision (wall of death), not perfect, but good enough for now (Bernhard).
• Timelimit in qualification (for robots only) (Bernhard).
• Remove too slow cars from races (for robots only) (Bernhard).

Changes since 1.2.3-bw-unofficial-test2

• Disabled outdated barrier normal computation in collide.cpp (Bernhard).
• Replaced glCopyTexImage2D with glCopyTexSubImage2D for mirror cam (suggested in NVidia's performance slides) (Bernhard).
• Fixed broken env map animation (caused by experimental changes in grvtxtable.cpp 1.12) (Bernhard, report by Eric).
• Add resolutions for windowed mode, so 320x240, 640x480 and 800x600 are always in the list if you have enabled xrandr (Bernhard).
• Set default optimization to -O2, was -O3 before (Bernhard).
• Updated Windows plib to 1.8.3 without multithreading (replaced /MT with /ML) (Bernhard).
• Fixed all warnings (level W2) for the windows build (please add "f" to constants if you mean float) (Bernhard).
• Update Windows project files/make it work in Windows (Bernhard).
• Backported a fix from berniw_2004 to berniw's (Bernhard).
• Fixed broken P406 counters (Bernhard).
• nfs2ac: Catched segfault if no argument is given (Bernhard).
• Added nfsperf project, fixes (Bernhard).
• Update windows bat files (add sounds, track, car, etc) (Bernhard).
• Compressed all RGB's to RLE compressed RGB's (disk usage -90MB!) with "find . -name "*.rgb" -exec convert -compress RLE {} {} \;"
• Reduced the resolution of a few textures (Bernhard).
• Fixed Formula 1 camera (Reported by Speedychonchon, Bernhard).

Changes since 1.2.3-bw-unofficial-test3

• Removed ssggraph_old dir (Bernhard).
• Preselect valid drivers for practice, non championship race, endurance race, etc (Bernhard).
• remove Olethros and grsound printf's (Bernhard).
• sorted out currently unneeded textures (Bernhard).
• removed corvette for now (would need major rework) (Bernhard).
• changed suspension and weight distribution settings of p406 (Bernhard).
• Fixed some "first time uninitialized values" for inferno 2-10 (Bernhard).
• Reviewed Inferno/Inferno 2004, no crash bug found (Bernhard).
• sorted out unneeded sounds (Bernhard).

Changes since 1.2.3-bw-unofficial-test4

• Disabled Olethros track_* file writing (Bernhard).
• Reworked Viper (new bottom, 1 sided polygons, fixed holes) (Bernhard).
• Some changes in Makefiles etc (Bernhard).
• Fixed crash bug in human.cpp (Bernhard).
• Released as 1.2.3.