FOR ENGLISH/GERMAN ATARI VERSIONS
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Crashday Patch 1.1 is the first of at least two patches to fix
compatiblity, functionality and gameplay issues of the Crashday retail version
1.0 of Atari.
This first patch mainly focuses on serious hardware and compatiblity
problems that prevented people from playing at all. Future patches will focus
more on gameplay-related issues and actual game improvements or feature
additions.
The Crashday troubleshooting forum:
http://www.crashday-game.de/forum/viewforum.php?f=9
NOTE:
To play online, players can only join games hosted on the same
version ("1.1" after installation of patch). The multiplayer games browser
displays the current version in a seperate column.
Worked around a sound bug crash on SBLive sound cards (only used to
occur with out-of-date drivers)
Fixed start-up problems related to a second window "Black"
FUNCTIONALITY FIXES
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Fixed bug related to weight of dynamic objects (way too heavy
before)
Fixed replay problems: jiggering, damage, bomb, flag visibility
Fixed mirroring bug of dynamic objects in track editor display
Fixed language selection in multiplayer browser filter
Disconnected players are no more shown on radar or pointed to by
target arrow
Wrecking or shooting disconnected players does not give any more
points or damage
Disconnected players will no more score in Pass The Bomb
Players that disconnect while holding the flag will loose the flag
Improved synchronization of multiplayer missiles
CRASH FIXES
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Fixed crash in usermenu on simultaneous press of RETURN and X
Fixed multiplayer crash related to clients and spamming reconnect
messages
Fixed multiplayer browser crash if a Finnish language-hosted game
was listed
Fixed multiplayer lobby crash when user was typing chat message and
host quits the game
Fixed crash bug coming up when deleting a track that is just being
edited
Fixed crash bug when clicking "Select Car" on host machines with
specific car or specific car classes
Fixed crash bug in Stunt Mode when driving close to track boundary
Fixed crash bug when deleting a custom car without selling it before
Fixed crash bugs related to selecting custom cars in multiplayer
(which is still not supported, but which was possible to be exploited from host
side and led to a crash)
Fixed rare crash bugs related to overwriting existing tracks, but
not updating precalculated shadow information properly (occasionally could
cause crashes in track editor test drive, multiplayer or replays)
NEW FEATURES AND MISCELLANEOUS FIXES
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Skidmarks added
Added brightness setting in graphics options
Game controller's coolie hat can be used to look left/right during
driving
Show the car stats in the shop when a new car is unlocked but not
yet purchased
Slightly increased view range in lowest graphics detail preset
Always use higher view range in minigames to avoid artifacts
Improved online cheat protection code
Prevented stunt mode cheating on arena stunts ("On top of the
arena").
Fixed a situation in HoldTheFlag that flag fell below the track on
relatively high ping times sometimes in multiplayer
Slightly lowered speed of person holding flag in Hold The Flag
Shader performance improvements
Replaced error with an unsupported graphics card by a more
meaningful message
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Known Remaining Issues
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- Sound problems during races on SoundBlaster (Live) cards
-> install the latest drivers
- The application starts up with flickering videos
-> start the application with the "-skipvideo" parameter to
skip the videos
- Graphics problems on some NVidia cards (flicker and artifacts on
GF4 Ti4200 and GF3 Ti200 / no menu text on GF5900 and others)
-> to be fixed as soon as possible in next patch or with
NVidia driver update (see below)
- Game crashes on accessing the multiplayer menus without being
connected to the Internet (anymore)
-> to be fixed as soon as possible in next patch (see
below). Try to avoid situation please
- Game crashes by navigating replays using a gamepad
-> to be fixed as soon as possible in next patch (see
below). Try to avoid situation please
- Game randomly crashes in singleplayer and multiplayer races
('Illegal memory reference' or 'BlockStartFilePos == ftell( ReplayFP )')
-> to be fixed as soon as possible in next patch (see below)
- Very high ping times or only "????" is displayed in the
multiplayer browser
-> leave the browser and re-enter
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Main plans for future patches
(no 100% guarantee of fixing all of these issues!)
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- fix any NVidia graphics cards problems (flicker / no menu text)
- improved lag-handling and car smoothing in multiplayer races
- get rid of any remaining in-game crashes, especially in
multiplayer
- add "Kick" functionality to kick players from the multiplayer
lobby
- lots of smaller issues
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Thanks To
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Thanks to NVidia and ATI for their support in fixing
hardware-related issues!
Thanks to "oygenuk" for additional copy-protection testing!
Thanks to the Crashday community by posting bugs and suggestions on
the offical boards!
Copyright by moon byte Studios / Replay Studios.
"Crashday" is a trademark of moon byte Studios. Unauthorized
copying, reproduction, rental, public performance, or broadcast of this game is
a violation of applicable laws.
