Hello Speed Dreams, I am an amatuer game programmer, (amateur--newbie with most game code but near-expert witht the openGL parts, advanced amateur with simple physics engine coding). Anyway I have been tinkering with TORCS for the last three years and like how Speed Dreams actually has Car spec info listed in game as well as as realtime preview of the car before you race with the whole garage system, to a car person like myself this matters to me. however much as i liked 2.0 the latest update 2.1 r5799 seems to have some nasty bugs with perhaps just the kabini apu by amd (my current laptop)(hewlett-packard). Framerate is choppy and some tracks unplayable mind you this with a stock Xubuntu 14.04 install (dual-boot slid over win8.1 w/bing) I just got the latest ATI Xorg update 7.4.99 git over the stock 14.04 LTS 7.0.1 generic diswplay driver so i will see if that makes some improvement. But also besides the lack luster framerate on my kabini powered laptop also the car category selection is dead
I think in your recent tweaking of the game menu you messed up something with car category selection, i am not yet out of ideas, i am only barely halfway through the hacks i can do to this game easily, to try to ressurect a proper working menu for car category selection as right now as of this posting I can only select the Supercars category, i cannot attempt the special championships for 36GP, LS1-GT1, LS1-GT2, TRB, etc. the car category selection is diabled for some reason but as i said i have still a few hacks that might fix a simple folder reference blunder with the new update, but if I do indeed run out of hacks without fixing the issue could you guys and gals have your programmers look at the issue particular with kabini powered laptops. maybe you find something in the source i cant decompile at the moment to search thru.