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@skid2206 The only thing I know of that causes this is if you copied the 0.8.0.0 beta on top of an existing 0.7.0.0 install.

@smity199m You can, but it's really hard to drive with keyboard, especially turning or using the canard, because it's not analog. If you have a game console, you could probably use the gamepad from that.

@low12a I don't know a lot about laptop specs. One thing I usually check when people ask is how old the parts are. From some Google searching, that CPU and GPU were launched in 2013. That's 9 years old.

To put it in perspective. I didn't even start working on the game until 2016. So...while it's possible those components could perform better than what you have now. I couldn't guarantee that it would be playable. I wouldn't recommend spending money on that.

If you're going to get a computer with low-end or mid-range components, you're likely better off getting something newer. If you're getting a computer with older components, it's more likely they need to be high-end / top of the line.

The reality is that as more things are added to the game the higher the minimum specs will keep getting, so you don't really want to be at the floor performance wise. I try to optimize the game as much as possible, but there's only so much I can do.

@low12a Yeah, unfortunately, there's not really anything I can do about that. That computer is pretty underpowered.

@low12a you would need to upload the video to YouTube or somewhere and paste a link.

But it looks like you're only getting 8fps, which is likely the problem. Try reducing the graphics quality (Fastest), lower the game resolution, turn off Ambient Occlusion, Bloom, Water Reflections, set trees to billboards or off. If you can't get 60fps without other boats, it will likely be unplayable trying to race.

What are your computer specs? CPU, GPU, memory?

@low12a It sounds like your network is dropping lots of packets, are you on wifi? It might be helpful if you could take a video with the fps/network info visible (ctrl+f).

Any new drivers that want to sign up for next season, please join the Discord channel and see Beau's post: https://discord.com/channels/139415884182585344/737111090953060354/980585223894995005

@racer It was not, I still haven't added support for different in-cockpit sounds. Now that I've been moving everything into bundles, I plan to change how the audio is setup which will make it harder to mod.

@normallard1 The problem is that you likely copied a newer build on top of an older one. There were some changes to the audio file structure with the bundle system updates.

@cp65 Thanks for answering this. Just to follow up, I'm currently in the process of re-working how the game loads race courses and boats, so that these things can be updated without having to update the entire game and make everyone re-download it. Nothing is going to be removed, I was just running into some file size limits with the git repo I store the game in, and so I've decided to split it up into pieces to address the issue.