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v0.6.4.0

Fixed

• Fixed an issue in the water shader that was causing a pretty huge performance hit.
• The exhaust guard on the turbine hydro hull was mapped to the wrong texture, it's now mapped to the Hull.dds
• Made roostertail length shorter to be more realistic.
• Fixed issue where roostertails would drift inwards in the turns.
• Fixed issues with roostertail physics.
• Fixed issue where boats would slide across the water when first spawning onto the course.
• Fixed a bug where the distance traveled along the race course was calculated using the center of the boat instead of the front. This was causing some issues with gun jumping penalties getting added for legal boats.
• Fixed an issue with the network stats in the ctrl+f debug display getting cutoff at certain resolutions.

Added

• Flags are now displayed on the HUD. This will help with awareness of penalties, start, last lap, finish, etc.
• Current position is now displayed on the HUD.
• Automated 1-minute pin penalties. The 1-minute pin is at the exit of turn 1 on all courses. This is disabled by default, but can be turned on in the server admin settings under Rules.
• New nose camera.

Updated

• Updated U-11 J&D's hull texture.
• Updated the cockpit graphics, mainly pulled some more models/textures from HydroMod and tried to clean it up.
• Updated Crest water library to latest.

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Big update! Several bugfixes and some new features for the H1 Unlimited's new E-League!

v0.6.3.0

Added

• Added Piston Unlimiteds! Each team (in StreamingAssets) has an xml file now that specifies which hull to use along with other info, so custom piston paintjobs can be added.
• Replaced all of the boats included in the game with the 2020 H1 Unlimited E-League teams.
• Added Madison 2 mile course.
• Added ability to specify server passwords.

Updated

• Completely re-vamped replay list menu. Allows sorting, deleting, renaming replay files.
• Re-worked netcode to make turns more accurate.
• Guntersville course layout updated to match the 2019 course more closely.
• Updated both Madison courses to have trees.
• New UI button style thanks to Matt Johnson.
• The nex/previous driver buttons for the camera now select the driver ahead or behind the current driver.

Fixed

• Bug where boats could collide with eachother in the solo-qualifying session.
• Fixed an issue with the logic when connecting to the server, handshaking is now performed before the course loads.

It does work, you need to copy the "HydroSim_Data" folder out of the zip file and into the HydroSim folder.

Not sure if this screenshot helps?

I'm not sure what the problem is, can you attach a screenshot of the error?

The server is currently hardcoded to use port 25144 on both TCP and UDP. If you want other people to be able to connect to the server on the open internet, you will need to open the port on your firewall. If you're behind a router, which is likely, you'll need to login to the router and forward the port to your computer running the server.

I updated the HydroSim page to mention this.

In order for people to connect, they'll need your IP address to put into the Join input field.

I plan on making a master server list, but haven't gotten around to it yet, hopefully soon.

@tjz5151 I put some recommendations in here: http://www.uhlhydroplanes.com/topic/198/what-are-the-system-requirements

That is for newer desktops, I'm not sure about laptop graphics cards or if you can even swap them out.

If you have an older desktop, the graphics cards listed in that thread might not work for you.

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v0.6.2.3

Fixed

• Fixed a bug that was adding a collider at 0,0,0 world coordinates which is in the middle of some of the courses. Hitting it would cause the boat to crash or get stuck.
• Fixed issue with the rpm / speed readout dissapearing at certain resolutions.

v0.6.2.2

Fixed

• Reverted Unity version. This should fix the crashes and server issues. I sent Unity bug reports, not sure anything will come of that.
• Also includes the VR hotfix.

v0.6.2.1 VR Hotfix

• This fixes a bug when using VR mode that would make it so you couldn't re-join the course.
  This download is completely optional and the fix will be in the next version.
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v0.6.2.1

Fixed:

• Fixed some errors that were happening on the dedicated server that was breaking lots of things.
• Fixed a performance issue with the detailed lap info.
• Fixe Re-Centering when using SteamVR.

v0.6.2.0

Added:

• Can now toggle Best lap time / speed with Total time / average speed.
• Can now display detailed lap info for each driver by clicking on their name.
• HUD is now displayed for some of the camera views in VR.
• Can now adjust steering sensitivy from the Controls tab in Settings.
• Many more controls are now re-assignable. See the Input tab when launching the game.

Updated:

• Replaced fps/ping (ctrl+f) with fps/memory/network info and graphs.
• Updated Crest to latest version.

Fixed:

• Bug with wakes/audio not getting disabled for boats on the course when watching replay.
• Fixed an error in the dedicated server.

@Andrew-Waring I've had issues where sometimes the wheel doesn't get picked up, but if I power cycle the wheel, and restart the game, then its fine.

Not sure why the Fanatec wheel wouldn't be working, as far as I know it uses DirectInput like everything else.
I'm using a Fanatec Forza CSR wheel and ClubSport pedals.

Thanks for the suggestions. I've added them to my issue list.

Ability to re-map all of the available controls will be in the next update.

There's nothing I can do unfortunately, your graphics card does not support Compute Shaders. You could try updating your graphics drivers to see if that helps. Other, than that you'd need to upgrade your graphics card.

Crest uses compute shaders to generate waves. I'm also using compute shaders to generate boat wakes.

This would also explain why you weren't seeing roostertails / wakes previously.

Probably not what you wanted to hear.

If that file is missing, the game won't even start, how were you even playing?

You probably need to re-download it. It's possible your browser isn't actually fully re-downloading the file and instead just using a cached version that's corrupted. If you're using internet explorer, you may need to clear the cache.

Hey 0.6.1.0 is using a new water library which sounds like it may not be compatible with your computer's hardware.

Can you attach screenshots and paste your system specs (Operating System, CPU, graphics card, memory, etc)?

Also, the game writes a log file out to: C:\Users<username>\AppData\LocalLow\HydroSim\HydroSim\output_log.txt

Could you also attach the log file?

This last update should fix the migrating buoy anchors.

Updated to v0.6.1.0-p10, I've also just updated the link on the downloads page to point to this version.

I think this will be the last -p## version for now, will go back to just updating the normal version numbers. There will likely be some more changes to the physics, but since there isn't a racing season going on right now, I don't think it's necessary to keep 2 separate versions of the game.

@craigmont Yeah, that's a great suggestion, also a way to disable automatic saving of each session type.

When you run the game, it writes to a log file located at C:\Users\<username>\AppData\LocalLow\HydroSim\HydroSim\output_log.txt

Can you run the game, drive around, if you see the same bug, immediately exit the game and then send me the log file. I think you should be able to attach it to the forum. Also, maybe attach a screenshot?

@Acer45 Interesting, glad you solved it! I only have an Oculus Rift, so it's hard for me to debug issues with different hardware.

It's definitely something that's evolving, it's hard to pinpoint a minimum requirement. I don't have the resources to buy multiple sets of hardware to test on.

I'd recommend getting Mid to High end hardware if you can afford it.

CPU - Intel i7 or i9 or AMD Ryzen 4 to 8 cores, Higher GHz clock rate will be better than more cpu cores (A lot of the newer CPU's can go up to 4GHz now). The game does utilize multi-threading, but typically the higher clock rate will outweigh more CPU cores.

RAM - I'd recommend getting whatever the fastest RAM your motherboard supports, I'd say typically DDR4 2166, some support up to 3200. I've seen the game use more than 2GB of ram. A system with at least 16GB should be fine, could probably get away with 8.

GPU - NVIDIA cards typically perform better than AMD. I'd say at least GeForce GTX 1060/RTX 2060 or Radeon RX 570/RX 5700. At bare minimum you need a graphics card that supports shader model 5.0 and Compute Shaders.

If you're planning on playing in VR or 4k monitor, you might need a top of the line graphics card like an RTX 2080.

It is possible to run on lower end systems by lowering the screen resolution and turning off options in the graphics settings, but if you're building a new system, I wouldn't recommend that.

Re-center VR can be configured in the Input tab in the dialog that pops up before the game launches.

The default key is F4.

Edit: Oh, I just noticed you said that wasn't working... I'll look into it.

Do you have an Oculus? Which one? I've only tested with the first gen Oculus Rift.