F1 2010 Patch Thread (All Formats)F1 2010-2016

[LeftyWright69]

Is there going to be a Fn RAIN-X patch for my vision so when all you rainofiles got to have that feeling, and all us CRT blind drivers will be able to survive…lol

 

[Spagetti69]

Don't need a patch, more a full body armour suit for that Lefty.

 

[grafpt]

their basically rebuilding the entire game lol This finished version was like a Alpha, MAYBE Beta version. Very glad for this.

 

[Turkey :D]

I've uninstalled the PC version from my computer until they release the patch. I have poor frame rates, usually below 30. DIRT 2 and GRID run great and look better than it too.

Core 2 Duo@ 2.8Ghz
4Gb DDR3
Nvidia Geforce 9600m GT (overclocked to 9700m GT specs)
500 GB 5400rpm HDD

I'm on a late 2009 15" Unibody MacBook Pro
I run Windows 7 x64 through Apple's Bootcamp

 

[Terronium-12]

I've uninstalled the PC version from my computer until they release the patch. I have poor frame rates, usually below 30. DIRT 2 and GRID run great and look better than it too.

Core 2 Duo@ 2.8Ghz
4Gb DDR3
Nvidia Geforce 9600m GT (overclocked to 9700m GT specs)
500 GB 5400rpm HDD

I'm on a late 2009 15" Unibody MacBook Pro
I run Windows 7 x64 through Apple's Bootcamp

To be fair, you're emulating a Windows environment (you really shouldn't expect it to perform as if you were using the real thing), and on top of that you're using a 9600M that only has a 128-bit memory bus (if I remember correctly). Overclock or no overclock, you'll need to run it at a very conservative resolution as there just isn't enough bandwidth to support high resolutions, not to mention it uses GDDR2 or GDDR3 (depending on the model) which are, by required standards, ancient.

What resolution were you running the game at?

 

[JGW]

Boot camp is NOT an emulator. The mac actually boots into windows with windows drivers for the apple hardware. All bootcamp does is create a FAT32 partition and install the drivers needed for windows.

Otherwise, I agree. It's the video card.

 

[Terronium-12]

Boot camp is NOT an emulator. The mac actually boots into windows with windows drivers for the apple hardware. All bootcamp does is create a FAT32 partition and install the drivers needed for windows.

I stand corrected then. I know little to nothing about Macs, other than the extortionate prices for Mac-compatible video cards.

 

[icelt]

Just noticed this little tidbit in a thread on "Default Prevent Neutral/Reverse Gear if CarSpeed > X kph?" on the official site:

http://community.codemasters.com/fo...verse-gear-if-carspeed-x-kph.html#post6649833

21-10-2010, 06:37 PM
T4RG4
F1 2010 Chief Games Designer
I want to have this in the future but it won't make it into the upcoming patch (that's being tested now). When Karun was in the other day he was telling us this is exactly what the cars do anyway (stop you down-shifting under 30).

So fair confirmation me thinks that patch #1 is done and currently in testing.

 

[Sureboss]

Ian/Helios said that in the Patch update posted the other day.

 

[icelt]

Ian/Helios said that in the Patch update posted the other day.

Not exactly I don't think. For review:

The team are hard at work, and have been since launch, building the patch. We’ve focussed on both fixes to the game and a number of gameplay improvements based on your feedback. Once the process has finished, we can then release the patch for submission which will take an additional couple of weeks until it is available for release. Here is a quick overview of the main issues which we’re addressing:

And:

Once the patch goes into submission, we’ll try to give you guys a heads up as to when it will be live and ready to download as soon as we know.

Based on those partial quotes I still feel that T4RG4's comment provides clarification that the patch has actually now "been submitted", as compared to "in the process" of being submitted .

 

[Golfman]

This game doesn't need a patch, it needs a complete code re-write.

Let's face it, everyone, we've all basically paid to beta test a game. Maybe F1 2011 will be what F1 2010 should have been; tested.

Hear hear! I've said this all along. When you pay £40-45 for a game you expect no major bugs whatsoever. A couple of minor bugs are the norm, and it is these that can be fixed wth with patches. But F12010 is said to be crawling with career-ruining glitches. In my first race, I qualified 1st only to start down at 21st on the grid on raceday. This, I found out, was due to a bug in the qualifying sessions. And during that same race, I had managed to fight my way to 7th on the last 10 laps only to have my hard work ruined by 3 consecutive punctures on 3 consecutive laps. This is inexcusable on the part of CM. If they had delayed it until an early 2011 release so they could test the game properly, we waould all have been happy.
But no. It's a money-making business and all they wanted was to get it out before GT5, regardless of whether it was complete or not.
Don't get me wrong, I do like the game, but the career mode is a big no-no until it is fixed. It almost seems like we have paid for half a game, with the other half being delivered via the forthcoming patch. Hurry up CM.

 

[Sureboss]

his is inexcusable on the part of CM. If they had delayed it until an early 2011 release

Which FOM wouldn't have allowed.

a money-making business

God forbid a business should make money.

When you pay £40-45 for a game you expect no major bugs whatsoever.

Name me one game that hasn't been patched on the PS3/360 that didn't need it.

It's got it's problems, of that there is no doubt. But stop being so childish about it.

 

[BlacqueJacques]

Despite bugs I still like and enjoy the game; and they are working on fixes.

I'd say the same about GT5 if it has any bugs when we finally get it!

 

[Golfman]

God forbid a business should make money.
It's got it's problems, of that there is no doubt. But stop being so childish about it.

Childish?
Erm....are you getting subs from Codemasters for this?
So basically it is okay for a company to rush out a broken product and expect us to pay full whack for it and not complain? What the hell happened to game testing these days?
You may be okay about it having to actually play the game like you're skating on thin ice, waitin for the next race-finishing bug to happen, but I and many others aren't. Just read the forums.
Sure they and every company are in it to make money, but for that money they should deliver a quality product from the go, not a half-finished one that they need to fix because the so-called game testers were suffering from a hangover from being out the night before celebrating the fact that they get paid for doing nowt.
And what about the poor saps that don't have internet connection? They will have to live with a glitchy game, and will no doubt return it to the shop and stick with F1:CE.

What I can't understand is that all of CM's previous next-gen games - Dirt, Grid, Dirt 2 - have all performed brilliantly from the start.
So what the hell went wrong with F1 2010?
Maybe they should have got Sumo Digital to do it. You know, the guys who did last years Wii and PSP versions.

 

[xreyuk]

Also, why has it taken them so long to release a patch? Is it because so much is broken?

 

[Sureboss]

Childish?
Erm....are you getting subs from Codemasters for this?
So basically it is okay for a company to rush out a broken product and expect us to pay full whack for it and not complain? What the hell happened to game testing these days?
You may be okay about it having to actually play the game like you're skating on thin ice, waitin for the next race-finishing bug to happen, but I and many others aren't. Just read the forums.

Well done on missing this part of my post:

"It's got it's problems, of that there is no doubt."

Sure they and every company are in it to make money, but for that money they should deliver a quality product from the go, not a half-finished one that they need to fix because the so-called game testers were suffering from a hangover from being out the night before celebrating the fact that they get paid for doing nowt.

You have any experience of game testing or the processes that go on in review and analysis of it? Though like many others you seem to think the bugs have existed within the game for ages pre-release and were simply ignored through laziness. Bugs are so easy to create during the final phases of development.

It's not half-finished, it's not a beta either. The release date would have been agreed in agreement with FOM, it's their IP in the game. If this date wasn't agreed, it would've been F1 2011 as the first in the series, then they'd have to change a lot of the content in the game, so it could still have had as many issues in 5-6 months time at the start of next season. Then again, it's better to release it mid-season due to data from the teams of the cars.

As I said before, show me a current-gen game that doesn't have bugs or needed a patch after release. The only bug to me that you cannot work around is the lack of fuel simulation in race for the AI. Even that isn't a gamebreaker.

And what about the poor saps that don't have internet connection? They will have to live with a glitchy game, and will no doubt return it to the shop and stick with F1:CE.

That's not Codies problem or any other developers problem. More gamers are expecting more from their games, no problem in that, but there is no acceptance of the fact that bigger games will have bugs. Current-gen consoles are designed so that game updates are simple, if people don't have at least intermittent access to the net, then they should've stuck with a PS2. A complete lack of understanding from the majority of gamers of the industry, unrealistic demands and the hilarious belief that the majority of devs don't care about games is pathetic.

 

[Pakt Sardine]

Also, why has it taken them so long to release a patch? Is it because so much is broken?

Could be. Might also be the fact that they also have their hands full with Dirt 3. Who knows. They probably didn't realize the bugs existed until they received feedback after the game was released. Whatever the case, yes it's taking a long time, but I feel they are handling this more than legitimately through progress updates on their blog.

Even with the bugs, I really adore this game. The only problem is that shortly after buying the game, my replacement blu-ray drive failed and I'm without my PS3 until monday when I get my replacement-of-the-replacement in the mail. Which sucks, because I've been having terrible F1 cravings.

 

[Captain Roh]

Update: The team have been hard at work and as a result we have now completed all internal testing on the patch. The patch is now in submission with Microsoft and Sony for all 3 platforms, and once this process has been successfully completed the patch will be released, ready for you to download. Keep an eye out on the forums, facebook, and twitter, as we?ll let you know as soon as it?s ready to download.

Finally!

 

[Spagetti69]

Good news.

I dread to ask but how long will we have to wait on Sony for approval?

 

[rsh]

Within 6 years I guess

 

[Sureboss]

Good news.

I dread to ask but how long will we have to wait on Sony for approval?

I've known it to take a couple of weeks before, don't know if that's a standard, so a fairly useless reference point, but nevermind.💡

 

[icelt]

Updated 1st post.

 

[xreyuk]

Nice to finally know it's only a couple of days away.

 

[icelt]

Nice to finally know it's only a couple of days away.

Errr "days"... boy I hope so but IMHO a couple of weeks away is more likely.

 

[Golfman]

A complete lack of understanding from the majority of gamers of the industry, unrealistic demands and the hilarious belief that the majority of devs don't care about games is pathetic.

You are possibly the only person sticking up for Codemasters on this. Every one else who has experienced frustrating races due to problems with the game are royally cheesed off about it. I am not the only one.
Bottom line: F1 2010 is glitchy. There is no excuse.

 

[Captain Roh]

I'm in agreement with you there Golfman.

I've played many games that had bugs in the past, but none that felt quite so incomplete as this one.

There are no excuses you're right, to me it just demostrates a shift in industry priority. The industry boomed, the tycoons moved in, and while gaming is still at the core of development level hearts, its the money men who decide when to ship a game. As long as their wallets are full for the end of the quarter they couldnt give two ***** about the gaming public.

This is what I absolutely love about sony, first party development i mean obviously, but just think of the backlash should GT5 had been rushed and been released in a similar state, personally I'd rather put up with delays than a broken game.

 

[Sureboss]

Some brilliant ignorance of the position of the Gaming Industry in the UK.

Love the brown-nosing of Sony at the same time.

And to re-iterate a point again:

its the money men who decide when to ship a game.

There are controls by FOM when their IP is released. If they'd have pushed the game back to next year (as they can't release off-season), they'd have a whole new set of regulations and cars to deal with, so would've been about next September again. Once those decisions have been made to release next year, as well as this, you can't just move it on to next year anyway and say, "Oh well". Business plans exist in Gaming too, funnily enough.

Every one else who has experienced frustrating races due to problems with the game are royally cheesed off about it. I am not the only one.

Where did I say otherwise? In fact, I did say, there are bugs and have expressed annoyance of, in particular, the fuel simulation bug. I am willing to understand how bugs occur (not excusing, there is a big difference), something you are not.

 

[Northstar]

There are no excuses you're right, to me it just demostrates a shift in industry priority. The industry boomed, the tycoons moved in, and while gaming is still at the core of development level hearts, its the money men who decide when to ship a game. As long as their wallets are full for the end of the quarter they couldnt give two ***** about the gaming public.

It's always been that way, there have always been rush jobs and bug filled games. Thing is now that we have the internet so we can more easily find out that they exist so it seems like there are more of them whereas in the past they were just buried in the desert and forgotten about.

Anyways, hopefully the patch comes soon as I really want to do some racing, TT runs are fun for a little while and I hate playing online.

 

[LeftyWright69]

I really don’t know what the issues are since we all know the patch is being worked on and the game, if it doesn’t smoke off you PS3 database and give you heart attack, it’s still pretty darn cool. I know the online play is a little rocky sometimes but I don’t have a game for the PS3 or the PC that goes online that doesn’t have issues. So when the patch comes out the game will just be that much tricker.

 

[SHaDe-]

Is there any news on a date? I'm trying to do the Championship on Expert but it's impossible when pit-stops take 15 plus seconds and the AI don't pit at all.