We’re busy putting the final touches together for the latest GRID Autosport patch for PC, which we're expecting to go live later this week. Changes include support for the upcoming Drag Racing DLC pack, along with fixes around vehicle upgrades and improvements made to the official playlists.
Alongside this we’re pleased to announce that we are adding Oculus Rift support to GRID Autosport.
Oculus Rift - Added code support to enable Oculus Rift compatibility, coupled with minor optimisations for the virtual reality experience. For more details please see this
Drag mode addition - Additional code for the new "Drag" race mode.
Community Requested Fix - Repair costs of high mileage vehicles get progressively too high, this has been resolved.
Community Requested Fix - Increased variety of tracks found within playlist events.
Online Fix - To improve the online experience, player impact ratings are now enabled by default.
Community Requested Fix - Vehicle upgrades were fully functional even when vehicle tuning is disabled, this has been resolved.
DLC Support - Various fixes to ensure full compatibility of the Drag DLC, which contain new tracks, cars and game modes.
Online Fix - Resolved sporadic instances of network games loading into the race with just your team mate, despite having more players in the lobby.
Stability Improvement - Improved stability of the game under certain strained scenarios within the track select screen.
Stability Improvement - Improved stability for multi event sessions when using the checkpoint game mode.
Community Gift – We will be rewarding all players with 500,000 in-game cash when the patch is applied. This is a small thank you to all who have supported the GRID series and the active community who have given us their constructive feedback.
GRID Racers - Weekend Events
This weekend the team behind the GRID Autosport Racers group are planning a whole host of events.
[Practice] Teams | Tuner // JDM
Friday 26 // 11:20pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryAUN-icqJg Touring Cars have a special place in our racing fuelled hearts which makes us extremely excited to detail our next new content drop for GRID Autosport…Touring Legends.
The Tracks
Silverstone - 6 Routes
Donington Park - 4 Routes
The Cars
Volvo 850 Estate Touring Car
Alfa Romeo 155 Touring Car
Audi A4 Quattro Touring Car
BMW E30 Touring Car
Ford Sierra RS500 Cosworth Touring Car
Single Player Championships
Touring Legends British Championship
Touring Legends Euro Championship
Touring Legends International Championship
New Achievements
British Touring Legend - Win the “Touring Legends British Championship”
European Touring Legend - Win the “Touring Legends European Championship”
International Touring Legend - Win the “Touring Legends International Championship”
The pack will be out later today on Steam and does come as part of the Season Pass.
[Community Cup] Beginner Muscle
GRID Autosport Racers is a Community group dedicated to some great racing with Autosport and later on today (Sept 15th) they've got another event taking place, this time aimed at any beginners.
The Event For newbies, casual racers, and other mediocre drivers! With the last few events being somewhat competitive, this is aimed at creating an enjoyable experience for those of us who are so-so drivers! Hosted by DaBeastKing and p51rafferty.
Classic Muscle 3 races under Tuner // Classic Muscle, 3 laps each:
Hockenheimring // Motodorm Course
Autosport Raceway // Club Circuit
Autosport Raceway // Oval Circuit
Muscle Then 3 races under Tuner // Muscle, 3 laps each:
Chicago // Marina City
Brands Hatch // GP Circuit (night)
Okutama // Sprint Circuit (actually 4 laps here)
Event Rules
Grid order: Random
Upgrades, tune-ups allowed
Collusions on, no detrimental damage
5 Flashbacks
For more info on the event or to get involved, head over to the Steam Group
Patch 5th September
Hey everyone,
We're in the process of pushing a patch live on PC, this will focus on the Impact ratings and tweaks to the match making process.
Impact Ratings - These should now be working correctly within playlists
Matchmaking - We've made some adjustments to the matchmaking process, in particular surrounding the download regions. As of now, you should now be able to find players outside of your region a lot more easier.
Thrustmaster T300RS Support
Hey everyone,
This is due to go into an upcoming patch but we figured that we'd allow owners of the T300RS Wheel to use the game with GRID Autosport right now.
If you have a T300RS simply follow these simple instructions:
1) Download this file: http://blog.codemasters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/GRIDAutosport_T300RS.zip
2) Extract the 'forcefeedback' files and the 'input' files to the corresponding folders in your GRID Autosport steam directory.
3) Play the game
Note: the steam install directory is typically found here -
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\GRID Autosport\
Patch 2nd September
We're currently in the process of pushing live a small PC patch that fixes an issue with the G27 steering wheel. This should solve the issue players are having with the clutch that occurred recently.
August 28th Hotfix + G27 Updates
Hey all
As I'm sure you have noticed, last week a small hotfix style patch was released on the 28th August.
Can confirm that this patch fixed included the following fixes:
Save Fix - Fix save game corruption issues caused by launching the latest DLC packages on older versions of the game.
Save Fix - Added preventative measures within the save system to avoid corrupt or invalid data with certain controller configurations.
Nvidia 3D VISION Fix - Resolved water corruption issues when racing in 3d splitscreen mode.
Stability Improvement - Improved the stability of the game when using content from DLC packages.
Also, just an update but the team are currently looking into clutch issues with G27 steering wheels and we're hoping to release a patch for this soon.
Patch Notes 20/08/14
Just to let you know a new patch is currently scheduled for deployment today (20th Aug) and the full list of changes can be found below:
Stability Improvement - Improved the stability of the game when navigating through the front end menus of the game for extended periods.
Save Fix - Fixed save issues which caused corruption when uninstalling previously used DLC packages.
Stability Improvement - Resolved issues which could cause multiplayer hosts to crash if clients became desynced during online eliminator events.
RaceNet Fix - Fixed certain instances of players not receiving their awards or achievements when competing in certain RaceNet challenges.
Stability Improvement - Fixed issues which could have sporadically caused players to crash when entering or leaving Time Trial events.
Stability Improvement - Resolved Time Attack related crashes which occurred during certain RaceNet challenge scenarios.
DLC Fixes - Integrated multiple fixes for upcoming DLC packages to optimise stability and compatibility.
Online Fix - (Drift) – Fixed issues which in some cases could have caused players to become stuck in a black screen when competing in online drift sessions.
Messaging Improvement - improved game messaging under certain scenarios where players are attempting to access online functionality without an active internet connection.
Save Fix - Added prevention measures to ensure save file does not read as corrupted if certain save file components are deleted.
Save Fix - Added a preventative fix to stop save game corruption if controller action maps are invalid.
Save Fix - Added chunk header to DLC initialisation to help prevent future corruption of save games.
Text Fix - (Japanese) - Fixed issues which prevented certain text strings from appearing correctly in Japanese language.
Audio Fix - (Splitscreen) - Added a preventative fix to stop mode specific music from playing incorrectly within the menu selection screens after a race session had previously finished.
Online Fix - The online repairs/wear and tear functionality has been reworked following feedback from the community.
Online Fix - A restorative fix has been implemented to ensure that players who had previously lost vehicle level data (reset to level one) will now have this data partially restored.
Graphical Fix - Resolved issues on certain PC configurations which caused lighting artefacts on night races when advanced lighting was enabled.
GRID Autosport // Coupé Style and Black Edition
Starting today our second Car Pack will become available for download and features four premium sports cars that cut a stylish dash across the track.
BMW Z4 GT3
Hyundai Genesis Coupe
Cadillac CTS-V Coupe
Nissan 2009 (R35) GT-R Specv
The Coupé Style Car Pack is included for all owners of the Season Pass but can also be picked up separately for $2.99, £2.39 and €2.99
Also available will be the Black Edition which was previously a pre-order exclusive. If you didn’t pick it up at launch but want yourself some of those tasty White Ravenwest Liveries then now’s your chance.
Included within the Black Edition is:
Exclusive Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Coupé Black Series
Exclusive Black Edition White Ravenwest Liveries for BE cars
20 Extra ‘Black Edition’ Online Livery Patterns
10 New Premium sponsors with objectives
The Black Edition will be $4.99, £3.99, €4.99 and is not included within the Season Pass.
