A new round of our Esports competition 'The Worlds Fastest Motorcycle Gamer' in partnership with Init Esports has seen some fierce times at the top of the leaderboard.

Here's the standings after 2 rounds:
We head to the infamous Million Dollar Highway for round 3, and it's at night!

Set a time and see where you finish racing against the best - Multiplayer - Online Challenges

You can find more information about the Init Esports Competition here: https://initesports.gg/

Experience the speed and thrills of some of the fastest superbikes in the world with RiMS Racing!

Welcome back racers!

We are thrilled to announce that a new update for RiMS Racing is now available to download on your Steam client! This 1.5 version of the game is adding compatibility updates to more controllers, UI optimization for ultra-wide resolutions, bug fixes and more!

Please read the changelogs below for more details about the different fixes implemented in this update.


We have fixed a general issue impacting some controllers, here's a list of the controllers that are confirmed to work:

• Switch Pro Controller
  
• Nacon GC100
  
• Nacon PS4 Revolution Unlimited Pro Controller
  
• Nacon Pro Compact NC7271
  
• Nacon BB4469
  
• Xbox Nacon Pro Compact
  
• PS4 Nacon Wired Compact Controller
  
• Official Xbox Series controller (Bluetooth+cable)
  
• Official Xbox One controller (Bluetooth+cable)
  
• Official Xbox 360 controller
  
• Official PS5 controller (Bluetooth+cable)
  
• Official PS4 controller (Bluetooth+cable)
  
• Razer Wolverine v2 (XOne compatible)
  
• 8bitdo m30 (X360 compatible)
  
• Logitech F710 (2.4 Ghz wireless)

Note: If after the patch you are still experiencing problems, specifically using the NaconGC100 or the Logitech F710 pad, please use the “Enable Steam Input” option available on RiMS Racing > right click > Properties > Controller tab or setting the switch on the pad to “X”.

It could also happen that some of you might experience issues with the official Xbox Series X controller using Bluetooth due to how the peripheral is connected to Win10 and other factors. In this case, please disconnect all other peripherals and Enable Steam Input as explained above.

If you still experience issues with your controller, please provide a video or a detailed explanation and the DxDiag file in order for our development team to investigate it.

Please consider that with this patch the official Xbox controllers impulse trigger vibration (only the one concerning the triggers) will be turned off as a consequence.

• We fixed a rare crash on the WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca when the introduction is skipped

• Steam Trading Cards have been added to RiMS Racing

• Fixed an issue in which the ECU's blinking was absent when the Camera Modes were set to First Person or Helmet.

• Fixed an issue, in which the Penalties were not updated unless the Spectator was previewing the Rider doing the fault.
  
• The voice chat feature is now functional.
  
• Fixed a crash during the loading screen.

• The GUI was overflowing to secondary monitors in 48:9 resolutions.
  
• While minimized in fullscreen, the mouse cursor is now confined to the primary display.
  
• Cursor-Clipping now includes the taskbar.
  
• The mouse cursor no longer remains confined to the application's window.
  
• The application is now preventing sticky keys from being activated.
  
• Ultra-wide resolutions now scale properly during Loading Screens.
  
• The "Exit The Event" background now stretch to cover resolutions wider than 16:9.
  
• In Offline Duels, the application's viewport now scale horizontally to resolutions wider than 16:9.
  
• Most Windows shortcuts can now used while the application was running.
  
• The loading UI can no longer go out of the safe area.

It's award season on Steam. Support RiMS Racing with your vote. We've selected 'Best Soundtrack' due to the awesome collaboration with The Bloody Beetroots! Or if you prefer, select any category you like.

Thanks to everyone for their support of RiMS Racing!

For the last month we've been having intermittent issues with Nvidia Drivers. We've been working directly with Nvidia, and released a manual hot fix for the problem.

We are happy to announce that with the most recent 'game ready' driver - released 16/11/2021 - automatically includes this fix. So we'd like to encourage you all to update your Nvidia drivers and jump back into the game.

We'd like to take a moment to thank members of the community who alerted us to this issue.

The timing of this issue fell right into a pre-arranged demo period - resulting and a wave of negative reviews on Steam. We're dedicated to answering these complaints, and hope the actions taken with Nvidia will restore some faith. AND we're working with our publishing team to arrange another free demo period for all those that missed out.

We apologise for this and hope we can see you back in RiMS Racing!

A time-limited free demo of RiMS Racing is available NOW on Steam.

Install the full game and try it out between the 25th, 26th, and the 27th October.

Head to the track for FREE during this promotional period - in partnership with the release of the official soundtrack by The Bloody Beetroots! Available on all streaming platforms. Additionally, between October 29th and November 1st the Bloody Beetroots DLC including awesome livery options will be available FOR FREE - so don't miss out!

Hello Riders, we've been very busy attacking this next update for you. So busy, we did not even have time to think of a name. So here's your 'Free Game Upgrade'. As well as all the previous hotfixes and patches we've brought you, we've also been working on this extra content - as requested by the community.

We hope this shows our commitment and dedication to the game and our lovely fans. Have a look below and let us know what you think.

• Motorbikes career customization now available in Single Race, Online Custom Events, Private Testing and Offline Duel (only Player1).
  
• Multiplayer spectator mode update: now featuring new pages with MSC and a Map to follow Riders.
  
• Added a test mode in career to try new mounted components.
  
• Night mode for all road tracks now available.
  
• Online Leaderboards in Private Testing now based on: Track, Asphalt Condition (Dry/Wet) and Physics Simulation Level (Beginner, Intermediate, Realistic)

• AI behaviours, including obstacle avoidance, improved. AI perfomance in Career improved, now more challenging and engaging.
  
• Audio for custom exhausts has been enhanced, several new UI audio effects added, bugfixes and mix improvements.
  
• It is now possible to Restart a Calendar Event on any Difficulty Level.

- PC Crossplay has been enabled

Welcome back riders to another quick patch and update for RiMS Racing! We're continuing to improve the game where possible, and with your fantastic feedback. We have some bigger, more exciting changes coming soon. But for now we're here with some more improvements.
- "Hide" function added in order to improved Inventory/Shop readability
- AI performances optimizations
- Improved icon readability in the Motorbike Mechanics section
- Improved HUD minimap colours
- Improved discount manager perk efficiency
- Autosaves logic has been reorganized in order to prevent save corruption issues
- R&D Management objectives are now reset correctly after a Career restart
- Fixed icon on Private Testing leaderboards
- Audio memory usage optimizations
- Fixed "The Star" description and unlock logic
- Custom joypad presets are now working as intended after booting the game
- Fixed a crash that occurred accepting an invite during an Online Challenge
- Fixed a crash that occurred accepting an invite during Career tutorial bike selection
- Minor graphical fixes on Million Dollar Highway track
- Fixed a text issue on the Anti-Wheelie explanation
- Fixed a specific crash occurring in the R&D Management area
- Custom joypad button configurations are now saved as expected
- Custom exhausts sound are now played as expected in the showroom area
- Several HUD and cockpits graphical fixes
- Fixed a crash that occurred on the Motorbike Mechanics scrollbar
- Loading screen hints counter now is working as expected
- Fixed ghost management when no ghost data is available on the leaderboards
- "Where there's a will there's a way" now unlocks as expected

Hello Riders, today we've released a patch to the game on Steam which includes some perfomance updates, and a range of different issues found by the community. Thank you for your continued support.

- Tracks: improvements and polishing on lighting, evolving track, tarmac, kerbs, terrain, crowd and sponsors.
- Bikes: multiple fixes and polishing updates on components, bikes, bikes cockpit and liveries.
- Raised the quality of Screen Space Reflection.

- Updated map icons colours for better readability on: Player, AI, Ghost Player, Ghost downloaded from Online Leaderboard
- Tuning fix for condition % colour of components consumption.

- Control bar updates: sound fixes and new actions.

- Multiple fixes on DLC content and behaviour.

• General performance improvements.
  
• Improved game stability due to some crash fixes.
  
• New yellow key for MBM for components that must be mounted before race.
  
• AI mass center optimization.
  
• Fixed an issue on championship rewards.
  
• Fixed the duration of rain tires (Pirelli and Metzeler).
  
• Fixed "The Star" achievement unlock value and icon.
  
• Fixed several achievements descriptions.
  
• Improvements and fixes on controls configuration:
  
• - Fixed last used input configuration saves.
  
• - Fixed crash steam inputs.
  
• - Avoid crash with unknown controller.
  
• - Fixed an issue with unknown controllers products that didn't allow to find valid input presets.
  
• - Fixed options page title "DEVICE NOT FOUND" with ps4/5 controller.