iRacing released a quarterly update today. Aside from the release of Mosport, one of my favourite tracks from the Grand Prix Legends days, there’s a bunch of stuff to do with hosted racing, and a quick note as follows:

Security
Unverifiable third party replacements of system DLLs (including D3D9.DLL and DINPUT8.DLL) utilized by the simulator will now result in loading errors. If you encounter a Loading Error #66, please remove any third party replacements of D3D9.DLL, DINPUT8.DLL or other imposter system DLLs from your iRacing installation. SoftTH is an allowed dll.

By the sounds of it, this’ll break the Telemetry HUD Plugin I blogged about previously. I think the Telemetry HUD always pushed the boundaries of what’s “fair”, but hey, that whole dynamic’s just part of motorsport.

From my old post:

I’m really surprised that iRacing, an online multiplayer game (where you’d expect some cheat/hack countermeasures on the part of the developers), doesn’t have parasite detection code that picks up either unrecognised or suspicious-looking DLLs, or at least funky stuff like “hey, wait a sec, I have TWO d3d9.dlls loaded in my process space! uncool!”.

Well, I guess I’m happy to no longer be surprised.

I’m interested to see what happens next.  Security arms race ? (warning! hot duck oviduct & phallus-related blog post on the other side of that link). Plugin user revolt? (There’ve already been a few tantrums) Crickets chirping?