AI-based Virtual Race Engineer incl. Pitstop Handling

The main focus of todays release is quality for the most part. Many fixes and small improvements, especially we found the AMS2 session startup issue, that has been around for some time now. Beside that, there are several improvements for the Race Engineer, which now can give you many information like remaining fuel or tyre temperatures with much improved actuality and accuracy.

The list of changes in the Release Notes is long. please take a look...

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Once again many fixes and small additions this time. But there are also some cool new features included:

- You can now supply the names of corners when defining the sections of a track. These names will be used in various places throughout Simulator Controller then, most notably for the Driving Coach, who will reference upcoming corner by name rather than by number, when giving you driving instructions.
- deepseek-r1 can now be used in thinking mode without problems.
- The Race Engineer now prevent preparing a pitstop while you are already in the pitlane, thereby reducing the risk to release the pitlimiter in some simulators.

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Release 6.2 is a major step forward for voice recognition. I have integrated Whisper, an open source neural network based voice recognition engine, which fully runs locally on your GPU. Whisper is capable to recognize free speech in high quality, which is necessary to interact with the Driving Coach. If you can spare some memory and processing power on your GPU, there is no need for using Azure or Google cloud based voice recognition anymore, something which was a typical hurdle to overcome for beginners.

And we have a new download mirror provided by @Caleidosttk (thank you so much), so that update problems seen lately should be fixed now.

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We had a tough last week, because suddenly several AV programs were reporting false positives for some of the Simulator Controller executables. With todays release, most of the problems should be a thing of the past, since I changed the code patterns a bit in the compilation process. But if you still encounter problems, let me know in our Discord. It still might be necessary to declare folder exceptions in some of the more picky AV programs.

Of course, this release also comes with some interesting new stuff.

- iRacing IBT files can now be imported into the session database.
- New settings in the "Session Database" allow you to handle private practice and qualifying sessions in a way that ghosted cars will not be mentioned by the Spotter.
- The new DLC cars of Le Mans Ultimate have been added to the "Setup Workbench" of course.
- An all new News system will bring you important information and updates from time to time.
- The "Basic" configuration is now much better integrated in "Simulator Setup".

And many other changes. Give the Release Notes some love.

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Many fixes this time, but also important functional additions:

- The Rephrasing booster is now capable to generate even more variations in the speech of the Assistants.
- A new Chat mode controlled by your Button Box or Stream Deck is available for rFactor 2 and Le Mans Ultimate, similar to what was available for Assetto Corsa Competizione.
- The 3rd party application "Second Monitor" from @winzarten can be used as real time telemetry data provider.
- Most important, thanks to our community member @Hudson Alves we are starting with translation for Portuguese.

Detailed information can be found in the Release Notes.

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Release 6.2.3

The layouting of telemetry graphs now allows you to configure groups of channels, which are displayed together, making for a nice and cheerful presentation.



Engine water and oil temperatures have been added in all applications, incl. the "Setup Workbench", where also related issues and setup settings are now supported. The Engineer is also aware of the temperatures and can give you related information.

Finally, since there has been several updates to the telemetry system, I recorded a new coaching video for all this stuff.



Additionally, there are several fixes and smaller additions as usual. Detailed information can be found in the Release Notes.

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