Steam News

GRID 1.3 Update Released

October 21, 2009, 11:58 am - Valve - Product Update

Updates to GRID have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

GRID 1.3 Update

• Added support for additional content packs.
  
• Added support for Motion Platform D-Box.
  
• Increasing the maximum view distance by 1 km so it is possible to see the entire length of the hill roads on San Francisco
  
• Fix for personal best lap time not replacing world record lap time when playing without internet connection.
  
• Fix for race day personal best lap times only being valid for first race in a grid world event.
  
• Fix for being able to select too many different types of cars in multiplayer events Long Beach Battle and Drift Inter GP.
  
• Fix for being able to select the Pontiac GTO in multiplayer Touring cars events.
  
• Fix for vehicles bought on eBay applying performance modifiers when playing multiplayer events.
  
• Fix for being awarded 1 lap in online stats for freestyle drift events.
  
• Prevented the editing ebay.xml cheat
  

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July 10, 2009, 8:36 am - Valve - General Announcement

This weekend only, save 50% off GRID, the hit racing game from Codemasters.

GRID Update Released

July 10, 2008, 10:33 am - Valve - Product Update

Updates to GRID have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

GRID

• Fix for sessions list overflow and missing characters in front end
  
• Fix for errors generated on game shutdown
  
• Support for TrackIR
  
• Online experience points: more points awarded for completing longer races
  
• Assists on/off toggle added to session creation and browsing
  
• All offline events (apart from head-to-heads and touge) are now available online (event voting screen now scrolls to see additional championships)
  
• Fix for failure to recognise some devices in user-created action map presets, including Logitech Cordless Rumblepad 2
  
• Fixed GRID startup issue where it appears as a process in Task Manager but fails to run
  
• Additional experience points are awarded for not colliding with other cars whilst racing damage on or forward sessions
  

GRID Update Released

June 12, 2008, 4:37 pm - Valve - Product Update

Updates to GRID have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

GRID

• When viewing in spectator mode wheels should now turn correctly
  
• Session searching now functions correctly when there are lots of full sessions
  
• Track and route options no longer change when host gets back to lobby in private/LAN
  
• Race results are now correct if a host migration occurs at the end of the race
  
• Other player's progress/positions are now correctly updated when you enter the race results screen
  
• Several NaN (brown screen) related fixes
  
• Fixed a problem whereby it was only possible to upload one world record ghost to each track
  

GRID: Racing with Steam

June 4, 2008, 1:45 pm - Valve - Product Release

GRID -- a new racing title from Codemasters, creators of the Colin McRae racing game series -- is now available via Steam. Available to PC gamers around the world, GRID is constructed upon the next generation of the technology that powered recent Colin McRae games. Offering multiple racing modes, cars, and tracks, GRID is now available for purchase.