HoverRace Steam news

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• Review score97% positive
• Total reviews72
• Release dateFeb 7, 2022
• DeveloperGrokkSoft
• PublisherGrokkSoft

Genres: Racing

Company pages: Developer: GrokkSoftPublisher: GrokkSoft

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HoverRace Steam news

HoverRace news collects recent Steam feed items, update posts, and announcements that SteamPulse can associate with this app.

Latest Steam announcements

• HoverRace is now in OpenGL! - 6 May 2026

  HoverRace has been upgraded from its old DirectDraw renderer to OpenGL.This is one of the biggest technical updates we’ve made to the game so far, bringing major improvements to graphics quality, render distance and fullscreen performance.The original rendering code used software rendering. Moving away from DirectDraw will allow us to work on new ideas to bring a new lease of life to the game.We’ve also reworked how wall textures are rendered, fixing alignment issues across both horizontal and vertical surfaces to make textures appear more seamless and smooth throughout the game.We’ve attached some comparison screenshots showing the difference between the previous renderer and the new OpenGL version.As always, if you notice any bugs, graphical glitches or compatibility problems, please let us know. If you cannot use this version, you can change your beta version to version-1.23.6-softwa…

• Small Multi-Monitor Update - 27 March 2026

  A small update is now live with improvements to windowed and fullscreen behavior.Window position and size are now saved and restored correctly across multiple monitors, including secondary displays and wide window layouts that span screens. Fullscreen with F11 has also been improved and now uses the resolution of the display the game window is currently on.The Settings menu has also been simplified. It now includes only Fullscreen (F11), Window, and Properties, and the old fixed-resolution shortcuts tied to the removed menu items have been removed.Thanks to PaTcH and Castro for reporting these issues.

• Return of the Eon! - 13 March 2026

  I’ve posted a small update for HoverRace that brings the Eon back, after a few requests to restore it.I’ve also fixed track compiling, so you should be able to create tracks again.I also fixed a split screen control issue. Two-player split screen was working fine, but with three or four players selected, player 2 would end up using player 3’s controls, and player 3 would use player 4’s. Just a silly indexing mistake on my part.

• Update Notes for October 19 - 19 October 2024

  A small patch to fix an issue with split screen crashing when anyone finished the race. I have decided to include some other quality of life changes that were live in our develop branch. A fix has been added to stop players getting 'stuck' if they move from one room to a room that was not a neighbouring room. This could happen if you moved diagonally across the corner of a room into another. The room check will now recursively move outwards until it can locate which room it is in. This patch also adds changes to select the OK buttons for the prompt to play online and the prompt to join the IMR. This will allow users to use the spacebar to navigate into the IMR instead of having to use their mouse to click the OK button. Finally, if you are launching a race from the IMR with no other players, the wait time to game start will be the same as offline practice, 6 seconds. There is no point w…

• Update Notes for Feb 26 - 26 February 2022

  In this patch we have added split times in the players list if you press F5. These are useful for sessions with friends where you are trying to set a best lap. You will be able to see if a player is ahead or behind their best lap as they pass through checkpoints. Another addition sees positions change on the same players list during laps. Usually it would only update at the end of each lap, but now if a player passes another before reaching the next checkpoint, the positions on the leaderboard will update to reflect this. Finally, the Hovercraft should shake less on the screen after a change was made to only refresh when the game performs a simulation, which will make the game look better. The reason for the increase in version from 1.23.5 to 1.23.6 is to accommodate the change in data sent over the network, so that we could avoid compatibility issues while testing. Any issues, let us k…

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