Thanks to the reports we've received since ManiaDrive 1.1, here it is the 1.2 release: No more crashes, freezes, black screens and coredumps at startup (when no hardware shader was found or with indirect rendering). A small bug about help messages with beginners tracks is fixed, too.

Thanks again for all your reports, and have fun with this new bright and shiny cleaned release !

After a looooong time, a new version of ManiaDrive is now available ! It features a lot of bugfixes, but also a long waited beginners mode, whole new textures, ...

Here is the full changelog:

• Fixed 'track loading errors'
• Added a new story mode for beginners !
• New texture set !
• Track blocks are now smoothed
• Added a new menu to play offline with all others tracks (including yours)
• Game no more needs write access to "game" dir, allowing packaging !
• Now using a per-user directory (~/.mania_drive/)
• Camera behaviour is now correct when switching view
• Added 'C' to switch between views
• No more framerate drops at high speeds (console were flooded)
• No more playing soundtrack when volume is 0
• Better window management (windowed mode options are available, too)
• Mania2 track editor help was wrong
• Added F9 key to capture screenshots
• Added a surprise when you finish the game !
• Mouse cursor is no more displayed during races
• A few LAN mode adjustments
• Fixed a bug with arrow keys on some laptops
• Updated joystick/joypad detection
• A lot of various fixes for ManiaDrive and Mania2 track editor

You can download the game for Linux and win32, as usual.

Have fun !