Patch Notes - 23rd October 2026

Changelog

• Multiplayer - Fixed players starting from the pit lane at a standing start being able to drive straight out without waiting for their countdown
  
• Gameplay - Changed standing starts back to releasing the whole grid together, class groups and the time gaps between them now only apply to rolling starts
  
• Dedicated Server - Fixed server manager commands getting lost when two arrived together, and join messages of 2,048 characters or more being dropped
  
• Stability - Fixed a memory corruption almost every time the menus saved data, the cause of most crashes since the Historic Update, including crashes on exit
  
• VR - Fixed crashes on exit and when changing resolution or supersampling with OpenXR Toolkit installed
  
• VR - Fixed the game getting stuck half in VR when the headset was on standby at launch ( such as a Quest ), VR now starts once the headset wakes up
  
• VR - Added a Retry option when no headset is found at launch, instead of an error and the game closing
  
• VR - Fixed a distorted image on high-resolution headsets, and SteamVR no longer limits the resolution to 4096 pixels per eye ( a Bigscreen Beyond can now run its full 5028 )
  
• VR - Added Menu Distance, Menu Size, HUD Distance and HUD Size settings to the VR options, plus bindable HUD size controls
  
• VR - Reduced the default menu size, it now covers about 53 degrees of your view instead of 82
  
• HUD - Fixed the HUD not showing on older graphics drivers
  
• Gameplay - Fixed qualifying and leaderboard laps being invalidated for wall contact when the car's floor touched the track, grass or gravel ( such as the Mini Cooper at Knutstorp )
  
• Telemetry - Changed the shared memory closest yellow distance to point at the incident, not the start of the yellow zone
  
• Knutstorp - Fixed a dangerous kerb