Assetto Corsa EVO – V0.8.1 Update Deployed

23/07/2026 Assetto Corsa, News Leave a comment

Following the major 0.8 content update, Kunos Simulazioni and 505 Games have released the V0.8.1 Update for the Early Access Assetto Corsa EVO.

This is mostly a stability update, with improvements to AI and quality-of-life hotfixes. The patch fixes crashes when recording dynamic tracks and refreshing the multiplayer server browser, and improves backend data verification and livery-sharing support for user-generated content.

Key gameplay fixes include AI pit lane assignments, unresponsiveness during race start countdowns (when launch assist is enabled), visual pop-in glitches (such as missing or corrupted car thumbnails), and track texture bugs on the newly added Kyalami circuit.

Check out the full changelog below.

Changelog V0.8.1:

Fixed pit location creation and assignment for AI cars
Fixed a dynamic track recording crash on restart
Kyalami fix for incorrect palm impostor subsurface texture
Fix for thumbnails missing or incorrectly generated in certain situations
Fix for thumbnail generation while using the free camera
Reduce tree popping even more on certain configurations
Fix for car and dashboard being unresponsive during race start countdown when the start assist is turned on
Fix for a server issue when it has reached 1000+ lifetime users, causing subsequent entry numbers to start at around 600 and produce incorrect results
Fixed crash during multiple refreshes of the MP browser
Fix for garage cars always being saved because of performance index recalculation
Modding – car now read from Saved Games/ACE-Server folder
Modding – external liveries fix for garage sharing, livery linker added into car customization
Ideal line assist init made async – possible fix for freezes on the main thread
Server: added document folder to Windows server, revamped server-backend-client data exchange for SHA with more UI info on missing cars, fixed early performance validation rejection