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Assetto Corsa EVO 0.8 update adds 3 cars, Kyalami, UGC multiplayer support, and a VR overhaul

Update 0.8 for Assetto Corsa EVO adds the KTM X-Bow GT2, KTM X-Bow GT4, Volkswagen Golf 8 R, and Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit, while expanding user-generated content support and reworking VR, rendering, physics, and stability.

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Update 0.8 for Assetto Corsa EVO expands content and pushes several core systems forward in Early Access. In the official 0.8 announcement, KUNOS outlines new cars and track content, broader user-generated content support, a major VR rework, plus physics, rendering, and gameplay fixes.

What changed

Features

  • User-generated content support moves forward with external livery creation.
  • Multiplayer now supports user-generated car content.
  • VR received a major overhaul, including foveated rendering, eye-tracked foveated rendering on supported hardware, more aggressive foveating presets, pixel-density control, world scale, supersampling, and a custom MSAA resolve for VR.
  • VR now has its own dedicated video-settings profile, separate from flat-screen settings.
  • Additional VR/performance options include a “prefer FPS over latency” mode and direct rendering into the OpenXR swapchain.
  • Rendering updates continue with dynamically resizable texture and mesh streaming pools that work against a real-time VRAM budget.

Cars

  • KTM X-Bow GT2 added.
  • KTM X-Bow GT4 added.
  • Volkswagen Golf 8 R added.

Tracks

  • Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit added in its modern FIA-graded layout.

Physics

  • Road temperature model reworked.
  • Dynamic track maps rebaked with revised logic for more consistent grip evolution.
  • Weather and dynamic track behavior received fixes, with calibration still ongoing.
  • Camber is now derived geometrically.
  • Brake temperatures now respond to electronic brake intervention.
  • Rear-wheel steering corrected.
  • Excessive smoke generation fixed.
  • Wet-grass particle behavior addressed.

Fixes

  • Enhanced windshield rendering, updated wiper refraction, and new windshield raindrop splash added.
  • Panini projection updated for wide-FOV framing.
  • HiZ occlusion updated to reduce edge flicker.
  • Early-culling issue in mirrors on ultra setting resolved.
  • Hotstint timing, results, and lap counter corrected.
  • Pitstop fuel-logic issue fixed.
  • Popup headlights now sync correctly with gameplay logic.

For league ops, we should add the new cars and Kyalami to our schedules, confirm any UGC eligibility rules for multiplayer, and run fresh checks on VR performance, pit timing, Hotstint, and grip evolution presets before race night.

From the changelog

Structured change list parsed from the official notes.

features

  • Early Access continues its development with Release 0.8, bringing new content, additional user generated content abilities and a major VR rework.
  • [h1]New Content[/h1]
  • The all-wheel-drive flagship of the Golf range adds an everyday-usable, all-weather performance option to the roster, sitting naturally alongside the Golf 8 GTI that exists already in EVO. Composed, fast and deceptively capable, the Golf 8 R is the understated rocket of the line-up — proof that real pace doesn’t always announce itself.
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  • Around it sits a full suite of new controls and optimisations: a pixel-density slider from 50% up to 150%, a world-scale option, supersampling, and a custom MSAA resolve tuned specifically for VR to reduce aliasing. VR now uses its own dedicated video-settings profile, separate from the flat-screen game, so headset and monitor configurations no longer compete. Performance-minded options, including a ‘prefer FPS over latency’ mode and an optimised pass that skips unnecessary work when upscalers are not in use, give players meaningful headroom to tune the experience to their rig, while the renderer now draws straight into the OpenXR swapchain to avoid an extra copy.
  • The first set of VR options is now exposed directly in the UI, with further settings to follow as the interface is completed (internal: a small number of VR options, including the VR sunglasses mode, are present but not yet fully tuned).
  • [h2]Further Core Improvements and Ongoing Development[/h2]
  • [h3]Renderer: Dynamic VRAM Management and Visual Fidelity[/h3]
  • 0.8 continues the rendering overhaul begun with 0.7’s GPU-feedback texture streamer, this time centred on memory. New dynamically resizable texture and mesh streaming pools operate against a real-time VRAM budget, keeping memory use within the available headroom on a given GPU.

cars

  • Where 0.7 opened the door to the AC EVO car editor and the new particle system, 0.8 builds directly on that momentum across three fronts at once:
  • - A substantial content drop that adds three distinctive cars and a brand-new circuit in Kyalami
  • - The next major step for the EVO user generated content ecosystem, with external livery creation and the arrival of multiplayer support for user generated content
  • - A comprehensive VR overhaul that turns virtual reality into a credible, first-class way to experience the simulation.
  • [h2]New Cars[/h2]
  • One of the most extreme expressions of the modern GT2 class. Built around a lightweight carbon monocoque and a potent five-cylinder turbocharged engine, the X-Bow GT2 distils KTM’s stripped-back, function-first philosophy into a car of brutal directness. With minimal mass and serious aero, it rewards precision and commitment, and joins the EVO grid as one of its most focused customer-racing weapons.
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  • [h3]KTM X-Bow GT4[/h3]
  • The GT4-homologated sibling brings the same lightweight DNA into a more accessible package built to GT4 regulations. Agile, communicative and quick to reward clean inputs, it offers a natural entry point into structured customer racing: distinctive in silhouette, honest in behaviour, and an ideal counterpoint to the heavier metal elsewhere on the grid.
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  • [h3]Volkswagen Golf 8 R[/h3]
  • [h3]User Generated Content Steps Up: External Liveries and Multiplayer Car Content[/h3]

tracks

  • This is a release that widens both what you can bring to EVO and where they can race it, extending the platform outward to the community while making every session, on track or in the headset, run cleaner and look sharper.
  • Release 0.8 expands the roster with three additions that stretch from uncompromising track machinery to everyday all-weather performance, broadening the spread of disciplines represented in EVO.
  • [h3]KTM X-Bow GT2[/h3]
  • [h2]New Track[/h2]
  • [h3]Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit[/h3]
  • Release 0.8 adds Kyalami, the historic South African circuit and a venue with deep Grand Prix heritage, now in its modern, FIA-graded layout. Set at high altitude near Johannesburg — where thinner air subtly reshapes engine output and aerodynamic load — Kyalami is a true driver’s circuit: a flowing, undulating sequence of fast esses and committed direction changes that rewards rhythm and bravery in equal measure. Long a fixture of international GT competition, it brings a genuinely distinctive challenge to the EVO track list.
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  • Physics work in 0.8 focuses on the tyre-to-track relationship and a round of targeted fixes. The road temperature model has been reworked, and dynamic track maps have been rebaked using revised logic for more consistent grip evolution; weather and dynamic track behaviour has also received various fixes, with calibration still ongoing. Camber is now derived through a geometrical calculation, brake temperatures respond to electronic brake intervention, and rear-wheel steering has been corrected. Alongside these, excessive smoke generation has been fixed and the particle behaviour for wet grass has been addressed.
  • [h3]Gameplay[/h3]

fixes

  • KUNOS Simulazioni and 505 Games encourage experimentation but do not endorse or take responsibility for community content that infringes trademarks, licences, brand guidelines or any other policy or law, or that compromises the game’s stability. Creators are asked to respect rights-holders and platform rules when producing and sharing content.
  • [h3]A Major Step Forward for VR[/h3]
  • Release 0.8 delivers the most significant VR update of the Early Access cycle to date, reworking the headset experience around performance, clarity and comfort. The headline is foveated rendering, including an eye-tracked variant on supported hardware and more aggressive foveating presets, which concentrates rendering effort where the eye is actually looking, reclaiming performance without a visible cost to perceived sharpness.
  • On the visual side, the release introduces supersampling and enhanced windshield rendering, complete with an updated wiper refraction effect and a new windshield raindrop splash that adds tangible texture to wet running. An updated panini projection improves wide field-of-view framing, HiZ occlusion now uses a reprojected view to mitigate the flickering of trees and other objects at culling edges, and an early-culling issue in mirrors on the ultra setting has been resolved.
  • Several gameplay fixes sharpen the competitive modes. Hotstint timing, results and the lap counter have all been corrected, and a fuel-logic issue — where exceeding tank capacity during a pitstop still influenced stop time — has been fixed. Popup headlights are now correctly synchronised with the gameplay logic.
  • [h3]Multiplayer Stability[/h3]
  • [h3]UI and General Stability[/h3]

physics

  • [h3]Physics and Handling[/h3]

Official sources

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