Assetto Corsa EVO 0.8.1 patch update

We’ve got a small but important 0.8.1 patch update for Assetto Corsa EVO, focused on fixes across cars, servers, modding, tracks, and general stability.

What changed

Cars

• Fixed pit location creation and assignment for AI cars.
• Fixed the car and dashboard becoming unresponsive during the race start countdown when start assist is enabled.
• Fixed garage cars always being saved because of performance index recalculation.
• Modding: cars are now read from the Saved Games/ACE-Server folder.
• Modding: fixed external liveries for garage sharing, and added a livery linker in car customization.
• Server-side: added a document folder to the Windows server build, revamped server/backend/client SHA data exchange with more UI information on missing cars, and fixed early performance validation rejection.

Tracks

• Fixed a crash when restarting during dynamic track recording.

Fixes

• Kyalami: fixed an incorrect palm impostor subsurface texture.
• Fixed thumbnails missing or being generated incorrectly in some situations.
• Fixed thumbnail generation while using the free camera.
• Reduced tree popping further on certain configurations.
• Fixed a server issue after 1000+ lifetime users where subsequent entry numbers could start around 600 and produce incorrect results.
• Fixed a crash during multiple multiplayer browser refreshes.
• Made ideal line assist initialization asynchronous as a possible fix for main-thread freezes.

We should update our server deployment folders, re-validate car and livery distribution paths, and run a quick multiplayer and AI pit-entry smoke test before race night.