2025.1.0.41

🔄 Smarter sim CPU/GPU performance detection

• CPU/GPU load now uses peak with a slow decay instead of a 10s average — better reflects demanding moments in‑sim.
• iRacing internal CPU/GPU metrics are polled every 2.5s instead of the default every 10 seconds, for higher fidelity.

🔄 DRE detects sim running in VR

• DRE now detects if the sim is running in VR and adjusts its behavior accordingly.

🔄 Neural Speech Recognition

• Cloud transcription in VR
  • When running iRacing in VR and the Performance+ subscriptions, DRE automatically switches speech transcription to Cloud and ignores CPU/GPU transcriptions.
  • To reclaim RAM in VR, the local transcription model is unloaded while VR is active.
• Behavior tweak
  • Previously, auto‑adjustment only stepped down local model size. Now, in VR, DRE prefers Cloud (when available) over stepping down local models.

✅ Fanatec Controls

• Hot‑swap on Fanatec wheel bases could keep using the old rim identity
• Cause: DirectInput InstanceGuid doesn’t change on rim swap; the enriched FullInstanceGuid wasn’t refreshed
• Fix: Detect Fanatec identity change and recreate the DI controller with the new FullInstanceGuid; bindings (e.g., Push‑to‑Talk) now use the new rim type

✅ Window management

• Fixed: Always On Top would not startup on top of other apps
• Fixed: Momentary appearance of DRE app in front of other focused app.

✅ Analytics Tire crash

• Fixed: DRE could crash upon changing tire wear data

✅ File Starter closing apps/files

• Fixed: DRE would spam messages boxes when failing to close files and apps