2026.3.0-alpha.7

⭐ Mute Windows mic when DRE speaks

• Adds an opt-in Sound/Input setting that temporarily mutes the default Windows communications microphone while DRE or the spotter is speaking
• Restores the microphone shortly after DRE finishes speaking, with safety checks so DRE only restores a mic it muted itself
• Useful for open-mic Discord, iRacing voice chat, OBS, and other apps using the Windows communications input device
• Disabled by default; enable it in Sound -> Input -> Mute Windows mic when DRE speaks

⭐ Preferred GPU selection for Local Neural Recognition

• Added a Preferred Local AI GPU setting for Local Neural Recognition so multi-GPU PCs can choose which GPU DRE should use for local speech recognition and future AI work.
• You can leave it on Default GPU for the normal Neural Recognition behavior, or pick a specific internal or discrete GPU when DRE detects more than one physical GPU.
• The setting only appears when Local recognition is selected, and your runtime order includes CUDA or Vulkan.

🔄 Safer Local Neural Recognition GPU fallback

• Improved Local Neural Recognition startup so DRE resets the selected GPU back to Default GPU if that GPU cannot be used.
• DRE will not silently use a different selected GPU when the chosen adapter cannot be matched safely.
• Added clearer logs for the selected GPU, attempted runtime, resolved device, skip reason, and reset reason.

⭐ Custom League Classes

• Added a new Custom Classes tab in Session View so you can import class setups, inspect league configs, and manage class assignments directly in DRE.
• Assign drivers by simulator class, car number, Customer ID, or Team ID, then use Apply Now to activate the config for the current league or server.
• Custom class names and colors can carry into the live roster and Analytics, so multi-class fields are easier to read the way your league actually races.
• Essentials live editing stays protected. Users without access can still inspect imported data in read-only mode.

⭐ Added Assetto Corsa Evo

• DRE now supports Assetto Corsa Evo in early access.
• Current support is based on the data AC Evo exposes today. Physics and basic performance data are available, but opponent/session data is still limited.
• A full UDP connection is not available yet, which means DRE cannot currently receive the richer live race feed normally used for complete race engineering features.
• Not yet fully supported:
  • detailed opponent tracking and relative race awareness
  • complete timing, standings, and race-control events
  • full fuel, pit, strategy, and stint calculations
  • advanced spotter/race-engineer calls that depend on live multiplayer/session data
• Future work depends on further AC Evo telemetry/API/UDP support from the simulator.
• Enable it from Settings -> Sim Connection -> Simulators.

⭐ New simulator supported: Assetto Corsa (AC)

• The old school vibes are back! AC is now fully support on par with the existing ACC support
• Enjoy racing in modded tracks, cars, weird configurations all through Assetto Corsa
• DRE supports all sim modes such as Single-Player and Multi-Player
• Use DRE to control your pit stops in AC
  • DRE navigates and adjusts the Quick Pit Menu for you
  • See how to right here
• Have fun racing AC!

⭐ Learn and adapt to Incident penalty thresholds

• Hear penalty incident thresholds for drive-throughs and disqualification.
• You hear these upon entering the race session when gridding, and when approaching the individual limits:
  • Initial Drive-Through
  • Subsequent Drive-Throughs (available with Performance tier or higher)
  • Disqualification (driven by the existing Disqualifications previously known as Incidents High)

🔄 Renamed Alert Incident Threshold

• Alert Incident Threshold now goes under the name Incident Limit Offset to better describe its offsetting purposes.
• It now affects not only the Incident Limit before Disqualification, but also the Incident Limit before Drive-Throughs.

🔄 Renamed Incidents High

• Incidents High is now called Disqualifications to better describe its meaning.

⭐ Create your own voice commands for actions outside the simulator.

• Custom Commands can now send keybinds to other apps, such as OBS, Racelabs, SimHub, and similar tools.
  

• Use this for stream scenes, overlays, dashboards, or other external shortcuts without taking focus away from the sim.

• You can also use DRE’s built-in external key command directly:

  • Press keys
  • Press keys to

• Examples:

  • Press keys NumPad4
  • Press keys Ctrl+Shift+K to obs64

• The key combo must use the exact canonical key names DRE supports.

• The optional to part is a safety check. DRE checks that the named process is running before it sends the shortcut. Process matching is exact but case-insensitive, and .exe is optional, so obs64 can match obs64.exe.

• Important details:

  • DRE does not focus or activate the target app.
  • DRE keeps simulator focus.
  • The target app must listen for global shortcuts.
  • A successful key press is silent.
  • Invalid key combos warn and send nothing.
  • Missing target processes warn and send nothing.
  • DRE and the target app must run with the same privilege level. If one runs as admin and the other does not, DRE warns and sends nothing.
  • You can still use Custom Commands to trigger DRE’s built-in commands with your own phrases, so the wording fits how you actually talk while racing.

⭐ Braking Overlap Signal

• New coaching Signal that helps you hear when brake and throttle overlap during braking zones.
• You can use it to:
  • clean up pedal inputs without staring at telemetry or the simulator pedal UI
  • avoid re-applications of braking
  • save fuel by essential short lift-and-coasting
  • improve cornering consistency
  • improve lap times
• Pedal Overlap Threshold is set to 2% to allow slight overlap. Ultimate subscribers can tune this setting.
• Pedal Overlap Ignored Cars is a filter to exclude certain cars from the signal. You can easily add additional cars.
• Quick throttle blips for downshifts and early corner exit throttle are ignored.
• The Signal does not chatter through small throttle and brake changes during the braking zone after the Signal has sounded once.
• Enable and adjust the Signal in Car -> Peripherals -> Braking Overlap

🔄 Neural Recognition is now fine-tuned for sim racing

• The local Neural Recognition models are now fine-tuned for sim racing scenarios, enhancing performance and accuracy.

• Some examples on how DRE now better understands and recognizes terms:
  • "stent" -> "stint"
  • "cap" -> "gap"
  • "showtimeing" -> "show timing"
  • "labs left" -> "laps left"
• Numbers!
  • Small model makes 46% fewer recognition mistakes.
  • Medium model makes 62% fewer recognition mistakes.
  • What you say vs what’s transcribed correctly now occurs more than double as many times for small, triple for medium.
• Availablity
  • Small and Medium model will be available going forward. Large local model has been deprecated due to size/quality ratio not improving enough and small and medium models out-performing the large model.
  • Only Multi-Lingual models are now available, as they have shown to be as good, or even better than English-only model. Fear not if you see a Multi-Lingual model downloading.
  • Note ⚠️️ Improvements are only for the local models.
    • Cloud model improvements are pushed back to after feedback and iteration on these new local models.
• Thanks to contributors of voice data, DRE is now much better at not only understanding single terms better, but overall sentence structures relating to sim racing.

🔄 Optimized Neural Recognition

• DRE is now better at catching valid race requests that previously risked being rejected or misunderstood.
• The improvement is most noticeable on borderline phrases: weather questions, fuel page requests, pit fuel instructions, and incident limit questions.
• Valid DRE request recognition improved by about 4% in validation, while protection against unrelated speech stayed just as strong.
• Voice command handling is also leaner, saving roughly 150-200 ms by avoiding an extra recognition step before matching the command.

🔄 Improved Classic Recognition loading time

• Classic Recognition now gets ready much faster after connecting to a session.
• Measured loading time improved from about 39.5 seconds to about 14.5 seconds.
• That is roughly 63% less waiting time, or about 2.7x faster startup for Classic Recognition.

Based on Stable v2026.1.10 – see full stable changelog