Released Q3 2025 Update - Ranked UI, Graphics Upgrade, LMDh, Renault Laguna

Hello,
today I have one question about and one request for the Hypercars:

1) Is it on purpose that you can't spin your wheels only with the electric motor? I've seen Hypercars starting in electric mode with spinning wheels, but I can't reproduce this in RaceRoom (at least with the Lamborghini, haven't tried the other ones), neither with TC preset 6 nor TC Override or a clutch kick.

2) When you spin out and stop your car, you will hear the ignition sound, although the engine is still running. It's not a big deal, but it still disturbes me, as I'm not sure whether I need to start the engine again or not before continuing driving. So if it's possible, I'd suggest blocking the sound as soon as the engine is running.

 

And two things about the Multiplayer:

1) It would be nice to see which drivers are registered for a race and with which car.

2) The leaderboard qualifying time is only valid for the car you set it with, but not with other cars from the same class. So when you do your leaderboard qualifying with the Volvo S40 and you switch your registration to the Laguna, you will need to do qualifying again. Is this on purpose, and if so, why? It would encourage driving more different cars when the lap time was valid for all of them.

 

Since you're asking me explicitly, I'll tell you - I don't like expressions like 'everybody, nobody, always,' and so on - they're a bit imperative and categorical, and, to put it mildly, being categorical is not a good trait, just so you know. It's as if it comes from somewhere above and far away and expects a person to bow their head and comply. Yet, the question still arises of where exactly this decree comes from and who, and in what capacity, commands everyone else what is proper and what is sinful.
Regarding preparation - for preparation, there is also a leaderboard, you know. It's not necessary to train right before the competition. Not that you said it explicitly, but the discussion started in that direction. You're putting words in my mouth that I haven't said. I'll tell you something more - I liked the old system with 25 minutes of practice and 20 minutes of qualification, on one hand, it's nice to warm up well, no matter how well you know the combination. On the other hand, the atmosphere, the pits, you see who you are competing against, what times are being set. Moreover, once you get familiar with the combination for the first couple of days, for the next week and a half you go by memory and don't need preparation. That's why I'm a fan of at least a two-week cycle, so you can fully realize your preparation - otherwise, you constantly have to adapt to new combinations and spend only a few days performing at your maximum. But that is another topic.
Regarding your fears that someone will definitely mess up your race because they are not prepared, I think that even without being prepared, you can be fast enough and, above all, fair enough not to interfere with anyone. On the other hand, if you are slow and well-prepared, you still won't hit the breaking points and will still be dangerous to others. Perhaps you are overlooking the fact that there are qualifications and on the grid you line up according to your times . And usually, the fast and well-prepared ones are at the front.
in short: Whether you are prepared or not is entirely your problem and not someone else's job to give instructions, guidance, or directions. If someone is unprepared, they most likely won't be around someone who is prepared anyway. And a prepared but slow driver remains dangerous on the curves in terms of braking points.
After all, part of the race is to survive, isn't it?

 

In principle i agree, its just that in this particular case i legitimately struggle to see how there would be arguments for the other side. But even then i threw in a "" for good measure to imply its mainly a humourous remark rather then an absolute "this is a fact, do as i say" .

Im not putting words in your mouth, my comment was about no preparation, you disagreed with it leading me to believe your pro no prep ranked racing which i found rather surprising

Even that could be debated. After a few days of driving different combos on the nordschleife for example i can easily be 5 seconds off of where id be after a few laps. Not enough to become a danger to others but certainly not the state id wanna start a race/quali in (on a more normal track length that might convert to 1 second but i happen to have a very recent data point on the nordschleife hence the choice to make that the example ).

Of course theres no guarantee that things will go wrong just as there is none that they wont if everybody is prepared but it just increases the risk for everybody

The new knowledge wouldve meant that i might not need to bother asking about a rating of yours in the future. But since youve now responded i may need to reconsider that

 

Good to know!

It might just turn out, dass wir einfach aneinander vorbeigeredet haben.

 

I just can't understand how the system with quotes in the answers works.
A lot of clicks are happening, but the result is pathetic haha

 

You need to click on 'click to expand' to see my full answer. Sorry
Just created das Jahrhundertspam

 

I just type my message, click reply when i want to insert a quote, then delete the quoted passages that i dont want to reference at that part of my post and then continue typing AFTER the "[/QUOTE]" and that seems to work

 

Thank you, I will try

 

Hi everyone,

I'm writing this not out of frustration, but out of genuine passion for RaceRoom.
For years this sim has stood for what real SimRacing should be: raw, honest, and direct.
No artificial layers, no overdone physics – just the pure connection between driver and car.

Since the large physics update (around 30 GB, July/August 2025), the shifting – especially in sequential gearbox cars like GT3 or Hypercars – feels completely different.
Upshifts now sound and behave as if the clutch is being pressed and slowly released.
That removes all the punch, all the immediacy – turning a GT3 car into something that behaves like an H-pattern classic with rev-matching.

I totally understand your intention to make things more realistic, and I appreciate the effort.
But realism shouldn’t mean losing the feeling of driving.
Realism isn’t “more complicated”; it’s what feels believable and natural.
Right now, it feels too soft, too dampened, too artificial.

SimRacing lives from emotion – from that harmony between sight, sound, hands, and instinct.
When we shift a GT3 or Hypercar, we want that crisp, hard engagement, not a clutch slipping effect.
Please consider giving us an option to revert to the previous direct shift behavior, or at least a slider to adjust the clutch-blend intensity.

RaceRoom has always been the sim that captured emotion and physics perfectly.
Please, don’t let that connection disappear.

Best regards,
Daniele (long-time RaceRoom driver)

 

Update / Workaround found:
I just discovered that the issue is directly related to having a clutch input bound in the controls.

If the clutch is assigned to any button (in my case, a paddle on the Moza wheel), RaceRoom automatically applies a clutch blend during upshifts — even on sequential cars like GT3s.

As soon as I removed the clutch binding completely, the shifting went back to normal: crisp, fast, and direct, just like before the update.

So it seems that the new gearbox logic treats any assigned clutch as an active input and enables clutch simulation.

Might be worth checking on the dev side — but at least we have a temporary fix now.[/QUOTE]

 

Don't know what's going on, but it seems since the last hotfix (build 20571875) I'm getting 4 RRRE64.exe Application Errors (four pairs of id 1000+1005) on Even Viewer every time I launch R3E, even if it all seems to behave ok and don't affect experience. Happens both with inbuilt dxvk or native dx9, one just needs to enter game to trigger them.

Will try to check on another system later today.

Update: Yeah, installed it in another system and the same app errors are logged. These happen right on game launch before reaching main menu.

On the reliability monitor each pair is only listed once (for the id 1000), this corresponds to two game launches (at 17:48 and 17:51). For the weird 1005 error, folder permissions are all ok, tested without AV/Fwall too without change, not using onedrive or any folder sync.
At game launch during the splash screen, due to RRRE64.exe crashes and auto relaunches, overlapped R3E icons on the taskbar can be noticed for a short while.
(not GPU brand related, one is using a 6700XT, the other a 2070S)

 

here the same...

 

Today I got ultra slow UI/UX . No crashes though. Seems like servers are overloaded.

 

Unfortunately the silent crashing behavior didn't change with today's patch (Client BuildID = 20779763), despite "Additional fixes for the last reported stability issues" being mentioned in the changelog.

Event viewer still logs 4 RRRE64.exe Application Errors on every launch.

Update2: After today's patch (build 20809656), 3 RRRE64.exe Application Error are instead logged at launch.

 

Hello,
today I want to share the one thing that disturbs me with the new (phenomenal) Ranked Multiplayer UI:

When clicking on the arrow, you get to the main menu. When clicking on the home, you get to the Ranked UI.

To my mind, this is a bit confusing. The 'Home Button' should be a link to the 'Home Screen', which should be the main menu in RaceRoom's case, not the Ranked UI, as this is a sub-menu of the main menu. The 'Back Arrow' should bring you to the screen you were before, not the 'Home Screen'.

I would like to know if I'm the only one with this confusion or if more people share my opinion.

 

I have a question about downshifting.
A lot of times it happens to me that i am downshifting and go into the neutral.

Is there an option that you can downshift without that its coming in the neutral?

 

You mean a protection so that you don't accidentally downshift to neutral? No, there's no such option. But it would've been nice to have.

 

Hello, I just raced DTM 2025 on Lausitzring and was delighted to see the old layout return!
Any chance more 'alternative' layouts will be used in the future? I'm thinking of Lausitzring with Oval T1, Hockenheim National, Daytona Moto, Shanghai WTCC or similar.