Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown · published · build 24858846
Season 7 arrives today! From enhanced live features to make your progression and earning much better, new missions and events through live events, a JDM themed Solar Pass and vehicles, various fixes and more!
You can find the specific seasonal details as well as information on the mid-season update and Season 8 in yesterday's Solar Club Letter linked below:
Maintenance Confirmation: We will be starting the server maintenance at 9:00am CET and the maintenance will last up to 8:00pm CET. We will keep you updated on our progress during the day so stay tuned to our socials!
New Features
Live Enhancement
Improved Daily Challenges
Improved Live Events
New Weekly Challenges
Quality of Life Improvements
World Enhancements
Updated construction sites
Added physical speed cameras on HKI and Ibiza
Solar Arena (formerly ORC) now in world with updated track layout with pits
Added new landmarks to Hong Kong Island
Improved Northern/North-Eastern areas of Hong Kong Island
New Cars
Mazda ɛ̃fini RX-7 (Asian Dealership)
Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IV (Solar Pass Level 50)
Nissan GT-R R34 Skyline V-Spec II (Solar Pass Level 15)
BMW M4 GT3 EVO (Online Store)
New Special Editions
Nissan 370z Nismo Phase 1 (Solar Pass Level 1)
Cox Baja Vacaciones (Online Store)
Fixed infinite loading screen when entering or exiting any social hub after accessing the News tab
Updated worldmap rendering
Updated FRIM UI
Added option to disabled chromatic aberration and grain
Improved AI paths during various missions
Updated splash screens
Added new questions during Taxi missions
Items inside bundles can now be bought separately
Fixed video settings not updating in Pause Menu during Detective Contracts
Fixed various clothes skinning issues
New races have physical checkpoints instead of augmented reality
Added confirmation request before deleting a single photo
Fixed highlighter disappearing on the Main Menu if no save data is found
Fixed excessive lighting on avatar hair in beauty salon
Fixed menu SFX sometimes not playing
Standardization of Ibiza and HKI workshops preview scene
Fixed the ability to enable or disable voice chat when changing the info panel of cars in all dealerships, when using a PS5 controller.
Fixed a visible gap is present between the retaining wall and the pavement in 'Victoria Peak' district
Fixed multiple vegetation clipping along the roads found on Hong Kong Island
Fixed the player's car respawns when driving into a wall in the 'Quarry Bay' district
Fixed a sidewalk raised above the ground in Ibiza
Fixed when pressing options while in a race and pressing back a sound appears
Fixed the player can drive into the NPCs in an ally in the 'Happy Valley' district
Fixed the weather in the race info card of the 'Taxi Contract: Valeria Ruiz' fails to match after starting the contract
Fixed the weather information provided in the contract info card for the 'Taxi Contract: Jayden Cheng' fails to match the actual weather conditions during the contract
Fixed the reflection on the Carbon Spoilers appear corrupted when the player is outside the Solar Hotel
Fixed the reflections on the water surface appears corrupted in the 'Shopping in Ibiza Town' race intro cutscene
Fixed the reflection/shadows of the floating aquatic plants on the water surface appear corrupted at 43% of the 'Natural Rhythm' race at night
Fixed map filters change rapidly when scrolling while holding A or D
Fixed orange parking floor flickers near Radiant Prize collectible
Fixed Taxi Contract Louis Montrose starts in opposite direction causing possible mission failure immediately
Improved some tree LOD meshes
Fixed Tour De Force race checkpoint which made players constantly respawn
Fixed fences at Hippodrome race track is not solid
Fixed secondary task race marker is missing and race cannot be started for multiple task objectives
Fixed visible terrain seam lines present in Shek O district during free roam
Fixed a road in Ibiza that has dirt texture and dynamics in multiple locations (where it should be asphalt)
Fix GI ray generation not being randomized per-frame when time is paused
Reworked LOD’s for various objects, props around HKI and Ibiza
Fixed windshield wipers and spoiler not functioning on Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Black Series
Various stock spoilers can now be removed or modified in the workshops.
Fixed occurrences of bad render for other players' car's doors in free roam
Fixed windshield wipers turn off automatically in tunnels even when Automatic Wipers are disabled
Fixed some characters not wearing seatbelts as passenger
Fixed Ferrari F430 16M and Lamborghini Miura SV missing sound from other players in freeroam
Fixed passenger legs in Lamborghini Temerario
Fixed other players cosmetic parts having LOD and/or visibility issues
Fixed 2 paint colours create 'orange peel' effect on the Delorean Alpha5
Fix wipers not always erasing raindrop trails, tune windscreen droplets settings
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Added Revosim shifter and handbrake detection
Fixed some crashes due to memory usage
Added motion blur disable option
Fix windscreen raindrops trails not appearing on Xbox
On XSS gains 0.32ms, should gain around 0.55ms on a scene with more drawcommands
Fixed some crashes
Added motion blur disable option
Better Stability and Performance
Further improved player gathering in freeroam
Unfortunately, during the build of Season 7 we encountered some issues which will affect some races in the normal progression of the game. We are working to fix these and they’ll be fixed in the next update arriving October 28, 2026 (mid-season update). We apologise for any inconvenience.
You can see the known issues below:
6 Detective Missions are not able to be completed:
Adrian Lau
Morgan Vale
Stuart Wintory
Mila Rodriguez
Chiara Santini
Xiang Zheng
2 Crown Jewels cannot be completed:
Nacre
Saphirre
1 race on Ibiza cannot be completed:
Highway to Heaven
RX-7 sound is bugged when autoclutch is off
You might remember a bug we fixed a while back for all vehicles where an engine load sound is applied if the revs do not fall under a certain RPM. This issue was found on the RX7, but we realise the issue isn’t with FMOD, but with the game's physics code itself. We are working on fixing this for the next update, however no other vehicles will have this issue
RX-7 Customizations have no localization
RX-7 options will have a ‘Need Loca’ naming on them
We hope you enjoy this new season! We would like to apologise for the speed of the development of upcoming fixes, features, and updates, but we assure you that the team is working hard on the future of TDUSC, and despite the delay of the Official Racing Center (now called Solar Arena), we are excited for you to try the new live enhancements which should bring a massive improvement to the replayability of the game and share the cool stuff arriving in the mid-season update too!
The next Solar Club Letter arriving within the first 2 weeks of October will showcase everything coming in the mid-season update which include some big QoL improvements the community has been waiting for!
See you again soon!
The TDU Team