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DriveWave v1.5.300 - The One Where the Skydeck Goes Fullscreen
Hey everyone, This update is almost entirely built from your requests, starting with the big one. Fullscreen By far the most requested feature since launch. The Skydeck, Drive and Garage screens can now go fullscreen. C…
Patch notes6 changesGameplayUI/audio - DriveWave
DriveWave v1.5.222 - The One Where Nobody Had Suspension and Skydeck Gets Roomma
Hey everyone, This one took a while, and the reason is embarrassing. I've been going through the driving physics for weeks because the cars felt heavy and dead in a way I couldn't put my finger on. Turns out every driva…
Event12 changesGameplayUI/audio - DriveWave
DriveWave v1.5.220 - The One Where Your Rims Hit the Market
Hey everyone, This is one of the biggest updates since launch. Two headline features, a pile of long-standing bug fixes, and a full save system audit under the hood. Your wheel drops now actually land in your Steam Inve…
Patch notes10 changesFixUI/audio - DriveWave
Hotfix - v1.5.217
Hey everyone, Bigger hotfix than usual this time, a new option, a couple of annoying bugs squashed, and some polish. Here is everything in v1.5.217. Wheel Drop Notifications are now your call There is a new toggle in Se…
Event5 changesFixGameplay - DriveWave
Hotfix - v1.5.215
Hey everyone, Mostly a deep save-system sweep this round. A few of you sent long reports and some screenshots over the past week, and digging into them turned up more than I expected. Jukebox playlist Two layers, stacke…
Security15 changesFixEvent - DriveWave
DriveWave v1.5.210 – The One Where Every Controller Just Works
Hey everyone, I have been playing the latest Forza all week (I may or may not have already 100%'d it). Got frustrated that none of those miles count toward my DriveWave save, so I sat down and made the controller pipeli…
Patch notes2 changesCompatibilityBalance - DriveWave
Hotfix - v1.5.206
Hey everyone, Bigger hotfix than I planned. Iris Nebula sat down with the game for the first time and walked me through an entire first-session bug report on Discord, and NICO flagged a numpad input miss in the Steam di…
Event12 changesFixUI/audio - DriveWave
Hotfix - v1.5.204
Hey everyone, Two things in this hotfix. First, the km counter bug that 전투아가씨 reported in the discussions ("km bug?", Apr 23 and May 17): kilometer counter freezing at high mileage, the specific report was stuck at 67,1…
Announcement2 changesFixGameplay - DriveWave
Hotfix - v1.5.202
Hey everyone, If you've seen the reviews about saves disappearing after a power cut or a PC restart, this is the patch that fixes it. Two specific reviews from April 30 and a small pile of similar reports lined up on th…
Event5 changesGameplayCompatibility - DriveWave
DriveWave v1.5.200 – The One Where We Pop the Hood
Hey everyone, Bigger one this time. The last week or so was supposed to be "just clean up the launch feel a little" and somehow turned into a full per-car upgrade system, a garage hub redesign, and a profiler bloodbath.…
Announcement12 changes1 numericFix - DriveWave
Hotfix v.1.5.102
Hey everyone, This time a pure hotfix. A few of you posted on the forums this week about the game launching, showing up in the taskbar, and then... not actually being there on the desktop. A couple of others noticed FPS…
Announcement5 changesFixPerformance - DriveWave
DriveWave v1.5.100 – The One Where Your Car Is Actually Red
Hey everyone, Quick warning: this one is a big one. Not in "new content" size, but in "stuff that was quietly broken and is now fixed" size. I spent a few weeks rewriting the parts of the code I'd been avoiding, and a f…
Announcement16 changesFixUI/audio - DriveWave
DriveWave v1.5.0 - The 10K Checkup
🏁 10,000 Drivers! Hey everyone, Before anything else, DriveWave just hit 10,000 players. Ten thousand people running a little car on their desktop while doing other stuff. That's genuinely wild to me. When I first put…
Store11 changesGameplayUI/audio - DriveWave
Two New Dumbbell Games at Steam Next Fest!
Hey drivers! If you enjoy running DriveWave alongside your daily routine, you might like what I have been working on. Two new Dumbbell Games titles are part of Steam Next Fest February 2026 and both demos are live right…
Announcement3 changesGameplayBalance - DriveWave
DriveWave v1.4.96 - Better Bops and Handbrake
Hey everyone, Quick rundown of what’s new: Added Handbrake. It becomes available under 10 km/h (mph) and brings the car to a full stop. While it’s active, the car won’t react to typing. Perfect for just sitting back and…
Announcement3 changesFixGameplay - DriveWave
DriveWave v1.4.9 - Why is this dealer?
Hey everyone! You could've seen this coming from miles away Why's this dev taking the piss? I've been standing here for thirty mins waiting for this update to drop. v1.4.9 is here. Spent fifteen minutes scrolling throug…
Announcement2 changesGameplay
