The 1.36 patch introduced several mechanics that are now staples of the modern ETS2 experience:
He drove through the night, crossing into France. The toll booths at Lille were smoother, the barriers raising with a satisfying mechanical clunk that the audio team had seemingly re-recorded. The ambient sound of the highway was no longer a looped track; it felt reactive to the terrain.
The single most important technical change in the 1.35 to 1.36 pipeline was the complete removal of DirectX 9 support. Update 1.36 made DirectX 11 the mandatory, default graphics API for the game. Performance Gains