Along with the 'sound bug' update comes the 'DISPLAY DRIVER NAME' update.
Some time after gt6 was released, an update came that had an option to turn off the name display that halos each of your opponents, leaving you with much better visibility and one less distraction. However, each time you enter a room, even though it was still set to 'off' you had to switch it to 'on', then 'off' again. After the update, your selection is set to default.
In case you didn't know, you can turn off driver names by going to:
watch race/ options/ display driver name/ [off]
Sorry if this has been brought up; I could only read so many posts b!+c#!ng and moaning about one thing or the other (isn't there a thread for that?)