General information
- Steam Community Discussions
Availability
Source |
DRM |
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Retail |
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Must be activated to play |
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Origin (unavailable) |
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Steam (unavailable) |
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Includes free DLC pack. Redeemable on Origin as well. |
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- All versions require TAGES Solidshield DRM with 5 machine activation limit. Online activation through EA servers is required.
DLC and expansion packs
Essential improvements
Skip intro videos
Skip intro videos[citation needed]
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- Go to
<path-to-game>\Movies\
- Replace the original
BootFlow_in.bik and BootFlow_out.bik with the ones from this mod.
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
Save game data location
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Native |
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Origin |
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OneDrive |
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Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers. |
Steam Cloud |
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Video
Input
Advanced Control settings
Audio
Audio feature |
State |
Notes |
Separate volume controls |
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Master, Vehicle, Sound Effects, Speech, Music and Online Player Mute available. |
Surround sound |
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Subtitles |
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Closed captions |
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Mute on focus lost |
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Localizations
Language |
UI |
Audio |
Sub |
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English |
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Traditional Chinese |
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French |
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German |
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Italian |
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Spanish |
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Polish |
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Russian |
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Network
Multiplayer types
VR support
Issues unresolved
Intermittent flickering in cockpit view on Nvidia Maxwell GPUs
- Players have reported an issue with Nvidia's Maxwell video cards where a single black frame is rendered at random moments when using cockpit view.[2][3]
Issues fixed
A poster on NoGripRacing details numerous fixes for a number of problems here.
Should it be deleted, the text of the post is as follows:
Issues:
- Low graphics quality
- Low FPS and stutters
- Input lag
- Poor FFB
- Cars feel like floating instead of driving on asphalt
- AA not working
- Settings (car set-up, graphics) do not stick
Solutions:
- Force AF to 16x through the gfx card driver
- https://www.overclock.net/forum/67-amd-ati/979202-shift-2-performance-fixes.html
- Edit
DampeningEnabled="1"
string to "0"
in vehicleset_pc_custom_pad.xml and reselect controller scheme in game (to custom pad of course). Should work with custom wheel file as well. Disbale 'Allow Game To Adjust Settings' in Logitech Profiler.
- FFB is different for sure in Shift 2. The one thing really missing is tyre grip in the FFB.
- This is mostly caused by the default set-ups being very loose. See this thread for how to tweak set-ups for more responsive handling.
- Apparently AA in S2U is software-based that makes the 'classic' AA not work. With ATI cards, you can enable Morphological Filtering in the driver, this gives good AA but comes with a huge performance drop. For Nvidia cards, read this thread.
- To save a set-up, use the Shift button. However, there seems to be a bug in the game that reverts changed values to their old values.
Steering input lag
Input lag where the car doesn't respond for a significant amount of time while steering can be resolved by changing the DampeningEnabled="1"
string to "0"
in vehicleset_pc_custom_pad.xml and reselecting the "Custom" controller scheme in game.[4]
Low frame-rates in Origin version
Disable Origin In-Game[citation needed]
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- In Origin, click the "Origin" menu in the upper left, then select "Application Settings"
- Go to the "Origin In-Game" tab
- Disable the option "Enable Origin In-Game" via the radio-button
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Crash to desktop when loading a race
Install NVIDIA PhysX even though you have a radeon GPU.
Other information
API
Technical specs |
Supported |
Notes |
Direct3D |
9 |
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Executable |
32-bit |
64-bit |
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Windows |
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System requirements
Windows |
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Minimum |
Recommended |
Operating system (OS) |
XP SP3 |
Vista SP2, 7 |
Processor (CPU) |
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz AMD Athlon X2 64 2.4 GHz |
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4 GHz AMD Phenom 8400 Triple-Core |
System memory (RAM) |
2 GB |
3 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
7 GB |
10 GB |
Video card (GPU) |
Nvidia GeForce 8 Series ATI Radeon HD3000 Series 256 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible Shader model 3.0 support |
512 MB of VRAM |
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
References