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Cars 2

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Cars 2
Cars 2 cover
Developers
Avalanche Software
macOS (OS X) TransGaming Inc.
Publishers
Disney Interactive Studios
Release dates
Windows June 21, 2011
macOS (OS X) June 21, 2011
Reception
Metacritic 65
Cars 2 on HowLongToBeat
Cars 2 on IGDB
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Cars 2 on MobyGames
Cars 2 on Wikipedia
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Cars
Subseries of Pixar
Cars 2006
Cars: Radiator Springs Adventures 2006
Cars Mater-National Championship 2007
The World of Cars Online 2008
Cars Toon: Mater's Tall Tales 2010
Cars 2 2011
Disney Planes 2013
Cars: Fast as Lightning 2014

Key points

Based on the graphically inferior Wii release rather than the 360/PS3 versions.

General information

World of Cars Wiki
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Requires online activation
 SecuROM 8 and SecuROM DFA DRM.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
GamersGate
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Windows
Steam
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Windows

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Delete or rename video files
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\data_dxw\FMV\.
  2. Delete or rename the following files:
avlogo.bik
Copyright.bik
DIS.bik
gslogo.bik
Opening.bik
Pixar_Logo.bik

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Disney Interactive Studios\Cars2
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/301760/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Disney Interactive Studios\Cars2\storage
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/301760/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Czech
Dutch
French
German
Italian
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish

Issues fixed

Looping music and game crashes

During an event, the music may loop, which ends up crashing the game when leaving the event. This is because of a threading issue with the CPU.

Let the game use only one CPU core[1]
  1. When the game has opened, go to task manager
  2. Go to the details tab
  3. Right click on the game in the list (called game-cars.exe) and then click on "Set affinity"
  4. Make sure only CPU 0 is selected, then click OK
  5. Return to the game and have fun
Do this every time you run the game, because all cores are selected by default the next time the game launches.

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP SP3 7
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 4 3.0 GHz
AMD Athlon 64 3500+		 Intel Core 2 Duo 2.6 GHz
AMD Athlon X2 6000+
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 3 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 6600
ATI Radeon X800
256 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Shader model 3 support		 Nvidia GeForce 7900
ATI Radeon X1900
macOS (OS X)
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) Snow Leopard 10.6.7
Processor (CPU) Intel Core Duo Intel Core i series
System memory (RAM) 2 GB 4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 3 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 7300 GT
ATI Radeon X1600
Intel HD 3000
128 MB of VRAM 		Nvidia GeForce x6xx series
ATI Radeon HD 2600
256 MB of VRAM
Intel GMA 950 and x3100 GPUs are not supported on OS X.
This game will not run on PowerPC (G3/G4/G5) based Mac systems (Power Mac).

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/301760/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (301760) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References