Euro Truck Simulator 2
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Although this product has been released, it remains under active development - information may change frequently and could be outdated or irrelevant.
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| Developers | |
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| SCS Software | |
| Publishers | |
| Retail | Excalibur Publishing |
| Digital | SCS Software |
| Engines | |
| Prism3D | |
| Release dates | |
| Windows | October 19, 2012 |
| Linux | September 19, 2013 |
| macOS (OS X) | January 29, 2015 |
| Reception | |
| Metacritic | 79 |
| Taxonomy | |
| Monetization | One-time game purchase, Expansion pack |
| Microtransactions | Cosmetic, Unlock |
| Modes | Singleplayer, Multiplayer |
| Perspectives | First-person, Third-person |
| Controls | Direct control |
| Genres | Driving, Open world |
| Vehicles | Truck |
| Art styles | Realistic |
| Themes | Europe |
| Series | Euro Truck Simulator |
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| Euro Truck Simulator | |
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| Subseries of Truck Simulator | |
| Euro Truck Simulator | 2008 |
| Euro Truck Simulator 2 | 2012 |
Key points
- Many video and gameplay settings available.
- Active modding community.
General information
Availability
| Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Connects to authentication server, but internet connection is not required to activate. | |
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| Official website | |
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| Green Man Gaming | |
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| Humble Store | |
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| Steam | |
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Demo
- Demo version is also available. Historical versions were available to download from the developer website, but newest versions are available on Steam.
Monetization
DLC and expansion packs
| Name | Notes | |
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| Actros Tuning Pack | |
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| Australian Paint Jobs | |
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| Austrian Paint Jobs Pack | |
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| Belgian Paint Job Pack | |
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| Beyond the Baltic Sea | |
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| Brazilian Paint Jobs Pack | |
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| Cabin Accessories | |
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| Canadian Paint Jobs Pack | |
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| Chinese Paint Jobs Pack | |
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| Christmas Paint Jobs Pack | |
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| Czech Paint Jobs Pack | |
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| DAF Tuning Pack | |
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| DAF XG/XG+ | Free. | |
| Danish Paint Jobs Pack | |
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| Dragon Truck Design Pack | |
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| Dutch Paint Jobs Pack | |
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| Estonian Paint Jobs Pack | |
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| Fantasy Paint Jobs Pack | |
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| FH Tuning Pack | |
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| Finnish Paint Job Pack | |
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| Flip Paint Designs | |
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| Force of Nature Paint Jobs Pack | |
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| French Paint Jobs Pack | |
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| German Paint Jobs Pack | |
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| Going East! | |
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| Goodyear Tyres Pack | |
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| Halloween Paint Jobs Pack | |
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| Heart of Russia | Unreleased | |
| Heavy Cargo Pack | |
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| High Power Cargo Pack | |
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| HS-Schoch Tuning Pack | |
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| Hungarian Paint Jobs Pack | |
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| Iberia | |
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| Ice Cold Paint Jobs Pack | |
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| Irish Paint Jobs Pack | |
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| Italia | |
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| Italian Paint Jobs Pack | |
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| Japanese Paint Jobs Pack | |
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| Krone Trailer Pack | |
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| Latvian Paint Jobs Pack | |
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| Lithuanian Paint Jobs Pack | |
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| Lunar New Year Pack | |
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| Metallic Paint Jobs Pack | Could be obtained for free when registering on World of Trucks during the first few years of that site's operation | |
| Michelin Fan Pack | |
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| Mighty Griffin Tuning Pack | |
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| National Window Flags | |
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| Norwegian Paint Jobs Pack | |
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| PC Gamer | Was limited to 10,000 codes plus codes in printed magazine, no longer distributed[2] | |
| Pink Ribbon Charity Pack | |
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| Pirate Paint Jobs Pack | |
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| Polish Paint Jobs Pack | |
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| Portuguese Paint Jobs Pack | |
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| Prehistoric Paint Jobs Pack | |
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| Raven Truck Design Pack | |
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| Road to the Black Sea | |
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| Rocket League Promo | Free for all Steam users[3] | |
| Romanian Paint Jobs | |
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| Russian Paint Jobs Pack | |
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| Scandinavia | |
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| Schwarzmüller Trailer Pack | |
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| Scottish Paint Jobs Pack | |
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| Slovak Paint Jobs Pack | |
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| South Korean Paint Jobs Pack | |
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| Spanish Paint Jobs Pack | |
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| Special Transport | |
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| Super Stripes Paint Jobs Pack | |
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| Swedish Paint Jobs Pack | |
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| Swiss Paint Jobs Pack | |
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| Turkish Paint Jobs Pack | |
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| UK Paint Jobs Pack | |
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| Ukrainian Paint Jobs Pack | All proceeds from this DLC are donated to the People in Need (Člověk v tísni) charity. | |
| USA Paint Jobs Pack | |
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| Valentine's Paint Jobs Pack | |
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| Viking Legends | |
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| Vive la France ! | |
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| Volvo Construction Equipment | |
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| West Balkans | Coming soon. | |
| Window Flags | |
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| Wheel Tuning Pack | |
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| Window Flags | |
Monetization
| Type | Notes |
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| One-time game purchase | The game requires an upfront purchase to access. |
| Sponsored | Features real-world trucks that are an integral part of gameplay. |
Microtransactions
| Type | Notes |
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| Cosmetic | Truck accessories and paint jobs are sold separately. |
| Unlock | Cargo packs are sold separately, which offer trailer configurations and gameplay elements that are otherwise unavailable. |
Essential improvements
Skip intro videos
Use the -nointro command line argument[4]
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Patches
- Patches for non-Steam versions are available from the Euro Truck Simulator 2 Update website.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
| System | Location |
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| Windows | %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Euro Truck Simulator 2\config.cfg |
| macOS (OS X) | $HOME/Library/Application Support/Euro Truck Simulator 2/config.cfg |
| Linux | $XDG_DATA_HOME/Euro Truck Simulator 2/config.cfg |
| Steam | <Steam-folder>\userdata\<user-id>\227300\remote\profiles\<user-id>\config.cfg |
- This game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.
Save game data location
| System | Location |
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| Windows | %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Euro Truck Simulator 2\profiles\ |
| macOS (OS X) | $HOME/Library/Application Support/Euro Truck Simulator 2/profiles/ |
| Linux | $XDG_DATA_HOME/Euro Truck Simulator 2/profiles/ |
| Steam | <Steam-folder>\userdata\<user-id>\227300\remote\profiles\<user-id>\save\ |
Save game cloud syncing
| System | Native | Notes |
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| Origin | ||
| OneDrive | Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers. | |
| Steam Cloud | Added in the 1.33 update.[5] |
Video
Display & simple graphical settings.
Advanced graphical settings.
| Graphics feature | State | WSGF | Notes |
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| Widescreen resolution | |||
| Multi-monitor | |||
| Ultra-widescreen | |||
| 4K Ultra HD | |||
| Field of view (FOV) | 40-120°. Added in 1.26[6] and increased in 1.27 update.[7] Accessed by pressing F4 and selecting Adjust seats in the game. |
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| Windowed | |||
| Borderless fullscreen windowed | Working using Borderless Windowed.[8] Using borderless fullscreen results in top 20 pixels being stuck unless in OpenGL mode. |
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| Anisotropic filtering (AF) | |||
| Anti-aliasing (AA) | SMAA | ||
| Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
| 60 FPS and 120+ FPS | |||
| High dynamic range display (HDR) | Rendered image uses SDR color space. In-game HDR option refers only to HDR Rendering. | ||
| Ray tracing (RT) | |||
Input
Input settings
Key rebindings
| Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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| Remapping | ||
| Mouse acceleration | ||
| Mouse sensitivity | ||
| Mouse input in menus | ||
| Mouse Y-axis inversion | Under the 'Gameplay' settings menu. | |
| Controller | ||
| Controller support | ||
| Full controller support | Menus can be navigated with controller, but there are too many binds to fit on a controller. | |
| Controller remapping | Adjustment options for deadzones, steering linearity, force feedback, and axis mode | |
| Controller sensitivity | ||
| Controller Y-axis inversion |
| Controller types |
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| XInput-compatible controllers | ||
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| Xbox button prompts | ||
| Impulse Trigger vibration |
| DualShock 4 controllers | ||
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| DualShock button prompts | ||
| Light bar support | ||
| Connection modes | Wired, V2 | |
| Tracked motion controllers | Full Track-IR and FacetrackNoIR support to look around in-game with head mounted motion trackers or webcams. Eyeware Beam and Smoothtrack support remote head tracking with phones. Fully integrated support for Tobii Eye Tracker as of version 1.35 | |
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| Button/gesture prompts |
| Generic/other controllers | ||
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| Button prompts |
| Additional information | ||
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| Controller hotplugging | Added in 1.35 update[9] | |
| Haptic feedback | XInput feedback support was added in 1.24 patch[10] | |
| Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
| Steam Input | ||
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| Steam Input API support | Added in 1.35 update[9] | |
| Official controller preset(s) | ||
| Steam Controller button prompts |
Audio
Audio settings.
| Audio feature | State | Notes |
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| Separate volume controls | Sound and music. | |
| Surround sound | Inherits Windows settings. | |
| Subtitles | ||
| Closed captions | ||
| Mute on focus lost | ||
| Royalty free audio |
- Ability to add custom songs (ogg on all platforms or mp3/ogg on Windows), and streamable radio stations (only on Windows). See issues fixed for a command to add songs from a directory other than the default.
Localizations
| Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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| English | Includes both US and UK. GPS voiceovers include additional Raspy and Old Granny voices. | |||
| Basque | ||||
| Bulgarian | ||||
| Simplified Chinese | ||||
| Traditional Chinese | ||||
| Catalan | ||||
| Croatian | ||||
| Czech | ||||
| Danish | ||||
| Dutch | ||||
| Estonian | ||||
| Finnish | ||||
| French | ||||
| Galician | ||||
| Georgian | ||||
| German | ||||
| Greek | ||||
| Hungarian | ||||
| Italian | ||||
| Japanese | ||||
| Korean | ||||
| Latvian | ||||
| Lithuanian | ||||
| Macedonian | ||||
| Norwegian | ||||
| Polish | ||||
| Portuguese | ||||
| Brazilian Portuguese | ||||
| Romanian | ||||
| Russian | ||||
| Serbian | Both latin and cyrillic alphabets are available. | |||
| Silesian | ||||
| Slovak | ||||
| Slovenian | ||||
| Spanish | ||||
| Latin American Spanish | ||||
| Swedish | ||||
| Turkish | ||||
| Ukrainian | ||||
| Vietnamese |
- Audio is for GPS voiceovers only which includes male and female voices unless noted otherwise. They can be mixed and matched at will.
Network
Multiplayer types
| Type | Native | Players | Notes | |
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| Local play | ||||
| LAN play | ||||
| Online play | 8 | Co-op Officially supported since update 1.41.[11] |
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Connection types
| Type | Native | Notes |
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| Matchmaking | ||
| Peer-to-peer | [12] | |
| Dedicated | Official support added on December 8th, 2022.[13] An alternative, TruckersMP (Windows 64-bit and Steam only), is also available and much more popular. |
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| Self-hosting | Introduced in update 1.41.[11] | |
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VR support
| 3D modes | Native | Notes | |
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| Nvidia 3D Vision | Use Helix Mod: Euro Truck Simulator 2 for better support. | ||
| TriDef 3D | |||
| Headsets | Native | Notes | |
| HTC Vive | Use the oculus beta branch and use -openvr in the command line.[14] |
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| Oculus Rift | |||
| OSVR | |||
| Windows Mixed Reality | This game might be playable with the Revive Compatibility Layer (compatibility list). | ||
| Devices | Native | Notes | |
| Tracked motion controllers | Full Track-IR and FacetrackNoIR support to look around in-game with head mounted motion trackers or webcams. Eyeware Beam and Smoothtrack support remote head tracking with phones. Fully integrated support for Tobii Eye Tracker as of version 1.35 See Input for details. |
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| Traditional controller | See Input for details. | ||
| Keyboard/Mouse | |||
| TrackIR | Also works with opentrack protocol using software like FaceTrackNoIR. | ||
| Tobii Eye Tracking | Added in 1.35 update.[9] Supports Extended View - Eye & Head Tracking. | ||
Issues fixed
Linux: Wheel deadzone and calibrating issues
| Creating a virtual device to pass wheel movements through[15] |
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Linux: Game stuttering, low performance
| Setting CPU performance level higher |
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Invisible Cars, Trucks, Stoplights, etc.
- Caused by too many AI traffic mods
| Increasing buffer size[16] |
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Windows: shortcuts to ogg audio files don't work
- The game has a built-in audio player for mp3 and ogg files. It will also play shortcuts to mp3 files, but not shortcuts to ogg files.
| Create a symbolic link |
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Other information
API
| Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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| Direct3D | 11 | Fully switched from Direct3D 9 to 11 as of update 1.36.[18] |
| OpenGL | 3.3 |
| Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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| Windows | 64-bit support was added in 1.16 patch[17] | ||
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Middleware
| Middleware | Notes | |
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| Physics | Bullet | |
| Audio | FMOD | Replaced OpenAL in update 1.37.[19] |
Console
- The console can be accessed by pressing ~ in-game.
- There is an extensive list of console commands documented here.
| Enable console[citation needed] |
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System requirements
| Windows | ||
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| Minimum | Recommended | |
| Operating system (OS) | 7 | 7, 8.1, 10 |
| Processor (CPU) | 2.4 GHz Dual Core | 3.0 GHz Quad Core |
| System memory (RAM) | 4 GB | 6 GB |
| Hard disk drive (HDD) | 3 GB | 10 GB |
| Video card (GPU) | Nvidia GeForce GTS 450-class Intel HD 4000 256 MB of VRAM DirectX 11 compatible | Nvidia GeForce GTX 760-class 2 GB of VRAM |
| Sound (audio device) | DirectX compatible | |
| macOS (OS X) | ||
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| Minimum | Recommended | |
| Operating system (OS) | 10.9 (Mavericks) | 10.10 (Yosemite) |
| Processor (CPU) | 2.4 GHz Dual Core | 3.0 GHz Quad Core |
| System memory (RAM) | 4 GB | 6 GB |
| Hard disk drive (HDD) | 3 GB | |
| Video card (GPU) | Nvidia GeForce GTS 450-class Intel HD 4000 | Nvidia GeForce GTX 760-class Intel HD 5300 |
- A 64-bit operating system is required.
| Linux | ||
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| Minimum | Recommended | |
| Operating system (OS) | Ubuntu 12.04 | |
| Processor (CPU) | 2.4 GHz Dual Core | 3.0 GHz Quad Core |
| System memory (RAM) | 4 GB | 6 GB |
| Hard disk drive (HDD) | 3 GB | |
| Video card (GPU) | Nvidia GeForce GTS 450-class Intel HD 4000 | Nvidia GeForce GTX 760-class 2 GB of VRAM |
References
- ↑ SCS Software's blog: Euro Truck Simulator 2 version 1.7 update - last accessed on May 2023
- ↑ Win PCG goodies for your Euro Truck Simulator 2 cab | PC Gamer
- ↑ SCS Software's blog: Cross-promo with Rocket League: Delivering Ball to Goal - last accessed on May 2023
- ↑ SCS Software • View topic - Skip the intro video - last accessed on 2016-6-7
- ↑ Euro Truck Simulator 2 Update 1.33 - last accessed on November 26, 2018
- ↑ ETS2 Update 1.26 Is Now Live! - Steam Community - last accessed on 2016-11-29
- ↑ SCS Software's blog: Game Updates Arrive Today! - last accessed on 2017-03-24
- ↑ Verified by User:Andytizer on January 18, 2013
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Euro Truck Simulator 2 :: Euro Truck Simulator 2 Update 1.35 - Steam Community - last accessed on 2019-06-05
- ↑ Update 1.24 is out! - Steam Community - last accessed on 2016-6-6
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Euro Truck Simulator 2: 1.41 Release - last accessed on 2021-07-15
- ↑ Convoy FAQ - last accessed on 2021-08-17
- "Is Convoy a form of peer-to-peer gaming?
While the Convoy sessions are hosted by the players themselves, one player always works as a server and therefore acts as a junction for other players. Everyone else communicates with this particular server in the end. More specifically it is the usual client-server communication layout with all clients having authority over specific objects."
- "Is Convoy a form of peer-to-peer gaming?
- ↑ Convoy: Dedicated Servers Support - last accessed on 2022-12-08
- "Since the release of Convoy, our native multiplayer mode for Euro Truck Simulator 2 and American Truck Simulator, we have been making small updates to further improve the players' experience. Today we are excited to share that a much-requested addition has arrived and that is the option to host a dedicated server!"
- ↑ Info about Oculus Rift support - last accessed on 2016-4-20
- ↑ SCS Software - View topic - Steering Wheel → wrong center
- ↑ Invisible Cars, Trucks, Stoplights, etc. :: Euro Truck Simulator 2 General Discussions - last accessed on 2018-11-16
- ↑ Euro Truck Simulator 2 goes 64-bit: 1.16 update now live - Steam Community - last accessed on 2016-6-6
- ↑ European Truck Simulator Update 1.36 - last accessed on 2019-12-03
- ↑ Euro Truck Simulator 2 1.37 Release - last accessed on 2020-05-05