Project CARS - South Africa

Hi everyone,

I've set up a local dedicated server for pCARS in South Africa. At this stage, dserver lobbies aren't listed in the game's browser by default (it will be added at a later stage). However, if you want to make use of the server to create your own (non-P2P) local lobbies or for us to coordinate a nice race, follow these steps:

Before you start, I just want to suggest that you guys ensure that your Steam Download region is set to "Johannesburg - South Africa" otherwise you want find the lobby whenever we host a session on the dserver.

To change your Download region, in the Steam client, open the "Steam" menu, then choose "Settings", click on "Downloads" and set your download region accordingly (Johannesburg - South Africa). Once you've completed that, proceed with the following steps:

1) Right-click Project CARS in your Steam library, select "Properties"

2) Then click on the "Set Launch Options" button.

3) Add the following in the available dialog box (you need to copy and paste the entire string as is):

-searchds "StoneCold's pCARS DServer |ZA|"

4) Click OK

5) Launch the game

6) Whenever you create a session now, it will search for the dedicated server and create your session on it instead of creating the default P2P session.

7) Other people in the browser will see session listed as the dedicated server name (unless you change the lobby name, so I suggest to leave it blank when setting your session options)

8) Once you create session, it will then search and connect to the dedicated server and advertise it in the lobby for others to see

And that's it!

Anyone is welcome to create their own sessions on the server for their enjoyment.

PS: The server supports a maximum of 64 players, which means multiple sessions can be created until all 64 slots are filled.

If you have any question, please feel free to ask :)

Regards
StoneCold

PS: Dedicated server is hosted in a data center in Jhb - South Africa