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Secrets of GTR2 Mods: Tips, tricks, resources, and other helpful information.
This is a space to highlight GTR2 mods. It was originally a section of Secrets of GTR2 until it became large enough to be cumbersome and distract from the other content.
Update 2022-06-05: Initial move of the Secrets of GTR2 Mod Spotlight section to this dedicated post.
Older updates are archived at the bottom under the Updates section.
Car Mods
Power & Glory
Download it at Race Department
“The aim of the Power&Glory mod is to produce the cars included in Simbin’s GT Legends as close as we can to the way they were in the 60s and 70s. All cars have new physics and sounds, along with extensive textures and 3D modifications. We have also included some of the extra cars produced for GTL (with the permission of their creators of course).”
EEC GT3 V3
Download it at the European Endurance Center.
WIP Thoughts: Most cars FFB very good, some poor / BOP (Balance of Power) issues on some cars.
Note! You probably need the 4GB Patch, mentioned earlier, if you don’t have it installed already. Your game will crash with an ‘unexpected error’ dialog when loading too many cars.
WIP Install Notes:
- How to use EEC Forum download links:
- The EEC forums try to display ads by hijacking any URLs in posts, including mod download links. These are super questionable, bad ads that hijack your browser, open popups and popunders, and quite possibly have malware and viruses lurking.
- Instead, right-click the links, copy them, paste them into the URL bar in a new tab, and you will see the real link is embedded in a hijack link.
- Example: http://adf.ly/246619/http://www.mediafire.com/download/8tzi8faa0egm14u/EEC_GT3_Base_Mod_v3.0.rar
- Remove the bad (red) part and keep the real download link.
- Always copy&paste&edit EEC forum download links like this and you’ll stay safe.
- Installing:
- Start at the first post in the EEC GT3 V3 Base Mod Release thread
- Get the files listed (or use the links I provided above)
- Then, go to the bottom of the same first post, you’ll notice a number of update downloads. Get these and install them.
- Note: Read the RED text! It’s important as some things have to be done in the right order.
- Just follow the order of the updates and you should be fine.
- Start at the first post in the EEC GT3 V3 Base Mod Release thread
- EEC GT3 V3 does not have car skins / liveries by default. All your cars will be white. Find skins here:
- EEC GTR2 > Skins
- EEC GTR2 > Open Section > Skins
- EEC GT3 V3.0 Car Pack
- For the life of me, I can’t remember or find where I originally came across this. See notes below about installing skins.
- Warning! You must install the the SRT_VIPERGT3R_WHEELS.gtr file from the EEC GT3 Viper SRT Continential Tires.rar or Viper Continental Tires.zip archives to avoid a crash when loading the Viper cars.
- Browse this thread on Trackaholics and download 50+ skins
- Here is a backup link to a ZIP of all 50 skins for convenience or if the original goes down.
- Install Skins:
- Find the team folder, usually named after a team or car, that should contain *.car, *.GTR, possibly *.DDS files, and maybe other file types, and copy the team folder to your GTR2 GameData\Teams\EEC GT3\<CAR>\ folder. For example, from the EEC GT3 V3.0 Car Pack (link above), it has a \Ford Racing\ folder that I copied to GameData\Teams\EEC GT3\Ford GT\ folder.
- How did I know the \Ford Racing\ folder was for the Ford GT car?
- I looked inside \Ford Racing\ folder and saw files like 15027G_FORD_GT.car. Then I looked in the GTR2 Teams\Ford GT\ folder and saw files with the same pattern FORD_GT. Every \Teams\ car folder will have patterns like this that you’ll need to match up. If you don’t have a matching pattern like that, it means you don’t have a team/car that matches. You can try to find one or just discard it.
- How did I know the \Ford Racing\ folder was for the Ford GT car?
- Remove GTR2 GameData\Teams\EEC GT3\<CAR>\Test Car\ folders once you have real skins for the car otherwise GTR2 will still grid some cars without skins.
- Find the team folder, usually named after a team or car, that should contain *.car, *.GTR, possibly *.DDS files, and maybe other file types, and copy the team folder to your GTR2 GameData\Teams\EEC GT3\<CAR>\ folder. For example, from the EEC GT3 V3.0 Car Pack (link above), it has a \Ford Racing\ folder that I copied to GameData\Teams\EEC GT3\Ford GT\ folder.
F1 2008
Download it at eSport-Racing.de.
WIP Install Notes:
- Edit UserData\User\User.PLR and set wheels visible in cockpit=”1″ otherwise you won’t see your wheels when you’re in the car
Super Touring World 2.0
Download it at the European Endurance Center.
TBD
FIA GT 2000-2009 Collection Mod
Download it at the European Endurance Center.
WIP Thoughts: Hit and miss cars and tracks / Hit and miss sounds / Conflicts with other mods by instructions to delete GameData\Teams\{24H,GT,NGT}; Seems like there should be a better way to do this / Feels simply like a bunch of things collected over time rather than an actual custom modification, unfortunately.
WSGT – World Super GT Mod
Download it at Race Department
The World Super GT Mod adds Super GT cars and sounds.
I’m impressed! This seems like a very polished effort. Cars seem well modeled, physics/handling come through well, force feedback feels good, cockpits look nice, sounds are very well done.
The only problem seems to be a lack of Balance of Power.
Worth it? Yes, check out the features (see description), and they all seem to be well done:
Mod Features:
- Mod Features:
- 7 new car models with detailed cockpits and textures.
- highly developed physics with suspension geometries modeled with references of photos
- Realistic Engine sounds
- New special effects sounds
- Fully detailed drivers suits
- Fully compatable with GTR2
- Optimized LODs
- New showroom and showroom menu
- and more.
- Cars Included:
- Aston Martin DBR9
- Aston Martin DBRS9
- Ferrari F50 GT
- Ferrari FXX
- Maserati Trofeo Light
- McLaren F1 GTR Longtail
- Ultima GTR
See it in action:
Super GT500 2005-2013 Mod
Download it at Race Department
The Super GT500 2005-2013 Mod includes, as you would expect, the cars from the Japanese Super GT500 for the 2005-2013 seasons.
The mod was last updated in 2015 and, on first impressions, the cars force feedback feels a little poor. The cars themselves seem well modeled, sound great, and are probably great to race.
Here’s what I had to do to install it successfully:
- Download WinRAR from RarLab.com if you need it (I found 7Zip wouldn’t work).
- Always virus scan downloads at VirusTotal.com
- Download the mod
- Extract with WinRAR
- WinRar should prompt you to extract extract more volumes (ie. part 2 and 3). Browse to the part 2 and part 3 files when requested.
- Copy&Paste the GameData folder into your GTR2 folder. It will prompt you to merge folders.
- The only file it asked to actually overwrite was SPARK.DDS. I said no because I use the HQ Sparks mod. Seemed to operate fine.
That’s it. The mod seems to be fine. Enjoy!
My thoughts on the mod: Delivers what it says it would – good, car look and feel are good, physics/handling seem decent (possibly too much grip?), force feedback feels dated – could be updated to HQ Cars standards, championships included – good.
Worth it? Yes, it’s a well done mod. I think it’s especially worth it if you’re a fan of Super GT.
Japan SGT300 Mod – Super GT GT300 Class Cars
Download it at Race Department
The Japan SGT300 Mod includes Super GT GT300 class cars. Car modeling appears to lack the polish of the Super GT500 2005-2013 Mod (see above) but it’s very playable. One thing this mod facilitates is Super GT multi-class racing. No idea if that’s a thing in real Super GT but I like the idea of a bigger, more varied field. Sounds are decent.
Worth it? Yes, I think so, if you like Super GT and you want some more cars.
HQ 2005 Season (Formerly FiaGT 2005 Mod)
The HQ 2005 Season brings the FIA GT 2005 season to GTR2 adding the 2005 season to the existing 2003 and 2004 seasons.
Worth it? Yes, one of the best, most complete, most up-to-date mods you can find. Comes with a new championship, and the Aston Martin DBR9 which sounds beautiful.
DTM Classics Mod
Download it at Race Department
The DTM Classics Mod adds championships that simulate the DTM 1990-91-92 seasons and it includes three cars – the Mercedes Benz 190E Evolution II, BMW E30 M3 Sportevolution, and Audi V8 DTM. My installation notes are below.
Worth it? Ya, I think it is fun to drive around those old early 90s cars.
See it in action:
Subaru Impreza Mod
Download it at Race Department
The Subaru Impreza mod adds the Impreza car to GTR2. Despite being last updated in 2007 it feels like a very well modeled car. Driving feels like you’d expect an Impreza to feel. Sounds are very lacking but there seems to be some mods that address the sounds issue, although I haven’t tried them yet.
Worth it? Yes, if you’re a fan of the car, otherwise maybe not, although it does present an interesting change of scenery from the usual GTR cars.
Track Mods
TBD
Other Mods
TBD
You forgot one of the best mods, Group5 Mod WIP by BLT..
Is there any place where I can download this complete?
F1-1967 is a really cool mod. It is a conversion of the SlimJim rFactor mod by looseether and friends and improves on it quite a bit. A think it is available for both GTL and GTR2.