free PC Driving/Racing sims

[thestig11]

I and many people would like to know what is on offer to us PC gamers that do not want to pay for our driving games!

Rigs Of Rods
http://www.rigsofrods.com/content/

 

[omgsean1]

Simraceway
Website https://www.simraceway.com/ and https://www.simraceway.com/download_client?locale=en Include download, but first register your new account then download. Same as other MMO website which account require to play free to play and/or pay to play games.

 

[I'm Motarded]

BMW challenge by Blimey/SMS
http://www.bmw.com/com/en/newvehicles/mseries/m3coupe/2007/experience/game/content.html
Only one car and track.
Track Mods are available. But I doubt many are legal conversions.



Truck Racing by Renault
http://www.gameseed.fr/free/tr/product_info.php?products_id=21&language=en
This isn't Game Stock Car by a long shot. But o.k for a free sim



Speed dreams
http://www.speed-dreams.org/
Free Open Source Simulator
Never tested this one.



Live for speed - Demo
http://www.lfs.net/?page=contents
Three cars. One Track.
Not free. But the demo is worth downloading.

 

[I'm Motarded]

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Volvo: The Game
http://volvo-the-game.en.softonic.com/
Never tested this one



Real-Time-Racing by Simbin
http://www.real-timeracing.com/frontpage.aspx
Never tested this one. Based on Race 07 I think.



And the following are "as good as free" for the next nine days

Superpower Sims Bundle by multiple developers
http://www.bundlestars.com/all-bundles/Superpower-Sims-Bundle/

Includes the following sims -
Trainz Simulator 12
Il-2 Sturmovik: 1946
Euro Truck Simulator (Easy worth the bundle price alone)
GT LEGENDS (Easy worth the bundle price alone)
Agricultural Simulator 2011 Extended ed.
Air Conflicts: Secret Wars
GTR: FIA GT Racing (Easy worth the bundle price alone)
Rig 'n' Roll
Trainz Simulator: Murchison 2

Price: €3.47 (2.97) lol

 

[kikie]

This is a free race car simulator.

Racer is a free car simulator project (for non-commercial use), using high-end car physics to achieve a realistic feeling and an excellent render engine for graphical realism. Cars, tracks and such can be created relatively easy (compared to other, more closed driving simulations). The 3D files, physics and other Racer-specific file formats are documented. Editors and support programs are also available to get a very customizable and expandable simulator. OpenGL is used for rendering.

http://www.racer.nl/

 

[thestig11]

good start all, are there any more?

 

[Tyger]

More of an arcade racer than a simulation, but I am currently having some fun with Trackmania. There seem to be several versions of it but I've started with Trackmania Nations Forever, which is a few years old now but standalone, a little buggy in places but has some cool "technical" tracks with loops, wall rides etc. A little more up to date is Trackmania 2, a "demo" is available here but it offers a lot of content, online servers, countless tracks and several themes/environments.

Still trying to figure some things out, like how one upgrades or changes their car, and I swear some of the opponents have more speed and grip than me, but perhaps I'm just average at it

 

[DQuaN]

And the following are "as good as free" for the next nine days

Superpower Sims Bundle by multiple developers
http://www.bundlestars.com/all-bundles/Superpower-Sims-Bundle/

Includes the following sims -
Trainz Simulator 12
Il-2 Sturmovik: 1946
Euro Truck Simulator (Easy worth the bundle price alone)
GT LEGENDS (Easy worth the bundle price alone)
Agricultural Simulator 2011 Extended ed.
Air Conflicts: Secret Wars
GTR: FIA GT Racing (Easy worth the bundle price alone)
Rig 'n' Roll
Trainz Simulator: Murchison 2

Price: €3.47 (2.97) lol

Wow thanks for that! I've just purchased it.

 

[Lewis_Hamilton_]

I have been playing this between GT5 sessions for the past year:

Auto Club Revolution.



Free to play, about a dozen tracks available with alternative variations, wet weather, a nice varied garage and a custom livery editor. It also has multiplayer, mini challenges and "Beat the devs" challenges, leaderboards for every car and track combination, and is regularly updated with added content and improvements.

I like it a lot personally (for a free game), tuned cars have nice backfire gurgles and long periods of spitting flames when you let off the gas, graphics are pretty decent and it feels, in my opinion, more realistic than GT5 does in many areas of the physics system. Starter cars are bargin cheap in game, but super cars can take a bit of grinding to afford, unless you go down the microtransactions route.

 

[Tyger]

Wow thanks for that! I've just purchased it.

Me too, but holy moses the downloads from Steam take forever. 2.5MB/s? Seriously?

But yeah thanks Motarded, a nice pack, I may even try the flight/train/tractor sims

 

[Kaelsberg]

Another member of this forum made his own SIM:
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/threads/my-racing-simulation-build-07.258279/

 

[Blitz24]

Wish some of these were usable on an Apple OS.

 

[jacnob]

Some of them will work under Wineskin. I used it for Simraceway, but I couldn't convince it to download cars or tracks (may be that it was behind my school's blockers)

 

[sesselpupser]

Wow thanks for that! I've just purchased it.

If you like that one, http://www.bundlestars.com/ has a bundle with Race Injection for next to nothing but the other games look pretty awful. Race Injection is Race 07 with a few DLCs but not all of them.

 

[Tyger]

If you like that one, http://www.bundlestars.com/ has a bundle with Race Injection for next to nothing but the other games look pretty awful. Race Injection is Race 07 with a few DLCs but not all of them.

Ooh thanks for the heads up on this too, Race Injection looks nifty. Did I spot a Reliant Scimitar? The other games aren't great looking but some look worth a couple of goes, can't go wrong at that price