The Great Project Cars Glitches, Bugs and Errors Thread

[Jack Williams]

Discovered a really irritating glitch today when making pitstops from dry to wet tyres and vice-versa; I get a puncture whenever a new wheel is mounted! Just a tad annoying...

Also, pit-stops seem really slow. But I don't know if that's anything to do with just my timing and/or strategy.

 

[MXH]

Lap time didn't register during qualifying in multiplayer at Le Mans. Anyone else encountered this?

 

[Goruk]

The DS4 not working on the PS4 when you have a wheel connected is a bug a glitch or an error?
There´s so many things and terminologies a person get lost...

 

[Xiamoto]

Lap time didn't register during qualifying in multiplayer at Le Mans. Anyone else encountered this?

Are you on PC, xBox or PS4?

 

[MXH]

Are you on PC, xBox or PS4?

PS4. Looked at the qualifying leaderboard at the end and only one player had set a time. I never got 'Lap Invalidated' message either so, I dunno'...

 

[Ryan Sandall]

Don't know if anyone has mentioned or found this yet but if you go free practice and crash and lose a wheel or 4, go return to pit box then drive again, you can drive your car normally just with no wheels

 

[Johnnypenso]

Take note. I've added the following to the OP as a more direct form of reporting bugs. You can still report things here of course as some bugs are not bugs at all but just mistakes in inputs and such and can be resolved here, but if you're convinced you have a bug, I'd suggest checking the appropriate links to see if it's been directly reported on the official forums.

Added to the OP:

Note: With the creation of the Official Project Cars Forum, you can now report directly to the SMS staff.

PC - List of known bugs
Forum for reporting bugs

PS4 - List of known bugs
Forum for Reporting bugs

XBone - List of known bugs
Forum for Reporting bugs

I suggest searching the first list to see if your bug is there and if you want to add to it, just click the link and it'll take you directly to that specific issue. If you don't find it in the first list, scan through a couple pages of the second link to see if your issue is there. If not, feel free to create a thread, but you have to register with the forum first of course.

 

[Stevie Ray]

Maybe they accidentally released an Old version of the game ?

 

[bleeder]

Take note. I've added the following to the OP as a more direct form of reporting bugs. You can still report things here of course as some bugs are not bugs at all but just mistakes in inputs and such and can be resolved here, but if you're convinced you have a bug, I'd suggest checking the appropriate links to see if it's been directly reported on the official forums.

Added to the OP:

Note: With the creation of the Official Project Cars Forum, you can now report directly to the SMS staff.

PC - List of known bugs
Forum for reporting bugs

PS4 - List of known bugs
Forum for Reporting bugs

XBone - List of known bugs
Forum for Reporting bugs

I suggest searching the first list to see if your bug is there and if you want to add to it, just click the link and it'll take you directly to that specific issue. If you don't find it in the first list, scan through a couple pages of the second link to see if your issue is there. If not, feel free to create a thread, but you have to register with the forum first of course.

thanks for the links but i don't particulary want to enter another forum, i'm happy here, can we be sure the bugs GTP users post here will filter back to SMS?

and also i had a bug today where instead of the 2 camera sweeps of the grid at the start of a race, it was as if i was under the track, sitting under the game world, all was blue apart from a few tree tops (no, i wasn't in a flying car). restarted session twice, same problem. Hockenheim GP.

and i had the no engine noise bug in multiplayer, Brands, exit to pit sorted it out.

plus i was doing qualifying (forget where), when i went back to the pits to tune my wheeljack guy wasn't there. not sure if he went for a cup of tea or something, but i was left stranded. had to exit to pits again in menu to sort it out.

 

[Johnnypenso]

thanks for the links but i don't particulary want to enter another forum, i'm happy here, can we be sure the bugs GTP users post here will filter back to SMS?

I only briefly skimmed the lists and didn't cross check, but I think many or most of the bugs I can recall seeing here are already on the official forums. Here's the known PS4 list for example:

Known Issues [PS4]:

Gameplay
Everything locked, but one raceWORKAROUND
Can't access career modeWORKAROUND
Fastest Lap Times not always getting recorded
Penalty after a Pitstop

Online

Render
Ghosting
Cars stuttering during a replay

Physics

UI
HUD Edits not getting saved
AI strength can only be adjusted in 10%-steps with a controller

Career
AI does mandatory pit stop on the last lap and gains an advantage

Audio
Race Engineer not loud enough / missing
Audio Cracking

Vehicle
Replays showing the Gear indicator always as "N"

Tracks
AI cars crashing in the pits at Zolder


Controller and Wheels
Fanatec issues
Thurstmaster issues
Too many mandatory buttons

 

[PJTierney]

someone will have to create best of PCars bloopers and etc., can't wait to see that! LOL

I'm worried that this game may have more bugs at launch than F1 2010 had

 

[Mubble]

Apparently we were lapping Silverstone in 1.17s.

Also during this same career mode Clio race, with compulsory pit stop, I noticed my position drop from p8 down to p10 as I overtook two cars which were in the pits. It quickly corrected itself up to p6 by the first corner past the pits.

 

[priesty_lfc]

Happens to me loads of times, join a lobby and session but can't warm up/quali then it puts me at the back of the grid.

Drive option is locked.

 

[svenvangent]

PS4 :
Cars Hit the wall very hard leaving the pit at Silverstone.
Mercedes-Benz 300SEL 6.8 AMG .
Audi R8 V10 plus .

 

[Gerbuho]

I installed it on thursday and I haven't seen a single online lobby till now. They just don't show.

 

[FLX1981]

Which platform?

 

[Gerbuho]

PC

 

[Fezz_ST]

Not sure if it's a glitch or bug, but after just 3 laps of Monza in the Pagani Huayra I blew the engine, had to shift way down the revs to keep the temperature under the red :/

 

[MagpieRacer]

Apparently we were lapping Silverstone in 1.17s.

Also during this same career mode Clio race, with compulsory pit stop, I noticed my position drop from p8 down to p10 as I overtook two cars which were in the pits. It quickly corrected itself up to p6 by the first corner past the pits.

Is this even a bug? In the clios it's a pretty short track so it would be those times.

 

[Brend]

 

[c172fccc]

Looks like a "physic freeze". It happens sometimes (very rarely) and afaik, nobody found a good way to reproduce it.

 

[Johnnypenso]

I installed it on thursday and I haven't seen a single online lobby till now. They just don't show.

Lobbies will only show up on servers that are near your geographic download location as you set it up on Steam. Try going in to Steam and changing your download location to a more popular centre like London or Paris or some other large city near you. I had mine as Detroit and there were a few lobbies, but I changed it to Paris and then U.K. and there were many, many more lobbies.

Steam>>settings>>downloads>>download region Don't forget to hit "ok" before closing. It might prompt you to restart Steam for the change to take effect, can't remember. When you go to download more content, just change it back to something local.

Here's a bug. Player crashes into the guardrail and spins..without ever hitting the guardrail, at Silverstone. I believe it's at Copse:



This is a still of the exact moment of "contact" without contact.

 

[Mubble]

Is this even a bug? In the clios it's a pretty short track so it would be those times.

Check the time again. It's not 01:17.00, it's 00:01:17

1.17 seconds. If it was minutes, it would show the tenths of a second too.

 

[GregTheStig]

[PC] I played all day Saturday with no problems at all. I play today and now every time I go back to the main menu after doing a race (or anything) it crashes with no warnings, error messages, etc. Nothing in Event Viewer. T__T


Edit: turns out it was AMD's Raptr client running in the background that was giving me the crashes. I quit out of it and the game hasn't crashed since. 👍

 

[Johnnypenso]

Good Lord, that Penso is a cheater! Oh wait..

So I thought I'd try my hand at an FF, so I drove a few practice laps in the Clio and entered the SMS events at Brands Hatch. PC froze up on me as I entered the event and so I restarted and went right into the event. Ran off 9 laps to get a feel for it, ran a few decent laps and then backed out to check my time. This was my lap:

This was the leaderboard:

Oi vey

Can someone please get my lap erased off the leaderboard so I can post a legit time?

 

[zane888]

Johnypenso you must be god of racing to post that kind of time! lol just kidding.

I had a very frustrating experience this afternoon.

Formula B world championship round 3/7 azure GP circuit.
Main race, I pit on lap 16 out of 22, *did not click on any buttons during pit stop*, came out of the pits and it was "AUTO DRIVE" for the rest of the race. Car controlled itself for the remaining 5 laps to finish first.

So I clicked restart race.
This time I pit on lap 11 out of 22. *did not touch anything during the pit stop* and once again the car comes out being "AUTO DRIVE" for the rest of the race.

So I restarted the race AGAIN!!!!
This time I pit on lap 5 out of 22. *did not touch anything as before* and came out of the pits and I could control my car.
I went on and won the race.

So it took me 1 and 1/2 hours, 3 tries to just complete 1 race. This is extremely frustrating!!!!

 

[Gerbuho]

Lobbies will only show up on servers that are near your geographic download location as you set it up on Steam. Try going in to Steam and changing your download location to a more popular centre like London or Paris or some other large city near you. I had mine as Detroit and there were a few lobbies, but I changed it to Paris and then U.K. and there were many, many more lobbies.

Steam>>settings>>downloads>>download region Don't forget to hit "ok" before closing. It might prompt you to restart Steam for the change to take effect, can't remember. When you go to download more content, just change it back to something local.

Here's a bug. Player crashes into the guardrail and spins..without ever hitting the guardrail, at Silverstone. I believe it's at Copse:



This is a still of the exact moment of "contact" without contact.

View attachment 364777

Makes sense. Thanks, I'll try.

 

[eCiD]

m1 procar, nordschleife, 3 laps, 24 cars, single race weekend, 2 random weathers at 2x:
the wiper didnt wipe in the replay and during the race at the end of lap 2 i blew my engine and smoke came from the engine, but in replay there was no smoke.

ruf rgt gt3, dubai club, 6 laps, 24 cars, SRW, 2 random weathers at 10x:
during qualifying i wanted to enter the pit, first the AI crashed the car into left wall, then drove backwards to correct the driving path and finaly paced through the whole pit at full speed driving through other cars as if they were ghosts while not getting the pit options popup.

 

[PJTierney]

Good Lord, that Penso is a cheater! Oh wait..

So I thought I'd try my hand at an FF, so I drove a few practice laps in the Clio and entered the SMS events at Brands Hatch. PC froze up on me as I entered the event and so I restarted and went right into the event. Ran off 9 laps to get a feel for it, ran a few decent laps and then backed out to check my time. This was my lap:View attachment 364833

This was the leaderboard:
View attachment 364834

Oi vey

Can someone please get my lap erased off the leaderboard so I can post a legit time?

F1 2011 had a similar issue, whereby sometimes the timer would just ignore the final sector of a track and treat the first 2 as the entire lap.

 

[David Talle]

I had a very annoying bug yesterday and today in endurance races in the Marek LMP2.

After a pitstop my tyres would overheat up to 150°C on 1 lap, I tried both soft and medium compounds, changed pressure, pitted at least three time but nothing changed. I handed the car over to the AI and when I went back my car just stopped instantly at the end of the pit lane and I couldn't restart as if I was holding the brakes or something (wheels where spinning when throttle applied). Just threw 4h of racing into the bin...

And today I'm attempting the Le Mans 24h for the first time in career mode (54% so actually 13h IRL) and I'm worried because after two stints I changed my tyres and had the same overheating issue despite struggling to keep them warm on the previous set ! I came back and put the exact same compound and pressure that I had on th first set but still the same problem. Currently Bobby is behind the wheel and there's about 11h remaining and I'm very scared of what is going to happen...

Also I noticed that during the pitstop the game will ignore my instruction not to fill fuel tank and that may be it, maybe the game just ignores the pit stop settings ? So very low pressure leading to overheating...? Does anyone else had this bug ? Sorry didn't read all the thread but I hardly find similar cases on the web.

Also I don't know if it's related but the mechanics almost always have issues with wheel nuts, sometime on 3 of the 4 wheels... You had one job John, you had ONE JOB !

Edit: I'm on PS4.