AC Car Limit - Is there a way to pass it in the native launcher?

Camdoo7 · Jan 27, 2023

Hi all, after 8+ years of owning AC, it has become my go-to sim, and is nearly perfect, thanks to the work the community does with CM, CSP, Server Manager, cars, tracks, liveries, and all the rest. However, there is one last issue.

I'm stuck at a limit of about 460 cars, above which the standard launcher will no longer start the game (gets stuck at 'Loading car metadata 100%'). After a bit of playing around it seems this happens for me when the 'cars' folder reaches ~250GB.

My question is has anyone found a way of adding more cars than this while still being able to launch the game through the native launcher?

I've seen people suggest using CM previously, and I usually do, but ideally I'd like to be able to launch through the AC launcher as there are a few things I've never been able to figure out how to do through CM (my steering wheel never seems to work if I go through CM, and multiplayer seems less reliable).

Not having to compromise on cars would be the last step to making AC perfect for me, so I'm hoping someone will have some ideas! Thank you

WarrenB · Jan 28, 2023

I was in the same boat, wanted to be able to launch from the AC shortcut on desktop. Simple answer is no, disable cars not used in CM to get below the number where you can load the game.
I could load AC on standard AC exe/steam with 495 cars, but over that, AC would crash. Now I am used to starting with CM, it's far better than starting with the standard exe file and I haven't found a limit on cars/tracks yet. With all the options available in CM, why would you want to start on the default exe, especially with the amount of cars and tracks that require CSP to be able to run.

RasmusP · Jan 28, 2023

Instead of trying to change the max car limit, I would suggest opening another thread, asking about the steering wheel situation, which doesn't make any sense to me.

CM simply reads out the config files as they are and launches the real game exe, just like the default launcher.

Multiplayer can't be influenced either as soon as you're on track. It doesn't change anything!
The server browser however has some extra stuff that usually works very well.
What exactly do you mean by "less reliable"?