Cars Mater-National Championship

Cars Mater-National Championship

Developers
	Rainbow Studios
Publishers
	THQ
Russia	Noviy Disk
Digital	Disney Interactive Studios
Release dates
Windows	October 29, 2007
Taxonomy
Genres	Racing
Series	Cars

Cars
Subseries of Pixar
Cars	2006
Cars: Radiator Springs Adventures	2006
Cars Mater-National Championship	2007
The World of Cars Online	2008
Cars Toon: Mater's Tall Tales	2010
Cars 2	2011
Disney Planes	2013
Cars: Fast as Lightning	2014

Key points

Port of the Xbox 360 version. PC version does not include the graphical improvements and exclusive content from the PlayStation 3 release. See Cars: Mater-National - PCS3 Edition.

The game is not optimized for keyboard controls nor game controllers. See Input settings.

General information

World of Cars Wiki

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail
GamersGate (unavailable)
Steam		Licensed music/songs are present in the Steam version.

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Use intro fix[citation needed]
Download the Skip intro fix. Copy all the files to <path-to-game>\DataPC\C\Movies\2997\, overwriting the exisiting files.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/332260/pfx/

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\THQ\Cars2\
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/332260/pfx/

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
OneDrive		Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud

Video

Video options.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Requires modding. See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor		See Widescreen resolution.
Ultra-widescreen		See Widescreen resolution.
4K Ultra HD		See Widescreen resolution.
Field of view (FOV)		See Field of view (FOV).
Windowed		Use DxWnd
Borderless fullscreen windowed		Use DxWnd
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		No in-game setting for it, leaving the road very blurry. Forcing it through the graphics card control panel is recommended to improve visuals.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		MSAA, toggle only.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		Off by default. Can be forced through the graphics card control panel.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		No frame rate cap. The camera rotation and monster truck Mater's tow are tied to the framerate; as the framerate gets higher, the camera rotation will be faster, and monster truck Mater's tow will sway less.
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Widescreen resolution

Widescreen fix
Download Cars Mater National Resolutions. Copy the content of the <your resolution> folder to the installation folder. Run the game and set 800x600 resolution. Notes Information for creating custom resolutions are included in Readme.txt. Knowledge of hex editing is required.

Field of view (FOV)

Field of view fix
Go to <path-to-game>\DataPC\C\. Open rscamera.ini. Modify the various FOV values. Notes Modified files can be downloaded from the Cars Mater National Resolutions fix.

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		Acceleration is always on for steering. For example, holding a steering key makes the car steer from slowly to steering all the way, which makes driving more difficult.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		The analogue sticks and triggers are registered as digital input rather than analogue, which is a big problem when steering. For example, pushing the left stick slightly to the right makes the car steer all the way to the right. Add that with steering acceleration that's always on, and playing with the controller is rather unplayable.
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Additional information
Button prompts
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Sound options.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Music, Effects, Dialogue
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English				Metric measurements
Danish
French
German
Italian
Polish
Russian				Local retail only; download here for Steam version.
Spanish
Swedish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Notes
Local play
LAN play
Online play

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	BASS
Cutscenes	Bink Video

Mods

Cars: Hi-Octane Edition/Cars SuperDrive

Mod for Cars: Mater-National Championship that aims to combine the best elements of Cars, Cars Mater-National Championship, and Cars Race-O-Rama into one complete package.

Cars: Mater-National - PCS3 Edition

Mod for Cars: Mater-National Championship that aims to port the PS3 version of the game to the PC.

This mod includes an exclusive paintjob that is Lightning McQueen's original paintjob from the first film and first game.

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	2000	XP, Vista
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 4 1.6 GHz AMD Athlon XP 1600+	Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz AMD Athlon XP 2400+
System memory (RAM)	256 MB	512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	2 GB
Video card (GPU)	ATI Radeon 8500 64 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible	Nvidia GeForce 4 ATI Radeon 9800 128 MB of VRAM