Are you able to answer this question (bandwidth question)?

[Andre.V]

Hi SMS.

On may 19th, I'll move in a new house where the internet service is more expensive via satellite with limited bandwidth. Are you able to tell me how much bandwidth Pcars 2 consume every hour played ?

I would really appreciate you answer this before I sign any internet contract.

Thanks.

Andre.

[Asturbo]

The satellite comunication nowdays brings decent transfer rates, but there is a major problem that is latency. It's unavoidable because the data has to go to the satellite (they are 36.000km over our heads), and back to your antena and that produces high pings that makes impossible to play online to most games. The usual latency of these conections is 800ms-1000ms and with that you can't play shooters or sims. Furthermore PCARS2 is specially demanding in this area, so I think you could have serious problems. Ask to your satellite ISP the latency of the connection, but probably a 4G line will work better for online gaming.

About bandwidth depends of many factors, specially the number of players. You have to transfer/receive the data to/from each of the players of the lobby, so with 10 players the bandwidth used is the double that with 5 players (teorically). The number of conections grows exponentially with the numer of players, but the amount of data transfered it's not very high.

[Andre.V]

Asturbo.

Very very good explanation sir. Thank you so much. Therefore, I have to tell you I'm not an online gamer or racer except occasionnaly with my son. So if I'm only playing for my own with the AI, may I expect such problems ? I ask this because I need to be connect to STEAM server before playing Pcars, so I need an internet connection even if I'm playing alone with the AI.

Andre.

[Mahjik]

There isn't much transferred if you are online playing offline (i.e. no online multiplayer, no community events, and no Time Trial). Steam will sync your profile information and then there is the online authentication check. There will be a few calls like for Real Weather but the data will be small.

[Asturbo]

So if I'm only playing for my own with the AI, may I expect such problems ? I ask this because I need to be connect to STEAM server before playing Pcars, so I need an internet connection even if I'm playing alone with the AI.

No problem for that. Steam would work well and no much data transfered (except patchs). You can play against AI, or with your son's ghosts. Latency isn't a problem in this situation.

[Andre.V]

Thank you so much guys, you answered my question about bandwidth. I didn't think about playing offline, that's a good idea. I never played online with other humans, I'm always playing only with the AI or alone on the tracks.

Thanks again.

Andre.

[CSL-Drive]

I played project cars 2 and every other game over 4g, using liquidsky game streaming. The game itself only has 21 ms latency, so 21 milisecond before I can see my input in the game.
I pay 35 per month for 4g and have unlimitted acces to internet byte. Download and upload.
The rate itself can go well over the maximum required for streaming 1080p games at 60 fps. So I can even use it as a wifi hotspot to play on my laptop.
I have tried many times playing online games over 3g on my local computer, not game streaming, game running on my local computer. and found it eats like 50 mb per hour? Latency was max 30 ms, I cant recall exactly mb used, but it was low for sure. Maybe 100mb per hour? Max? For a data heavy game. Some games like overwatch allow you to limit data used even. Or so ive heard.

[Andre.V]

CSL-Drive.

Thank you for your feedback. That is really good. I will probably take the 5gb bandwidth limit, so hearing all your comment, I'll be very good with a such bandwidth.

Andre.

[Andre.V]

Hi everyone.

Just an update which can serve to somebody else (maybe). I bought the BELL MIFI 7000 gadget and it works so nicely. The bandwidth is limited yes, but the rate is faster than what I had before at home with only 6mb/s. I also tried playing Pcars 2 and TDU 2 in OFFLINE mode and that works very nice too. So there absolutely no problem for me continuing to play my favorite racing game. I have a flex bandwidth from 100mb up to 10gb at a max of $85 CND. 5gb is $60 CND.

Andre.

[ATSS]

I only played the game in the past month for like 35-40hours, but windows says PCARS2.AVX.exe used only 25MB of data.