Almost all of the built in cars in the game are manual, which is hard for me to drive. Is there a way to modify the game files so that I can play them in automatic?

I agree, I want to try out the career mode but my controls dont work with manual, but only automatic.

Although I do not own this game (I have not learned Russian yet) I still think I may be able to help.

Go to C:\Program Files (X86)\City Car Driving\data\config\

Then open of the player_cars.xml file in your favorite text editor.

You should see a line of code that looks like this


<Car Name="Whatever the car name is" ABS="false" AT="false" >

I am assuming that ABS stands for Anti-lock Braking System and AT Automatic Transmission. If you change AT to equal "true" then I suppose your car will become automatic transmission.


NOTE BEFORE YOU TRY THIS BACK UP THE DATA FILE. If something goes wrong you can just use the delete/replace method of fixing your game.

Oh, and please respond as to whether this works or not. Thank you.

I think that the player_cars.xml file is for add-on vehicles that you download from websites. I can't find a file for vehicles that are included with the game.

After spending hours analyzing the code which is gloriously written in XML (good for user modification), I finally think I figured out how the built in cars are programmed. The problem is that some of the manual transmission cars are hardcoded into the tutorials/missions. So, if we changed all the manual transmission cars to automatic, and then tried to run a tutorial/mission, the game would expect a manual transmission car even though we are using an automatic.

I don’t know how the game is going to respond to this, nor do I necessarily want to find out. And I also don’t want to spend hours recoding the tutorials/missions; it is just too much of a pain for the slight benefits it brings. Unless of course someone else with programming experience wants to team up; I don’t think making manual cars automatic is going to become a possibility as of now. I’ll keep looking and hopefully come up with something.

One last note. One thing you can do is make the clutch automatic. All that means is that you know longer have to worry about working the clutch. The game automatically works the clutch for you, all you have to do is the actual shifting. It is actually very easy to do. The only catch is the automatic clutch will not earn you any achievements in the Hill Test. It should work with all the other tests. Otherwise think of it as a compromise between manual and automatic transmission. And like I said, it is not that hard, it’s actually quite easy. A lot easier than trying to recode the game.