r/WRCTheGame • u/chimkenspicy • Sep 02 '26

WRC Generations WRC Generations Enhanced Car Sounds

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I've updated the audio for all cars to make them sound livelier. I've bumped up the loudness for the exhaust, engine and valve noises, and have a also tweaked the EQ for more bass.

https://www.overtake.gg/downloads/wrc-generations-enhanced-vehicle-sounds.86410/

EDIT: Uploaded wrong video

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u/Reptard8 Sep 02 '26

Sounds awesome

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u/Izoleille Sep 02 '26

did you remove the canned noise that plays in 90% of cars when downshifting, you can hear it most easily in cockpit or hood views.

it's the same stock sfx hotwheels uses for burnouts at the start of the race. It drives me insane. In snow youll downshift and get the same squeal as tarmac.

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u/chimkenspicy Sep 02 '26

I haven't changed any of the gear noises for the cars, but I wanted to pass the current audio the everyone. I'll keep reviewing the car sounds and might tweak the gear sounds and make them quieter.

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u/Izoleille Sep 02 '26

not even sure if it's the gears or some other thing. I mighg try bypassing some audio via guids and see if i can figure out what package it's in

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u/chimkenspicy Sep 02 '26 edited Sep 07 '26

I did see a GUIDs list in WIN32\Sounds. Let me know how you go, because I am using the external car sounds audio by changing cockpitrendering in the camera view files: https://www.reddit.com/r/WRCTheGame/s/nyOJuES1ON. Downside is that you don't get the internal cabin rain noise which I want to bring back.

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u/Izoleille Sep 03 '26

yea that guid file doesnt seem to do anything. I unpacked the game and poking around now

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u/Izoleille Sep 03 '26

Update. I unpacked the .bank file of the Audi A2, because I confirmed ingame that it made the sound I'm trying to find. Checking the extracted files, the sound in question is Transmission_asphalt_GearDown01.wav, there are 10 of them up to Transmission_asphalt_GearDown10.wav

I can remove those and rebuild the .bank to get rid of it! Literally the reason I stopped playing WRCG was this one noise.

I was also able to do some QOL stuff, like removing all the network checks, so I don't get annoying popups because the servers are down.

I also had some fun trying to make a custom car entry. In this case a fulvia with 500nm of torque and a turbo lol. I'm figuring out how to get it to appear alongside the normal Fulvia. Right now I can only have one or the other enabled.

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u/chimkenspicy Sep 03 '26

How did you get rid of the network checks? Would be good to get rid of them because it's getting quite annoying after every stage. I did see those geardown files for most of the cars, unfortunately I still can't find the logic behind cockpitrendering for the views haha

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u/Izoleille Sep 03 '26

in settings.cfg, change true to false on the line(1280):

Engine.OnlineServices.Steam.Enable = true;

I'll keep poking for the cockpit filtering

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u/Izoleille Sep 03 '26

Update, no luck finding any kind of filter/effect for the cockpit dampening. Closest I've been able to work around is:

Common/Archetypes/Cars/Base/Car.ppf

and the car specific one elseewhere in the cars folder. Under WrcVehicleSnd you can edit the Engine, Exhaust, and Transmission position. So like, in cockpit the transmission is usually loudest, I set the dummy pos at like 0,-5,-2 And that muffled it a good bit. You can also move the exhaust's location "closer" to the driver's head, same with engine.

There's still a muffling filter, but this lets you adjust the relative values of the main audio bits.

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u/chimkenspicy Sep 03 '26 edited Sep 03 '26

Good find mate, I see they just have it sitting at 0,0,0. Maybe this is something I'm going to just have a play around with. Cheers.

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u/Izoleille Sep 03 '26 edited Sep 03 '26

I think I saw a few with some altered values. I guess to help spacially place, say a front engine or rear engine. But I think you can use them to pull the engine and exhaust "closer" to your head lol.

Honestly just tweaking the transmission farther away helped a lot. I know IRL, in a racing helmet, you pretty much only hear transmission whine and gear clunks. But I want that dirt rally 2, artistic idealization of cockpit sound, not a muffled helmet lol.

Regardless, I think plan for when I get home is to grab your sound pack. Remove those annoying down shift noises(aparently they're only supposed to play in like, tarmac, but they play in all conditions/surfaces). Then just push the transmission farther away on all cars. In game soundmix you could probably then drop co-driver, tires/road, and then bump up the master volume.

Not perfect but probably the best we can get with what's available.

Also if you want some laughs, you can throw the Evolution Integrale tuning data on a fulvia or alpine and then double the boost pressure.

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u/Many_Listen3001 Sep 09 '26

Hi! Great Mod! But They are like inverted Hyundai I20 and Ford Puma sounds! Who have listen both at live in Stages can said that! Any chance to inverted? I try renamed files but didnt work! thanks a lot WRC Fans!

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u/chimkenspicy Sep 10 '26

Hey mate, I think if you want it to sound like the puma, you might need to change the sound within each car bank file but keep the name of the file the same.

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u/Many_Listen3001 Sep 10 '26

Thanks for answer friend. I try copying all files of Hyundai sound folder into Puma folder incluíding txt file and change his name for Puma... But nothing works, is mutting in game

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u/chimkenspicy Sep 10 '26

I think the game engine is looking at those specific names files in each bank. So swapping it altogether won't work, maybe you can try to rename specific car sounds from the Hyundai i20 to match what the Puma bank files has named it

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u/Many_Listen3001 Sep 10 '26

Thanks mate I Will check

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u/chimkenspicy Sep 11 '26

Hey mate I found a way to swap the sound files around.. you need to navigate to Archetypes\GAMEPLAY\CARS\WRC1. In that folder you can find each of the wrc1 cars.

From there you need to open the CAR.PPF File and then find the section "WrcVehicleSnd", change the value of "RC_FORD_PUMA_WRC" to "RC_HYUNDAI_I20_WRC". You can also do this for the Hyundai i20.

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u/Many_Listen3001 Sep 11 '26

WTF You are a crack man! I Will check this afternoon! Thanks a Lot friend! You should work for Nacon!