// WHO ARE YOU AND ARE YOU TRYING TO HACK MY COMPUTER

Hello! Since DirtForever is open source, anyone can contribute to or audit the source code. However the person writing this is Devon, the initial creator. I run some other bigger projects like FastComments.com which has an almost 5 star rating on TrustPilot and SidewaysData, a combined motorsports live timing and registration platform primarily used by SCCA RallyCross organizers on the US West coast. IRL you might see me playing with a 1.8T swapped Scirocco or 9th Gen Civic SI.

// HOW DO I INSTALL DIRTFOREVER

Head over to our Install page for the full setup guide. It takes just a few minutes.

// HOW MUCH WILL THIS COST

I'm not charging anything for it. You can create clubs, register, and play the games and use our leaderboards/servers for free.

// WHAT ABOUT PLAYER STATS AND DAILY EVENTS

You'll be starting fresh. We run official Daily, Weekly, and Monthly events just like CodeMasters always did — they're auto-generated on the same 10:00 UTC schedule, show up on the in-game Events page, and you can browse them on our Events page. Maybe we'll add a voting feature down the road.

// HOW DOES IT WORK AND WILL I GET VAC'ED

We run our own servers which speaks the RaceNet protocol, which we understood by creating a man-in-the-middle proxy later and analyzing the traffic. This did not require decompiling the game binary, changing the game files, or reading its memory.

The application that runs on your computer is a little network proxy that intercepts requests to the racenet site (which they call egonet) and redirects them to us, that's it. You can uninstall it and go back to RaceNet at any time.

// IS THIS A VIRUS

No. The tool works by editing your hosts file to enable the proxy, and it requests elevated privileges to start a server. Some antivirus software is always going to flag that, because it's also what viruses do. Feel free to review the source code and the GitHub Actions workflow that builds the exe. The exe is built on GitHub's servers, so there's no way for a virus on our own machines to infect it.

// WHAT PLATFORMS ARE SUPPORTED

PC (Windows 10/11) and Linux (via Steam Proton) are supported. We ship a native Linux binary alongside the Windows .exe. Consoles (PlayStation, Xbox) are not supported.

// CAN I SHOW LIVE INFO ON STREAM

Yes. The desktop app has a Streaming tab that writes plain .txt files (current club, car, location, leaderboard, etc.) to a folder OBS and SimHub can read directly. See the Streaming Overlays page for the full setup and the list of files.

// IS THERE A DISCORD

Yes! Join us at discord.gg/vkMsFb8sdG. You can also file issues on GitHub here.