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8 Ball & Prestige Packs DLC for Windows

By SilverSurferNHS

This guide will show you how to install the console and Mac DLC content that Codemasters neglected to publish for us Windows peasants. It's pretty simple, but i was surprised that a guide for it wasn't published yet.

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Guide Index

Overview

Introduction

Installing

Integrate Into GRID World

Conclusion

Comments

Introduction

It's not all Codemasters fault in reality, but i wish whoever did the porting and DLC development released this pack with full functionality and integration for the steam version. Anyways, this is a DLC pack that was published for consoles and the ported Mac version of Grid. Some clever beaver ripped the game files and uploaded them on ModDb

While this does technically add the content back to Grid, it does not integrate this new content into the single player career (Grid World). Someone even more clever should get to work on that.
[Edit 5/30/2017] DaveGX has contributed to this by integrating the DLC into GRID World. See below.

Now all the DLC content is useable in multiplayer, single race, time trials and GRID World.

Installing

Install Directory

First, find your Grid install directory:
Use Steam
Right Click on Grid>Properties>Local Files Tab>Browse Local Files
or
Copy/Paste into Explorer(insert your drive letter at the begining)
:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\grid\

Download

Then visit ModDb and go to the downloads page for the mod and get it onto your computer. You will need an archiving program to extract the files.

Open the rar file and you will see a lonely folder. Double click on that folder to see some directories that look similar to your Grid install folder.

Highlight everything and drag it all into your Grid install folder. Allow it to overwrite. It is just letting you know some folders already exist, it's not really overwriting anything.

Run Grid

Integrate Into GRID World

DaveGX has figured out how to interate the DLC into GRID World. Visit his mod here and follow his instructions included in the readme.

Conclusion

So this was just a quick guide for anyone curious as well as a reminder for myself.

Have fun.

61 Comments

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74X9 11 Feb @ 5:55am

Hi. Does this method work for a Steamdeck?

SilverSurferNHS [author] 16 Nov, 2022 @ 3:42pm

Does it work without the pack? If not, then you may have to do one of the cpu xml file workarounds or look online about crashing after race. There are a bunch of threads i can't look into atm to help. If it does work otherwise, try deleting the grid folder and let steam validate and re-download so you have a fresh copy, then use a temp folder to compile the downloads into before copying them over to the grid directory where all the folders should match up and ask to overwrite. Select yes.

I recently did this on the deck and have it working well. I may revisit this guide at some point in the future.

Combatking 16 Nov, 2022 @ 5:42am

After downloading and following the instructions to the "GRID World DLC Car Mod" in the Integrate Into GRID World subsection, I got a loading screen that hanged forever after completing the first introductory race

Cochopriski 26 Feb, 2022 @ 7:34am

I did all you say but the game is saying me that i have no additional content downloaded

Enno 23 Mar, 2021 @ 12:53pm

What i'm encountering is that the AI driver can't use the DLC cars well. maybe because they use the stats that aren't showed right.
I have Dale Vance as my AI driver and he is driving to fast into the corners in the Volvo Touring Car, also i noticed that the breaks are still weaker then on other (average) cars.

SilverSurferNHS [author] 22 Nov, 2020 @ 9:29am

Yes, thumbnails have never worked for me.

Clefable_Recon ʕ º ᴥ ºʔ 22 Nov, 2020 @ 9:25am

Umm hello? Is it normal for DLC thumbnail cars to be missing?

payder 22 Nov, 2020 @ 9:15am

Sure, thanks

SilverSurferNHS [author] 22 Nov, 2020 @ 9:04am

Steam's version is already patched up, you just have to drop the files from the zips into the installation folder and overwrite files and folders. I can't help further than that, my apologies.

payder 22 Nov, 2020 @ 9:02am

i used Dave`s addition and nothing work.
So i have to get 1.3 patch or start a new game?

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