Tutorials & Guides

Dakar Desert Rally

Configure Dakar Desert Rally motion platform support using SpaceMonkeyTP telemetry tool.

Warning

This integration is delivered AS-IS and can stop working at any time, e.g. after a game update.

1 Introduction

An 3rd party unofficial tool is required to extract the telemetry data and send it to ForceSeatPM. The tool is called Unreal Engine Mod Loader 2.2.1 and it is part of SpaceMonkeyTP 1.1.1 package. This is the only supported version of the tool, newer version of SpaceMonkeyTP (e.g. 1.2.3) will NOT work correctly.

Warning

Only SpaceMonkeyTP 1.1.1 is supported. Older and newer versions will NOT work correctly.

2 Download

You can download SpaceMonkeyTP 1.1.1 installer from GitHub archive or get minimized version (which supports only MechWarrior 5 and Dakar Desert Rally) from our mirror (recommended).

3 Configuration - Unreal Engine Mod Loader

1. If you downloaded the MSI installer, install the SpaceMonkeyTP in your system and ForceSeatPM will detect is automatically - manual configuration in Games Integration will not be required.

2. If you downloaded ZIP version, then unpack it and open Games Integration.

3. Find SpaceMonkeyTP on the list. If the Path is not correct, then click Locate.

4. Navigate to location where you unpacked SpaceMonkeyMW5_DDR ZIP archive and click Select Folder.

5. Verify that Path is set correctly.

Warning

Make sure that there is Dakar2Game-Win64-Shipping.profile file in UnrealModLoader_V2.2.1/Profiles directory.

Tip

If at any point you moved SpaceMonkeyTP to a different location, go to Dakar Desert Rally profile → Settings, Tips and Troubleshooting tab → Click here to detach the game from the profile command.

Next go to Action Center and click Check configuration.

4 Configuration - game

1. Open Games Integration and verify that the game was detected correctly.

2a. If you installed SpaceMonkeyTP from MSI file, go to installation location. Usually it is:

C:\Program Files\PHARTGAMES\SpaceMonkeyTP

2b. If you downloaded SpaceMonkeyMW5_DDR.zip archive, go to location where the archive was unpacked.

3. Navigate to Dakar2 subfolder.

4. Extract the contents of Dakar2Mod_0.2.zip into the game installation destination - Dakar2Game sub-directory. There will be a folder named MW5Mercs containing two other folders named Binaries and Content.

5 Running the game

1. Navigate to Dakar Desert Rally profile in ForceSeatPM → Run → Telemetry Proxy.

2. Once there is "Waiting for Game Window..." message displayed, start the game either using desktop shortcut, directly from Steam or from Epic Games Launcher.

Tip

Run the game at least once before you try to use Telemetry Proxy method.
Sometimes Telemetry Proxy can crash the game. If it happens, try again.