: You can find used or new-old-stock physical copies on secondary marketplaces. For example: eBay : Often has listings for sealed or used DVD versions .
The netcode was "average" for 2011. Lag would often result in "crashes" that happened five feet away from your actual car. However, dedicated server support (via GameRanger and Tunngle in the post-Gamespy era) kept the community alive long after official servers shut down. Private lobbies with rules like "no assists" and "50% distance" became the home of the PC sim-lite community. f1 2011 pc