Graphics
- Correct graphics for all teams (a few 2016 shirts for a minority of teams)
- 713 HQ custom sponsors
- NC, WC and/or race leader jerseys for many teams and custom sponsors
- Full accessories for almost all teams and most custom sponsors
- Updated national team jerseys
- New and updated leader jerseys
- Jacky Durand's Sponsorkits for 81 races
- New flags replacing Cyanide's default ones
- Rider photos for most riders in a team
- Logos for most races and real ones for race categories
- Custom newspapers for all races
- More national champions strips
- Real frames of 58 different brands
- Real wheels of 30 different brands
- Real helmets of 33 different brands
- Real groupsets of 5 different brands
Stages
- 2017 race calendar with correct dates for almost all races
- 398 races (about 90 new ones)
- Real or fantasy routes for GTs and other WT races (more in the Variants DLC)
- 2017 route of Giro d'Italia and collaborative Tour de France by PCM France
- 2017 or recent variants for almost all races in the calendar
- Realistic teams' lists for several races
- Correct rules and classifications for most races
- Added a lot of National Championships, including a lot of ITT championships
- Real routes of the 2017 and 2018 World Championships
Variants DLC
To reduce the size of the installer of the 2017 Database, we decided to release most of the race variants as a DLC, like in some of the past editions. This DLC contains all Continental Tour variants, as well as most of the WorldTour variants - for instance, the DLC comes with 7 variants for the Giro and 9 for the Tour. We kept at least 2 variants of each World Tour race in the base download, with that being said. You can find the download link at the bottom of this post.
A clean install of Pro Cycling Manager 2016 is recommended before installing this database, to avoid bugs and to save you some space in your hard drive. This database is a standalone one, so you won't need the Expansion Pack or anything else to play with it.
1. Download the database from the Downloads section or with the link provided at the bottom of this post. A download manager such as JDownloader is suggested if you will be using the MEGA mirror, while you'll need a torrent client such as QBitTorrent for the torrent download.
2. Open the archive you downloaded. Extract the content of the folder "To Program Files" inside the directory where you installed PCM 16. Generally, that's going to be C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Pro Cycling Manager 2016, but if that's not the case, the folder is always the one where you can find PCM's executable, PCM.exe. When you're asked to overwrite/merge, say yes.
3. Extract the content of the folder "To Documents" inside your Documents folder. Generally, that's going to be C:\Users\*YOUR_USERNAME*\Documents, but otherwise you should be able to find it yourself pretty easily. When you're asked to overwrite/merge, say yes.
4. Now it's time to start the game. When you create a new game (either Career/Pro Cyclist/One-off Race/etc.), select PCMdaily2017DB (preferred and highly reccomended if you want to play the db in its completeness) or PCMdaily2017DB_Light (if you want a quicker career experience or only care about playing with a WT team, this one only has just a few CT teams, half the races, and a trimmed down palmares, which should make the advancing a lot smoother).
5. You're set, enjoy! If you followed this guide, but you’re still having problems with the installation, check the FAQ on the PCM.daily forum. If your problem isn’t listed in there, ask your question in the General questions thread on pcmdaily.com.
