RC Cars
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Developers | |
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Creat Studios | |
Publishers | |
2002-2018 | 1C Company |
2018-2022 | 1C Entertainment |
2022-present | Fulqrum Publishing |
Release dates | |
Windows | December 15, 2002 |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 65 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase |
Microtransactions | None |
Modes | Singleplayer, Multiplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | Third-person |
Controls | Direct control |
Genres | Racing |
Vehicles | Automobile |
Art styles | Stylized |
Themes | Contemporary |
RC Cars is a singleplayer and multiplayer third-person racing game.
General information
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | SecuROM DRM | |||
Publisher website | ||||
GamersGate | ||||
GOG.com | ||||
Green Man Gaming | ||||
Steam | ||||
ZOOM Platform |
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\[Note 1] |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/289460/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
---|---|
Windows | <path-to-game>\Players\[Note 1] |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/289460/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
---|---|---|
GOG Galaxy | ||
Steam Cloud |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | Widescreen resolutions are available in the settings and when selected, the game menu is displayed with proper aspect ratio, however in-game display and HUD are stretched. | ||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | |||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | Use dgVoodoo | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | Use dgVoodoo | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
60 FPS | |||
120+ FPS | Above 70FPS the game (including menu animations) will run in slow motion. Use built-in frame limiter. |
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | ||
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support |
Controller types |
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Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | SFX and music (music slider titled 'Background sound') | |
Surround sound | Up to 5.1 with Creative ALchemy. | |
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
English | ||||
Russian |
Network
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Players | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Local play | 2 | Versus Split-screen |
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LAN play | 6 | Versus |
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Online play | 6 | Versus |
Issues fixed
CD version won't install on modern systems
CD version won't install on modern systems[citation needed] |
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Game crash when loading a race (hardware exception)
- You might get a different error telling about something graphics card related.
Use dgVoodoo 2. |
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
---|---|---|
Direct3D | 8 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 98, ME, 2000, XP XP, 7, 8 (Steam) |
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Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium III 600 MHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 64 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 800 MB 300 MB (Steam) |
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Video card (GPU) | 16 MB of VRAM DirectX 8.1 compatible |
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below
%PROGRAMFILES%
,%PROGRAMDATA%
, or%WINDIR%
might be redirected to%LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore
on Windows Vista and later (more details). - ↑ 2.0 2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Games with Steam Cloud support may also store data in
~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/289460/
. - Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (289460) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.