Demolition Racer
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Developers | |
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Pitbull Syndicate | |
Publishers | |
Infogrames | |
Release dates | |
Windows | October 20, 1999 |
Taxonomy | |
Genres | Racing |
Warnings
- SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected versions).
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | SafeDisc 1.35.000 DRM[Note 1] in US release | |||
Retail | Italian re-release |
- SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
- Demo is available.
Essential improvements
Patches
- The US version received "patch #1" with version 1.1. European release already pre-patched.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\players\[Note 2] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\players\[Note 2] <path-to-game>\DR High scores[Note 2] <path-to-game>\Replay.*[Note 2] |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | dgVoodoo may be required. | ||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | dgVoodoo may be required. | ||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | |||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
High-fidelity upscaling | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | Enabled by default. | ||
60 FPS | |||
120+ FPS | High (+300) fps makes the game move at an unplayable speed and boggles the camera | ||
High dynamic range display (HDR) |
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 | Buttons are unbound by default and must be mapped. | |
Full controller support | ||
Controller remapping | ||
Controller sensitivity | ||
Controller Y-axis inversion |
Controller types |
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XInput-compatible controllers |
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PlayStation controllers |
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Generic/other controllers |
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Additional information | ||
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Controller hotplugging | ||
Haptic feedback | ||
Digital movement supported | ||
Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | ||
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
Royalty free audio | ||
Red Book CD audio | On Windows, CD music might not play correctly; see the troubleshooting guide for solutions. |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Italian | ||||
Spanish |
Issues fixed
Installer does not work
- The installer is 16-bit, so it does not work on 64-bit operating systems.
Use Winevdm dev1461 |
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The game asks for wmaudsdk.dll
and drmclien.dll
Those are Windows Media Source Filter DLL files that the game require in order to start up |
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CD music doesn't work
Install the Windows Media Source Filter and DivX codecs[3] |
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Notes
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Game doesn't start on modern systems
Use Compatibility Mode (Windows 95) |
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Game runs too fast
Limit the Framerate to 60FPS[citation needed] |
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*Set monitor on 60hz.[citation needed] |
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 7 | |
DirectDraw |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Audio | Windows Media Source Filter |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 95 | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium 200Mhz | |
System memory (RAM) | 32 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 70 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | 4 MB Direct3D accelerated video card |
Notes
- ↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[1] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[2]
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 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).
References
- ↑ Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
- ↑ Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16
- ↑ mcdebugrndmstuff.blogspot.com - last accessed on 26 May 2023