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Bikini Beach: Stunt Racer

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Bikini Beach: Stunt Racer
Bikini Beach: Stunt Racer cover
Developers
Davilex Games
Publishers
North America Cosmi Corporation
Release dates
Windows September 2003
Taxonomy
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Controls Direct control
Genres Driving, Tricks
Vehicles Off-roading
Art styles Realistic
Themes Contemporary
Series Davilex Racer Series
Bikini Beach: Stunt Racer on MobyGames
Davilex Racer Series
A2 Racer (series)
Autobahn Raser (series)
London Racer (series)
Paris-Marseille Racing (series)
Holiday Racer 2000
Europe Racing 2001
US Racer 2002
Bikini Beach: Stunt Racer 2003
Taxi Raser 2004

Warnings

SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected versions).

Key points

Also released as Beach King: Stunt Racing in Europe.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
US release: Simple disc check
EU release: SafeDisc v2 DRM[Note 1]
Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Data\Common\savegame.usr[Note 2]
Configuration file is encrypted

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Data\Common\savegame.usr[Note 2]

Video

Video Settings.
Video Settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024 and 1600x1200 only.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
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.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
120+ FPS
Capped at 61 FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

Input Settings.
Input Settings.

Audio

Audio Settings.
Audio Settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music and SFX
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Dutch
French
German

Change language

Change language[citation needed]
  • Retail - change the Language located at <path-to-game>\Data\Common\Language.ini to 0 for Dutch, 1 for English, 2 for French or 3 for German.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 7 [3]
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio Miles Sound System 6.0m[4]

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98, 2000, ME, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 550 MHz
System memory (RAM) 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 290 MB
Video card (GPU) 16 MB of VRAM


Notes

  1. 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. 2.0 2.1 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).

References

  1. Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
  2. Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16
  3. Verified by User:Eddman on 2024-04-05
    Loads d3dim700.dll, and traces in dgVoodoo2 point to D3D7.
  4. Verified by User:Nessy on 2019-08-02
    Version number found in Mss32.dll in the game installation folder.