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Colin McRae Rally	1998
Colin McRae Rally 2.0	2000
Colin McRae Rally 3	2003
Colin McRae Rally 04	2004
Colin McRae Rally 2005	2004
Colin McRae: DiRT	2007
Colin McRae: DiRT 2	2009
DiRT 3	2011
DiRT Showdown	2012
Colin McRae Rally (2014)	2014
DiRT Rally	2015
DiRT 4	2017
DiRT Rally 2.0	2019
DIRT 5	2020

Warnings

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

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		SecuROM 4 DRM disc check in the international CD release. Original Polish release uses SafeDisc v2.9 DRM^{[Note 1]}.
Retail		International DVD release, re-releases from CD Projekt.^[3]

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

No longer available due to licensing reasons.^[4]

Demo is available

Essential improvements

Patches

Patch 1.1 is the latest version. Re-releases from CD Projekt are pre-patched to that version.

Polish version updates DRM to SafeDisc v3.1 DRM^{[Note 2]}.

SilentPatch

Requires Patch 1.1

Adds support for widescreen and other aspect ratios including windowed and borderless modes

Fixes numerous bugs

Install^[7]

Download and install the official Patch 1.1
Download SilentPatch and DRM-free patcher
Extract both to <path-to-game>
Open setup.bat to patch your 1.1 EXE to DRM-free 1.1 EXE
(Optionally) Extract the optional mods (listed below) to <path-to-game>

Notes

Optionally includes:

Language pack with all 7 languages

HD UI redone for higher resolutions

Nicky Grist co-driver VA for the Polish re-release (CD Projekt)

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Codemasters\Colin McRae Rally 3\^{[Note 3]}

If using SilentPatch the configuration is stored in <path-to-game>\SilentPatchCMR3.ini

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\CMR3^{[Note 4]}

Video

Graphics feature	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Use SilentPatch
Multi-monitor		Use SilentPatch
Ultra-widescreen		Use SilentPatch
4K Ultra HD		Use SilentPatch
Field of view (FOV)	75° by default. Use SilentPatch for 30°-150° in-game option.
Windowed	Use SilentPatch
Borderless fullscreen windowed	Use SilentPatch
Anisotropic filtering (AF)	Use SilentPatch. Up to 16x.
Anti-aliasing (AA)	FSAA up to 8x; causes the sun to flicker if enabled. Use SilentPatch to fix this.^[8]
Vertical sync (Vsync)	Always on by default. Use SilentPatch to toggle it.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)	See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support		Unable to pause game with controller.
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity		Only saturation and deadzone
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers

PlayStation controllers

Generic/other controllers

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Music, SFX and Copilot can be changed separately
Surround sound		7.1
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Czech				Czech retail release only. For other releases use SilentPatch + Language Pack addon.
French
German
Hungarian				Fan translation, download.
Italian
Polish				Polish retail release only. For other releases use SilentPatch + Language Pack addon.
Russian				Fan translation, download.
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Players	Notes
Local play	4	Hot seat, Versus
LAN play
Online play

Issues fixed

Split-Screen Bug

Split screen mode does not work correctly on modern operating systems causing the camera to freeze on a texture ^[9]

Use SilentPatch^[10]

Set compatibility mode for `Rally_3PC.exe` to Windows XP Service Pack 2.

Player selection menu bug (High FPS issue)

Limit frame rate to 60 FPS.^[11]

Enable Vsync and set refresh rate to 60 Hz^[11]

In-game resolution setting has (NULL) value causing the game to crash

Multi-monitor bug when neither of the displays are identical

Use SilentPatch^[12]

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	98, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium III 750 MHz AMD Athlon 750 MHz	Intel Pentium 4 1.4 GHz AMD Athlon 1.4 GHz
System memory (RAM)	128 MB	512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	3.5 GB
Video card (GPU)	32 MB of VRAM
Sound (audio device)	DirectX 9 compatible

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]
↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10^[5] 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.^[6]
↑ Applications writing to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE will be redirected to other locations based on various criterias, see the glossary page for more details.
↑ 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
↑ https://twitter.com/KarolWjcik19/status/1578841798679875584
↑ Verified by User:Mars icecream on 2016-11-25
Email received from Codemasters customer service.
↑ 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
↑ Verified by User:Blackbird on 2023-01-15
It just works.
↑ Verified by User:Silent on 2022-10-13
↑ Silent on Twitter - last accessed on 2023-01-15
↑ Verified by User:Silent on 2023-01-15
↑ ^11.0 ^11.1 Silent on Twitter - last accessed on 2022-12-13
↑ Remastering Colin McRae Rally 3 with SilentPatch - last accessed on 2023-01-15

[3] 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]

[8] SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10^[5] 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.^[6]

[HKLM-10] Applications writing to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE will be redirected to other locations based on various criterias, see the glossary page for more details.

[gamedir-11] 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).

[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

[4] ttps://twitter.com/KarolWjcik19/status/1578841798679875584

[5] Verified by User:Mars icecream on 2016-11-25
Email received from Codemasters customer service.

[6] Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16

[7] Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16

[9] Verified by User:Blackbird on 2023-01-15
It just works.

[12] Verified by User:Silent on 2022-10-13

[13] Silent on Twitter - last accessed on 2023-01-15

[14] Verified by User:Silent on 2023-01-15

[FPSBug-15] 11.0 ^11.1 Silent on Twitter - last accessed on 2022-12-13

[16] Remastering Colin McRae Rally 3 with SilentPatch - last accessed on 2023-01-15

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Developers

	Codemasters
Windows	Six by Nine
Publishers
	Codemasters
Czechia, Poland	CD Projekt
Re-release	Sold Out Software
Release dates
Windows	June 13, 2003
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Modes	Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Racing, Simulation
Vehicles	Automobile, Off-roading
Art styles	Realistic
Series	Colin McRae Rally