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Colin McRae Rally 3

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Colin McRae Rally 3
Colin McRae Rally 3 cover
Developers
Codemasters
Windows Six by Nine
Publishers
Codemasters
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
Colin McRae Rally 3 on MobyGames
Colin McRae Rally 3 on Wikipedia
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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
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SecuROM 4 DRM disc check in the international CD release. Original Polish release uses SafeDisc v2.9 DRM[Note 1].
Windows
Retail
DRM-free
International DVD release, re-releases from CD Projekt.[3]
Windows
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].

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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

Save game data location

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

Video

Widescreen resolution

Hor+ widescreen with stretched HUD[8]
  1. Download and extract dgVoodoo 2.
  2. Open the folder in which you extracted dgVoodoo, and copy D3D9.dll from the MS\x86\ folder to the game folder.
  3. Run dgVoodoo and add the game folder to the list.
  4. Go to the DirectX tab, and set your resolution.
  5. Uncheck the "dgVoodoo Watermark" option if you don't want to see the dgVoodoo logo.
  6. Apply the changes.
  7. Open Rally_3PC.exe with a hex editor such as HxD.
  8. Press Ctrl+F, go to the "Hex-values" tab, and paste 51680000803F in the text field.
  9. Replace the 0000803F value with:
    • 0E475A3F for 25:16 screens
    • 5555553F for 16:10 screens
    • CDCC4C3F for 15:9 screens
    • 0000403F for 16:9 screens
    • 0000103F for 21:9 screens
    • 0000C03E for 32:9 screens
  10. Press Ctrl+F, and search for 461C0000803F.
  11. Replace 0000803F with the same value you used in the previous step.
  12. If you'd like to set the tachometer to the proper width, see the full widescreen tutorial.

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. Has problem with Xinput controller's like the Xbox one controller as the analog stick will only make you turn slightly after 2-3 stages until you reboot the game.
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.
French
German
Hungarian
Fan translation, download.
Italian
Polish
Polish retail release only.
Russian
Fan translation, download.
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
4
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]
Set compatibility mode on Windows XP Service Pack 2.

Player selection menu Bug (High Fps Issue)

Limit frame rate to 60FPS.[10]
Enable Vsync and set refresh rate on 60hz[11]

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
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 3.5 GB
Video card (GPU) 32 MB of VRAM
Sound (audio device) DirectX 9 compatible


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. 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]
  3. Applications writing to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE will be redirected to other locations based on various criterias, see the glossary page for more details.
  4. 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