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ERacer

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ERacer
ERacer cover
Developers
Rage Games[1]
Publishers
Retail Rage Games
Digital Funbox Media
Release dates
Windows April 25, 2001
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Perspectives First-person, Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Racing
Vehicles Automobile
ERacer on MobyGames
ERacer on Wikipedia

ERacer is a singleplayer and multiplayer first-person and third-person racing game.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
 SafeDisc v2 DRM[Note 1]
Windows
ZOOM Platform
DRM-free
Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
A demo was available.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows

Save game data location

System Location
Windows

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
See Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Widescreen resolution

Hex edit main executable[citation needed]
  1. Open eracer.exe in a hex editor (such as HxD).
  2. Search for hex value 3F3A46713F.
  3. Replace it with one of the below values for the desired aspect ratio:
  • 3F6666663F for 5:4
  • 3F3BDF873F for 25:16
  • 3F61E0893F for 16:10
  • 3FBA2C8E3F for 15:9
  • 3FE3A5933F for 16:9
  • 3F295CAF3F for 21:9
  1. Save eracer.exe and quit the hex editor.
  2. Open Registry Editor.
  3. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Rage Games Ltd\eRacer.
  4. Open PREFERRED HEIGHT, change Base to Decimal and change it to the desired value.
  5. Open PREFERRED WIDTH, change Base to Decimal and change it to the desired value.
  • Caution - this game supports only resolutions up to 1920x1080. Attempting to set anything higher will cause the game to crash after start.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Polish
Polish retail release only.
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
Local play
LAN play
Online play

VR support

Other information

API

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

Middleware

No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95 OSR2, 98 SE, ME, 2000
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium II 300 MHz Intel Pentium III 733 MB
System memory (RAM) 64 MB 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) 8 MB of VRAM
DirectX 7 compatible


Notes

  1. ↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[2] 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.[3]

References