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International Rally Championship

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Revision as of 21:18, 2 January 2022 by 167.61.32.55 (talk) (→‎Issues fixed: Using dgvoodoo2 in my case instead of improving the frame rate makes it worse. With dgvoodoo2 the game runs at 20-30 fps while without dgvoodo it reaches a perfect 60 fps)
International Rally Championship
International Rally Championship cover
Developers
Magnetic Fields[1]
Publishers
Europress Software[2]
Release dates
Windows 1997[1][3][4]
Taxonomy
Genres Racing
Series Rally Championship
International Rally Championship on MobyGames
International Rally Championship on Wikipedia
Rally Championship
Lombard RAC Rally 1988
Network Q RAC Rally 1993
Network Q RAC Rally Championship 1996
International Rally Championship 1997
Mobil 1 Rally Championship 1999
Rally Championship Xtreme 2001

General information

Official website (retrieved)
Europress Tech Support (retrieved)

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Windows
This game is not available digitally.

Demo

A demo is available here

Patches

Patch v4.80 - The latest patch available for the game.

Essential improvements

dgVoodoo2

Fixes rendering issues with intro videos, flickering menu textures and occasional black in-game screen flickering.
Use dgVoodoo2.[5]

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\var\[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\savedata\[Note 1]

Video

Video settings menus.
Video settings menus.

Input

Control settings menus.
Control settings menus.

Audio

Audio settings menus.
Audio settings menus.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Red Book CD audio
On Windows, CD music might not play correctly; see the troubleshooting guide for solutions.

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Brazilian Portuguese

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
2
LAN play
8
Online play

Issues fixed

Install on Windows 10 64-bit (Spanish Version)

Installing the game using a 16-bit emulator
  1. Go to winevdm and Download the last stable version, extract and install with it install.reg
  2. Start otvdmw.exe and look for the game installer path on the disc.
  3. Proceed with the normal installation of the game.

Pause menu not working on Windows 10

Instructions[citation needed]
  1. Use DDrawCompat

"Guru Meditation" error in loading races

The default game sets the color depth in 8bits so you should change it to 16bits from the game's graphic configuration

Distorted Sound

Use DSOAL.[citation needed]

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 5 4.05.00.0155
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 100 MHz
System memory (RAM) 16 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) DirectX 5 compatible


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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