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Motor City Online

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Motor City Online
Motor City Online cover
Developers
EA Seattle
Publishers
Electronic Arts
Release dates
Windows October 29, 2001
Motor City Online guide on StrategyWiki
Motor City Online on Wikipedia

Key points

The game contains hidden debug mode, which makes it possible to play offline single races against AI. See Issues fixed.
Servers were shut down on August 29, 2003. Due to that, many functions aren't available.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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System Location

Save game data location

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System Location

Video settings

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Input settings

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Audio settings

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Issues unresolved

Resolution limited to 800x600

Resolution is limited to 800x600.[citation needed]

Issues fixed

Run in offline mode

Running the game in offline mode[citation needed]
  1. Download Motor City update files. Extract content of the archive into the game's root directory.
  2. Download Motor City Online Launcher. Extract it to the game's root directory.
  3. Go to <path-to-game>\3dSetup, open 3dSetup.ini and change Hide_Resolutions=1 to Hide_Resolutions=0.
  4. Open 3dSetup.exe and set the resolution to 800x600 (1024x768 is also available, but it doesn't seem to work).
  5. Play the game by launching MCity_Launcher.exe. If you want to race against AI drivers, set Mode to 16.

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 95, 98, 2000, ME, XP
Processor (CPU) 350MHz Intel Pentium II or AMD K6
System memory (RAM) 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 800 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 8 compatible

References