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Motorhead
Motorhead	1998
Motorhead (2015)	2015

This page is for the original release. For the emulated PlayStation version, see Motorhead (2015).

General information

Official Page (Archived)

Official Page (Current)

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail

This game is not available digitally.

Essential improvements

Patches

Motorhead Patch 3.0 fixes some compatibility issues and other bugs. It also adds a couple of new cars.

Alternative links:

mhp30.exe (The original patch installer from official support page (Archived)

mhp30.exe (The original patch installer)

mhp30-extracted.rar (The patch extracted with unshield)

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Game\Motorhead.cfg^{[Note 1]} <path-to-game>\Game\*.clo^{[Note 1]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\HiScores\^{[Note 1]}

Video settings

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Players	Notes
Local play
LAN play		8
Online play

Connection types

Type	Native	Notes
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated		<path-to-game>\MotorSv\Motorsv.exe
Self-hosting
Direct IP

Issues fixed

Compatibility problems on modern operating systems

Newer operating systems frequently have problems with the game, but most can be fixed by running the game in Compatibility Mode and downloading the latest patches.^{[citation needed]}

Stuttering on Nvidia Graphics cards

What the settings should look like

Enabling triple buffering and disable v-sync^{[citation needed]}
Download Nvidia Profile Inspector. Create a new profile. Click "add application to current profile". Go to where your "motor.exe" is located. Mark it and click OK. Scroll down to the group called "Common" and click on Triple Buffering. Enable it. Click "Vertical sync" and choose "force off".

Unable to run with Direct3D

Install a separate 3Dfx-renderer^{[citation needed]}

Download nGlide
Install it like normal. A message saying something like "nGlide is now installed" should appear when done
Open Motorhead and go into the graphics settings
Under "Renderer" at the top, select "3dFx Interactive Glide Driver".

Notes

Only resolutions up to 1024x768 are available.

Other information

API

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	95	95
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 90 MHz	Intel Pentium 200 MHz
System memory (RAM)	16 MB	32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	100 MB	100 MB
Video card (GPU)	PCI SVGA Graphics card with 1MB RAM capable to show "High Color" (65,535 color) and with drivers supporting DirectDraw 5.0.	PCI SVGA graphics card with at least 2MB and with drivers supporting DirectDraw 5.0.

Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 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

[gamedir-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 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).

[Note 1]

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+|red book cd audio        = true
+|red book cd audio notes  =
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Developers

	DICE
Publishers
	Gremlin Interactive
	Fox Interactive
Release dates
Windows	February 28, 1999