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Pro Rally 2001 is a singleplayer and multiplayer third-person racing game.

Key points

Game not working on all modern gamepads.^{[citation needed]}

Game does not work on Windows Vista or newer. See Issues fixed

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail

A demo is available here.

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name	Notes
Sony Pro Rally 2001 Limited Edition	Including the Sony Racing Team car, came with the Nvidia graphics card, has only 3 rally stages and 2 cars.

Essential improvements

Updated installer by Zeus Software

Fixes nGlide glitches and a error message from launching when uses Widescreen fix.^{[citation needed]}

This patch requires a inserted retail game disc.

Patches

A patch v1.1 is available.

Skip intro videos

Delete or Rename
Go to <path-to-game>\Data\Menu\Video\Extras Delete or Rename: `Intro.avi`

Game data

Game options.

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Data\Save\`proRally.cfg`^{[Note 1]}

Any profile names may change settings from game.

Configuration file is encrypted.

Save game data location

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

Video

Graphics settings.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen		See Widescreen resolution.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		Can be set through setup configuration tool.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		Borderless Gaming doesn't seem to work.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		Called "Vert. Synchronisation".
60 FPS		Menu FMV is capped 60 FPS
120+ FPS		Gameplay capped at 111 FPS, pause menu is uncapped.
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Widescreen resolution

Widescreen fix^[1]

Download the widescreen patch by a link.
Select the patch on 64:27, 16:9 or 16:10 and click it when it extracts the file.
The files will be replaced, but a folder will be backed up.

Notes

If ProRally.exe can not open because editing the .exe file failed, use alternative download^[2]

Requires Updated Installer by Zeus Software to prevent files not working. See 0xc0000020 error. DX7.ed3 crashes prompting a error code using Widescreen option

Incompatible with nGlide. The in-game HUD is Vert-.

Resolutions are not listed than 1280x720. No way to change it.

Input

Key bindings.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		The commands are not bound to the keys. Use DInput Key Switcher.
Mouse acceleration		Mouse not used ingame
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		The game does not work properly with modern gamepads causing issues.^{[citation needed]}

Controller types

Audio

Audio settings.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Car, Co-Driver, Ambient, Music
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Spanish
Portuguese
Brazilian Portuguese				Only available in Brazilian retail copy.^[3] This retail copy was never retrieved.
Russian				Only available in Russian retail copy.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Notes
Local play
LAN play
Online play
Asynchronous multiplayer

Connection types

Type	Native	Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP

Issues unresolved

Game not working on all modern gamepads^{[citation needed]}

It crashes loading the game with the error message Mode Selection Error.

Remapping controls may crash the game.

Issues fixed

Game does not run on Windows Vista or above

It has a poor compatibility for Windows NT.

Some graphic video drivers are required.

It doesn't work playing on virtualization, it starts by an error message reading MODE SELECTION ERROR<\code>.


  
    
Use nGlide
    
  

    
Download and install nGlide.
Run nGlide Configurator from the start menu.
Select your screen resolution. Change Aspect ratio to Entire screen if you want to play in widescreen, and click Apply.
Run <path-to-game>\RallySetup.exe.
Change Renderer to Voodoo5 (tm) with Glide 3.0 and click OK.


  
    
Use DgVoodoo DirectX Wrapper
    
  

    
Download the files by link.
Choose the WineD3D versions folder, then copy to <path-to-game>.
Run <path-to-game>\RallySetup.exe.
Change Renderer to dgVoodoo DirectX Wrapper and click OK.


  
    
Enable DirectPlay

0xc0000020 error. DX7.ed3 crashes prompting a error code using Widescreen option


  
    
Download the Updated installer^{[citation needed]}

Vsync option not working on Windows 10


 The game uses Vsync to enable but in Windows 10 does not work because the game uses DirectX 8 and the Vsync of DirectX 8 in Windows 10 is broken.

Download d3d8to9.
Copy D3D8.DLL from the folder to <path-to-game>.

Missing AVI FMVs files


  
    
Fix video files with compatibility mode
    
  

    
Open ProRally.exe
Enable Windows XP (SP3) compatibility mode.

Other informationAPI


	
		Executable
		32-bit
		64-bit
		Notes
	
	
			Windows

Middleware


	
		
		Middleware
		Notes
	






		Cutscenes
		Microsoft MPEG-1
		
	

		Multiplayer
		false

System requirements


	
		Windows 
	

	
		
		Minimum
		Recommended
	

	
		Operating system (OS)
		95
		98, 2000, ME
	

	
		Processor (CPU)
		Intel Pentium II 266MHz
		 Pentium III, AMD Athlon I 450MHz
	

	
		System memory (RAM)
		64 MB
		128 MB
	

	
		Hard disk drive (HDD)
		500 MB 
	


		Video card (GPU)
		 4 MB
16 MB

Notes


↑ ^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


↑ Pro Rally 2001 - Widescreen Fix - YouTube

↑ Verified by User:Johnmooth on 2023-03-21
The file has picked wrong, it has corrupted and that can't open reading "This app can't run on your PC".

↑ BraSoft – Pro Rally 2001 (archived).

[gamedir-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).

[2] Pro Rally 2001 - Widescreen Fix - YouTube

[3] Verified by User:Johnmooth on 2023-03-21
The file has picked wrong, it has corrupted and that can't open reading "This app can't run on your PC".

[4] BraSoft – Pro Rally 2001 (archived).

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Developers

	Ubisoft Barcelona
Publishers
	Ubisoft
Brazil	Brasoft
Russia	Buka Entertainment
Release dates
Windows	2000
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Modes	Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Third-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Racing
Vehicles	Automobile

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	95	98, 2000, ME
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium II 266MHz	Pentium III, AMD Athlon I 450MHz
System memory (RAM)	64 MB	128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	500 MB
Video card (GPU)	4 MB	16 MB