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RalliSport Challenge

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RalliSport Challenge
RalliSport Challenge cover
Developers
DICE
Publishers
Microsoft Game Studios
Engines
Refractor 2
Release dates
Windows November 6, 2002
Taxonomy
Genres Racing
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Warnings

SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected versions).

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
 SafeDisc 2 DRM[Note 1]
Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

Demo

A demo is available.
Limited to an endless selection of races on a randomly selected track (out of 4 available) and car (also out of 4 available), with 3 AI opponents.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %PROGRAMDATA%\Microsoft\RalliSport Challenge\[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %PROGRAMDATA%\Microsoft\RalliSport Challenge\[Note 2]

Video

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
 
 See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
 
Ultra-widescreen
 
 See Widescreen resolution.
4K Ultra HD
 
 See Widescreen resolution.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
High-fidelity upscaling
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
ON by default
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Widescreen resolution

Widescreen fix[3]
The following fix requires a No-CD patch.
  1. Open RalliSportChallenge.exe with a hex editor such as HxD.
  2. Press Ctrl+G and enter in the offset search 0028CD30 to find the hex values 00 05 00 00 C7 44 24 50 00 04.
  3. Replace the 00 05 and 00 04 values with:
    • 00 05 and D0 02 for 1280x720
    • 00 05 and 20 03 for 1280x800
    • 56 05 and 00 03 for 1366x768
    • A0 05 and 84 03 for 1440x900
    • 90 06 and 1A 04 for 1680x1050
    • 80 07 and 38 04 for 1920x1080
    • 80 07 and B0 04 for 1920x1200
    • 00 0F and 70 08 for 3840x2160 (4K)
    • More resolutions listed here
  4. Save the file and set the desired resolution in-game.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion
Controller types
XInput-compatible controllers
PlayStation controllers
Generic/other controllers
Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
7.0
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Metric measurements

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8.1
Shader Model support 1.1,1.4
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 98,Me,2000,XP
Processor (CPU) 733 MHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.5 GB
Video card (GPU) 32 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8.1 compatible


Notes

  1. ↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[1] 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.[2]
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 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