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Redline Racer

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Redline Racer
Redline Racer cover
Developers
Criterion Games
Publishers
Ubi Soft
Release dates
Windows July 31, 1998
Taxonomy
Genres Racing
Redline Racer on MobyGames
Redline Racer on Wikipedia
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Warnings

SafeDisc DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected releases).
RenderWare games may not work on Windows 11 24H2 or later without using a DirectSound wrapper (see the engine page for details).
Acceleration, braking, and turning rates are tied to frame rate.

Availability

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

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\menudata.ini[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\misc\datebase.ddb[Note 2]

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Color blind mode
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Keyboard and mouse prompts
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion
Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Input prompt override
Haptic feedback
Disabled by default.
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
CD Music, Effects, and Speech.
Surround sound
Up to 7.0 output with DirectSound3D restoration software.
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support
A3D 1.0,[3] EAX 1.0
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
French

Network

Multiplayer types

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

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)
TCP 2300-2400, 47624
UDP 2300-2400
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

Issues Fixed

Crash at start-up

Use nGlide in 3DFX mode[4]
  1. Download and install nGlide.
  2. Start the game using rlr_3dfx.exe.

Music does not play or loop

Fix CD audio not looping on Windows Vista and newer operating systems[5]
  1. Rip your game CD-ROM's music to MP3 format and place it in a folder on your computer.
  2. Download patched _inmm.dll, and install it.
  3. Patch rlr_3dfx.exe, rlr_D3d.exe, and rlr_i740.exe in <path-to-game> by dragging them onto _inmmconf.exe.
  4. Open _inmmconf.exe and set DirectShow player for default file type in the method tab, as well as the MP3 type.
  5. In the _inmm.ini tab, add the audio files you have ripped. Make sure the order is correct, and then save it in <path-to-game>.

Unable to move bikes on certain tracks

Enable V-sync or set an FPS limit[citation needed]

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio DirectSound3D

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)


Notes

  1. ↑ This version of SafeDisc 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