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US Racer

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US Racer
US Racer cover
Developers
Davilex Games
Publishers
Russia 1C Company
Release dates
Windows 2002
Taxonomy
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Controls Direct control
Genres Racing
Themes Contemporary, North America
Series Davilex Racer Series
US Racer on MobyGames
Davilex Racer Series
A2 Racer (series)
Autobahn Raser (series)
London Racer (series)
Paris-Marseille Racing (series)
Holiday Racer 2000
Europe Racing 2001
US Racer 2002
Bikini Beach: Stunt Racer 2003
Taxi Raser 2004

Warnings

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

US Racer is a singleplayer and multiplayer racing game in the Davilex Racer Series series.

Key points

Also released as USA Racer in Europe and A2 Racer Goes USA! in Netherlands.

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).

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Instructions[3]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\Data\Video
  2. Rename, move or delete this file:
davileader.avi
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\Data\Video\Language
  2. Rename, move or delete this file:
Intro.avi
Text.avi

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Common[Note 2]

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Only 4 hardcoded resolution options.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
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.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music & Effects.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
2 Splitscreen.
LAN play
Online play

Issues fixed

Game does not launch or crashes upon loading

Instructions[3]
  1. Use dgVoodoo 2.

If the game still crashes at launch:

  1. Choose Windows 95 compatibility mode.
  2. Prevent the game from trying to play the intro movie. See #Skip intro videos.

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio Miles Sound System 6.0m[4]

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95, 98, 2000, ME
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium II 350 MHz Intel Pentium III
System memory (RAM) 64 MB 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 100 MB 270 MB
Video card (GPU) 8 MB of VRAM 16 MB of VRAM


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

  1. ↑ Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
  2. ↑ Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Verified by User:Nessy on 2019-07-26
  4. ↑ Verified by User:Nessy on 2019-07-26
    Version number found in Mss32.dll in the game installation folder.