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World Racing 2

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This page is for the original 2005 release. For the updated 2022 version, see World Racing 2: Champion Edition.

World Racing 2
World Racing 2 cover
Developers
Synetic
Publishers
Playlogic Entertainment
TDK Mediactive
Release dates
Windows September 29, 2005
Taxonomy
Genres Racing
Series World Racing
World Racing 2 on MobyGames
World Racing 2 on Wikipedia
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World Racing
Mercedes-Benz World Racing 2003
World Racing 2 2005
World Racing 2: Champion Edition 2022

Warnings

GameSpy online services have been shut down (see Network for solutions).

Key points

Easily moddable, the modding community is still active.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
 StarForce 3 DRM[Note 1][5]. Removed in Patch v1.4.3.
Windows
StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see above for affected versions).

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\WR2-Saves[Note 2]

Video

Graphics feature State WSGF 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

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse isn't supported.
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
Sound, Music, Ambient
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Czech
Czech retail release.
French
German
Italian
Polish
Polish retail release.
Russian
Russian retail release.
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
2
LAN play
6 Versus
Online play
6 Versus
GameSpy services have been shut down;[6] see GameSpy for workarounds.

Issues fixed

Can't save graphics settings on devices with two GPUs

On devices with two GPUs (e.g. with Nvidia Optimus technology), the game doesn't save graphics settings.

Change GPU Vendor ID and Device ID in config file[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>
  2. Open Config.ini.
  3. Find DeviceID line. Change it to DeviceID=0xXXXXYYYY, where XXXX is your GPU Vendor ID and YYYY is Device ID. Both these numbers have to be in hexadecimal format.

Notes

To learn your Vendor ID and Device ID, open Device Manager, go to Display adapters and locate your video card. Right click on it, choose Properties, select tab Details and from a list choose Hardware IDs. You will see couple of lines that look like this: PCI\VEN_XXXX&DEV_YYYY&.... XXXX is your Vendor ID and YYYY is your Device ID.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Multiplayer GameSpy

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98 SE, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 4 1.8 GHz
AMD Athlon XP 1800+		 Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz
AMD Athlon XP/64 2400+
System memory (RAM) 256 MB 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.7 GB 4.2 GB
Video card (GPU) AGP-3D
64 MB of VRAM 		Nvidia GeForce FX 5900 XT
ATI Radeon 9600 XT


Notes

  1. ↑ This version of StarForce DRM does not work on Windows Vista or later.[1][2][3][4] For supported versions of Windows the StarForce driver may need to be updated manually using SFUPDATE.
  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