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Colin McRae Rally 3

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Colin McRae Rally 3
Colin McRae Rally 3 cover
Developers
Codemasters
Windows Six by Nine
Publishers
Codemasters
China Sunny Interactive[1]
Czechia, Poland CD Projekt
Re-release Sold Out Software
Release dates
Windows June 13, 2003
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Controls Direct control
Genres Racing, Simulation
Vehicles Automobile, Off-roading
Art styles Realistic
Series Colin McRae Rally
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Warnings

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

Colin McRae Rally 3 is a singleplayer and multiplayer racing game developed and published by Codemasters. It is the third installment in the Colin McRae Rally series.

The game was released on June 13, 2003. It wasn't released in North America.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SecuROM 4 DRM disc check in the international CD release. Original Polish release uses SafeDisc v2.9 DRM[Note 1].
Windows
Retail
DRM-free
International DVD release, re-releases from CD Projekt.[4]
Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
No longer available due to licensing reasons.[5]

Demo

A demo is available. It is based off a 95% finished game.
Limited to a selection of 3 tracks (UK, Japan, Sweden) and 1 car (Ford Focus).
A patch for the demo version brings the codebase up to date with the initial retail version of the game.

Essential improvements

Patches

Patch 1.1 is the latest version. Re-releases from CD Projekt are pre-patched to that version.
Polish version updates DRM to SafeDisc v3.1 DRM[Note 2].

SilentPatch

Requires Patch 1.1
Adds support for widescreen and other aspect ratios including windowed and borderless modes
Fixes numerous bugs
Install[8]
  1. Download and install the official Patch 1.1
  2. Download SilentPatch and DRM-free patcher
  3. Extract both to <path-to-game>
  4. Open setup.bat to patch your 1.1 EXE to DRM-free 1.1 EXE
  5. (Optionally) Extract the optional mods (listed below) to <path-to-game>

Notes

Optionally includes:
Language pack with all 7 languages
HD UI redone for higher resolutions
Nicky Grist co-driver VA for the Polish re-release (CD Projekt)

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Codemasters\Colin McRae Rally 3\[Note 3]
If using SilentPatch the configuration is stored in <path-to-game>\SilentPatchCMR3.ini

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\CMR3[Note 4]

Video

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Use SilentPatch
Multi-monitor
Use SilentPatch
Ultra-widescreen
Use SilentPatch
4K Ultra HD
Use SilentPatch
Field of view (FOV)
75° by default. Use SilentPatch for 30°-150° in-game option.
Windowed
Use SilentPatch
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Use SilentPatch
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Use SilentPatch. Up to 16x.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
FSAA up to 8x; causes the sun to flicker if enabled. Use SilentPatch to fix this.[9]
Vertical sync (Vsync)
Always on by default. Use SilentPatch to toggle it.
60 FPS
120+ FPS
Menu animations are sped up at high fps and flags/ribbons animating too fast [10][11]
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

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
Pausing the game using a controller requires this patch.
However, after entering the game for the first time and changing controllers, need to use the keyboard to navigate to the settings menu to reconfigure the controller.
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Only saturation and deadzone
Controller Y-axis inversion
Controller types
XInput-compatible controllers
using this patch or SilentPatch.
But the SilentPatch force feedback effect doesn't work.
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration
PlayStation controllers
Generic/other controllers
Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Use SilentPatch or this patch.
But using Patch cannot automatically pause the game when the controller loses connection
Haptic feedback
Use this patch.
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music, SFX and Copilot can be changed separately
Surround sound
7.1
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
Chinese retail release only.[1]
Czech
Czech retail release only.
For other releases use SilentPatch + Language Pack addon.
French
German
Hungarian
Fan translation, download.
Italian
Japanese
Japanese retail release only.
Polish
Polish retail release only.
For other releases use SilentPatch + Language Pack addon.
Russian
Fan translation, download.
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
4 Hot seat, Versus
LAN play
Online play

Issues fixed

Split-Screen Bug

Split screen mode does not work correctly on modern operating systems causing the camera to freeze on a texture[12]
Use SilentPatch[9]
Set compatibility mode for Rally_3PC.exe to Windows XP Service Pack 2.

High FPS issue

Menu animations are sped up at high fps and flags/ribbons animating too fast [10][11]
Limit frame rate to 60 FPS.
Enable Vsync and set refresh rate to 60 Hz

In-game resolution setting has (NULL) value causing the game to crash

Multi-monitor bug when neither of the displays are identical
Use SilentPatch[13]

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 750 MHz
AMD Athlon 750 MHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 3.5 GB
Video card (GPU) 32 MB of VRAM
Sound (audio device) DirectX 9 compatible


Notes

  1. SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[2] 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.[3]
  2. SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[6] 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.[7]
  3. Applications writing to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE will be redirected to other locations based on various criterias, see the glossary page for more details.
  4. 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. 1.0 1.1 《科林麦克雷拉力3》劲速上市_3DM单机 - last accessed on 2023-07-05
  2. Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
  3. Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16
  4. Krusantusz on Twitter - last accessed on 26 May 2023
  5. Verified by User:Mars icecream on 2016-11-25
    Email received from Codemasters customer service.
  6. Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
  7. Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16
  8. Verified by User:Blackbird on 2023-01-15
    It just works.
  9. 9.0 9.1 Verified by User:Silent on 2023-01-15
  10. 10.0 10.1 Silent on Twitter - last accessed on 2022-12-13
  11. 11.0 11.1 Silent on Twitter - last accessed on 2023-08-29
  12. Silent on Twitter - last accessed on 2023-01-15
  13. Remastering Colin McRae Rally 3 with SilentPatch - last accessed on 2023-01-15