Colin McRae Rally 3
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Developers | |
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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 |
⤏ Go to series page | |
Colin McRae Rally | 1998 |
Colin McRae Rally 2.0 | 2000 |
Colin McRae Rally 3 | 2003 |
Colin McRae Rally 04 | 2004 |
Colin McRae Rally 2005 | 2004 |
Colin McRae: DiRT | 2007 |
Colin McRae: DiRT 2 | 2009 |
DiRT 3 | 2011 |
DiRT Showdown | 2012 |
Colin McRae Rally (2014) | 2014 |
DiRT Rally | 2015 |
DiRT 4 | 2017 |
DiRT Rally 2.0 | 2019 |
DIRT 5 | 2020 |
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 |
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Retail | SecuROM 4 DRM disc check in the international CD release. Original Polish release uses SafeDisc v2.9 DRM[Note 1]. | |||
Retail | International DVD release, re-releases from CD Projekt.[4] |
- 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] |
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Notes
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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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 |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\CMR3[Note 4] |
Video
Graphics feature | State | WSGF | Notes |
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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 |
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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. |
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Controller remapping | ||
Controller sensitivity | Only saturation and deadzone | |
Controller Y-axis inversion |
Controller types |
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XInput-compatible controllers | using this patch or SilentPatch. But the SilentPatch force feedback effect doesn't work. |
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Xbox button prompts | ||
Impulse Trigger vibration |
PlayStation controllers |
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Generic/other controllers |
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Additional information | ||
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Controller hotplugging | Use SilentPatch or this patch. But using Patch cannot automatically pause the game when the controller loses connection |
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Haptic feedback | Use this patch. | |
Digital movement supported | ||
Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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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 |
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English | ||||
Simplified Chinese | Chinese retail release only.[1] | |||
Czech | Czech retail release only. For other releases use SilentPatch + Language Pack addon. |
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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. |
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Russian | Fan translation, download. | |||
Spanish |
Network
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Players | Notes | |
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Local play | 4 | Hot seat, Versus |
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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] |
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Set compatibility mode for Rally_3PC.exe to Windows XP Service Pack 2.
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High FPS issue
Limit frame rate to 60 FPS. |
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Enable Vsync and set refresh rate to 60 Hz |
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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] |
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 9 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 98, ME, 2000, XP | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium III 750 MHz AMD Athlon 750 MHz |
Intel Pentium 4 1.4 GHz AMD Athlon 1.4 GHz |
System memory (RAM) | 128 MB | 512 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 3.5 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | 32 MB of VRAM | |
Sound (audio device) | DirectX 9 compatible |
Notes
- ↑ 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]
- ↑ 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]
- ↑ Applications writing to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE
will be redirected to other locations based on various criterias, see the glossary page for more details. - ↑ 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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 《科林麦克雷拉力3》劲速上市_3DM单机 - last accessed on 2023-07-05
- ↑ Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
- ↑ Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16
- ↑ Krusantusz on Twitter - last accessed on 26 May 2023
- ↑ Verified by User:Mars icecream on 2016-11-25
- Email received from Codemasters customer service.
- ↑ Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
- ↑ Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16
- ↑ Verified by User:Blackbird on 2023-01-15
- It just works.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Verified by User:Silent on 2023-01-15
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Silent on Twitter - last accessed on 2022-12-13
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Silent on Twitter - last accessed on 2023-08-29
- ↑ Silent on Twitter - last accessed on 2023-01-15
- ↑ Remastering Colin McRae Rally 3 with SilentPatch - last accessed on 2023-01-15