Downtown Run

Warnings

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

Key points

Released as City Racer in North America.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		SafeDisc v2 DRM^{[Note 1]}.

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

Delete/rename Intro.bik^[3]
Go to `<path-to-game>\data\Movies\intro\` Delete or rename `Intro.bik`.

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\data\save\Main.cfg^{[Note 2]}

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\data\save\players.cfg^{[Note 2]}

Video settings.

Graphics feature	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Some resolutions not listed; for unlisted resolutions see the WSGF entry.
Multi-monitor		FOV is too low.
Ultra-widescreen		See the WSGF entry.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)	Up to 16x.
Anti-aliasing (AA)	See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
High-fidelity upscaling
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)	See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input settings.

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio settings.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		General, Music, Main car, Opponents, Voice, Power-ups, Ambiance, Menu, CD music.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost		Mutes but does not pause gameplay.
EAX support
Royalty free audio

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Type	Players	Notes
Local play	2	Versus Splitscreen (choice of horizontal or vertical).
LAN play
Online play

3D modes	Native	Notes
Native 3D		Anaglyph.
Nvidia 3D Vision

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	8.1
OpenGL

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

	Middleware	Notes
Cutscenes	Bink Video

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	98SE, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU)	500 MHz Intel Pentium III or similar	1 GHz Intel Pentium III or similar
System memory (RAM)	128 MB	256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	650 MB
Video card (GPU)	3D AGP accelerated, hardware T&L, OpenGL or DirectX compatible 32 MB of VRAM DirectX 8.1 compatible	64 MB of VRAM

↑ 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]
↑ ^2.0 ^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).