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Driver

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Driver
Driver cover
Developers
Reflections Interactive
Mac OS (Classic) MacSoft
Publishers
GT Interactive
Mac OS Infogrames
Release dates
Windows October 11, 1999
Mac OS (Classic) December 12, 2000
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person, First-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Driving, Open world
Vehicles Automobile
Themes North America, Contemporary
Series Driver
Driver on HowLongToBeat
Driver guide on StrategyWiki
Driver on MobyGames
Driver on Wikipedia
Driver
Driver 1999
Driv3r 2005
Driver: Parallel Lines 2007
Driver: San Francisco 2011
REDRIVER 2 (unofficial port) 2020

Warnings

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

Driver is a singleplayer third-person and first-person driving and open world game in the Driver series.

General information

Driver Madness Modding Community

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SafeDisc DRM[Note 1]
Windows
Retail
DRM details are not known
Mac OS
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

Essential improvements

FMVs without the game disc

Copy the FMVDATA folder from the disc to <path-to-game>[3]

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\CONFIG.DAT[Note 2]
Mac OS (Classic)

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Saves\GAME*.BIN[Note 2]
Mac OS (Classic)

Video

configuration options.
configuration options.
in-game video settings.
in-game video settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
See Widescreen resolution.
4K Ultra HD
See Widescreen resolution.
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
10, 12, 16, 25, or 50 FPS caps with an option to turn it off. Game speed increases above 50 FPS in multiples with 50 FPS as a base (for example: runs at 1.2x speed when externally capped to 60 FPS)

Widescreen resolution

Hed-edit the executable[4]
  1. Open Game.exe with a hex editor such as HxD.
  2. Press Ctrl+F and set Datatype to Hex-values.
  3. Search for 4006 and click OK.
  4. Replace 4006 (width) and B004 (height) with the desired resolution values according to here.
  5. If the value can not be changed due to no permission being granted, go to the Properties of the file and uncheck the Read-only box.
  6. Press F3 and change 4006 to the same resolution width as before.
  7. Press Ctrl+F and search for 40060000B004.
  8. Do the same as with the previous 4006 and B004 values.
  9. Set the resolution to 1600x1200 in the configuration tool.
  10. If a configuration error appears, open Config.exe in a hex editor, search for 4006 and replace 4006 and B004 as with the previous file.

Input

in-game control settings.
in-game control settings.
redefine controls.
redefine controls.

Audio

in-game audio settings.
in-game audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Separate controls for sound effects and CD music; voice volume is controlled under effects volume; FMV audio is unaffected by volume settings
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support
EAX 1
Royalty free audio
Red Book CD audio
On Windows, CD music might not play correctly; see the troubleshooting guide for solutions.

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German
Italian
Polish
Only available in Polish retail copy. The FMVs have subtitles and the in-game voices are dubbed.
Russian
Compilation of unofficial translations – «7 Wolf, Наша Марка, Процедура 2000, City, Фаргус, Эксклюзив, FireCross, Golden Leon, Студия Оригинал, RGR Studio, Vector» and unknown translator), download. Review.
Spanish

Issues fixed

3D acceleration problems

Running the game with 3D acceleration turned on may cause crashes or graphics problems on some modern machines.
Use dgVoodoo 2[citation needed]
  1. Download newest dgVoodoo 2.
  2. Extract dgVoodooCpl.exe and the contents of the Glide and MS\x86 subfolders to <path-to-game>.
  3. Go to DirectX tab and make sure that Disable and passthru to real DirectX is not checked.
  4. Select Virtual 3D Accelerated Card under Videocard and set its VRAM to 64 MB.
  5. Click OK.

8-bit Palettized textures option greyed out

A bug in the original code meant this option can't be selected without this fix. See this video for information on what this option does.
Use a hex editor[5]
  1. Download a hex editor of choice, such as HxD.
  2. Within the hex editor, open game.exe in the install directory.
  3. Search for the byte pattern 0F 85 DA 00 00 00 and find the first instance of it, and change it to 0F 85 DF 00 00 00. Save the change.
  4. Repeat process with file config.exe, also in the install directory.
  5. 8-Bit texture option in config.exe should now be selectable, with animated textures in-game.

Music always turned off

Change the CD drive's label to D: or use the Music does not loop solution below.

Music does not loop

This is a known issue on Windows XP and later.
Possible fix[6]
  1. Rip the game CD-ROM's music. .ogg and .mp3 codecs should be fully supported.
  2. Extract patched _inmm.dll and open its main folder.
  3. Go to <path-to-game> and drag game.exe to _inmmconf.exe in Windows Explorer.
  4. Open _inmmconf.exe and set DirectShow player for default file type in the method tab
  5. In the _inmm.ini tab, click "add" and select the ripped music files numbered track2 to track10.
  6. Press the save button and place it in the <path-to-game> folder.
Alternate fix using Winamp[citation needed]
  1. Set game.exe and config.exe to run as administrator.
  2. In patched _inmm.dll, set method as "Winamp" for wav/mp3/CDDA, Uder Player, select Winamp, install Winamp or WACUP and put the path of Winamp inside; other options remain unchecked.
  3. Patch game.exe with this new configuration by dragging game.exe to _inmmcnf.exe, then create a new _inmm.ini from _inmmcnf.exe (in the tab) by dragging and dropping the ripped music tracks.
  4. Put the new _inmm.ini to <path-to-game>.

VR support

3D modes State Notes
vorpX
2D
Requires DGVoodoo2, with vorpx DGVoodoo2 default profile.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 6
Glide 2
ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
Mac OS (Classic)

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 233 MHz
System memory (RAM) 16 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 80 MB
Video card (GPU) 3D Accelerator
4 MB of VRAM
Mac OS
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 8.6
Processor (CPU) PowerPC G3
System memory (RAM) 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) ATI Rage Pro


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