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Mercedes-Benz Truck Racing

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Mercedes-Benz Truck Racing
Mercedes-Benz Truck Racing cover
Developers
Synetic
Publishers
THQ
Engines
3D Landscape Engine
Release dates
Windows 2000
Taxonomy
Genres Racing
Mercedes-Benz Truck Racing on MobyGames
Mercedes-Benz Truck Racing on Wikipedia

General information

Official website (retrieved)

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
ProtectDISC Software DRM
Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

Patch v.1.1.10 updates the game to the latest version.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\ConfigX.dsv[Note 1]
X represents the game version

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\SpStand[Note 1]
<path-to-game>\Replays[Note 1]

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Main menu locked 800x600.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
HUD gets small.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Use DxWnd.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Toggled On or Off in advanced video settings.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
High-fidelity upscaling
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
As "triplebuffering". Toggled On or Off in advanced video settings.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
[1]
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

Input settings
Input settings

Audio

Audio settings
Audio settings
Language settings
Language settings

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Menu music, Menu SFX, Game music, Game SFX, Engine, Opponents Engine
Surround sound
Subtitles
Only radio voice on racing.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
Local play
LAN play
IP Matchmaking. Also on Client version.
Online play

Issues fixed

Intro movie not showing

This only starts on black screen and shows a Mouse pointer in game. When it skips, mutes a sound in main menu.
Fix intro movies with compatibility mode
  1. Open TruckRace.exe
  2. Enable Windows XP (SP3) compatibility mode.

Poor performance and/or graphical errors

D3D Retained Mode might help
Instructions
  1. Download D3DRM.zip from the dgVoodoo2 website
  2. Extract d3drm.dll to <path-to-game>
Use dgVoodoo 2(Obligatory Windows 10).

Truck livery issues when using dgVoodoo 2

Disable 'Voodoo3 fix' in advanced video settings.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 7
Glide
Software renderer
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Run game without administrator rights

There do not appear to be any defects by playing the game this way
It is advised not to install the game in Program Files
Instructions
  1. Go to <path-to-game>
  2. Create 2 new text documents (one for the game and one for the config utility) with .bat at the end of their filenames (file extensions must enabled in file explorer)
  3. Open the game .bat file in notepad and paste in the following:
  4. cmd /min /C "set __COMPAT_LAYER=RUNASINVOKER && start "" TruckRace.exe"
  5. Close the game .bat file
  6. Open the config utility .bat file in notepad and paste in the following:
  7. cmd /min /C "set __COMPAT_LAYER=RUNASINVOKER && start "" MBTR_Setup.exe"
  8. Close the config utility .bat file
  9. Use these newly created files to play the game and configure settings

Installing game and registering the registry in Windows

Installing a game through the game directory uses registry in Windows.
Instructions
  1. Open Registry Editor in Windows
  2. Hold WinKey+R and type regedit.exe
  3. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\SYNETIC\Truckrace
  4. Export "Truckrace" registry folder.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95, 98
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium II 333 MHz
System memory (RAM) 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 125 MB
Video card (GPU) 16 MB of VRAM
DirectX 7 compatible


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 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. Verified by User:Johnmooth on 2023-03-21
    The game may runs on 60hz when Vsync is forced off.