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Michelin Rally Masters: Race of Champions

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Not to be confused with Master Rallye.

Michelin Rally Masters: Race of Champions
Michelin Rally Masters: Race of Champions cover
Developers
DICE
Publishers
Infogrames
Release dates
Windows July 25, 2000
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person, Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Racing
Vehicles Automobile, Off-roading, Track racing
Art styles Realistic
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Key points

Runs great on modern systems.
Supports a wide variety of resolutions.
Has a couple of minor issues. See the Issues fixed section below.

Michelin Rally Masters: Race of Champions is a singleplayer and multiplayer first-person and third-person racing game.

Availability

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

Demo

A demo is available.
Limited to 1 car (Toyota Corolla) and 2 stages.

Essential improvements

Patches

Patch 3.2 is the latest version (Make sure to download the right patch for your region) (Try to open the download link in a new tab/window in case it doesn't work)

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Digital Illusions\Rally Masters\Configurations\Default\

Save game data location

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

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Vert-; game looks cropped when using widescreen resolutions. See Widescreen Patch.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
Vert-; game looks cropped when using ultrawide resolutions. See Widescreen Patch.
4K Ultra HD
Vert-; game looks cropped when using widescreen resolutions. See Widescreen Patch.
Field of view (FOV)
60-90°, cockpit cam is fixed at 80°. For higher FOVs, see Widescreen Patch.
Windowed
Use dgVoodoo2.
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
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support
A3D 2.0,[1] EAX[2]
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Spanish
Swedish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
LAN play
Direct IP
Online play
8 Direct IP with an interface that can save server addresses

Connection types

Issues fixed

Game crashes on car selection, stage loading, or when the resolution is set to above 1920x1200

Use the dgVoodoo2 wrapper[3]
  1. Download dgVoodoo2.
  2. Extract dgVoodooCpl.exe, dgVoodoo.conf, MS\x86\D3DImm.dll and MS\x86\DDraw.dll to <path-to-game>.
  3. Run dgVoodooCpl.exe and go to the DirectX tab.
  4. Change Videocard to GeForce FX 5700 Ultra with 256MB VRAM.
  5. Check Fast video memory access and uncheck dgVoodoo Watermark.
  6. (Optionally) Change Filtering to Force anisotropic x16 and Antialiasing (MSAA) to the preferred value.

Game crashes and/or freezes on the initial splash screen

Use dinputto8[4]
  1. Download dinputto8.
  2. Extract dinput.dll to <path-to-game>.

Audio is muted when a stage starts

Pause and then unpause the game[3]

Menu backgrounds don't show up

Use the dgVoodoo2 wrapper[3]

Other information

API

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

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 95, 98
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium II 233 MHz
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 100 MB
Video card (GPU) 8 MB of VRAM
DirectX 7.0 compatible
Other 4x CD-ROM drive


Notes

  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

  1. Hot New Gremlin Games to Support Aureal A3D - Aureal.com (retrieved) - last accessed on May 2023
  2. Rally Masters - Michelin Race of Champions demo review - last accessed on 17 May 2023
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2023-05-09
  4. Verified by User:Silent on 2023-08-31