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Pet Racer

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Pet Racer
Pet Racer cover
Developers
Techland
Publishers
Poland Techland
United States Big City Games
Engines
Chrome Engine 1
Release dates
Windows December 20, 2001
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Racing
Vehicles Track racing
Art styles Cartoon
Pet Racer on MobyGames

Warnings

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

Availability

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

Demo

A demo can be downloaded from here.

Essential improvements

Patches

A Shadows Fix Patch is available to fix the squared shadows.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Data\[Note 2]
AudioSettings.scr contains audio settings.
Controller.scr contains mouse and controller settings.
VideoSettings.scr contains video settings.

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
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)
60 FPS
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music and FX.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support
DirectSound3D, Aureal 3D 2.0.
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German
Polish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
2
Online play

VR support

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
OpenGL 1.2
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)


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. ↑ 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