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Warm Up!

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Warm Up!
Warm Up! cover
Developers
Lankhor
Publishers
Microïds
Release dates
Windows November 9, 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
Art styles Realistic
Warm Up! on MobyGames

General information

Also referred to as Pole Position 2001 by its executable.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Windows
ZOOM Platform
DRM-free
Bundled with DDrawCompat.
Windows
Two demos are available

Essential improvements

Patches

Warm Up! Update v1.0 updates the game to the latest version.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Lankhor\WARM UP !
<path-to-game>\PLR[Note 1]

Save game data location

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

Video

Graphics card
Graphics card

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Resolution stretched to original.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
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)
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

Sound card
Sound card

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Effects volume has a slider, but CD audio (music) only has an on/off toggle.
Surround sound
The sound is bit crackly on all modern hardware, there is no easy fix.
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
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
French
German
Italian
Portuguese
Spanish

Changing language

Registry edit
  1. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Lankhor\WARM UP !\Language.
  2. Change the Value key to 0 for English, 1 for French, 2 for German, 3 for Italian, 4 for Spanish and 5 for Portuguese.

Issues unresolved

Crash related to wireless peripherals

The game crashes on startup, when changing profiles, and when starting a race if the user has wireless peripherals (headsets, mice...). Before the game is run or a race is started, the USB dongle needs to be unplugged, and only plugged back in when the game's intro/menu is shown.[1]

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
LAN play
10
Online play

Other information

API

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

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes Windows Media Foundation

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95, 98, Me, 2000
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium MMX 233 MHz
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 200 MB
Video card (GPU) 4 MB of VRAM


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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. Verified by User:Plok on 2024-02-18
    Confirmed with the Logitech G533 wireless headset.