Colin McRae: DiRT 2

Warnings

For Games for Windows - LIVE on Windows 8 or later, install the latest Games for Windows - LIVE software.

The macOS (OS X) version of this game does not work on macOS Catalina (version 10.15) or later due to the removal of support for 32-bit-only apps.


⤏ Go to series page
Colin McRae Rally	1998
Colin McRae Rally 2.0	2000
Colin McRae Rally 3	2003
Colin McRae Rally 04	2004
Colin McRae Rally 2005	2004
Colin McRae: DiRT	2007
Colin McRae: DiRT 2	2009
DiRT 3	2011
DiRT Showdown	2012
Colin McRae Rally (2014)	2014
DiRT Rally	2015
DiRT 4	2017
DiRT Rally 2.0	2019
DIRT 5	2020

Key points

The game features full keyboard support but an Xbox 360 Controller is recommended.

Includes benchmark.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Steam Users' Forums for game series

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		DRM: SecuROM disc check.

All versions require Games for Windows - LIVE.

This game is no longer available digitally.

Essential improvements

Patch 1.1

Patch 1.1 changelog

Shadow quality setting of “low” is now correctly saved instead of resetting to “medium” Combinations of both high resolutions and high MSAA levels have been restricted on graphics cards with low memory to prevent issues found with those settings
Added missing function key icons
Fixed several lighting artefacts in night races
Fixed missing initial load screen on multi-GPU setups under DX11
Alt+Tab and Alt+Enter are now better supported under DX11
Benchmark mode now correctly applies custom settings

Skip intro videos

Instructions

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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System	Location
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/12840/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game data location

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System	Location
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/12840/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

The files in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\XLive\ contain your unique offline profile ID.

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Graphical settings.

Graphical settings continued.

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Field of view (FOV)

Default chase (close) camera and FOV.

Chase (far) camera with a vertical FOV of 60. A background texture is temporarily missing at this FOV.

This fix was created for DiRT 3 specifically, but works for DiRT 2 all the same.

Higher FOVs can expose occasional texture pop-in glitches.

Instructions

Input settings

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Audio settings

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Network

Online features require a Microsoft account (optional for offline play).

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Players	Notes
Local play
LAN play
Online play		8

System requirements

The game is optimised for AMD/ATI graphics cards.

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	XP, Vista, 7
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium D 3.0Ghz AMD Athlon 64 X2
System memory (RAM)	1 GB (2 GB for Vista)
Hard disk drive (HDD)	10 GB
Video card (GPU)	ATI Radeon X1500 NVIDIA GeForce 6800

Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/12840/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (12840) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

[Proton_path_note-1] 1.0 ^1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/12840/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (12840) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

[Note 1]

Developers
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	Codemasters
Publishers
	Codemasters
Engines
	EGO
Release dates
Windows	December 1, 2009
macOS (OS X)	August 2011