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Lotus Challenge

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Lotus Challenge
Lotus Challenge cover
Developers
Kuju Entertainment
Publishers
Virgin Interactive
Release dates
Windows February 23, 2003
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Availability

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

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Instructions

Check "Disable videos" in the game's external settings.

Enable sound on Windows Vista and newer

Instructions[1]

Place dsound3d.dll in <path-to-game>\.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Lotus Challenge\SaveGame\

Video settings

In-game display settings.
In-game display settings.
External display settings.
External display settings.

Template:Video settings

Input settings

External input settings.
External input settings.

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

In-game audio settings.
In-game audio settings.

Template:Audio settings

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
Local play
LAN play
Online play

Issues unresolved

Sky renders incorrectly on modern GPUs

Setting Z depth to "High" will crash the game on modern GPUs

Instructions

Set Z depth to Medium or lower.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98, Me, XP XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 700 MHz Intel Pentium 1 Ghz
System memory (RAM) 192 MB 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB 2 GB
Video card (GPU) 32Mb of VRAM
DirectX 9 compatible 		Nvidia GeForce 2
64 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9 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