Colin McRae: DiRT 2

Colin McRae: DiRT 2

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

Colin McRae Rally

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

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.
Retail

All Windows versions require Games for Windows - LIVE DRM.

No longer available due to licensing reasons.

Demo is available

Essential improvements

Patches

The latest version is Patch 1.1.

Skip intro videos

Replace video files Apply the DiRT 2 intro skip.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\DiRT2\hardwaresettings\hardware_settings_config.xml
macOS (OS X)

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\DiRT2\savegame\
macOS (OS X)	~/Library/Application Support/Feral Interactive/DiRT 2/Savegame

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.

Graphics option	Option	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
Field of view (FOV)		See Field of view (FOV).
Windowed		Toggle with Alt+↵ Enter.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		Use Borderless Gaming.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		Force in the graphics card control panel.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		2x-8x MSAA, 8x QCSAA.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS
120+ FPS		Uncapped with V-Sync off. Capped at 60 FPS in fullscreen mode regardless of refresh rate setting. Use windowed mode.

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.

Higher FOVs can expose occasional texture pop-in glitches.

Use Dirt3FovChange Perform a search in the game's installation folder for the cameras.xml files. Select them all (fifty in total) and open their properties. Uncheck the read-only box and click OK. Download Dirt3FovChange. Extract the files from the archive into any folder. Run Dirt3FovChange.exe as administrator. Manually point Dirt3FovChange to your DiRT 2 installation folder. See the Notes section below for what the settings do, adjust their values to your liking and click Start. If it asks if you're sure you want to run binXml.exe, uncheck the box for Always ask before opening this file and click Run. Launch the game and test your settings in a race. If you want to further adjust the settings: Exit the race and Alt+Tab ↹ to Dirt3FovChange. Click Restore to restore the default settings. Tweak the values you previously entered and click Start. In DiRT 2, start a new race to test your settings. Repeat until you're happy with the result. Notes Vertical FOV: a larger number will translate into a wider field of view. Adjust FOV for: selects the in-game camera or cameras you want to edit. Head Offset: affects the position of the head-cam (cockpit view). A modification of 0.1 will yield a noticeable change. It is to be noted that the point of view can be placed outside of the car. X: affects the lateral position. A positive value will move the point of view to the left. Y: affects the vertical position. A positive value will move the point of view upward. Z: affects the front/back position. A positive value will move the point of view closer to the dashboard. Head Tilt Change: affects the vertical angle of the camera. Compared to the position values, the tilt value works on a different scale: a modification of 1 will yield a barely noticeable change. A positive value will tilt the camera up.

Input settings

Keyboard and mouse	Native	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Additional information
Button prompts
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback

Audio settings

Audio options	Native	Notes
Separate volume controls		Speech, Music, Effects and Engine
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost		Occasional audio can still be heard.
EAX support

Network

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

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Players	Notes
Local play
LAN play
Online play		8

VR support

3D modes	Native	GG3D	Notes
Nvidia 3D Vision			Broken
iZ3D

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9, 11
64-bit executable

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	OpenAL, Rapture3D
Cutscenes	Bink Video
Multiplayer	Games for Windows - LIVE

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP, Vista, 7
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium D 3.0 GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2	Intel Core 2 Duo 2.66 GHz AMD Athlon X2 4200+
System memory (RAM)	1 GB (2 GB for Vista)	2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	12.5 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce 6800 ATI Radeon X1500 DirectX 9.0c compatible	Nvidia GeForce 9800 ATI Radeon HD 4850 DirectX 9.0c compatible
Sound (audio device)	DirectX compatible

OS X
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	10.6.7
Processor (CPU)	Intel 2.0 GHz	Intel 2.4 GHz
System memory (RAM)	2 GB	4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	8 GB
Video card (GPU)	128 MB of VRAM	256 MB of VRAM