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Lotus Challenge

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Lotus Challenge
Lotus Challenge cover
Developers
Kuju Entertainment
Publishers
Virgin Interactive
Sold Out Software
Release dates
Windows February 23, 2003
Taxonomy
Genres Racing
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Key points

This game has muted sound on Windows Vista and newer. See Essential improvements.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Windows
This game is not available digitally.

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

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

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
See Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
See Custom resolution
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)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Some UI elements display incorrectly at high framerates.
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Widescreen resolution

For 16:9 aspect ratio
Editing an executable file using a hexadecimal editor[2]
  1. Download the hexadecimal editor, for example HxD
  2. Go to the <path-to-game> and open the Lotus.exe in the hex editor
  3. Press Ctrl+F and find the value AB AA AA 3F by selecting hexadecimal search format and click OK
  4. Press F3 2 times, this will be the last value found.
  5. Replace the value AB AA AA 3F with 39 8E E3 3F by right-clicking and selecting "Insert with replacement".
  6. Save the changes.

Custom resolution

Use dgVoodoo 2 wrapper[3]
  1. Download the latest version of dgVoodoo 2.
  2. Extract the files to a convenient place.
  3. Open the MS folder in dgVoodoo's directory and copy DDraw.dll.
  4. Navigate to the <path-to-game> and paste the file in there.
  5. Now open dgVoodooCpl.exe and go to the DirectX tab
  6. Select Virtual 3D Accelerated Card under Videocard, then select your screen resolution from the list. For VRAM, select the maximum available value.
  7. Click Apply.

Input

External input settings.
External input settings.

Audio

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

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Engine, Music, Sound
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Sound FX are muted, but music continues to play.
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

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
DirectDraw 7
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98, ME
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 700 MHz
System memory (RAM) 192 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) 32 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