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World Racing 2

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This page is for the original 2005 release. For the updated 2022 version, see World Racing 2: Champion Edition.

World Racing 2
World Racing 2 cover
Developers
Synetic
Publishers
Playlogic Entertainment
TDK Mediactive
Poland City Interactive
Engines
3D Landscape Engine
Release dates
Windows September 29, 2005
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
Themes Contemporary
Series World Racing
World Racing 2 on MobyGames
World Racing 2 on Wikipedia
World Racing
Mercedes-Benz World Racing 2003
World Racing 2 2005
World Racing 2: Champion Edition 2022

Warnings

GameSpy online services have been shut down (see Network for solutions).

World Racing 2 is a singleplayer and multiplayer first-person and third-person racing game in the World Racing series.

Key points

Easily moddable, the modding community is still active.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
StarForce 3 DRM[1]. Removed in Patch v1.4.3.
Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

Patch 1.4.3 can be found here.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Config.ini
<path-to-game>\CtrlMappings.ini
[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\WR2-Saves\[Note 1]

Video

Launcher settings
Launcher settings
Advanced launcher settings
Advanced launcher settings

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
16:9 only.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Off/Dynamic/Full.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
MSAA up to 4x.
High-fidelity upscaling
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
As Presentationinterval, set INTERVAL_IMMEDIATE to disable.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

Controls settings
Controls settings

Audio

Audio settings
Audio settings

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Sound, Music, Ambient
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Czech
Czech retail release only.
French
German
Italian
Polish
Original Polish retail release only.
Russian
Russian retail release only.
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
2
LAN play
6 Versus
Online play
6 Versus
GameSpy services have been shut down;[2] see GameSpy for workarounds.

Issues fixed

Can't save graphics settings on devices with two GPUs

On devices with two GPUs (e.g. with Nvidia Optimus technology), the game doesn't save graphics settings.

Change GPU Vendor ID and Device ID in config file[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>
  2. Open Config.ini.
  3. Find DeviceID line. Change it to DeviceID=0xXXXXYYYY, where XXXX is your GPU Vendor ID and YYYY is Device ID. Both these numbers have to be in hexadecimal format.

Notes

To learn your Vendor ID and Device ID, open Device Manager, go to Display adapters and locate your video card. Right click on it, choose Properties, select tab Details and from a list choose Hardware IDs. You will see couple of lines that look like this: PCI\VEN_XXXX&DEV_YYYY&.... XXXX is your Vendor ID and YYYY is your Device ID.

Instant and race replays not opening and/or screenshots not saving

Create empty ReplayRec and ScreenShots folders in <path-to-game>[3]

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8
Shader Model support 1.1
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Multiplayer GameSpy

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98 SE, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 4 1.8 GHz
AMD Athlon XP 1800+
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.7 GB
Video card (GPU) AGP-3D
64 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. THE DAEMONS HOME (retrieved)
  2. Pricing | GameSpy Technology
  3. Verified by User:Silent on 2023-04-08