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TrickStyle

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TrickStyle
TrickStyle cover
Developers
Criterion Games[1]
Updated Steam version Throwback Entertainment
Publishers
Acclaim Entertainment[2]
Updated Steam version Throwback Entertainment
Jordan Freeman Group
Engines
RenderWare[1]
Release dates
Windows September 30, 1999
macOS (OS X) September 1, 2017[3]
Linux 2018
Reception
IGDB 60
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Racing, Sports
Sports Fictional sport
Vehicles Track racing
Art styles Realistic
TrickStyle on HowLongToBeat
TrickStyle on IGDB
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TrickStyle on Wikipedia

TrickStyle is a singleplayer and multiplayer third-person racing and sports game.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Only supports Glide renderer through nGlide.
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Steam
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Only supports Glide renderer through nGlide.
Windows
ZOOM Platform
DRM-free
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Demo

A demo is available.

Version differences

Steam release is an updated version featuring full XInput controller support and compatibility fixes for modern machines.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/588490/pfx/[Note 2]
It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/588490/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Graphic Settings
Graphic Settings

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Vert-; game looks cropped when using widescreen resolutions. Increase FOV to compensate, see Field of view (FOV).
Multi-monitor
See Widescreen resolution.
Ultra-widescreen
See Widescreen resolution.
4K Ultra HD
See Widescreen resolution.
Field of view (FOV)
90° by default. See Field of view (FOV).
Windowed
Option is grayed out in the GOG version.
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.
High-fidelity upscaling
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
Enabled by default in Direct3D. For Glide, it must be forced from the nGlide or dgVoodoo2 wrappers.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Capped at 1000 FPS. See High frame rate to completely disable the cap.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Widescreen resolution

Widescreen fix[4]
  1. Open setup.csv.
  2. Find the line containing wideratio and change it to the desired aspect ratio (don't change default value if the chosen aspect ratio is 16:9). For other aspect ratios other than 16:9, change it to:
    • 1.6 for 16:10 screens
    • 1.67 for 15:9 screens
    • 2.33 for 21:9 screens
    • 3.56 for 32:9 screens
    • 5.33 for 48:9 screens
  3. Turn on the "Widescreen" option in-game.

Notes

HUD is stretched.
Lower vertical FOV at wider aspect ratios (Vert-). Increase FOV to compensate, see Field of view (FOV).

High frame rate

Remove FPS cap
  1. Open setup.csv.
  2. Find the line containing maxfps.
  3. Change 1000 to your desired FPS value.

Field of view (FOV)

Custom FOV[5]
  1. Open setup.csv.
  2. Find the line containing fov.
  3. Change 90 to your desired FOV value.

Notes

To maintain identical vertical FOV to the 4:3 FOV at 16:9 resolutions, use 106. At 21:9 resolutions, use 121, for 32:9 use 139, and for 48:9 use 152).

Input

Control Settings
Control Settings

Audio

Audio Settings
Audio Settings

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Master, Effects, Voices, CD Audio.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio
Red Book CD audio
On Windows, CD music might not play correctly; see the troubleshooting guide for solutions.

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Spanish

Issues fixed

Fix jittery shadows on Direct3D (Z-fighter bug)

Running the game on Direct3D will cause some minor graphical glitches such as jittery shadows, due to a programming quirk of the game selecting the lowest Z-fighting value. This can be fixed with a simple modification of the exe using a hex editor. You can see a demonstration on this episode of Ross' Game Dungeon.
Fix jittery shadows (Z-fighter bug)
  1. Open TS_D3D.EXE or TrickStyle.exe with a hex editor such as HxD.
  2. Press Ctrl+G and search for the offset 000CBCB0.
  3. Change the value 73 to 72.

Access the launcher

After the first time launching the game, the launcher won't show up again and you will be unable to configure the settings.
Hold Left Control while launching

Open TrickStyle.exe or TS_D3D.EXE (depends if you also have the retail D3D executable, or only the Glide executable from the digital versions) while holding Left Control.

Poor performance on Windows 8/8.1/10/11

Use dgVoodoo2.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
2 Second player must use a controller.[6]
LAN play
Online play

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 6
OpenGL 3 OS X and Linux only.
Glide 2
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95, 98, Me
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 200 MHz
System memory (RAM) 16 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 50 MB
Video card (GPU) 4 MB of VRAM
DirectX 5.0 compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.6.8
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo 2GHz+
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.2 GB
Video card (GPU) 256 MB of VRAM
Linux
Minimum
Operating system (OS) Ubuntu 14.04 or Linux Mint 17
Processor (CPU) 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 800 MB
Video card (GPU) 256 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).
  2. 2.0 2.1 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>/588490/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (588490) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References