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Downtown Run

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Downtown Run
Downtown Run cover
Developers
Ubisoft
Publishers
Ubisoft
Release dates
Windows March 27, 2003
Downtown Run on Wikipedia

Warnings

SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected versions).

Key points

Released as City Racer in North America.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SafeDisc v2 DRM[Note 1].
Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Delete/rename Intro.bik[3]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\data\Movies\intro\
  2. Delete or rename Intro.bik.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\data\save\Main.cfg[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\data\save\players.cfg[Note 2]

Video settings

Video settings.
Video settings.

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Input settings.
Input settings.

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Template:Audio settings

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
2 Versus
Splitscreen (choice of horizontal or vertical).
LAN play
Online play

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8.1
OpenGL
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes Bink Video

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98SE, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) 500 MHz Intel Pentium III or similar
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 650 MB
Video card (GPU) 3D AGP accelerated, hardware T&L, OpenGL or DirectX compatible
32 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8.1 compatible

Notes

  1. SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[1] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[2]
  2. 2.0 2.1 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