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Ford Racing 2

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Ford Racing 2
Ford Racing 2 cover
Developers
Razorworks
macOS (OS X) Feral Interactive
Publishers
Empire Interactive
Release dates
Windows October 25, 2003
macOS (OS X) December 3, 2004
Ford Racing 2 on Wikipedia

Warnings

SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected versions).
The macOS (OS X) version of this game does not work on macOS Catalina (version 10.15) or later due to the removal of support for 32-bit-only apps.
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Key points

Music has been fully restored with the Windows Media Source Filter Installer v1.6.
Has problems running on Windows XP and above. See "Game crashes on startup" and "Issues unresolved".

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SafeDisc 2 DRM[Note 1]
Windows
macOS (OS X)
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
Demo version is available here

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Emipre Interactive\Ford Racing 2[Note 2]
macOS (OS X)

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\SAVEDATA[Note 3]
macOS (OS X)

Video settings

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
Local play
Versus
LAN play
Online play

Issues fixed

Game crashes on startup

In order for the game to play music, the Windows Media Source Filter must be re-installed on newer versions of Windows
Music is fully restored with this fix
Install the Windows Media Source Filter codec[3]
  1. Download the music fix: DirectShow - Windows Media Source Filter Installer v1.6
  2. Extract the contents from the .zip file you just downloaded into a folder
  3. Right-click the ApplyPatch.bat and run it as administrator
  4. Copy strmdll.dll and drmclien.dll into the game's installation folder.
  5. Make sure to use an un-patched version of the original .exe for the music to work in the game.
  6. Launch the game

Notes

If the text in the console window is red, then you need to run the ApplyPatch.bat as Administrator
Your anti-virus might stop the file from executing, you may have to click "More info" and then "Run anyway"
Alternative install of the Windows Media Source Filter codec[4]
  1. Download the music fix: DirectShow - Windows Media Source Filter Installer v1.5
  2. Extract the contents from the .zip file you just downloaded
  3. Make a new directory in C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ called Windows-Media-Source-Filter
  4. Copy drmclien.dll, strmdll.dll and dxmasf.dll from the .zip file to the Windows-Media-Source-Filter folder
  5. Register the dxmasf.dll with the DirectShow Filter Manager; DSFMgr.exe in the Windows-Media-Source-Filter folder.
  6. Copy strmdll.dll and drmclien.dll into the game's installation folder.
  7. Launch the game

Notes

This modification does not affect Windows Media Player file playback adversely

Issues unresolved

Music skipping/looping issues on Windows XP and later

Disabling audio hardware acceleration in Windows XP makes the game's music choppy and intermittent (need to confirm this is an issue)
The music tracks in the background skip/stutter randomly

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 500 MHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 150 MB
Video card (GPU) 32 MB of VRAM

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. Applications writing to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE will be redirected to other locations based on various criterias, see the glossary page for more details.
  3. 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