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Ford Racing 3

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Ford Racing 3
Ford Racing 3 cover
Developers
Razorworks
Publishers
Strategy First
2K Games
Empire Interactive
Release dates
Windows October 29, 2004
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General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Error: DRM 'SafeDisc 3' not recognised
Only 2nd hand copies.
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Empire Interactive\Ford Racing 3\[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/315600/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\SAVEDATA\[Note 3]
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/315600/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Video settings in a configuration tool (syscfg.exe)
Video settings in a configuration tool (syscfg.exe)

Template:Video settings

Widescreen resolution

Use a hack[citation needed]
  1. Download a modified exe file from WSGF and extract it.
  2. Copy it to <path-to-game> overwriting already existing ones.

Notes

To configure the resolution use the configuration tool - <path-to-game>\CONFIG\syscfg.exe.

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
2 Split-screen.
LAN play
6
Online play
6

Connection types

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 98, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III - 800 MHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 150 MB
Video card (GPU) 32 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9 compatible

Notes

  1. Applications writing to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE will be redirected to other locations based on various criterias, see the glossary page for more details.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
  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