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Revision as of 10:50, 12 April 2018

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Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc
Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc cover
Developers
Ubisoft
Publishers
Ubisoft
OS X Feral Interactive
Engines
Ubisoft OpenSpace
Release dates
Windows March 20, 2003
macOS (OS X) January 20, 2004
Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc guide on StrategyWiki
Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc on Wikipedia
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Warnings

The Mac OS X version of this game does not work on Mac OS X Lion (version 10.7) or later due to the removal of support for PowerPC apps.
⤏ Go to series page
Rayman 1995
Rayman Designer 1997
Rayman By His Fans 1998
Rayman 60 Levels 1999
Rayman 2: The Great Escape 1999
Rayman M 2001
Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc 2003
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Rayman Origins 2012
Rayman Jungle Run 2013
Rayman Legends 2013
Rayman Fiesta Run 2014
Rayman Mini 2019
Rayman Redemption (unofficial) 2020

Key points

The game was designed to be played at 60 FPS, and frame rates above this may cause gameplay issues.

General information

Rayman Wiki
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
 SafeDisc v2 DRM[Note 1]
Windows
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
 10th Anniversary, also includes Rayman 2: The Great Escape and Rayman M.
Windows
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Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Ubisoft Store
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Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

Essential improvements

Better Rayman 3

Better Rayman 3 is a collection of fixes for Rayman 3 that also offers additional features such as widescreen resolutions, windowed mode and restoring the ability to skip video cutscenes.

Skip intro videos

Skip Intro[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\videos
  2. Delete or rename ubi.bik
  3. Save this file to <path-to-game>\videos
  4. Rename it to ubi.bik

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %WINDIR%\UbiSoft\ubi.ini[Note 2]
%APPDATA%\UbiSoft\ubi.ini
macOS (OS X)

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\GAMEDATA\SaveGame\[Note 2]
macOS (OS X)

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Ubisoft Connect

Video settings

External video settings.
External video settings.

Template:Video settings

Input settings

External gamepad settings.
External gamepad settings.
In-game general control settings.
In-game general control settings.
In-game key map settings.
In-game key map settings.

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

In-game audio settings.
In-game audio settings.

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Spanish
Polish
Russian
Ukrainian
Czech
Slovak
Hebrew
The Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Czech, Slovak and Hebrew languages are only included in the retail versions of the game which were released in their own respective regions.

Forcing a different language

Use Better Rayman 3[citation needed]
  1. Install Better Rayman 3.
  2. Use BR3_Config.exe to change the default language.

Issues fixed

Refuses to start on Windows 8 and later

Error message: Check your version of DirectX. Version 8.1 or higher is required.
Install DirectPlay[citation needed]

See Older games refuse to start on Windows 8 and later for instructions.

Missing textures and broken graphics

Fix TnL issues[3]
  1. Install Better Rayman 3.
  2. Open BR3_Config.exe.
  3. Make sure Hardware Vertex Processing is enabled.

Game elements run too fast

The game was designed to be played at 60 FPS, and frame rates above this may cause gameplay issues.
Some animations are tied to frame rate, shielded enemies turn faster, and certain platforms disappear more quickly.
Limit frame rate to 60 FPS[citation needed]

See Frame rate capping for instructions.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98 SE ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 600 MHz Intel Pentium III 1.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 650 MB 1.7 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 256 SDR
DirectX 8.1 compatible 		Nvidia GeForce 2
DirectX 9 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