Demolition Racer
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| Developers | |
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| Pitbull Syndicate | |
| Publishers | |
| Infogrames | |
| Release dates | |
| Windows | October 20, 1999 |
| Taxonomy | |
| Genres | Racing |
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Warnings
- SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected versions).
Availability
| Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retail | |
SafeDisc 1.35.000 DRM[Note 1] in US release | |
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| Retail | |
Italian re-release | |
- SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
- Demo is available.
Essential improvements
Patches
- The US version received "patch #1" with version 1.1. European release already pre-patched.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
| System | Location |
|---|---|
| Windows | <path-to-game>\players\[Note 2] |
Save game data location
| System | Location |
|---|---|
| Windows | <path-to-game>\players\[Note 2] <path-to-game>\DR High scores[Note 2] <path-to-game>\Replay.*[Note 2] |
Video
| Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Widescreen resolution | dgVoodoo may be required. | ||
| Multi-monitor | |||
| Ultra-widescreen | |||
| 4K Ultra HD | dgVoodoo may be required. | ||
| Field of view (FOV) | |||
| Windowed | |||
| 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. | ||
| 60 FPS | |||
| 120+ FPS | High (+300) fps makes the game move at an unplayable speed and boggles the camera | ||
| High dynamic range display (HDR) | |||
Input
| Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Remapping | ||
| Mouse acceleration | ||
| Mouse sensitivity | ||
| Mouse input in menus | ||
| Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
| Controller | ||
| Controller support | Buttons are unbound by default and must be mapped. | |
| Full controller support | ||
| Controller remapping | ||
| Controller sensitivity | ||
| Controller Y-axis inversion |
| Controller types |
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| XInput-compatible controllers |
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| PlayStation controllers |
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| Generic/other controllers |
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| Additional information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Controller hotplugging | ||
| Haptic feedback | ||
| Digital movement supported | ||
| Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
Audio
| Audio feature | State | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Separate volume controls | ||
| 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
Installer does not work
- The installer is 16-bit, so it does not work on 64-bit operating systems.
| Use Winevdm dev1461 |
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The game asks for wmaudsdk.dll and drmclien.dll
| Those are Windows Media Source Filter DLL files that the game require in order to start up |
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CD music doesn't work
| Install the Windows Media Source Filter and DivX codecs[3] |
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Notes
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Game doesn't start on modern systems
| Use Compatibility Mode (Windows 95) |
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Game runs too fast
| Limit the Framerate to 60FPS[citation needed] |
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| *Set monitor on 60hz.[citation needed] |
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Other information
API
| Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Direct3D | 7 | |
| DirectDraw |
| Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Windows |
Middleware
| Middleware | Notes | |
|---|---|---|
| Audio | Windows Media Source Filter |
System requirements
| Windows | ||
|---|---|---|
| Minimum | ||
| Operating system (OS) | 95 | |
| Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium 200Mhz | |
| System memory (RAM) | 32 MB | |
| Hard disk drive (HDD) | 70 MB | |
| Video card (GPU) | 4 MB Direct3D accelerated video card | |
Notes
- ↑ 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]
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 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%\VirtualStoreon Windows Vista and later (more details).
References
- ↑ Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
- ↑ Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16
- ↑ mcdebugrndmstuff.blogspot.com - last accessed on 26 May 2023