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Driv3r

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Driv3r
Driv3r cover
Developers
Reflections Interactive
Publishers
Atari
Ubisoft
Russia 1C Company
Release dates
Windows March 15, 2005
Reception
Metacritic 40
IGDB 51
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person, Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, Driving, FPS, Open world, TPS
Vehicles Automobile, Bus, Motorcycle, Naval/watercraft, Transport, Truck
Art styles Realistic
Themes Contemporary, North America, Europe
Series Driver
Driv3r on HowLongToBeat
Driv3r on IGDB
Driv3r guide on StrategyWiki
Driv3r on MobyGames
Driv3r on Wikipedia
Driver
Driver 1999
Driv3r 2005
Driver: Parallel Lines 2007
Driver: San Francisco 2011
REDRIVER 2 (unofficial port) 2020

General information

Driver Madness Modding Community

Driv3r is a singleplayer first-person and third-person action, driving, FPS, open world and TPS game in the Driver series.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SecuROM 5 or 7 DRM disc check, Atari release.
Windows
Retail
DRM-free
Ubisoft release.
Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

Update 2

The patches are available for the Hungarian, European and American retail versions of the game.
ThirteenAG`S Widescreen fix requires update 2.
The second update cannot be installed if Update 1 is already present. The game has to be otherwise reinstalled in order for the second patch to be applied correctly.

Enhanced Keyboard Controls

The controls are stored in the main save game files. Do not overwrite existing save games with this file or any progress will be lost.
Instructions[citation needed]
  1. Download the following archive.
  2. Extract the Saves folder in the configuration file location.
  3. Open the Saves folder and rename D3P_YourName to the desired name after the underscore (_ character).

Greater draw distance

Use Driv3r Widescreen Fix[citation needed]
Draw distance multiplier can be set in Driv3r.WidescreenFix.ini.

Skip intro videos

Delete or rename ATARI.XMV, and NVIDIA.XMV in <path-to-game>/FMV.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Saves\D3P_<user-id>\ProfileData[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Saves\D3P_<user-id>\ProfileData[Note 1]

Video

Display settings
Display settings
Advanced video settings
Advanced video settings

Widescreen resolution

Driv3r has native widescreen support up to 2048x1536 with 16:9 and 4:3 aspect ratio only.
Use Driv3r Widescreen Fix[1]
FOV multiplier can be set in Driv3r.WidescreenFix.ini.

Input

Controls settings
Controls settings
Controller settings
Controller settings

Audio

Audio settings
Audio settings
Sound Card settings
Sound Card settings

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Sound effects and Music.
Surround sound
Requires DirectSound 3D restoration software.
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support
EAX Unified
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Polish
Only available in Polish retail copy.
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Only available in Russian retail copy
Spanish

VR support

3D modes State Notes
vorpX
G3D
User created game profile, see resolution tweaks in the vorpx forum profile introduction.

Issues unresolved

Periodic stutter (might only happen in modern systems)

Issues fixed

Screen gets distorted/letterboxed

Use only one GPU for the game.

No shadows using AMD cards

Use DXVK.
Some users of AMD graphics cards have a bug where the shadows in the game are not visible, even if they are enabled in the graphics section
A solution tested on some AMD graphics cards is to use DXVK "A Vulkan-based translation layer for Direct3D 9/10/11 which allows running 3D applications on Linux using Wine". Although it is intended for use on linux, it is capable of running on Windows.
  1. From here you can download DXVK from the official repository: Download DXVK
  2. Here is a guide on how to install these libraries in any windows game: How to install DXVK in Windows
Only tested on Windows 11.
Although it corrects the shadows error, it can cause small stutters.
It may not work as it is not officially supported on windows, it will depend on your system and hardware.


Mods

Xbox Rain Droplets

Basic implementation of Xbox rain droplets from SkyGFX for other games.

Driv3r Definitive Edition

This mod not only fixes the game but also recovers HD Vehicle Textures from early game builds as well as many other improvements from the Xbox and PS2 version.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9.0c
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes Bink Video

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 2000
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz
AMD Athlon 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 5.5 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 3
ATI Radeon 8500
64 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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

  1. Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2023-07-04