Anonymous edits have been disabled on the wiki. If you want to contribute please login or create an account.

Ford Racing 3

From PCGamingWiki, the wiki about fixing PC games
Ford Racing 3
Ford Racing 3 cover
Developers
Razorworks
Publishers
2K Games
Empire Interactive
Strategy First
Release dates
Windows October 29, 2004
Reception
IGDB 64
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Racing
Vehicles Automobile, Track racing
Art styles Realistic
Themes Contemporary
Series Ford Racing
Ford Racing 3 on HowLongToBeat
Ford Racing 3 on IGDB
Ford Racing 3 on MobyGames
Ford Racing 3 on Wikipedia
Ford Racing
Ford Racing 2001
Ford Racing 2 2003
Ford Racing 3 2004
Ford Street Racing 2006
Ford Racing: Off Road 2008

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SafeDisc 3 DRM[Note 1].
Windows
Steam (unavailable)
DRM-free after installation through Steam client (notes may include more details)
Windows
SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
This game is no longer available digitally.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\SAVEDATA\AUTOSAVE\[Note 4]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/315600/pfx/[Note 3]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video

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

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Stretched by default from 4:3 aspect ratio. See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
See Widescreen resolution.
Ultra-widescreen
See Widescreen resolution.
4K Ultra HD
See Widescreen resolution.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Use D3DWindower or DxWnd.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Frame rate is capped at 122 FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Widescreen resolution

Use a modified .exe[citation needed]
  1. Download a modified exe file from here 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

Audio

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Polish
Fan translation, download.
Russian
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

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

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP
The IP must be entered without any port specified. If a non-default port is used, this must be changed through the config utility for all clients.

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)
TCP 2300
UDP 2300
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

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. 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. 3.0 3.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/315600/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (315600) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
  4. 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