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Formula One 99

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Formula One 99
Formula One 99 cover
Developers
Studio 33
Publishers
Psygnosis
Release dates
Windows December 10, 1999
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Controls Direct control
Genres Racing
Series Formula One
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Formula One 99 1999

Formula One 99 is a singleplayer racing game developed by Studio 33 and published by Psygnosis. It is a licensed Formula 1 game and is the last Psygonsis-published F1 game to be released on PC, as Sony Computer Entertainment had completed the acquisition of Psygonsis during the production of the game, making later entries of the game series to be PlayStation-exclusives.

It was released in Europe on December 10, 1999, followed by the North America release on December 17.[1]

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Oversized DRM (lead-out area shortened and used for data, to prevent most contemporary CD-RW drives from copying the method)
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\config116.dsv[Note 1]
Configuration file is encrypted.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\chmpsave.dat[Note 1]
Championship mode can be saved.

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
640x480 to 1280x1024 4:3 only.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Windowed runs on fullscreen. Does not work on modern systems.
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.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
Stutters framerate on modern PC.
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Keys setting is disabled by default, remapping the keys is necessary
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Use the arrow keys to move mouse
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
DInput only. Standard DualShock controllers.
Full controller support
Moving the stick moves the mouse pointer in menu. The help selections on screen is game input button modes.
Controller remapping
Controller settings are not saved, it is needed to reconfigure them each time the game is started
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion
Controller types
XInput-compatible controllers
Only DInput based gamepad. Trigger buttons cannot be remapped.
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration
PlayStation controllers
PlayStation button prompts
Light bar support
Adaptive trigger support
DualSense haptic feedback support
Connection modes

Generic/other controllers
Button prompts
Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Effects, Speech, Music
Surround sound
Subtitles
Only voices on racing.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support
Challenged A3D support[2][3]

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Issues fixed

Game runs misturing on fullscreen with windowed

Use DgVoodoo DirectX Wrapper
  1. Download the files by link.
  2. Choose the WineD3D versions folder, then copy to the game directory.

Notes

The game fixes fullscreen and the choppy framerate in menu.

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 166 MHz
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) 4 MB of VRAM


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. Formula One - PC - IGN - last accessed on May 2023
  2. Aureal A3D Central - 3D Sound Software list - last accessed on May 2023
  3. Formula One 99 Review on PC - GameZone (retrieved) - last accessed on May 2023