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Le Mans 24 Hours

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Le Mans 24 Hours
Le Mans 24 Hours cover
Developers
Melbourne House[1][2]
Windows Torus Games
Publishers
Infogrames
Release dates
Windows May 24, 2002
Reception
Metacritic 60
Taxonomy
Genres Racing
Series Test Drive
Le Mans 24 Hours on MobyGames
Test Drive 1987
The Duel: Test Drive II 1989
Test Drive III: The Passion 1990
Test Drive: Off-Road (series)
Test Drive 4 1997
Test Drive 5 1998
Test Drive 6 1999
Test Drive Le Mans 2000
Le Mans 24 Hours 2001
TD Overdrive: The Brotherhood of Speed 2002
Test Drive Unlimited (series)
Test Drive: Ferrari Racing Legends 2012

This page is for the 2002 Dreamcast/PlayStation 2 port,[3] originally released as Test Drive Le Mans. For the 2000 game by Eutechnyx that was released for the PlayStation and PC, see Test Drive Le Mans.

General information

Official website (retrieved)

Key points

Based on PlayStation 2 release. Model reflections in this game are also missing.
Game settings and progress does not save on modern systems, but can be fixed.
The patches for this game were not released.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SecuROM 4 DRM. The game comes with 2 executables, running Lemans2000_Win32_rel.exe bypasses the CD check
Windows
Amazon.com (unavailable)
DRM details are not known
Windows

Monetization

Type Notes
Sponsored The game was sponsored through Le Mans 24 Hours and its various licensed real life brands and manufacturers.

Essential improvements

Use d3d8to9

For Direct3D8 on Windows 8 and 10, use d3d8to9. Using installed DirectX 8 may be broken.
Instructions

Use dgVoodoo 2

For 3dfx Voodoo3 on modern systems, use dgVoodoo 2.

Allow cars from Le Mans game mode to quick race and championship mode

The Le Mans 2000 cars are only available exclusively for Le Mans game mode. Now it's open for quick race and championship mode.
Instructions
  1. Open teams.txt inside Data.zip with Notepad++.
  2. Click on Find tab then, Replace or hold Ctrl+H.
  3. Type 2000 at Find text bar to 1999 at 'Replace with:' text bar and click on Replace all.
  4. Save the file and copy inside Data.zip.

Notes

Entering Le Mans game mode might brokes on car selection menu. Selecting "GT" crashes the game but "Open Prototype" may be sufficient to complete playing game in this mode for unlocking cars.
This will race with all drivers from Le Mans game mode.

Skip intro videos

Delete or Rename
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\Data.
  2. Delete or rename all files starting with FMV.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\save[Note 1]
<path-to-game>\data\controls.cfg[Note 1]
The configuration file is encrypted.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\save[Note 1]

Video

Launcher settings
Launcher settings
Graphics settings.
Graphics settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
The option is in the launcher. Resolutions are up from 640x480 to 1600x1200.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Working with Borderless fullscreen windowed. When loading the game, the window switches then switch to borderless fullscreen automatically.
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
21 FPS lock. Use dgVoodoo 2 to force uncapped frame rates. Main menu is capped at 22 FPS by default, but the 3D car selection appears to be rendered. Gameplay physics are internally rendering.
120+ FPS
Use dgVoodoo 2 to force uncapped frame rates.
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Widescreen resolution

Widescreen fix[4]
If you want to edit with manually:
  1. Run Lemans.exe but don't launch the game.
  2. Open Lemans.exe with a hex editor such as HxD.
  3. Press Ctrl+ Shift+R and select Lemans.exe.
  4. Press Ctrl+F and set Datatype to Hex-values.
  5. Search for 80020000E001 and click OK.
  6. Keep pressing F3 until there's a 200300005802 value on the next line.
  7. Replace the 80020000E001 value with:
    • 00050000D002 for 1280x720
    • 000500000003 for 1280x768
    • 000500002003 for 1280x800
    • 000500000004 for 1280x1024
    • 560500000003 for 1366x768
    • A00500008403 for 1440x900
    • 400600008403 for 1600x900
    • 900600001A04 for 1680x1050
    • 800700003804 for 1920x1080
    • 80070000B004 for 1920x1200
    • More values available here
  8. Save the file.
  9. Go to the resolution selection window and select 640x480x32@60.

Notes

This change isn't permanent, so performing this edit is required before every launch.
The in-game UI elements' size, menu images, and selection box is Vert-, but the text is Hor+.

Input

Key bindings.
Key bindings.

Audio

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Game music, Sound effects, Menu music.
Surround sound
Mono and stereo only.
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Spanish
Polish
Only available in Polish retail copy.
Brazilian Portuguese
Fan translation is available. but in-game hud texts needs Britishigstrings.txt to replace inside Data.zip\HUD.
Russian
Only available in Russian retail copy.

Use American English interface

Was only on the PlayStation 2 version.
Instructions
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\Data\UI\Data
  2. Delete or rename the following files: BritishStringTable.txt, BritishStringTableLoading.txt.
  3. Rename AmericanStringTable.txt and BritishStringTableLoading.txt to 'British'.
  4. Go and open <path-to-game>\Data\Data.zip
  5. Go to HUD
  6. Rename AmericanIgStrings.txt to BritishIgStrings.txt.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
2 Versus
Horizontal split screen.
LAN play
Online play

Issues unresolved

Name not found. teams.txt in <path-to-game>\Data.zip is missing

It only seems to affect Windows 8.1. The file teams.txt is missing after installing the game. There's no fix known.

Isues fixed

Low framerate, stuttering on modern systems

Use dgVoodoo 2

Installer issues on modern versions of Windows

Installer for this game is unsupported. Also it prompts a error message "Intel version of Windows 98/ME 2K/XP required" using Intel GPUs (fixed with Windows 98/ME compatibility mode).[5]
Instructions to install
  1. Copy the "Le Mans 24 Hours" folder off the disc located in the installation folder.
  2. Put the copied version of the Infogrames version back and rename it.
  3. Run Lemans.exe in <path-to-game>.

Settings in game and progress does not save

The file Data.zip appears to be encrypted and that it can't save game settings and progress on modern systems.
Repair Data.zip in <path-to-game>\Data.[citation needed]

Broken steering control in game

Delete Controls.cfg in <path-to-game>\Data.

Notes:

If this issue occurs again, re-remap the controls and enable this file as Read-only.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8.1
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Cheat codes

Unlock all cars, tracks and championship[6]

Notes:

The in-game settings resets to default each time is launched, changing it does not save, even the track lap records.

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Input DirectInput
Cutscenes MPEG-1

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98, Me, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium II 333 MHz
System memory (RAM) 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 670 MB
Video card (GPU) 16 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8.1 compatible


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 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. lemans24hours - Melbourne House - last accessed on May 2023
  2. games - lemans - last accessed on May 2023
  3. Le Mans 24 Hours coming to the PC - GameSpot - last accessed on May 2023
  4. Le Mans 24 Hours (2002) - Widescreen Tutorial - YouTube - last accessed on May 2023
  5. Le Mans 24 Hours 2002 Atari version - really stuck (solved!) - last accessed on 2014-12-10
  6. Bonus tip: unlock all cars and tracks - last accessed on 2015-11-30