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Rollcage

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Rollcage
Rollcage cover
Developers
Attention to Detail
Publishers
Psygnosis
Release dates
Windows 1999
Taxonomy
Modes Multiplayer
Series Rollcage
Rollcage on MobyGames
Rollcage on Wikipedia
Rollcage
Rollcage 1999
Rollcage Stage II 2000

General information

Steam Community Group

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Windows
This game is not available digitally.

Essential improvements

Rollcage Redux

Unofficial update to Rollcage that fixes numerous bugs and works on Modern Hardware.
Adds many graphical additions and options.
Adds support for Xbox 360 controller.
Upgraded Multiplayer Hosting.
All cutscenes removed due to old media player being proprietary.[1]

Patches

One official patch was released: v1.0b

Bug removes analogue support for controllers. Not recommended.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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

Save game data location

System Location
Windows HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Psygnosis\Rollcage\BootSys[Note 2]

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Use Rollcage Redux.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Use Rollcage Redux.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Use Rollcage Redux.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Use Rollcage Redux.
High-fidelity upscaling
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Rollcage's menus are 30 fps unless using Rollcage Redux. Game is locked to 30 fps except HUD visual effects which run at 60 fps.
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
CD, FX.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
EAX support
EAX 1
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

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
4 Versus
LAN play
6 Versus
Online play
6 Versus

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Peer-to-peer
Rollcage Redux uses a Listen Server.
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP
Recommended to play with Rollcage Redux for improved multiplayer support.

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)
UDP 21000
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes Bink Video

System requirements

Windows[2]
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium
System memory (RAM) 16 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) DirectX 6.0 compatible


Notes

  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).
  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.

References

  1. Steam Community - last accessed on 26 May 2023
  2. mobygames.com - last accessed on 26 May 2023