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Micro Machines V4

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Micro Machines V4
Micro Machines V4 cover
Developers
Supersonic Software
Publishers
Codemasters
Russia Buka Entertainment
Engines
RenderWare
Release dates
Windows June 27, 2006
Reception
Metacritic 57
IGDB 58
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Racing
Vehicles Automobile
Art styles Realistic
Series Micro Machines
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Micro Machines V4 on MobyGames
Micro Machines V4 on Wikipedia
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Warnings

StarForce DRM does not work on modern versions of Windows (see Availability for affected releases).
RenderWare games may not work on Windows 11 24H2 or later without using a DirectSound wrapper (see the engine page for details).

Micro Machines V4 is a singleplayer and multiplayer third-person racing game in the Micro Machines series.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
StarForce 3 DRM[Note 1]
Windows
StarForce DRM for this game does not work on modern versions of Windows (see above for affected releases).

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\videocfg.bin[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\<user-id>.pro[Note 2]

Video

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Hor+ image when widescreen is turned on in the camera settings in-game.
Multi-monitor
Only 4:3 and 16:9 is supported by default. Use this FOV fix for a Hor+ image.
Ultra-widescreen
Only 4:3 and 16:9 is supported by default. Use this FOV fix for a Hor+ image.
4K Ultra HD
Hor+ image when widescreen is turned on in the camera settings.
Field of view (FOV)
Use this FOV fix to set a custom FOV value.
Windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
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.
High-fidelity upscaling
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Frame generation
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS
120+ FPS
High FPS causes the AI drivers to be faster and more difficult.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
Color blind mode
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse acceleration
Mouse input in menus
Keyboard and mouse prompts
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Audio

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

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Russian
Official localization by Buka Entertainment.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
MinimumRecommended
Operating system (OS) 2000
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 800 MHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) ATI Radeon 8500
Nvidia GeForce3
32 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Other 2X DVD-ROM
Supported Video Cards: ATI Radeon 8xxx, 9000, 9100, 9200, 9500, 9600, 9700, 9800, X700, X800, X850, X1300, X1600, X1800; Nvidia GeForce 3, 4 (not MX), FX5200, 5600, 5700, 5800, 5900, 5950, 6800, 7800, 7900

Notes

  1. Version 3.0 of StarForce DRM does not work on Windows Vista or later.[1][2][3][4] For supported versions of Windows the StarForce driver may need to be updated manually using SFUPDATE.
  2. 2.0 2.1 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