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Rugby League

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Rugby League
Rugby League cover
Developers
Sidhe Interactive
Publishers
Tru Blu Entertainment
Engines
RenderWare
Release dates
Windows December 11, 2003
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person, Cinematic camera
Controls Direct control
Genres Sports
Sports Rugby
Art styles Realistic
Series Rugby League
Rugby League on IGDB
Rugby League on MobyGames
Rugby League on Wikipedia
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Warnings

RenderWare games may not work on Windows 11 24H2 or later without using a DirectSound wrapper (see the engine page for details).

Rugby League is a singleplayer third-person and cinematic camera sports game in the Rugby League series.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Simple disc check.
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows

Save game data location

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

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Use the Widescreen & FOV Fix.
Multi-monitor
Use the Widescreen & FOV Fix.
Ultra-widescreen
Use the Widescreen & FOV Fix.
4K Ultra HD
Use the Widescreen & FOV Fix.
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)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Color blind mode
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Input

Audio

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

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Network

Issues fixed

Game crashes after scoring a try

Go to the video settings and a set a 16-bit resolution[1]

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows[2]
MinimumRecommended
Operating system (OS) 98, 98SE, 2000, ME, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 500 MHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD) 500 MB
Video card (GPU) 3D accelerated video card
16 MB of VRAM
Sound (audio device) 16-bit sound card
Other CD-ROM drive


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).

References

  1. RL1 Windows 7/Vista Fix - last accessed on 2025-03-22
    "i fixed the bombing out issue by going into the settings part and detail and changed the resolution from 32bit to 16bit"
  2. MobyGames - Back Cover for NRL Rugby League (Windows) - last accessed on 2025-03-22