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Formula Challenge

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Formula Challenge
Formula Challenge cover
Developers
Aqua Pacific
Publishers
Oxygen Interactive Software
Germany Trend Verlag
Engines
RenderWare[1]
Release dates
Windows 2005
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person, Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Racing
Vehicles Automobile, Track racing
Art styles Realistic
Themes North America, Asia, Europe, Oceania, South America, Africa
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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).

Formula Challenge is a singleplayer first-person and third-person racing game.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM-free
Windows

Monetization

Type Notes
One-time game purchase The game requires an upfront purchase to access.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows

Save game data location

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

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Supports all the resolutions reported by the graphics driver, but the HUD and 3D image are stretched when compared to 4:3. Use this FOV fix for an unstretched Hor+ 3D image.
Multi-monitor
Use this FOV fix for an unstretched Hor+ 3D image.
Ultra-widescreen
Use this FOV fix for an unstretched Hor+ 3D image.
4K Ultra HD
Use this FOV fix for an unstretched Hor+ 3D image.
Field of view (FOV)
Use this FOV fix to set a custom FOV value.
Windowed
640x480 only.
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
Capped at 60 FPS on menus and 30 FPS during races.
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Ray tracing (RT)
Color blind mode
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Audio

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

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 98, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 500 MHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)
Video card (GPU) 32 MB of VRAM


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. Verified by User:AlphaYellow on 2026-02-13
    Confirmed by string analysis of the executable.