#Colin mcrae dirt 2 pc trial#

Loading | Time Trial | Italy SS3ĬMR2 is a good looking game. But with only that exception, they're still better than anything else out there. So are these the best stages yet in a rally title? Not quite - that accolade goes to Rally Championship. CMR2 now gives you 10 stages per country as opposed to 6 in the original, each set across two or three days to give the feel of a real event. The early stages are broad and sweeping, but later stages become very tricky and can be plagued by bad weather. In addition, the difficulty of the stages is carefully controlled to ease you into the new driving style required. In a sport where you don't get to familiarise yourself with the course before you start, I felt this worked nicely in the original and still does this time around. Much like in CMR, most of the countries are locked and you need to finish in the top 6 in championship mode to unlock the next set. The remaining events in Greece, Kenya and Sweden are all about applying good driving technique, but it's a pity that the excellent Monte Carlo and Indonesian events from the original have been dropped. Australia's slippery gravel stages require just as much flat-out rallying, whilst the mountainous asphalt events in France and Italy set the scene for some of the most technical and intense driving you'll ever do on a PC. The good news is that whilst the Finland stages were good, most of the other stages in the game are simply superb.

Whilst most rally titles apply a stereotype to each country's stages, those in CMR2 get very close to the mark - the developers must be real rallying enthusiasts. The special stages are what make rallying the sport it is, and many stages on the FIA world championship are real classics with a very distinct character. This was my main memory of a brief playtest on the CMR2 beta last month. Make sure you listen very carefully to navigator Nicky Grist - 'Six left and flat right over six crest, flat right over jump and six left over jump, and flat right tightens, over jump.' Problem is, flat isn't easy flat - you need to position the car very carefully, which is not simple at the best of times with the wonderful new physics model, let alone when you're doing 120kph over blind crests, on stages where the slightest deviation off the line will see you bury the car into the nearest tree.' Ultra fast sweeping roads, perilous jumps and lots of trees all combine to give you a totally unrelenting driving experience. 'The stage based on the classic 'Rally of 1000 Lakes' plays true to form. GDR has been following the development of CMR2 and the impressions have been good, but it's now time to see if the final version lives up to all the promise.

#Colin mcrae dirt 2 pc driver#

Now Codemasters have stamped the name of the world's fastest rally driver onto a feature-packed sequel that we've been eagerly awaiting all year. A positive value will tilt the camera up.This was always going to be the biggest racing release of the year, but is it a case of leaving the best till last? Two years ago, Codemasters produced the groundbreaking and hugely popular Colin McRae Rally, but since then Rally Championship and Rally Masters have raised the standard.Compared to the position values, the tilt value works on a different scale: a modification of 1 will yield a barely noticeable change. Head Tilt Change: affects the vertical angle of the camera.A positive value will move the point of view closer to the dashboard. A positive value will move the point of view upward. A positive value will move the point of view to the left. It is to be noted that the point of view can be placed outside of the car. A modification of 0.1 will yield a noticeable change. Head Offset: affects the position of the head-cam (cockpit view).Adjust FOV for: selects the in-game camera or cameras you want to edit.Vertical FOV: a larger number will translate into a wider field of view.Repeat until you're happy with the result. In DiRT 2, start a new race to test your settings.

Tweak the values you previously entered and click Start.

Click Restore to restore the default settings.

Exit the race and Alt+ Tab ↹ to Dirt3FovChange.

If you want to further adjust the settings:

Launch the game and test your settings in a race.

If it asks if you're sure you want to run binXml.exe, uncheck the box for Always ask before opening this file and click Run.

See the Notes section below for what the settings do, adjust their values to your liking and click Start.

Manually point Dirt3FovChange to your DiRT 2 installation folder.

Run Dirt3FovChange.exe as administrator.

#Colin mcrae dirt 2 pc archive#

Extract the files from the archive into any folder.

Uncheck the read-only box and click OK.

Select them all (fifty in total) and open their properties.

Perform a search in the installation folder for the cameras.xml files.