4x4 Evo 2

4x4 Evo
4x4 Evo	2000
4x4 Evo 2	2001

Warnings

SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected versions).

Key points

Also known as 4x4 Evolution 2.

Game is no longer sold. Made free in 2007. Community patch 4×4 Evo: Revolution adds support for modern resolution, vehicles, tracks and much more

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		SafeDisc v2 DRM^{[Note 1]}.

SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\SYSTEM^{[Note 2]}
macOS (OS X)

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\SYSTEM\metal.ini^{[Note 2]}
macOS (OS X)

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		16:9 and 16:10 aspect ratio are available with 4x4 Revolution community patch
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See Windowed.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		Enable by default in OpenGL mode.
60 FPS
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Force windowed

Notes

The launcher is still be launched in full screen, 640x480.

No option to reposition window or launch the game with window borders.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity		Not used during gameplay
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support		Can not be used in menus
Controller remapping		Triggers can be assigned to throttle/brake, but do not function in-game. XInput Plus can solve the problem by remapping buttons
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	8
OpenGL

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	98	2000, XP
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium III AMD Duron 2.0GHz	Pentium IV 2.0 GHz AMD Athlon XP 2000+
System memory (RAM)	128 MB	512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	1.5 GB
Video card (GPU)	AMD Radeon 7000 64 MB NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX 100/200 32 MB 32 MB of VRAM DirectX 8 compatible	AMD Radeon 8500 64 MB NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX 400 64 MB 64 MB of VRAM

↑ SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10^[1] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.^[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).