@@michaelmonstar4276 That's their problem to be honest. If they're not selling the game, it's not lost revenue. It reminds me of a situation where we needed quite a niche type of dictionary for a university course... only 5000 of them were ever printed... in 1987. So yeah teacher was like. "Don't get the PDF scan of this book from this site, using these search terms, because that would be breaking the copyright..." *wink, wink, nudge, nudge*
Exactly. There is a reason that software piracy for older games is so big, and that's because the game is either impossible to buy, or costs a fortune (relatively speaking).
@@michaelmonstar4276 ermh, technically yes, it is. They decided to not profit from it anymore, then its not my problem if I get the itch to play it now.
Wow what a nostalgia trip. I remember OnLive. I used to play Unreal Tournament and Assassins Creed 1 on their little 30-60 minute free trials because i was too broke to afford them.
I'd argue that you shouldn't have qualms relying on piracy to get a hold of games unavailable for purchase anymore. Buying it off of eBay makes no technical difference to Codemasters, as they'll never see a penny you spent on the game anyway. This is about game preservation, and as long as publishers will suck at this, piracy will be necessary and needed.
in the UK at least its legal to download and poses pirated material but it only breaks the law when you provide the material to other people. its odd I know but I did research and as far as I can make out its real
@TacticalMoonstone I've yet to ever actually see anyone get pegged with legal trouble for condoning piracy lmao, and considering RUclips is absolute chock full of tutorials on how to set up torrent software and download torrents I really don't get the point of pussyfooting around saying "just go torrent this game the publishers don't want to sell it to you and don't care about preserving it"
CM for the past few games they pulled from sale gave the game away free for a week beforehand. CM doesn't care, it's just a licensing thing and they weren't making enough money from sales to re-up the licenses. Which actually really fucking annoys me that M$ still charged for Forza 7 before pulling it, especially since Forza 8 isn't coming until probably this time next year based on historical launch windows.
@@NachozMan Torrents are not illegal. It's just a system for sharing files. You _can_ obviously use them for breaking the law, but that's not because of the tech.
Dirt 2 and Dirt 3 look- and play incredible, even on a potato. Dirt3 can basically run at 720p30fps on an Intel Atom processor. So really, for all budget gamers out there; If you can get yourself a cracked copy from a torrent site, do it! I personally don't condemn pirates from preserving our video game history. And if there's no legal way to buy them from the publisher. Well, that's a loss on them and not the fault of the consumer. I have Outrun2006, Dirt2 and Dirt3 in my Steam archive. Great games for potato PCs, it's just a shame they aren't available anymore. For me personally Dirt5 isn't that enticing, since I have Dirt3 for my racing-game fixes. :)
@@spongeboimebob I expect legal issues like that with MLB and NFL sims. :( That's why the VDrift project changed the names of automobiles.) (In this case, a name that's based on one not IRL, FTW!)
@SNES Nes I mean, yeah. A lot of newer games, such as The Crew, Forza, NFS, F1 and WRC don't support the likes of Ray Tracing, which is the only real, massive change to visual quality in recent years. I think we're reaching the peak of PC gaming, VR or something similar to it, may well he the way forward.
I'm sorry but if you compare this game to Ride 4, Onrush, Dirt Rally 2, Forza Horizon 4, or other recently released racing games then Dirt 2 looks really poor in comparison. It's also got that piss filter every game of its time had that looks awful today. Gameplay wise it's still a boatload of fun but it absolutely shows its age.
@@CyberPunkSimms older games were just better at hiding their low fidelity graphics with a shit load of post process effects + the lower resolutions. It looked believable with the sacrifice of making it look like the screen is smeared with Vaseline. We have come a massive way with how much more natural and pristine/ clear games look which is really evident if you compare games from 10 years ago with newer ones at high resolutions. Newer games have more accurate lighting and are much higher in fidelity overall which is a benefit at the high resolutions. Also don't forget that this is a RUclips compressed video on a racing game (closed environments are usually good looking and it's hard to see small details in motion)
@@YashaAstora I disagree, I played forza horizon 4 everyday for 2 years on Xbox One S for a year and a half and PC for 6 months(ish) (Ultra settings, 4K)
RandomGamingHD and LGR, that's all I need. The last two PCs I built, came from your videos and the subscribers here as well. I couldn't be more happy with what I got. Keep it up my friend. :D
@@Cross64786 Adrian's Digital Basement is pretty good 2 for for that older tech stuff, usually apple stuff, but I like how he tries and repair some of the older stuff he gets.
I agree. Both RandomGaminginHD and LGR remind me of a good friend I had growing up, named Brian. He's the guy who got me into PC building\gaming in freshman year of high school (back in 2001 xD, I'm an old man). We were in summer school together (which was ironic because we're both nerds) and he had downloaded a SEGA Genesis emulator on the teachers computer and we were playing Pirates Gold on it xD I'd never seen an emulator until that point and I was blown away. I asked for PC parts for xmas that year and built a SUPER budget rig and kissed the N64 goodbye. I think it was an MSI KT-133 motherboard, 128MB RAM, Amd Athlon Xp 2500+ Barton and a Voodoo3! LES GO! Still have the CPU, although it's in a better motherboard now (need to rebuild that thing and make a retro rig). Good times.
It seems at that era games reached "good enough" state graphically where even nowadays you would be totally fine playing through them and not massively notice the difference in gaming experience as in playing PS1 or PS2 games where added detail would be clearly more immersive. Kinda unique time for video games we have now.
Kinda depends what games, though. - Racing-games have always been able to be ahead of the curve (pun intended) because they needed to render less in the world. Basically just an environment that is only seen directly from the track (and occasionally off-track), besides the fact that you speed by things anyway so you wouldn't have time to really look at things in detail, especially since you need to keep your eyes on the road and competition. - Obviously games would expand beyond the kind of "cardboard scenes" you'd see in the '90s and early 2000s, with more and more open environments and landscapes, plus more animated crowds and other elements. But it still needs way less than your RPGs and the like. That's why they could increase the quality on things, as not a whole lot needs to be rendered at the same time. It's a controlled environment, it's kind of predictable (not a random open world or sandbox), so they could optimize it for that. - And clearly Codemasters went all-out generation after generation, improving their EGO Engine and whatnot, so we ended up getting these games that last since pretty much DiRT 2 (the one title before, Racedrive GRID, is still OK but clearly lacks the fidelity). And I also feel there is this cut-off around the year 2008 where games are between "slightly too old" (for today anyway) or "just hold up". Take 'Crysis', for example, which was mindblowing at the time, but didn't hold up enough with CryEngine 2, so it got a remaster to polish things up more recently. It was just slightly expired being developed in like 2006/2007. Most higher-quality games after that point indeed tend to hold up. - It's also that overlap in console-generations, where a few years later it moved from 7th to 8th gen. and even the best-looking PS3 and X360 games (such as Crysis and DiRT 2) still hold up, though some got remasters like say the Uncharted trilogy, which were just too much to ask from something like a PS3. - But it's cool that we've gotten to this point. :) We're so spoiled! XD
Seems so. I had a few PC games from this era but I didn't have the hardware then. Modern Warfare 2, World at War, DiRT 2, NFS Shift and maybe some other. I reinstalled some of them when I got a hardware that's relatively overkill for games of the time and I gotta say, graphically, they mostly aged well. Mostly. I'm glad we have walked away from low-saturation brown filters and obnoxious lens flares nowadays.
Graphics have stagnated hard as fuck, RTX lighting isn't even all that impressive for how much it nukes your FPS, comparing it to games with masterfully crafted volumetric lighting with good ambient occlusion like the beautiful lighting in RE2/RE3make it's hard to see why certain things are even having time wasted on them whilst meanwhile gameplay mechanics suffer.
@@Daxter250 fair enough - every kid who had a console and liked cars growing up had at least one of the dirt games. Hence you’re seeing the massive nostalgia trip in the comments.
@@joeonyt196 I spent many a hours playing that game, acting like I was sick and firing up the Xbox when my parents left for work. Just to play that lol.
"I feel like water was added to showcase the changes" suddenly reminds me of one quite premium and performance eating feature that everyone keeps talking about it.
10000000% DXR. Just got my first pc, decent build If I say so myself. At first Ray tracing blow my mind.... but then I realised how it can tax my performance, and everything became clear. Plus ssr don't look bad at all!! In fact a few times I've asked myself is this Ray tracing and its not. Yeah, yeah, yeah it looks pretty sometimes for sure , and if I can use it I'll use it. I'm just happy to play ultra without it just for performance gain. The loss for me isn't worth it at 4k so I only use dxr at 1440p which still looks great. But it's all good we can all just buy even more expensive gpu and fight off miners and scalpers using our keyboards and mouse as weapons.
You can mention creative EAX, Nvidia hairworks, nvidia soft shadows, nvidia volumetric lighting, ATI true form(before tesselation) along RTX. It's been the same since the inception of the GPU from 3dfx with miniGL drivers
@@vasopel Raytracing yep, it's shit, tanks your FPS in every game that has it available, and honestly developers that take the time to setup good dynamic volumetric lighting and ambient occlusion make the lighting quality difference is completely negligible while actively playing, it might look a slight bit nicer if you only stare at it and look for the difference, but in actual gameplay the anywhere from 10-30 fps drop depending on what game you play isn't worth it at all.
@@odioalospoopers pretty sure they needed to be brought tbh otherwise they would have made losses then and there. I think ea idea is to save it make back the losses and just dissolve them over time while making lots of profits, times that by the amount of others they brought to waste and you can the money roll in. I clearly no nothing about math or how a company works..... but I do have a wild imagination
It was on DEC 2020, not this year, tho, you should't worry about EA forcing codemaster to add multiple dlcs to their games, since codemaster already does that.
I had to illegally download the game even if I own it to play it. It aged soooo well. Incredibly optimized (runs perfectly on any GPU with 512mb of RAM!!!). The gameplay is arcade but not too silly and it's incredibly enjoyable, unless you only like hardcore simulation. The only thing that looks really bad is humans. You never see them in game but, for some reason, they put them in the main menu.
I remember I played this when it came out, I was 10 I think, The graphics was simply mind blowing for me, During my millitary service at my free time I hooked up a PS3 and replayed the entire game again, Super fun (I'm one of the lucky users who own it on steam too)
I was supposed to own it on Steam because I bought it same year of release. Backuped it. Then it dissapeared from my library. (1st. Time not being able to restore and play my backup) Then a Humble Bundle opportunity came to recover that game in 2014, got the ticket, re-downloaded and backuped that last version added to my library. Then was gone again in 2017. (2nd Time not being able to replay my beloved Dirt3). What the ffffff... Steam? Are you serious ?????!!!!! I barely enjoyed it, because of life. This can't be the end.
Consequently, Dirt 3 has also been delisted for digital sale on Steam. Xbox and PS3 for the same reason. Both Dirt 2 and Dirt 3 are exceptional games, but I really liked the original rally-only gameplay from the original Colin McRae games personally.
So glad I bought this game back in the day. It was insanely well optimized that even my 550 TI or 660 were able to play at native resolution (probably 720p or something 768p) with my Phenom II 955 Black Edition.
Probably the most advanced early DX11 game was Cryostasis: Sleep of Reason, a very strange FPS out of Russia. Rather than being a DX9 game with a few added effects it was built for the API from the ground up. If I remember correctly it came out some months before Dirt 2. It's worth having a look at, also worth playing if you're into really weird obscure horror games.
This is my childhood game, playing it with the Microsoft force feedback wheel and enjoying the crash physics even though I didn't understand the concept of a rally yet, I'm so happy about this video, but so sad about the fact you can't get it anymore. It used to look amazing to my eyes back then, when the only thing I used to enjoy before it was CroC and Midtown Madness, which look like N64 games
dirt series till dirt showdown were totally ahead of its time in terms of graphical fidelity, kind of sad that i couldnt get dirt 2 when it was available, similar case with grid 2's DLC
Dirt 2 was my childhood game i've spent so much time in it that know every corner, I finished its so many time either with keyboard , controller and steering wheel.
lol mine primary school friend played Dirt series back then and introduced me to this game, we sat to it in my room in darkness of November 2009 evening, with my old and first build from 2007 but upgraded over the time :D, it was my first grade of mid school :D (we were classmates there but also stopped being friends) I could run this thing in DX 9 on AMD Athlon X2 BE 2300, ATI Radeon HD 3870 512MB GDDR4 from Sapphire and 2x2GB DDR2 800Mhz CL5 Kingston Hyper X and MB was Gigabyte AM2 socket with NVidia chipset (best am2 board for 2007, 800MHz FSB ram support ) :D OS Win XP Professional SP3 in 1280x1024, now I feel old I was 16 back then :D
This game really was ahead of its time. It looks amazing even on the lowest graphic settings. And it runs pretty much on any PC. It's almost absurd how well-optimized it is. Not to mention fun.
I don't understand why developers can't get a "permanent" license agreement for music and other content used in a game? Then every time a copy gets sold the content holders get their 0.05 per copy or whatever the amount is and everybody is happy.
Yea, music is very important and the campervan menu is epic. Also the firework at the track is very entertaining. If they would bring a "Feel like a Rockstar"-DLC for Dirt Rally 2 (with awesome soundtrack, campervan menue and firework) I would instantly buy it.
Most racing games suffer from this sadly. Every Forza game before 2018, Every Need For Speed before 2013, Every Gran Turismo before 2017, Every Test Drive before 2022, ect. Car licenses never seem to come in indefinite form, and never seem to get cheap enough to value renewing.
Dirt 2 is by far the best dirt game in the series. Would love to see this re-released. The only rally game that is better was rallisport challenge 2 on the original Xbox.
rip Dave Mirra i remember i played this on PC in summer 2010 and i complete 100% all tracks. The summer was so so hot back then, with cold coca cola in my dark room while outside was 40degrees and also no school - fantastic experience. I'm not gonna mention soundtrack from main menu, so nostalgic it makes my cry...
Unfortunately dirt and dirt 2 came out around the time I was finished playing racing games, the last few good ones I played were Grand Turismo 3/4 and Forza 2. Still miss the Forza 2 auction house, I spent a lot of time buying and selling cars
Its still in my Steam library but I haven't played it since Nov 2016 and I only played 49.7 hours. It was OK but just didn't hold my interest for long.
@@TechOrigami You cant get it through Steam anymore, I got it back when it was available. If you bought it back then they cant legally take it away just because the licences have expired so it stays in your library forever.
@@TechOrigami Surely there's at least a noCD crack for it. That way you won't have to keep using the disc. Or, if you're uncomfortable with that, you can likely find software to make an exact copy of the disc and then mount it. Honestly, that nonsense about requiring the CD was what got me into the cracking scene. I'd I'd never searched for a way to play my new CD-ROM games without having to get out the disc every time, I might have never become aware that cracks were a thing.
The dirt series is great. There has been 14 games in the series. Started way back in 1998 when it first launchged as Colin McRae Rally on Playstation and Windows. Before adding the dirt name in 2007 and dropping Colin McRae in 2011. Games with licensed music alway get delisted and no longer available for purchase when licences expire. Although if you already own the game before it was removed, you can still play it. DiRT 3 Complete Edition was given away for free in November 2016 just before it got delisted. So still able to install and pkay that.
Ahh... good memories cracking open European import Monster energy drinks and playing Colin McRae: Dirt 1 and 2. I need to get those Dirt discs for 360, I have copies of PS1 Colin McRae Rally 1 and 2.0 and OG Xbox Colin McRae Rally 3, 04, 05.
I think this is the last one I played properly, but dirt rally 2 ran on anything and was a great benchmarking game, or maybe it was dirt rally 1? Idk one of them ran on almost any cpu lol
Showdown, 4 and 5 were also not that good. Truth be told, Showdown might be the best out of those. 2+3 were where it's at and when DiRT3 was free on steam a few years ago, I used the chance to replay it to full including online and it was just as great as the first time 'round in 2011-2013.
I bought DiRT 2 on DVD back in 2010 to play on my new PC build that supported Direct X 11. I was running a GTX 470 and an i7 875K with 16GB of DDR3 RAM. The machine was a good midrange build for the early 2010's. Today, I still have the game on DVD and I've been able to play on nearly anything with decent graphics performance. It is still my favorite DiRT game in the series. DiRT 3 comes in a close second. I only wish I had bought DiRT 2 on Steam when it was available.
So what you're saying is that my dirt 2 pc copy bought on sale brand new in 2011 that since then I've played exactly two times can send my nonexsistent kids to college? Oh boy time to scalp
I loved this game. Played a bunch online with my friends and it was surprisingly fun there too. I feel like it had a good ghosting system because I don't recall being frustrated by rammers or anything. It has been awhile though so it might've just been luck or maybe the community being enjoyable.
I think I spent a year playing that game on my GTX295 back in the day on Windows 7 and after a couple of years I tried to replay it on Windows 8.1 but I stopped caring about the Windows Live for Games thing and grabbed a repack from somewhere else, way more convenient
I really was lucky to find this game once I made a visit to CeX - surprisingly my copy does not have a GFWL dependency, it just installed and played like a dream. Truly a great racing game to ease in a boring afternoon racing in the dusty tracks
I remember playing this on my PC with a 6850 at the time and the first 1080p monitor I ever bought and just being blown away by how good the game looked.
Absolutely amazing game, and I was so lucky to actually have a disk back then, and I guess the key was Steam-compatible, since I never bought it on Steam before the delisting, and now it's gone for good pulled off from the store altogether. Oh well... I remember I was blown away by the quality of the water there. It really looks gorgeous still to this day, and I miss it so much in modern DiRT games. I speak not just about your ordinary small puddles and stuff, but real bodies of water on track ranging in size from medium to 'huge'. If only those splendid dust clouds would also cast and receive dynamic shadows then it would be truly a God-tier stunning tech, for sure. Tech goodies aside, it was a blast of a game, combining excellent gameplay, sick soundtrack, and also quite engaging progression. The main menu navigation still gets me, it was so much more than just a UI with buttons and submenus sprinkled around, it was a living breathing part of the game's world seamlessly integrated into the narrative, and damn it was so cozy inside!
I remember being in a Walmart when the PS4 first came out and this was one of the demo games or whatever at some kiosk they had with the PS4 up. I remember being completely blown away by the graphics. Still holds up honestly. I think I grabbed a demo for the game on PC back when I bought my first gaming laptop, an ROG G73.
For 2009 this game looks like a modern day title, if someone said to me guess what year this game is from I probably would have said 2019 or 2020, the devs did an awesome job.
I'd honestly say a little older than that. I know this game really well so I also know its flaws. - It's particularly details like lower-resolution textures that give things away, because back then you really had to mind the memory a lot more, mostly because of consoles, but also most PCs at the time. - So I'd guess... Between 2011 and 2015 or something. But that still says a lot about the quality of it. Honestly it was stuck in my head that this game was from 2011, so I was surprised it was 2009 when I played it again some months ago. - I'm just like "How?!". - And it's just one of those examples in which they used a good amount of trickery to balance visuals and resources with optimization.
I would love to see an analysis like this for GTA V, because I've never understood why you can change the API to dx10 or dx10.1 or dx11 in the graphics settings, and how it impacts graphical fidelity and performance. Most people say it's negligible but I bet there's a little more to it than that
I'm fortunate enough to have nabbed this game on Steam when it was still available and I still play it from time to time. Heck, I'd argue I kinda prefer this one over the newer Dirt Rally games, I just love the obnoxious corporate explosion of "extreme" advertisements paired with the "on the road" festival atmosphere, it just feels more homely and personal instead of a generic car workshop, it's an atmosphere that feels realistic and looks like a place where I'd actually enjoy to hang out in real life. Also the graphics have aged beautifully, even with the performance hit of dx11, it runs and looks FANTASTIC. It's a damn shame it's no longer available in stores and this is one of those cases where I have ZERO qualms about pirating a game, absolutely go for it!
Got the platinum trophy for this on the PS3 just before they closed the online servers. Glad I grinded the hell out of multiplayer whilst I could and is still my favourite Dirt game in the series
Since they abandoned the game and you can't buy it anywhere, I actually consider piracy a good option of getting it since in the end Codemasters won't get any money even if you buy the game second hand on eBay or similar websites
This is the Dirt game that I always wanted to play, but the key priced is pumped to absolute hell. Also, what do you use for the performance overlay? It’s really nice!
I still play this game (not bought, heh) in 2021. I bought this game just after I purchased my first "monster-PC" (Alienware Aurora with dual 5870 (I worked at Dell at the time)) and OMG this game looked great and it still does!
Catching up on your videos and enjoying them very much. I see the quality, which is great, is still the same. Best wishes to you going forward and hey considering the view count I saw when you do stuff on new games and new hardware being so high I think it is about time Nvidia, AMD and various game publishers start throwing you free stuff and having you talk about games and hardware first. Just make sure you tell them you will continue to do things your way. Now as for supporting the channel I see you have swag we can get but is there a Patreon or Paypal we can send a buck or two to? Update: Found your Patreon. You should link it under your videos as many probably want to give but don't know of it.
"the red ring of death" That would really suck! But unfortunately, this year, my father and mom had a late-model Sony TV suddenly give its version of the red ring of death (red LED blinks 6 times, pauses and repeats, 1 blink-per-second) And, about DirectX 9? That's what classic Halo (version 1x) uses and we still get very good graphics, especially Halo Custom Edition with custom maps.
love how you can have everbody in the game call you by name and the loud high energy it has with the Polaroid freeze frames and rock music. Lots of fun to play even on the x box with a steering wheel. "Hey (insert name), great job out there!"
Played the hell out of this game as a kid on XBox. Luckily picked it up on Steam when it was still available too, and it remains my favourite racer to this day. Once a year or so I get the urge and just boot it up again, immersing myself in that amazing late 00s atmosphere with the music and the announcer and that touring van in the campaign. Just all around feel good.
I searched for this game for a couple years, and in 2020 finally found the 360 version sitting on the shelf at a half priced books or 2nd and Charles. I'm still amazed at this thing. Sometimes it's like it looks better than other games that came after it. 10 years later it's still gorgeious.
So glad to see your videos as usual. You have such a calm and considerate demeanor, it's really wonderful. Keep up the amazing content. Also just a question: Athlon 3000G or Ryzen 3200G?
I still have Dirt 2 working. Had to apply a noCD fix and something that basically tells GFWL not to bother trying, but it works. Which is a great relief, because it remains a fantastic game with visuals that really hold up well. The one big mistake the game made however - no splitscreen on PC. It would be the perfect splitscreen racer... but the feature is just painfully absent for no good reason. Incidentally, the licensing issues almost certainly revolve around the music - the music is baked into the loading screens, with a music video for at least one of the songs playing occasionally on the TV in the menu/RV, so replacing or removing it would have required a fairly major patch.
Back in the days, I enjoyed getting new hardware just to run stunning demos like this. I also didn't buy many games. When F1 2010 released, my AMD 4850 is already not able to keep up. The gaming requirement just grows quicker than the hardware available back in 2010. Nowadays, a 3 years old mid range card is still very capable.
This is my all time favorite game. I have so many fond memories of online lobbies back in it's prime. I still hop on my 360 to play sometimes, even my PC copy. It's a shame it's not backwards compatible on Xbox One. It could revive some of the old nostalgia others share with me.
It took me all of 3 minutes to pause your video on my Xbox, pick up my smartphone, find a PC copy of Dirt 2 on Ebay at an entirely reasonable price, deliberate whether I should comment on this thread, shift over to my computer and do so. I like your to-the-point reporting style dude and I get what you're saying, not to mention I was an avid (RABID? ;-) ) fan of Dirt 2 since it's release and there's a copy of the 360 version sitting on my Xbox360 3 feet away, all this to say I'm not bashing you here. Just letting others know the game ain't THAT hard to find, mate ;-) It's ALL good though, keep up the SOLID work on your channel 👍, I'm a regular viewer!
I still have my original copy for PC. I still play this game and it stays installed on my system. I have all the DiRT games and this, I think is still my favorite, even over Rally 2.0. This was the first racing game I played where I actually used a gaming wheel (On PC of course, I'm not a console gamer). I had the RGT Force Feed Back Pro with clutch by Thrustmaster and I think that is one of the reasons I loved this game so much. I of course have since upgraded all of my hardware but this game is still so much fun to play. When DiRT 5 was announced I was super hyped because the look of it reminded me so much of DiRT 2...I was thoroughly disappointed when it was released. I mean they launched it with little or no wheel support, really? Then it played WAY too much like an arcade, 'Just turn the wheel and the car will go around a corner. Don't worry about breaking or drifting." (Insert eye roll here). Fun tracks but too arcade for me. :( DiRT 2 will always be my favorite, psst, Don't tell the original Need For Speed High Stakes. LOL
I've been thinking about this game recently, it was so fun and colorful, I loved playing it. I've been a budget gamer and I remember I started playing it with a Nvidia GeForce GT 8500 with 1GB DDR2 of VRAM, though the actual GPU was kinda slow, I played this game in low resolution and low graphics with that graphics card, not mentioning it took over 1 minute to load the tracks. Then I upgraded to an Nvidia GT 545 with 1.5 DDR3 GB VRAM and a faster GPU, by that time I started playing at 720p and the loading time totally improved, it only took around 20 seconds to load the tracks. I have nothing but good memories playing Dirt 2.
I've been looking for this game for years, I completely forgot the namen But I definitely played the demo on PS3 and it had that exact Mitsubishi Eclipse GT and the trophy truck. And crashed a lot😁 Thanks for making this video!
I remember playing a demo of this game on PS3 and in the demo you got to use the Mitsubishi Eclipse, which sounded amazing. The way revs climbed as you applied throttle sounded amazing, raw and realistic ( much better than Gran Turismo, which had disappointing sound ). I bought Dirt 2 and found the engine sounds in the released version were of worse quality. Perhaps the algorithm generating engine sound was too heavy on resources and had to be axed, I don’t know. Amazing game overall. Became a lifelong fan since then
I knew i recognized this game from the thumbnail 😁. Ahh, the memories. The banger music, the car sounds, all that. Not good at it now but I stil have my xbox 360 and the original dirt 2 game disc
I used to play this so much on the PS3, I used to watch the videos of people crashing their cars and was amazed by the graphics and damage model. It was also the first time I played a PS3 game on HDMI since I had composite for a while I remember trying to get all the trophies and there was one that I think required you to win an online race by like 0.1 seconds or something ridiculous, never got it and to this day it's mocking me on my PS3 trophy list.
Dirt 2 was a hellova game when it released. It looked amazing, performance was stellar, and the car physics felt great. Dirt 3 is a better game imo, so that's the one I go back to sometimes. Really fun to play with a wheel.
The OGs played the series when it was still called Colin McRae Rally
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Also available in J2ME.
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CMR 2... my childhood
"That's naughty"
Honestly? When a game is no more up for sale, I consider it abandonware. Thus it's "free real estate" in regard to those methods.
It's not abandoned cause a company still owns it. - Once Codemasters is defunct, you can call it abandonware. But that'll be a long wait.
@@michaelmonstar4276 That's their problem to be honest. If they're not selling the game, it's not lost revenue. It reminds me of a situation where we needed quite a niche type of dictionary for a university course... only 5000 of them were ever printed... in 1987. So yeah teacher was like. "Don't get the PDF scan of this book from this site, using these search terms, because that would be breaking the copyright..." *wink, wink, nudge, nudge*
Exactly. There is a reason that software piracy for older games is so big, and that's because the game is either impossible to buy, or costs a fortune (relatively speaking).
@@michaelmonstar4276 ermh, technically yes, it is.
They decided to not profit from it anymore, then its not my problem if I get the itch to play it now.
Yeah, no need to feel guilty about taking a look at the Pirate Bay nor boarding the Black Pearl.
I bought Dirt 2 for the OnLive streaming service, and one day they removed the game, couldn't play it anymore. Why I never buy streaming games now.
Actual Factual. I wanna OWN the stuff I buy. Nobody should be able to pull something I PAID MONEY FOR away from me if I don’t want to.
the idea of buying games on a streaming service at all seems pretty cheeky, it'd be like buying albums on Spotify or movies on Netflix
@@NALTOdeluxe This also applies to Steam. If Steam goes under, your account gets hacked/banned, you're screwed. At least GOG provides the installers.
@@JZStudiosonline true
Wow what a nostalgia trip. I remember OnLive. I used to play Unreal Tournament and Assassins Creed 1 on their little 30-60 minute free trials because i was too broke to afford them.
I'd argue that you shouldn't have qualms relying on piracy to get a hold of games unavailable for purchase anymore. Buying it off of eBay makes no technical difference to Codemasters, as they'll never see a penny you spent on the game anyway. This is about game preservation, and as long as publishers will suck at this, piracy will be necessary and needed.
in the UK at least its legal to download and poses pirated material but it only breaks the law when you provide the material to other people. its odd I know but I did research and as far as I can make out its real
@TacticalMoonstone I've yet to ever actually see anyone get pegged with legal trouble for condoning piracy lmao, and considering RUclips is absolute chock full of tutorials on how to set up torrent software and download torrents I really don't get the point of pussyfooting around saying "just go torrent this game the publishers don't want to sell it to you and don't care about preserving it"
CM for the past few games they pulled from sale gave the game away free for a week beforehand. CM doesn't care, it's just a licensing thing and they weren't making enough money from sales to re-up the licenses.
Which actually really fucking annoys me that M$ still charged for Forza 7 before pulling it, especially since Forza 8 isn't coming until probably this time next year based on historical launch windows.
@@NachozMan Torrents are not illegal. It's just a system for sharing files. You _can_ obviously use them for breaking the law, but that's not because of the tech.
@@NachozMan windows updates are downloaded through torrents, torrenting was never illegal since its just a technology in file sharing and delivery
Dirt 2 and Dirt 3 look- and play incredible, even on a potato. Dirt3 can basically run at 720p30fps on an Intel Atom processor. So really, for all budget gamers out there; If you can get yourself a cracked copy from a torrent site, do it! I personally don't condemn pirates from preserving our video game history. And if there's no legal way to buy them from the publisher. Well, that's a loss on them and not the fault of the consumer. I have Outrun2006, Dirt2 and Dirt3 in my Steam archive. Great games for potato PCs, it's just a shame they aren't available anymore. For me personally Dirt5 isn't that enticing, since I have Dirt3 for my racing-game fixes. :)
It's the car licences. Its always the cars. Grid, grid 2, dirt rally, dirt 2, dirt 3 all gone for the same reason.
@@spongeboimebob I expect legal issues like that with MLB and NFL sims. :( That's why the VDrift project changed the names of automobiles.) (In this case, a name that's based on one not IRL, FTW!)
@Man of the Rain Oh! Well, I have to add Grid to my list as well. There must be tons of games in my library that aren't available due to licensing.
That's what the video said...
I still have my Dirt 2 PC disk. Guess it’s time to install it again.
This is a 2009 game?! We haven't came all that far really, have we? 2000 - 2010 was massive! 2010 - 2020 not as big.
@SNES Nes same
@SNES Nes I mean, yeah. A lot of newer games, such as The Crew, Forza, NFS, F1 and WRC don't support the likes of Ray Tracing, which is the only real, massive change to visual quality in recent years. I think we're reaching the peak of PC gaming, VR or something similar to it, may well he the way forward.
I'm sorry but if you compare this game to Ride 4, Onrush, Dirt Rally 2, Forza Horizon 4, or other recently released racing games then Dirt 2 looks really poor in comparison. It's also got that piss filter every game of its time had that looks awful today. Gameplay wise it's still a boatload of fun but it absolutely shows its age.
@@CyberPunkSimms older games were just better at hiding their low fidelity graphics with a shit load of post process effects + the lower resolutions. It looked believable with the sacrifice of making it look like the screen is smeared with Vaseline. We have come a massive way with how much more natural and pristine/ clear games look which is really evident if you compare games from 10 years ago with newer ones at high resolutions. Newer games have more accurate lighting and are much higher in fidelity overall which is a benefit at the high resolutions.
Also don't forget that this is a RUclips compressed video on a racing game (closed environments are usually good looking and it's hard to see small details in motion)
@@YashaAstora I disagree, I played forza horizon 4 everyday for 2 years on Xbox One S for a year and a half and PC for 6 months(ish) (Ultra settings, 4K)
RandomGamingHD and LGR, that's all I need. The last two PCs I built, came from your videos and the subscribers here as well. I couldn't be more happy with what I got. Keep it up my friend. :D
Awesome, and thank you :)
Same feeling here, but you should add Tech Yes City for more used parts hunt
@@Cross64786 Adrian's Digital Basement is pretty good 2 for for that older tech stuff, usually apple stuff, but I like how he tries and repair some of the older stuff he gets.
I agree. Both RandomGaminginHD and LGR remind me of a good friend I had growing up, named Brian.
He's the guy who got me into PC building\gaming in freshman year of high school (back in 2001 xD, I'm an old man).
We were in summer school together (which was ironic because we're both nerds) and he had downloaded a SEGA Genesis emulator on the teachers computer and we were playing Pirates Gold on it xD
I'd never seen an emulator until that point and I was blown away.
I asked for PC parts for xmas that year and built a SUPER budget rig and kissed the N64 goodbye.
I think it was an MSI KT-133 motherboard, 128MB RAM, Amd Athlon Xp 2500+ Barton and a Voodoo3! LES GO!
Still have the CPU, although it's in a better motherboard now (need to rebuild that thing and make a retro rig).
Good times.
Who is lgr?
Dirt 2. Such great game. Always the End boss was Windows Live login
this guy is so entertaining not even joking
Thanks :)
Listening to this channel is like eating a home cooked meal. No fast stupid cuts, to fluff just good.
Definitely
@@RandomGaminginHD it’s a nice and relaxing channel with no cringe intros, it’s perfect
trueee
It seems at that era games reached "good enough" state graphically where even nowadays you would be totally fine playing through them and not massively notice the difference in gaming experience as in playing PS1 or PS2 games where added detail would be clearly more immersive. Kinda unique time for video games we have now.
Kinda depends what games, though. - Racing-games have always been able to be ahead of the curve (pun intended) because they needed to render less in the world. Basically just an environment that is only seen directly from the track (and occasionally off-track), besides the fact that you speed by things anyway so you wouldn't have time to really look at things in detail, especially since you need to keep your eyes on the road and competition. - Obviously games would expand beyond the kind of "cardboard scenes" you'd see in the '90s and early 2000s, with more and more open environments and landscapes, plus more animated crowds and other elements. But it still needs way less than your RPGs and the like.
That's why they could increase the quality on things, as not a whole lot needs to be rendered at the same time. It's a controlled environment, it's kind of predictable (not a random open world or sandbox), so they could optimize it for that. - And clearly Codemasters went all-out generation after generation, improving their EGO Engine and whatnot, so we ended up getting these games that last since pretty much DiRT 2 (the one title before, Racedrive GRID, is still OK but clearly lacks the fidelity).
And I also feel there is this cut-off around the year 2008 where games are between "slightly too old" (for today anyway) or "just hold up". Take 'Crysis', for example, which was mindblowing at the time, but didn't hold up enough with CryEngine 2, so it got a remaster to polish things up more recently. It was just slightly expired being developed in like 2006/2007. Most higher-quality games after that point indeed tend to hold up. - It's also that overlap in console-generations, where a few years later it moved from 7th to 8th gen. and even the best-looking PS3 and X360 games (such as Crysis and DiRT 2) still hold up, though some got remasters like say the Uncharted trilogy, which were just too much to ask from something like a PS3. - But it's cool that we've gotten to this point. :) We're so spoiled! XD
Seems so. I had a few PC games from this era but I didn't have the hardware then. Modern Warfare 2, World at War, DiRT 2, NFS Shift and maybe some other. I reinstalled some of them when I got a hardware that's relatively overkill for games of the time and I gotta say, graphically, they mostly aged well.
Mostly. I'm glad we have walked away from low-saturation brown filters and obnoxious lens flares nowadays.
Graphics have stagnated hard as fuck, RTX lighting isn't even all that impressive for how much it nukes your FPS, comparing it to games with masterfully crafted volumetric lighting with good ambient occlusion like the beautiful lighting in RE2/RE3make it's hard to see why certain things are even having time wasted on them whilst meanwhile gameplay mechanics suffer.
Stagnation!
@@NachozMan Metro Exodus PC Enhanced Edition has entered the chat.
Love these videos on random games that i've never played and barely heard about. Keep it up!
Thanks :)
Wait what you never heard or played Dirt series, how old are you like 10 year old !? wtf !? XD
@@milosstojanovic4623 he said barely heard about it.
i also never played the old dirt series tbh.
@@Daxter250 fair enough - every kid who had a console and liked cars growing up had at least one of the dirt games. Hence you’re seeing the massive nostalgia trip in the comments.
@@Daxter250 Oh thats kinda sad, Dirt 2 is the best game in the series by far. They tried going back to it in Dirt5 but failed
Driver San Francisco: *quietly cries in the corner of the room*
I remember that game!
@@joeonyt196 I spent many a hours playing that game, acting like I was sick and firing up the Xbox when my parents left for work. Just to play that lol.
@@cowgoesmoo3850 I remember playing it when I was a kid really fell in love with it and I remember not getting past a race
Haha I still have it in my Steam, and can still download it. It's just very hard to get your hands on it, I guess.
I used to play the demo of that game, man, it was a good demo. It really did showcase the game well
i remember playing Dirt 2 on the xbox at my friend's house, good times
"I feel like water was added to showcase the changes" suddenly reminds me of one quite premium and performance eating feature that everyone keeps talking about it.
what? ray tracing maybe?
10000000% DXR. Just got my first pc, decent build If I say so myself. At first Ray tracing blow my mind.... but then I realised how it can tax my performance, and everything became clear. Plus ssr don't look bad at all!! In fact a few times I've asked myself is this Ray tracing and its not. Yeah, yeah, yeah it looks pretty sometimes for sure , and if I can use it I'll use it. I'm just happy to play ultra without it just for performance gain. The loss for me isn't worth it at 4k so I only use dxr at 1440p which still looks great. But it's all good we can all just buy even more expensive gpu and fight off miners and scalpers using our keyboards and mouse as weapons.
You can mention creative EAX, Nvidia hairworks, nvidia soft shadows, nvidia volumetric lighting, ATI true form(before tesselation) along RTX. It's been the same since the inception of the GPU from 3dfx with miniGL drivers
@@vasopel Raytracing yep, it's shit, tanks your FPS in every game that has it available, and honestly developers that take the time to setup good dynamic volumetric lighting and ambient occlusion make the lighting quality difference is completely negligible while actively playing, it might look a slight bit nicer if you only stare at it and look for the difference, but in actual gameplay the anywhere from 10-30 fps drop depending on what game you play isn't worth it at all.
@@NachozMan a 10-30fps drop? Last two games my PC played were rdr2 and starwars fallen order, they played only at 720p at 30fps (locked) :-D
This reminds me the worst gaming news of this year. When EA bought Codemasters.
Rip. Following the trend of EA bought dev studios they’re probably going down the drain in the next few years. ;-;
Oh no?? :/
@@waveyan wasn't codemasters going very badly to begin with?
@@odioalospoopers pretty sure they needed to be brought tbh otherwise they would have made losses then and there. I think ea idea is to save it make back the losses and just dissolve them over time while making lots of profits, times that by the amount of others they brought to waste and you can the money roll in.
I clearly no nothing about math or how a company works..... but I do have a wild imagination
It was on DEC 2020, not this year, tho, you should't worry about EA forcing codemaster to add multiple dlcs to their games, since codemaster already does that.
I had to illegally download the game even if I own it to play it.
It aged soooo well. Incredibly optimized (runs perfectly on any GPU with 512mb of RAM!!!).
The gameplay is arcade but not too silly and it's incredibly enjoyable, unless you only like hardcore simulation.
The only thing that looks really bad is humans. You never see them in game but, for some reason, they put them in the main menu.
Game is now all over torrents, half an hour after Random HDG mentioned it :D
If you own it then it's not illegal to download.
Dirt 2 and 3 were incredibly well optimized, ran perfectly on my old potato pc
i actually have it on a steam, but it was pretty much my first game that I bought in my teen years :D
@@Jeesus353 i used to run dirt 3 with the lowest possible settings and would get around 30 fps in the integrated graphics of intel i5 650
Love your videos. I also like how you dont try to hide your flaws but admits it. Takes a real man to do that.
I remember I played this when it came out, I was 10 I think, The graphics was simply mind blowing for me, During my millitary service at my free time I hooked up a PS3 and replayed the entire game again, Super fun (I'm one of the lucky users who own it on steam too)
This game is the reason I only buy games on steam. I own the disc, but I'm still very sad to don't own a steam key.
I was supposed to own it on Steam because I bought it same year of release. Backuped it. Then it dissapeared from my library.
(1st. Time not being able to restore and play my backup)
Then a Humble Bundle opportunity came to recover that game in 2014, got the ticket, re-downloaded and backuped that last version added to my library. Then was gone again in 2017.
(2nd Time not being able to replay my beloved Dirt3).
What the ffffff... Steam?
Are you serious ?????!!!!!
I barely enjoyed it, because of life. This can't be the end.
This game had a great soundtrack.
I loved the 'in your face' UI design and the 'dude bro' late 2000's culture
Games for Windows LIVE was not shutdown, just the storefront. The service still works.
Apparently this was one of those games I picked up in a bundle somewhere. I have DiRT 2 in my steam library with a grand total of 0.4 hours!
Yup, came bundled with a PowerColor 5850. My first game on STEAM as well.
Consequently, Dirt 3 has also been delisted for digital sale on Steam. Xbox and PS3 for the same reason. Both Dirt 2 and Dirt 3 are exceptional games, but I really liked the original rally-only gameplay from the original Colin McRae games personally.
So glad I bought this game back in the day. It was insanely well optimized that even my 550 TI or 660 were able to play at native resolution (probably 720p or something 768p) with my Phenom II 955 Black Edition.
Probably the most advanced early DX11 game was Cryostasis: Sleep of Reason, a very strange FPS out of Russia. Rather than being a DX9 game with a few added effects it was built for the API from the ground up. If I remember correctly it came out some months before Dirt 2. It's worth having a look at, also worth playing if you're into really weird obscure horror games.
This is my childhood game, playing it with the Microsoft force feedback wheel and enjoying the crash physics even though I didn't understand the concept of a rally yet, I'm so happy about this video, but so sad about the fact you can't get it anymore. It used to look amazing to my eyes back then, when the only thing I used to enjoy before it was CroC and Midtown Madness, which look like N64 games
Seeing Dave Mirra in the race lead brought up some memories. Long live the Miracle Boy Dave Mirra.
i've always wanted a few cases like this where the line between piracy and legal purchasing is blurred
dirt series till dirt showdown were totally ahead of its time in terms of graphical fidelity, kind of sad that i couldnt get dirt 2 when it was available, similar case with grid 2's DLC
Dirt 2 was my childhood game i've spent so much time in it that know every corner, I finished its so many time either with keyboard , controller and steering wheel.
lol mine primary school friend played Dirt series back then and introduced me to this game, we sat to it in my room in darkness of November 2009 evening, with my old and first build from 2007 but upgraded over the time :D, it was my first grade of mid school :D (we were classmates there but also stopped being friends) I could run this thing in DX 9 on AMD Athlon X2 BE 2300, ATI Radeon HD 3870 512MB GDDR4 from Sapphire and 2x2GB DDR2 800Mhz CL5 Kingston Hyper X and MB was Gigabyte AM2 socket with NVidia chipset (best am2 board for 2007, 800MHz FSB ram support ) :D OS Win XP Professional SP3 in 1280x1024, now I feel old I was 16 back then :D
This remains my favourite dirt game so far.
I got this game still original on dvd with the ATI HD 5870 back in the day :-)
This game really was ahead of its time. It looks amazing even on the lowest graphic settings. And it runs pretty much on any PC. It's almost absurd how well-optimized it is. Not to mention fun.
still is.
I don't understand why developers can't get a "permanent" license agreement for music and other content used in a game? Then every time a copy gets sold the content holders get their 0.05 per copy or whatever the amount is and everybody is happy.
My favorite game in the series, i love every single moment, music, menu, handling, so fun, arcade but not ridiculous.
Yea, music is very important and the campervan menu is epic. Also the firework at the track is very entertaining.
If they would bring a "Feel like a Rockstar"-DLC for Dirt Rally 2 (with awesome soundtrack, campervan menue and firework) I would instantly buy it.
Codemaster games are well optimized, you can even run DR 2.0 on integrated graphics with good performance
Such a good looking game! I still have the PC CD somewhere
Most racing games suffer from this sadly. Every Forza game before 2018, Every Need For Speed before 2013, Every Gran Turismo before 2017, Every Test Drive before 2022, ect. Car licenses never seem to come in indefinite form, and never seem to get cheap enough to value renewing.
Outrun HD suffered the same fate.
Dirt 2 is by far the best dirt game in the series. Would love to see this re-released. The only rally game that is better was rallisport challenge 2 on the original Xbox.
rip Dave Mirra
i remember i played this on PC in summer 2010 and i complete 100% all tracks. The summer was so so hot back then, with cold coca cola in my dark room while outside was 40degrees and also no school - fantastic experience. I'm not gonna mention soundtrack from main menu, so nostalgic it makes my cry...
The soundtrack was great :D
I played the shit out of this game in high school and that soundtrack seriously shaped my taste in music.
I used to always do the demo of this, years and years ago.
Unfortunately dirt and dirt 2 came out around the time I was finished playing racing games, the last few good ones I played were Grand Turismo 3/4 and Forza 2. Still miss the Forza 2 auction house, I spent a lot of time buying and selling cars
Its still in my Steam library but I haven't played it since Nov 2016 and I only played 49.7 hours.
It was OK but just didn't hold my interest for long.
Okay, can I get the game then? :D i have to keep a usb dvd player around to be able to install and play it :D
@@TechOrigami You cant get it through Steam anymore, I got it back when it was available.
If you bought it back then they cant legally take it away just because the licences have expired so it stays in your library forever.
@@Gassit this is one of my favs, along with The Movies game, and sadly both aren't digitally available anywhere
@@TechOrigami Surely there's at least a noCD crack for it. That way you won't have to keep using the disc. Or, if you're uncomfortable with that, you can likely find software to make an exact copy of the disc and then mount it.
Honestly, that nonsense about requiring the CD was what got me into the cracking scene. I'd I'd never searched for a way to play my new CD-ROM games without having to get out the disc every time, I might have never become aware that cracks were a thing.
@@ZipplyZane yeah, it's the drm that leads to cracking. Will have to try the iso mounting thing
Games losing licensing rights and having to be pulled from market always makes me sad.
I miss this and Motor Storm Pacific Rift soo much hope they remaster them 🏎️🏜️✨😊💜, take care everyone stay positive and safe hugs and kisses 💜😘😊🤗✨
It felt sooooo much better than the first motor storm!!!
The dirt series is great. There has been 14 games in the series. Started way back in 1998 when it first launchged as Colin McRae Rally on Playstation and Windows. Before adding the dirt name in 2007 and dropping Colin McRae in 2011. Games with licensed music alway get delisted and no longer available for purchase when licences expire. Although if you already own the game before it was removed, you can still play it. DiRT 3 Complete Edition was given away for free in November 2016 just before it got delisted. So still able to install and pkay that.
Your videos are awesome!
Thanks :)
Ahh... good memories cracking open European import Monster energy drinks and playing Colin McRae: Dirt 1 and 2.
I need to get those Dirt discs for 360, I have copies of PS1 Colin McRae Rally 1 and 2.0 and OG Xbox Colin McRae Rally 3, 04, 05.
Literally, one of my favorite games of all time ♥
Pirates: Are you sure about that?
I love DiRT games but they become repetitive after a while, lost my interest after dirt 3.
I think this is the last one I played properly, but dirt rally 2 ran on anything and was a great benchmarking game, or maybe it was dirt rally 1? Idk one of them ran on almost any cpu lol
@@RandomGaminginHD probably dirt 1 and cool video as always, cheers
Showdown, 4 and 5 were also not that good. Truth be told, Showdown might be the best out of those. 2+3 were where it's at and when DiRT3 was free on steam a few years ago, I used the chance to replay it to full including online and it was just as great as the first time 'round in 2011-2013.
I bought DiRT 2 on DVD back in 2010 to play on my new PC build that supported Direct X 11. I was running a GTX 470 and an i7 875K with 16GB of DDR3 RAM. The machine was a good midrange build for the early 2010's. Today, I still have the game on DVD and I've been able to play on nearly anything with decent graphics performance. It is still my favorite DiRT game in the series. DiRT 3 comes in a close second. I only wish I had bought DiRT 2 on Steam when it was available.
So what you're saying is that my dirt 2 pc copy bought on sale brand new in 2011 that since then I've played exactly two times can send my nonexsistent kids to college? Oh boy time to scalp
I'm glad I held onto my PC physical copy. It's a fantastic game, I should revisit it eventually.
It does rain here in Baja. Usually there is a hurricane causing it, though
I loved this game. Played a bunch online with my friends and it was surprisingly fun there too. I feel like it had a good ghosting system because I don't recall being frustrated by rammers or anything. It has been awhile though so it might've just been luck or maybe the community being enjoyable.
I think I spent a year playing that game on my GTX295 back in the day on Windows 7 and after a couple of years I tried to replay it on Windows 8.1 but I stopped caring about the Windows Live for Games thing and grabbed a repack from somewhere else, way more convenient
This game was my childhood. I was so impressed by the DX11 graphics. Even with the fact that I was playing on ATI Radeon X1950 Pro (DX9.0c card).
I really was lucky to find this game once I made a visit to CeX - surprisingly my copy does not have a GFWL dependency, it just installed and played like a dream. Truly a great racing game to ease in a boring afternoon racing in the dusty tracks
I remember playing this on my PC with a 6850 at the time and the first 1080p monitor I ever bought and just being blown away by how good the game looked.
Did not know about this channel, but now I follow it. Great video.
Absolutely amazing game, and I was so lucky to actually have a disk back then, and I guess the key was Steam-compatible, since I never bought it on Steam before the delisting, and now it's gone for good pulled off from the store altogether. Oh well...
I remember I was blown away by the quality of the water there. It really looks gorgeous still to this day, and I miss it so much in modern DiRT games. I speak not just about your ordinary small puddles and stuff, but real bodies of water on track ranging in size from medium to 'huge'. If only those splendid dust clouds would also cast and receive dynamic shadows then it would be truly a God-tier stunning tech, for sure.
Tech goodies aside, it was a blast of a game, combining excellent gameplay, sick soundtrack, and also quite engaging progression. The main menu navigation still gets me, it was so much more than just a UI with buttons and submenus sprinkled around, it was a living breathing part of the game's world seamlessly integrated into the narrative, and damn it was so cozy inside!
I remember being in a Walmart when the PS4 first came out and this was one of the demo games or whatever at some kiosk they had with the PS4 up. I remember being completely blown away by the graphics. Still holds up honestly.
I think I grabbed a demo for the game on PC back when I bought my first gaming laptop, an ROG G73.
For 2009 this game looks like a modern day title, if someone said to me guess what year this game is from I probably would have said 2019 or 2020, the devs did an awesome job.
I'd honestly say a little older than that. I know this game really well so I also know its flaws. - It's particularly details like lower-resolution textures that give things away, because back then you really had to mind the memory a lot more, mostly because of consoles, but also most PCs at the time. - So I'd guess... Between 2011 and 2015 or something. But that still says a lot about the quality of it. Honestly it was stuck in my head that this game was from 2011, so I was surprised it was 2009 when I played it again some months ago. - I'm just like "How?!". - And it's just one of those examples in which they used a good amount of trickery to balance visuals and resources with optimization.
When I see RandomGaminginHD I always click because I know that it'll be a good video. Good job mate!
I would love to see an analysis like this for GTA V, because I've never understood why you can change the API to dx10 or dx10.1 or dx11 in the graphics settings, and how it impacts graphical fidelity and performance. Most people say it's negligible but I bet there's a little more to it than that
I'm fortunate enough to have nabbed this game on Steam when it was still available and I still play it from time to time. Heck, I'd argue I kinda prefer this one over the newer Dirt Rally games, I just love the obnoxious corporate explosion of "extreme" advertisements paired with the "on the road" festival atmosphere, it just feels more homely and personal instead of a generic car workshop, it's an atmosphere that feels realistic and looks like a place where I'd actually enjoy to hang out in real life.
Also the graphics have aged beautifully, even with the performance hit of dx11, it runs and looks FANTASTIC. It's a damn shame it's no longer available in stores and this is one of those cases where I have ZERO qualms about pirating a game, absolutely go for it!
Got the platinum trophy for this on the PS3 just before they closed the online servers. Glad I grinded the hell out of multiplayer whilst I could and is still my favourite Dirt game in the series
Since they abandoned the game and you can't buy it anywhere, I actually consider piracy a good option of getting it since in the end Codemasters won't get any money even if you buy the game second hand on eBay or similar websites
This and FlatOut2 are my favs. Btw believe it or not but Dirt2 online was still populated on PS3 a little while ago, at least in european evenings.
This is the Dirt game that I always wanted to play, but the key priced is pumped to absolute hell.
Also, what do you use for the performance overlay? It’s really nice!
I still play this game (not bought, heh) in 2021.
I bought this game just after I purchased my first "monster-PC" (Alienware Aurora with dual 5870 (I worked at Dell at the time)) and OMG this game looked great and it still does!
You can't buy anymore.
Pirates: hold my hd
Catching up on your videos and enjoying them very much. I see the quality, which is great, is still the same. Best wishes to you going forward and hey considering the view count I saw when you do stuff on new games and new hardware being so high I think it is about time Nvidia, AMD and various game publishers start throwing you free stuff and having you talk about games and hardware first. Just make sure you tell them you will continue to do things your way. Now as for supporting the channel I see you have swag we can get but is there a Patreon or Paypal we can send a buck or two to?
Update: Found your Patreon. You should link it under your videos as many probably want to give but don't know of it.
DiRT 2 came with my HD 5850 and I remember being amazed how this game felt and looked. That was my first desktop PC at the time.
"the red ring of death" That would really suck! But unfortunately, this year, my father and mom had a late-model Sony TV suddenly give its version of the red ring of death (red LED blinks 6 times, pauses and repeats, 1 blink-per-second) And, about DirectX 9? That's what classic Halo (version 1x) uses and we still get very good graphics, especially Halo Custom Edition with custom maps.
love how you can have everbody in the game call you by name and the loud high energy it has with the Polaroid freeze frames and rock music. Lots of fun to play even on the x box with a steering wheel.
"Hey (insert name), great job out there!"
Played the hell out of this game as a kid on XBox. Luckily picked it up on Steam when it was still available too, and it remains my favourite racer to this day. Once a year or so I get the urge and just boot it up again, immersing myself in that amazing late 00s atmosphere with the music and the announcer and that touring van in the campaign. Just all around feel good.
I searched for this game for a couple years, and in 2020 finally found the 360 version sitting on the shelf at a half priced books or 2nd and Charles. I'm still amazed at this thing. Sometimes it's like it looks better than other games that came after it. 10 years later it's still gorgeious.
So glad to see your videos as usual. You have such a calm and considerate demeanor, it's really wonderful. Keep up the amazing content.
Also just a question: Athlon 3000G or Ryzen 3200G?
spend more for the 3200g twice the gpu performance almost
3200G if you have the money. But remember, dual channel or bust :P
I still have Dirt 2 working. Had to apply a noCD fix and something that basically tells GFWL not to bother trying, but it works. Which is a great relief, because it remains a fantastic game with visuals that really hold up well.
The one big mistake the game made however - no splitscreen on PC. It would be the perfect splitscreen racer... but the feature is just painfully absent for no good reason.
Incidentally, the licensing issues almost certainly revolve around the music - the music is baked into the loading screens, with a music video for at least one of the songs playing occasionally on the TV in the menu/RV, so replacing or removing it would have required a fairly major patch.
I was happy to find and purchase a CD key for Dirt 3.
Love that game, but actually getting the first Dirt would be nice.
Back in the days, I enjoyed getting new hardware just to run stunning demos like this. I also didn't buy many games. When F1 2010 released, my AMD 4850 is already not able to keep up. The gaming requirement just grows quicker than the hardware available back in 2010. Nowadays, a 3 years old mid range card is still very capable.
This makes me want to find it again, I purchased it on Steam back in 2010. I still have a 5870 too! Maybe I'll make a budget build for my niece!
It's still in your Steam account if you bought it back in the day.
I remember I got this game for my "then" brand-new GTX970. Best racing game i have ever played next to NFSU2. BTW LOVE THE CONTENT
This is my all time favorite game. I have so many fond memories of online lobbies back in it's prime. I still hop on my 360 to play sometimes, even my PC copy. It's a shame it's not backwards compatible on Xbox One. It could revive some of the old nostalgia others share with me.
It took me all of 3 minutes to pause your video on my Xbox, pick up my smartphone, find a PC copy of Dirt 2 on Ebay at an entirely reasonable price, deliberate whether I should comment on this thread, shift over to my computer and do so.
I like your to-the-point reporting style dude and I get what you're saying, not to mention I was an avid (RABID? ;-) ) fan of Dirt 2 since it's release and there's a copy of the 360 version sitting on my Xbox360 3 feet away, all this to say I'm not bashing you here. Just letting others know the game ain't THAT hard to find, mate ;-)
It's ALL good though, keep up the SOLID work on your channel 👍, I'm a regular viewer!
I still have my original copy for PC. I still play this game and it stays installed on my system. I have all the DiRT games and this, I think is still my favorite, even over Rally 2.0. This was the first racing game I played where I actually used a gaming wheel (On PC of course, I'm not a console gamer). I had the RGT Force Feed Back Pro with clutch by Thrustmaster and I think that is one of the reasons I loved this game so much.
I of course have since upgraded all of my hardware but this game is still so much fun to play.
When DiRT 5 was announced I was super hyped because the look of it reminded me so much of DiRT 2...I was thoroughly disappointed when it was released. I mean they launched it with little or no wheel support, really? Then it played WAY too much like an arcade, 'Just turn the wheel and the car will go around a corner. Don't worry about breaking or drifting." (Insert eye roll here). Fun tracks but too arcade for me. :(
DiRT 2 will always be my favorite, psst, Don't tell the original Need For Speed High Stakes. LOL
I've been thinking about this game recently, it was so fun and colorful, I loved playing it.
I've been a budget gamer and I remember I started playing it with a Nvidia GeForce GT 8500 with 1GB DDR2 of VRAM, though the actual GPU was kinda slow, I played this game in low resolution and low graphics with that graphics card, not mentioning it took over 1 minute to load the tracks. Then I upgraded to an Nvidia GT 545 with 1.5 DDR3 GB VRAM and a faster GPU, by that time I started playing at 720p and the loading time totally improved, it only took around 20 seconds to load the tracks.
I have nothing but good memories playing Dirt 2.
I've been looking for this game for years, I completely forgot the namen But I definitely played the demo on PS3 and it had that exact Mitsubishi Eclipse GT and the trophy truck. And crashed a lot😁 Thanks for making this video!
One of the main causes of the RRoD on those models was the thermal paste going bad as well as the heatsinks and fans getting dusty.
I got it as part of a Humble Bundle back in the days - its still installable from Steam - I am playing it again after seeing your video
I remember playing a demo of this game on PS3 and in the demo you got to use the Mitsubishi Eclipse, which sounded amazing. The way revs climbed as you applied throttle sounded amazing, raw and realistic ( much better than Gran Turismo, which had disappointing sound ).
I bought Dirt 2 and found the engine sounds in the released version were of worse quality.
Perhaps the algorithm generating engine sound was too heavy on resources and had to be axed, I don’t know. Amazing game overall. Became a lifelong fan since then
I knew i recognized this game from the thumbnail 😁. Ahh, the memories. The banger music, the car sounds, all that. Not good at it now but I stil have my xbox 360 and the original dirt 2 game disc
Finally!!! somebody else also loved this game other than me!!! i still play this game for Randomfun. thank you soooooooo much!
I have a original dvd copy that i still play and its a awsome game minus the horrible menu system.
Awsome video
Yeah I’m now the proud owner of a physical copy too 😁
That game really deserves a remaster thanks to the number of user that still supporting and playing this game
I used to play this so much on the PS3, I used to watch the videos of people crashing their cars and was amazed by the graphics and damage model. It was also the first time I played a PS3 game on HDMI since I had composite for a while
I remember trying to get all the trophies and there was one that I think required you to win an online race by like 0.1 seconds or something ridiculous, never got it and to this day it's mocking me on my PS3 trophy list.
Dirt 2 was a hellova game when it released. It looked amazing, performance was stellar, and the car physics felt great. Dirt 3 is a better game imo, so that's the one I go back to sometimes. Really fun to play with a wheel.