First, to answer your DirectX question, Microsoft's goal is as follows:
___ "The primary goals of DirectX are to provide portable access to the
features used with MS-DOS today, to meet or improve on the performance
of MS-DOS console-based applications, and to remove the obstacles to
hardware innovation on the personal computer.
Microsoft developed DirectX to provide Windows-based applications with
high-performance, real-time access to available hardware on current and
future computer systems. DirectX provides a consistent interface between
hardware and applications, reducing the complexity of installation and
configuration and using the hardware to its best advantage.
A high-performance Windows-based game will take advantage of the
following technologies:
* Accelerator cards designed specifically for improving performance
* Plug and Play and other Windows hardware and software
* Communications services built into Windows, including DirectPlay
" ___
I, too, could not get NFS-SE to install under Win95. Seems there is a
memory conflict with PnP BIOS range 00000000-FFFFFFFF. EA was not of
much assistance. Basically I was told that the game was not "tested"
under a PnP BIOS condition and that there was no fix or workaround for
the Win95 install or game utilizing this memory range. After I
explained the fact that the DOS version uses this range also, I was
given one option: Return the game for a refund.
I elected to excercise the option, since NASCAR 2 will be available
soon.
As far as your system being incompatible with DirectX, I doubt it. If
you can run ICR2's Win95 version with DirectX enabled, then your OK.
You may want to contact your sound and video manufacturers directly and
see if they have updated DirectX compliant drivers.
The bottom line: note that the DOS version will run smoother than Win95
anyhow. This is true, as most could tell you, for ICR2 under the same
conditions. Ed Martin of Papyrus pointed this out in a recent
interview:
___ Question: "Will NASCAR II be a Win95 application?"
___ Ed: "Well actually... We learned a lot from the ICR 2 for Win 95
project. Win 95, even with DirectX causes a pretty big hit on frame
rate when compared to a native DOS app on the same system."
Hope this was of some assistance.
ENRicks2
> I have a similar problem, I have a new Packard Bell p200 and I can not
> get NFSSE to work in w95. As far as I can tell my PC is not directX
> compatible. If you find anything out please post it on the newsgroup, and
> I will do the same. Can anyone tell me what directX is anyhow.
> Ray
> > I'm having trouble getting NFS SE properly installed - the helpdesk at EA
> > suggests that I try to get specific drivers for audio and video which
> > support DirectX, but that's easier said than done. Trying to download
> > DirectX 3 from Microsoft's home page causes my Netscape browser to
> > crash, while installing under DOS is no good either. Does anyone here
> > have similar experiences, and got them fixed? Any help will be greatly
> > appreciated.
> > Thanks, Peter.
> > ps I have a Compaq Presario which runs under Windows '95, with 16MB RAM,
> > 90MHz Pentium processor, plenty hard disk space, 4 speed CD ROM.
