rec.autos.simulators

> I installed the 1.0 version off my CD onto the hard disk and tried it
> without success - it sits on the splash screen and goes no further.
> I updated to DOS 1.02 without success.

> I then remembered that I had to patch to a Windows version to get it running
> well on my Windows 98 years ago, so downloaded the patch and gave it a go.
> Still no success.  On double clicking the Indycar Racing II shortcut I just
> get an error report to send to Bill Gates.

> Anyone managed to get this game working in XP?

> James
> (when are Papy going to get out the trend of producing one after the other
> Nascar Racing updates and do something different - ICR3, IRL or GPL early
> 80s would be great)

> If all you want is to run the Cart cars, you can try another approach. Goto
> http://www.geocities.com/simracingfiles/N3.html. There you can download some
> files that will convert N3 to a kind of ICR3.

> But, you will be racing Indy cars, with Nascar physics.

> Nice racing,

> Brian


> > Having got sick and tired of waiting for Papyrus to produce a followup to
> > Indycar Racing II  I decided to load ICR2 onto my Windows XP PC and give
> it
> > a go again.  Its been many years since I played this game last and
> wondered
> > if my racing skills had improved since (and what the graphics looked like
> > since all those other sims had come out).

> > I installed the 1.0 version off my CD onto the hard disk and tried it
> > without success - it sits on the splash screen and goes no further.
> > I updated to DOS 1.02 without success.

> > I then remembered that I had to patch to a Windows version to get it
> running
> > well on my Windows 98 years ago, so downloaded the patch and gave it a go.
> > Still no success.  On double clicking the Indycar Racing II shortcut I
> just
> > get an error report to send to Bill Gates.

> > Anyone managed to get this game working in XP?

> > James
> > (when are Papy going to get out the trend of producing one after the other
> > Nascar Racing updates and do something different - ICR3, IRL or GPL early
> > 80s would be great)

> > Having got sick and tired of waiting for Papyrus to produce a followup
to
> > Indycar Racing II  I decided to load ICR2 onto my Windows XP PC and give
> it
> > a go again.  Its been many years since I played this game last and
> wondered
> > if my racing skills had improved since (and what the graphics looked
like
> > since all those other sims had come out).

> > I installed the 1.0 version off my CD onto the hard disk and tried it
> > without success - it sits on the splash screen and goes no further.
> > I updated to DOS 1.02 without success.

> > I then remembered that I had to patch to a Windows version to get it
> running
> > well on my Windows 98 years ago, so downloaded the patch and gave it a
go.
> > Still no success.  On double clicking the Indycar Racing II shortcut I
> just
> > get an error report to send to Bill Gates.

> > Anyone managed to get this game working in XP?

> > James
> > (when are Papy going to get out the trend of producing one after the
other
> > Nascar Racing updates and do something different - ICR3, IRL or GPL
early
> > 80s would be great)

> As you can see from my message I had run the DOS program from the cd
> originally and got a program lockup, patched it to the latest dos version,
> still got the problem and then tried the windows version patch and got the
> error message.

> looks like it ain't gonna work.

> Papy - Get your finger out and do a CART or IRL simulation.  I've been
> waiting since ICR2 for one and just keep getting Nascar sims appearing
every
> couple of years.  Its getting boring, so try something different!!  GPL
was
> a welcome change, try something different for a change.

> > have you tried running it in emulation mode?  i do this for a lot of my
> > games that were not meant to run on 2000/xp.

> > > Having got sick and tired of waiting for Papyrus to produce a followup
> to
> > > Indycar Racing II  I decided to load ICR2 onto my Windows XP PC and
give
> > it
> > > a go again.  Its been many years since I played this game last and
> > wondered
> > > if my racing skills had improved since (and what the graphics looked
> like
> > > since all those other sims had come out).

> > > I installed the 1.0 version off my CD onto the hard disk and tried it
> > > without success - it sits on the splash screen and goes no further.
> > > I updated to DOS 1.02 without success.

> > > I then remembered that I had to patch to a Windows version to get it
> > running
> > > well on my Windows 98 years ago, so downloaded the patch and gave it a
> go.
> > > Still no success.  On double clicking the Indycar Racing II shortcut I
> > just
> > > get an error report to send to Bill Gates.

> > > Anyone managed to get this game working in XP?

> > > James
> > > (when are Papy going to get out the trend of producing one after the
> other
> > > Nascar Racing updates and do something different - ICR3, IRL or GPL
> early
> > > 80s would be great)

> Weird.  I've been able to run Icr2 (dos patched) in WinXP, but alas no
> sound.  In the indycar.exe properties, I have set the compatibility mode
to
> "Windows 95". That's all what I had needed to run it.

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