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I am using the Matrox version of Nascar version 1.21 and I am having a bit of
a problem.

When I load any of the carsets that are floating around the internet I seem to
have problems in loading the garage.  If I use the carset that came with
nascar I have no problems.  I can use the carset for the race, but the garage
won't load.  

I am able to import my car in the paintkit and still use the garage, providing
it is imported into the original carset.

I know the carsets are not corrupt as I have loaded them fine in the normal
non matrox version of nascar 1.2.

Has anyone else experienced similar problems?  If so how did you solve it?

Thanks in advance....

                                                Craig.

: When I load any of the carsets that are floating around the internet I seem to
: have problems in loading the garage.  If I use the carset that came with
: nascar I have no problems.  I can use the carset for the race, but the garage
: won't load.  

: I am able to import my car in the paintkit and still use the garage, providing
: it is imported into the original carset.

You are experiencing US vs. the Rest of the World conflicts.  In North
America 2 or 3 of the cars had different file names within the cars.dat
file and the NASCAR program.  I believe the Pits web site has a patch
program to fix this problem.  I am also including a quick and dirty fix.

To use carsets, which were created with the US Version of Nascar, with
the *** version you must do the following:

either make your *** version a US version by

  changing all occurences of the ASCII sequence beng13 to kell_5
  in the two files OBJS.DAT and your CARS94.DAT

or make the US carset a *** carset by

  changing all occurences of the ASCII sequence kell_5 to beng13
  in that new <carset>.DAT file.

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Sorry I can not help you... but tell me what is the Matrox
version of Nascar compare to the normal one I have never heard
of it

Nigel of Lakewood Racing

Hope that helps...
markmc

I have a Pentium 166Mhz and I find that I can run with more detail in
Nascar than I can with Indycar 2 so I guess it does improve the frame
rate.

Richard

I have a Pentium 166Mhz and I find that I can run with more detail in
Nascar than I can with Indycar 2 so I guess it does improve the frame
rate.

Richard

I have a Pentium 166Mhz and I find that I can run with more detail in
Nascar than I can with Indycar 2 so I guess it does improve the frame
rate.

Richard