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Requirements for IndyCar Racing II

RickGent

Requirements for IndyCar Racing II

by RickGent » Wed, 20 Sep 1995 04:00:00

What will be minimum requirements for IndyCar Racing II be for my
computer?
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We haven't finalized them yet. For DOS, VGA it should be a 486 DX-33 with
6MB RAM (4 with no texture mapping). For DOS, SVGA the minimum will be a
486 DX2/66 with 8MB of RAM, but, as the ads say, "runs better on a
Pentium" :-).

Rick Genter
Technical Lead, IndyCar Racing II/NASCAR Racing for Macintosh/Windows
Papyrus Design Group, Inc.

CLEUREN I.J.

Requirements for IndyCar Racing II

by CLEUREN I.J. » Sat, 23 Sep 1995 04:00:00

The problem is the platform you are using when playing. Dos/4G doesn't need
anything but the himem.sys loaded. When you use QEMM (like I do) make a
different setup specially for games, because a lot of games nowadays use
DOS/4GW. DOS/4GW enables programmers to use the entire memory of a computer
instead of the ***ed up DOS limit of 640Kb. Larger games can run on your PC,
so be pleased that some smart person invented DOS/4GW ;)

If you don't know how to make a different setup, try starting your computer
with no setup at all (hold down left shift key during startup, or press F5 to
avoid loading autoexec and config).
If you really don't know what to do, mail me and I'll try and explain and send
you an example of a startup menu (or read the DOS manual)...

Good Luck !

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Requirements for IndyCar Racing II

by Larry K. J » Sun, 24 Sep 1995 04:00:00


>>>>Just wondering if you could tell me what Dos/4G is all about? I don't
>>>>anything about this program and I am getting alot of crashes on my
>>>>system while running Nascar. I've gotten them ever since I've owned the
>>>>game but thought it might have been something I've setup wrong. Well...I
>>>>was playing "Gone Fishing" and I received the same error with this game,
>>>>but I could at least see the top of the screen and it said:
>>>>Dos/4G error (2001) exception 06h (invalid opcode) at 180:DA011c10.

Hey Jason,
It sounds just like my problem when I try to run Nascar or Indycar
after booting for windows.  It souns like a crash due to your memory
manager set-up wrong for DOS/4G.  I'm not sure about how it works but
it's a 32 bit mode, and it doesn't work well with Qemm <or> emm386.
BUT, this set-up config works fine for me.  486DX-2/66 with 8mb. RAM
and  the ever so slow ISA 2mb. video card I have.  I hope this helps:

autoexec.bat=
D:
CD\NASCAR
NASCAR

config.sys=
device=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE noems
dos=high,umb

P.S.
 I left out my sound card set-up in here, so be sure to add that to
your autoexec.bat and config.sys to get your sound working right.  


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