rec.autos.simulators

Please tell me that N2 can be run in DOS.
Neil Owens

N2 can be run in DOS!  /THansen

Yes, it's still a DOS game.  It can however, easily be run through
Win95 in a DOS box.

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Emory University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
The IWCCCARS Project: Q & A Representative
Nascar Setups Page: http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~ebusch/

I need help!  I have a 486DX4/100 running DOS (Win 3.11) and can not run N2 off my hard
drive.  I did a full install but can not get thru the setup.exe without getting a screen
full of errors.  I can switch to my CD drive and run setup, configure my sound card
(SB 32), then play the game from the CD (no sound??).  I have contacted Sierra tech
support (40 min of toll call) but they could not help me.  I have tried many things but
with no success.  What might be causing this conflict??  Do I have to wait until I get
my Pentium MB, P166 CPU and a Reactor card???  That will be after the first of the
year....   (I can detail my system if it would help)
        486 DX4/100,  48 Meg RAM,  540 Maxtor H.D., SoundBlaster 32 PnP, 8X CD drive,
        Genoa 8500VL video card (CL GD-5428 chip with 2 meg), VESA support (Yes), VESA
        version 1.2 (freshly downloaded)
Any help from anyone would be greatly appreciated...
I have also e-mail (in full detail) my problem to Sierra, (waiting for reply)

Bob MacQuinn

Sure it can!  I run it just fine in DOS.  Now playing in windows on the
other hand just sucks!  Basically all windows games suck!

It sounds like you have a conflict somewhere.  Try booting your system
with a bare-bones config (no disk cache, memory manager, mouse driver,
CD driver, etc.) and try running setup again.   Papyrus products are
notorious for doing this with VLB motherboards  for some reason.  

David

*** You're only young once, but you can stay immature forever ***

You DO realize it is NOT a windows game don't you?  Meaning, it
doesn't suck? :)

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Lannie Schafroth

You do realize that it is a Windows game!!  Or you can run the game in
DOS!!!

And the point to the note is no matter how good a game is when you run it
in windows they tend to suck 99.9% of the time.

It is not a Windows game.  It is a DOS game that just happens to run
fine in a Full-Screen Win95 DOS box.  Something is seriously wrong with
either your system or it has inferior components for DOS games to suck
that badly when run through Win95.  I get around a single FPS
difference running Quake in Win95 vs. DOS.  For games that actually
have a separate DOS and Win95 version (NHL97 for example), both perform
nearly identical.

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Emory University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
The IWCCCARS Project: Q & A Representative
Nascar Setups Page: http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~ebusch/

What sort of error messages or occurrences are you encountering?  My
first impression would be to think that this is a soundcard issue.  Did
you try installing the game (full) and running it in DOS?  It won't work
in windows 3.1.  Next, I would try running the setup.exe and selecting
NO SOUND.  If the game runs after this, (without audio, of course) then
you've pinned the problem down to the soundcard.  With your computer
system and DOS, you'll need to perform the cleanest boot possible in
order to run- make a boot disk that doesn't load your CD ROM drivers,
emm386, or any other TSR that you don't need.  Load your mouse in high
memory, and try booting the game that way.  Be patient, it sounds like
you're getting a whale of a system just around the corner!

<<You do realize that it is a Windows game!!  Or you can run the game in
DOS!!!

And the point to the note is no matter how good a game is when you run it
in windows they tend to suck 99.9% of the time.

Dave (davids) Sparks
Late Night League
http://www.sequoia-dev.com/Hawaii/latenite.html

I have not been able to run N2 thru Win95.  I have tried numerous
property setups for the shortcut.  Could this be due to my installing N2
in Win95 originally?  I have a new Ocean Rhino Tritan II m/b, 100mhz
Pentium, 512k pipeline burst, 32 meg ram, Reactor, SoundBlaster 16.
Runs good in dos, just would be more convenient for the kids if it ran
from Win95.

Also, I loose the sounds at random points while playing N2.  Seems to
happen when the kids stop somewhere due to wrecking.  Any ideas?

Thanks.

Tony Joy