rec.autos.simulators

Make sure you don't have more than 30 tracks in your track folder!
That sounds like the problem I get when I convert to many tracks.

Hello all,

I'm really sorry for this but for some reason my nascar2 won't start
anymore. I always get the message "can't start screen" and so forth with
a bunch of words like grangular ='s fff numbers everything. What I did
was try to run my calendar that I made. Well, that didn't work so I kept
trying things to get the game to work. Finally I said F--k it and did a
complete re-install. Well after putting the patches back in and getting
my cars all set I unzipped the fantasy tracks again and hit yes on
everything when it asked if I wanted to overwrite. I then ran the
calendar Bat again. So I thought finally I can get the game going again.
WRONG!!!!!! I'm right back to where I started, with all those freaking
numbers and such. I see the papyrus logo then it goes crazy. I tried
putting the calendar that the calendar bat made into the nascar2
directory. Now I have no original calendar and I can't get the game to
start. I think this time before I do another re-install I'll take the
whole game off my computer. Then get the fantasy tracks again. It
started doing that last night, I have no idea what I did. All of a
sudden it started to do it. But before I give up on everything I thought
I might post and see what anyone has for me to try. Yes the tracks
unzipped under the tracks directory. Just in case I have to do a
complete re-install again, can I take the patches, fixes, special cars,
and the calendar I made, and put them in a seperate directory then
install the game, and then do eveything over again. I'll even get rid of
the fantasy tracks and get those from sierra's web site. I really don't
want to start over but i'm afraid i might have to. Thanks for any
help!!!!
Matt

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

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Content-Disposition: inline; filename="Calendar.fan"

 1  2 25 0 0 ROCKING Goodwrench_Service_400 Goodwrench_400
 2  3  3 0 0 RICHMOND Pontiac_E***ment_400 Pontiac_400
 3  3 10 0 0 ATLANTA Atlanta_500 Atlanta_500
 4  3 24 0 0 DARLINGT TranSouth_Financial_400 TranSouth_400
 5  3 31 0 0 BRISTOL Food_City_500 Food_City_500
 6  4 14 0 0 WILKES First_Union_400 First_Union_400
 7  4 21 0 0 MRTNSVIL Goody's_Headache_Powders_500 Goody's_500
 8  4 28 0 0 TALADEGA Talladega_500 Talladega_500
 9  5  5 0 0 SEARSPT Save_Mart_Supermarkets_300 Save_Mart_300
10  5 26 0 1 NCHRLTTE Coca-Cola_600 Coca-Cola_600
11  6  2 0 0 DOVER Dover_Downs_500 Dover_Downs_500
12  6 16 0 0 POCONO Pocono_Raceway_500 Pocono_Raceway_500
13  6 23 0 0 MICHIGAN Michigan_400 Michigan_400
14  7 14 0 0 NWENGLND Jiffy_Lube_300 Jiffy_Lube_300
15  7 21 1 0 POCONO Pocono_500 Pocono_500
16  7 28 1 0 TALADEGA Diehard_500 Diehard_500
17  8 11 0 0 WATGLEN NASCAR_at_the_Glen NASCAR_at_the_Glen
18  8 18 1 0 MICHIGAN Goodwrench_Service_400 Goodwrench_Service_400
19  8 24 1 1 NBRISTOL Goody's_Headache_Powders_500 Goody's_500
20  9  1 1 0 DARLINGT Mountain_Dew_Southern_500 Southern_500
21  9  7 1 1 NRICHMON Richmond_400 Richmond_400
22  9 15 1 0 DOVER MBNA_500 MBNA_500
23  9 22 1 0 MRTNSVIL Hanes_500 Hanes_500
24  9 29 1 0 WILKES Tyson_Holly_Farms_400 Tyson_Holly_Farms_400
25 10  6 1 0 CHRLTTE C***te_500 C***te_500
26 10 20 1 0 ROCKING AC-Delco_400 AC-Delco_400
27 10 27 0 0 PHOENIX Phoenix_International_Raceway_500 Phoenix_500
28 11 10 1 0 ATLANTA NAPA_500 NAPA_500
29 11 17 0 0 BULLRUN Bullrun_Raceway Bullrun_Raceway
30 11 24 0 0 REDROCK Redrock_Raceway Redrock_raceway
31 12 99 0 0 XXXXXXXX

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 All I can say is I hope you don't use IE. I had the sam problem and then I
re-installed it and now my IE won't run.

Alex
Raceman on EFNet

% Sorry to reply to my own post:-) But what I'm going to try and do is
% send my calendar. This is the calendar that is in the Nascar2 directory.
% NOT my calendar. Well Here goes:

% Content-Disposition: inline; filename="Calendar.fan"

%  1  2 25 0 0 ROCKING Goodwrench_Service_400 Goodwrench_400
<snip>
% 29 11 17 0 0 BULLRUN Bullrun_Raceway Bullrun_Raceway
% 30 11 24 0 0 REDROCK Redrock_Raceway Redrock_raceway
% 31 12 99 0 0 XXXXXXXX

Things look fine.  However, do you have a file now in your NASCAR2
directory that is simply called CALENDAR?  I am pretty sure that you
need a file that is called CALENDAR for the program to run.  If all else
fails, copy the original calendar file from the CD and edit it in a pure
ascii editor (notepad if you got it).  Change the last line from:
29 12 99 0 0 XXXXXXXX

to:
31 12 99 0 0 XXXXXXXX

Then insert the following just before the last line:
29 11 17 0 0 BULLRUN Bullrun_Raceway Bullrun_Raceway
30 11 24 0 0 REDROCK Redrock_Raceway Redrock_raceway

Save it as with the file name "calendar" with no extenstion in your
NASCAR2 directory.

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**************************** Michael E. Carver *************************
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