rec.autos.simulators

Anybody else encountered problems with the Win95 patch???I just recently
installed the patch to convert my DOS IndyCar Racing 2 game to the Win
95 format. Everything works find...including the Paintshop but when I go
to race on a circuit or any driving for that matter and the game crashes
and I get the message I pasted below, anybody know what all that ***
means...besides raceday is rained out??? :) . I am running a Pentium 100
with 16 megs, Matrox Mystique 3D video card, AWE32 sound blaster, and of
course Win95. My DOS version was patched the way the readme stated and I
followed the directions completely as well as tried it again on a
completely clean game install. Any help would be great.

Norm Loewen

Here is the Error message:
WINDY caused an exception c0000026H in module KERNEL32.DLL at
0137:bffb87c0.
Registers:
EAX=00000000 CS=0137 EIP=bffb87c0 EFLGS=00000202
EBX=00000000 SS=013f ESP=0089e1e0 EBP=0089e1f0
ECX=0089e22c DS=013f ESI=0089e11c FS=0d47
EDX=c0020c98 ES=013f EDI=8154de44 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
5d 5f 5e 5b 8b e5 5d c3 8b 4c 24 04 f7 41 04 06
Stack dump:
0089e1f0 bffb8a48 00000000 0089ff68 0089e214 bffb88cb 0089ff68 0089e214
0089e2e8 0089e304 0089ff68 0089e2e8 0089e304 0089e238 bff7663c 0089e2e8

I tried to use the patch on my own machine (Micron Millenia P133, 32 Megs
RAM, Diamond Stealth 64 video) and my brother's machine (Packard Bell
P100, 16 Megs RAM, whatever the heck video PB uses...)... both times, when
I went to race, the computer just locked up... As you experienced, the
paint kit worked fine... Anyway, I figured to heck with it, and went back
to ver 1.02... you did save a backup copy of your version 1.02 directory,
didn't you? :-)

BTW, the patching process was the biggest pain in the arse I've ever
experienced updating software... I've usually been real happy with
Papyrus, but they blew it on this one... I mean, really - why is it so
friggin' important for the drivers2.txt file to be original before the
patch can be applied??? So warn me and get on with the patch already,
would you?? Sheesh....

Sorry to rant...

- Mike.

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= R.I.P. Scott Brayton: February 20, 1959 - May 17, 1996
= R.I.P. Jeff Krosnoff: September 24, 1964 - July 14, 1996
= R.I.P. Jim Chapman: January 24, 1916 - October 10, 1996
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Last weekend I installed firstly the ICR 1.0.0 to 1.0.2 DOS patch and
then on top of that the Win 95 patch.

My general findings are as follows:

1. Under DOS, the cars seem faster and more stable, and I am faster
using my saved setups, and seem to be lapping quicker than before,
more competitive , etc.

2. Under Windows 95, obviously things are a bit slower, my only
concern so far is that the machine is writing to the hard drive at
times, e.g. when I accelerate out of pit lane and pass other cars.
Anyone know hat might be causing this - it is no fun the game stopping
and re-starting in Turn 2 at Michigan !!

Also my converted NASCAR tracks (i.e. Pocono) will not work under Win
95.

Norm