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I havent heard much about this. Nascar 2 does not work after I install Win98.
When I start the program, the screen goes black. I have to hit shortcut keys to
get back into Windows. I hear the moniter it seems turn on when I do this.
Everything has been working fine till I got Win98. Any suggestions?

Chris

PS- I cant run it in DOS. The computer doesnt pick up any drivers.

I run this in dos using a shortcut in my games menu with its own config to
optimize performance. Hope this helps

To run it in dos you will have to make sure there is lines for the
mouse driver and the sound card in the DOSSTART.BAT file in your
Windows directory. Running the game under Win98 in dos is very very
slow however. Load times increase big time. Now that you have Win98
installed try reinstalling Nascar2...  Might help...

I had the same problem. Nascar 2 did not run in Win98. Sometimes this can
happen when your video card does not support UniVBE. What I did, I deleled
both of the following files, found in the Nascar2 main directory:
UVCONFIG.DAT and UNIVBE.DRV. I usually works after that. If this fails, you
can download a small application called Scitech Display Doctor from
http://www.scitechsoft.com. What this does, it's a small application that
helps your PC to run games that uses uniVBE and VESA drivers.

Hope this helps!

Philippe Sergerie

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I couldn't run it reliably in "exit to DOS" mode, but it runs fine
(and fast) in "MS-DOS Prompt" mode.  Intel BX motherboard, 266 PII,
Canopus Total 3D, Crystal PCI sound on motherboard.

                         bob

I originally installed Win98 over the top of Win95 using the upgrade.  I was
having serious lockup problems.  Couldn't isolate it as my Thriller 3D 8mb PCI
card, the modem, or mouse causing the problem.  Backed up my important data
files then re-formatted the hard drive.  Radical move on a 9gb HD but did it
fairly easily using my original Win98 emergency boot disk.  Then I installed
Win98 upgrade onto the empty drive.  It asked for my original Win95 disk to
verify that I had it then it let me install the full Win98 program.
Reinstalled N2... and no problems.  My PII-333mhz, 128mb Ram w/ the Rendition
Thriller screams along at 30+fps with all graphics "on" with 39 cars drawn
ahead on every track at all times.  My system appears to be very stable now
"knock knock" and I run N2 from Win98 (of course so I can race on TEN).  

Andrew
San Diego

Chris,

     I ran NAS 2 under Windows95,then upgraded to Windows 98 2 weeks ago.
Nascar2 runs just fine.

Regards,

Joel Willstein
Castrol Ford

Make sure you are using drivers from Win98 for your display.  If you try to
use the drivers from the manufacturer you will probably have trouble.  Try
letting Win98 reinstall your display drivers from the Win98 CD.  I have an
Intense3D 100 card and I have to use Win98 drivers in order for N2 to work.

Blake