rec.autos.simulators

I've recently bought Nascar 99' and have a Monster 3DII 3DFX Voodoo 2 board
that works great in N'99, which I installed in the Win 98/95 3DFX mode.  I
installed the NROS from the N'99 disc and joined TEN.  I can race fine in
TEN, and the 3DFX loads up in the DOS Protected mode for NROS, but the cars
and track look nothing like in N'99 (Much worse).  It looks as though the
3DFX is not actually working, although it did show when entering a
multiplayer race on TEN?  Is this just the difference in the versions?  I
thought I read somewhere that I should not have installed NROS from the N'99
disk, because it creates an entirely new folder with duplicate tracks.  Two
questions:

1) Can you get NROS in DOS to look as good as N'99 in Win '98/95?  How?

2) How can I use only one folder without duplicate tracks for both online
and offline racing.

I am sorry if this question has been answered in this group a million times,
but I searched the group and could not find it.  I also just purchased a
computer with enough HP to handle these types of games, so I am a Newbie.

Dave

Dave Hughes wrote

Not at the moment.  The NROS folder you have in your Hard Disk is NOT Nascar
Racing 99.  It's actually Nascar Racing 2 without any offline enablers.  For
N2 the 3dfx patch was beta and actually not optimized.  On the NROS the
enablers were better than in the offline N2 version.  TEN has presently no
staff and time to port NR99 on the NROS.

You probably have a readme3d.txt text somewhere in your NROS folder. If not,
just email me I will send it to you.  There is some things you can edit in
your autoexec.bat to tweak it for the NROS.

Oh and I will send you a car chassis changer, since Papyrus forgot (don't
ask me why) a way to change it (you can't access it offline).

As I said, for the NROS, they put a N2 version on the CD without any offline
enabler.  Most of the NROS practice is not done offline but online. 99% of
us do it that way, since you can practice against other humans.  And that
offline/online there is some slight differences in the car handling.

If you have any other question the NROS has a newsgroup at this server :
localnews.ten.net  and the newsgroup is TEN.games.simulations.nascar

-= Fran?ois Mnard <ymenard/Nas-Frank>
-= NROS Nascar sanctioned Guide http://www.nros.com/
-= SimRacing Online http://www.simracing.com/
-= Official mentally retarded guy of r.a.s.
-= May the Downforce be with you...

"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realise
how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."

Hmmm...

At 6000 NROS members at $19 per month you would think they would hire
some help...  That's $114,000 per MONTH folks!

And that's just for NROS!

-Larry