N4 after patch: No qual motor choice?

Has anyone else noticed that since the new patch, the qual and race motor choices are locked? Or is it just my game?? Mine is grayed out, no matter what setup is loaded. It's permanently on RACE motor. There's nothing in the readme about it, that I could find.. Is it possible that they did this since Nascar announced the rules change for next year? But I thought the patch was out before that announcement? Any info is appreciated, Mick

It depends on where you are racing. Is this offline or online? I know that the game at times will enforce the engine choice: IE When you go to qualify, it will only allow a Q motor, when going into race it will only allow a race motor. Other than that I have noticed no problems in just "test" running alone. Can switch between engines with no problem. Mick <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> Has anyone else noticed that since the new patch, the qual and race > motor choices are locked? Or is it just my game?? Mine is grayed out, no > matter what setup is loaded. It's permanently on RACE motor. There's > nothing in the readme about it, that I could find.. Is it possible that > they did this since Nascar announced the rules change for next year? But > I thought the patch was out before that announcement? Any info is > appreciated, Mick

No such problem here. -- ------------------------------------------- Morgan Vincent Wooten http://personal.lig.bellsouth.net/~mvwooten ------------------------------------------- "Mick" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > Has anyone else noticed that since the new patch, the qual and race > motor choices are locked? Or is it just my game?? Mine is grayed out, no > matter what setup is loaded. It's permanently on RACE motor. There's > nothing in the readme about it, that I could find.. Is it possible that > they did this since Nascar announced the rules change for next year? But > I thought the patch was out before that announcement? Any info is > appreciated, Mick

Hmm, guess it's just me then? I was in an offline "Practice" session when I noticed the problem.. Haven't checked online, but since Practice mode shouldn't restrict it, there's a problem somewhere for sure. It will still qualify fine, Online, and in the N4 Utility Machine it shows the qual setups have qual motors.. Oh well, I'm getting ready for a HD reformat/ windows98se reinstall anyway, so maybe when I reload everything, it'll come around?? SimRacer wrote: > > It depends on where you are racing. Is this offline or online?

Problem fixed.. Just got done formatting C: and reinstalling OS, and Apps.. It's back to normal now.. Mick Mick wrote:

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> > Hmm, guess it's just me then? I was in an offline "Practice" session > when I noticed the problem.. Haven't checked online, but since Practice > mode shouldn't restrict it, there's a problem somewhere for sure. It > will still qualify fine, Online, and in the N4 Utility Machine it shows > the qual setups have qual motors.. Oh well, I'm getting ready for a HD > reformat/ windows98se reinstall anyway, so maybe when I reload > everything, it'll come around?? > > SimRacer wrote: > > > > It depends on where you are racing. Is this offline or online?