NASCAR keeps crashing! HELP!

I just recently purchases a new computer and NASCAR racing. I got the computer from Royal, it is a 100MHZ Pentium EISA/PCI motherboard (TYN MERCURY I believe) with 8 MB DRAM and a Diamond Strealth 64 Video PCI card. The system seems great and I don't seem to have many problems with other games like INDYCAR Racing. NASCAR racing however will only work for so long before it crashes. Sometimes I can make it through one race but ususally before the end of the second and often in the first it crashes. The crash is one of two types. 1) The screen will freeze but the sounds will continue as If I was still racing and their is nothing more I can do except reboot. 2) DOS4GW crashes with an error message (invalid opcode) and the game dumps me out to the dos prompt. Sometimes the crashes seem to corrupt files on my hard drive. I have installed the NASCAR v1.2 patch and booted with the minimum set of device drivers loaded (tried both low and high). The only drivers loaded are the Sound Blaster 16 drivers and sometimes I load the CD drivers (MSCDEX and SANYO). Anyone with any clue what my problem is? Do I have a bad NASCAR disk? ANY help GREATLY appreciated. T.B. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "... I don't understand quantum physics, I just teach it." - Prof. Giri(dec.) Penn State Univ. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I had similar problems with NASCAR and it turned out the fault was the configuration of my sound card. I use a Media Vision Pro Audio 16 and for some reason it crashed the game with the image on the screen and no sound. The tech people at Papyrus tried several solutions and finally helped me isolate the problem. Media Vision tech gave me some new parameters for my config.sys file to drive the card. If I am not mistaken, the "screen image frozen and sound on" crash is well known to the Papyrun techies. If your sound card is not the problem, call them at 617-868-3103. They recented extended their support hours. Bill

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> NASCAR racing however will only work for so long before > it crashes. Sometimes I can make it through one race but ususally before the end > of the second and often in the first it crashes. The crash is one of two types. > 1) The screen will freeze but the sounds will continue as If I was still racing > and their is nothing more I can do except reboot. > 2) DOS4GW crashes with an error message (invalid opcode) and the game dumps me out > to the dos prompt. > Sometimes the crashes seem to corrupt files on my hard drive.

Yeah, does anyone know what the problem here may be? My Bro-in-law has the same problem on his Intel DX2/66...also, we've noticed the graphics for Nascar will sometimes start developing black lines that will stretch from the cars or go from car to car. This problem is not consistant, but it is a pain. I just dl'd the patch and will try it this eve. BTW, even though he has a VESA bus, he's using a EISA Diamond Stealth brand card...is this a setup/compatibility issue w/ the card & monitor? Thanks in advance. Tim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- Quote of the day, just before the divorce: "yeah hon, I know the grass needs a cut, trash tak'n out, and that the house is on fire...but I just need to shave another damn .5 sec. off in Indycar and then that Internet record will be mine...all mine!"

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> I had similar problems with NASCAR and it turned out the fault was the > configuration of my sound card. I use a Media Vision Pro Audio 16 and > for some reason it crashed the game with the image on the screen and no > sound. The tech people at Papyrus tried several solutions and finally > helped me isolate the problem. Media Vision tech gave me some new > parameters for my config.sys file to drive the card. If I am not > mistaken, the "screen image frozen and sound on" crash is well known to > the Papyrun techies.

I'm not crashing the game, but I am having trouble getting it to recognize my MV PAS 16. Care to show me the config.sys line for the the driver that works for you? Right now it only takes the cruddy SB 8 emulator from the PAS. -- Regards, Hiratsuka, Kanagawa, Japan

Here is the line from my config.sys file. I use the 8-bit PAS stereo option in NASCAR: device=c:\fusion\mvsound.sys d:6 q:11 j:1 t:1 s:0,220h,1,5 x -- **************************** Michael E. Carver ************************* Upside out, or inside down...False alarm the only game in town. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=<[ /./. [- < ]>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=