ICR and Win95: Can it be done?

I have a 486 DX/33 with 4 megs of RAM. Now, I know this isn't the ideal setup to be running Win95 on, but I'm planning on upgrading anyways. But, what may keep me from upgrading is the performance of ICR with Win95. Has anyone out there tried this, or would have a suggestion as to what I should expect? Thanks Anthony Guevarra

I'm running ICR and NASCAR on a 486DX33 with 8mb ram under Win95 build 456. Everything runs fine. What it does is dumps you into "MS-DOS mode", i.e. only the game is running. Windows itself is not really running. It restarts after you exit... - Rich -- Rich Williams Case Western Reserve University

>I'm running ICR and NASCAR on a 486DX33 with 8mb ram under Win95 build >456. Everything runs fine. What it does is dumps you into "MS-DOS mode", >i.e. only the game is running. Windows itself is not really running. It >restarts after you exit... Build 456?! Ouch. The Win'96 preview's only on 347! Anyway, I was testing Win'96 today with Nascar. Ran very well indeed, even in SVGA mode. It was also very nice about switching to a DOS box, until I swapped back and it corrupted the static area at the top of the picture. Stuart. From the bedroom of Stuart Booth...

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>I have a 486 DX/33 with 4 megs of RAM. Now, I know this isn't the ideal >setup to be running Win95 on, but I'm planning on upgrading anyways. >But, what may keep me from upgrading is the performance of ICR with Win95. >Has anyone out there tried this, or would have a suggestion as to what I >should expect? >Thanks >Anthony Guevarra

I've seen it run on a 486 DX2/66 -8megs off SCSI CDROM. It plays better through Win95 than before. No setup problems, no boot disks. Indycar -no problem better than before. Go for it!

You must be one of the official beta-testers. I didn't know Win95 had been released yet. How does it run on your DX33? I have a 486DX2-50 with 8mb RAM. I'm very anxious to see it.

It runs fine on my beta version. I have a 4meg ram, 486SX/33 (again not ideal!!!!!). I have setup a pif for ICR (right click, properties), and somewhere in the pif editor thingy you can specify config & autoexec files. OK the machine then has to reboot when you run it, but it runs just as good as a native DOS machine - plus it automatically re-boots to W'95 after. Not a pretty solution, but hey! it works!!! (If any one has a better idea please mail me!) -- But Looks can be Deceiving

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>Subject: Re: ICR and Win95: Can it be done? >Date: 8 May 1995 02:57:07 +0100 >>I'm running ICR and NASCAR on a 486DX33 with 8mb ram under Win95 build >>456. Everything runs fine. What it does is dumps you into "MS-DOS mode", >>i.e. only the game is running. Windows itself is not really running. It >>restarts after you exit... >Build 456?! Ouch. The Win'96 preview's only on 347! Anyway, I was >testing Win'96 today with Nascar. Ran very well indeed, even in SVGA >mode. It was also very nice about switching to a DOS box, until I >swapped back and it corrupted the static area at the top of the >picture.

Build 347 was the last stable build out. Forget about grabbing any of those since then, unless you are testing. (Duh-uh) Expect crashes with builds 457+ Ralf ____ __ ___ __ ____ __ _\ \ /(__)\ | ( /(__)\ )( /(__)\ http://www.webcom.com/~sabata/

I've run various builds upto and including 456 and the only problem I've had was trying to convince 431 (I think) that I really did have a SoundBlaster... - Rich -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "It is a far better thing I do than I have ever done before. It is a far better resting place I come to than I have ever known." -Sydney Carton

> You must be one of the official beta-testers. I didn't know Win95 had > been released yet. How does it run on your DX33? I have a 486DX2-50 > with 8mb RAM. I'm very anxious to see it. I think you can buy a preview of Win95 (full program) for like $30 from Microsoft. You still have to buy Win95 when it comes out though because it'll be the real commercial version with small bug fixes. **************************************************************** Hartsdale, NY "BsOiRgInNaGture" Cloud 9 Internet ****************************************************************

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>>I have a 486 DX/33 with 4 megs of RAM. Now, I know this isn't the ideal >>setup to be running Win95 on, but I'm planning on upgrading anyways. >>But, what may keep me from upgrading is the performance of ICR with Win95. >>Has anyone out there tried this, or would have a suggestion as to what I >>should expect? >I believe you will find this configuration >unacceptable.......although, you will still have the ability to exit >windows and then run Indy Car.... >UPGRADE YOUR MEMORY or you will be looking to un-install in a hurry!

Agreed. I messed with WIN95 for a while. I have a DX2 with 16MB of ram. ICR ran as good in WIN95 as it did in DOS6.22. 4 MB is just barely enough to run the origional ICR. You really do need 8MB, especially if you are running windows 3.1. CPU upgrades are very cheap now. You might want to look into that too :-)

>I have a 486 DX/33 with 4 megs of RAM. Now, I know this isn't the ideal >setup to be running Win95 on, but I'm planning on upgrading anyways. >But, what may keep me from upgrading is the performance of ICR with Win95. >Has anyone out there tried this, or would have a suggestion as to what I >should expect? I believe you will find this configuration unacceptable.......although, you will still have the ability to exit windows and then run Indy Car.... UPGRADE YOUR MEMORY or you will be looking to un-install in a hurry!

:>>I have a 486 DX/33 with 4 megs of RAM. Now, I know this isn't the ideal :>>setup to be running Win95 on, but I'm planning on upgrading anyways. :> :>>But, what may keep me from upgrading is the performance of ICR with Win95. :>>Has anyone out there tried this, or would have a suggestion as to what I :>>should expect? :> :> :> :>I believe you will find this configuration :>unacceptable.......although, you will still have the ability to exit :>windows and then run Indy Car.... :> :>UPGRADE YOUR MEMORY or you will be looking to un-install in a hurry! :Agreed. I messed with WIN95 for a while. I have a DX2 with 16MB of ram. :ICR ran as good in WIN95 as it did in DOS6.22. 4 MB is just barely enough :to run the origional ICR. You really do need 8MB, especially if you :are running windows 3.1. CPU upgrades are very cheap now. You might want :to look into that too :-) Why are you trying to run such resource intensive games with a Graphic User Interface as an overhead?? Is Win '95 really such a good platform for running games under? How does Win '95 manage to run DOS programmes as well as DOS can? Fraser.