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Help! NASCAR and WINDOWS 95!

3 posts by 3 people · 02 Sep 1995 - 02 Sep 1995

Mitch_A 02 Sep 1995#304825
Thats strange because Nascar seems to run better(DOS PRMPT)than it did under native dos. Have you ran memmaker from DOS? I ran memmaker twice. 1. I booted using F4(dual Boot)then ran memmaker pressing f4 as soon as win95 started on the reboots. 2. I ran memmaker from Dos Window. seems to work fine now. Naman
Ever since I installed Windows 95, I have had trouble with NASCAR running. I runs nowhere near as well as it used to. I have a 486\DX 33mhz with 8 meg of ram. Before I installed Windows 95, I could run a race with 17 cars with all features turned on and it ran fairly well. Now, if I run 17 cars, it almost looks like it is running frame by frame. This is one of my favorite games and I want it to run like it used to. Can someone help me with the best possible way to run it. I have tried quitting Windows and running it from the command prompt in dos, running it from Windows, and no matter what I do, it runs very slowly. I am stumped and would appreciate any help someone might have. Thanks, Keith ******************************************************* * B. Keith Barbour * If you were a cowboy, and you* * The Toyman * your horse, I bet it would * * Go Dallas Cowboys! * make you mad if you looked * * Go Cleveland Indians!* back and the guy was reading * * Go, Go Power Rangers!* a magazine. -Jack Handey * *******************************************************
Quoted text (22 lines)>Ever since I installed Windows 95, I have had trouble with NASCAR >running. I runs nowhere near as well as it used to. I have a 486\DX 33mhz >with 8 meg of ram. Before I installed Windows 95, I could run a race with >17 cars with all features turned on and it ran fairly well. Now, if I run 17 >cars, it almost looks like it is running frame by frame. This is one of my >favorite games and I want it to run like it used to. Can someone help me >with the best possible way to run it. I have tried quitting Windows and >running it from the command prompt in dos, running it from Windows, >and no matter what I do, it runs very slowly. I am stumped and would >appreciate any help someone might have. >Thanks, >Keith > ******************************************************* > * B. Keith Barbour * If you were a cowboy, and you* > * The Toyman * your horse, I bet it would * > * Go Dallas Cowboys! * make you mad if you looked * > * Go Cleveland Indians!* back and the guy was reading * > * Go, Go Power Rangers!* a magazine. -Jack Handey * > *******************************************************
I just got Windows 95 and I got Nascar to work the way it used to in DOS. I started to fiddle with the Nascar.exe file properties in Windows 95. I don't know if what I did was correct but it works and thats all I wanted. Here goes: First you right click the Nascar.exe icon in Windows 95 and choose properties from the pop up menu. Then you go into the Program Tab and click on the advanced button. Then select MS-DOS mode, and Specify a new MS-DOS configuration. In the Config.sys and Autoexec.bat, put in all the lines that you used to have in your old Config.sys and Autoexec.bat that got the game working before the way you liked it. Remember that if you were using Himem.sys and SmartDrv that you use the new drivers in the Windows directory. Then click OK and you should see a shortcut created automatically for Nascar.exe. It doesn't matter if you double click on the shortcut or the Nascar.exe file, it still works the same. When you do, it will reboot the computer and use the new Config.sys and Autoexec.bat file that you created for that program and it should (It does for me at least) work the way you like it. Then when you exit the game, the computer will reboot again and start Windows 95 with it's own Autoexec.bat and Config.sys files like before. So in other words, you are making a boot disk without actually using a disk. You can do this with all of your DOS programs that seem slower in Windows. I don't mind my computer rebooting as long as I can play my Nascar with a good frame rate. I hope this helps and let me know if it does. Also, maybe there is a better way, so if anyone knows of one please share it with us. Thanks. Nick DiGiovanni Port Coquitlam, B.C. '95 KDX-200-H1

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