Help needed with installing NASCAR CD

I just got the fabled NASCAR Racing...CDROM version and am having odd trouble installing it. I'm running Win95 on a 486 66, 16 meg RAM, Diamond Stealth 24 1 meg video. When I install the game all seems fine till I try to run it...sound install goes well. Whether I run it in a window or in MSDOS mode, the game immediately crashes the computer, and when it reboots, for some reason the CD driver (a 2X Matsushita/Panasonic) has been uninstalled and I have to reinstall it in Win 95 before it functions again. I can't say I have a clue what's happening here. Any help/suggestions are welcome, preferably by e-mail since I don't get to the newsgroups very often. Thanks Nick J. -- _________________________________________________ Nicholas John * Computers are useless. University of Alberta, * They only give answers. Edmonton, Alberta, * Canada * Pablo Picasso _________________________________________________

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>I just got the fabled NASCAR Racing...CDROM version and am having odd trouble >installing it. I'm running Win95 on a 486 66, 16 meg RAM, Diamond Stealth 24 1 meg >video. When I install the game all seems fine till I try to run it...sound install >goes well. >Whether I run it in a window or in MSDOS mode, the game immediately crashes the >computer, and when it reboots, for some reason the CD driver (a 2X >Matsushita/Panasonic) has been uninstalled and I have to reinstall it in Win 95 before >it functions again.

After I upgraded to Windows 95 I had a similar problem with the computer*** at Nascar's title screen, but it only happened if sound was enabled (I have an AWE32). I solved the problem by deleting all the old drivers from my config files and relying on the Win95 versions. The game now runs well in full screen mode (I never did get it running with sound in DOS mode), but still suffers from the problem Microsoft describe in their game compatibilty list - namely it crashes the computer if it is the first MSDOS program to use the soundcard after a reboot, but is fine if it is the second or later. Has anyone else met this problem or have a solution? If nothing more elegant perhaps a small program which could be briefly called from a batch file to use the soundcard before starting Nascar? David Evans