NASCAR 2..

Well, I got the demo.. I should have known I wouldn't be able to play it, but I HAD to try! Well, since I'm runnin' a 486/66 w/8 megs of RAM and you need a pentium w/ 16 MEGS I REALLY should have known. But I'm gettin 32 megs of ram soon and I'm hopin it'll work. My friend says he can go around in the menus, but if he tries to drive, he gets that all familiar GRANULAR. He's got a 486 w/ 20 megs of ram. If anyone has some info on runnin N2 w/ a 486 let me know... Tim Hoeck

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>Well, I got the demo.. I should have known I wouldn't be able to play >it, but I HAD to try! Well, since I'm runnin' a 486/66 w/8 megs of RAM >and you need a pentium w/ 16 MEGS I REALLY should have known. But I'm >gettin 32 megs of ram soon and I'm hopin it'll work. My friend says he >can go around in the menus, but if he tries to drive, he gets that all >familiar GRANULAR. He's got a 486 w/ 20 megs of ram. If anyone has some >info on runnin N2 w/ a 486 let me know... >Tim Hoeck

I have a AMD 486/100 with 16MGs ram. The game would not work. I then added 16 more mgs of ram, nada.. still would not work (crashs when I view a replay, or try to drive) I also tried install the game into several other computers.... AMD 486/120 16MGs ram - Crashed when "Drive" was selected AMD 586/133 32MGs ram - Crashed when you get into the***pit P75 40MGs ram - Ran Just fine P133 16MGs ram - Ran great! Cyrix p150+ 32MGs ram - Crashed Intel 486/50 16MGS ram - locked up sometimes.. but too slow to play in hi-res Packard bell P120 - 16mgs ram - Crashed, but what do ya expect from a PB? :) I'm gonna d/l a copy at school and see if I it will work on the i486/66 tomorrow Maybe Intel paid seirra/papyrus alot of money to do this? Ya know "Intel, the offical machine of the Nascar Racing League" :| I just can not believe the game will work on a non-P machine, and that disgusts me. I can't believe they would release anything that would REQUIRE a Pentium and nothing else. I really hope that this is some sort of "bug" and will not be carried over to the final release. Only time will tell.... Brian

hi-res Don't bother, the DEMO has Pentium only code in it. It won't run on anything BUT a Pentium. -- Lannie Schafroth

As a programmer, I know that compiling for Pentium results in smaller, optimized object code. With such a large demo, it makes sense Papyrus would try to reduce the size as much as possible. Doesn't explain the non-Intel problems though. Rick