Nascar2 demo botched pallette?

Just downloaded the demo, and after a couple of installation tries I get a weird color pallette. Something is definitely wrong here. My system P5-166 w/24megs, STB Lightspeed 128 w 2.25megs , and SB awe32. Any ideas what is going on? Adam?

Hi Robert, It seems the STB seems to be the common thread with this problem. I'll check on that and see what I can come up with. Adam Papyrus

> Hi Robert, > It seems the STB seems to be the common thread with this problem. > I'll check on that and see what I can come up with. > Adam > Papyrus It's just s3vbe20.exe that conflicts with n2demo; if you just configure univbe normally it works fine! Thanks from Italy, Papy! (When are you releasing a touring car verion of Nascar2?? I'd love to drive that!!!) Alberto Manassero

>Hi Robert, > It seems the STB seems to be the common thread with this problem. >I'll check on that and see what I can come up with. >Adam >Papyrus I'm running an STB 864 pci with 2 Meg and S3 without trouble. That doesn't help the person with problems but it also eliminates the possibility all STB's of having the same problem.

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> >Hi Robert, > > It seems the STB seems to be the common thread with this problem. > >I'll check on that and see what I can come up with. > >Adam > >Papyrus > I'm running an STB 864 pci with 2 Meg and S3 without trouble. That > doesn't help the person with problems but it also eliminates the > possibility all STB's of having the same problem.

I believe the problems have been with the STB 128 / Tseng ET6000 chip. John Wehman

On Tue, 24 Sep 1996 17:10:50 +0200, Alberto Manassero

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>> Hi Robert, >> It seems the STB seems to be the common thread with this problem. >> I'll check on that and see what I can come up with. >> Adam >> Papyrus It's just s3vbe20.exe that conflicts with n2demo; if you just configure >univbe normally it works fine! Thanks from Italy, Papy! (When are you >releasing a touring car verion of Nascar2?? I'd love to drive that!!!) >Alberto Manassero

Didn't help in my case. Univbe recognizes my card and I still get the same problem, also I use dos7.0. P150 dynamite 128.

Adam; I am having the same pallette problem on my P5-133 which also has the STB 128 video card. Additionally, the first time I started the program the engine sounds were fine - but since that time no engine noise at all? Please advise.

just configure univbe normally it works fine< < Thanks for the help Alberto but s3vbe20.exe isn't our problem - we don't have s3 chipset video cards. Evidently the demo doesn't like the Tseng 6000 chipset because the STB 128 & Herc 128 have garbled palletes. Please help us out Papyrus!! I can't take driving on a blue and red checkerboard track much longer!!

> Hi Robert, > It seems the STB seems to be the common thread with this problem. > I'll check on that and see what I can come up with. > Adam > Papyrus Hi Adam, I have the STB Lightspeed 128 card and at first the demo wouldnt run for me either, what I did was visit the Scitech forum on CIS and grab the Univbe util, now the demo works fine as long as I load it first :)! Trev

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>> Hi Robert, >> It seems the STB seems to be the common thread with this problem. >> I'll check on that and see what I can come up with. >> Adam >> Papyrus >Hi Adam, >I have the STB Lightspeed 128 card and at first the demo wouldnt run for >me either, what I did was visit the Scitech forum on CIS and grab the >Univbe util, now the demo works fine as long as I load it first :)! >Trev

Thanks . Good call I am going to post this news where all can see!

I have the STB Lightspeed card also and I had the same problem you had, I grabbed UNIVBE from Scitech and it fixed the problem immediately :)! Trev ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas Enterprises Makers of the TSW the best racing controller. http://www.ia.net/~thomas Lifetime warranty. Solid steel construction. -------------------------------------------------------------------------

> Adam; > I am having the same pallette problem on my P5-133 which also has the STB > 128 video card. Additionally, the first time I started the program the > engine sounds were fine - but since that time no engine noise at all? > Please advise. I too am having problems with my stb card,I have read that the scitech display doctor will fix this so I downloaded and ran it.It tells me everything w/univbe is fine but it does not make the demo run correctly.I have e-mailed and posted and got no direct response from anyone at papy but did get alot of help from others (thanks!!!)but to no avail.I really could care less about the demo I am concerened that the full deal due out in nov will have the same problem.I read a post from Adam saying that he was looking into "pallette problems" which I hope was addressing my(our) problem but I don't know. Mick in Tampa

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>> Adam; >> I am having the same pallette problem on my P5-133 which also has the STB >> 128 video card. Additionally, the first time I started the program the >> engine sounds were fine - but since that time no engine noise at all? >> Please advise. >I too am having problems with my stb card,I have read that the scitech >display doctor will fix this so I downloaded and ran it.It tells me >everything w/univbe is fine but it does not make the demo run >correctly.I have e-mailed and posted and got no direct response from >anyone at papy but did get alot of help from others (thanks!!!)but to no >avail.I really could care less about the demo I am concerened that the >full deal due out in nov will have the same problem.I read a post from >Adam saying that he was looking into "pallette problems" which I hope >was addressing my(our) problem but I don't know. > Mick in Tampa

Adam and all are saying no patches for the demo, they are going to concentrate on getting the real deal done properly. Thats going to test the faith of those with the tseng labs chips and non-Intel chips. I dont know about the rest of you but I will buy the full version as soon as it is released, but if it doesnt work I am propably going to throw a fit.

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> > Hi Robert, > > It seems the STB seems to be the common thread with this problem. > > I'll check on that and see what I can come up with. > > Adam > > Papyrus > Hi Adam, > I have the STB Lightspeed 128 card and at first the demo wouldnt run for > me either, what I did was visit the Scitech forum on CIS and grab the > Univbe util, now the demo works fine as long as I load it first :)! > Trev

This is correct. I had a $%&* of a time then got the univbe from sci-tech and it runs great. I think the spotter is awesome but I would like to see better framerates. If you want to do serious racing(this is a sim) you have to have 28-30 fps, U hope the framerates can be tweaked a little for the final version.I will admit the demo seems to be an improvement over n1 but not as much as I expected. Mick in Tampa