Nascar 2 Loading Car Setup

I'm I missing somthing? I don't seem to have a LOAD option under the car setup menu of nascar 2. Anyone else??? Wally

To load setups, look for the description (Ace, Easy, Fast), at the top left of the data sheet. This is a pull-down style menu, and you can specify one of the other setups this way. Also, notice that there is one (pull down menu) for qualifying and the race. Matt Myers "Expressing individualism is just plain wrong!" -- Crow T. Robot --

To load a car setup, just click on the drop-down box and select the car setup you want. It loads the settings as soon as you've selected it. Note that the top 2 drop-down boxes select the setup that gets loaded when you start a qualifying or race session. If you've ever accidentally started a race with a qualifying setup, you'll find this very useful. Dave (davids) Sparks Late Night League http://www.sequoia-dev.com/Hawaii/latenite.html

I have seen the pull down menus but i'm trying to save a setup as a different name than fast, easy or qual. it wont let me save under any other name. The book also shows a load command under the setup menu, I dont see that. Also, has anyone else noticed the rear view mirror being half blued out. the top portion of my mirror shows nothing but the sky and blocks out the top half of the car behind me. AUESOME GAME!!!!! Thanks Wally

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> >I'm I missing somthing? > >I don't seem to have a LOAD option > >under the car setup menu of nascar 2. > >Anyone else??? > >Wally > To load setups, look for the description (Ace, Easy, Fast), at the top > left of the data sheet. This is a pull-down style menu, and you can > specify one of the other setups this way. Also, notice that there is > one (pull down menu) for qualifying and the race. > Matt Myers > "Expressing individualism is just plain wrong!" > -- Crow T. Robot --

This doesnt work for me either... I can load the setups that coem with the game.. but if I make changes.. change the name. and save it I have no way to get the setup back (it never adds it to the drop down lists). Also if I change the defaults for racing and qualifying it doesnt save the default choices.. it always goes to Easy and Easy. Jason Rahaim

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> >I'm I missing somthing? > >I don't seem to have a LOAD option > >under the car setup menu of nascar 2. > >Anyone else??? > >Wally > To load a car setup, just click on the drop-down box and select the car > setup you want. It loads the settings as soon as you've selected it. Note > that the top 2 drop-down boxes select the setup that gets loaded when you > start a qualifying or race session. If you've ever accidentally started a > race with a qualifying setup, you'll find this very useful. > Dave (davids) Sparks > Late Night League > http://www.sequoia-dev.com/Hawaii/latenite.html

It's a little awkward and takes some getting used to. Click on the field name next to the pull down. Now you can type in a new setup name and then click on Save at the bottom of the screen. Dave (davids) Sparks Late Night League http://www.sequoia-dev.com/Hawaii/latenite.html

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> >I have seen the pull down menus but i'm trying > >to save a setup as a different name than fast, easy > >or qual. it wont let me save under any other name. > >The book also shows a load command under > >the setup menu, I dont see that. Also, has > >anyone else noticed the rear view mirror being > >half blued out. the top portion of my mirror shows > >nothing but the sky and blocks out the top > >half of the car behind me. AUESOME GAME!!!!! > >Thanks > >Wally > It's a little awkward and takes some getting used to. Click on the field > name next to the pull down. Now you can type in a new setup name and then > click on Save at the bottom of the screen. > Dave (davids) Sparks > Late Night League > http://www.sequoia-dev.com/Hawaii/latenite.html

Dave, But then how do you load the saved setup in subsequent sessions? The new setup is not added to the pulldown and there is no "Load" button like the manual says? Jeff --

>This doesnt work for me either... I can load the setups that coem with >the game.. but if I make changes.. change the name. and save it I have >no way to get the setup back (it never adds it to the drop down lists). >Also if I change the defaults for racing and qualifying it doesnt save >the default choices.. it always goes to Easy and Easy. > Jason Rahaim Make sure you hit the return key after you enter the new setup name. Dave (davids) Sparks Late Night League http://www.sequoia-dev.com/Hawaii/latenite.html

YES!!!! That is a great fix over N1 Some "bugs" have unfortunately carried over to N2 such as: -cars can occupy the same space at the same time. Something Einstein would probably like to look at. -cars have automatic spin recovery. This of course mimics the real life giant hydraulic powered ball bearing under the middle of the car. Ahem. -Stomping on the brakes does NOT lock up the tires. Spinning on acceleration is great, but they must have modeled the brakes after Volvo ABS or something. The only bad change, and I think this will get fixed, is the wimpy tire squeal and soft sound. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ # Other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play? # ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Jeff, unfortunately, it seems if you did a minimum install of the game this problem occurs! In order to get the load button you need to do a full install! Pete

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> Dave, > But then how do you load the saved setup in subsequent sessions? The new > setup is not added to the pulldown and there is no "Load" button like > the manual says? > Jeff > --

> Jeff, unfortunately, it seems if you did a minimum install of the > game this problem occurs! In order to get the load button you need to do > a full install! > Pete Thanks, Pete. I'll try doing a full install. Fortunately, I ask Santa for 2.1 gig hard drive for Xmas. :) This sounds like a pretty serious flaw, however. Forcing us to use almost 100 meg of disk space just we can load setups just doesn't cut it, Sierra. Sounds like patch time to me. Adam? Jeff

I did a full install and I don't have a load button but you don't need it. It takes awhile to figure it out.

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> Jeff, unfortunately, it seems if you did a minimum install of the > game this problem occurs! In order to get the load button you need to do > a full install! > Pete > > Dave, > > But then how do you load the saved setup in subsequent sessions? The

new > > setup is not added to the pulldown and there is no "Load" button like > > the manual says? > > Jeff > > --

I was able to copy my setups from my N1 track directories directly to my N2 track directories, and they showed up in the pull down menu in N2. 'Course, now I have to figure out if my N1 setups are gonna' be any good in N2. ;-) ~Michael

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>Dave, >But then how do you load the saved setup in subsequent sessions? The new >setup is not added to the pulldown and there is no "Load" button like >the manual says? >Jeff

I'm guessing you did a minimal install. There's a bug in the program and it seems to look to the CD for setups when you do a minimal install. So your setups are saved on the hard disk, but you can't see them. Try doing a full install (crossing my fingers and hoping you have the disk space for it). Dave (davids) Sparks Late Night League http://www.sequoia-dev.com/Hawaii/latenite.html

I hope not. The tire squeal sound is VERY accurate. Shortly after I heard it for the first time, I saw Loy Allen spin in the Napa 500 and it sounded nearly identical to the sound in the game. Dave (davids) Sparks Late Night League http://www.sequoia-dev.com/Hawaii/latenite.html

I like the tire squeal too, but the sounds are way to soft. I've got to crank up my speakers to hear everything. This is not really a problem, except for when I exit back to Win95 all my sounds are way too loud. -- Emory University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Nascar Setups Page: http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~ebusch/

If I remember correctly, you can adjust the tire squeal sound. If it's already at 100%, then try adjusting it down. Also, I don't have the manual, but someone mentioned that if the spotter level is above 50%, then all the other sounds are reduced. Dave (davids) Sparks Late Night League http://www.sequoia-dev.com/Hawaii/latenite.html

Here's the deal. I have the overall volume at 100%, and I like how all my sounds are with the spotter at 50%. The only problem is I can't hear the spotter. If I crank up the spotter so I can hear him, all the other sounds are reduced (not what I want). All I want to do is keep all the sounds at the same level and independently increase the volume of the spotter's voice. Why is this so difficult to do? Who at Papyrus though that the slider for the spotter somehow wasn't enough and had to implement some kind of automatic gain control? -- Emory University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Nascar Setups Page: http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~ebusch/

I agree...I think Papyrus err'ed here with the spotter's voice volume. Eric's right...when the Spotter's volume is at 50% (which the manual says puts it at 100 % compared to other sounds), he is barely audible...and then by increasing him past 50% (which, to give the manual credit, does warn that the other sounds will be diminshed), the overall sound gets too quiet. Bad implementation, IMO. John Wehman

But is it not true that you will not see the saved tracks on the drop down button unless you do a full install? I have not done the full install. I have copied car set-ups into the various track directories, that Eric Busch put on his very nice NC2 page, and they simply don't show up in the drop down menus, regardless of which car set I'm using. I have also saved setups in the proper (manually correct) manner and they just aren't there.... Tom

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>I did a full install and I don't have a load button but you >don't need it. It takes awhile to figure it out. >> Jeff, unfortunately, it seems if you did a minimum install of the >> game this problem occurs! In order to get the load button you need to do >> a full install! >> Pete

___________________________________________________________ Tom Weber St. Louis, Missouri http://www.icon-stl.net/~tweber/ ____________________________________________________________

>All I want to do is keep >all the sounds at the same level and independently increase the volume >of the spotter's voice. Why is this so difficult to do? Who at >Papyrus though that the slider for the spotter somehow wasn't enough >and had to implement some kind of automatic gain control? I could tell you who did it, but it wouldn't matter, because he did the only thing he could to make the game work... :-) The sound samples are 8-bit (Why? Because some people only have 8-bit cards, and because they are smaller and we are still trying to support the smaller machines, else we get flamed for having ridiculous hardware requirements...) In 8 bits, we don't have the resolution to be able to distinguish speech, particularly LOUD, E***D speech such as "They're wrecking right in front of you" and still have routine speech "green next time by" be appropriately soft-sounding yet intelligible. If everyone had 16 bit sound cards and 32 Meg, we could "fix" the problem, but for now, the thing to do is adjust your speaker volume to "UP," and use the spotter volume slider/auto-gain control until you are happy with the results. (Or at least until you can hear the spotter the way you want; you might still not be perfectly "happy," but your game will work...)