Tracks-NASCAR2 to Rendition ICR2

HI, I tried converting two NASCAR2 tracks to ICR2 (Rendition Version)...the conversion process and AI update appeared to function properly. But, when I go to ICR2 and try to load the tracks...it advises that I do not have enough memory to load the track. Checking the track files...these two tracks are not the largest. So..have I done something wrong...or is there something else I need to change. Any help or comments? Also, has anyone been able to get ICR2 (Rendition) to run from the Win95 desktop in a dos box. Right now I run it from the desktop by shutting down to dos then loading the game. When I try to run it in a dos box it locks up with a black screen and the color sparkles across the top. Any Ideas? Thanks, Jim

I'm just guessing here: I don't imagine that anyone has yet reverse-engineered the "new" graphics object format which N2 uses. (For background, N1, ICR2, and ICR1 used pretty much exactly the same graphics pipeline and object format. We completely re-wrote the graphics pipeline for N2, in order to "catch up" somewhat and to allow us to support more modern machines and hardware accelerators in N2 and future products.) So, while the tracks might appear to convert OK, in reality, they probably didn't... ---Jim Sokoloff, Papyrus

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> HI, > I tried converting two NASCAR2 tracks to ICR2 (Rendition Version)...the > conversion process and AI update appeared to function properly. But, when I > go to ICR2 and try to load the tracks...it advises that I do not have > enough memory to load the track. Checking the track files...these two > tracks are not the largest. So..have I done something wrong...or is there > something else I need to change. Any help or comments? > Also, has anyone been able to get ICR2 (Rendition) to run from the Win95 > desktop in a dos box. Right now I run it from the desktop by shutting down > to dos then loading the game. When I try to run it in a dos box it locks up > with a black screen and the color sparkles across the top. Any Ideas? > Thanks, > Jim

As far as running ICR2 from WIN95, I do it from an Icon, but not really in a DOS box. What I do is select "MS-DOS mode" from the properties/program/advanced menu along with use existing MS-DOS configuration. This seems to restart your computer in MS-DOS mode just like the button, and then runs ICR2 just fine. When you exit ICR2, it will go back to WIN95 automatically. This isn't real fast, but seems to get great performance and adds some convenience. It also works for N1, Multi, N2, N2 (Renddma), etc. Hope this helps.