The Pits Touring Car Championship, can't use enhanced ICR2 tracks

Does anyone know why you can't use the converted, enhanced versions of the ICR2 tracks in the The Pits Touring Car Championship patch?

This problem is being worked on. For now the best solution would be to change the track name in the CALANDER (in your N2 directory) file to PORTHQ, LAGUNAHQ or ELKHQ depending on which tracks have been converted. Remember, at present TPTCC is a beta test. Regards Dave Noonan

On Fri, 8 Aug 1997 10:37:37 +0100, "David Noonan"

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>>Does anyone know why you can't use the converted, enhanced versions of >>the ICR2 tracks in the The Pits Touring Car Championship patch? >This problem is being worked on. For now the best solution would be to >change the track name in the CALANDER (in your N2 directory) file to >PORTHQ, LAGUNAHQ or ELKHQ depending on which tracks have been converted. >Remember, at present TPTCC is a beta test. >Regards >Dave Noonan

I'm not sure if I did something "right", but I had no problem using the enhanced versions of Portland, Laguna Seca or Elkhart Lake with the TPTCC patch. I did a second install of N2, ran the TPTCC installation, converted the ICR2 HQ tracks, and modified the CALENDAR file as Dave suggests above. It's probably the order in which I did everything that made the difference (plus a clean install of N2 doesn't hurt). Sometimes it's best to take the simplest approach! :) Kyle Stevens

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> On Fri, 8 Aug 1997 10:37:37 +0100, "David Noonan" > >>Does anyone know why you can't use the converted, enhanced versions of > >>the ICR2 tracks in the The Pits Touring Car Championship patch? > >This problem is being worked on. For now the best solution would be to > >change the track name in the CALANDER (in your N2 directory) file to > >PORTHQ, LAGUNAHQ or ELKHQ depending on which tracks have been converted. > >Remember, at present TPTCC is a beta test. > >Regards > >Dave Noonan > I'm not sure if I did something "right", but I had no problem using > the enhanced versions of Portland, Laguna Seca or Elkhart Lake with > the TPTCC patch. I did a second install of N2, ran the TPTCC > installation, converted the ICR2 HQ tracks, and modified the CALENDAR > file as Dave suggests above. > It's probably the order in which I did everything that made the > difference (plus a clean install of N2 doesn't hurt). Sometimes it's > best to take the simplest approach! :) > Kyle Stevens

I also had success after manually editing the calendar file and transfering the ai and other stuff to the HQ tracks. BTW, anyone notice that running the 4-bit cars at certain tracks (can't remember which, but I know there are at least two) is a no-go. Screwed up colors big time. One has a blue track. Anyway it's no big deal since I really don't see that much gain running the 4-bit cars, I just assume it's faster but I can't really tell.