WHAT THE F@#$ IS WRONG!!!

Make sure you don't have more than 30 tracks in your track folder! That sounds like the problem I get when I convert to many tracks.

Hello all, I'm really sorry for this but for some reason my nascar2 won't start anymore. I always get the message "can't start screen" and so forth with a bunch of words like grangular ='s fff numbers everything. What I did was try to run my calendar that I made. Well, that didn't work so I kept trying things to get the game to work. Finally I said F--k it and did a complete re-install. Well after putting the patches back in and getting my cars all set I unzipped the fantasy tracks again and hit yes on everything when it asked if I wanted to overwrite. I then ran the calendar Bat again. So I thought finally I can get the game going again. WRONG!!!!!! I'm right back to where I started, with all those freaking numbers and such. I see the papyrus logo then it goes crazy. I tried putting the calendar that the calendar bat made into the nascar2 directory. Now I have no original calendar and I can't get the game to start. I think this time before I do another re-install I'll take the whole game off my computer. Then get the fantasy tracks again. It started doing that last night, I have no idea what I did. All of a sudden it started to do it. But before I give up on everything I thought I might post and see what anyone has for me to try. Yes the tracks unzipped under the tracks directory. Just in case I have to do a complete re-install again, can I take the patches, fixes, special cars, and the calendar I made, and put them in a seperate directory then install the game, and then do eveything over again. I'll even get rid of the fantasy tracks and get those from sierra's web site. I really don't want to start over but i'm afraid i might have to. Thanks for any help!!!! Matt

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> Hello all, > I'm really sorry for this but for some reason my nascar2 won't start > anymore. I always get the message "can't start screen" and so forth with > a bunch of words like grangular ='s fff numbers everything. What I did > was try to run my calendar that I made. Well, that didn't work so I kept > trying things to get the game to work. Finally I said F--k it and did a > complete re-install. Well after putting the patches back in and getting > my cars all set I unzipped the fantasy tracks again and hit yes on > everything when it asked if I wanted to overwrite. I then ran the > calendar Bat again. So I thought finally I can get the game going again. > WRONG!!!!!! I'm right back to where I started, with all those freaking > numbers and such. I see the papyrus logo then it goes crazy. I tried > putting the calendar that the calendar bat made into the nascar2 > directory. Now I have no original calendar and I can't get the game to > start. I think this time before I do another re-install I'll take the > whole game off my computer. Then get the fantasy tracks again. It > started doing that last night, I have no idea what I did. All of a > sudden it started to do it. But before I give up on everything I thought > I might post and see what anyone has for me to try. Yes the tracks > unzipped under the tracks directory. Just in case I have to do a > complete re-install again, can I take the patches, fixes, special cars, > and the calendar I made, and put them in a seperate directory then > install the game, and then do eveything over again. I'll even get rid of > the fantasy tracks and get those from sierra's web site. I really don't > want to start over but i'm afraid i might have to. Thanks for any > help!!!! > Matt

Sorry to reply to my own post:-) But what I'm going to try and do is send my calendar. This is the calendar that is in the Nascar2 directory. NOT my calendar. Well Here goes: --------------EF43665219B Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="Calendar.fan" 1 2 25 0 0 ROCKING Goodwrench_Service_400 Goodwrench_400 2 3 3 0 0 RICHMOND Pontiac_E***ment_400 Pontiac_400 3 3 10 0 0 ATLANTA Atlanta_500 Atlanta_500 4 3 24 0 0 DARLINGT TranSouth_Financial_400 TranSouth_400 5 3 31 0 0 BRISTOL Food_City_500 Food_City_500 6 4 14 0 0 WILKES First_Union_400 First_Union_400 7 4 21 0 0 MRTNSVIL Goody's_Headache_Powders_500 Goody's_500 8 4 28 0 0 TALADEGA Talladega_500 Talladega_500 9 5 5 0 0 SEARSPT Save_Mart_Supermarkets_300 Save_Mart_300 10 5 26 0 1 NCHRLTTE Coca-Cola_600 Coca-Cola_600 11 6 2 0 0 DOVER Dover_Downs_500 Dover_Downs_500 12 6 16 0 0 POCONO Pocono_Raceway_500 Pocono_Raceway_500 13 6 23 0 0 MICHIGAN Michigan_400 Michigan_400 14 7 14 0 0 NWENGLND Jiffy_Lube_300 Jiffy_Lube_300 15 7 21 1 0 POCONO Pocono_500 Pocono_500 16 7 28 1 0 TALADEGA Diehard_500 Diehard_500 17 8 11 0 0 WATGLEN NASCAR_at_the_Glen NASCAR_at_the_Glen 18 8 18 1 0 MICHIGAN Goodwrench_Service_400 Goodwrench_Service_400 19 8 24 1 1 NBRISTOL Goody's_Headache_Powders_500 Goody's_500 20 9 1 1 0 DARLINGT Mountain_Dew_Southern_500 Southern_500 21 9 7 1 1 NRICHMON Richmond_400 Richmond_400 22 9 15 1 0 DOVER MBNA_500 MBNA_500 23 9 22 1 0 MRTNSVIL Hanes_500 Hanes_500 24 9 29 1 0 WILKES Tyson_Holly_Farms_400 Tyson_Holly_Farms_400 25 10 6 1 0 CHRLTTE C***te_500 C***te_500 26 10 20 1 0 ROCKING AC-Delco_400 AC-Delco_400 27 10 27 0 0 PHOENIX Phoenix_International_Raceway_500 Phoenix_500 28 11 10 1 0 ATLANTA NAPA_500 NAPA_500 29 11 17 0 0 BULLRUN Bullrun_Raceway Bullrun_Raceway 30 11 24 0 0 REDROCK Redrock_Raceway Redrock_raceway 31 12 99 0 0 XXXXXXXX --------------EF43665219B--

All I can say is I hope you don't use IE. I had the sam problem and then I re-installed it and now my IE won't run. Alex Raceman on EFNet

% Sorry to reply to my own post:-) But what I'm going to try and do is % send my calendar. This is the calendar that is in the Nascar2 directory. % NOT my calendar. Well Here goes: % Content-Disposition: inline; filename="Calendar.fan" % 1 2 25 0 0 ROCKING Goodwrench_Service_400 Goodwrench_400 <snip> % 29 11 17 0 0 BULLRUN Bullrun_Raceway Bullrun_Raceway % 30 11 24 0 0 REDROCK Redrock_Raceway Redrock_raceway % 31 12 99 0 0 XXXXXXXX Things look fine. However, do you have a file now in your NASCAR2 directory that is simply called CALENDAR? I am pretty sure that you need a file that is called CALENDAR for the program to run. If all else fails, copy the original calendar file from the CD and edit it in a pure ascii editor (notepad if you got it). Change the last line from: 29 12 99 0 0 XXXXXXXX to: 31 12 99 0 0 XXXXXXXX Then insert the following just before the last line: 29 11 17 0 0 BULLRUN Bullrun_Raceway Bullrun_Raceway 30 11 24 0 0 REDROCK Redrock_Raceway Redrock_raceway Save it as with the file name "calendar" with no extenstion in your NASCAR2 directory. -- **************************** Michael E. Carver ************************* Upside out, or inside down...False alarm the only game in town. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=<[ /./. [- < ]>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=