N2 Multiplayer & Lan Card -Dos problem

Just received and installed my networking package "Network In A Box" PCI Version by Linksys. Have just a basic network between a P166mmx and P100. W95 networking is setup and working fine. Tried Nascar2 and quake so far under W95 with no problem. I have run into a major setback in dos with Nascar2 multiplayer networking. I lock up on atleast one of the systems everytime when attempting to Answer/Dial. I have the dos IPX driver(s) loaded high on both systems. Have also tested Quake in dos and it works great. The P166mmx has the Intense 3d (rendition) and the P100 is using a generic S3 onboard. I have tried loading just the regular (non-3d) nascar2 on both machines when attempting this Dos connect with the same results. Any ideas as to what N2 doesn't like about my config/setup for Dos IPX? I would question whether the driver(s) where/are being properly loaded, ect... but quake works flawlessly under the same conditions. BTW, Both systems have the fully(uptodate) "Sierra" patched N2s. This is very frustrating since the P100 suffers in framerate/performance if I have to keep running under W95 only. Anyone with any experience getting N2 to work in a (Dos Only) environment on a LAN, please help! Thanks, Ron L. Home of the SSC http://www3.pgh.net/~lazer/ For Nascar2 & Winston Cup Fans!

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> Anyone with any experience getting N2 to work in a (Dos Only) environment on a LAN, please help! > Thanks, > Ron L. > Home of the SSC http://www3.pgh.net/~lazer/ > For Nascar2 & Winston Cup Fans!

I personally don't know of anyone who has successfully run Nascar2 IPX using the network software that coes with Win95. I'm using software I scraped from the Internet. There are 3 programs, and one configuration file that is needed. LSL.COM NE2000.COM (this is the one I'm using, you may need a different one based on the type of network card you are using) IPXODI.COM and finally NET.CFG Look on the diskette that came with your Network card to see if any of these files are available to you. When I run Nascar2 IPX my system isn't running anything in HIMEM. I'm not even running HIMEM.SYS itself. I wish I knew the URL of the web sight that got me started on this. It was a good starting point for IPX in dos. P.S. When I say Dos, I mean restart and use the F8 to get to Command Prompt only. mykey

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> Just received and installed my networking package "Network In A Box" > PCI Version by Linksys. Have just a basic network between a P166mmx > and P100. W95 networking is setup and working fine. Tried Nascar2 and > quake so far under W95 with no problem. I have run into a major > setback in dos with Nascar2 multiplayer networking. I lock up on > atleast one of the systems everytime when attempting to Answer/Dial. I > have the dos IPX driver(s) loaded high on both systems. Have also > tested Quake in dos and it works great. The P166mmx has the Intense 3d > (rendition) and the P100 is using a generic S3 onboard. I have tried > loading just the regular (non-3d) nascar2 on both machines when > attempting this Dos connect with the same results. Any ideas as to > what N2 doesn't like about my config/setup for Dos IPX? I would > question whether the driver(s) where/are being properly loaded, ect... > but quake works flawlessly under the same conditions. BTW, Both > systems have the fully(uptodate) "Sierra" patched N2s. This is very > frustrating since the P100 suffers in framerate/performance if I have > to keep running under W95 only. Anyone with any experience getting N2 > to work in a (Dos Only) environment on a LAN, please help! > Thanks, > Ron L. > Home of the SSC http://www3.pgh.net/~lazer/ > For Nascar2 & Winston Cup Fans!

Ron, Hope this helps (I spent a frustrating couple hours w/same symptom.) Can't have number of opponenets at 39. There are 4 machines on my network currently, so I set to 34 and all is well :-))). Happy Lappin' Wade Tschida