CPR: Racing School doesn't work

I just purchased CPR and the Racing school, track info, and driver info options don't work. When I click on one of these options, the "sheet" screen comes up and some or all of the options on the left side of the screen show up, but when I try to click anywhere, the system just beeps. At this point, I have to hit alt-f4 to get out or do a hard reboot. Sometimes I get an access violation (error code C0000005). I have a Pentium 133, Sound Blaster 16, Matrox Mystique (2MB), and Canopus Pure 3D, all with the latest drivers. I also have Direct X 5.0 installed. Everything else in the game appears to be ok. I tried this with my desktop at 1024x768 (64K colors) and at 640x480 (256 colors), and neither worked. I also tried changing my desktop font size to small from large, and this didn't help. Also, my desktop icons get rearranged into a 640x480 footprint when I get out of the game sometimes. This also happened frequently in the demo. Usually when this happens, I'll see my desktop flash up (in 640x480) between menus while in the game. Sometimes my desktop is fine after exiting the game, but the icons get screwed up after rebooting. I don't have the auto-arrange option checked. -- Kevin (Remove the "x-" prefix from my address in order to replay via email)

Be like the rest of us, take the game back to the store...........and say thanks, but no thanks....it sux...

What web browser do you use? I used Netscape until I found out cpr uses internet explorer, but not the one that comes on the msn disk. The cpr disk actually has it. It does this because the info files are html and since it is microsoft for some reason it all makes sense.

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> I just purchased CPR and the Racing school, track info, and driver > info > options don't work. When I click on one of these options, the > "sheet" > screen comes up and some or all of the options on the left side of the > screen show up, but when I try to click anywhere, the system just > beeps. > At this point, I have to hit alt-f4 to get out or do a hard reboot. > Sometimes I get an access violation (error code C0000005). I have a > Pentium 133, Sound Blaster 16, Matrox Mystique (2MB), and Canopus Pure > 3D, > all with the latest drivers. I also have Direct X 5.0 installed. > Everything else in the game appears to be ok. I tried this with my > desktop > at 1024x768 (64K colors) and at 640x480 (256 colors), and neither > worked. > I also tried changing my desktop font size to small from large, and > this > didn't help. > Also, my desktop icons get rearranged into a 640x480 footprint when I > get > out of the game sometimes. This also happened frequently in the demo. > Usually when this happens, I'll see my desktop flash up (in 640x480) > between menus while in the game. Sometimes my desktop is fine after > exiting the game, but the icons get screwed up after rebooting. I > don't > have the auto-arrange option checked. > -- > Kevin > (Remove the "x-" prefix from my address in order to replay via email)

-- Thank you Marc Johnson

I have IE 3.02. Does the game require 4.0 for the Racing School and track info sheets? Kevin (Remove the "x-" prefix from my address in order to replay via email)

IE 3.02 should be work fine Kevin. That is the version of the browser we include on the CD. Assuming you're not running any pre-release versions of the operating system, we're not familar with the problems you're seeing. One thing you can try is accessing the pages directly from your browser. Try this: 1) Start your browser 2) open the html page off the CD directly. For example, if your CD is on drive G:, then open G:\HTML\SCHOOL\3SCHOOL.HM Assuming this works, it means that the browser is somehow not getting launched properly on your system when CART trys to start it, possibly some bad registry settings. If this is the case, I suggest you try uninstalling the browser and reinstalling it. Eric (CART Team)

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>I have IE 3.02. Does the game require 4.0 for the Racing School and track >info sheets? >Kevin >(Remove the "x-" prefix from my address in order to replay via email) >> What web browser do you use? I used Netscape until I found out cpr uses >> internet explorer, but not the one that comes on the msn disk. The cpr >> disk actually has it. It does this because the info files are html >> and since it is microsoft for some reason it all makes sense.

Thanks, I tried this and I got the same errors. So, I installed IE 4.0, and everything works great now! Kevin >IE 3.02 should be work fine Kevin. That is the version of the browser we >include on the CD. Assuming you're not running any pre-release versions of >the operating system, we're not familar with the problems you're seeing. One >thing you can try is accessing the pages directly from your browser. Try >this: >1) Start your browser >2) open the html page off the CD directly. For example, if your CD is on >drive G:, then open G:\HTML\SCHOOL\3SCHOOL.HM