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nascar and win98 problem

2 posts by 2 people · 19 Nov 1998 - 19 Nov 1998

I just upgraded to win98 and bought nascar from paparus. When I installed nascar and go to the sound setup I can set the sound using autodetec and I can hear Ned Jarrett. Then when I go back to the main menu screen and exit to dos it seems to lock up. I close that window and try to play the game and it comes back and says "This game must be run in MSDOS mode do you want to close everything and restart pc". I click yes and the pc reboots and nascar starts but with no sound. I try setting the sound up under dos and it wont auto detect my sound card. When I manually install the sound card using the same setting as it found in windows and save the setting I still can't get any sound. When I go back to windows and try to install the sound card again it says "Can't find I file, make sure the path is correct". The only time I hear sound is if I try setting up the sound card on the original installation using autodetect but when I exit the sound setup program the dos window seems to hang-up. Any suggestions?
You need to configure your sound card under DOS. Windows will be able to find it but once you reboot to DOS Windows isn't active. If you still have the installation instructions and disks for your sound card refer to installing in a DOS environment. You can also try changing the properties of your link that starts Nascar. Uncheck the box that causes it to boot to DOS. I think the choice is to let Windows attempt to run in DOS window. It will slow Nascar down a bit, but if you have a powerful enough computer it won't matter. It will also save you the time from rebooting your computer before and after the game. Robert I just upgraded to win98 and bought nascar from paparus. When I installed nascar and go to the sound setup I can set the sound using autodetec and I can hear Ned Jarrett. Then when I go back to the main menu screen and exit to dos it seems to lock up. I close that window and try to play the game and it comes back and says "This game must be run in MSDOS mode do you want to close everything and restart pc". I click yes and the pc reboots and nascar starts but with no sound. I try setting the sound up under dos and it wont auto detect my sound card. When I manually install the sound card using the same setting as it found in windows and save the setting I still can't get any sound. When I go back to windows and try to install the sound card again it says "Can't find I file, make sure the path is correct". The only time I hear sound is if I try setting up the sound card on the original installation using autodetect but when I exit the sound setup program the dos window seems to hang-up. Any suggestions?

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