Viper Racing

Does anyone remember how to run Viper Racing without the CD and intro movie, I just had to reinstall and can't for the life of me remember how I did it before! Thanks in Advance -- Harry Mailahn

> I have never found a way, but if you find one, let us know.. :) > It probably would have to do with running the sim in Direct3D > or some other way, as opposed to Glide, but I really don't know. With either my Voodoo 2 SLI or TNT I can run Viper in 1024x768. Viper is Direct3d only, with no Glide. The only requirement for any video card to run Viper in that res is that they report at least 15.5 megs of memory to DirectX. The only 16 meg cards I know of that can not do that are the Banshee and Voodoo 3, as DirectX only thinks that they have 15 megs. Chris "What is real? Are you certain you know what reality is? How do you know at this second you aren't asleep in your bed, dreaming that you are here..." -The Wizard of*** Mortado's Page of Filth- http://www.shadows.com/mortado/

Tried using the .exe file from the game's demo? It worked for me Dan Belcher Team Racing Unlimited

On Mon, 5 Jul 1999 20:57:30 -0400, Right-click the Viper icon, select properties/shortcut change the target to have -nocanary at the end. Heres mine: "F:\SIERRA\Viper Racing\Viper Racing.exe" -nocanary" -- * rrevved at mindspring dot com * unit.26 - s.p.u.t.u.m. * http://www.cabal.net * http://www.sputum.com

Ed, was there ever a command line switch to increase res to 1024x768? I vaguely recall you posted about this ages ago. I could be wrong. Tks Piper

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>On Mon, 5 Jul 1999 20:57:30 -0400, >>Does anyone remember how to run Viper Racing without the CD and intro movie, >>I just had to reinstall and can't for the life of me remember how I did it >>before! >>Thanks in Advance >Right-click the Viper icon, select properties/shortcut change the target >to have -nocanary at the end. >Heres mine: >"F:\SIERRA\Viper Racing\Viper Racing.exe" -nocanary"

On Tue, 06 Jul 1999 04:44:57 GMT, I have never found a way, but if you find one, let us know.. :) It probably would have to do with running the sim in Direct3D or some other way, as opposed to Glide, but I really don't know..

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>>On Mon, 5 Jul 1999 20:57:30 -0400, >>>Does anyone remember how to run Viper Racing without the CD and intro movie, >>>I just had to reinstall and can't for the life of me remember how I did it >>>before! >>>Thanks in Advance >>Right-click the Viper icon, select properties/shortcut change the target >>to have -nocanary at the end. >>Heres mine: >>"F:\SIERRA\Viper Racing\Viper Racing.exe" -nocanary"

-- * rrevved at mindspring dot com * unit.26 - s.p.u.t.u.m. * http://www.cabal.net * http://www.sputum.com

On Mon, 5 Jul 1999 22:32:38 -0700, "Mortado Filth"

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>> I have never found a way, but if you find one, let us know.. :) >> It probably would have to do with running the sim in Direct3D >> or some other way, as opposed to Glide, but I really don't know. >With either my Voodoo 2 SLI or TNT I can run Viper in 1024x768. Viper is >Direct3d only, with no Glide. The only requirement for any video card to run >Viper in that res is that they report at least 15.5 megs of memory to >DirectX. The only 16 meg cards I know of that can not do that are the >Banshee and Voodoo 3, as DirectX only thinks that they have 15 megs. >Chris

And I have a V3, oh well. Tks Piper

type -nocanary in the target box in the shortcut properties remembering to leave a space after the quotes and don't put it in quotes. And before anyone gets upset about piracy. I think 90% of the people who want no-CD hacks or cracks just are tired of putting the CD in just so the game can do a CD check. I think if people wanted to pirate something they would just copy the CD. Hope this helped you out, Rick Miller (Arrowhead)