Starting ETCC

Hi Folks: I've decided to try appeasing my NFS/PU buddies, who are only reluctantly accepting F1C as a replacement for the now defunct NFS/PU. NFS/PU being dead because EA pulled the plug on the online servers. So I've loaded ETCC, it's interesting, but pushes my old dual P3/600 way past it's abilities if the graphics options are bumped to the levels I can live with in F1C. Anyway... I installed the mod on my WIN2k system, and took a couple of laps before I remembered I was running as administrator, so I logged in as my user, and of course there is no icon on my screen. I found ETC03Launcher in my F1C directory and fired it up. I got that first ETCC screen, selected "Start the Mod" and hit the proceed button. This started F1 Challenge. How do I start ETCC in WIN2K? Thanks Larry

You dont hit Start The Mod first..... You hit Make New profile... Then Start The Mod ;) AD

Aidee wrote: > > You dont hit Start The Mod first..... > > You hit Make New profile... > > Then Start The Mod ;) Thanks Aidee: I thought I tried that. I start the launcher with the "Run" button of the startup menu. Create a new player called "Dragon". Hit "Start the Mod". Yep, there is the F1 Challenge startup screen, a Ferrari turning in the display, and the selected player is "Larry Lindstrom". This isn't working. I'm from a Unix background. I'd rather keep administrator sessions for administrator work, and run other applications as a non privileged user. This is to protect the system. Suggestions? How are XP users installing F1 Challenge and the ETCC mod? How are you running the XP mod. I appreciate your advice Aidee, but I'm still not getting it to run under my normal user account. I need to practice A1 in my Ferrari anyway. Against my better judgment, I ran the ETCC mod as administrator last night and my NFS/PU buddies both loved it. These guys want to paint their cars. Can someone point me at a page that describes how they can do that? We are all very impressed with the work this theam produced. Great job folks. Thanks Larry

Most games seem to require you to run as admin under XP. Dumb, but that's the way it is. Esp. if you installed as admin. If you want to run as a user, you might try reinstalling as that user. Otherwise the user doesn't have permission for all the files. That's what I used to have to do in Linux IIRC. "Larry Lindstrom" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> > > I'm from a Unix background. I'd rather keep administrator > sessions for administrator work, and run other applications as a > non privileged user. This is to protect the system. > > Suggestions? How are XP users installing F1 Challenge and the > ETCC mod? How are you running the XP mod. >

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> > Most games seem to require you to run as admin under XP. Dumb, but that's > the way it is. Esp. if you installed as admin. If you want to run as a > user, you might try reinstalling as that user. Otherwise the user doesn't > have permission for all the files. That's what I used to have to do in > Linux IIRC. > > "Larry Lindstrom" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... > > > > > > I'm from a Unix background. I'd rather keep administrator > > sessions for administrator work, and run other applications as a > > non privileged user. This is to protect the system. > > > > Suggestions? How are XP users installing F1 Challenge and the > > ETCC mod? How are you running the XP mod. > >

Thanks Haqsau: I have my WIN2K installed in an NTFS partition, but my F1C had to be installed as administrator. I put it in a WIN98 partition and I can run F1C as a normal user. I was hoping ETCC, which is in the same WIN98 directory, would allow me to do the same thing. I appreciate your reply. Sorry we won't see you tomorrow. If I can't get closer to my old time I might sit it out too. Unless I know someone else is close to being that bad. Thanks Larry

Larry Lindstrom <[email hidden]> wrote in news:[email hidden]: > I'm from a Unix background. I'd rather keep administrator > sessions for administrator work, and run other applications as a > non privileged user. This is to protect the system. junk all this hokey admin crapola and get a real OS...win98se...then you don't have to worry about whose administering who and whether your non- privleged or not....heck...I turn on my machine, I play games....what MORE could one ask for?????? dave :) henrie