Posted October 08, 2015
I had a little faith in this game when I bought it since it seemed there were workarounds...but it seems there's not only a bunch of them, but they're all scattered.
I'm having serious issues getting this to run on my system; and every time I try one workaround, I get a new problem.
I tried the Launcher...but couldn't get glide mode to work at all...it would just crash. Configired dgvoodoo; same result. Gave up and decided to play software mode; which failed because CPUGrabber wasn't having any effect...my jumps came up short and I thought Taurus' car was going to wobble itself apart while doing 2mph down the road.
I fixed the CPUGrabber issue by modifying the BAT files as per one posting; ok...software mode works fine; still nothing with Glide. Tried updating dgVoodoo...that was even worse as for some reason it didn't want to detect my video card at all. This thing is a Core 2 Duo 2.5ghz, 6gb ram, 1gb Nvidia GTX260M. All I got were appcrash. D3D mode worked...but I wasn't playing the game in a small 640x480 box.
I swapped over to my other machine (which I have no clue what it's specs are other than it's got second-gen Intel HD Graphics on the CPU). This time...glide mode worked...but due to the lousy GPU the framerate was horrible.
So I deleted *everything* and reinstalled everything back on my gaming machine. Glide magically worked now; I set the configuration options I wanted and it still booted...fixed the CPUGrabber stuff...started working nice. Taurus was driving fast again.
Then I got in a battle...the graphics glitched and the game locked up. I tried to wait...but it was just attempting to render the game at something like 2fps. Closed game...closed launcher...explorer never reloaded.
This leads me to a few questions:
Just what, among the many scattered solutions/workarounds actually seems to work?
Why would a launcher have BAT files to set affinity that seemingly aren't correct for Windows 7?
Has anyone ever tried running this on a Win98 VM using VirtualBox's 3d support?
I'm feeling as if GOG didn't really care if this game ran or not; which is sad...because it makes me seriously question how many games I can purchase that will reasonably work. Redneck Rampage was just fine (though DosBOX makes life easier).
Still...how the heck is anyone supposed to play this game on a modern machine when there seems to be no valid workarounds. Every time I workaround something; I just cause yet another problem either to the game, or the stability of my system.
I'm having serious issues getting this to run on my system; and every time I try one workaround, I get a new problem.
I tried the Launcher...but couldn't get glide mode to work at all...it would just crash. Configired dgvoodoo; same result. Gave up and decided to play software mode; which failed because CPUGrabber wasn't having any effect...my jumps came up short and I thought Taurus' car was going to wobble itself apart while doing 2mph down the road.
I fixed the CPUGrabber issue by modifying the BAT files as per one posting; ok...software mode works fine; still nothing with Glide. Tried updating dgVoodoo...that was even worse as for some reason it didn't want to detect my video card at all. This thing is a Core 2 Duo 2.5ghz, 6gb ram, 1gb Nvidia GTX260M. All I got were appcrash. D3D mode worked...but I wasn't playing the game in a small 640x480 box.
I swapped over to my other machine (which I have no clue what it's specs are other than it's got second-gen Intel HD Graphics on the CPU). This time...glide mode worked...but due to the lousy GPU the framerate was horrible.
So I deleted *everything* and reinstalled everything back on my gaming machine. Glide magically worked now; I set the configuration options I wanted and it still booted...fixed the CPUGrabber stuff...started working nice. Taurus was driving fast again.
Then I got in a battle...the graphics glitched and the game locked up. I tried to wait...but it was just attempting to render the game at something like 2fps. Closed game...closed launcher...explorer never reloaded.
This leads me to a few questions:
Just what, among the many scattered solutions/workarounds actually seems to work?
Why would a launcher have BAT files to set affinity that seemingly aren't correct for Windows 7?
Has anyone ever tried running this on a Win98 VM using VirtualBox's 3d support?
I'm feeling as if GOG didn't really care if this game ran or not; which is sad...because it makes me seriously question how many games I can purchase that will reasonably work. Redneck Rampage was just fine (though DosBOX makes life easier).
Still...how the heck is anyone supposed to play this game on a modern machine when there seems to be no valid workarounds. Every time I workaround something; I just cause yet another problem either to the game, or the stability of my system.