This may be a useful website if you haven't found it already: http://www.lazygamereviews.com/0706milbs/pod/
The installation guide seems to use dgvoodoo instead of nglide, so you may have better luck with that.

Thank you! Meanwhile on facebook I have to deal with asshats...

https://i.imgur.com/m2VnZlI.png

I've never had any bad crashes on tracks with GOG POD Gold / Retail CD version on Win 10 with or without Podhacks, it may be because of different textures if you've done some replacements or trying to use other POD EXEs. I have not tried the non Gold or non 3dfx retail versions since the ISO I've always used is Gold and so is GOG's version, these may not be working well on modern systems anyway, but PODX3Dfx.exe works well with nGlide/Podhacks.

For nGlide to work on GOG version, you have to remove or rename glide2x.dll so that it will use nGlide and not GOG's wrapper.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filede … /?id=1321610461 (a guide to getting POD Gold to work on Win 10)

https://discord.gg/wAFv2sN (POD discord, not very active, but you might find help here if needed)

Building a 1990s PC for POD is one of my main reasons, to play at the original speed and be able to try out the different graphics modes, 3dfx without emulation, Pentium effects that dont work on modern PC. But at least POD Gold 3dfx still runs on Win 10 64-bit for now thanks to nGlide/Podhacks, even multiplayer works although not without flaws of old netcode. It's also largely a forgotten game even though Ubisoft is still selling it digitally 🤣, if only they'd do a remaster or reboot.

Oh man yeah I'd LOOOOVE a remaster / reboot honestly same with the original MotoRacer, that game was killer. But anyhow I can't seem to get the Gold GOG version working right with Nglide even after using PODhacks and deleting that file. It starts but then crashes at the intro video it seems (works without Nglide of course but where's the fun in that), where ironically my big box copy will start up and work with the 3dfx exe from the CD PODhacks and Nglide but it seems like on some maps (so far I've found that it doesn't like Downtown and Canyon but I'm still testing them all one by one) it just crashes after a few seconds.

Any advice in what the heck I'm doing wrong with the GOG version would be greatly appreciated. 🤣

Crashing at intro could be either a video codec issue or perhaps 'Podhacks music player' in the Wave-out option:

https://www.gog.com/forum/pod/game_crashes_af … r_intro_however

Are you using Podhacks with GOG Gold? If so, try changing the Wave-out to your default sound device instead of Podhacks music player. Not sure why it would work without nGlide though, that's odd. I would turn off the intro in options if you manage to get into the menu.

As for the retail CD version, if it's non Gold, you need to install a 3Dfx patch and Force Feedback patch iirc: http://www.bredel.homepage.t-online.de/POD/PO … od-english.html, in addition to Podhacks after these patches, which is why POD Gold via Gold ISO or GOG is easier.

Got it! Thank you I figured it out. The 3dfx patch fixed the random crashes! 😁