You have tried right-mouse clicking on the motor.exe file and using the compatibility options correct ???

Of course. I've forgotten to mention that, sorry. I've tried to run the game in both Windows 95 and 98/ME modes, they don't work.

That was my only trick as I don't have this game to test out with 😉

Hopefully somebody on this great board will have it and give you some pointers....

Did you install the relevant patches from http://www.patches-scrolls.de ?

I can't find Motorhead there: http://www.patches-scrolls.de/game_index.php#m

I've installed the 3.0 patch from this site:

http://mhtools.knoware.nl/files.htm

It turned up for me via the search box, and there's a second index that has it (?): http://dlh.net/cgi-bin/dp.cgi?lang=eng&ref=ps&sys=pc&cap=m

Just to be clear, this is the title from DICE back in 1998 ???

Dunno why you ask that. The only other thing it could be with that name is some lame band.

HunterZ wrote:

It turned up for me via the search box, and there's a second index that has it (?): http://dlh.net/cgi-bin/dp.cgi?lang=eng&ref=ps&sys=pc&cap=m

Silly of me, thanks 😀 But this is exactly the same patch as I downloaded from Motorhead Tools. No effect, the game still crashes.

BigBodZod wrote:

Just to be clear, this is the title from DICE back in 1998 ???

Precisely. To be 100% sure, here is a gameplay:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXAFVhJrrHQ&feature=related

Would be easier to google for it if there weren't a stupid band with the same name 🙁

leileilol wrote:

Dunno why you ask that. The only other thing it could be with that name is some lame band.

Hey now, you dissing my bud Lemmy 😉

I was pretty much thinking this was the case, just never played it is all...

I stopped playing most racing games back in my Amiga days and just recenly played a little Gran Turismo on my PS3...

Looks like I may have to start looking into this genre a little more then.

*calling that band stupid is stupid*
/me trolls away again...
😀

I've found an interesting thing: in the game's folder there is a file named Error.txt, which contains these lines:

1DirectInput Acquire keyboard failed.
2DirectInputInit failed.

Maybe it is related to the problem?

EDIT:

I've made some progress. I've disabled the compatibility mode and tried to run the game using MS Application Compatibility Toolkit ver. 5.6 instead. I've run the game with ForceDirectDrawEmulation fix and guess what... it started working 😀

I can enter the main menu and start a race, the problem is that when I cross the finish line, the game crashes and this message appears:

Any ideas?

I have this game running very nicely in Wine 1.3.x on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.

I used the dgVoodoo Glide wrapper to play the 3Dfx version and it runs stable. - maybe you should try that.

dgVoodoo Glide wrapper is old.. (good advise but i know this one is better 😉)

Use nGlide: http://www.zeus-software.com/downloads/nglide

look @ the compatibility list: http://www.zeus-software.com/downloads/nglide/compatibility

dgVoodoo suffices for Motorhead, the reason I didn't choose nGlide is because it's not yet functional with Wine.

I use nGlide, works fine for other games 😉 I think the solution lies within the MS Application Compatibility Toolkit, I just need to find the right fix to use.

can you tell me how you got the game installer to work on win7 x64?

//nevermind - i got it to install, but have run into the same error you described in the first post

Have you tried running it in XP mode?