Err... Superbike 2000 from EA or Castrol Honda Superbike 2000 from Midas?
Windows 7 is 32-bit or 64-bit?

suberbike 2001 will only run if you set your desktop to 16bit try that

Castrol Honda games were from Midas. I have the first (non 2000) one and it won't even work on WinXP... although the engine for the game was re-used (and updated) multiple times, for games like the German Motorrad Grand Prix series and also the cross over Grand Prix Vs Superbike.

In fact, the engine is a variant of the one that powers Johnny Herbert's Grand Prix Championship (and all the GP2 Championship etc variants after that). The engine started out pre-acceleration as PowerF1's engine. Phew!

Incidentally if you take the executable from GP2 Championship and replace the one in Johnny Herbert the game will work fine (although missing chrome effects on the car and skid marks are black not transparent). I did wonder if a newer evolution of the Motorrad Grand Prix bike game engine might fix up Castrol Honda SuperBikes/Castrol Honda SuperBike 2000 maybe, but never looked into it...

Perhaps substituting the WineD3D DLLs does something, as in DirectDraw Wrapper ?

Davros wrote:

suberbike 2001 will only run if you set your desktop to 16bit try that

Tried that already but didn't work.

Castrol Honda games were from Midas. I have the first (non 2000) one and it won't even work on WinXP...

Mine worked, but was fully updated. The strange thing is I never got it working properly with TrueColor mode.
Both games I'm referring to are the Midas ones and both were working on WinXP for me.

for sb2000 try desktop to 16bit
comaptability to win98/me
run as admin
disable high dpi scaling

thats what works for sb2001 may work for sb2000

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for sb2000 try desktop to 16bit comaptability to win98/me run as admin disable high dpi scaling […]
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for sb2000 try desktop to 16bit
comaptability to win98/me
run as admin
disable high dpi scaling

thats what works for sb2001 may work for sb2000

Didn't work on sb2000. I didn't know there is Castrol Honda Superbike 2001. I'll try to find this one.
Edit: SB2000 worked unpatched with these settings and even in 32-bits desktop. Funny thing is that version never worked on WinXP.

there isnt a castrol honda superbike 2001

Just to clarify the confusion...

The Superbike aka SBK series were from Milestone and published by Electronic Arts, consisting of:

Superbike World Championship: http://www.mobygames.com/game/superbike-world-championship

Superbike 2000: http://www.mobygames.com/game/superbike-2000

Superbike 2001: http://www.mobygames.com/game/superbike-2001

The Castrol Honda Superbike series was a budget range by Midas Interactive:

Castrol Honda Superbike World Champions (what I have): http://www.mobygames.com/game/castrol-honda-s … world-champions

Castrol Honda Superbike 2000: http://www.mobygames.com/game/castrol-honda-superbike-2000

They're still cranking out yearly versions of motorbike games using the same engine, it might be possible to replace the exe with one from a newer version of the game (as I replaced the Johnny Herbert's Grand Prix Championship exe with one from GP2 Championship), but I haven't tried that.

http://www.amazon.de/s/ref=sr_nr_scat_300992_ … c9cba986d6947d0

Here's a video of Castrol Honda Superbike World Champions (the original game): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQlSo8tTbDI

Here's a video of Castrol Honda Superbike 2000: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3m-7f8Kd8o

Here's a video of Motorrad Grand Prix Simulator 2011: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-PJxCidEbY

Actually the latter looks more based on the Johnny Herbert engine... maybe all the games were 😒

filipetolhuizen wrote:

SB2000 worked unpatched with these settings and even in 32-bits desktop. Funny thing is that version never worked on WinXP.

CHS2000 is working perfectly in Xp with the "IgnoreException" ACT fix.
And it working for me in Win7 64-bit. I just set Win98 compatibility mode for setup.exe and bike.exe. Working in the race like a charm.

Gamecollector wrote:

filipetolhuizen wrote:

SB2000 worked unpatched with these settings and even in 32-bits desktop. Funny thing is that version never worked on WinXP.

CHS2000 is working perfectly in Xp with the "IgnoreException" ACT fix.
And it working for me in Win7 64-bit. I just set Win98 compatibility mode for setup.exe and bike.exe. Working in the race like a charm.

Well, I might be mistaken, one version never worked on XP too, could be the one with that same patch. Only the original Castrol Honda is not working on Win7 on D3D.

Just a small update: I think I know what is causing the crash. if I run demo.exe, it will run the non-playable demo with several white textures flashing all over the place. If I can get rid of them maybe the game will work. Anyone knows how?

any texture options in the game ?
does it support glide

@filipetolhuizen; Do you have an Nvidia card?

I ask because this game would crash constantly when I still had an Nvidia card, but when I got AMD/Ati it ran well.

Yes I have a nvidia card, but the game used to work fine on Windows XP.

Very Handy thread, - I have just loaded it onto a couple of PC's at home, Both Win XP, both nvidia card and used the july 2003 patch for CH2000 (would not work without that). Now ready to race my lad! My higher spec PC has updated nvidia drivers and I do get some flashing between screens loading. So perhaps you may have a nvidia driver issue in Win 7 ? Anyway, thanks for info because I think I may have failed to set Win98 compatibility mode years ago when I tried.

Edit:
I did fresh installs and patched before running it first time - it makes a difference on some applications so I did not risk running before doing the patch. - Probably not important on this game , but just thought I would mention it.

I've just been messing about with the original Castrol Honda Superbike Champions in Win8.1 64bit. For starters the installer won't work, complaining it can't find setup.lid on the CD, which doesn't exist. So I installed it on VMWare Win98 machine and copied install folder over.

Tried Compatibility Mode = Win98 on both bike.exe and demo.exe and it won't work. However when I checked the Event Viewer it said this, implying it's related to a DirectInput problem:

Faulting application name: bike.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x3a93e7e6 Faulting module name: DINPUT.dll, version: 6.3.960 […]
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Faulting application name: bike.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x3a93e7e6
Faulting module name: DINPUT.dll, version: 6.3.9600.16384, time stamp: 0x52158cc7
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x00011211
Faulting process ID: 0x173c
Faulting application start time: 0x01d00dbf2349c221
Faulting application path: D:\Games\castrolh\bike.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\DINPUT.dll
Report ID: 626540a9-79b2-11e4-8293-7824af8a9e0a
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID: