First post, by .fantasista.
System specs:
ASUS a7v266-e mobo
AMD Athlon XP 1400+
512 MB DDR
3dfx Voodo5 5500 AGP
Sound Blaster Live! Value
I found the game at a thrift store today and bought it exclusively because it had the 3dfx logo on the box. It installed on my system no problem, but the game itself is incredibly buggy; not during the actual races, but while navigating the menus. The cutscene videos don't work at all, the mouse will lock up and effectively crash the game while navigating the menus, and while loading in-between menus the screen goes black for minutes, and sometimes moves on to the next screen. In fact, only twice so far have I even managed to get past the opening "it's in the game" screen. When it crashes, even ctrl-alt-delete won't take me back to the desktop.
I installed the Glide patch which naturally helped the in-race graphics, but not the problems with the rest of the game. It actually surprised me that the patch worked, given the problems I've had trying to get other EA games to run in Glide with the Voodoo5. I hate EA. 🙁
Does anyone have an idea what the problem might be? Is it my hardware that's causing the problem? It strikes me as weird that a Windows 95 game would cause such problems with Windows 98... The only patch I could find for this game was the 3dfx Glide patch. 😒
