I did read somewhere a while ago that renaming/moving/deleting the movie folder in the install dir did help some. It does work fine with the latest versions of wine.
There is a patch for this (4.1) did you try that?

http://www.patches-scrolls.com/dl.php?file=toca2p41.zip

Also IIRC windows 98/me compatibility must be set. Hope this helps

Thanks for your reply.

I already installed "Patch 4.1" yesterday. Deleting the movies folder doesn't solve the problem either. As mentioned before, the compatibility mode does not cause any changes.

Are there programs like "Wine" for Windows which emulate an older DirectX version or 3D Acceleration? Afaik, VMWare and VirtualBox only run games with DirectX 8 and 9.

There is/was some talk of porting wine to windows but it is a massive task due to the proprietary nature of windows apis.

http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOnWindows

The only option i can suggest if you dont use linux is to just try a virtual machine unless some guru has got this working and knows some tricks sorry

you can use a livedvd to run windows games with wine it will not alter your windows setup in any way
Kanotix comes with amd and nvidia drivers and wine and steam
you need one of the following
Kanotix Dragonfire LinuxTag 2013 KDE Special 32 bit – ISO (1.2 GB)
Kanotix Dragonfire LinuxTag 2013 KDE Special 64 bit – ISO (1.3 GB)

http://kanotix.com/index.php?newlang=eng

just boot with it and double click on the game exe

Just an update if you do try out davros answer i think you will find version 1.5.29 of wine installed in kanotix wont run toca2. It started running cto an acceptable level around version 1.3.35 but suffered regressions until version 1.6. It's worth a try though

Thanks for your suggestions. Is Kanotix really the most recommendable distribution for games? I could also create a new partition and install Ubuntu or Linux Mint.

possibly not I just suggested it because of its simplicity (being a livedvd)

I had the same problem when upgrading to xp now running win 7. I thought about installing the game but remembered the issue. Can I partition a drive with win 7 and win 98? Did Mr. Blade get er going? It is a great classic game. My buddy and I used to play online together.

yes you can partition, you may need a boot manager

Thought so. It works on win 98.

Thanks.

Bit of a necro-thread reborn, but I recently noticed this post: http://games.reveur.de/en/news/3578,TOCA-2--T … ndows-7-PC.html

So there is a fix, if a bit messy. I wonder if there's other solutions to this?

Okay the rather amazing Zeus over at nGlide has fixed ToCA 2! You just need to swap a value in a hex editor. I used HxD (http://mh-nexus.de/en/downloads.php?product=HxD) then selected the block to change and right-click > Fill Selection to change it.

Note: to install, open the CD-ROM and double-click SETUP.EXE, as the launcher doesn't seem to work any more.

Unpatched, original ToCA2 from CD-ROM:
1. Open TC2.exe with hex editor
2. Scroll down to offset 0x706ED (row 000706E0, column 0D) and change 7E to EB
3. Save TC2.exe and play!

Patched 4.1 version (patch here http://www.patches-scrolls.com/dl.php?file=toca2p41.zip):
1. Open TC2.exe with hex editor
2. Scroll down to offset 0x7426D (row 00074260, column 0D) and change 7E to EB
3. Save TC2.exe and play!

It will then load quickly when you start a race, instead of taking over an hour!

Credit: http://www.zeus-software.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=703

It works great for me! Big thanks to you and Zeus of course who worked out the solution. I packed the patched file and Patch 4.1 in one installer, for people who don't want to work with a hex editor, which can be downloaded on my website:

http://www.replaying.de/toca-2/toca-2-touring … dows-7-8-1-x64/

Have fun!

Even with the patch, the main menu navigation is still way too fast/sensitive. Any workaround for that issue?

That might be a compatibly mode change to Win98 perhaps?

These hex edits and around's may be great, but oh how much simpler a nice retro rig is... Love TOCA 1 & 2...

EDIT: the slipstreamed exe\v4.1 patch works great on my W7 rig - thanks!

VirtuaIceMan wrote:

That might be a compatibly mode change to Win98 perhaps?

That doesn't work.

Hi there, sorry to bring this thread back to life (again!)

I've been looking to play ToCA2 again, as I played it as a teenager.
I don't have the disc with me, so I've been looking for somewhere to download the game, in addition to finding Zeus's Win7 fix.

I tried running Mr. Blade's installer:

I packed the patched file and Patch 4.1 in one installer, for people who don't want to work with a hex editor, which can be downloaded on my website:
http://www.replaying.de/toca-2/toca-2-t ... 7-8-1-x64/

And it created a folder containing, amongst other things TC2.exe. I briefly checked in a hex editor and it has the appropriate hex change already in it, so I fairly sure that this is the right TC2.exe

But when I run it (execute that TC2.exe), I first get an error about not finding QMixer.dll (appears to be an old sound driver, downloaded from here: http://www.dlldump.com/download-dll-files_new … 4/download.html) and then when I solved that I started saying I had to open ToCA from the Start menu ... but there's nothing relevant IN the start menu? I can't find any other ToCA- or Codemasters- related files or folders anywhere on my computer.

Am I doing it wrong? Is Mr. Blade's installer applying the Patch only? i.e. do I need to get hold of the disc and install it normally first?
Or is there something else 'up'?