About music, in Windows 98 I connected the sound card to the cd drive and now music works in the d3d version, but the rendition version still crashes without music for me in 1024*768 (while Raven said he had music when he crashed). This is with version 18-10-003.corrected.
Then I formated again and I installed Windows ME so usb works without hassle now.
- In Windows ME everything seem to be the same as before in win98. In 1024*768 the game crashes after loading and I don't hear music. I still can't read the error message behind the game.
- With versions 18-10-003.corrected, 18-10-004, 18-10-005 and 19-10-001, if the desktop is in 640*480 then the loading screen is fine, I can navigate in the menus with music, when I start a game I can see the starting grid screen with the 3d checkered flag behind, but when I press Enter to start the race, the game freezes/crashes/hangs on a black screen. The computer is not responsive, I can't press anything and I have to switch the computer off. If the desktop is in another resolution like 1024, it's the same as before, the game doesn't change resolution, it crashes and I can't read the message.
-18-10-004 doesn't output any log in 640*480, but outputs logs in 1024*768.
-18-10-005 and 19-10-001 output logs in 640 and 1024. In 640, I'm not sure if logs keep growing when the game hangs with a black screen and I have to switch off the computer. One time the log file was 1 Mb, the other time it was 2 Mb. I included both logs.
Some notes
- I restarted the computer every time before a new test.
- Menus look pretty slow compared to d3d, especially the fade to black when you start a quick game.
- Maybe the checkered flag isn't actually in 3d and just fakes the 3d. In Tomb Raider 2, the Playstation version has a red flag when you open the menu while playing, just like this but it's actually 2d. There's a shader that fakes the 3d. On pc it's flat.
- I don't know what demo Raven is talking about.
There are 2 patches for Formula 1 that replace the exes. The first one says it's for Cyrix cpus, the 2nd one says it fixes joysticks. The 1st one has all 3 versions (3dfx, d3d and rendition), but I only found the 2nd one for the 3dfx version. The readme file says rendition and d3d versions will come if this patch is fine. I don't know if they ever released it for Rendition and d3d.
The Cyrix patch is here https://archive.org/download/pelitcd2/PCDA.IS … T%2FF1CREND.EXE The 3dfx one is in a different file.
The Cyrix patch seems to behave the same as the retail version with your wrapper, with the desktop resolution in 1024 and 640. In 640, my logs were 3 Mb but it probably doesn't matter. I included logs with the patch in case there's something.
Here's a video in 640*480 of the unpatched game with the version 19-10-001 of the wrapper
https://youtu.be/y5hKVWzEG7E
I'm attaching logs for each resolution for the 4 versions of the wrapper, with 2 different logs in 640 with 19-10-001, and logs with the Cyrix patch.