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First post, by Lord Uber Dowzen

Posted on 2011-07-21, 22:38

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Probably not going to get many/any replies but here goes...

The first game I ever bought (over a decade ago, wow, that's depressing) was Lego Racers. It was this fun little Mario Kart 64 clone where you could build your own cars out of lego.

The game used to work on my XP machine but during a tidy up recently I decided to ditch that PC and I've been unable to get the game to work on my Vista PC. I think I've narrowed down the problem though; as far as I can tell the game is unable to detect my video card (8800GT). Is there anyway of tricking the game into thinking that there is a compatible video card there or something?

Finally, I am planning on getting a laptop with Win7 business (or whatever the version before Ultimate is called) so I was just wondering if anyone has had any luck playing games with the XP mode?

Reply 1 of 10, by RichB93

Posted on 2011-07-21, 23:46

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Man I used to love playing that game! Just dug the CD out and gave it a whirl on my laptop which is running Windows 7 Home Premium. In Windows 95 compatibility mode it works fine!

Reply 2 of 10, by Lord Uber Dowzen

Posted on 2011-07-21, 23:51

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Hmm, interesting. Might have to wait and see until I get my new laptop. Thanks for the reply!

Reply 3 of 10, by leileilol

Posted on 2011-07-22, 01:19

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Doesn't it have Glide API support? IIRC?!?!!? (1999 games HAD to have one)
If so, glidewrapper it up.

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Reply 4 of 10, by RichB93

Posted on 2011-07-22, 02:21

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leileilol wrote:
Doesn't it have Glide API support? IIRC?!?!!? (1999 games HAD to have one)
If so, glidewrapper it up.

D3D only as it was a multi platform release.

Reply 5 of 10, by Lord Uber Dowzen

Posted on 2011-07-22, 06:57

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So this is interesting. Out of interest I downloaded the demo which works perfectly. I have 2 options for video driver Direct 3d hardware and software. Weird...

Reply 6 of 10, by Procyon

Posted on 2011-07-22, 18:14

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Maybe it's a videodriver issue, older games that run on ATI cards sometimes don't run on Nvidia cards and the other way around. Does your CD-ROM of Lego Racers also have the option for software rendering? If so, try that.

Reply 7 of 10, by leileilol

Posted on 2011-07-22, 19:00

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Try renaming the EXE? Maybe some regressed internal video profile is screwing it up.

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Reply 8 of 10, by Lord Uber Dowzen

Posted on 2011-07-22, 21:51

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@ Procyon, no that's the weird thing. I can open up the 3D device selector window for the game but it's completely blank. The same window for the demo lists Direct 3D hardware and software mode.

@leileilol, nope, just tried that and it didn't work either.

Thanks for all the replies. I may just put the disc away until I get my Win7 laptop.

Reply 9 of 10, by Lord Uber Dowzen

Posted on 2011-10-11, 23:40

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Just for those who were hanging on the edge of their seats, I managed to get it to work on my windows 7 laptop. Man, that game is surprisingly good (if a bit easy).

Reply 10 of 10, by pinkdonut666

Posted on 2011-10-22, 04:53

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That was the first PC game I bought to! good to see you got it working. I still keep the old machine i played it on around, but it will run just fine on my XP machine too. That game to me back then was such a B****! man how things change. i can beat it if under an hour if i'm board

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