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NASCAR 2 is apparently not fond of Windows XP

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First post, by Tetris Ling

Posted on 2005-05-30, 05:42

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I'm trying to get Sierra's old NASCAR Racing 2 to run on Windows XP.

The problem is a crash that dumps the following text to the screen:

1Running from C: drive
2UniVBE driver not present
3543488 Conventional  15367492 Normal  15367492 All  15367492 Largest
4pmTable available at 000c5aeb (383 bytes)
5Triple Buffering
6Card has 134152192 bytes on it...
7linear selector = 0000
8base address = 983183bc
9DOS/4GW Professional error (2001): exception 0Dh (general protection fault) at 3
10BF:02AF4974
11TSF32: prev_tsf32 80C4
12SS       3C7 DS       3C7 ES       3C7 FS         0 GS       17F
13EAX 983183BC EBX    50000 ECX    50000 EDX        0
14ESI 983B83BC EDI  2C583A0 EBP  2C5839C ESP  2BF51D4
15CS:IP  3BF:02AF4974 ID 0D COD        0 FLG   213206
16CS=  3BF, USE32, page granular, limit 7FFEFFFF, base        0, acc C7FB
17SS=  3C7, USE32, page granular, limit 7FFEFFFF, base        0, acc C7F3
18DS=  3C7, USE32, page granular, limit 7FFEFFFF, base        0, acc C7F3
19ES=  3C7, USE32, page granular, limit 7FFEFFFF, base        0, acc C7F3
20FS=    0, USE16, byte granular, limit        0, base        0, acc  0
21GS=  17F, USE16, byte granular, limit     FFFF, base     DC90, acc F3
22CR0: unavailable
23Crash address (unrelocated) = 1:00094974

I get this error message whether or not I run it with VDMSound.

(Incidentaly, the configuration program runs just fine).

Any help would be fabulous.

-Tetris Ling

Reply 1 of 5, by HunterZ

Posted on 2005-05-30, 06:18

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You might try NOLFB (search the forum). Just a shot in the dark.

Reply 2 of 5, by MiniMax

Posted on 2005-05-30, 18:01

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Or try replacing that DOS/4GW module with DOS32A (search the forum or the Wiki for instructions on how to do that).

Edit: I'm feeling genours today:

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Reply 3 of 5, by VirtuaIceMan

Posted on 2005-05-31, 19:15

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It'll work in DOSBox but way too slow. If you get anywhere keep us posted!

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Reply 4 of 5, by DosFreak

Posted on 2005-05-31, 19:23

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The 4GW extender probably isn't compatible with the XP stub. I've seen this before. Don't have the game but you should try the above suggestions...especially the DOS32A one.

You could also try MS VPC or DosBox.

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Reply 5 of 5, by Tetris Ling

Posted on 2005-06-14, 00:44

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An update:

With an arcane combination of NOLFB, DOS32A, and VDMSound, I have gotten the game to tell me I don't have enough conventional memory to play.

I have to assume this is good news; usually it quits long before it even bothers to check my memory.

[sigh] Buckets of RAM, and my life is still controlled by 640K of dumb conventional memory...

Update: A little more tinkering with my VDMS settings (increasing the amount of Expanded Memory available), and now it works perfectly, at full speed and everything. Neat.

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