There's a WO forum that has all the files hosted in various members' locations. I grabbed them a couple of months back, so I'll upload them once I get home.

Thanks very much, I havent been able to get a working link for these patches at all. WOuld you remember how to apply them?

This is just a dump of my Wipeout patches folder. I haven't checked - because I don't have it installed - but I think the one you're after is "woxl_slowdownpatch.zip", as it has a woxl_patch subfolder (I may have renamed the file to differentiate it from the others).

There may be duplicate patches in this archive; I ganked everything I could find because there was a suggestion that there were different patch versions for 2097 and XL.

It's probably worth adding that if you use Nvidia drivers the game doesn't work with newest drivers (turning into a black flickery nothingness from te menu onwards), so you'll need older drivers to get it to work.

This forum may or may not help too: http://www.wipeoutzone.com/forum/forumdisplay … WipEout-XL-2097

Thanks for the help. I'm actually trying to get this to work in a virtual machine having had great success in the past with other games this one is proving a bugger. Parallels desktop with xp sp3 installed. Still nothing with the patches just wondering if it is the parallels video driver that is the issue unless nobody else has had this running in xp with sp3 thats the only conclusion i can come to

Now you decide to mention your running a vm 😉

Sorry about that but with a combination of parallels running xp with sp3 and vmware running xp with sp2 I have got a vast majority of old games running great with the exception of this game and twisted metal