First post, by synrgy87
TLDR: Was a combination of hardware and software issues.
Been in the process of rebuilding a windows 98se PC (specs below) But having difficulty getting SEGA Rally 2 to launch, it tries but crashes after the intro logos sometimes just a crash with no error msg, most of the time a DDhelper has performed an illegal operation, and sometimes the same error but locks the system up needing a hard reboot. Same software setup as some of my other systems where the game works just fine (P3 1ghz, voodoo2 sli, gf2 gts, awe64 gold + trident pci sound cards, and Athlon XP 2800+ in a KT7A with Voodoo 3 AGP card, sb audigy) same windows 98se install with same updates and same DX version, Other benchmarks are good and stable (3Dmark99max through to 2003) other games also function just fine(4x4 evolution, Rally sport Challenge, Colin McRea Rally 2.0), dxdiag cubes spin just fine too. So i Think it's a driver problem or an issue with SEGA Rally 2 not liking the FX 5600
Athlon XP 3000+, 512mb DDR400,
Asus A7N8X-X (nforce2) motherboard
FX 5600 (Leadtek Winfast A310) 256MB
SB Audigy 2 ZS + LiveDrive II
2xIDE DVD-ROM drives
2xSATA HDDs set to 128GB each one for C drive other for storage, everything installed on C drive inc game
Software: Windows 98SE, DX9.0C, Unofficial service pack(same options as other working systems)
Have tried Forceware 44.03, 56.64 , 81.98, Going to try 71.84 now
Failing that I'm going to try with a Ti 4200 although that doesn't really have the performance I'm looking for for this machine.
Googling for known issues or driver problems or issues with SEGA Rally 2 didn't seem to bring anything up, Does anyone have any suggestions? (other than just running the game one the systems it's currently working on, this setup is going to be using main for Racing/Driving games).
I could go with an ATI card but, Colin McRea Rally 2.0 has problems with the ATI drivers in 98SE requiring a second screen to be connected which is just annoying)
Edit: Same problem with the 71.84 driver, also same thing with the Ti-4200. Must be another configuration problem, hmmmm. Back to 56.64 as that seems to work better in general. Going to try a different version of the game, was using the original CD release, going to try the Xplosive re-release maybe my discs are not great or the drives in this build are weaker than the others and I'm getting a bad/corrupt install.