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There are a few other things you can turn on here though. Usually if your PC is comfortably fast enough to run a game, you would select this option.
However in our tests it seemed to cause the game to occasionally stutter for a micro-second, so try leaving this setting disabled for now. The game will now present a simple graphics test which should show a spinning cube. Just a note for those more adventurous PC gamers who are thinking of trying other options in their graphics cards control panel, such as forced antialiasing. Worse still, it caused minor glitches whereby rival racers could be seen through the track side scenery.
Sound options can also be configured from the configuration utility. Since support for hardware accelerated audio and EAX was removed in Windows Vista, this option will not be available when running the game on modern versions of Windows.
If you have an EAX capable sound card in your system, you can use the Creative ALchemy software to restore hardware accelerated audio capability to this game. To do this, first start the ALchemy tool. TOcA Race Driver 2 works well with both gamepads and, for those more serious simulation drivers, racing wheels too.
The game recognised our Xbox controller and allowed us to map all the inputs easily. For some reason, when playing older, direct input games, Microsoft made the two analogue triggers on the controller represent the same axis. What this means is you cannot accelerate and brake at the same time. If you want to try some advanced fancy driving moves like power slides etc, then you need to be aware of this limitation.
You can use a tool like Xpadder to map keyboard presses to the triggers instead, but then your brake and throttle will be entirely digital, so there would be no difference between gently squeezing the brakes and slamming them on, for instance. While you can configure your driving controls easily in-game, you will still need to reach to the keyboard to manipulate the menus. For that complete couch gaming experience, we can use our old friend Xpadder.
Below is a screenshot of our Xpadder profile for the game. Pretty basic stuff. Mapping the arrow keys to the D-pad allows us to navigate the menus. Escape is mapped to start, allowing you to pause the game. Finally, enter is mapped to the A button, so that menu choices can be confirmed. Firstly, you need to edit a configuration file.
Secondly you need to find a specially hacked executable that fixes the graphics and prevents them being stretched out of proportion. Note that even with this patched executable, the games cut-scenes will still be stretched. If you can find the widescreen hack, you simply need to copy the appropriate RD2.
Make a backup of the existing RD2. If you can't do the above, then it's time to do a manual install! This is a bit time-consuming but relatively straightfoward, just follow these steps:. Create a folder on your hard disk to put the game in. We'll be putting files in these in a minute:.
Now it's time to populate the folders above with contents. To do this requires the extracting of the many. You can use Windows to open these. Here's what to extract to each folder please follow this carefully to avoid errors! Additionally you can add the readme.
Next up, the content for the other folders. These seem straightforward, but some have a few files from different locations and some that need renaming notably the "dll" and "frontend" folders , so follow this carefully:.
Once you have done this, go into this frontend folder and rename two files as follows:. The next step is to set up the Registry strings, so the game can work properly. Locate this. Before you run the game, there's a couple of other steps necessary. If you do use Creative ALchemy, set up a path in it to the game's install folder, so that the EAX can be enabled in-game.
Next it's time for the official 1. You can get this from the Patches Scrolls site. Download it and double-click to install it. You should note that all the patch updates are supplied successfully. So once you've applied the settings you with, click " Save and Exit ", then open the pchardwareconfig.
Note: with regard to resolution, widescreen resolutions can be set, but the game will be stretched fat looking images! Finally, right-click and drag a shortcut to the RaceDriver. Note: the game may briefly open in a window then minimise to the taskbar. If it does, just click the icon in the taskbar and it'll pop-back up! Link to post Share on other sites. JaredKFan 1 Posted February 23, Posted February 23, I tried to install the patch after manually copying the game files over to my hard drive using your manual copy method.
I put all the lines from your registry config file into the registry, but when I double-click to install the patch, the patcher says "Race Driver not installed". Am I doing something wrong? I have a 64 bit windows 7 OS and installing the game through the cd installer failed, obviously, because it's a 64 bit OS and the game installer does not recognize 64 bit operating systems. VirtuaIceMan Posted February 23, As you found out, try removing the Windows Registry Editor Version 5.
It works on my PC with this, but you found it didn't in yours. HanafiDrift 0 Posted April 11, Posted April 11, I'm having the same problem, too.
I followed your steps but it seems like the 4th or 7th step were kinda failed. I removed the line "Windows Registry Editor Version 5. I really really appreciate your help if you don't mind. VirtuaIceMan Posted April 12, Posted April 12, Maybe go into regedit, find any key, then export it.
Then see what it has at the top of the. Posted June 12, Hi, I got up to the point where I wanted to launch RaceDriver. I think it the registry file may be the problem but i cant seem to figure it out.
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