Nascar 4 trouble

[de8212]

Just tried to install Nascar 4. It installs fine but the game just won't launch. No errrors, no nothing.
Sorry to not give alot of details but that's all that happens. I can get to the COnfigure 3D Graphics for the Papyrus main folder and I choose my resolution, etc. It goes through some tests and says everything is OK and saves the changes.
But the game still will not launch.
BTW right after the install, it searches the net and finds and update and that went well also. SO it's the latest patch.
What in the world could be going on
de
EDIT
Guess I could gve the system specs.
8kha+ mobo
512MB cruciall ddr (2 sticks)
64MB Leadtek ti200 (23.12 drivers I think)
xp1600

 

[MTDEW]

1) Does it do the same thing if you configure it for OPEN GL or Direct 3D?

Id set it at 640x480x16 in Direct 3D & see if I could at least get it running 1st, then go from there.

But Open Gl performance is far better if you can get it running.
(im at 1600x1200x16 in Open Gl on my rig in my sig, so you should be fine)

Personally, Im using the detonator 27.10s since they are giving me the best performance to date.
And Im using DirectX 8.1 of course since Im using WinXp.

2) What version of DirectX do you have installed?

3) When you say it will not launch.... Is nothing at all happening when you click on the Nascar Racing 4.exe file?
4) Or do you see the title screen , then get kicked back to the desktop?

 

[de8212]

<< 1) Does it do the same thing if you configure it for OPEN GL or Direct 3D? >>


I've only tried D3d. I will try opengl tomorrow because I am not at home now.


<< 2) What version of DirectX do you have installed? >>


Whatever came with the game. I think 8???


<< ) When you say it will not launch.... Is nothing at all happening when you click on the Nascar Racing 4.exe file? >>


Absolutely nothing. The cursor turns into the hourglass for about 3 seconds and then it turns back into the pointer. No title screen.


de

 

[rky60]

The 1.3 patch can sometimes rename key files and the sim will not launch, the fix is to download this small file from the Papyrus site.


1.3.0.6 Fix USA version only


www.papy.com

 

[MTDEW]

de8212, did you get your problem fixed?

N4 should run great on that system.

 

[de8212]

Well, yes and no. I downloaded the demo and it worked fine. I can only think sometheing may be wrong with the disc.

de

 

[AFK]

Sony and HighPoint have identified an incompatibility with the updated SecuROM copy protection used by the NASCAR® Racing 4 1.3 patch and certain HTP370 RAID Controller driver combinations. Until a fix is made available, some users have had success by reverting back to the HighPoint 1.0.3 drivers.
Additionally if after installing the NASCAR® Racing 4 1.3 patch you are receiving a "Your game version appears to be out of date" error when logging into Sierra.com multiplayer, it's possible that the patch installation truncated the game's long filenames down to 8.3 format. For example "NASCAR Racing 4.exe" might have been renamed "NASCAR~1.exe" (note that the trailing ~1 might include a different number instead of one). To fix this you can manually rename the necessary files as outlined below, or download this batch file to your NASCAR® Racing 4 installation directory and then double-click it to automatically rename the files.

NASCAR~1.exe > "NASCAR Racing 4.exe"
Sierra~1.dll > "SierraUpN4Res.dll"
rendse~1.dll > "rendserver.dll"
paintkit\n4paint~1.rsc > "paintkit\n4paintkit.rsc"