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Good evening,
I was able to try installing Star Wars Racer on a PC equipped with Windows 8 64-bit, so here’s a summary:
- Installation of Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86)
- Copying the files from the game CD to the folder c:\racer except for the following files: install\CD.IDX; install\RACENABL.DAT; gnome\data\wavs\Music (entire folder)
- Downloading http://www.markusegger.at/Software/Games/Racer/Episode_I_Racer_MSI_v1.0.0.0.zip
- Extracting the contents of the zip into the folder c:\racer, the setup.exe file is overwritten
- Running setup.exe, the installation starts correctly, uncheck "Extra Files" during the installation (entire feature will be unavailable). If there are error messages, choose "Ignore" (hit the I key if there are a lot of errors...).
- In the directory where the game is installed, right-click on SWEP1RCR.EXE > properties > "Compatibility" tab > Run this program in compatibility mode for Windows XP SP3, run this program as an administrator.
- Double-click on SWEP1RCR.EXE to launch the game.... maybe it will work for you, but not for me in any case.
I get a nice error message "Direct3D Failure No 3D hardware found".
It seems that this is due to the new graphics cards that are not very compatible (I have an ATI HD7870), but with an older graphics card, it should work. Before, with Windows 7 (32-bit) and an ATI HD2400 mobility, it worked without any issues...
So there you go, maybe a solution would be to have an "old compatible graphics card" and activate it to play. Otherwise, it would be worth trying the installation on a virtual machine with XP 32 (it works well with VirtualBox), but I’m not sure how it goes for virtualizing graphic acceleration.
Otherwise, more simply, you could try DOSBox (which allows for emulating old DOS games).
And the solution that would surely work for sure is to find a Nintendo 64 emulator (or another console on which the game was released back then) and find the ROM of the game for that console!
I was able to try installing Star Wars Racer on a PC equipped with Windows 8 64-bit, so here’s a summary:
- Installation of Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86)
- Copying the files from the game CD to the folder c:\racer except for the following files: install\CD.IDX; install\RACENABL.DAT; gnome\data\wavs\Music (entire folder)
- Downloading http://www.markusegger.at/Software/Games/Racer/Episode_I_Racer_MSI_v1.0.0.0.zip
- Extracting the contents of the zip into the folder c:\racer, the setup.exe file is overwritten
- Running setup.exe, the installation starts correctly, uncheck "Extra Files" during the installation (entire feature will be unavailable). If there are error messages, choose "Ignore" (hit the I key if there are a lot of errors...).
- In the directory where the game is installed, right-click on SWEP1RCR.EXE > properties > "Compatibility" tab > Run this program in compatibility mode for Windows XP SP3, run this program as an administrator.
- Double-click on SWEP1RCR.EXE to launch the game.... maybe it will work for you, but not for me in any case.
I get a nice error message "Direct3D Failure No 3D hardware found".
It seems that this is due to the new graphics cards that are not very compatible (I have an ATI HD7870), but with an older graphics card, it should work. Before, with Windows 7 (32-bit) and an ATI HD2400 mobility, it worked without any issues...
So there you go, maybe a solution would be to have an "old compatible graphics card" and activate it to play. Otherwise, it would be worth trying the installation on a virtual machine with XP 32 (it works well with VirtualBox), but I’m not sure how it goes for virtualizing graphic acceleration.
Otherwise, more simply, you could try DOSBox (which allows for emulating old DOS games).
And the solution that would surely work for sure is to find a Nintendo 64 emulator (or another console on which the game was released back then) and find the ROM of the game for that console!
