Mallard

Acutally, I had upgraded to SP3. But it works on a FAT32 system as well, so that's something.

Okay...I have SP3 not SP2. I applied the patch, started the game, screen went black, the resolution changed, and I got all excited...and then it just brought me back to my windows desktop as if nothing ever happened. So I read about the performance tweak at the bottom of the readme for the fix. I put the DLLs in the right place and tried again...it worked! Gameplay isn't that great though...I'll be driving down a track, everything's rendering great, and then all of a sudden everything will render choppy for a while (30+ seconds). I'll try messing with the video settings to see what I can do. But yeah, with those provided DLLs, everything works great. Much thanks!

Just got your patch...I will try it tonight. My hardware configuration is similar to yours: AMD Duron 800 Asus A7A66 128 (soon to be 512) mb DDR 2100 memory Radeon 7500 32 MB Windows 2000 SP2 80 GB Western Digital 7200 RPM, FAT32 formatted I tried the "appcompat" method, but I couldn't get the installer to copy any of the game files (it just built the directory structure and copied the files for network play). I have a legitimate retail copy of the game (that I bought yesterday and was pissed that it didn't work). Much thanks!