Interesting, the blue background is there when the game starts but it only does it with the system fitted with the 9600 ATI card, and it simply reverts to the desktop once it gets to the picking of the cars section, (the one with the most HP is not the fastest) "front wheel drive seems to be the go" the rest you have to figure personally.
I was just about to change cards to see if that fixes it, odd as a 9200 with the latest cataylist drivers works fine, all nvidia cards work NP.
I tried the game on my slowest and oldest PC an Abit BE6 / P2-300, old 8X CDROM with a lousy ATI Rage 3D Pro 4 Mb card and it runs the game fine, as well as many others, the 80g JB may help a tad with some like Sniper POV and Delta force 2, other good games.
It works with an 8500 ATI card also.
While dissabling the Pal 8 could fix it, I kinda would rather have all the options working, but I'll give it a go just for the heck of it.
Having seen some reveiws made by blind people who gave the game a 3.5/10, I find that hard to figure, I personally give it a 8.5, being a good simmulation of actual driving in real life, I like it anyway.
Thanks for the info..
