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Ok people. We have all been suffering discrimination from the software and hardware companies because we are Win2k gamers. This game won't run, that game won't run, that "new" rip *ss videocard and soundcard has broken or non-existent drivers. We have the best gaming OS on the market today bar-none. So why does a mega-company like EA still put out games like Superbike 2000, which is supposed to be the definitive bike game this year, and it won't get past the first loading screen. Somebody who visits this site must have the education and programming experience to figure out how to get that game to run in Win2k. The gauntlet is dropped. I will send anyone who can get this game to run on my system with full hardware acceleration, a money order for US$35.00. You have my guarantee on that. My ebay user id is: vburns@cancom.net , and if you check that in the feedback forum, you will see that I deliver on my obligations. Good luck, and lets see what the forum members have got in their repertoire. :-)

Try using the latest version of windows media player to test mpg files. It won't play dat or vob. If it plays the mpg's fine (ie use the prog to browse for the file, don't doubleclick the file to start the player), then you know your video and audio hardware are probably ok. If it doesn't play properly, then you most likely have a hardware issue with your motherboard or sound card of some sort. Personally I would not have both Powerdvd and Xingdvd installed at the same time, as they may be conflicting with each other. My personal feeling is that Powerdvd (ver 2.5 or higher) is the better prog. I haven't had a single problem with it so far. These suggestions may help, but I have the feeling they may not. I have seen too many posts from people with !Live issues to eliminate that card as a possible for your problems. If you know someone who has a vortex2 based card -say Turtle Beach Quadzilla or Montego II- they are both cheap and have worked great in Win2k with the Aureal 8830 drivers, you might find your problems have gone away. Then again you might not want to reinstall the !Live drivers, as that is a big pain also.

I sort of disagree with the last post. I would agree the intellimouse explorer is not that great. Its bulky, and you need a hand like ET's to reach the side buttons. A buddy has one, runs win2k and does have some problems with it. However, I bought the "Microsoft with Intellieye" mouse which uses the same optical technology, but is almost the same size and shape as the regular intellimouse with balls - err ball. Its also quite a bit cheaper than the Explorer. Other than a bit of jumping around in some game interfaces (Need for Speed PU, Messiah, Ut), it works fantastic. My frags have definitely increased in fps games because of this mouse. They also say you shouldn't use the mouse on white or clear surfaces. I've been using the mouse on a white EverGlide pad for 3 months with no problems either. Go figure.

I couldn't get it running on my two win2k machines either. It runs on win98, but I don't think I would play it much. It turns out its not a racing game exactly, it looks to be more of a F1 team management simulation instead.

It really sucks to have a superior cpu and not have everything work out of the box. Blame the chipset guys maybe. Maximum PC did a review of athlon boards not long ago, and the one board that had no problems with any hardware they put in it, (2940OU2, V2 sli, V770Ultra, shotgun modem, X-gamer, usb scanner and usb mouse) was the Microstar 6167. This was done under win9x, but may be the same under win2k. I realize you already have boards, but the one consistent problem with Athlon m/b's is the hardware support. If all else fails, and your boards are still under warranty, take them back and try out a Microstar.

Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition version 7.0 is working excellent. Realtime a/v protection for workstation and lan runs in the background, and doesn't even cause any slowdowns in games or apps. Running scheduled full scans is another story though :-)

Deckard if you have 4 scsi drives running, I hope you have a full size tower with a lot of bays so you can separate those drives for cooling. You are also going to need extra hard drive coolers and good air flow through your tower, or you're going to start having component failure in your computer. I've seen a full size tower with dual proc and five scsi drives running NT Server, and you could keep lunch warm on that thing.

I think he meant the first Motocross Madness. MCM2 wouldn't be available as a game on the Zone yet. There's been no talk of beta testing MCM2 multiplayer code on any major websites. Or has there?

No problems installing, no problems with interface and no problems with sound or music. Soon as I start the game, I get a black screen and a busy cursor icon, I hear two guys talking and thats as far as I get. It doesn't matter what resolution I choose or the color depth. Using PIII550, Viper 770Ultra with 3.81 drivers, 384Mb ram and Vortex2 card. Anybody running the game ok with TNT2, and if you are, did you have to do any tweaking to get the graphics working?

I finally found a working driver for this modem, and its only 18k in size! Go to: http://www.zoom.com/techsprt/win2k.shtml Download the Lucent win2k driver (ZUSB2000.exe), extract to any dir, plug in the modem and point to wizard to the dir with the zoom .inf, and you're in business. I don't know how the v.90 speed is, because my telco is screwed and I can't connect above 28.8, so for those of you who try this driver, put some feedback in this post about whether this driver works successfully or not. At least we can use this modem until Diamond gets a little motivated and comes up with some modem specific drivers for win2k.

Grannoid I would be willing to bet its not your joystick or gameport thats messed up. I bought my 3Dpro when microsoft first released them years ago and it still works perfect. Best joystick they've ever made. Anyways. Win2K seems to do that once in a while. Its happened several times to me and the only way around that is: 1) Unplug the stick and plug it back in. It might take a couple tries. 2) Cold boot the computer and check your joystick properties. Once you get the joystick showing as ok steady, it "should" work fine until you reboot again. Take it to a friend who is running win98 and it will probably report its fine. There is also another thread on the site here that postulates it was the Nvidia 3.78 drivers that were causing this problem and it could be resolved by upgrading to 3.81. I was using 3.78 and I upgraded to 3.81 recently and to be honest my joystick is always detected ok now and I've been rebooting the crap out of my computer trying to get my frigging supra usb modem to work. Hope this helps

I just got this modem today and I've been searching for and trying drivers under win2k for hours with no success. In the compatability list on this site someone mentioned that the drivers listed under Compaq for the "Lucent 56K usb modem" worked for win2k rc3. I don't have a listing for that driver in win2k pro retail. Do any of you beta-testers out there still have rc3 and would be willing to email those drivers to me? Has anyone else been able to get the supra modem working? Any help to get the supra working would be greatly appreciated.

Yeah, I applied the critical update right away. Good thing I found this site and kept away from Office SR1. I have a 3com winmodem and ordered the supra this week when our isp changed to v.90 modems this week also. I was going to go with the 56k external serial supra, but the usb version was a good price at Onvia and I was sure the usb version was good to go for plug and play. All the other versions of the 56 k supra express modems have native win 2k support, and I'm fairly PO'd the usb version isn't the same way.

The problem is not with the joystick. I have the same joystick and the sidewinder game pad and they work fine. What might be your problem is the game port itself. Check your device manager and make sure you are showing "Aureal vortex game port" under "sound video and game controllers". If it is there, check its properties to make sure windows reports the device is functioning properly. If windows does not see the game port, go to the add hardware wizard and manually add the standard microsoft game port. Then go to control panel/game controllers/advanced and change the port the joystick is supposed to use. I have an aureal driver a friend found for me when I initially installed windows and couldn't get any sound from my card. After installing this driver, everything worked great and the gameport was properly assigned. I haven't had any problems with sound in any game, and I've found that the 3d environment is vastly superior to what I had with win98. These drivers are basically native codecs with no fancy aureal logo's etc, but sometimes the simplest solutions are the best. If you want to try these drivers out, let me know and I'll email them to you.

No offense Benjamin, but you should be asking this question in a warez forum. I would be very careful about advertising to the world that you have DECSS. The movie industry takes a very dim view of people who have that prog. Go to http://www.dvdutils.com and read the letter that was sent to that website by a law firm that represents the movie industry. DECSS is dos based and should be run in the command prompt. It will not work on all DVD disks, and will only translate into region free .vob files. Just use region free firmware on your drive, and DVD genie to make your software region free and forget about ripping the disks. Even if you have a DVD Ram drive, its pointless to "rip" a disk, because the media costs more than the retail movie's.

According to a message board I checked, your modem is actually made by Wellmodem. Their site is here: http://www.wellmodem.com.tw/en/ They state on their site that they are in progress of making win2k drivers. There is a link on the site to be put on a notification list when drivers are done. In the meantime there may be a temp fix. Check your modem card visually and try to figure out who made the chipset on it. For instance, if it was made by Lucent Technologies, try getting the modem to work with the Lucent v.90 driver in win2k under the Compaq listing. Apparently, this "cheat" has worked for some people. If its a Rockwell chipset then you have to find out what supported modems use it, and then try out different driver profiles. You probably won't get all the modem functionality like wake on lan, voice, etc. but you may get faster connect speed until Wellmodem finishes the drivers.

I just checked Microsoft's compatability site: http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/upgrade/compat/default.asp They don't have native support for the sb16-pci, and you probably won't get win2k drivers for this card. I suggest you try out a sbpci-128 card. one of my computers has this card and win2k has native support for it. It has 4 speaker support and runs quite well in all the games I've tried to date. The only drawback is no environmental audio. The best part is you should be able to go to any computer store and pick up the 128 for peanuts, or snag one off eBay for a few bucks.

Consider yourself lucky it didn't run. It ran no problem on my system. Only problem was the game is crap. EA used all the polygons and good textures on the cars and the pavement. The trees, buildings, people etc. are poorly done and look like little cardboard 2d figures stuck into the map. This was in 1024x768x32 with all rendering options set on high. Papyrus are the only people who seem to know how to make a good F1 simulation. Hope they put out a new one someday. I have PIII550, Viper 770Ultra with 3.81 drivers and 384mb ram, so everything else being fairly equal, I would guess your video drivers may be your problem. Win2k does not like overclocking very much either, so if your cpu or video card is o/c, set them back to normal and try that also.

multiplayer works fine on my 10mb/s ethernet lan. i played all afternoon with a friend and it ran perfectly. we had both win2k computers using graphics maxed out, one with ATI Rage Fury, the other with Diamond Viper 770 Ultra. I don't know about dial-in or broadband connections, but I did notice the game was using most of the bandwidth of the lan, so I would expect any tcp connection that is not broadband would probably be very laggy. Hopefully EA will tune their network code in a patch soon.

delete the file "gimme.dll" from the game directory and it will run fine with tnt2 and maybe tnt also. some clever person posted this fix earlier this week.

for now I think ver 4.01 is the way to go. I have two Plextors with adaptec 2940 scsi and have had no problems with win 2k. all the features including spindoctor have worked without fail. Cdrwin 3.70 also works flawlessly.

Have a weird problem when using midi keyboard in Cakewalk 8 and 9. The prog will let me play in realtime for a minute or so, and after that, the sound is delayed for 15 or more seconds before hearing it through the soundcard. This makes real time creation very difficult. Another person has also made a post today about a similar problem. He has a SBLive card, and I am using a Turtle Beach Montego II card. All of my hardware is working fine and I have the latest drivers as well. I'm not starving for ram either as I have 384Mb. If anyone knows how to fix this problem and can share the solution, I would be very appreciative. I just got some Klipsch Permedia's and I want to make some smoking bass and drum lines to make those speakers work hard. Thanks.

Speaking of smoking, I better lay off the crack pipe early in the morning. I meant to say Klipsch Promedia's, not Permedia's.