International Rally Championship

[syedaijaz143 0]

Hi friends,

 

Can anyone tell me how to run International Rally Championship on windows XP professional since its incompatible. Its a old game which is used to run on win 98. Is any latest patch to make it run on win XP let me know. email id: syedaijaz143@yahoo.com

[Wilhelmus 1]

Hi.

 

Have you tried Windows XP's compatibility mode?

 

Right-click game's exe file or shortcut and select properties. Goto "Compatibility" tab. Then select operating system from combobox.

 

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Googled abit and found this:

http://www.ntcompatible.com/cdetail9706.html

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After the intial install, the game would work, but the controls behaved erractically and the sound had big time lag. Downloaded and installed patch 6 (rcpatch6.zip, I don't remember where I got it from, sorry), solved all problems. The game works flawlessly now, including EAX support. Applying Win98 compatibility mode and selecting 'Dolby' as the sound options as suggeested from other users works, but you cannot play with EAX. Installing the Patch 6 is the best solution.

 

And after more googling:

You can try to download patch 6 from:

ftp://3dgr35g:mr23g239a@3dgamers.mirror.internode.on.net/3dgamers/games/rallychamp2k/rcpatch6.zip

 

Try if that helps you.

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[syedaijaz143 0]

Hi friend thanx for the patch for IRC but still it isn't working its giving the following error even after I select the win Xp compatibility mode as win 98

 

 

Error Code [80E18010]

Error loading lexicon file

Last file: 'files\localeS\*.txt'

EAX=00000000 EBX=01710040 ECX=00040000 EDX=00000000

ESI=0093E8B0 EDI=0094F6F8 ESP=0013FF58 EPB=0013FFF0

C=1 Z=0 S=1 V=0 P=1

 

This is the actual error do u what could be the solution for it.

Aijaz

 

Is this error related to any hardware problem.

[Wilhelmus 1]

Quote:

Is this error related to any hardware problem.

No, it seems more like software problem.

Quote:

Error Code [80E18010]
Error loading lexicon file
Last file: 'files\localeS\*.txt'
EAX=00000000 EBX=01710040 ECX=00040000 EDX=00000000
ESI=0093E8B0 EDI=0094F6F8 ESP=0013FF58 EPB=0013FFF0
C=1 Z=0 S=1 V=0 P=1

That is interesting line... I am guessing: you did install it to "C:\Program Files\"? See, this game is rather old and it may not like long filenames/directory names.

Reinstall it to e.g. to "c:\IRC" and retry.


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[syedaijaz143 0]

I installed it in F:/IRC. Let me check it with C:/IRC

[syedaijaz143 0]

Nope it isn't working its giving the same error any ideas for this stupid kind of problem

[syedaijaz143 0]

U look like a software professional. Can u help me understand what does the error means.

[Wilhelmus 1]

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Error Code [80E18010]
Error loading lexicon file
Last file: 'files\localeS\*.txt'

The IRC is trying to read from file.
It does not either exists or some other error occured.
The full path can be "c:\irc\files\locales" or something like that.

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EAX=00000000 EBX=01710040 ECX=00040000 EDX=00000000
ESI=0093E8B0 EDI=0094F6F8 ESP=0013FF58 EPB=0013FFF0

These seems to be Intel x86 CPU's registers.
The registers are like variables built in the (CPU) processor.
Assember programmers use these to store values. Storing values to registers are faster (and cleaner) than storing them to memory (RAM).

Read more for here, if you want:
http://www.swansontec.com/sregisters.html

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C=1 Z=0 S=1 V=0 P=1

Do not know for sure, registers maybe.

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I'll try to find demo for this IRC and see if it have same error and then try to solve it, if it is possible.

[Wilhelmus 1]

Well I found the demo... and it worked.

(Finnish Windows XP Pro SP2, DirectX 9.0c)

 

I checked ALL compatiblity settings from the game exe properties->compatiblity tab and selected "Windows 98 / Windows ME".

 

No errors... though it loaded it for while and I could not turn. Only go forward or backward.

 

Picture (it is for Finnish XP, SP#2...).

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I searched for "locales" folder... that folder does not even exists (perhaps because this is demo, do not know...). But there were "locale" folder.

 

The directory structure were:

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c:\irc\raldemo.exe

c:\irc\files\courses

c:\irc\files\data

c:\irc\files\gfx

c:\irc\files\graphics

c:\irc\files\levels

c:\irc\files\locale

c:\irc\files\objects

c:\irc\files\snds

c:\irc\files\speech

 

If you got also "locale" folder, try copying its contents to "locales" folder. Or vice versa.