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Rachelle Shriver

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Aug 5, 2024, 3:48:32 AM8/5/24
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WhenI run Viper Racing (you can get a copy here: links to abandonware are forbidden.) patched to 1.2.3 (via 1.2.1, the 1.1 patch won't work with my version ever), it boots, then shows a pop-up window titled "Our Apologies" and "Your video card returned an error. Are your video drivers up to date?"

I'm suspecting it's an nvidia driver problem (not surprising how their 'way it's meant to be played' is broken in most cases to the point where people blame Windows) as it works on RadeonHD6 here without any wrapper on Windows 7. v1.0.


Ironically some games that were broken on my previous computer now work though, e.g. Plane Crazy, Sports Car GT (Glide), Shadows Of The Empire, Wipeout 2097... some with more specific fixes though! I've got hundreds more games to run through though, so I'll be raising any more in here too. Plus any fixes I generate!


So you have to place DDraw.dll and D3DImm.dll into the Data subfolder.

Unfortunately the current dgVoodoo version does not work with it because of a small incompatibility with MS DX5.

I've fixed that and the game now works beautifully. Will be included in the next version.


Dege, I think once I've finished re-installing games (may be a few months haha!) I'll post a thread for you with all the games I have issues with (might test run them on ATI based PC at work too), so you've got a list of things to have a play with. They're mostly racing games, mind you...


It's a bug in the video card detection routine that triggered when video memory size reported by DirectDraw is close to 4Gb. Nascar Heat is built on the same engine and exhibits the same problem. I've managed to patch the Nascar Heat to fix this bug, and it looks like this patch can be applied to the Viper Racing as well. For the patch details please see my answer at superuser.com. If it doesn't work for you, post here or drop me a PM, and I'll try to help.


The problem seems to be pretty similar to the Nascar situation in that the reported vram is to big to fit into a 32 bit integer causing a change in signedness. Since a negative number is obviously smaller than the 4 MB minimum requirement the benchmark refuses to run. 3dMark 2000 uses these functions to detect the amount of video memory:


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With save games resetting, this is because the game is being run in Program Files. If the game is installed anywhere else, (like root C:\ , your desktop or an external drive), then it will be able to save properly. Never install old games to Program Files if you want settings/saves to work properly because no application can write to Program Files unless you run them as administrator. By old games, I mean 2008 and prior generally.


I actually have moved the game to "C:\Games\Ski Racing 2006" a while ago and the save file reset issue still occurs. Recently I noticed that the game folder had limited rights for "User" (in folder properties > security), so I changed this setting to "full access" (so now rights include change and write). I hoped this would solve the save issue, but alas it didn't.


You could try to run the game in compatibility mode via right-click on SR2006.exe (or its shortcut), then go to Properties > Compatibility > Compatibility Mode. Try it with Windows 7 or Windows XP (SP3) compatibility mode.

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