help with F1 manager 96

[remus]

Hi,
I have been trying to get this game to work for ages

I not very good with dosbox and how it works so this might be the problem.

I dragged the F1.exe into dosbox and then it starts to load. But then I get the message "checking MSCDEX ..... not found. Program Aborted"

My machine is XP.

Please help?

[remus]

I have worked out how to use dosbox ;D I think.

This is what I typed in dosbox,

mount d q:\ -t cdrom
mount c c:\F1
c:
F1.EXE

Is this right?

Only asking as the screen stays black and all you can hear is a screeching sound.

Please! Please! help?

[remus]

It works ;D finally

Are there any updates for this game?

The link on site doesn't work.

[Iceman]

Glad that you got it working. Sorry noone was here to help sooner. Seems people only come here when they want something. But usualy there are 4 of us who can offer help.

The link on the site, I have no clue about. It's probably as Simtek is busy with the 2005 Update for F1 Man Pro. Furious I think is away on holiday.

As for updates, I don't think there is a season update at all. There are some Official Updates, but these were for German versions.

Hope that helps.

[remus]

Thanks for replying.

I will have to download F1 manager pro. I got this working to see if F1 Pro would work on my computer.

Are the specs different in any way?

[Furious]

I think the specs are basically the same, so there shouldnt be a problem!! ;D

[remus]

howard said:

I think the specs are basically the same, so there shouldnt be a problem!! ;D

Thanks ;D

[feliveir]

With xp i think its impossible to play this game, the vídeos never run, and when dosbox tries to play video, it returns to windows.
I played the game with xp, put music and great speed, but no vídeo (I think the software misses dos, xp doesn´t allow to play dos things), I could play until the end of a championship race, when needs a video to conclude the end of the race and returns to windows. I will trie one last time to run with xp coping no movie to the cd that plays the game, then no movie can be played, last chance...... or windows 98

[Simtek™]

What spec system do you have felveir? - and welcome!

[tezgm99]

I'm having a similar problem with getting it to run in dosbox from XP actually

For some reason, it jumps my CPU cycles from 3000 to max (but it keeps 0 for frameskip) when the game starts to load and all I get is a clicking noise which I am guessing is the first note in the music (maybe that's the same thing that remus had?), lol

My CD drive is E and I've chucked the game on K. The PC itself is only about 15 months old if that helps.

I also tried switching the compatibility under the install file to each of the windows OS it lists but the best I can get from that is the intro to play then it just cuts back to windows explorer which is rather annoying since I love playing this game but haven't got it working since my last PC died and had to change to XP.

[tezgm99]

woohoo, got it working at last ;D


....now if only I could figure out what setups to use at Monaco, Montreal, Hockenhiem and Monza that get a win