toca race driver 2

[glenbo]

wierd one this,i had the game installed...cracked with reloadeds crack..and had a mini image mounted...all from gcw.

and the game was running perfect for months.

i decided i wanted to reformat my drive...
reinstall all my usual crap

reinstall toca 2... and the crack no longer works :P

is it incompatable with daemon toolz 4?

yes i am fullt updated to 1.12 or what ever it is..and yes the game works no questions asked with teh legit dvd.

bit of a mind baffler for me this one. :P

[glenbo]

apolagys i was using an old crack i had lying around. sorted and working again lol :P

[BarryB]

Numpty!

[glenbo]

lol so true...

but i have noticed now that my game is crashing in time trial mode (i have tried it with and without my steering wheel),it doesent crash with the legit exe,just the cracked one :S which is wierd cos it never used to.

this is my systems state atm..

xp digital media edition 2005
500gb hdd (internal,ide)

games installed- gun,pro evolution 5,nfs most wanted,toca 2,football manager 2006,colin mcrae 2005.

programs installed - ati drivers,winamp,avg antivirus,alcohol 120%,nero,dvd shrink,adobe audition.(obviously my mobo drivers,updates,etc)

everything else is like it when i reformatted it 2 days ago,just with the above installed.

all the games does is,as im racing along it just freezes at random times,and makes the noise of the accelerator being on full permantally until i reset my pc :P

i never had this problem b4 and my pc is more than adaquete for the game.

radeon 9800 pro 128mb
amd 64 3000 (400fsb)
2gb of 400 ddr kingston memory
500gb ide hdd 7200rpm

[BarryB]

Did you change the vid card drivers? The current Catalyst 5.12 doesn't come in Control Panel version so I'm still on Cat 5.11.

I also ran into a graphic problem with the game except mine was with the menus, once I'd finished a race all the menu options looked like they'd slid off the side of the screen and didn't show the full text, I could still choose things but it definitley was crack related as the original is fine.

Someone pointed out to me that the crack could be from a download edition of the game like a Direct2Drive version and not from a proper cracked retail version, so it may not be fully compatible with the retail game?

[glenbo]

yeh im on 5.12 atm

what you said about the crack i quite believe,but i did have one crash with the original disc,so im a bit 50-50 on it,however the crack seems to crash reguarly on the time trial.

do me a favour and have a a few laps around lacuna seca on time trial and tell me if it crashs for you..cheers man.

i have noticed graphical glitches on colin mcraes menus,but not tocas (yet) lol.