DTM / Toca 2 - Some confusion

[dabbelju]

Hi,

this is certainly not a hardware prob as it happens on all three machines, and their hardware is pretty different. Also, I do not have any other probs with them. It may be something I have installed on all machines, but right now that is nothing but a guess. That is why I posted so many questions to narrow the prob down. The hint about ncryso being just an old version of starf*** was good as I do not have to bother about that any more.

CU

[dede]

it is hardware, driver & mini image corect serial problem,(not your original dvd serial) each mini image have a personal serial so the german have a german serial the uk a uk serial & a uk or german mini image can not work on a euro dvd version.

1. Is there any solution for the "writing game serial" hangs?
Yes as exemple, have a german original game installed, have a german mini image on demon tools, have the corect serial for this mini image.
(The NCRYSO i mean, is for GERMAN version so you need the corect serial for this German M.IMAGE they NCRYSO mount on demon with hes launcher)
OR FOR NCRYSO go to you rd2 regkey and change the next line from UK or US or EUR To:GER
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Codemasters\Race Driver 2]
"SKU"="GER"

2. Is there any solution for the sf cpu hunger?
YES corect serial etc... same as previous.

3. What sf version is in place? Some people say *.49, others say *.63. I have tried both.
If you use STARF0CK no importance i have played on different machines with update 1.2 without any prob, he can a maximum can already a minimum so set it to *.63. I have 5 computers and all in same categorie as previous post description.

4. Is there any auto-via-internet-update in sf? Sometimes the results of my attempts were not reproducable, e.g. that NCRYSO stopped to work on the office machine
Yes but i have loosing the link, go to CMR 2005 THREAD you can found STARFORCE driver update for NERO 6.6 codec compatibility issues

5. Does it make a difference which mini-image to use? I know how to adapt the sku setting in the registry, but maybe star****.exe's cpu hunger is related to an incorrect image?
YES star****.exe's cpu hunger is related to an incorrect image OR SERIAL for this m.image.

6. What is the deal with the serials? My understanding is that the serial is related to the disc series you have. Some people do not seem to need a serial at all.
NO the serial is related to the MINI IMAGE series THAT you have.

SORRY for bad english i am french.

[dabbelju]

dede,

thank you very much for your input. I have some follow-up questions though

Originally Posted by dede

1. Is there any solution for the "writing game serial" hangs?
Yes as exemple, have a german original game installed, have a german mini image on demon tools, have the corect serial for this mini image.
(The NCRYSO i mean, is for GERMAN version so you need the corect serial for this German M.IMAGE they NCRYSO mount on demon with hes launcher)
OR FOR NCRYSO go to you rd2 regkey and change the next line from UK or US or EUR To:GER
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Codemasters\Race Driver 2]
"SKU"="GER"

My understanding was that the ncryso patch unpacks its own image and tries to update the registry with the correct key (which fails/hangs for me).
BTW I have installed from the German original

Originally Posted by dede

2. Is there any solution for the sf cpu hunger?
YES corect serial etc... same as previous.

I have some problems identifying which serial belongs to which image as they do not seem to come in packages. I tried a few images with a few serials. My impression was that I can not start the game if the serial is incorrect. Do you say that the game might start with a "half-correct" serial, but then run into the cpu usage problem? How can I tell if the serial matches the image?

Again, thanks a lot for your help so far

CU

[dede]

i don't have write game start with half wrong serial the game start only with corect serial from mini image! the game start with any starforce version params in starf0ck tool that is what i have writed.

And for my own save i have writted in a text file for the NCRYSO LAUNCHER the follow lines (i have euro version of game)

This launcher mount a German MINI IMAGE on DEMON TOOLS, hide the IDE 2, and write a corect serial to registry.

Now my game is French (Euro) i need use the incluedet [*only in my folder lol]) "DTM.crack.reg"

*create a new text file with notepad open it and write the follow lines on it (without the =========) :
================================================== =======
REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Codemasters\Race Driver 2]
"SKU"="GER"

================================================== =======
Save the file as : DTM.crack.reg and execute with duble clic, clic, accept, ok, or yes, or amen.


HOW to use it:

install Daemon tools 3.47

Install GAME, Installation complete!

Update the game to version 1.2,

Rename rd2.exe from main directory of toc 2 "rd2_new.exe" without" " " "

Copy(CRACKFIX) RD2.EXE from NCRYSO in main directory.

create a new shortcut for RD2.EXE

Use the created REGCRACKKEY "DTM.crack.reg"

launch RD2.EXE'S shortcut to play.

BUT ALL THIS HAVE ALREADY be writted on previous thread of toca rd2 if it don't work you have a other hardware or driver issue problem computer to slow wrong ddr parmetres or so many things are possible surch a computer with corect capacitys AMD 2400 with 128 mb video card and 512 ddr speicher ist in ordnung . unmöglish das de des ding nit zum lauffen bringst. Vielen dank für die blumen vielen dank vie lieb von diiiiiier.

Sorry for bad english i am french.

[dabbelju]

OK, but then we are back at square one. As I said, I can use DTM with my original disc just fine, so no hardware/driver prob here. I can also start the game with starf***, but after some time I run into the "starf* eats my cpu" prob. And no, I have no idea why. After your post I thought it was related to some "wrong" image being used, but if you say the game does not start with the wrong image/serial/sku setting, it can not be that. It starts. It just starts to suck after a while, too. This can of course be a driver prob, but not related to the game, it must be related to starf***. And I do not know what the machines have in common except that they have XP. One is even on SP1.
But vielen Dank für die Blumen, too, Tom. Or Jerry? And merci bien, of course.

CU

[dede]

Possible to many softwares run in same time and suck all your memory have you updated the game to version1.2 ?
Starforces driver updates are here:
http://www.star-force.com/support/sfdrvup.zip

but i don't know if the link work is a old link.

Starfock is not the soft they suck all your ressources because after load all things, hide ide2, and launched the game, starfock have no more activities, if you use demon tool's change for alcohol and make a test. Ihave encounter some probs with demon because they have make a unproper installation, reinstall it and retest, Attention, if you would uninstall demon tools, & if you have unblacklisted with starfock, restore the blacklist before uninstall otherwise this will give a big sh*t and you can not reinstall it on bus d347 so use manual installation with bus d348. Or add more memory chips to the computer and make some test's. Sorry but a can't no more for you, if i don't have a description from hardware that you use. bye.