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CAn't run TPTCC from dos

5 posts by 4 people · 12 Sep 1997 - 14 Sep 1997

I tried to boot my TPTCC game from dos tonight and got a line I've never seen before. It says "unable to initialize UI system". The game runs fine from the dos window in my Win95, but won't load form dos. Can anyone tell me what this means, or how to get around it. I prefer to run my racing game(s) from dos as apposed to the dos window. Thanks in advance my fellow group(ies) Verne
Gabe 12 Sep 1997#377293
I'm not sure why it's not working from a reboot, but I run the TPTCC under dos mode and I have no problems. Just shut down to dos mode from the Start menu & you should get full dos performance without Win 95 interfering. Hope this helps.
Hello Verne I'm only guessing but I would say that UI stands for "User Input" and that would suggest that your mouse is not set up for DOS. Windows has it's own mouse driver so hence the problem does not occure. Dos on the other hand needs one setup. You will need to load a mouse driver into memory from the DOSSTART.BAT file which lives in your Windows directory. I would say that possibly your CD-Rom and Sound Card will also require setting up for True Dos. Hope I'm on the right track for your problem. Cheers -- NOTE: Remove the "remove" from E-mail address to reply. Nigel of Lakewood Motorsports (Memeber of the Nascar Offline Racing Series) Nascar Coruba & Coke Chevy Hamilton New Zealand
I've tried this too. I make sure that I run my mouse driver first. I can run my N2 fine whereas I cannot run my TPTCC in the same prompt. I tried the "F8" trick to no avail also. I then tried it with my N2 and had no problems......hmmmmmmm. I'm baffled, but at least I can run it from my Win95 dos prompt. Still, I hope someone can tell me what's wrong. Thanks for your help though Nigel Verne
Je 14 Sep 1997#377427
> I've tried this too. I make sure that I run my mouse driver first. I >can run my N2 fine whereas I cannot run my TPTCC in the same prompt. I >tried the "F8" trick to no avail also. I then tried it with my N2 and >had no problems......hmmmmmmm. I'm baffled, but at least I can run it >from my Win95 dos prompt. Still, I hope someone can tell me what's >wrong. Hi Verne, I can't say I've seen this message - although I saw a lot in development! One thing that kept catching me out was if one of the track directories was empty or if there were more than 32 tracks. Give that a check and see if it helps. Jed -------------------------------------------------------- Get PR-Tracker -- tracks problem reports, defects, bugs INFORMATION: http://www.prtracker.com/info.html DOWNLOAD: http://www.prtracker.com/download.html

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