Screamer Rally - released in US yet?

I have been playing this excellent game in the UK for 3 weeks now. The graphics and the racing are excellent but I am still finding it impossible to set-up the joystick. Have any of you guys had similar problems? -- Johnathan Cobb Sheffield, UK --------------

When I run the set-up in Windows 95 the only problem I encounter is in the 'Controls' section. If I choose to set 'forward' as a forward joystick movement the action is simply not recognised. If I keep trying the system generally hangs. I do not have this problem in DOS - set up runs smoothly and I calibrate the joystick - its just that the game hangs after the 3Dfx logo appears. If I establish a joystick set-up in DOS and then try to use this back in Windows 95 the game hangs at the point where the player has typed in his initials - the return key does not work and, suprise, suprise, the game hangs. A friend of mine borrowed the game and SR fails to recognise his Monster 3D card - the whole thing is a fiasco! Johnathan Cobb Sheffield, UK --------------

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>On Sun, 11 Jan 1998 20:42:21 -0000, "Johnathan Cobb" >>I have been playing this excellent game in the UK for 3 weeks now. The >>graphics and the racing are excellent but I am still finding it impossible >>to set-up the joystick. >>Have any of you guys had similar problems? >None whatsoever, my F1 Racing Wheel calibrated first time. Exactly >what problems do you get? >-- >Derek James

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>I do not have this problem in DOS - set up runs smoothly and I calibrate the >joystick - its just that the game hangs after the 3Dfx logo appears. >If I establish a joystick set-up in DOS and then try to use this back in >Windows 95 the game hangs at the point where the player has typed in his >initials - the return key does not work and, suprise, suprise, the game >hangs. >A friend of mine borrowed the game and SR fails to recognise his Monster 3D >card - the whole thing is a fiasco!

I have exactly the same problem with Screamer2-3dfx version. Booting to pure DOS mode, setup starts up dos4gw and everything works properly i.e. joystick calibrates properly and sound is good (A220 I5 D1) On starting the game the two opening screens are missed out (red and white *** Interactive screen and "Milestone presents" screen) and the game goes straight to player initials screen, this is where the game hangs the PC. Strangely the midi music continues to play but the program wont take any input from joystick or keyboard. If one selects keyboard controls in the setup program the the game runs ok. It would appear that there is a fault is in the programming of the 3dfx version which manifests itself on some machines, if anybody knows how to get around these problems I'd love to know but until then I'm not going to purchase Screamer Rally as I suspect it will behave just the same :-( M/C - P2-300,Cirrus AGP,3dfx,TM-ACM,TM-GP1 Mike