C1 & Splat Pack Meld PACK (win7 x64 compatible)

Lenor · Post by **Lenor** » Thu Jun 02, 2011 5:06 pm

Thanks to Parovoz and stygimoloch we should now have all the tracks working.

I packed the 2 fixes togheter and you can download the game here.

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After hours of trying and failing to make a working meld pack for win7, the power of google helped me. I found this Meld Pack on Tosh's ftp:

Download / Mirror

It works like a charm, with no additional programs like dosbox or dgVoodoo.

Well, almost like a charm, if you happen to get some funny looking colors(kind of like the drug power-up) all you have to do is to kill the ''explorer'' process and you're good to go, or you can make a .bat file:

taskkill /f /im explorer.exe

Start /w carma95.exe -hires

start Explorer.exe

After you close carma, explorer will then start automatically!

Credits: JeReMiz & Toshiba-3

Toshiba-3 · Post by **Toshiba-3** » Thu Jun 02, 2011 5:25 pm

Haha! Nice find ;)

There are still some bugs in the thing but I can't remember what exactly.

These last couple of years I was working on a C1+SP+addons pack called Gourmet Carmageddon, it was very promising but I lost the whole thing by mistake.

Don't forget you can use D3D-Windower to emulate Carma95 in modern systems or even try this new tool: http://www.carmageddon.com/forum/topic/337

By the way, I doubt every W7 x64 user will get to work but if it can help...

Urizen · Post by **Urizen** » Thu Jun 02, 2011 5:40 pm

Ok, I nearly shat myself when this started working.

My current solution for getting Carmageddon running on Windows 7 was a VMware virtual machine with a Windows 95 installation - which took several hours of highly frustrating trial and error to get working.

It took me all of thirty seconds to get the version linked to in Lenor's post up and running. And that includes the download time.

So yeah. Looks like I'll be playing Carmageddon for the next fourteen hours. Huzzah!

:D

TTR · Post by **TTR** » Thu Jun 02, 2011 5:43 pm

Jezus Christ Urizen, can you PLEASE do something about that HUGE sig image of yours!

Urizen · Post by **Urizen** » Thu Jun 02, 2011 6:01 pm

Whoops! Sorry mate - my monitor's native resolution is 1680 x 1050 so it looked fine at my end.

I've taken it down to a slightly less obnoxious 437 x 300. :D

Lenor · Post by **Lenor** » Thu Jun 02, 2011 6:06 pm

Glad to see it worked for you too. Do you have x64 or x86(32)?

Don't forget to say thanks to Tosh

Hank Scorpio · Post by **Hank Scorpio** » Thu Jun 02, 2011 6:12 pm

This is brilliant, thanks guys, works perfectly and a breeze to set up. Now if only there was a 3dfx version

Lenor · Post by **Lenor** » Thu Jun 02, 2011 6:19 pm

Hank Scorpio wrote:This is brilliant, thanks guys, works perfectly and a breeze to set up. Now if only there was a 3dfx version

3dfx Tutorial by Toshiba-3: http://devwam.toshiba-3.com/viewtopic.php?id=480

Stew2000 · Post by **Stew2000** » Thu Jun 02, 2011 6:28 pm

Silly question. how would you get Carma95 to install on win7 x64?

Hank Scorpio · Post by **Hank Scorpio** » Thu Jun 02, 2011 6:38 pm

Lenor wrote:
Hank Scorpio wrote:This is brilliant, thanks guys, works perfectly and a breeze to set up. Now if only there was a 3dfx version

3dfx Tutorial by Toshiba-3: http://devwam.toshiba-3.com/viewtopic.php?id=480

Thanks Lenor, all of this glide wrapper stuff is confusing though. I have nGlide installed, also Glidos. Now my question is, in relation to the version of Carmageddon in this thread, do I need to apply the 3dfx patch to it then run through Glidos or what? I've so many versions of this game, patches and stuff I'm getting lost in it all haha. Cheers mate

TTR · Post by **TTR** » Thu Jun 02, 2011 6:41 pm

I'm really glad myself with Hires mode, 3DFX mode isn't at all better then that anyway, so why break your skull for it? Urizen, my screen is 1920x1080 resolution and the image you got now, for forums, is still too high, cut it half man! That's about normal! :)

Urizen · Post by **Urizen** » Thu Jun 02, 2011 6:43 pm

Lenor wrote:Glad to see it worked for you too. Do you have x64 or x86(32)?
Don't forget to say thanks to Tosh

I'm running on x86, been playing for about thirty minutes or so - no glitches or crashes! Superb frame rates too, which is probably a huge relief for people who'd been using DOSbox up until now. I could never squeeze out any more than about 10 fps in DOSbox, even with all the detail settings turned right down!

I'll be sure to pass on my thanks to Tosh!

Lenor · Post by **Lenor** » Thu Jun 02, 2011 6:44 pm

@Stew2000: this is an already installed game, it's only packed nicely in an exe

@Hank Scorpio: The 3dfx patch is already installed

@TTR: I agree, hires is good enough!

Stew2000 · Post by **Stew2000** » Thu Jun 02, 2011 7:58 pm

I got it going! It's so much fun for such an old game :D

although running at 1600x900 is a bit bad.

hifi · Post by **hifi** » Thu Jun 02, 2011 7:59 pm

Stew2000 wrote:I got it going! It's so much fun for such an old game :D

although running at 1600x900 is a bit bad.

-hires maybe?

Stew2000 · Post by **Stew2000** » Thu Jun 02, 2011 8:29 pm

I had -highres as an argument. what is the difference?

also changing filter to linear makes it a bit smoother.

I'm at a more normal 1024x768 now.

Lenor · Post by **Lenor** » Thu Jun 02, 2011 8:32 pm

It's -hires and it changes the resolution from 320x240 to 640x480

TTR · Post by **TTR** » Thu Jun 02, 2011 8:40 pm

Hires 1920x1080

Stew2000 · Post by **Stew2000** » Thu Jun 02, 2011 8:42 pm

In 1997 640x480 was very high res. Things change too quickly these days.

Lenor · Post by **Lenor** » Thu Jun 02, 2011 8:46 pm

Stew2000 wrote:In 1997 640x480 was very high res. Things change too quickly these days.

Agreed, back then you needed a dedicated video card to be able to run it in hires. I had problems running it even in standard resolution(on a 486 computer).

Hank Scorpio · Post by **Hank Scorpio** » Fri Jun 03, 2011 12:18 am

Just curious, anybody experiencing crashes when attempting to start races on some random tracks? Happening for me on Splat Track & Drown in the Sumps. Still hugely enjoying this though, thanks again!

It also randomly switched from running full screen earlier to letterboxed with black borders around it now... no idea why, only runs that way now

Lenor · Post by **Lenor** » Fri Jun 03, 2011 9:00 am

The random crashes happened to me with every single version of carmageddon I've tried. The letterbox thing didn't happen to me so far.

Licky Webster · Post by **Licky Webster** » Fri Jun 03, 2011 9:18 am

Can't get the download to work for some reason. All I get is an error page.

Did anyone else experience this?

Toshiba-3 · Post by **Toshiba-3** » Fri Jun 03, 2011 9:38 am

Hank Scorpio wrote:Just curious, anybody experiencing crashes when attempting to start races on some random tracks? Happening for me on Splat Track & Drown in the Sumps.

Ah! These are the bugs I was talking about. The pack misses peds ressources for both of these environments.

Some cars crashes the game when you hit them too (well maybe).

Lenor · Post by **Lenor** » Fri Jun 03, 2011 9:39 am

Looks like the file is gone from the ftp, I'll upload it somewhere else. It will take some time cause I'm having trouble with my ISP this morning.

If someone else wants to upload it, let me know.

Tosh, if you have anything against this leave a message

Toshiba-3 · Post by **Toshiba-3** » Fri Jun 03, 2011 9:45 am

A power failure happened this morning where my server is. I guess it is related.

I'm going to upload everything back myself atm.

Lenor · Post by **Lenor** » Fri Jun 03, 2011 9:47 am

That's good news, thank you!

Toshiba-3 · Post by **Toshiba-3** » Fri Jun 03, 2011 10:00 am

The link is working now :)

Lenor · Post by **Lenor** » Sat Jun 04, 2011 7:40 am

Added a mirror download location just to be on the safe side.

aus_mike · Post by **aus_mike** » Sat Jun 04, 2011 11:01 am

When I click on the CARMA95.exe it has a black screen then goes back to desktop and gives this error:

" Unable to setup DirectDraw - please check that DirectX is installed "

Also I dont know what the SNDSETUP.exe file is meant to do, but it wont run either, just says "not compatible with the version of windows that you are running...."

I tried running both as admin and in compatibility mode and with 256colours. etc Is there something else I can do? I've tried dosbox before and could never get it to work. No way will I ever bother trying it again.

Also the readme say's:

"

Unpack this archive and then either run:

- Carma.exe (DOS Version)

- Carmav.exe (3D FX Version)

- Carma95.exe (Win95 version)

- Voodo2C.exe (Voodoo2 Version)

"

But the only exe I see is the main one with the red carma icon. I must be missing something.

Win 7 64bit.

Q6600,8800GTX,4GBram(not that this matters) Any help would be swell.

Stew2000 · Post by **Stew2000** » Sat Jun 04, 2011 11:07 am

aus_mike wrote:When I click on the CARMA95.exe it has a black screen then goes back to desktop and gives this error:

" Unable to setup DirectDraw - please check that DirectX is installed "

I think that means you don't have ddraw.dll in the directory.

Lenor · Post by **Lenor** » Sat Jun 04, 2011 11:30 am

Update your directx

aus_mike · Post by **aus_mike** » Sat Jun 04, 2011 11:51 am

Got it working by using the .bat file idea from the other "how to get carmageddon working" thread.

Just saved a notepad file as carma95.bta (I dont think the name matters) with the following in it.

Quote:

taskkill /f /IM explorer.exe

Start /w CARMA95.exe -hires

pause

start explorer.exe

There are alot of sound bugs, like sounds not playing when they should or just not kicking in faster enough, like engine sounds not changeing for a few seconds, butat least I can play it after all these years. Woot woot.

EDIT: Although when I go to quit, the game freezs and cannot be alttabbed or ctrl+alt+delted out of and the computer has to be reset.

hifi · Post by **hifi** » Sat Jun 04, 2011 12:00 pm

You want this http://www.carmageddon.com/forum/topic/337

JeReMiZ · Post by **JeReMiZ** » Sat Jun 04, 2011 7:12 pm

aus_mike wrote:When I click on the CARMA95.exe it has a black screen then goes back to desktop and gives this error:

" Unable to setup DirectDraw - please check that DirectX is installed "
Also I dont know what the SNDSETUP.exe file is meant to do, but it wont run either, just says "not compatible with the version of windows that you are running...."

I tried running both as admin and in compatibility mode and with 256colours. etc Is there something else I can do? I've tried dosbox before and could never get it to work. No way will I ever bother trying it again.

Also the readme say's:

"

Unpack this archive and then either run:

- Carma.exe (DOS Version)

- Carmav.exe (3D FX Version)

- Carma95.exe (Win95 version)

- Voodo2C.exe (Voodoo2 Version)

"

But the only exe I see is the main one with the red carma icon. I must be missing something.

Win 7 64bit.

Q6600,8800GTX,4GBram(not that this matters) Any help would be swell.

Toshiba-3 stated at the top of the readme that he deleted carmav.exe, voodo2c.exe, etc.

Launch Carma95.exe with -hires parameter to get it working, with ddraw.dll too, otherwise it will crash or give you bad colors.

BTW, I'm JeReMiZ from the readme and previous pack. (hi tosh'!)

Hifi, yours .dll are magic! Keep up the good work!

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