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My only issue with Racer is that the frame-rate suffers a bit in hi-res mode. Even though Racer is based on what is easily the most-anticipated movie of all time, you don't have to be a Star Wars fan to enjoy it Racer is one of the fastest-paced games I've ever seen on any system, immersing you completely in the Star Wars universe. You'll actually be afraid to close your eyes while playing.
The only thing missing from this game is a Story Mode, but the graphics and gameplay more than make up for it. The force has been strong with PC gamers. But soon console owners will be able to pay more personal visits to that galaxy far, far away-now that LucasArts is working on several Star Wars games for the Nintendo 64 and PlayStation systems. Nintendo 64's graphics are so sharp that you can see for miles outside your speeder's canopy.
Other levels are more Doom -like, with you wandering around Imperial bases and other Star Wars-inspired locales. The game's graphics are expected to look like they're straight out of a Star Wars film, with all the grandiose scenery and technical details they need to look true to the trilogy. This movie feel will only be enhanced by the many Star Wars veterans who make guest appearances in Shadows of the Empire. Jabba the Hutt, Boba Fett.
Darth Vader and even the Emperor himself appear in the game. Despite its big-time cast and complex story, Shadows of the Empire is only one part of a multimedia explosion that Lucasfilm has set off to promote the recently released Shadows of the Empire novel, which sits at the center of a nuiltimillion-dollar marketing blitz.
Other related merchandise includes comic books, action figures and even a soundtrack. Slated for a summer release, Rebel Assault 2 is a Star Wars full-motion-video tour-de-force that plunks the player behind the controls of several familiar spaceships, including the B-Wing,. This last ship lies at the center of Rebel Assaults 2's story, which revolves around an escalating arms race between the Empire and the Rebel Alliance. Between flying sequences, players also engage in first- and third-person blaster battles.
As in the first Rebel Assault, all of the sequel's sequences rely on full-motion video to draw the player into the Star Wars universe. Since Lucasfilm used original props and costumes from the trilogy, the scenes look especially authentic. Often described as "Doom on the Death Star," Dark Forces is a mixture of action and mystery that's set right before and after the events depicted in Star Wars.
The game opens with Katarn starting his newest rebel mission: to seek out and steal the plans for the Empire's planet-busting Death Star.
Yes, these are the same plans that Argo carried around in his rusty innards in Star Wars. After you sneak through an Imperial base, kill a bunch of Stormtroopers and retrieve the plans, Dark Forces' stoiy jumps to the period just after Luke nukes the Death Star.
Now there's a new threat to the still-shaky Alliance, a menace that has wiped out an entire Rebel outpost and left few clues. Rebel spies have heard the name of the Empire's secret new weapons--the Dark Troopers--but the Alliance wants more information. And you, as Katarn, spend the game's remaining 13 levels unraveling this mystery, eventually facing the Dark Troopers and their creator in combat.
Just as in the other Star Wars games, players will see many familiar faces--and helmets--during their Dark Forces adventure. Darth Vader and Rebel Alliance leader Mon Mothma star in the game's mostly rendered cinemas, which play before each level and add to Dark Forces' story. You'll also confront the trilogy's most famous bounty hunter, Boba Fett, stroll through Jabba the Hntt's palace, play seek and destroy in a Star Destroyer and visit other far-flung facilities.
Katarn can also collect numerous weapons-froin blasters to thermal detonators-that you'll recognize from the trilogy, and each depress of his weapon's trigger is rewarded with a straight-from-the-movie sound effect. It echoes a simpler time when we could get ourselves lost in our own imaginations. With the recent release of Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace , kids today are lucky enough to have enough technology to get lost in the world of Star Wars George Lucas and his talented team at LucasArts.
And believe-you-me, after watching the movie I HAD to have this game. The premise is quite simple -- even simpler if you have already seen the movie. You have a podracer, you have a track, and you have to go around in a circle and hope to end up ahead of the pack. Imagine two huge like engines tethered to your sled pod , held together by a plasma-energy beam. Surprisingly, the design of these podracers "almost" makes sense. LucasArts also does a great job representing the physics that would be involved while playing the game.
You have these podracers and you race them against other podracers, um You have over 21 podracers to choose from. All of these are distinct in their styling, handling and drivers. You get to race on multiple tracks strung across eight distinct planets, each with its own theme and style of racing. As you successfully finish each race, you will gain Trugats money that enable you to upgrade your podracer and prepare for the next race.
Finish first and a new podracer is unveiled that you can use for future races. This is where the "storyline" in Racer starts to get iffy. You never really get a sense of belonging to your pilot or podracer. Since you can choose from multiple pods and multiple pilots, it kind of lacks continuity. I would have liked to see the same pilot used and you be allowed to upgrade from there. If you decided to try a different "character" from the movie, you could have chosen that pilot at the start of the career.
How does it play? Simply put, if nothing else, Racer simulates speed better than any other game I have ever played. As you may have read in my other reviews, I am a big fan of force-feedback.
If implemented correctly, this can entrance me into a state where my joystick becomes an extension of my persona Racer does this oh-so-well and has now become my "reference" title to which I compare all others.
I cannot believe how good Racer translates the physics and handling of the podracers through a simple joystick. The interface for preparing for a race, upgrading your podracer, and just about anything other than actually racing is confusing as all get out. At first, before reading the manual, I would just get mad and go on to the next race. After reading the manual, it started to make sense You see, in some menus you need to use the mouse; in others, the keyboard; in others only the game controller seems to work.
I ended up juggling so many peripherals around to upgrade my pod that I wound up ctrl-alt-elbowing my way into a frenzy. Coincidently, LucasArts posted a little blurb on their support site about this shortcoming. Allow me to quote: "For navigating through the interface we recommend using the keyboard and mouse; joysticks, gamepads and wheels are not fully supported for the Front End interface.
You can interact with some items using the mouse and others with the keyboard. Sparky 0 point. Got it running in Win 10 no problem. Downloaded the ISO and x64 fix. Installed from burned ISO via fix. Only problem, on first try message saying "create dxgifactory2 could not be found. Problem solved, game runs great. Daz Favor 0 point Windows version. Luck SkayWaker 0 point Windows version. Any way to fix this? Should I change a file or anything? Guymeleth 1 point Windows version.
Thanks you! Unfortunately, doing so in the standard Windows notepad tool proved exceptionally difficult since the files formatting became corrupt. The easiest way is to edit as many bindings as you can in-game then tweak the file here. To delete a binding simply delete the entire line in the text file. By editing video. For the highest quality video, set the following options in the file.
The game will create a new one with the default settings the next time it is started. Supposedly, it is possible to run Star Wars Racer in widescreen by hacking the executable. However, in our tests this simply did not work. For anyone who wants to try the widescreen hack themselves, the details are available here. This game is extremely problematic and may require Jedi levels of patience in order to get it working.
In testing and configuring we found the following additional issues. Corrupt videos:- Happens particularly on Windows 8 machines. Sometimes setting compatibility options to run the game in reduced colour mode bit colour can help.
Game takes a very long time to start:- This can happen if your game CD is dirty, damaged or the PC is having a hard time reading it. Be patient when starting the game! On some machines it takes several minutes to load. Game freezes on or before the intro:- Be patient when starting the game! If the game locks up before the intro plays, or as the intro is playing, try restarting your PC. Make sure that no other applications are running that could overlay graphics onto the game.
Disable as many other programs as possible instant messengers, web browsers, e-mail programs etc. Disable any secondary monitors, if present. The slow startup problem should be significantly improved with the latest version of the Episode 1 Racer graphics patch.
No sound card detected:- Sometimes the game will play audio just fine in the introduction, then fail to play any sound whatsoever in the main game.
To solve this problem, you will need to run the game as administrator. However on some machines this tool simply will not launch. We found that the configuration tool would not run at all when we were running Windows 7, but a switch to Windows 8 on the exact same hardware and the tool ran without a problem.
On other Windows 7 PCs it ran just fine too. If you cannot start the tool, you can run our installation utility to set the screen resolution. Use our custom installer to set screen modes instead. Try restarting your PC and then running the game as administrator.
You can also try clearing the virtual store section in the registry a tutorial on how to do this is coming soon. Problems saving games and configuration files:- Like many old games, Star Wars Racer saves configuration files to the same directory as it is installed to. That means that if you install the game to your program files directory, you may have trouble saving your progress. Either install the game to a different directory e.
A tutorial on how to do this can be found here. When using the games configuration tool, run it as administrator to ensure that changes get saved properly. I still have this game and was planning on giving it a run through again now that my son is getting older.
It was a lot of fun back in the day. The N64 version also has skybox texture errors, and will not detect an expansion pack on an emulator even if you have expansion pack emulation enabled. Hey, I found it! Took some time to find a way to run it patch or update , but now we can relive this classic! If the author wants to edit the main page, go ahead. It works. It is possible this is a false positive but we need more information first, thanks. Hi again, we uploaded the file to a multi-virus checker and 1 out of the 32 virus checkers said that both the files contained a virus, so could quite possibly be a false positive.
Could you possibly link us to an authors page even if it is in Russian so we can find out more about the fix? Thanks again for your contribution, sorry for being over zealous but I have to be cautious before I offer files for people to download. Of course! Well, where you experienced that? Yeah, probably, I tested here again, no problems. I got some video driver problems what reminds me of upgrading my PC to Win7 , but everything was resolved. Hi again, well I have updated the article.
Using the fix I have written a new installer, but I still have a lot of problems with the game freezing on startup particularly. Still, at least it is playable now. No more awful white screen bug,so the graphic fix worked perfectly and game plays great. I have been hoping for a fix for 2 years, and finally I can play it great on all Windows 7 systems. Glad it worked for you! I have a windows 7 32 bit. The normal installer gives me white backgrounds in the game I think here referred to as the corrupt graphics.
Do you have an idea what I can do? Yes, I just tried it. The system checker says the game requires a 3d video card. Well, I guess that must be the problem then. So strange the game will run with corrupted graphics with the normal installer though.
Same here. Hey guys all I seem to get is a white screen when playing I can just about see my racer but nothing in front of it just all white.
I dont have my original cd anymore it is long lost and your installer asks for it. Anyway around it? I can start the game, I can even play. For example there is a big blue stripe from one side to the other, so i cannot see much of what is coming : Similar situation in the menu. Green and other coloured surfaces hide most information about pilots and tracks. I hope you can give a working solution but thanks a lot anyway and I hope you understand my denglish :.
Which language did you install the game in? When I installed it with my German disc, I got the same errors. After installing it with an English CD image, it worked. I can play now, the white screen is gone. Hi, i used the installer that you upload. I have the same problem, I tried every solution even Force! Can you help me Master? EXE the screen stays black and only my mouse cursor is visible.
I checked every possible solution and of course your troubleshooting guide , but nothing seems to help. I also tried a different approach with the installer from Markus Egger.
With this installer the game works, but when I have to choose a racer there are no pods and no pilots visible and after that I have the whitescreen bug. So I tried the solution from this page the program dxwnd :. You need to use the original exe not the fixed version if you want to try with DXWnd. Hey I have the problem that when I want to start the Game in the reduced color mode, it wont start. I dont know why because without it, the game starts really fast and without problems.
Hi there, first things first: THANK YOU for this great installer, I can play it on W7 but i still have a problem… When i get to the point, where i can choose the podracer or the track the Interface is really messed up and is all over the screen… also while racing, the map and the temperature is also not like it should be — maybe someone has experienced the same problem and could give me some tips :.
But anyway i managed to get through thr game. Yeah, but I would like to play the game because of the great experience and not just to beat it :P. Thanks a lot for your great installer tool!
Now, this old game is working fine on my Windows 8 pc using a M Nvidia graphic card! Thanks again! How did you manage to make it work, did you do something special? The German version had 2D texture glitches for me as well, while the English version worked perfectly.
I feel like I am Glued to the ground and I feel like I take god like damage from nothing as well, but On my last play through on an original XP system I do not recall it functioning like this. Also ramps feel more like stairs. Is this fixable? I can Only go in the Exact middle. And when Especially on the credits screen, the video plays at about x normal speed, this also happens during the victory scene after the 7th race for each division Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
For myself, I had to set my refresh rate to 60hz and turn on vysnc. Normally i run games at hz but this one didnt like it. Im running on XP sp3…. One thing, does anyone else have problems with the hud? I have windows vista and I got the white screen glitch, so I reinstalled it with this installer.
Any ideas? Play in Windows 8. It works perfect for me in Windows 8. Also if you want to use our installer which is far simpler you can just copy the executable file back from your original CD if you want to use the un-patched version. Do you happen to have installed it with a German disk? When I used my German game disk, I got the same problem.
With an English image I mounted, everything worked perfectly including the widescreen hack mentioned in the article. Any chance for making the same installer for The Phantom Menace? Thank you again! See the troubleshooting section, you need to wait a long time for the game to start.
I ended up throwing together an XP machine just to play this game. Today, I got the itch to try to install it on my main rig and I found this page, much to my luck! Hey guys. I made a mistake the videos before each race still have wrong coulors and size. Seems like everyone has a different issue with this game.
A cool game to play! A little easy still, once you have all the upgrades. Musics are awesome, as always in Star Wars. The DXWnd method worked for me. I had to, although, modify the DirectX detection. My computer is running Windows 7 x Fixed exe works good, but I have pauses between items in junkyard, and controls does not work good in anti-grav tunnels. This game really is exceptionally troublesome. I loved the game so much that I still have a laptop that really overheats just to play this game.
The installer works awesome for me, I can play the game again with my wii controllers and plays like a dream, but there are still a minor issue. When I start the game the windows mouse and the game mouse are both on the screen and move at different speeds.
Finally after running the game in Admin and enabling sound, you can exit and use the game without running it as Admin and still have sound it seems. Lastly it seems the file name is really important? The cherry on top of this incredibly awesome gift!
Been busy else it would have already been public. Hi Draken, glad the fix worked for you. Yes they may quit the game on accident, but at that point someone goes out to find me to start the game again.
For the most part everything is working like it did on my old laptop so now I no longer need it! I open the game normally.. I dont look none. I look the car only. Help me how repair it. Im download the dxwnd and give me problem. The first. After gave me the error Cant open a files to install dxwnd.. Give me MORE error! I cant install the dxwnd because I need the file dxwnd. That DLL lives in the same folder as dxwnd you should not copy it anywhere else.
I installed using the patched installed but even using the Fixed exe tells me to insert the CD? Make sure your CD is in the first optical drive, first as in the drive with the first drive letter alphabetically.
Okay my mistake I thought the fixed exe meant you didnt need the CD.. Follow the troubleshooting instructions to avoid rdroid crash. Usually all you have to to is be patient. Dude, you are good. For many years I have tryed some solutions. Thank you a lot. Ps: my only old pc which could use the game begin to be hot when I play same after cleaning fan.
It is on the end of his live. I notice if a move the window, the blank screen come back again. Hey guys, well, I almost ran the game well. I used your installer, and could open the game without crashing using the windows 95 compatibility mode the 98 works too on the original exe. The problem is that the videos look just… Bad, and in a little square on a side of the screen.
Could you please help me? I think this problem shows up most of the time when you try to run it with integrated graphic cards like i do on my laptop. That is grate because I have only my External Bluray drive.
That ist the most time in my bag. Oh my god! From what i know, some files on the french disc differs from the english one when I tried long time ago to install it on the old 64bit tutorial, it may explains why your patch is not fully supported.
If you have time to fix the other releases of the game, it would be so awesome! I can provide the french iso in private if necessary. I played it on a small gaming convention we had in my town and I absolutely loved it! Thanks guys. If it is the same game, then the old strategy guides would still work? I believe there was a couple published back then. Search icon An illustration of a magnifying glass. User icon An illustration of a person's head and chest.
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