So, I've bought myself a new PC, and...

[resir014]

...I tried MTM2 and FS2004 on it, and it really works well.

Well, except for Evo1 and Evo2, I always get an error message during startup, e.g. "Microsoft reports -671MB (any negative figure) of free swap disk space. You need a minimum of 100MB swap disk space to play Evo1" or something like that. Strange though, because I've upgraded my hard drive and now I have a total of 200GB of hard drive space, and only a little space are used.

Then the graphics went a bit laggy during the config screen, and when I tried to do a race, the graphics went blank.

Anybody knows a solution to this problem?


System Information:
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E7500 @ 2.93GHz (2 CPUs)
2GB DDR3
ATI Radeon HD 4600 Series
200GB Hard Drive
Windows XP SP2

If you's like a DxDiag information aswell, i'll post it later.

[Kmaster]

It's because:
- you have too much RAM.
- Directx7 on Evo1 doesn't work on some new cards.
- 4x4 Evo is outdated.

The swap file problem is a classic evo problem. During these years, I have heard a lot of stuff about it, but no ones knows exactly what is causing this.

Well here it is;

4x4 calls an API function called GlobalMemoryStatus which returns incorrect information (exactly the dwAvailPageFile DWORD) of your swap (page) file. Having a big page file size and more than 2gb of ram causes this.

I made a small VisualBasic program demonstrating this.

Right now the size of my page file is 2046 mb and I have 2gb of RAM, but GlobalMemoryStatus reports -888127488 bytes (-846.9 mb)

This is even acknowledged by Microsoft
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/274558


TRI has never patched this, the 56-57 patches doesn't fix this.


About your graphics problems... for some reason, Evo1 is doing the same for me, but not Evo2. And I have a Intel G41 integrated graphics card with 256mb.

Solution: Use OpenGL (or try Glide if you have installed GlideWrapper/dgVoodoo) in the startup config dialog.

Try to open resource hogging programs, web browsers and that kind of stuff, use at least 700mb of RAM, then, run Evo. It works for me, Evo will still display incorrect information, but the gameplay will be a lot faster.


And THAT'S another big mystery solved by Kmaster.

[resir014]

Oh wait, just because I tested it on Evo1, I assumed that Evo2 would be the same, and didn't do any tests with it.

Apparently Evo2 works. Now configuring Evo1 and hope it works.

[resir014]

Just configured Evo1 to run under openGL, and it works.

Thanks Kmaster.

EDIT: But the bad news is that now my amazing MTM2 track database (more than 120 amazing tracks from those amazing trackmakers! Thanks to anyone who put this game into my old PC many years ago) is "accidentally" deleted during the data transfer from my old PC, so I'm pretty much starting from scratch now.

Oh well, time to restore them. Downloading all Enocell's tracks now.