Lego Racers on winxp??

[yellost]

Yesterday, I decided to replay on that old game, Lego Racers (by far the best video game made by LEGO... except maybe for the LEGO Star Wars ones, but I'm not sure ;-) )

But then, I couldn't make it work... Nothing.

I tried to run it in Win 95 compatibility mode and all the others but It just doesn't want to. It does launch the title screen and the menu where I can select my pilots and all (I was even thrilled to realise that my old saves still worked) but once I start a race, it just shuts down and brings me back on the desktop... :'-(

Does anyone know how I could fix this??? I think that what might be a source of the problem is that I'm trying to play it on a laptop, so the keyboard is different than a standard one (no keypad, for instance) or somthing like this, but I really have no idea...

[Optimax X]

Have you tried windows 98? I thought that's what lego racers was for. If that does not work you either have a nacked game or nacked computer! :-D

[yellost]

I tried that, too but it still doesn't work... It keeps falling back to the desktop when I launch a race... But lately, I could actually see the start countdown before it crashes... Kind of frustrating, really... :-/

[oo7]

My friend has got it working fine on his XP laptop and I have it on a N64 Emulator on mine. Have you cleaned the CD? (use window cleaning solution (windex) on a soft cloth)

I'd guess there's probably something wrong with the cpu itself, maybe you have too many processes running, try disableing uneeded progams, especially internet security firewalls.

[yellost]

I don't think the cd is the problem, since the game crashes long after it checked its authenticity and it doesn't actually need the cd to run the program... But it is the first edition of the game (I don't think WIn 98 even existed by then), so maybe I need a later version properly made for xp... That would be sad, though, because I don't want to buy another one, that'd be kinda stupid... needing two version of a same game because of compatibility problems... I mean hey, TLC isn't Microsoft, now, is it?

But I'll try disabling my firewall...