| About this product | |
|---|---|
| Product | Interstate 76 |
| Vendor | Activision |
| Tested operating systems | Windows Vista 32 Bit Windows XP 32 Bit |
| Average rating | |
| CompatDB XML | interstate-76.xml |
Compatibility Reports for Interstate 76
Reported by DeMoNiC
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Windows XP 32 Bit
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Reported by Anonymous
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This game will definitely play in WinXP if you follow the instructions on Post #28260 above.
Reported by Anonymous
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Windows Vista 32 Bit
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Reported by Anonymous
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1) Install Interstate '76 (original game, 2 CDs). Don't install the old Direct X.
2) At this point, go to the game directory (C:\Program Files\Activision\Interstate76\ by default) and make a copy of I76SHELL.DLL. You may need it later.
3) Install the v1.2 update (gold edition - i76gpat16.exe) to provide various fixes. This 80 MB update is currently available from http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3720189/Interstate_76_D3D_Patch.
4) If the game keeps asking for CD 2, make sure it is in your computers first optical drive (alphabetically). If necessary, you can change drive letters around by running diskmgmt.msc
5) Modify the shortcut to launch the game. Change it to i76.exe to skip the splash screen. Turn on compatibility mode for Windows 98. This will prevent the game crashing with exception errors.
6) You may experience crashes in the menu with certain sound hardware. To fix prevent this, you could try disabling sound acceleration in dxdiag.exe. Alternatively you can edit the Interstate '76 data file to prevent the bad sounds playing:
a) Backup DATABASE.MW2
b) Open DATABASE.MW2 in a text editor like SciTE http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html (ms notepad doesn't handle large files well).
c) Search and replace "RIFF:" with "PIFF:".
d) Search and replace "zrRIFF" with "zrPIFF".
e) Save the file.
7) If you notice the other cars are driving slowly and/or swerving/bouncing rapidly, you may need to install The Throttle to temporarily slow down your system. http://www.oldskool.org/pc/throttle.
8) The game may crash with a page fault error between missions 12 and 13 (you are unconscious - no salvage). Fix this by backing up your I76shell.dll then replacing it with I76SHELL.EXE from the old version you copied in step (2). After you gain access to mission 13, revert the file to avoid other problems.
note: if you don't have the old version of i76shell.dll, you may be able to find it in the 1.06 or 1.08 patch on the web.
9) (optional) You may notice Direct 3D mode only supports 640x480 and with low resolution textures. To enhance graphics, you can install a glide wrapper:
a) download dgVoodoo from http://dege.freeweb.hu/.
b) Unzip all dgVoodoo files into your Interstate 76 directory (C:\Program Files\Activision\Interstate76\ by default)
c) Run dgvoodoosetup.exe and choose your desired screen resolution for Interstate '76.
d) Tick 'Texmem scaled to 4mb'.
e) Set the texture memory as high as it will go.
These texture memory tweaks prevent the wrong sprites sometimes being drawn.
f) Click OK to save changes and exit.
g) Edit your Interstate '76 game shortcut and add -glide to the Target, so the target is: "C:\Program Files\Activision\Interstate76\i76.exe" -glide
(This assumes you changed splash.exe to i76.exe in step (5).
source: http://vogons.zetafleet.com/viewtopic.php?t=149&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=40#122173
Reported by Anonymous
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Windows Vista 32 Bit
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I got the gold version to work in vista no problem at all. To get 3dfx working i used a glide wrapper. Just minor graphical glitches and a bug with flame throwers: The flames just flicker instead of extending to their full length so they're pretty useless...
Reported by Anonymous
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Windows XP 32 Bit
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This game rocks! It works great under Windows XP! Great story line, everything a game should be. Sadly no more I76 online :(
Reported by tyroned
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Windows XP 32 Bit
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Under XP I can install perfectly with Gold Patch and the game plays fine up to scene 13. After the cutscene for the end of scene 12 the game crashes with one of those program stop responding screens.
Reported by Anonymous
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Windows XP 32 Bit
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Set your sound card's Hardware Acceleration to None in windows' control panel and the game works perfectly.
Reported by Anonymous
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Windows XP 32 Bit
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Installed with the latest gold patch and I can get it to partially run in software or D3D mode, but the game is jumpy and compeltely unplayable.
Reported by Anonymous
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Windows XP 32 Bit
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Got the game to run in XP, Just installed it and ran the *.exe file and it plays however I have got big sound problems whilst playing the game its hard to explain but the car engine sound is always revving its guts out unless you turn the car off and skid sounds are faint along with some other sounds too.
Reported by Anonymous
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Windows XP 32 Bit
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Received the follow messages:
1) Installs fine under compatibility mode, but at run time, crashes whenever you select anything from the menu (this is with and w/o d3d gold patch)
2) Interstate 76 nevertheless loads the main menue, remains with the start of a mission however suddenly hanging. The popular structure play Anno 1602 wanted not to be able to be installed because of to long file names. One must copy the contents on the fixed disk and take over from a Windows-9x-Installation the Registry entries, before one can settle the islands. Since these plays have already some years on the embossment, no more is not with Patches to count
