NASCAR Racing 4

[prich12]

I'm new to this forum. I have a question, that hopefully someone can answer. I have an old Sierra Viper racing game that my Genius brand wheel and foot pedals works well with, recently I bought a Nascar 4 racing game and I can find under options, like the old Sierra game, that gives you the choice of wheel or joy stick, to get my wheel to work. Am I missing something ? I hope I'm in the right forum.

[Collector]

I am not familiar enough with the game to say. Is the interface USB?

[prich12]

Yes it is. Running on a Windows 7 program.

[Collector]

Since it is a Windows game I would imagine that Windows would need to see the controller before the game could see it. Can you see it in the device manager?

[prich12]

Yes it is in the devise manager. It's just funny that the old Sierra race game picks it up but not the advanced Nascar 4.

[Collector]

Itook a quick look at it and noticed that there was a configuration setting for "Use software cursor". Did you try playing with that?

[prich12]

Where did you find "use software cursor" ? I went under options and clicked configuration, could not find it.

[Collector]

Run n4config.exe

[prich12]

Apparently I'm not as savvy about these things. When you say run n4config.exe, where and how exactly do I run it.
Thank you for your help.

[Collector]

In the game's directory. there may be a shortcut in the start menu. Look for something that says configure.

[prich12]

Found it in the directory, but all it wants to do is config. the 3D. Why does it not have a choice for wheel or joy stick like the old viper racing game ?

[Collector]

It was a long shot. I just noticed the "Use software cursor" which is relevant to a controller. There is a papyjoy.sys that the game installs. Check your Windows directory for this file. I don't know if this would be relevant. There is also "vjoy.vxd" in the game's directory, but a VXD is useless on modern Windows.

[prich12]

Tried everything, no luck. I think I will give up. I don't understand why Sierra made it so difficult to play the game, with a wheel and pedals, when it is so easy on there old game "Viper racing". The best way to play and the only way I enjoy race games is with the wheel and pedals. Why would you want to play with pushing buttons ?

[Collector]

It is not Sierra's or Papyrus' fault. The game was written for a different operating system. APIs (how programs talk to the OS) change. At some point it is like they are no longer speaking the same language.

[prich12]

Do you recommend any other racing games that would work with my widows 7 PC program ?