Hover Ace in Surround

[Paddy the wak]

Hover Ace ... its on the Matrox web page for games with upcoming support ...
Out of the box it doesn't work in Surround ... but ... if you ...
Run - regedit -
Under HKEY_CLASSES_USER - Software - GSCGameWorld - tntEngine - KernelApp

Change these two lines from there default settings as follows...

CreationHeight - change data to .... 768
CreationWidth - change data to .... 3072

It then works great in Surround ... If you like racing and combat ... you will probably enjoy it.

Here's a link to there web site ...

http://www.gsc-game.com/index.php

There is also info about Firestarter that piaxVirus mentioned in another thread.

Cheers,
Paddywak

[Paddy the wak]

Now I've got into it .... it really rocks ...
VERY fast racing with LOTS of explosions ! .....

[SitFlyer]

Explosions are good!

[Paddy the wak]

I don't think I have seen a game with soooooo many explosions all going off at once ... continuously .... its mayhem ! ....

[wingie]

Hi Paddy,

I've looked around but could only find a demo video stream and no exe, then i looked at 3dgamers but the only demo they have is from 2001 ?!??!

Is this correct or could you give me a link to the demo.

Thanks,
Wingie

[Paddy the wak]

Hi Wingie,
I'm afraid don't know of a demo for the game .... I bought the game from Amazon.com based on what I saw in the video you mention... and the fact that it was on the Matrox web page for games with upcoming support. (Amazon.co.uk didn't stock it)
I see someone has a copy of it for sale at Amazon for only .... $8.49 ... I paid $19.88 !
It is also one of those games where you don't need the CD in to play the game.... sorry I can't be of any more help than that.

Cheers....
Paddywak.

PS. Where is Amersfoort ... Holland ?

[wingie]

He Paddy,

Thanks, I will have a look around in our local shops if i can find this game.

Yes amersfoort is in The Netherlands/ Holland it's in the middle near by Utrecht.

See ya,
Wingie

[Paddy the wak]

Hi Wingie,
If you look at my profile you will see I am an Artist... one of the best artists ever was Rien Poortvliet ... I am hoping to visit Holland this year ... I will be painting at the Dutch Game Fair in June and I would also like to visit the Poortvliet museum.
I just thought I'd mention.
Cheers,
Paddywak

Edit ... That is Game fair as in ... www.gamefair-nederland.nl

[Paddy the wak]

Oh... I have changed the settings posted earlier I am now running this at 3840x1024 with everything at MAX and it is still running great....

[SitFlyer]

Links to demo:

http://www.gamesdomain.com/demos/demo/1313.html

http://www.fileplanet.com/files/50000/52081.shtml

[Paddy the wak]

Thanks SitFlyer,
gamesdomain.com is gonna come in handy !

[wingie]

Just download the demo from gamesdomain and installed it, but when i try to start one the demo / or playable thingies it opens a screen with a frames counter and gives the text

" World loading failure" any ideas??

PS: i've installed it on D:\Games\GSC Game World\HoveRace

Grz,

Wingie

[Paddy the wak]

I didn't get any problems like that with Hover Ace full version installed to ... D:\Big City Games\Hover Ace

However I recently had a simmilar problem with another game where there was "World loading failure"... to correct that one I went to properties ... right click the shortcut ... under the compatability tab run in compatability mode for Win 98

May be it will help here.
Cheers,
Paddywak

[wingie]

Hum oke we are a step further D3DXCreateContextEx() failed when starting the run1000a.bat in compatible modus (win98/me)

Any other tricks up your sleeve Paddy ;-)

Wingie

[Paddy the wak]

Sorry ...