Also see if the items on this page can help.

wow...FAQing to other sources...

i wouldnt expect anything else from the faq master himself

Don't you mean "Hide you're childs its the grammar police!"?

Strange.. I have podracer working fine on my winXP box... (windows xp pro). What problems are you running into? installing or running it?
-Greg

Strange. I installed it just fine, however, when I run it, it exits immediately.

Calvin

The catch-all in the lucasarts faq is: "To be able to run Racer, you must have Windows 95 or 98 as your operating system ..." so as I am running XP I am an unsupported operating system.

My system is different from the norm because it has a multiple monitor with multiple graphics card setup. The game refuses to run with either monitor as primary. My system also has a CD-ROM/burner and a DVD-ROM and some games seem to prefer particular drive letters. The game refuses to work from either cd drive. I returned the game. :-(

I looked at other Lucasarts games and I think all the star wars line of games require 95 or 98. :-( It makes me wary to buy any more until they're ready for XP.

Calvin

I have a hunch that the multi-monitor thing is more likely to kill a game than XP specifically. I've seen plenty of games which refuse to run on any multi-monitor setup, regardless of the OS.

Just for the heck of it, try temporarily disabling one of the graphics adapters in the device manager, then see if the game runs.

I remembered trying it. I tried both graphics cards separately (software-wise anyway, I did not unplug them from the motherboard, as this would be too much trouble for a game).

At some point I may try some other lucasarts star wars games, but I ended up purchasing Deus Ex. I'm almost to the end of System Shock 2. After Deus Ex, I'm going to get The Longest Journey. After that, I'll consider another Lucsaarts game.

Calvin

I got bored of Deus Ex a few levels into it...

I got bored of Deus Ex a few levels into it...

I considered that an awesome game from last year. It did start a bit slow, but after that I was hooked on it until I finished it.

I would say (also having multi-monitors) that a lot of older Direct X games can not handle having multi-monitors. You have to completely disable the monitor. Just switching primary and secondary. They get confused. I have 2000 and have experienced this several times with the games written for older version of direct X. I even have some related errors with playing Sims. But Diablo II seems to handle it right.

Diablo 1 has no issues either. Pod racer is the only one I had any problems with so far.

Calvin