Better known today as the developer of Skyrim and Fallout, Bethesda once had a well-respected racing game franchise and were deep into development of a licensed Skip Barber Racing title that never released.
Asobo, known today as the Microsoft Flight Simulator developer, created groundbreaking technology for large scale maps that was intended to be used in a high quality rally raid title. It was never released and ended up as FUEL, a post-apocalyptic open-world racing game. What happened?
Installs from the CD and (after installing this patch) it ran fine with toca2.exe in Windows 98/Me compatibility mode, HOWEVER, it took over an hour to load tracks and to exit the software. To fix this you need a fixed exe that has been altered with a hex editor:
– Original TC2.exe: Offset 0x706ED (row 000706E0, column 0D), change 7E to EB.
– Patched 4.1 version of TC2.exe: Offset 0x7426D (row 00074260, column 0D), change 7E to EB.
The internal directx error usually seems to appear if you have not run toca2.exe in Windows 98/Me compatibility mode.