Carmageddon 2 - Carpocalypse Now

Thursday, 12 Mar 2009 18:38 by Hellwrath
So, yesterday I got round to reinstalling 'Carmageddon 2: Carpocalypse Now' on my W2K machine, to my dismay however, I had trouble running the game, when starting the carma2.exe launcher it gave me the options of either 'Direct Draw Software' or 'Direct 3D' with '3DFX (Glide)' greyed out, I tried Direct 3D, the game loaded up and I started the race, I think the graphics were terrible, very low res, worse was to come, after about 3 minutes, the game froze and annoyingly I had to reboot my PC.

Next, I figured there would be a patch, so I went to the SCI Games page and downloaded the Carmageddon 2 patch. Anyway this didn't help much, so to cut a long story short I have now got Carmageddon 2 running on my Windows 2000 machine in high resolution using Glidewrapper, after installing it, I could then run the launcher as usual, select '3DFX (Glide)' and lo and behold - I was playing Carmageddon 2 in glorious 1280x960 resolution! Take a look at the screenshot below and see for yourself! What a game!

Carmageddon 2 screenshot
Getting ready to race in Carmageddon 2!
Posted under: Carma, Carma2, Carmageddon