Hey everyone.

So, the problem is that in order to launch Pro Rally 2001, you first need to launch the RallySetup.exe, so that the game would create a config file called ed3.ini. But I use Linux and am trying to run this game with Wine. And Wine seemingly can run the main executable, but not RallySetup.exe.

So, what I need is for someone who uses Windows to just install that game and then sned me that file ed3.ini. I don’t think I can tell you where to download the game, but it’s basically abandonware, so many websites have it.

So anyway, if you helped me, I’d be very grateful.

EDIT: Wow, I did not expect this many upvotes. Thank you so much to everyone who participated!

Unfortunately, the game still doesn’t work at the moment. I suppose I’ll have to just run a virtual machine for it. But I wouldn’t know if I didn’t try.

But this amount of support and such a quick response is so heartening. I don’t think I ever got this kind of response on Reddit with support requests.

  • Cevilia (she/they/…)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    ed3.ini contains the following (CRLF at the end of lines. No end of line at the end of the file)

    ; name of the card
card=NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

; name of driver
driver=DirectX 7.0

; mode of the game (windowed or fullscreen)
mode=fullscreen
  • Kuunha@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Create 32bits wine: WINEARCH=win32 wineboot

    Mount ISO: sudo mount -o loop ./Pro\ Rally\ 2001.iso /tmp/mntiso/

    Install the game: wine /tmp/mntiso/SetupUbi.exe

    Install nglide: wine nGlide210_setup.exe

    install INDEO codecs (Downloaded from https://archive.org/details/intel-indeo-codec-3.2-4.1-5.0): wine IV5PLAY.EXE

    in winecfg add dll override: ir50_32.dll

    Paste the ED3.INI file in the game directory

    Run the game (will crash): wine C:\UbiSoft\ProRally2001\ProRally.exe

    Run RallySetup and select glide: wine C:\UbiSoft\ProRally2001\RallySetup.exe

    Configure glide to use vulkan: wine c:\windows\system32\nglide_config.exe

    Run the game (will work): wine C:\UbiSoft\ProRally2001\ProRally.exe

    For me, the game started but got stuck on loading screen. Had to use the AMD patched version and replace ProRally.exe

  • Kuunha@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    Hi. I found this info on myabandonware.com:

    Open the updated installer by Zeus Software. The original installer of the game doesn’t work on modern systems, so use this patched version - simply click on prorally2001_p4_update.exe and press Install