I think the only way to get it to work would be to buy a system from the early 2000's that is still running windows xp or even 7, and try to run it on there. windows XP VM's are too slow to play on, tried that as well. Unfortunately there seems to legitimately be no way to run this game on a modern system. I've tried following so many different tutorials, running in compatibility mode, editing my registry, and got nothing. I got it to install somehow on my desktop running windows 10, and it just plays the nglide title card and then goes to a black screen or freezes on the porsche title card.

Even if you're able to install it successfully (which doesn't work on my laptop following these instructions on windows 10 or 11,) the game simply will not run. I've tried this on multiple different machines, even updated my laptop to windows 11 because someone claimed that it 'works very well' with win11. Unfortunately this game does not seem to work at all, even with all of the patches and modifications.

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