Summary

Received two messages: 1) Game works fine, no problems at all, but I cannot get the Saitek R4 Wheel working properly. 2) Intel Pentium 2 – 350mhz, Nvidia TNT2 16MB AGP, Sound Blaster Live 1024. Keyboard input in menus is dodgy at best of times, resulting in no response and/or jammed key effects making menu selection very difficult. Music skips and jumps whilst in options, fine in game, except in cockpit view, where sound is forced all to the right speaker. Also can't redefine controller buttons on Microsoft SideWinder Force Feedback Wheel forcing the brake to be constantly on, which forces car to a rapid halt when accelerator is released.

After the intial install, the game would work, but the controls behaved erractically and the sound had big time lag.

Downloaded and installed patch 6 (rcpatch6.zip, I don't remember where I got it from, sorry), solved all problems. The game works flawlessly now, including EAX support.

Applying Win98 compatibility mode and selecting 'Dolby' as the sound options as suggeested from other users works, but you cannot play with EAX. Installing the Patch 6 is the best solution.