IndyCar Racing II is Finally in HD! - Rendition Wrapper RReady Overview and Tutorial

[@GPLaps]

It seems there are some reports of the wrapper itself being falsely flagged as a virus by windows. Obviously do what you feel safe with but you will need to tell windows to ignore the issue to use it properly! Hopefully this is fixed by Microsoft soon

[@WhiteMagicRaven]

you can tell about SODA Off-Road Racing its also supported by this wrapper as other games like Formula 1, Grand Prix Legends, Monster Truck Madness 2, NASCAR Racing II , NASCAR Racing 1999 Edition and finally Whiplash , not saying about last exclusive game Rebel Moon , which not falls into racing games but FPS

[@WhiteMagicRaven]

@GPLaps

[@HeyItsAJOmega]

The fact that there are folks so dedicated to working on ways to keep nearly 30-year-old games going, and working on modern systems, is utterly incredible. The game looks amazing!

[@TedMeat]

Man its a good day for us old guys :D

[@daren42]

lol

[@sharangadayananda]

Wow! I'm at a loss for words. Much obliged for this smashing review.

[@nikbear]

Congratulations, your hard work is really incredible 👏 😉👍

[@sharangadayananda]

@nikbear thank you. ☺️

[@BAMACOUPE]

I can still hear Paul Page as the game launched saying "From Papyrus, this is Indy Car Racing II"

[@RaceSimCentral]

Thank you for the shoutout, and your continued exposure to what really was a golden era of gaming and sim racing. ICR2 really looks spectacular.

[@timothymaynard8017]

My wife saw me watching one of your videos last week. I was scaling back my online racing career to one night a week. At the peak I was racing in four leagues a week and spending other days practicing. She asked me if I wanted to start racing again. I said no, but with this update I am now thinking yes!

[@hugodanobrega6596]

I have been enjoying ICR2 for the first time with this redition version and its truly impressive what this old sim can do. S/o to Sharanaga for all his continued work on this masterpirce.

[@hugodanobrega6596]

@sharangadayananda

[@sharangadayananda]

Thank you @hugodanobrega. It feels great to know my little wrapper is being appreciated so much.

[@quietbatperson]

Not a game that means much to me, but I said 'wow' when you switched to HD. Really delighted you get to enjoy an all time favourite in this new way. Makes me excited about the potential of this, just like lossless scaling

[@prophetascending9021]

What a treat. The quality of this channel is rising by the upload.

[@MrAustinH]

Loving all the uploads lately. Always enjoy kicking back with a cup of coffee and watching some GPLaps in the morning.

[@GeoSandman]

Wow, this brings back so many memories. Nice to see it in HD!

[@postmax81]

Indycar Racing I was my first race simulator game. I bought it at athe time when II was already available but it was more expensive and did not run on my 486 PC. I remember how hard this game was at first, basically running into every wall that was there. But I also remember the satisfaction of learning the game and getting better, understanding car setup and learning the tracks. However as I was an F1 fan mostly, I got myself World Circuit, as I was more familiar with the tracks and enjoyed it more even if the graphics were pretty poor compared to ICR. Seeing these images really brings the nostalgia, and also shows how far racing sims have evolved, especially in terms of graphics.

[@Eswald]

I refuse to acknowledge that this game is 30 years old. Great video as always!

[@GalvaoSS]

Beautiful work. I've been a fan of this game for a while now, I also had several carsets and spent hours playing. Congratulations on the channel and a big hug from Brazil.

[@Fastbikkel]

Ive got to be honest here. i daydream about these things, but in the evenings i often get only a few things done ;-) Luckily you are there to show us. Thanks, i might even still try this, it looks so cool.

[@jeffmiller2008]

I bought the rendition card solely for Indycar 2 in the day. It was paradise!

[@aldoskyz8]

This was an incredible example of what need to be a simulator! What times and what a job with HD!

[@idontneedthis66]

Wow, this is insanely cool. I remember seeing Rendition as an option back in the 90's but never could try it since I always had 3Dfx cards. Had no idea it made the game look THAT much better.

[@tibor02v1b]

Thanks so much for the video and introducing the addon, without it I would probably never hear for it, and I have been waiting 20+ years for something like this! 😀 Big thanks to the author Sharanga too!

[@sharangadayananda]

Thanks @tibor02v1b. I'm surprised rready's generating such a reaction.

[@sharangadayananda]

No, thank you! I'm amazed at the response to this!

[@taskanawa9604]

indycar racing 1 and 2 hits different, one of the best sim racing for me

[@snow1-2pinkkush46]

Im pretty young but im blown away how good à 30 year old game can look with some upgrade it crazy that people still work on this

[@MrGrogee]

Thank you to all the folks who made this possible - absolutely heroic work. And thank you Jake for giving us an enthusiast's point of view. 1992 season in HD???

[@Daveybird]

Been playing ICR2, N99, NR2003, and the rFactors for years now, and didn't want to go digging for a Rendition card, so glad ICR2 gets 3D Acceleration again!

[@kekke2000]

A small correction at 3:00 you mention 1920x1440 being basically 3 times bigger than 640x480. I see what you mean but it is actually 9 times. 3 times as wide and 3 times as tall. Great video as always. Especially love the retro games.

[@TheDeeGeeNL]

The fog really makes it come alive and give depth to the entire scene.

[@cool3865]

its funny because everyone that didnt have that car missed out on all of that stuff back in 1995

[@WhiteMagicRaven]

Beautiful, thank you very much for helping and spreading this wrapper. i really love it and helping a little to this project, whenever possible , love it!!!!

[@sharangadayananda]

Thank you @WhiteMagicRaven.

[@davidk6]

This is cool. I still have IndyCar Racing 2 rendition on a zip drive. Back in the 90's we were able to change many things in it. Including different textures for the track surface, clouds, wall advertisement, and livery for the cars, etc. Even engine sound. Good Luck with the project!!

[@NY-Vice]

Stuff like this is why I love the PC gaming community. Awesome stuff.

[@defenderbwe]

Thanks, been waiting for you to make a vid about it before jumping in xD

[@GregzVR]

PEAK GP Laps!

[@mrporgmotorsport7822]

Can’t wait to play this game without pixels as the next corner haha

[@gold333]

Man this reminds me of F1 GP by Microprose and my old 325SX and later my 486DX4. I'd play these two games back to back and the Indycars felt so sluggish and slow yet you needed to be precise with them. Then I found out that was about the same in reality. In the end I think Indycar was the more realistic sim, and F1 GP was so much fun. We even modded the 1991 F1 GP to be 1993 with the car editor. But the Indycar looked so good with the rotating wheel logos and the realistic asphalt. Couldn't believe there were just 3 years between them (1992 and 1995). But F1 GP2 was something else when it came out in 1996. That blew everything away. It was a shame it was the 1994 season but didn't feature Senna. That hit us hard.

[@robertthurman9866]

I still have a couple of Rendition cards in my archive (storage unit). The game companies did not give up on Rendition, Rendition just ceased to be. It was bought by another company to make onboard video chips for motherboards. That company got bought by another just for copyrights on various things but they were not interested in video chip, so Rendition died. They were planning to put the video card memory within the chip, which at that time by bypassing video channels would have outpaced everyone by a huge margin. But it was not to be.

[@malthuswasright]

Ten dollars is a bargain for the work that went into it. Great video.

[@sharangadayananda]

And that's for a ten machine license. ;)

[@cyberfutur5000]

Firstly, modding communities are just the best. Thank you all for keeping all those games alive or even improving on them. This is pretty amazing! I always hoped, that it would "fix" the draw distance popping thing, since I care more for things not popping, than things looking crisp, BUT the mirrors easily make up for that, so cool to see proper mirrors in the game. A shame the draw distance wasn't influenced by the changes, but very impressive indeed.

[@daniellee4003]

This can't really "fix" the draw distance since Papyrus never did. Note that this is a *wrapper*, not a mod. All it does is convert Rendition graphics instructions that come out of a Papyrus-made executable to OpenGL graphics instructions that a modern GPU can actually use. (well ok, there's a small exe patch to make it handle memory correctly, but nothing really major)

[@mwoodski]

heck yeah. also the way you set up your layout during the race allows you to put some supporter logos above the shot of you.

[@BunkerFox]

This looks great! I do, however, miss the funky old mirrors. Once you get used to them they feel great. One of the best ways I've seen to recreate peripheral vision and sense of place you get in a car without having your character actually look around

[@GPLaps]

Yeah its a tough adjustment! Who knows, if the resolution could every be fully unlocked maybe we wouldnt have that issue!

[@sharangadayananda]

​@@GPLapspressing [ALT +/] brings up the high detail mirrors.

[@kinger41]

So cool we have a 3D-acclerated version of ICR2 playable on modern PCs now. Might have to try this out sometime.

[@Snookie1988]

Time for a new season xD At the moment I'm watching your 1989 season and I'm in Meadowlands right now. xD I always wanted to have Indycar Racing 2 back then, but my father never got it. And I was too young to buy it myself. In general, I miss Indycar Games. The only games I have are Precision Racing and Newman Haas Racing.

[@whassupg89]

Can’t wait for when the time comes for Axelson’s career to move into hd!

[@mrpeters3399]

Absolutely incredible! I am going to have to see if I can get my Accuforce and Fanatec V3 pedals detected and try this out in all its glory. I too always dreamed of being able to play ICR2 in all of it's glory!

[@Z64sports]

The main thing that makes this look 10x better is the realistic mirrors tbh. Everything else was represented in some way that was close enough imo that your imagination filled it in but the mirrors add some consistency to the look

[@Racer63.]

I've never been a great ICR 2 fun, I tended to fire up Crammond's GPx games more often. But the work done here is astonishing. Sim Racing in the past was great and is even better now.

[@ltjjenkins]

Those 95 Indy Cars were insane. Then they blew it up and I haven't been back since. 80-95. Beautiful golden age

[@RyanHellyer]

I think it's super cool that someone did this. But it does baffle my mind how people find the motivation to work on such an old game.

[@eticket70]

AWESOME!🤩

[@djeurosham]

Holy shit. I didn't know this was in the works. I can't wait to go back and play again.

[@Bluearcadee]

One of my first games, I play, look fantastic, I 40 years old and I have history on this simulator, I play more than 6 year's, using paint job I create 98 season, now see cars he have look's like amazing!

[@JamieAtSLC]

Can’t wait for a full season replay from you in HD. I always find the default version kinda hard to watch with the frame rate and low res.

[@rfratelli]

Man we´re so lucky these days... Since Christmas we got a brand new awesome Caterham mod for GPL, this Rendition patch for ICR2 and x86GP2 for GP2!

[@TimmyGeee]

I watched this at 144p just to add blocky pixels back to the game :)

[@Bambeakz]

I think this was the indycar game I played but as someone from the EU i did not even know the real life version. This was just a crash simulator for me because of all the parts that could fly off.

[@NielsHeusinkveld]

Were you capturing at 30fps? Because it seems exactly every other frame is unique in the video.

[@GPLaps]

I was capturing at 60! Maybe the frame interpolation doesnt capture correctly, it does look smoother in person!

[@jclafi]

Indycar and Nascar Racing 1 are my favorite games ever !

[@depapier]

Amazing! Now to run it on Linux or Android.. Game works surprisingly well on steam deck or handhelds with two analog sticks, very surprisingly the controls are pretty good.

[@AceD500]

Gee ive wonder if older nascar racing games get same treatment

[@divinuminfernum]

this is great, i am keen to try it out, i dont think there has ever been an indycar game that beats ICR2 - i wonder if this wrapper could work for any other DOS games

[@WhiteMagicRaven]

it works almost for evry dos and windows game. and improvements going on, the games that designed for rendition verite video cards

[@divinuminfernum]

@WhiteMagicRaven you mean every dos game generally or just those design for rendition cards? Which other dos game fall into that category? What about Indy Car Racing 1 , or microproses F14 Fleet Defender or Pacific Strike

[@divinuminfernum]

@@WhiteMagicRaven i tried it now on Falcon AT and F14 Fleet Defender and neither worked just crashes dosbox

[@WhiteMagicRaven]

@@divinuminfernum only dos and windows games designed to rendition, you can see list of them on vogons , google "3D Accelerated Games List (Proprietary APIs - No 3DFX/Direct3D)" and scroll down to Rendition Verite, among them quake, soda off road racing, rebel moon, and more

[@cool3865]

so i wonder if that means we will also get the Rendition version of SODA Off-Road Racing, the last racing game from Papyrus to use it before they switched to 3DFX

[@WhiteMagicRaven]

its already works with this wrapper, as other games and exclusives, like Rebel Moon

[@darioallende4191]

The Mirrors!!! 🎉🍻🤟😁

[@PhantomMark]

ICR2 was epic, even on keyboard, I think I finally got to play it on a joystick, I can't imagine how it would play on modern input controls ??

[@tropixx_xlr1549]

Interesting! I have the game so I'm definitely gonna install this!

[@ruricklodder]

damm......now i have sweat on my eyes from all the memories playhing this game almost everyday in my childhood

[@DabDabGoose]

Thanks soo much for this great video.

[@emmanuelgoumaud9177]

Fantastic..!

[@CameronGreenwoodCramp]

IndyCar Racing 2, the best IndyCar game ever made. Besides CART Precision Racing. And IndyCar Series. :)

[@mikesabo5583]

640x480 = 307,200 pixels 1440x1920 = 2,764,800 pixels 2,764,800 / 307,200 = 9 The new resolution is 9 times higher! Resolutions scale exponentially vice linearly.

[@Bluearcadee]

J Smith kkkkk a life time memories!

[@Accelr8r]

Are the settings the same for Nascar 2 and 99? Would love to run those too.

[@sharangadayananda]

They work, also with support for frame interpolation and geometry upscaling. But the dosbox-rendition.conf file will have to be different to auto-launch the game. Nascar 1999 kzbin.info/www/bejne/ppDOm5aag7eVidk Nascar 2 kzbin.info/www/bejne/l5eQfXmEqK-rqpI Nascar 1999 60 fps. kzbin.info/www/bejne/joizhpyZqcuFadk

[@Accelr8r]

@@sharangadayananda Amazing, thanks!

[@GPLaps]

Its also possible to run N1999 or N2 using 3dfx. I made a video about that as well here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gqGbZqOImNF8Z6s

[@MrMosebysLobby]

2025 is the year of HD Mods and Games i stg. Nascar 09 Definitive Edition mod (Ps2 with Xbox 360 carset, manufacturers, dlc paints, ea paints), The BeamNG mod, This, Nascar 25, and more Im excited

[@tibor02v1b]

Would be awesome to continue the season with the addon

[@seanomatopoeia]

"Indycar 2 is one of my favorite games" is not what I expected to hear after the second Denver race. Thought we'd never get another ICR2 video again after that tragedy.

[@sharangadayananda]

Restarting dosbox before a race also helps minimise the divide by zero error.

[@amiddled]

Your comparison at the start between DirectX, Rendition and 3Dfx Glide was imo a bit off. DirectX is a cross hardware platform API with a hardware abstraction layer. Rendition and 3DFx glide were closer to their own card’s hardware and were proprietary to their own hardware. You could for example run DirectX on 3Dfx cards.

[@RacingWithChuck27]

Nice, brings back great memories. Those years unused the Thrustmaster T100 which was good for about a year until Thomas Wheels came out (no ffb back then) * question* I’m looking for a 280 rim, is that a 280? Over at 3dRap they make a nice retro round wheel but it’s 260mm, I think that would be too small. What is that you’re using. Thanks

[@GPLaps]

The rim I am using is 270, its definitely really really small, but perfect for early 90s CART or F1

[@KayoMichiels]

Whats up with the branding on your wheel being blurred out?

[@altransamaltransam95]

Hello Jake, I have a box copy of ICR published in 1996, how do I find if it is Rendition ready ? I know I can use the download but would be old school to use the CD :) Thanks DISREGARD, found my answer further in the tutorial :)

[@fishblade2]

I wish they would move this to support modern equipment and peripherals. I could never, even with 2axis and using tools to make my wheel look like a logitech, I was not able to get the wheel and pedals to work (using simucube and heusinkveld pedals).

[@edwardburek1717]

So, does this mean we're going to see the rest of Ryan Axelson's 1990 season in full HD?

[@towhee89]

PogChamp!!!

[@longlifemilk77]

hi ive got the game file on my desktop but i dont know the correct way to write it under the autoexect fille as every time i try start it its says drive z mounted change to mount c drive but im not shure how to do that

[@Dethmeister]

A FFB wheel with no power feels so weird. You don't use automatic centering option to feel like how an old bungee cord wheel simulated self-centering steering in real cars?

[@jackson97wc]

Does This Mean The Ryan Axelson Saga will be in HD Going Forward?

[@danieldorn9989]

Does this work on 4K? Then I gotta play this on a 65 inch 4K TV

[@stillious]

Thanks for posting on Bluesky Jake, you're a legend.

[@longlifemilk77]

I've just realised that i haven't installed the indycar 2 I've thought you installed it with the rr wrapper that i brought but i think i have to install the indycar 2 through dos box and I'm not Shure how to do that I've tried looking in the indycar 2 directory in dos box and there's no install.exe file just a install.bat file so I'm not Shure

[@brentritchie6199]

It was a great sim like all papyrus racing sims

[@Hammercat42]

no "tv view" in the game?

[@longlifemilk77]

Hi I know I’m supposed to put something under the autoexec file but I don’t know how to write it my game file is on my c drive would you be able to tell me how to write it so I know it’s correct

[@Daveybird]

The Rendition DOSBox doesn't detect my joystick (Xbox One/S/X Controller) in IndyCar Racing 2. The log screen says it does, but it doesn't do anything in-game, whether it be in the controls, calibration settings, or in-game. My controller works fine in the other DOSBox I have installed. Is there anything different about this build that might lead to this?

[@WhiteMagicRaven]

ask at vogons, can't answer this one

[@jacekatalakis8316]

Doesn't this also mean you get rain effects as well, if I remember Velocity Motorsports site correctly, too?

[@GPLaps]

Yeah there is an option which basically gives it really dense fog to simulate “rain” No other changes to grip or anthing, its kind of silly :D

[@Demiandrogyne]

Indy Car Racing II HD before GTA 6 ‍🔥

[@ErwinsRTLFormule1herinneringen]

Lovely!!

[@81casperflip]

Earliest I've ever caught a video

[@Saturn185]

i love this era of indycar, should i play this game or go with cart racing instead?

[@WhiteMagicRaven]

isn't it same game ?

[@Saturn185]

@@WhiteMagicRaven i don't know if the wrapper is compatible with it too though

[@WhiteMagicRaven]

@@Saturn185 if its listed on @sharangadayananda youtube channel than its supported in wrapper

[@LowEndPCGamer100]

if only this wasnt a windows store app. looks like im waiting to experience this yet again.

[@GPLaps]

Out of curiosity what is the issue with the Windows store?

[@LowEndPCGamer100]

@GPLaps I like to back up my software, and I assume it's required that I sign in every time I open a windows app as well, doesn't necessarily appeal to me

[@GPLaps]

The windows app lives in a folder on the C drive and can be copied out/moved and run locally elsewhere. I think it breaks the connection with that new location receiving any updates in the future

[@LowEndPCGamer100]

@GPLaps ill buy and give it a try!

[@sharangadayananda]

​@@LowEndPCGamer100once you deploy to an installation folder, the deployed folder is preserved and you should be able to backup multiple versions. It doesn't prevent piracy, but it is convenient for the user and I think that trumps everything else.

[@ceeam]

The game is only twice older than the DW12 chassis.

[@odkdsjf]

Which has better AI for full races and seasons: ICR2 or F-USA Gen2 on AMS2?

[@GPLaps]

icr2 just my opinion though

[@TakeAGuess-e6o]

Wasn’t ICR2 also available on Windows? Why does everyone use the DOS version?

[@GPLaps]

Windows version is very unstable for most (old windows 95 app) and has worse color pallet support Rendition version was dos only

[@TakeAGuess-e6o]

@ i see. Wouldn’t the Windows version be easier to mod though?

[@Gabriele-bu7ri]

does the ICREND version include all the tracks? and also, will this also work with add-on mod extra tracks?

[@GPLaps]

Mod tracks do not work yet

[@Gabriele-bu7ri]

@@GPLaps I don't get it sorry. So all the original tracks are possible in hi resolution and wrapped accelaration. If I add a modded or downloaded tracks why it should not work?

[@GPLaps]

The game runs out of memory using most of the addon tracks. We don't really know why yet but hopefully it can be solved

[@Gabriele-bu7ri]

@@GPLaps but other than that all original tracks work, some have hi rez textures, correct?

[@GPLaps]

Yes all originals work!

[@xuacu_creativo]

It is nice but I think needs new textures... IC2 was my first SIM ever but after I met GPL and my mind blew! I am still waiting for a GPL 2.0 (Assetto Corsa with GPL mod is a nice approach)