Have had the game two days... so am a bit sleepy, playing the game for the last 20 hours

But-- the game locks up on occasion, and more often than not, locks when quitting. Though the game is labeled "XP"... I wonder if other people have had XP issues (I have read some comments to that effect). I am wondering if I should run the game under the 98 environment ("open as" in XP).

I'm running XP, but havent had any problems, i would try
a: installing directx 8.1
b: installing newest video card drivers
c: installing nascar patch

Thanks for the tips but I have 8.1, and drivers are updated.

I been having trouble setting up my microsoft forcefeed back wheel to nascar 2002,is it me or is this an xp issue?

same thing happened to me.what i did was restart my computer and i made sure no programs were open when i started it and it works fine for me.hope i helped some