Yes, seems so. Please try nGlide (1.02 supports multi-threading - the grSstWinOpen hack in PodHacks is no longer required).

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Any details about the D3D5 problem?

For D3D5, at launch there is an direct appcrash message.

Nom de l’application défaillante podd3d5x.exe, version : 2.2.9.0, horodatage : 0x364b6704
Nom du module défaillant : podd3d5x.exe, version : 2.2.9.0, horodatage : 0x364b6704
Code d’exception : 0xc0000005
Décalage d’erreur : 0x0009882b
ID du processus défaillant : 0xa20
Heure de début de l’application défaillante : 0x01ceb4a5cf83a741
Chemin d’accès de l’application défaillante : C:\Jeux\POD GOLD\podd3d5x.exe
Chemin d’accès du module défaillant: C:\Jeux\POD GOLD\podd3d5x.exe
ID de rapport : 0f38c399-2099-11e3-a1f3-685d43daaf42

Well nothing interessant here.

With NGlide 1.02; something work ... but I've got nothing only a black screen. I can launch the track but ... well with
black screen that's not playable.

I've try with dgVoodoo and ... yeaaaah it's working :)

Thanks again for your support.

This is one of the compatibility problems in POD D3D.
The application uses IDirectDraw::EnumDisplayModes and in the callback the modes are written into an (static) array: The array is 60 entries in size and as you can see there is no check in the code.
Therefore, if your video driver reports more than 60 display modes POD starts to override the following memory (this includes pointers to some DD/D3D objects - the crash happens while treating the random memory as objects).

There might be a compatibility setting in your video driver settings to reduce the reported modes.

You're welcome.

Nice find :)

I tried it on my Pod install (original CD version with 3DFX 2.1 patch, dgVoodo wrapper and PodHacks) and it works. Tried the 'Arcade-' and 'Arcade' versions of the track, they both work but 'Arcade' seems the better version as 'Arcade-' lacked the AI cars or any ability to set lap times - not sure if that was intentional for that edition or not.

You were right ; Now it's running, but something's gone wrong with D3D ; whatever I do, I've got a black screen after logo/intro videos. It does not seems that menu is running: nothing happens when I use key enter multiple times (no sound, no access disk)

But it does not matter, I can play it on 3dfx version.

FYI I try arcade[+] and it's also working.

Yes, but on all of my test systems a lot of the textures were wrong/missing with nGlide and dgVoodoo (on all three versions of Arcade).

Some updates here.

As Nico said, there are four versions of Arcade:

> Arcade original leak (sometimes called "Arcade++"), 25+ textures, 230 sectors
Its file format is similar to 3Dfx / D3D5 Pod ("BV4"), but incompatible due to small layout changes: the difficulty / direction chunks are not offset (apparently useless since Arcade only provided FORWARD/HARD games), and an additional background parameter was added.

> Arcade+, 24+ textures, 79 sectors
90s hack working with D3D5 Pod. Heavily reduced version (fewer sectors, no texture or model animations, no dynamic objects) to accomodate the game's memory manager not providing enough blocks to load it otherwise.

> Arcade, 20+ textures, 73 sectors
90s hack working with D3D5 and 3Dfx Pod. Further reduced the texture count as the 3Dfx texture manager does not allocate enough texture slots otherwise, causing textures to overwrite each other.

> Arcade-, 20+ textures, 76 sectors
90s hack working with D3D5 and 3Dfx Pod. Possibly created for weaker hardware.

Interestingly, all 90s hacks were given a working Reverse and Easy/Normal mode which do not exist in the original leak. It also replaces the AI names with ones of popular players active at the time.

There is now a hack available (increasing the memory manager block count as required), together with a faithful port of Arcade(++) to fully load it with all models, textures, animations, dynamic objects, and including the Reverse/Difficulty enhancements of the 90s hack. You can find links on the POD Discord at discord.gg/zJ9bWGkDvT .
In the 3dfx versions, you must enter "MIPMAP" in the main menu screen before starting the race as the textures will otherwise look glitchy - a fix enabling this by default is also available on the Discord.

Here's a video of it.