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GPL Day 3

Mike

GPL Day 3

by Mike » Fri, 10 Apr 1998 04:00:00

Installed DirectX 5 and tried to get GPL to load last night. Set it up
in Rendition mode and tried to start the game and got kicked back to
Windows. After reinstalls of GPL and DirectX 5, tried again and same
thing, back to Windows. Reset graphics to software and finally..game
does start. But....calibration screen comes up and whenever I click on
OK or try to calibrate my wheel, or even click on OK to get back to
change the joystick driver ( I do read this group ) all I get is
"lock-up". Mouse pointer will move but nothing happens and cannot get
out of the game. Reboot time..very annoying.
So far I am not as impressed as the rest of you are. Haven't decided if
this is worth this or not. Right now I see htis as just a waste of hard
disk space.

Joe Droga

GPL Day 3

by Joe Droga » Fri, 10 Apr 1998 04:00:00

It IS worth it.

Respond to this group, they will help you!



> >Installed DirectX 5 and tried to get GPL to load last night. Set it up
> >in Rendition mode and tried to start the game and got kicked back to
> >Windows.
> [snip]
> >So far I am not as impressed as the rest of you are. Haven't decided if
> >this is worth this or not. Right now I see htis as just a waste of hard
> >disk space.

> You don't have WIN98 Beta, do you?
> How about Active Desktop with IE4.0?
> Do you have a NON-Pentium CPU?

> All these can make it fail to run. Why don't you
> tell us what you have and maybe someone can help.

> --
> * rrevved at mindspring dot com *

Mike Vanlandingha

GPL Day 3

by Mike Vanlandingha » Fri, 10 Apr 1998 04:00:00


>Installed DirectX 5 and tried to get GPL to load last night. Set it up
>in Rendition mode and tried to start the game and got kicked back to
>Windows. After reinstalls of GPL and DirectX 5, tried again and same
>thing, back to Windows. Reset graphics to software and finally..game
>does start. But....calibration screen comes up and whenever I click on
>OK or try to calibrate my wheel, or even click on OK to get back to
>change the joystick driver ( I do read this group ) all I get is
>"lock-up". Mouse pointer will move but nothing happens and cannot get
>out of the game. Reboot time..very annoying.
>So far I am not as impressed as the rest of you are. Haven't decided if
>this is worth this or not. Right now I see htis as just a waste of hard
>disk space.

I'm having the exact same problem (although I have GPL working fine on
another computer... and believe me, it's worth it!).

The computer I'm having problems on is:

P166 (non-MMX, it's an O/C 133)
HX chipset
40meg of mixed RAM (all apparently running at 60ns)
[actually, I could have sworn I put 48meg in but it's reading 40meg and
other applications/games/sims are working OK]
Stealth II (V2100)
Win95B (OSR2), which is the same OS on both machines.
IE 3.0 I guess.  Never even tried opening the "The Internet" icon.
SODA works fine.  TOCA works fine.  F1RS works OK, for D3D.

Jerry

GPL Day 3

by Jerry » Fri, 10 Apr 1998 04:00:00


>game
>does start. But....calibration screen comes up and whenever I click on
>OK or try to calibrate my wheel, or even click on OK to get back to
>change the joystick driver ( I do read this group ) all I get is
>"lock-up". Mouse pointer will move but nothing happens and cannot get
>out of the game. Reboot time..very annoying.
>So far I am not as impressed as the rest of you are. Haven't decided if
>this is worth this or not. Right now I see htis as just a waste of hard
>disk space.

Info below from this URL http://gpl.gamestats.com/

Slow or non-moving mouse in joystick calibration routine. If you encounter this
move the mouse very very slowly. It will be very painful and you will need to
be very patient but you should be able to move the mouse if you do it SLOWLY.
Move the mouse to the OK button and click it. Next move the mouse SLOWLY to the
Direct Joystick driver check box and check it. Your mouse should move better
now.

Hope this helps
Jerry

Jim

GPL Day 3

by Jim » Fri, 10 Apr 1998 04:00:00

For some reason my GPL starts the same way. I click on the Papyrus Icon
on the Task Bar at the top thats showing through the calibration screen,
and the Game will go ahead and start normally. If I click OK it locks up
and I have to reboot. I've started GPL about 15 times this way.
Also if Modem trys to connect, hit Cancel.
Jim

Mike Vanlandingha

GPL Day 3

by Mike Vanlandingha » Sat, 11 Apr 1998 04:00:00



>>game
>>does start. But....calibration screen comes up and whenever I click on
>>OK or try to calibrate my wheel, or even click on OK to get back to
>>change the joystick driver ( I do read this group ) all I get is
>>"lock-up". Mouse pointer will move but nothing happens and cannot get
>>out of the game. Reboot time..very annoying.
>>So far I am not as impressed as the rest of you are. Haven't decided if
>>this is worth this or not. Right now I see htis as just a waste of hard
>>disk space.

>Info below from this URL http://gpl.gamestats.com/

>Slow or non-moving mouse in joystick calibration routine. If you encounter
this
>move the mouse very very slowly. It will be very painful and you will need
to
>be very patient but you should be able to move the mouse if you do it
SLOWLY.
>Move the mouse to the OK button and click it. Next move the mouse SLOWLY to
the
>Direct Joystick driver check box and check it. Your mouse should move
better
>now.

>Hope this helps
>Jerry

Slow or non-moving mouse is not the problem.  The mouse moves very nicely,
it just doesn't do anything when you click on anything, which is a bit of a
problem when the calibration screen doesn't respond to keyboard inputs
either.
Mike

GPL Day 3

by Mike » Fri, 17 Apr 1998 04:00:00





> >>game
> >>does start. But....calibration screen comes up and whenever I click on
> >>OK or try to calibrate my wheel, or even click on OK to get back to
> >>change the joystick driver ( I do read this group ) all I get is
> >>"lock-up". Mouse pointer will move but nothing happens and cannot get
> >>out of the game. Reboot time..very annoying.
> >>So far I am not as impressed as the rest of you are. Haven't decided if
> >>this is worth this or not. Right now I see htis as just a waste of hard
> >>disk space.

> >Info below from this URL http://gpl.gamestats.com/

> >Slow or non-moving mouse in joystick calibration routine. If you encounter
> this
> >move the mouse very very slowly. It will be very painful and you will need
> to
> >be very patient but you should be able to move the mouse if you do it
> SLOWLY.
> >Move the mouse to the OK button and click it. Next move the mouse SLOWLY to
> the
> >Direct Joystick driver check box and check it. Your mouse should move
> better
> >now.

> >Hope this helps
> >Jerry

> Slow or non-moving mouse is not the problem.  The mouse moves very nicely,
> it just doesn't do anything when you click on anything, which is a bit of a
> problem when the calibration screen doesn't respond to keyboard inputs
> either.

I solved my problem by installing the latest bios and drivers for my 3D
Blaster. I didn't want to do that as I have all kinds of problems with
them on my system. Nascar2 wont run in Win95, ICR2 dos version won't run
at all, VQuake gets graphic glitches, Doom95 won't run full screen and
so on. GPL runs fine, though. I guess my box just doesn't like Direct-X
5.0. P5-200, 64 meg EDO, 3D Blaster. Maybe it has something to do with
not having MMX or something.

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