rec.autos.simulators

I've seen a few other reports of this, but I haven't seen any kind of
solution, so here's my little saga.

The system:

AMD Athalon 1.533 GHz
768 MB RAM
ATI-powered 9500 card, Catalyst 3.2 drivers

I recently upgraded my machine to the above configuration.  N2K3 was
running fine until then.  Now it will occasionally crash in the middle
of a race, dropping back to the desktop.  The only thing I've noticed is
that it seems more likely to do this if I make a lot of adjustments in
the garage (going back and forth from a practice session to get the
setup right).

I've upgraded the power supply and added a fan.  Temperatures are fine,
so I don't think this is a hardware issue of that nature.

Any suggestions?

   What OS are you using?  ARe you overclocking your vid card or the
FSB(front side bus?)  
And are you using D3d or Ogl and what version of Direct X do you have
installed?  
dave henrie

Mine does the same thing

Didnt do it with my PIII, upgraded to a Athlon
2500 XP 512cache, 512 DDR400 RAM

and now it does it.

Nforce2 chips, OS WIN 98, DX 9a

Everything has latest drivers.

Tried turning down DX sound acceleration, no joy.

Not overclocking anything.

- Paul

same here see all my previous post about it,

Wups, forgot the obvious...Windows 2000 SP3

Nope and nope.

Using D3D, DirectX 9.0a.

Yeah, I've seen a number of posts on it, too.  Usually it's laid out to
overheating or something on that order.  I did, in fact, have some power
issues which caused reboots of the entire system, which is why I
upgraded the power supply and added a fan.  

The only thing I haven't done is completely reinstall N2K3, which I'll
probably end up doing.

   I had a thought....dingdingding!!!  while working today.  Many of the
people with problems claimed they formatted their hard drive.  But what
does a windows-based format do?   AFAIK it only wipes the table of
contents.   To really clear out the files you'd need to run a low-level
format, which usually can only be done with a dos boot disk(feel free
anyone to correct me)  I would assume only Fdisk or using a Hard drive
Utility in dos would truly wipe a drive clean.

   Could lost files on a harddrive still cause driver conflicts?  See, I
had a thought, I didn't have an answer.

dave henrie