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Microprose GP2 Bug - or Not???

John Seymou

Microprose GP2 Bug - or Not???

by John Seymou » Tue, 22 Jul 1997 04:00:00

My machine is configured with a 4MB Millennium, Adaptec 2940, 3.2G Quantum
Fireball, 1G Seagate 51080N, Panasonic PD drive, 133 processor, Win95
OSR2.The 2940 and Millennium have the most recent (released/non-beta)
drivers.The Millennium also has a up-to-date BIOS. Both HDDs are formatted
FAT32. There are no IDE drives, and I've disabled the IDE controller and
all power management features in the motherboard BIOS setup.

The problem:

When I run F1-GP2, it fails (crashes) 9 out of 10 times when trying to
write a hot lap to disk. I.e. Escape out of a practice session (whilst
driving) and try to save a hot lap. Name the lap, and as it saves I get
what looks like a brief program stack dump in the lower 1/3 of the screen
and the game exits to DOS.

This occurs either with the game run from DOS (reboot to DOS), or a Win95
DOS session. This is not a bug I've heard about before so I'm not sure it's
the game itself being buggy.

Can/does anyone reproduce this/know of a fix??

--
Best regards

John

Neil Yeatma

Microprose GP2 Bug - or Not???

by Neil Yeatma » Tue, 22 Jul 1997 04:00:00


> My machine is configured with a 4MB Millennium, Adaptec 2940, 3.2G Quantum
> Fireball, 1G Seagate 51080N, Panasonic PD drive, 133 processor, Win95
> OSR2.The 2940 and Millennium have the most recent (released/non-beta)
> drivers.The Millennium also has a up-to-date BIOS. Both HDDs are formatted
> FAT32. There are no IDE drives, and I've disabled the IDE controller and
> all power management features in the motherboard BIOS setup.

> The problem:

> When I run F1-GP2, it fails (crashes) 9 out of 10 times when trying to
> write a hot lap to disk. I.e. Escape out of a practice session (whilst
> driving) and try to save a hot lap. Name the lap, and as it saves I get
> what looks like a brief program stack dump in the lower 1/3 of the screen
> and the game exits to DOS.

> This occurs either with the game run from DOS (reboot to DOS), or a Win95
> DOS session. This is not a bug I've heard about before so I'm not sure it's
> the game itself being buggy.

> Can/does anyone reproduce this/know of a fix??

> --
> Best regards

> John

Sorry John, I can't help you.  I can tell you that your machine is
almost identical to mine (except for the PD drive and the Seagate...my
second HD is a Conner) and I can save Hot Laps with no problem
whatsoever.

Neil
--

Neil Yeatman          
Ajax, Ontario, CANADA

My REAL email address is:

Harry Oshma

Microprose GP2 Bug - or Not???

by Harry Oshma » Thu, 24 Jul 1997 04:00:00


> My machine is configured with a 4MB Millennium, Adaptec 2940, 3.2G
> Quantum
> Fireball, 1G Seagate 51080N, Panasonic PD drive, 133 processor, Win95
> OSR2.The 2940 and Millennium have the most recent (released/non-beta)
> drivers.The Millennium also has a up-to-date BIOS. Both HDDs are
> formatted
> FAT32. There are no IDE drives, and I've disabled the IDE controller
> and
> all power management features in the motherboard BIOS setup.

> The problem:

> When I run F1-GP2, it fails (crashes) 9 out of 10 times when trying to

> write a hot lap to disk. I.e. Escape out of a practice session (whilst

> driving) and try to save a hot lap. Name the lap, and as it saves I
> get
> what looks like a brief program stack dump in the lower 1/3 of the
> screen
> and the game exits to DOS.

> This occurs either with the game run from DOS (reboot to DOS), or a
> Win95
> DOS session. This is not a bug I've heard about before so I'm not sure
> it's
> the game itself being buggy.

> Can/does anyone reproduce this/know of a fix??

> --
> Best regards

> John

I have had the same problem but only under Windows 95. I am running GP2
on a P166+, 64Meg SDRAM, Quantum Fireball 3.2G mode 5, Diamond Stealth
3D 2000. It is very annoying considering it runs very well otherwise
even under W95. I run it under DOS with no dramas. Sorry I have no
solution for you!Regards, Harry
rafael medeiro

Microprose GP2 Bug - or Not???

by rafael medeiro » Thu, 24 Jul 1997 04:00:00

go to Pieter's GP2 page where there's an utility that correct this
problem.The address is:
http://volftp.tin.it/GP2/index.html


Harry Oshma

Microprose GP2 Bug - or Not???

by Harry Oshma » Tue, 29 Jul 1997 04:00:00

Thanks for trying to point us people with this bug to a potential fix,
however I cannot find this utility on this site. Could you give me the
name of the utility?
Thankyou!
Harry


> go to Pieter's GP2 page where there's an utility that correct this
> problem.The address is:
> http://volftp.tin.it/GP2/index.html


> > When I run F1-GP2, it fails (crashes) 9 out of 10 times when trying
> to
> > write a hot lap to disk. I.e. Escape out of a practice session
> (whilst
> > driving) and try to save a hot lap. Name the lap, and as it saves I
> get
> > what looks like a brief program stack dump in the lower 1/3 of the
> screen
> > and the game exits to DOS.

> > This occurs either with the game run from DOS (reboot to DOS), or a
> Win95
> > DOS session. This is not a bug I've heard about before so I'm not
> sure
> it's
> > the game itself being buggy.

> > Can/does anyone reproduce this/know of a fix??

> > --
> > Best regards

> > John


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