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GPL troubles

Jay Taylo

GPL troubles

by Jay Taylo » Sun, 09 Jun 2002 03:51:14

I recently decided to reload GPL, which I havn't run in awhile, and now I
can't seem to get it to run on my system.  I did a fresh install, with the
normal patches, the cpufix (which I've reinstalled several times to make
sure it did)and the DX7 and openGL fixes/patches.
My problem is when I go into the game everytime I try to get to the race
weekend the game gives me an error,
can't initailize the replay system, and it cancels the race. This happens in
Dx7, OGL, or software mode. However I can load up any of the replays that
come with GPL and they run fine, it just seems to fail whenever I actually
try to get into a session when you can drive the car.  All the other screens
work and I can get to the options and such fine.  Again this is on a bare
bones install of GPL, I have nothing but the patches added to it.  I know
this system ran GPL fine months ago, but I'm not sure what I would have
changed since them, except I added a soundblaster audigy card, instead of
the LIVE, I use to have.

My system info:
P4 1.7gig
768megs RDRAM
Geforce4 128 with 28.90 drivers. (I've tried a few different sets of drivers
back to the 21.83's with the same result.)
Sound blaster audigy platinum
Windows ME

Anyone have any ideas?

Jay Taylor

Hans Jense

GPL troubles

by Hans Jense » Sun, 09 Jun 2002 06:43:39

Well here is 1 idea http://www.microsoft.com/windows/directx/default.asp

Biz

GPL troubles

by Biz » Sun, 09 Jun 2002 07:43:32


Here's your problem, you have to limit any Win9X OS to 512 MB ram to run GPL....anyone remember the
exact syntax?
--
Biz

"Don't touch that please, your primitive intellect wouldn't understand
alloys and compositions and,......things with molecular structures,....and
the....." - Ash

Dave Henri

GPL troubles

by Dave Henri » Sun, 09 Jun 2002 08:30:30




> > 768megs RDRAM

> Here's your problem, you have to limit any Win9X OS to 512 MB ram to run

GPL....anyone remember the
  yes RIP OUT the extra chip.  You can make changes to windows to limit the
memory, you can create a ram disk, but all this does is add another process
running in the background.  Win9x can run dang near any program with
512megs...if you are convinced you need that extra ram, then junk win9x and
go XP.
dave henrie
Jay Taylo

GPL troubles

by Jay Taylo » Sun, 09 Jun 2002 08:39:59

Well I did upgrade to 768 awhile back so I guess that is possible.  However
I do use alot of ram with graphics and video editing I also do on my
machine.  Anyway I can fool GPL into not seeing all 768 megs, while leaving
it intact for the rest of my apps?

Jay Taylor






> > > 768megs RDRAM

> > Here's your problem, you have to limit any Win9X OS to 512 MB ram to run
> GPL....anyone remember the
> > exact syntax?
> > --
> > Biz
>   yes RIP OUT the extra chip.  You can make changes to windows to limit
the
> memory, you can create a ram disk, but all this does is add another
process
> running in the background.  Win9x can run dang near any program with
> 512megs...if you are convinced you need that extra ram, then junk win9x
and
> go XP.
> dave henrie

Sting3

GPL troubles

by Sting3 » Sun, 09 Jun 2002 10:21:25

Jay I am sure there is, but I never had to do it, (still dont) but I am not
definite on this but there is a setting in the core.ini somewhere..  maybe
google search will turn something up?


> Well I did upgrade to 768 awhile back so I guess that is possible.
However
> I do use alot of ram with graphics and video editing I also do on my
> machine.  Anyway I can fool GPL into not seeing all 768 megs, while
leaving
> it intact for the rest of my apps?

> Jay Taylor







> > > > 768megs RDRAM

> > > Here's your problem, you have to limit any Win9X OS to 512 MB ram to
run
> > GPL....anyone remember the
> > > exact syntax?
> > > --
> > > Biz
> >   yes RIP OUT the extra chip.  You can make changes to windows to limit
> the
> > memory, you can create a ram disk, but all this does is add another
> process
> > running in the background.  Win9x can run dang near any program with
> > 512megs...if you are convinced you need that extra ram, then junk win9x
> and
> > go XP.
> > dave henrie

Jay Taylo

GPL troubles

by Jay Taylo » Sun, 09 Jun 2002 10:50:15

Well my problem is solved.  I have cacheman which is a memory tweeking
program on my system. When I poked around in it's options I found a option
to limit windows to 512 megs of RAM.  So I tried it and GPL ran fine.
So I just have to do some changing back and forth in cacheman, but atleast I
dont have to pull out dims<g>.
Thanks for the help guys.

Jay


> Jay I am sure there is, but I never had to do it, (still dont) but I am
not
> definite on this but there is a setting in the core.ini somewhere..  maybe
> google search will turn something up?



> > Well I did upgrade to 768 awhile back so I guess that is possible.
> However
> > I do use alot of ram with graphics and video editing I also do on my
> > machine.  Anyway I can fool GPL into not seeing all 768 megs, while
> leaving
> > it intact for the rest of my apps?

> > Jay Taylor







> > > > > 768megs RDRAM

> > > > Here's your problem, you have to limit any Win9X OS to 512 MB ram to
> run
> > > GPL....anyone remember the
> > > > exact syntax?
> > > > --
> > > > Biz
> > >   yes RIP OUT the extra chip.  You can make changes to windows to
limit
> > the
> > > memory, you can create a ram disk, but all this does is add another
> > process
> > > running in the background.  Win9x can run dang near any program with
> > > 512megs...if you are convinced you need that extra ram, then junk
win9x
> > and
> > > go XP.
> > > dave henrie

Goy Larse

GPL troubles

by Goy Larse » Sun, 09 Jun 2002 17:47:59


> Well my problem is solved.  I have cacheman which is a memory tweeking
> program on my system. When I poked around in it's options I found a option
> to limit windows to 512 megs of RAM.  So I tried it and GPL ran fine.
> So I just have to do some changing back and forth in cacheman, but atleast I
> dont have to pull out dims<g>.
> Thanks for the help guys.

And for those that don't have Cacheman, you can do the same with
"msconfig" under advanced properties

Beers and cheers
(uncle) Goy

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--Groucho Marx--

jan berr

GPL troubles

by jan berr » Mon, 10 Jun 2002 04:24:33

core.ini change replayMemoryOverride = 65535
problem solved, no messin

jan

On Fri, 07 Jun 2002 18:51:14 GMT, "Jay Taylor"


>I recently decided to reload GPL, which I havn't run in awhile, and now I
>can't seem to get it to run on my system.  I did a fresh install, with the
>normal patches, the cpufix (which I've reinstalled several times to make
>sure it did)and the DX7 and openGL fixes/patches.

<snip>
Jonathan Yedid

GPL troubles

by Jonathan Yedid » Mon, 10 Jun 2002 09:52:40

I had your problem too, and your solution works as I found out, but a
better solution so that you don't have to keep switching back and
forth in cacheman is to include the following lines in your core.ini
file:

[ Replay ]
replayMemoryOverride = 65535

This tells GPL to only use 64 Mbytes for memory (you can use some
other figure, but that is plenty--the problem when you have more than
512 M is that GPL gets confused when setting up the memory for the
replay and this solves the problem). Just make sure that you are
really changing the core.ini file--if I recall correctly there is
another file called core.sample or something like that which comes
with gpl and you can't tell which file is which unless you have
windows set up so that the full filename is shown. You also need to
change core.ini to set up force feedback by the way--I realized I
wasn't modifying the correct file when force feedback didn't work for
me.


> Well my problem is solved.  I have cacheman which is a memory tweeking
> program on my system. When I poked around in it's options I found a option
> to limit windows to 512 megs of RAM.  So I tried it and GPL ran fine.
> So I just have to do some changing back and forth in cacheman, but atleast I
> dont have to pull out dims<g>.
> Thanks for the help guys.

> Jay



> > Jay I am sure there is, but I never had to do it, (still dont) but I am
>  not
> > definite on this but there is a setting in the core.ini somewhere..  maybe
> > google search will turn something up?

Randy Cassid

GPL troubles

by Randy Cassid » Wed, 12 Jun 2002 00:15:11

Add the following lines to core.ini (or edit the existing line if it's
there)

[ Replay ]
ReplayMemoryOverride = 256000

This tells GPL to use a replay buffer of 256000Kbytes (~256Meg).  I think
the problem is that with 768M of main memory, GPL tries to allocate more
than 512M for the replay buffer, which Windows doesn't allow.

Randy


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J

GPL troubles

by J » Fri, 14 Jun 2002 09:47:06

Hi Randy,

How's GPL2 doing? <grin>

JensSchumi



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