rec.autos.simulators

GPL Black screen on intro....

Race15

GPL Black screen on intro....

by Race15 » Mon, 13 May 2002 09:13:43

My brother has had some problems with his computer.  After using First Aid to
fix most of the problems, one remains.

When clicking on GPL (also Renegade and Command and Conquer) the screen goes
black and freezes his computer.  On GPL it never makes it to the intro screen.
Any ideas?  I have uninstalled, re-installed, un-installed again (this time
including a file sweep) re-re-installed, and still the problem exists.

We occasionally get a dll error on a file called Ddeml.dll

Help would be appreciated!  The GPL monkey on his back is loud, big and mean!
I mean he is JONES'N!

Thanks,
Michael Loos

Race15

GPL Black screen on intro....

by Race15 » Mon, 13 May 2002 09:24:59

...and yes, I did apply all the patches, 1.2 and d3d.  

He has 600 p3 / geforce gts 2 64 meg card, sound blaster live, 256 megs ram...

Thanks again,
Michael Loos

Jan Verschuere

GPL Black screen on intro....

by Jan Verschuere » Mon, 13 May 2002 09:53:48

From the D3D readme...

<snip>
If GPL fails to restart correctly, then there's something wrong. Switch back
to the software rasterizer by editing the GPL\app.ini file and changing the
line:

lastRasterizerDLL = rastd3d7.dll

to

lastRasterizerDLL = softdll.dll

Then, save the changes to app.ini.
<snip>

If it runs in software mode then it's something to do with drivers for the
GeForce. You could try one of the older versions (21.xx) or attempt to
configure GPL to use OpenGL.

Jan.
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