rec.autos.simulators

by **Luke Phillip** » Tue, 31 Jul 2001 22:41:22

Does anyone have an idea how to fix this...
I've had the irl/cts patch installed for a bit now, and all was working fine
till the other day when for some reason the game hung when i went to load a
practise/race/beat the heat, whatever i tried it wouldnt work. So i tried it
with no mods, and it worked fine. Now i have the same problem with them. I
can do a test session ok, but it takes a while to load. I have a Celeron
374, 128mb ram, voodoo3 2000 ( i know your jealous :) ) Any help would be
greatly appreciated!

Luke
-=87=-

by **Stuart Becktel** » Tue, 31 Jul 2001 23:55:55

It is probably because you are overclocking the chip, get some more cooling
in the case.
-Stuart Becktell

by **Gunne** » Wed, 01 Aug 2001 07:05:50

You can't run Beat the Heat with the Mod's. You don't have the same car
physics as the computer's cars.

Gunner

it

by **Luke Phillip** » Wed, 01 Aug 2001 08:32:14

But i cant even run beat the heat without mods, or even practice without the
mods, only test. Cant practice with the cts mod either

Luke
-=87=-

> You can't run Beat the Heat with the Mod's. You don't have the same car
> physics as the computer's cars.

> Gunner

> > Does anyone have an idea how to fix this...
> > I've had the irl/cts patch installed for a bit now, and all was working
> fine
> > till the other day when for some reason the game hung when i went to
load
> a
> > practise/race/beat the heat, whatever i tried it wouldnt work. So i
tried
> it

by **Luke Phillip** » Wed, 01 Aug 2001 08:31:31

Its most likley no that seeing as its been run faultless for 2 years or so
at 374, and can also run at 450..

Luke
-=87=-

> It is probably because you are overclocking the chip, get some more
cooling
> in the case.
> -Stuart Becktell

> > Does anyone have an idea how to fix this...
> > I've had the irl/cts patch installed for a bit now, and all was working
> fine
> > till the other day when for some reason the game hung when i went to
load
> a
> > practise/race/beat the heat, whatever i tried it wouldnt work. So i
tried
> it
> > with no mods, and it worked fine. Now i have the same problem with them.
I
> > can do a test session ok, but it takes a while to load. I have a
Celeron
> > 374, 128mb ram, voodoo3 2000 ( i know your jealous :) ) Any help would
be
> > greatly appreciated!

> > Luke
> > -=87=-

by **Stuart Becktel** » Thu, 02 Aug 2001 02:31:25

That is my point. When you overclock a processor, you start to degrade the
parts in the chip. Since you have run the processor for two years at this
increased speed, you have degraded the chip to the point where you are now
getting errors. So it is the overclocking...
-Stuart Becktell

> Its most likley no that seeing as its been run faultless for 2 years or so
> at 374, and can also run at 450..

> Luke
> -=87=-

> > It is probably because you are overclocking the chip, get some more
> cooling
> > in the case.
> > -Stuart Becktell

> > > Does anyone have an idea how to fix this...
> > > I've had the irl/cts patch installed for a bit now, and all was
working
> > fine
> > > till the other day when for some reason the game hung when i went to
> load
> > a
> > > practise/race/beat the heat, whatever i tried it wouldnt work. So i
> tried
> > it
> > > with no mods, and it worked fine. Now i have the same problem with
them.
> I
> > > can do a test session ok, but it takes a while to load. I have a
> Celeron
> > > 374, 128mb ram, voodoo3 2000 ( i know your jealous :) ) Any help
would
> be
> > > greatly appreciated!

> > > Luke
> > > -=87=-

by **Dave Pollatse** » Fri, 03 Aug 2001 10:05:53

If you can only run with test mode, probably you have corrupted either the
drivers.txt or one of the paint/paint256 resfiles, or even possibly be
running out of system resources. Try uninstalling the program and all mods,
then manually deleting any files in your install directory and/or c:\Program
files\Hasbro Interactive\NASCAR Heat, and then reinstalling the game and
then the latest patch (you don't need to apply the old patches first).
If that still doesn't work and it still crashes, try posting the heat.log
file (located in your temp folder, typically c:\windows\temp under win9x)
generated by that run, and that may shed more light on the problem.

Under non-NT-based Windows, it is possible (although unlikely) to corrupt
any file that has been recently used when a program crashes... most of
memory is protected, but the file cache is unprotected for performance
reasons. It's also very easy to modify something without realizing it (from
personal experience, at least).

Good luck!
-Dave

> But i cant even run beat the heat without mods, or even practice without
the
> mods, only test. Cant practice with the cts mod either

> Luke
> -=87=-

> > You can't run Beat the Heat with the Mod's. You don't have the same car
> > physics as the computer's cars.

> > Gunner

> > > Does anyone have an idea how to fix this...
> > > I've had the irl/cts patch installed for a bit now, and all was
working
> > fine
> > > till the other day when for some reason the game hung when i went to
> load
> > a
> > > practise/race/beat the heat, whatever i tried it wouldnt work. So i
> tried
> > it

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