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N4 Crashing a lot

Kai Fulle

N4 Crashing a lot

by Kai Fulle » Mon, 26 Feb 2001 14:16:31

never while on the track but...

someimes when I'm dealing with the paintshop...
sometimes when loading a track
sometimes when switching session from qualifying to race

the good news is that it runs pretty well on my...

P2 450mhz
128 MB RAM
Nvidia TNT 16MB
Sound Blaster Live!
Ricoh DVD\CDRW

I get around 20 FPS at rthe starts and in the 40's when by self. D3D
800x600x16 with a bunch of stuff on.

PHYDEAUX

N4 Crashing a lot

by PHYDEAUX » Tue, 27 Feb 2001 08:35:43

>Subject: N4 Crashing a lot

>Date: 02/25/2001 12:16 AM Eastern Standard Time

>never while on the track but...

>someimes when I'm dealing with the paintshop...
>sometimes when loading a track
>sometimes when switching session from qualifying to race

>the good news is that it runs pretty well on my...

>P2 450mhz
>128 MB RAM
>Nvidia TNT 16MB
>Sound Blaster Live!
>Ricoh DVD\CDRW

>I get around 20 FPS at rthe starts and in the 40's when by self. D3D
>800x600x16 with a bunch of stuff on.

Are these "Black screen" crashes....?? I got that once in a while.  Also
noticed that often there is a fairly long period of "black screen" when
switching sessions.

Could be the "borderline" system.  

I thought I would be ok with mine

PIII 600
192 MB
ATI All-in wonder pro AGP 8MB
Soundblaster Live Value

Could run the game barely...

Replaced the Video with ATI's RADEON All-in Wonder 32MB (would have preferred
64MB but the AIW version doesn't come this way)

After playing around with the video config a bit the game seems to have
stabalized.....still there are those long black screens that sometimes make me
think that the game is crashing..

Before I made the expensive video card switch a Pappy tech told me (what I had
already read on the box but didn't want to believe) that 12MB video RAM was a
game minimum.  I misatakenly thought that since I had an AGP card which could
access whole bunches of system memory that the video ram requirement wouldn't
apply.....the tech support guy informed me that this was not the case.  Could
be that 16MB is a problem for you since you are also running  pretty close to
the minimum on that P2 processor.

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