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Help - Lockups with GPL and Vodoo Bansee

David Mocna

Help - Lockups with GPL and Vodoo Bansee

by David Mocna » Mon, 24 Apr 2000 04:00:00

A friend of mine got himself a new PC just to play GPL. He's got P3 550 with
128Mb RAM and Vodoo Banshee 16Mb Video card.

I've been trying to get GPL to work and I just can't get it to stop locking
up. It locks up anytime you're sitting in the car. The screen just freezes
but the sound still goes on so you know that the game is still running but
the Video is jammed.

I tried running different rezolutions and that makes no difference.

btw, GPL is patched to 1.2, I thied the Glide fix for Banshee cars (the one
that runs GPL menu screens in a smaller window), putting gilide2x.dll (2.53
as well as 2.50)  into the GPL folder, tryed reinstalling the drivers as
well as 3dfx reference drivers. None of these fixed the problem ... if
anything, putting Glide2x.dll into the GPL folder stops the GPL running in
3dfx mode?!

Any help, suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Regards,
David Mocnay

Rafe McAulif

Help - Lockups with GPL and Vodoo Bansee

by Rafe McAulif » Mon, 24 Apr 2000 04:00:00

Easy fix - your video card is overheating. Is the card overclocked? If
so, drop the clock speed until the freezing stops. Otherwise, you will
need to cool the card, the easiest and cheapest method is an old 486
cpu fan attached to the heatsink.

Rafe Mc

On Sun, 23 Apr 2000 13:05:44 +1000, "David Mocnay"


>A friend of mine got himself a new PC just to play GPL. He's got P3 550 with
>128Mb RAM and Vodoo Banshee 16Mb Video card.

>I've been trying to get GPL to work and I just can't get it to stop locking
>up. It locks up anytime you're sitting in the car. The screen just freezes
>but the sound still goes on so you know that the game is still running but
>the Video is jammed.

>I tried running different rezolutions and that makes no difference.

>btw, GPL is patched to 1.2, I thied the Glide fix for Banshee cars (the one
>that runs GPL menu screens in a smaller window), putting gilide2x.dll (2.53
>as well as 2.50)  into the GPL folder, tryed reinstalling the drivers as
>well as 3dfx reference drivers. None of these fixed the problem ... if
>anything, putting Glide2x.dll into the GPL folder stops the GPL running in
>3dfx mode?!

>Any help, suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

>Regards,
>David Mocnay

David Mocna

Help - Lockups with GPL and Vodoo Bansee

by David Mocna » Mon, 24 Apr 2000 04:00:00

huh? Overhating? It does this even when you 'just switch' the comp on and
then start up GPL. It's a brand new Banshee and nothing about the PC/video
card is modified (or overclocked). I'll have a look in the case and see if
there's anything near by ... hard to believe it'd be overheating though.

Thanks for the suggestion ... I'll see what I can do about it concidering no
overclocking here.

Regards,
David Mocnay

--


> Easy fix - your video card is overheating. Is the card overclocked? If
> so, drop the clock speed until the freezing stops. Otherwise, you will
> need to cool the card, the easiest and cheapest method is an old 486
> cpu fan attached to the heatsink.

> Rafe Mc

> On Sun, 23 Apr 2000 13:05:44 +1000, "David Mocnay"

> >A friend of mine got himself a new PC just to play GPL. He's got P3 550
with
> >128Mb RAM and Vodoo Banshee 16Mb Video card.

> >I've been trying to get GPL to work and I just can't get it to stop
locking
> >up. It locks up anytime you're sitting in the car. The screen just
freezes
> >but the sound still goes on so you know that the game is still running
but
> >the Video is jammed.

> >I tried running different rezolutions and that makes no difference.

> >btw, GPL is patched to 1.2, I thied the Glide fix for Banshee cars (the
one
> >that runs GPL menu screens in a smaller window), putting gilide2x.dll
(2.53
> >as well as 2.50)  into the GPL folder, tryed reinstalling the drivers as
> >well as 3dfx reference drivers. None of these fixed the problem ... if
> >anything, putting Glide2x.dll into the GPL folder stops the GPL running
in
> >3dfx mode?!

> >Any help, suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

> >Regards,
> >David Mocnay


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