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Win98 and GPL probs!

Roge

Win98 and GPL probs!

by Roge » Mon, 21 Dec 1998 04:00:00

Up till now I was running GPL on a Win 95, AMD K6 166 Mhz system with a
Voodoo 2 3D Blaster from creative.
Everything ran fine, a little slow, but it worked!

Now I bought myself a nice and shiny Pentium II 400Mhz system, with
Win98, I put in the Voodoo 2 card as well, the 2D card is a ATI
Xpert98-8MB, and GPL is*** up.
After it starts, it switches over to the driver-info screen right away,
and after a few moments it just hangs itself, sometimes along with a
flickering mouse-pointer, the system the totally blocks, I have to reset
it to start again.
I installed the lastest reference drivers by 3DFX and the problem is
till there, so I don't think it's the Voodoo card, can anyone help me
out here, cause I finally wanna enjoy GPL is rock-steady 36 FPS  LOL!!!

Please help!

Regards,

Roger

AKH

Win98 and GPL probs!

by AKH » Mon, 21 Dec 1998 04:00:00

Have you tried reinstalling GPL?

Alan
http://www.racesimcentral.net/~akh/simshop.html
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> Up till now I was running GPL on a Win 95, AMD K6 166 Mhz system with a
> Voodoo 2 3D Blaster from creative.
> Everything ran fine, a little slow, but it worked!

> Now I bought myself a nice and shiny Pentium II 400Mhz system, with
> Win98, I put in the Voodoo 2 card as well, the 2D card is a ATI
> Xpert98-8MB, and GPL is*** up.
> After it starts, it switches over to the driver-info screen right away,
> and after a few moments it just hangs itself, sometimes along with a
> flickering mouse-pointer, the system the totally blocks, I have to reset
> it to start again.
> I installed the lastest reference drivers by 3DFX and the problem is
> till there, so I don't think it's the Voodoo card, can anyone help me
> out here, cause I finally wanna enjoy GPL is rock-steady 36 FPS  LOL!!!

> Please help!

> Regards,

> Roger

OldManWa

Win98 and GPL probs!

by OldManWa » Tue, 22 Dec 1998 04:00:00

Your Problem is that GPL need the Glide 2.53 drivers not the 2.54 Drivers ..
read othe messages about GPL lockups

>Up till now I was running GPL on a Win 95, AMD K6 166 Mhz system with a
>Voodoo 2 3D Blaster from creative.
>Everything ran fine, a little slow, but it worked!

>Now I bought myself a nice and shiny Pentium II 400Mhz system, with
>Win98, I put in the Voodoo 2 card as well, the 2D card is a ATI
>Xpert98-8MB, and GPL is*** up.
>After it starts, it switches over to the driver-info screen right away,
>and after a few moments it just hangs itself, sometimes along with a
>flickering mouse-pointer, the system the totally blocks, I have to reset
>it to start again.
>I installed the lastest reference drivers by 3DFX and the problem is
>till there, so I don't think it's the Voodoo card, can anyone help me
>out here, cause I finally wanna enjoy GPL is rock-steady 36 FPS  LOL!!!

>Please help!

>Regards,

>Roger

Sammy Fische

Win98 and GPL probs!

by Sammy Fische » Tue, 22 Dec 1998 04:00:00


> Now I bought myself a nice and shiny Pentium II 400Mhz system, with
> Win98, I put in the Voodoo 2 card as well, the 2D card is a ATI
> Xpert98-8MB, and GPL is*** up.
> After it starts, it switches over to the driver-info screen right away,
> and after a few moments it just hangs itself, sometimes along with a
> flickering mouse-pointer, the system the totally blocks, I have to reset

It may be something else, but I had a similar problem with Win98 and
GPL, using a CL-Voodoo2. I was able to drive, but after some times, when
I entered or exited the***pit, it took my computer (P2-333, 256Mb Ram)
up to 20 Minutes to switch between Video modes.

I first thought it was the processor or the Voodoo2 getting too hot. I
checked the processor temperature, and it was 'normal' (28 or 30 degree
centigrade).
My next guess was that the screen blanker would start whenever I drove
long enough and didn't use any mouse or Keyboard controls. And as it was
running along with the game, it had a hard time registering and reacting
to the occasional Shift-R.
Disabling the screen Blanker didn't help, but it was the right track I
think.

Win98 tries to defragment and scandisk your HD's automatically whenever
the computer isn't used. Yesterday I disabled this (under
Accessories->system Tools you have two points called 'scheduled events'
and 'maintenance Wizard' (I think) and the game ran perfectly for the
rest of the evening, so I hope that this was the solution.

bye,
Sammy

Roge

Win98 and GPL probs!

by Roge » Tue, 22 Dec 1998 04:00:00

Thanks mate!!!

I searched through my pile of CD-ROM to find the old drivers, installed
them....and it worked!!!
Thanks a lot for your tip.....
Afterall, GPL is one of the main reasons for getting the PII 400 Mhz in
the 1th place..... I was really on the edge of installing Windows 95
again ;-))

Regards,

Roger

OldManWar schrieb:

> Your Problem is that GPL need the Glide 2.53 drivers not the 2.54 Drivers ..
> read othe messages about GPL lockups

> >Up till now I was running GPL on a Win 95, AMD K6 166 Mhz system with a
> >Voodoo 2 3D Blaster from creative.
> >Everything ran fine, a little slow, but it worked!

> >Now I bought myself a nice and shiny Pentium II 400Mhz system, with
> >Win98, I put in the Voodoo 2 card as well, the 2D card is a ATI
> >Xpert98-8MB, and GPL is*** up.
> >After it starts, it switches over to the driver-info screen right away,
> >and after a few moments it just hangs itself, sometimes along with a
> >flickering mouse-pointer, the system the totally blocks, I have to reset
> >it to start again.
> >I installed the lastest reference drivers by 3DFX and the problem is
> >till there, so I don't think it's the Voodoo card, can anyone help me
> >out here, cause I finally wanna enjoy GPL is rock-steady 36 FPS  LOL!!!

> >Please help!

> >Regards,

> >Roger

Roge

Win98 and GPL probs!

by Roge » Tue, 22 Dec 1998 04:00:00

Thanks mate!!!

I searched through my pile of CD-ROM to find the old drivers, installed
them....and it worked!!!
Thanks a lot for your tip.....
Afterall, GPL is one of the main reasons for getting the PII 400 Mhz in
the 1th place..... I was really on the edge of installing Windows 95
again ;-))

Regards,

Roger

OldManWar schrieb:

> Your Problem is that GPL need the Glide 2.53 drivers not the 2.54 Drivers ..
> read othe messages about GPL lockups

> >Up till now I was running GPL on a Win 95, AMD K6 166 Mhz system with a
> >Voodoo 2 3D Blaster from creative.
> >Everything ran fine, a little slow, but it worked!

> >Now I bought myself a nice and shiny Pentium II 400Mhz system, with
> >Win98, I put in the Voodoo 2 card as well, the 2D card is a ATI
> >Xpert98-8MB, and GPL is*** up.
> >After it starts, it switches over to the driver-info screen right away,
> >and after a few moments it just hangs itself, sometimes along with a
> >flickering mouse-pointer, the system the totally blocks, I have to reset
> >it to start again.
> >I installed the lastest reference drivers by 3DFX and the problem is
> >till there, so I don't think it's the Voodoo card, can anyone help me
> >out here, cause I finally wanna enjoy GPL is rock-steady 36 FPS  LOL!!!

> >Please help!

> >Regards,

> >Roger


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