Thanks to all who replied, it gives me a bit of hope that *MAYBE* I'll get
this thing running right. I've went through so many different variations, trying
to get things running right, and the DS techs were absolutely no help whatsoever,
that's part of the reason I'd like to *** one right now...
Here's the info that I gave Dave Noonan, perhaps you all might see where my
problem lies...and Dave H, I'm using the latest .105s...
***Occasional lockups on a reboot (comes up with the wrong graphics mode, have
to do a full shutdown power-off and reboot before it comes back ok). As well,
on shutdown will lock up about once out of 3 times...won't come up with the
"it's now ok to turn off your machine" screen.
***NASCAR2.exe runs about once out of 5 times...it locks up before showing the
papy screen, full reboot required.
***NASCAR2 Rendtion also has occasional problems...will occasionally lock up
on the start. What's worse than this is the fact when racing, it occasionally
reboots the machine. I've been trying to find out what simularities are causing
this problem, I've done all the recommended settings to the properties of the
NASCAR2 Rendition and NROS Rendition files. (Set the memory allowance
higher, and tell it to protect memory areas.) It seems to reboot the machine
after about 10-15 min of racing, I can detect no other simularities in the time
that it reboots. And as well, it will also let me run an entire race without
rebooting! This last reboot problem seemed to get much worse with the latest
series of drivers, I didn't have this problem so bad with the earlier ones.
***As well, other DOS games (command and conquer, Warcraft II) have a horrendous
time for me to try to run them, lock ups, general protection faults, ect. Cannot
seem to do anything to get rid of them.
***Also occasional strange problems when trying to load some of the converted N2
tracks (haven't noticed this problem *yet* with the original N2 tracks). Gets error
message "cannot load complete track description", much as if you created a bad
..dat file, deleted the .txt file, ect. However, there was nothing done to the track,
one day it works great, the next it doesn't work! Strangely enough, I can delete
some things and it will seem to work ok (sometimes), however, for our latest Vancouver
race, I was able to run Rendition yesterday, today I cannot load the tracks (others
besides Vancouver as well) to save my life! I DID run in SVGA mode yesterday,
so I'm not sure if that is somehow doing something to the sim that's causing
this problem.
I really hope you all may have some ideas on this, I'm so tired of screwing with this
thing that I'll probably use it as a bookend if I can't fix it. I really like it for the native
Win95 stuff, F1RS and TOCA, Xwing vs TIE fighter all run excellent! I have full hardware
accelleration on in XvT, full detail, and even in a milling battle of 20 TIE fighters, it works superbly.
The rest of my specs are this...AMD motherboard (P166MMX processor),
Soundblaster AWE64 card, 32 meg RAM, older IBM SVGA (PS/1) monitor.
This monitor will not run much higher than 65-70 hz refresh, but I was told that
this wouldn't cause the problems I've been having...
Cheers!
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??Jan Kohl?? **The Pits Performance Team**
Computer Systems Programmer
USAF Air-Ground Operations School
Hurlburt Field, FL
Castle Graphics - http://www.racesimcentral.net/
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