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Hard drive access and sound problems in GPL

Rbap

Hard drive access and sound problems in GPL

by Rbap » Wed, 24 Mar 1999 04:00:00

Hi all,

I've been enjoying GPL for quite some time now, but I have come across a game
glitch which is making the sim hard to play.

The basic problem is that whatever mode I'm in:  training, race, watching
in-car replay, etc...  the game begins to stutter as the hard drive is accessed
causing control problems.  Then, the sound shuts off and the keyboard becomes
unresponsive until I tap a mouse button.  Very strange.  I just upgraded to IE
5.0 and I'm wondering if some changes to Windows 98 are causing the hard drive
access and sound shut-off problems.  GPL has been on my hard drive since
October and had been running flawlessly.

I defragged my hardrive, did a thorough surface scan, reinstalled GPL and still
have the problem so I think it might be a Windows issue with something running
in the background.  I'm running on a Dell P2 300, 128ram, 200 MB swap file,
Voodoo 2, TSW steering wheel.

Any thoughts?

Regards,

Robert

Pickar

Hard drive access and sound problems in GPL

by Pickar » Wed, 24 Mar 1999 04:00:00

Hi..

You might want to try this...

Try and find in the Control Panel..  somewhere that says what "sort" of computer it
is...   and select a "Server" type..  I think this keeps the hard disk spinning..
try this..

James


> Hi all,

> I've been enjoying GPL for quite some time now, but I have come across a game
> glitch which is making the sim hard to play.

> The basic problem is that whatever mode I'm in:  training, race, watching
> in-car replay, etc...  the game begins to stutter as the hard drive is accessed
> causing control problems.  Then, the sound shuts off and the keyboard becomes
> unresponsive until I tap a mouse button.  Very strange.  I just upgraded to IE
> 5.0 and I'm wondering if some changes to Windows 98 are causing the hard drive
> access and sound shut-off problems.  GPL has been on my hard drive since
> October and had been running flawlessly.

> I defragged my hardrive, did a thorough surface scan, reinstalled GPL and still
> have the problem so I think it might be a Windows issue with something running
> in the background.  I'm running on a Dell P2 300, 128ram, 200 MB swap file,
> Voodoo 2, TSW steering wheel.

> Any thoughts?

> Regards,

> Robert


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