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N4 Shutting Down

Ed Coy

N4 Shutting Down

by Ed Coy » Thu, 15 Mar 2001 05:41:30

We have experienced that N4 randomly shuts down and boots you back to
Win98SE.  Has happened on several machines not just one.  You'll be racing
for awhile and then *poof*.

Any thoughts?

Ed

Dave Henri

N4 Shutting Down

by Dave Henri » Thu, 15 Mar 2001 10:16:41

  I've only got about 4 or 5 hours on N4 since I upgraded the processor...so
far not a single lockup..not in online racing, not in solo
play...nowhere....I'm betting it's more than
just N4 and Win98se...and I'm also betting you have an Nvidia based vid
card.
Am I right?
dave henrie

pw

N4 Shutting Down

by pw » Thu, 15 Mar 2001 11:31:33



Try running N4 in the same exact resolution and colors as you have
your desktop set to (or vica versa).  Also try D3D over OpenGL.  I
don't know what graphics card you have but that is what did it for me.
I have a Hercules GeForce GTS 64MB DDR Pro (yes, an NVidia based
card).

-pw

pw

N4 Shutting Down

by pw » Thu, 15 Mar 2001 11:31:50



What is your point Dave?

-pw



>> We have experienced that N4 randomly shuts down and boots you back to
>> Win98SE.  Has happened on several machines not just one.  You'll be racing
>> for awhile and then *poof*.

>> Any thoughts?

>> Ed

Ed Coy

N4 Shutting Down

by Ed Coy » Fri, 16 Mar 2001 00:51:46

Thanks, I'll try that.  We have NVidia 64 cards on fairly new DELL 733mhz
machines.

Ed



> >We have experienced that N4 randomly shuts down and boots you back to
> >Win98SE.  Has happened on several machines not just one.  You'll be
racing
> >for awhile and then *poof*.

> >Any thoughts?

> >Ed

> Try running N4 in the same exact resolution and colors as you have
> your desktop set to (or vica versa).  Also try D3D over OpenGL.  I
> don't know what graphics card you have but that is what did it for me.
> I have a Hercules GeForce GTS 64MB DDR Pro (yes, an NVidia based
> card).

> -pw

pw

N4 Shutting Down

by pw » Fri, 16 Mar 2001 03:20:33



I am also running a NVidia (Hercules actually) 64 meg card.  Direct X
8.0a (what are you running?).

Well, I was being optimistic again.  I got a crash last night running
it at 1280x960.  25th lap of 30 on Daytona!  Frustrating!  I am going
to try it at 1024x768 again tonight.  I am also going to try some new
NVidia drivers (either the 6.50 Nvidia ones which I couldn't get my
monitor past 1024x768 with earlier!  Or the 10.50 or 10.80 ones from
www.reactorcritical.com which are beta drivers but they are supposed
to be optimized for DX8).

Well, the 7 days I had to return N4 are up so I guess I am going to
keep plugging away until I get it stable! :-)

-pw

pw

N4 Shutting Down

by pw » Fri, 16 Mar 2001 14:54:54

Ed, if you're still lucking here .. I installed the NVidia 6.50
drivers and was finally able to qualify and then finish Daytona
without a single crash or lock-up!

Still too early to tell perhaps, but am optimistic as always - just a
little more so tonight :-)

-pw


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