rec.autos.simulators

>When I play N3 in glide the screen locks up but I can still hear my car
>running and the game continues on. Usually this happens after playing for
>15-20 minutes. It does not do this in D3D, but the game stutters a little
>here and there in D3D. So I want to play it in glide.Anyway I have to reset
>my PC after the lockup I can't alt-tab(of course) and ctrl-alt-del does
>nothing. I'm getting real tired of this. I have no problems in any other
>games Q2,Q3,Halflife(for hours),NFS3,Tomb3,Unreal,Grand Prix Legends,etc.It
>can't be heat can it? Cause I'll play Q2,Q3 for hours on Gamespy with NO
>problems.There is nothing running in the background except Explorer and
>Systray. This is a clean install of Win98. My system specs=

>Pentium3 450(at 450)
>Abit BE6
>CL Banshee(latest drivers)
>CL SB16
>CL 32x CD-rom
>CL 4224 CDRW
>WD 4.3gig hard drive
>T2 Wheel
>DirectX7.0
>anything else needed?
>any suggestions? I'm goin' nuts!

> I think I have the answer. I have similar system and had same problem with
> N3 and a few others. If heat is not the culprit, the answer is as simple
as
> raising the voltage for the cpu. Keep raising until stable, my be6 had to
go
> to 2.4v, and even got slight performance increase.

> These systems now take much juice with agp and usb ports. Hope this helps.

> >When I play N3 in glide the screen locks up but I can still hear my car
> >running and the game continues on. Usually this happens after playing for
> >15-20 minutes. It does not do this in D3D, but the game stutters a little
> >here and there in D3D. So I want to play it in glide.Anyway I have to
reset
> >my PC after the lockup I can't alt-tab(of course) and ctrl-alt-del does
> >nothing. I'm getting real tired of this. I have no problems in any other
> >games Q2,Q3,Halflife(for hours),NFS3,Tomb3,Unreal,Grand Prix
Legends,etc.It
> >can't be heat can it? Cause I'll play Q2,Q3 for hours on Gamespy with NO
> >problems.There is nothing running in the background except Explorer and
> >Systray. This is a clean install of Win98. My system specs=

> >Pentium3 450(at 450)
> >Abit BE6
> >CL Banshee(latest drivers)
> >CL SB16
> >CL 32x CD-rom
> >CL 4224 CDRW
> >WD 4.3gig hard drive
> >T2 Wheel
> >DirectX7.0
> >anything else needed?
> >any suggestions? I'm goin' nuts!