rec.autos.simulators

I've had GPL working well on my Win2K machine (P933, 256MB, GeForce
256 Ultra) for some time, but now it crashes to desktop right after
the splash screen... I'm sure it's a simple thing. Any Ideas?

Thanks,

Eric

I've had this problem ever since I upgraded. Looks like no-one has a fix,
give up, stupid game anyway!

Scott A.

Well I got mine to go buy copying it to another partition of the hdd,
anything other than the c drive works fine for me.

Scott A.

I also had this problem with my machine but it behaved somewhat differently.
I originally had the game installed under my W2K boot and it worked fine.
One day I tried to start it (no system changes that I can recall), and it
just wouldn't start. Same symptoms. One second of splash the first time
starting,
then not even that on subsequent attempts. I began by deleting (AHHH!) the
whole works and doing a full install off the CD. No go. I then began
installing the patches etc. just to see what the hell would happen, and
suddenly it just started working again. I didn't get a determination of
exactly the change that caused it, but essentially I think it was a
combination of the new D3D patch and the 1.2.01 patch that made the
difference.

Correct me if I'm wrong on this, but I believe that there are actually two
different versions of the D3D patch, and the newer of the two actually has
an install routine, whereas the older has the files contained within a zip.
Also, did you do the full install off the CD and let it register itself etc,
or just copy \gpl off the CD? Another pet theory (untested of course) is
that actually going through the install and having the registry changes
occur may have some positive effect in W2k, although God knows it ran fine
without this in W98...

Anyway, that's my strange story, and it continues to work to this day, even
after I've installed 15 tracks, carsets, utilities, and everything else
under the sun. I was so nervous about having to duplicate all that work at
some future point that finally I just burned a CD of my \GPL directory in
situ with all modificiations in place so it would be an easy restore should
the worst happen.

For the record, my system specs:

PIII800, 384 MB, W2k Server SP2, DX8a, TNT2 running Detonator 2181, SB Live
5.1 X-Gamer, and NTFS partitions.

After the install I do the 1.2.01 patch, set software rendering in app.ini
then try the first run. After that fails I generally install the direct 3d
patch and try various combinations of everything, all to no avail......

zip.

I've only seen the one with the install routine.

Full install from the cd 30 + times!

Have you tried it with the win2k compatability patch, on windows
update?

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Olav K. Malmin
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I'm not saying it will work, I'm just saying that's what I had to do
to get SBK2001 to work in Win2k.

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and in my belly it will go ...''

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