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by **Neil Everet** » Sat, 22 Dec 2001 07:21:15

I have to admit to not playing GPL for a few months...

Anyway, now I'm back, I have a problem with the newly installed JFcarset.
Everything runs fine before this is installed BTW. But watching one of my
favorite replays with the new carset installed, GPL just freezes within
seconds of starting the replay, although the sound continues. I cannot
ctrl-alt-del out, and have to restart the machine. Go back to the previous
car67 setup and things return to normal, just without the pretty cars ;-)

The same thing happens whether I run with the JF 3d wheels or not, so it
seems to be related to the car textures?

Checked all the usual stuff- IRQ sharing, running cpu and graphics at
default Mhz, bios settings etc.etc.

My setup is:

ECS K7S5A MB
256Mb DDR
Duron 800 (usually at 1067)
V3 2000 (usually at 166) w. 1.07 drivers
SB Live w LW3.0
MS FFB Wheel

Anyone got any ideas for a solution (other than just running the normal car
textures...)?

Neil

by **Andre Warring** » Sat, 22 Dec 2001 08:49:26

On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 22:21:15 -0000, "Neil Everett"

>I have to admit to not playing GPL for a few months...

Installing all those addons is quite sensitive - one little error in
one car and you have a big chance gpl will crash.
The best way to figure out -which- car is causing the problems is to
choose one car, drive a couple of laps with it, watch the replay, and
see if GPL crashes. Do this with all the other cars..

The JF carset -does- work perfect, I and many other people use it.
Let me know if you can't get it working right - in the worst case I
can upload my carset for you if you can provide the webspace.

Andre

by **Leo Landma** » Sat, 22 Dec 2001 08:52:47

This usually means your video card is overheating. Go back to the old
textures <g>

Bye,
Leo

by **Andre Warring** » Sat, 22 Dec 2001 11:31:01

>> GPL just freezes within
>> seconds of starting the replay, although the sound continues.

>This usually means your video card is overheating. Go back to the old
>textures <g>

Good point Leo, I was mistaken.. when something is wrongly installed,
GPL gives a 'could not load track' error, even if the problem is with
one of the cars.
When GPL freezes and the sound continues that indeed seems to be an
overheating problem.. what kind of card have you got Neil?

Andre

by **Andre Warring** » Sat, 22 Dec 2001 11:34:06

On Fri, 21 Dec 2001 03:31:01 +0100, Andre Warringa

>Good point Leo, I was mistaken.. when something is wrongly installed,
>GPL gives a 'could not load track' error, even if the problem is with
>one of the cars.
>When GPL freezes and the sound continues that indeed seems to be an
>overheating problem.. what kind of card have you got Neil?

>Andre

And ofcourse you did mention your gfx card in your post - I should
stop posting at 3:30am :-/
V3 card.. yup. had the same problems with my v3 card, not enough
texture memory to handle all the fancy updates.
Solution: buy a GF2 GTS, they're getting cheaper every day :)

Andre / off to bed for a hardly needed sleep

by **Jone Tytlandsvi** » Sat, 22 Dec 2001 17:37:19

I guess this can't happen if you are not overclocking anything. My system
also freezes with the sound on with the JFcarset installed. With 3D wheels
it freezes immediately. With 2D wheels it didn't lock up until I crashed the
car.

Pentium III 800
ATI Radeon AllinWonder
W2k

Jone.

by **ayemdee..** » Sun, 23 Dec 2001 06:26:38

On Fri, 21 Dec 2001 09:37:19 +0100, "Jone Tytlandsvik"

>> When GPL freezes and the sound continues that indeed seems to be an
>> overheating problem.. what kind of card have you got Neil?

>I guess this can't happen if you are not overclocking anything. My system
>also freezes with the sound on with the JFcarset installed. With 3D wheels
>it freezes immediately. With 2D wheels it didn't lock up until I crashed the
>car.

>Pentium III 800
>ATI Radeon AllinWonder
>W2k

I have this problem (freeze with sound continuing) with JFcarset too
with the 3D wheels. However if I turn off images in the mirror. It
doesn't freeze.

Athlon 1.2GB
ATI Rage 128 32MB
Win98SE

by **Andre Warring** » Sun, 23 Dec 2001 09:18:08

>I have this problem (freeze with sound continuing) with JFcarset too
>with the 3D wheels. However if I turn off images in the mirror. It
>doesn't freeze.

Ok but.. don't you prefer mirrors over 3d wheels??

Andre

by **cyrille vanlerbergh** » Sat, 29 Dec 2001 20:35:46

Did you try George Smiley's Glide patch? http://home.swbell.net/gmsmiley/
The jf carset wouldn't work on my Voodoo3 without it.
cheers,
Cyrille

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