rec.autos.simulators

Ok, I've installed the D3D patch, added all the cool sound files and GPLEA
cars, I run some practice laps in 800x600, getting constant 36fps with
everything on.  Sound stutters a few times, nothing major.  I go to a race
with 19 cars.  In practice everything seems fine, I go to race, the start is
ok, then for the next 5 laps (until I crash) the game periodically freezes,
screen freezes, time stops, starts up again, stutters, starts, stutters,
keeps doing this until I finally crash.  Go back to practice, runs fine
again.  I thought maybe it was the problem with the mirror refresh rate, but
with a full field, the computer even stutters watching the replay from the
tv camera views.  Any ideas?  System is a 1000mhz P3, 128ram, geforce 2 MX
with 32mb, Turtle Beach Santa Cruz.  I've only had the machine a couple
weeks, I'm assuming drivers are up to date, but how do I check version
numbers for the geforce?  Thanks.

Brian Fox

 What's OS are you using? I had same kind of stutters with "out of
installed" WinME. Delete ***tasks and remove system restore.
 Tweaked WinME will handle GPL better than Win98SE.

Y.Minami

Yeah, I'm running WinMe.  I talked to Dell about my sound stuttering, and
the tech had me turn off a bunch of the startup apps that were hogging
resources, sound is better now, haven't tried a race yet.

Brian Fox

You're hitting the hard drive.  See what you've got running in
background.  I have my system configured so only Explorer and Systray
are running except for GPL.  

Also, right-click on "My Computer", select "Properties", go to the
"Performance" tab, click on the "Virtual Memory" button.  Select "Let
Me Specify My own Virtual Memory Settings", ignore the stupid Windows
warning message.   Now, you probably only have a C: drive for a hard
disk, so go to the Minimum and Maximum boxes and set them to exactly
the same value.  Maybe four times the amount of memory you have I
Installed.  Hit "Okay" and restart your machine.

You've just set your swap file to a fixed size.  Windows won't
constantly keep trying to shrink it down to it's minimum size and you
will have fewer occasions when your computer stops concentrating on
what you are doing to perform some essentially useless task.

Regards,
Brett C. Cammack

(remove the DOTs from my return address to reply privately)

I done that a long ago because everybody is telling it must be
better. And my HD worked poorly. Now I turned to original
settings (Let Windows Manage ), and my HD runs much better
now. Maybe is something wrong with my system (or with me ),
but I am very sceptic about that now.

: You're hitting the hard drive.  See what you've got running in
: background.  I have my system configured so only Explorer and Systray
: are running except for GPL.
:
: Also, right-click on "My Computer", select "Properties", go to the
: "Performance" tab, click on the "Virtual Memory" button.  Select "Let
: Me Specify My own Virtual Memory Settings", ignore the stupid Windows
: warning message.   Now, you probably only have a C: drive for a hard
: disk, so go to the Minimum and Maximum boxes and set them to exactly
: the same value.  Maybe four times the amount of memory you have I
: Installed.  Hit "Okay" and restart your machine.
:
: You've just set your swap file to a fixed size.  Windows won't
: constantly keep trying to shrink it down to it's minimum size and you
: will have fewer occasions when your computer stops concentrating on
: what you are doing to perform some essentially useless task.
:
: Regards,
: Brett C. Cammack

: (remove the DOTs from my return address to reply privately)