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GPL on XP

Howard Gregor

GPL on XP

by Howard Gregor » Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:40:16

I'm running Windows XP on an AMD Athlon 1800+ with an NVIDIA Geforce4 MX440.
I've loaded the GPL CD-Rom complete with GPL 1.2, Speedfix and D3D patches
but I can't get the game to run. It shows the opening screen and then just
throws me out. Does anyone out there have the solution? Howard.
Mark Daviso

GPL on XP

by Mark Daviso » Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:55:18


Sounds like the indexing issue?

Go to My Computer, right click and choose properties for the drive that GPL
is installed on, make sure that "Allow Indexing Service..." is ticked.

Runs OK for me, but can't get it to recognise all four of my controllers.
Was not a problem with Win98, but then I did not have my TM NASCAR Pro
pedals connected through a Rockfire gameport to USB adapter.  The pedals
will not work in split axis mode in XP using gameport and TM drivers.  Do
not have a problem in N2K2 or LFS...

Mark

Positive

GPL on XP

by Positive » Mon, 21 Oct 2002 06:09:42

You don't have to do it for the whole drive.  You can just index the GPL
install folder.

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: > I'm running Windows XP on an AMD Athlon 1800+ with an NVIDIA Geforce4
: MX440.
: > I've loaded the GPL CD-Rom complete with GPL 1.2, Speedfix and D3D
patches
: > but I can't get the game to run. It shows the opening screen and then
just
: > throws me out. Does anyone out there have the solution? Howard.
:
: Sounds like the indexing issue?
:
: Go to My Computer, right click and choose properties for the drive that
GPL
: is installed on, make sure that "Allow Indexing Service..." is ticked.
:
: Runs OK for me, but can't get it to recognise all four of my controllers.
: Was not a problem with Win98, but then I did not have my TM NASCAR Pro
: pedals connected through a Rockfire gameport to USB adapter.  The pedals
: will not work in split axis mode in XP using gameport and TM drivers.  Do
: not have a problem in N2K2 or LFS...
:
: Mark
:
:

Don Burnett

GPL on XP

by Don Burnett » Mon, 21 Oct 2002 07:27:15

How can you do that? I do not see the option only for the folder, I only see it for the compete partition.
I have XP Home.

Don Burnette


> You don't have to do it for the whole drive.  You can just index the
> GPL install folder.





>>> I'm running Windows XP on an AMD Athlon 1800+ with an NVIDIA
>>> Geforce4 MX440. I've loaded the GPL CD-Rom complete with GPL 1.2,
>>> Speedfix and D3D patches but I can't get the game to run. It shows
>>> the opening screen and then just throws me out. Does anyone out
>>> there have the solution? Howard.

>> Sounds like the indexing issue?

>> Go to My Computer, right click and choose properties for the drive
>> that GPL is installed on, make sure that "Allow Indexing Service..."
>> is ticked.

>> Runs OK for me, but can't get it to recognise all four of my
>> controllers. Was not a problem with Win98, but then I did not have
>> my TM NASCAR Pro pedals connected through a Rockfire gameport to USB
>> adapter.  The pedals will not work in split axis mode in XP using
>> gameport and TM drivers.  Do not have a problem in N2K2 or LFS...

>> Mark

Chris H

GPL on XP

by Chris H » Mon, 21 Oct 2002 15:56:31

Pretty sure it is the same on Home as Pro, but open Windows Explorer,
navigate to the GPL folder and then right-click, selecting Properties.  On
the General page, near the bottom, click on the Advanced tab.  Put a check
mark in "For fast searching, allow Indexing Service to index this folder."
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> How can you do that? I do not see the option only for the folder, I
> only see it for the compete partition.
> I have XP Home.

> Don Burnette


>> You don't have to do it for the whole drive.  You can just index the
>> GPL install folder.

Don Burnett

GPL on XP

by Don Burnett » Mon, 21 Oct 2002 22:37:57

Ah hah, so it is. Don't know how I missed that!
Thanks, I changed it to where it is on my GPL folder on only now.

Don Burnette


> Pretty sure it is the same on Home as Pro, but open Windows Explorer,
> navigate to the GPL folder and then right-click, selecting
> Properties.  On the General page, near the bottom, click on the
> Advanced tab.  Put a check mark in "For fast searching, allow
> Indexing Service to index this folder."


>> How can you do that? I do not see the option only for the folder, I
>> only see it for the compete partition.
>> I have XP Home.

>> Don Burnette


>>> You don't have to do it for the whole drive.  You can just index the
>>> GPL install folder.

Chris H

GPL on XP

by Chris H » Tue, 22 Oct 2002 00:51:27

Good to know it is the same on Home, Don.  I've only got Pro installed on my
partitions right now, and without installing Home didn't have a way to check
it.  8-)
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Microsoft Windows MVP
Associate Expert
Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone

> Ah hah, so it is. Don't know how I missed that!
> Thanks, I changed it to where it is on my GPL folder on only now.

> Don Burnette

Paul Thor

GPL on XP

by Paul Thor » Tue, 22 Oct 2002 18:20:14

It seems odd that no-one here has mentioned the "Compatability Mode" -
right click the gpl.exe file, go to 'Propertires' and click the
'Compatibility' tab.  Check the 'Run this program is compatibility mode'
box and then try various windows modes ... I have to use 'Win2000' for GPL
to run, especially odd as I couldn't get GPL to run under Win2000!!! :O)

Cheerio,
Paul T
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Alan Gauto

GPL on XP

by Alan Gauto » Tue, 22 Oct 2002 19:31:00


says...

Maybe because a lot of people don't need it for GPL - I run mine without
it. (-:

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Eldre

GPL on XP

by Eldre » Sat, 26 Oct 2002 04:48:01



>It seems odd that no-one here has mentioned the "Compatability Mode" -
>right click the gpl.exe file, go to 'Propertires' and click the
>'Compatibility' tab.  Check the 'Run this program is compatibility mode'
>box and then try various windows modes ... I have to use 'Win2000' for GPL
>to run, especially odd as I couldn't get GPL to run under Win2000!!! :O)

Like I've said before - there must be more variables than we know about.  I
have GPL running on 2 Win98 servers, one Win2K server with Fat32, one Win2K
server with NTFS, and one WinXP server with NTFS.  But at times(meaning
previous installs) I've had issues with the Win2K and XP systems, even though
the hardware hasn't changed.

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