rec.autos.simulators

>Randy

> Can someone from Papyrus please advise us why so many people are
> experienceing freezes, if it's a GPL problem and is there a fix in the
> works?

> I suspect you're referring to the "I'm using a Voodoo2 card, and sometimes
> my screen stops updating, but the game clearly continues to run in the
> background because I can hear the world march on.  I've tried every set of
> 3Dfx drivers I can get my hand on, I'm not overclocking either my system or
> my Voodoo2 board, I've tried underclocking the Voodoo2 board, opening the
> case, blowing fans at the machine, etc.  Nothing seems to help." problem.
> We do not yet know what is causing the problem, mostly because we cannot
> get any machine we have in-house to exhibit it.  We're in the process of
> obtaining a machine that exhibits this behavior from a GPL customer.  Once
> we get that machine in our offices, we can try to figure out what's going
> on.

>If it's any help, I removed the Diamond Video Control Panel from the
>System Tray and it stopped doing it. In fact, I cleaned up my system tray,
>so only the Monster Sound M80 mixer utility was present there. I don't use
>Win95/98 DUN, so that's never resident.

>My hunch is that it's a call to an area where some resident system tray
>utility is doing something.

> > I suspect you're referring to the "I'm using a Voodoo2 card, and sometimes
> > my screen stops updating, but the game clearly continues to run in the
> > background because I can hear the world march on.  I've tried every set of
> > 3Dfx drivers I can get my hand on, I'm not overclocking either my system or
> > my Voodoo2 board, I've tried underclocking the Voodoo2 board, opening the
> > case, blowing fans at the machine, etc.  Nothing seems to help." problem.
> > We do not yet know what is causing the problem, mostly because we cannot
> > get any machine we have in-house to exhibit it.  We're in the process of
> > obtaining a machine that exhibits this behavior from a GPL customer.  Once
> > we get that machine in our offices, we can try to figure out what's going
> > on.

> On my machine it's possibly a silly combination of V2 drivers and
> Logitech
> MouseWare 8.0x. I had the demo working with MouseWare, probably added
> new
> V2 drivers (don't have a log ;^), demo froze. Replaced MouseWare with
> the
> standard mouse driver, demo worked again...

> l8er
> ronny

> --
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> kiddo?"

>           |\      _,,,---,,_        I want to die like my Grandfather,
>    ZZZzz /,`.-'`'    -.  ;-;;,_              in his sleep.
>         |,4-  ) )-,_. ,\ (  `'-'     Not like the people in his car,
>        '---''(_/--'  `-'\_)            screaming their heads off!

> >My hunch is that it's a call to an area where some resident system tray
> >utility is doing something.

> We do ALL close all not imperitive applications before starting a race
> don't we? Or have I been getting just a little CPU resource neurotic
> for my next upgrade?

> Randy

> > Can someone from Papyrus please advise us why so many people are
> > experienceing freezes, if it's a GPL problem and is there a fix in the
> > works?

> I suspect you're referring to the "I'm using a Voodoo2 card, and sometimes
> my screen stops updating, but the game clearly continues to run in the
> background because I can hear the world march on.  I've tried every set of
> 3Dfx drivers I can get my hand on, I'm not overclocking either my system or
> my Voodoo2 board, I've tried underclocking the Voodoo2 board, opening the
> case, blowing fans at the machine, etc.  Nothing seems to help." problem.
> We do not yet know what is causing the problem, mostly because we cannot
> get any machine we have in-house to exhibit it.  We're in the process of
> obtaining a machine that exhibits this behavior from a GPL customer.  Once
> we get that machine in our offices, we can try to figure out what's going
> on.

> I have the same problem using a Canopus Total 3D (Rendition Verite' 1000 chip)
> in a P200MMX machine.  So, it's not just V2 cards.

> The screen locks up after about 10 minutes of racing.  Did the same thing with
> the demo version.  The game continues "behind the screen".  I know from the
> sounds of tires squeeling and crashing into the fence.

>The screen locks up after about 10 minutes of racing.  Did the same thing
with
>the demo version.  The game continues "behind the screen".  I know from the
>sounds of tires squeeling and crashing into the fence.

>Glad to hear you guys are working on it.  Keep us posted!  I''d be glad to
work
>with you if it would help.

>Thanks,

>Tony Joy

>joyaw at ibm dot net (you know what to do here)

>> I suspect you're referring to the "I'm using a Voodoo2 card, and
sometimes
>> my screen stops updating, but the game clearly continues to run in the
>> background because I can hear the world march on.  <snip>  Once we get
that
>> machine in our offices, we can try to figure out what's going on.

>> Randy

>Randy

>> Can someone from Papyrus please advise us why so many people are
>> experienceing freezes, if it's a GPL problem and is there a fix in the
>> works?