I have installed Dx70a, the latest 3dfx drivers (1.05.00), ofcourse
the GPL 1.2 patch, and I have disabled triple buffering.
I also reinstalled all of the above again tonight just to make sure.
Any help please?
Andre
> Today I bought a V3 3000 AGP card, because GP3 didn't run on my V2 SLI
> cards. GP3 runs perfect now.
> BUT: When I start gpl, I get the starting screen with the gpl logo,
> and then the system freezes. I have to manually reset my pc after the
> freeze.
> I have installed Dx70a, the latest 3dfx drivers (1.05.00), ofcourse
> the GPL 1.2 patch, and I have disabled triple buffering.
> I also reinstalled all of the above again tonight just to make sure.
> Any help please?
> Andre
>> Today I bought a V3 3000 AGP card, because GP3 didn't run on my V2 SLI
>> cards. GP3 runs perfect now.
>> BUT: When I start gpl, I get the starting screen with the gpl logo,
>> and then the system freezes. I have to manually reset my pc after the
>> freeze.
>> I have installed Dx70a, the latest 3dfx drivers (1.05.00), ofcourse
>> the GPL 1.2 patch, and I have disabled triple buffering.
>> I also reinstalled all of the above again tonight just to make sure.
>> Any help please?
>> Andre
>Do you have anything in PCI slot 1? I used to have a modem in there
>which
>caused freezes like you are getting.
Andre
You may wish to consider grabbing the D3D rasterizer from the Papyrus
site and running your V3 with it instead of the Glide rasterizer.
From what I've heard so far it's equivalent in performance and may
have some benefits, to boot.
Worth a shot, anyway.
Regards,
Brett C. Cammack
That's Racing! Motorsports
Pompano Beach, Fl
>You may wish to consider grabbing the D3D rasterizer from the Papyrus
>site and running your V3 with it instead of the Glide rasterizer.
>From what I've heard so far it's equivalent in performance and may
>have some benefits, to boot.
Andre
>You may wish to consider grabbing the D3D rasterizer from the Papyrus
>site and running your V3 with it instead of the Glide rasterizer.
>From what I've heard so far it's equivalent in performance and may
>have some benefits, to boot.
Seemd weird, but after a couple of restarts it turns out that GPL
takes about 30 seconds now to show the menu screen, instead of the +/-
10 seconds it took with my V2 card.
I started racing in training mode, looking good, 36 fps, allthough I
liked the graphics in 3dfx better. The D3D graphics look a little bit
jagged.
Anyway, tried a race against AI, and the fps was not good.
24 fps at the start (had 26-27 with my V2 SLI) but after the start fps
was between 30-33, while with my SLI the fps jumped to 36fps right
after the start. Only when the other cars were away from me I had
36fps again.
So clearly it's a Glide problem.
I switched back to Glide an restarted GPL. After a minute, the menu
screen appeared. I went to Graphics, but instead of 3dfx, None mode
was selected. GPL can't start in Glide for some reason.
BTW, maybe this is interesting, in the Graphics menu, I see this:
3DFX
3DFX
NONE
D3D
Rendition
So I have 3DFX 2 times in my list.
If anyone has some suggestions, please help...
Andre
I'd suggest removing all traces of the V2 and Glide from your system, esp.
the registry, then do a clean install of the V3.
> >>Today I bought a V3 3000 AGP card, because GP3 didn't run on my V2 SLI
> >>cards. GP3 runs perfect now.
> >>BUT: When I start gpl, I get the starting screen with the gpl logo,
> >>and then the system freezes. I have to manually reset my pc after the
> >>freeze.
> >You may wish to consider grabbing the D3D rasterizer from the Papyrus
> >site and running your V3 with it instead of the Glide rasterizer.
> >From what I've heard so far it's equivalent in performance and may
> >have some benefits, to boot.
> Brett, I tried it. After I installed the D3D patch, I started GPL.
> After 10 seconds still no menu screen, and I thought GPL had crashed
> again. In frustration I pressed ctrl-alt-delete a couple of times, and
> to my surprise I saw the menu screen.
> Seemd weird, but after a couple of restarts it turns out that GPL
> takes about 30 seconds now to show the menu screen, instead of the +/-
> 10 seconds it took with my V2 card.
> I started racing in training mode, looking good, 36 fps, allthough I
> liked the graphics in 3dfx better. The D3D graphics look a little bit
> jagged.
> Anyway, tried a race against AI, and the fps was not good.
> 24 fps at the start (had 26-27 with my V2 SLI) but after the start fps
> was between 30-33, while with my SLI the fps jumped to 36fps right
> after the start. Only when the other cars were away from me I had
> 36fps again.
> So clearly it's a Glide problem.
> I switched back to Glide an restarted GPL. After a minute, the menu
> screen appeared. I went to Graphics, but instead of 3dfx, None mode
> was selected. GPL can't start in Glide for some reason.
> BTW, maybe this is interesting, in the Graphics menu, I see this:
> 3DFX
> 3DFX
> NONE
> D3D
> Rendition
> So I have 3DFX 2 times in my list.
> If anyone has some suggestions, please help...
> Andre
> >Worth a shot, anyway.
> >Regards,
> >Brett C. Cammack
> >That's Racing! Motorsports
> >Pompano Beach, Fl
> Today I bought a V3 3000 AGP card, because GP3 didn't run on my V2 SLI
> cards. GP3 runs perfect now.
> BUT: When I start gpl, I get the starting screen with the gpl logo,
> and then the system freezes. I have to manually reset my pc after the
> freeze.
> I have installed Dx70a, the latest 3dfx drivers (1.05.00), ofcourse
> the GPL 1.2 patch, and I have disabled triple buffering.
> I also reinstalled all of the above again tonight just to make sure.
> Any help please?
> Andre
--
Chuck Kandler
Windows is just a virus with a GUI
>I'd suggest removing all traces of the V2 and Glide from your system, esp.
>the registry, then do a clean install of the V3.
Thanks for the help all,
Andre
>> Today I bought a V3 3000 AGP card, because GP3 didn't run on my V2 SLI
>> cards. GP3 runs perfect now.
>> BUT: When I start gpl, I get the starting screen with the gpl logo,
>> and then the system freezes. I have to manually reset my pc after the
>> freeze.
>> I have installed Dx70a, the latest 3dfx drivers (1.05.00), ofcourse
>> the GPL 1.2 patch, and I have disabled triple buffering.
>> I also reinstalled all of the above again tonight just to make sure.
>> Any help please?
>> Andre
>Tried losing the V2's drivers from the GPL folder yet?
Andre
> >Your problem is that you did not fully remove all traces of Glide
from your
> >system (from your old V2 setup). Depending on board manufacturer,
many of
> >their Utilities had a "Glide Sweep" option which would remove all old
> >traces.
> >I'd suggest removing all traces of the V2 and Glide from your
system, esp.
> >the registry, then do a clean install of the V3.
> I manually removed all the old drivers and entries from the registry.
> Then I reinstalled the V3 drivers and DX7 again.
> Now GPL works again (!) but still in a strange way.
> I start GPL, get the intro screen, then it seems to hang.
> I have to press ctrl-alt-delete a couple of times, and after a minute
> or so the menu screen appears. Then GPL works perfect (quite a fps
> improvement, and the picture looks just better compared to the V2).
> Tomorrow I'll do I clean install of Windows (yikes), clearly GPL is
> still having problems with older V2 drivers.
> Thanks for the help all,
> Andre
Andre
Andre
