rec.autos.simulators

    I have a celeron clocked at 450, Voodoo2 SLI, a SB LIVe and a Matrox
Millenium. GPL sometimes crashes. All other 3d games are rock solid. Does
anybody have GPL running under a celeron 300AOverclocked?

Cheers

   How about setting your CPU back down to 300 and trying it on *your*
machine?  That should determine if 450 MHz is the problem, or
something else particular to your PC...

NAR Northeast Regional Contest Board site - points and more...

By the way, I've found that my system runs a full 3 degress Centigrade hotter
when running GPL.  That alone should show that the AI really taxes the CPU.

Good Luck.

If you want you could go to the device manager and remove all the drivers
for the other devices you haven't installed yet (sound card, modem, etc..)
and let Win95/98 find them when you install them - at least know where they
are if Win95/98 can't find them.  In any case, install them one at a time
then boot up, check thing out, shut down and install another device.

I didn't follow my own advice and put everything back in and just booted (I
had also installed two new V2 cards).  What a nightmare.  It took me hours
and hours to sort things out.  At one point, for at least an hour, the
system was so bound up it would only boot in safe mode and would take a
least a minute, maybe two (no kidding) for a button, icon, whatever, to
respond to a mouse click or the enter/shift key (10 minutes just to get to
the device manager!).

But, I did get things sorted out and now everything is running fine, rock
solid, no crashes, no conflicts, and GPL runs sweet.

I had this answer by Joe Walsh still in my archive. Haven't done this myself
though. I decided to go for a new system and keep the old one as well, with
ethernet between them.
Bart Westra
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Actually,

You should be able to avoid a re-install if you still have your old board in
and didn't start screwing with anything....  but the average gamer over 15
should be able to re-install Win95 in his sleep ;-)

In the Device Mangler, remove all the system devices (just say no to 'Do you
want to shut down now' after each one), restart the computer in safe mode
(don't let it boot normally or it will end up putting everything back again)
and remove the hdd and floppy controllers.  You can remove everything under
safe mode if you like...  it saves an extra boot... so that's probably the
better idea...

Shut down the computer, swap the boards, and you should be able to power up
and have Win95 detect all the new devices properly on the new board.  If you
don't remove the devices,  you'll just end up with some duplicates in some
areas, and some non-functioning devices...   if there are still some problem
devices (besides the PCI bridge and USB) remove everything, restart and it
should put everything back properly.  If not, wipe out the Windows directory
and re-install Win95.  75% of the time you should be able to avoid a
re-install...  for the other 25% all you've done is take an extra 10min

Cheers

Joe Walsh
Supercity Technologies