rec.autos.simulators

AMD 850
512 Ram
GF2 MX with 64meg ram  (drivers not that old 1-2 months at most)
Aopen Sound Card (on full accel)(fairly current drivers)
Win2K

Game lets me start a race and do 2-3 laps then either a blue screen and lockup
(says something about irq and dumping physical memory) or CTD.  Had some funny
graphics effects while doing the 2-3 laps before crash

Running 1024-768 some settings high some low.  During first install tried lower
resolution with same results.

Last nite I 'cleaned up windows' with Norton and (as suggested here) changed
'pagefiles' from 384 mg to 766 mg (not really sure what that is but it was set
at 384 and the machine/windows 'recomended' 766)  still crashed, but maybe I
needed to reboot to get the new setting to work(?)--will retry that tonite.

NR02, SCGT and Heat run fine.  Can't run any of the EA F1 games...loads track
and CTD.

Any suggestions appreciated.  (I know get a better machine-CPU upgrade enough
or CPU, GFX and Sound?..)..  If I left out any needed info just tell me what
you need....

Thanks in advance for any help
Kevin (aka tlgtr)
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"A GOOD friend will come bail you out of jail...  but, a TRUE friend will be
sitting next to you saying, "Damn we screwed up!!!!."

Sounds like a classic case of processor overheating.

Andrew.

Any suggestions other that just dropping detail levels til it works?  (If that
would even work?)  Any idea if the pagefiles thing will help?
Kevin (aka tlgtr)
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"A GOOD friend will come bail you out of jail...  but, a TRUE friend will be
sitting next to you saying, "Damn we screwed up!!!!."

Yes, physically overheating. I have no idea where you are in the
world, but the chances are you are somewhere where the summer has
arrived and the ambient temperature has risen enough to make it
overheat.

See if there is motherboard monitoring software that came with your
motherboard drivers so you can see what the case and CPU temperatures
are. Or when you machine crahes next, when rebooting go into the BIOS
to see what the temperature is reported as.

You could try removing the lid temporarily from the PC to increase
airflow. If the PC becomes more stable then you need to invest in more
cooling for your PC.

Andrew.

MadDAWG

Will check IRQ's tonite also.  This stuff is not my forte' but can at least see
if the two have any in common or if there are any shared IRQ's.  That's what I
am looking for-correct?

PS--Thanks for the help-experiance has proven the NG's to be better than
Papy....
Kevin (aka tlgtr)
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"A GOOD friend will come bail you out of jail...  but, a TRUE friend will be
sitting next to you saying, "Damn we screwed up!!!!."

Get the lastest nvidia drivers. 43.45 works good for me. You didn't say what
version of DX you have, but make sure it is DX9a.

bluestringer