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GP4 Crash To Desktop

Vesa Murtol

GP4 Crash To Desktop

by Vesa Murtol » Sat, 15 Mar 2003 02:56:47

GP4 crash to desktop.
I have Radeon 9500 with latest drivers.
I worked before, but not now.
Wonder what have change.

Any suggestions what to dry.

JH

GP4 Crash To Desktop

by JH » Sat, 15 Mar 2003 07:57:19

Don't know, but I have exactly the same problem. Just upgraded my PC and GP4
runs like a dream but frequently crashes to desktop making it impossible to
play seriously. Frustrating or what?


Gene Penma

GP4 Crash To Desktop

by Gene Penma » Sat, 15 Mar 2003 08:39:56

What have you changed? Graphics card drivers? Graphics card? I think if
you've changed anything you'll need to recalibrate the graphics in GP4.


Bart Westr

GP4 Crash To Desktop

by Bart Westr » Sat, 15 Mar 2003 15:42:47


      Make sure all driver names in the game contain at least a first name
and a last name seperated by a space.

      Bart

Trick Dac

GP4 Crash To Desktop

by Trick Dac » Sun, 16 Mar 2003 01:51:27

You need the patch guys !
The prob is caused by the controller-setup.

2 possibilities :

1) get the patch (easiest way imho), install it & everything should work

2)

- delete the cfg-file
- restart GP4 (should work now)
- setup every device except the controller
- exit gp4 (save Changes !)
- restart GP4
- setup controller
- on exiting GP4 never save the changes

You'll have to setup the controller every time now...

Better go & get the patch guys...

Hope this helped...



Sidewinder_M

GP4 Crash To Desktop

by Sidewinder_M » Sat, 16 Oct 2004 01:12:34

Hello, everyone. I have experienced the same crash problems with my GP4
game (patch v9.6 installed) and worse!

Whenever I tried to play, game would crash to desktop (with the familiar
error message GP4 has encounter a problem and will be shut down) after
10-15 minutes of play (sometimes even less!). But that was not all: 9 out
of 10 times computer would stall whenever I tried to see a Replay, and I
had to restart Windows XP by hardware! Note that I have never rename any
driver name!

Well, I found the simplest way to run the game stable as a rock! And the
solution is this: Do not skip the introductions! As simple as that! Just
be patient a few seconds, dont press any key to bypass Microprose or
GP4 intros, let the game guide you to the main menu and play by the
hours!!!

I found this by chance! I wanted to show the game to a friend of mine and
he asked me to let him see the intro before we would play. And so I did.
The thing is that a moment ago I warned him that unfortunately my best
game would crash after a while, but what a hell It was worth it. Well,
the game never crashed, and it didnt ever crashed again by just playing
both 2 intros.

Since then I play by the hours, I watch Replays, I play other circuits
after Im bored with one, I watch new Replays, and I play and play and
play!!! Before this, I couldnt even dream of something like that!

Please let me know if this works for you, too.

Good luck.

p.s. It a GREAT game, isnt it?


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