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GPL Video Resolution Problem?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

rub..

GPL Video Resolution Problem?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

by rub.. » Wed, 24 May 2000 04:00:00

OK.  Here we go again.  In my quest to improve the best damn racing
sim out there I've patched, tweaked and did all sorts of stuff to GPL.
I'd downloaded the OpenGL patch from Papy (I have a Diamond Stealth
Viper V770 Card) plus used the upgrade patch to v1.2.  Not to mention
loaded add-on tracks from GPLEA.  I had it working great in 800 X 600
mode when all of a sudden I get the infamous Windows dialogue box
telling me that my fun has ended for right now and that I need to exit
the program.  I go back into GPL and get to the track and when I get
behind the steering wheel I'm faced with only a quarter of the screen!
I can see the left-front tire, part of the steering wheel, and the
driver's left hand.  It looks fully rendered, but the rest of the
screen is totally black!!!!!!!!!  I can't even see the "Press enter to
return to pits" promt when I hit escape!!!!!  I go back out to the
options menu and set the resolution to 640 X 480 (Yuk!) and everything
looks fine at the track in 640 X 480.  What's happening here?  Any
help or advice (short of buying another vid card) is greatly
appreciated.....  :0)

Happy Racing!!!!

Don Scurlo

GPL Video Resolution Problem?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

by Don Scurlo » Wed, 24 May 2000 04:00:00

Did you just "upgrade" your video drivers ? I had this exact same
problem when I tried the latest Nvidia reference drivers. 2.08 is still
what I'm using.


--
Don Scurlock
Vancouver,B.C.

amos-opu

GPL Video Resolution Problem?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

by amos-opu » Thu, 25 May 2000 04:00:00

Hi

You are probably using a 5.xx driver, put the 3.77 NvopenGl.dllin your
GPL folder, should solve the problem!

Sudesh


> OK.  Here we go again.  In my quest to improve the best damn racing
> sim out there I've patched, tweaked and did all sorts of stuff to GPL.
> I'd downloaded the OpenGL patch from Papy (I have a Diamond Stealth
> Viper V770 Card) plus used the upgrade patch to v1.2.  Not to mention
> loaded add-on tracks from GPLEA.  I had it working great in 800 X 600
> mode when all of a sudden I get the infamous Windows dialogue box
> telling me that my fun has ended for right now and that I need to exit
> the program.  I go back into GPL and get to the track and when I get
> behind the steering wheel I'm faced with only a quarter of the screen!
> I can see the left-front tire, part of the steering wheel, and the
> driver's left hand.  It looks fully rendered, but the rest of the
> screen is totally black!!!!!!!!!  I can't even see the "Press enter to
> return to pits" promt when I hit escape!!!!!  I go back out to the
> options menu and set the resolution to 640 X 480 (Yuk!) and everything
> looks fine at the track in 640 X 480.  What's happening here?  Any
> help or advice (short of buying another vid card) is greatly
> appreciated.....  :0)

> Happy Racing!!!!


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