GPL troubles

I recently decided to reload GPL, which I havn't run in awhile, and now I can't seem to get it to run on my system. I did a fresh install, with the normal patches, the cpufix (which I've reinstalled several times to make sure it did)and the DX7 and openGL fixes/patches. My problem is when I go into the game everytime I try to get to the race weekend the game gives me an error, can't initailize the replay system, and it cancels the race. This happens in Dx7, OGL, or software mode. However I can load up any of the replays that come with GPL and they run fine, it just seems to fail whenever I actually try to get into a session when you can drive the car. All the other screens work and I can get to the options and such fine. Again this is on a bare bones install of GPL, I have nothing but the patches added to it. I know this system ran GPL fine months ago, but I'm not sure what I would have changed since them, except I added a soundblaster audigy card, instead of the LIVE, I use to have. My system info: P4 1.7gig 768megs RDRAM Geforce4 128 with 28.90 drivers. (I've tried a few different sets of drivers back to the 21.83's with the same result.) Sound blaster audigy platinum Windows ME Anyone have any ideas? Jay Taylor

Well here is 1 idea http://www.microsoft.com/windows/directx/default.asp "Jay Taylor" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:Cg7M8.1568$[email hidden]...

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> I recently decided to reload GPL, which I havn't run in awhile, and now I > can't seem to get it to run on my system. I did a fresh install, with the > normal patches, the cpufix (which I've reinstalled several times to make > sure it did)and the DX7 and openGL fixes/patches. > My problem is when I go into the game everytime I try to get to the race > weekend the game gives me an error, > can't initailize the replay system, and it cancels the race. This happens

in > Dx7, OGL, or software mode. However I can load up any of the replays that > come with GPL and they run fine, it just seems to fail whenever I actually > try to get into a session when you can drive the car. All the otherscreens

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> work and I can get to the options and such fine. Again this is on a bare > bones install of GPL, I have nothing but the patches added to it. I know > this system ran GPL fine months ago, but I'm not sure what I would have > changed since them, except I added a soundblaster audigy card, instead of > the LIVE, I use to have. > > My system info: > P4 1.7gig > 768megs RDRAM > Geforce4 128 with 28.90 drivers. (I've tried a few different sets of

drivers

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> back to the 21.83's with the same result.) > Sound blaster audigy platinum > Windows ME > > Anyone have any ideas? > > Jay Taylor > >

Jay Taylor <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:Cg7M8.1568$[email hidden]... > > 768megs RDRAM Here's your problem, you have to limit any Win9X OS to 512 MB ram to run GPL....anyone remember the exact syntax? -- Biz "Don't touch that please, your primitive intellect wouldn't understand alloys and compositions and,......things with molecular structures,....and the....." - Ash

"Biz" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:oGaM8.28768$[email hidden]...

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> > Jay Taylor <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:Cg7M8.1568$[email hidden]... > > > > 768megs RDRAM > > Here's your problem, you have to limit any Win9X OS to 512 MB ram to run

GPL....anyone remember the > exact syntax? > -- > Biz yes RIP OUT the extra chip. You can make changes to windows to limit the memory, you can create a ram disk, but all this does is add another process running in the background. Win9x can run dang near any program with 512megs...if you are convinced you need that extra ram, then junk win9x and go XP. dave henrie

Well I did upgrade to 768 awhile back so I guess that is possible. However I do use alot of ram with graphics and video editing I also do on my machine. Anyway I can fool GPL into not seeing all 768 megs, while leaving it intact for the rest of my apps? Jay Taylor "Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:qmbM8.134645$[email hidden]...

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> > "Biz" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:oGaM8.28768$[email hidden]... > > > > Jay Taylor <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > news:Cg7M8.1568$[email hidden]... > > > > > > 768megs RDRAM > > > > Here's your problem, you have to limit any Win9X OS to 512 MB ram to run > GPL....anyone remember the > > exact syntax? > > -- > > Biz > yes RIP OUT the extra chip. You can make changes to windows to limit

the > memory, you can create a ram disk, but all this does is add anotherprocess > running in the background. Win9x can run dang near any program with > 512megs...if you are convinced you need that extra ram, then junk win9xand > go XP. > dave henrie > >

Jay I am sure there is, but I never had to do it, (still dont) but I am not definite on this but there is a setting in the core.ini somewhere.. maybe google search will turn something up? "Jay Taylor" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:jvbM8.3326$[email hidden]... > Well I did upgrade to 768 awhile back so I guess that is possible.However > I do use alot of ram with graphics and video editing I also do on my > machine. Anyway I can fool GPL into not seeing all 768 megs, whileleaving

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> it intact for the rest of my apps? > > Jay Taylor > > > > "Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:qmbM8.134645$[email hidden]... > > > > "Biz" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > news:oGaM8.28768$[email hidden]... > > > > > > Jay Taylor <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > > news:Cg7M8.1568$[email hidden]... > > > > > > > > 768megs RDRAM > > > > > > Here's your problem, you have to limit any Win9X OS to 512 MB ram to

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> > GPL....anyone remember the > > > exact syntax? > > > -- > > > Biz > > yes RIP OUT the extra chip. You can make changes to windows to limit > the > > memory, you can create a ram disk, but all this does is add another > process > > running in the background. Win9x can run dang near any program with > > 512megs...if you are convinced you need that extra ram, then junk win9x > and > > go XP. > > dave henrie > > > > > >

Well my problem is solved. I have cacheman which is a memory tweeking program on my system. When I poked around in it's options I found a option to limit windows to 512 megs of RAM. So I tried it and GPL ran fine. So I just have to do some changing back and forth in cacheman, but atleast I dont have to pull out dims<g>. Thanks for the help guys. Jay "Sting32" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:p_cM8.6324$[email hidden]... > Jay I am sure there is, but I never had to do it, (still dont) but I amnot

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> definite on this but there is a setting in the core.ini somewhere.. maybe > google search will turn something up? > > > "Jay Taylor" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:jvbM8.3326$[email hidden]... > > Well I did upgrade to 768 awhile back so I guess that is possible. > However > > I do use alot of ram with graphics and video editing I also do on my > > machine. Anyway I can fool GPL into not seeing all 768 megs, while > leaving > > it intact for the rest of my apps? > > > > Jay Taylor > > > > > > > > "Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > news:qmbM8.134645$[email hidden]... > > > > > > "Biz" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > > news:oGaM8.28768$[email hidden]... > > > > > > > > Jay Taylor <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > > > news:Cg7M8.1568$[email hidden]... > > > > > > > > > > 768megs RDRAM > > > > > > > > Here's your problem, you have to limit any Win9X OS to 512 MB ram to > run > > > GPL....anyone remember the > > > > exact syntax? > > > > -- > > > > Biz > > > yes RIP OUT the extra chip. You can make changes to windows to

limit > > the > > > memory, you can create a ram disk, but all this does is add another > > process > > > running in the background. Win9x can run dang near any program with > > > 512megs...if you are convinced you need that extra ram, then junkwin9x

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> > and > > > go XP. > > > dave henrie > > > > > > > > > > > >

Jay Taylor wrote:

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> > Well my problem is solved. I have cacheman which is a memory tweeking > program on my system. When I poked around in it's options I found a option > to limit windows to 512 megs of RAM. So I tried it and GPL ran fine. > So I just have to do some changing back and forth in cacheman, but atleast I > dont have to pull out dims<g>. > Thanks for the help guys.

And for those that don't have Cacheman, you can do the same with "msconfig" under advanced properties Beers and cheers (uncle) Goy "The Pits" http://www.theuspits.com/ "A man is only as old as the woman he feels" --Groucho Marx--

core.ini change replayMemoryOverride = 65535 problem solved, no messin jan On Fri, 07 Jun 2002 18:51:14 GMT, "Jay Taylor" <[email hidden]> wrote: >I recently decided to reload GPL, which I havn't run in awhile, and now I >can't seem to get it to run on my system. I did a fresh install, with the >normal patches, the cpufix (which I've reinstalled several times to make >sure it did)and the DX7 and openGL fixes/patches.<snip>

I had your problem too, and your solution works as I found out, but a better solution so that you don't have to keep switching back and forth in cacheman is to include the following lines in your core.ini file: [ Replay ] replayMemoryOverride = 65535 This tells GPL to only use 64 Mbytes for memory (you can use some other figure, but that is plenty--the problem when you have more than 512 M is that GPL gets confused when setting up the memory for the replay and this solves the problem). Just make sure that you are really changing the core.ini file--if I recall correctly there is another file called core.sample or something like that which comes with gpl and you can't tell which file is which unless you have windows set up so that the full filename is shown. You also need to change core.ini to set up force feedback by the way--I realized I wasn't modifying the correct file when force feedback didn't work for me. "Jay Taylor" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<rpdM8.11175$[email hidden]>...

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> Well my problem is solved. I have cacheman which is a memory tweeking > program on my system. When I poked around in it's options I found a option > to limit windows to 512 megs of RAM. So I tried it and GPL ran fine. > So I just have to do some changing back and forth in cacheman, but atleast I > dont have to pull out dims<g>. > Thanks for the help guys. > > > Jay > > > > "Sting32" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:p_cM8.6324$[email hidden]... > > Jay I am sure there is, but I never had to do it, (still dont) but I am > not > > definite on this but there is a setting in the core.ini somewhere.. maybe > > google search will turn something up? > > > > >

Add the following lines to core.ini (or edit the existing line if it's there) [ Replay ] ReplayMemoryOverride = 256000 This tells GPL to use a replay buffer of 256000Kbytes (~256Meg). I think the problem is that with 768M of main memory, GPL tries to allocate more than 512M for the replay buffer, which Windows doesn't allow. Randy "Jay Taylor" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:Cg7M8.1568$[email hidden]... ... > My problem is when I go into the game everytime I try to get to the race > weekend the game gives me an error, > can't initailize the replay system, and it cancels the race.... > My system info: > P4 1.7gig > 768megs RDRAM...

Hi Randy, How's GPL2 doing? <grin> JensSchumi On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 11:15:11 -0400, "Randy Cassidy" <[email hidden]> wrote:

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>Add the following lines to core.ini (or edit the existing line if it's >there) > >[ Replay ] >ReplayMemoryOverride = 256000 > >This tells GPL to use a replay buffer of 256000Kbytes (~256Meg). I think >the problem is that with 768M of main memory, GPL tries to allocate more >than 512M for the replay buffer, which Windows doesn't allow. > >Randy

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