Help with N2002...

Hi chaps, I just recveived N2002 and I seem to have run into a few nasty bugs.. First and formost: whilch 3d-rasterize is best to use? I got a GF2 GTS/PRO card with 64mb. I'm currently using D3D and 1024x768x16. Now for the bug, I cannot seem to get into Paintshop... or morfe correctly - every time I enter the paintshop N2002 freeze and the damn menusound just keep looping. (What schmock thought of that anyway?) The only way to sop the looping and get the PC up and running again is to hit the reset-button. Anyone got any tips on how to cure this? My specs: Win98SE AMD 1,33ghz 384mb Ram GF2 GTS/PRO 64mb with the 28.32 drivers... SB Live! Value MSI KT7-Turbo Mobo (Via KT133A) -- ed_

use open gl.........i belive theres a problem with D3d and the nvidia 23.11 drivers. update to the new drivers found at nvidias homepage. neil "Ed Solheim" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:E7Gr8.766$[email hidden]...

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> Hi chaps, > > I just recveived N2002 and I seem to have run into a few nasty bugs.. > > First and formost: whilch 3d-rasterize is best to use? > I got a GF2 GTS/PRO card with 64mb. > I'm currently using D3D and 1024x768x16. > > Now for the bug, > I cannot seem to get into Paintshop... or morfe correctly - every time I > enter the paintshop N2002 freeze and the damn menusound just keep looping. > (What schmock thought of that anyway?) > The only way to sop the looping and get the PC up and running again is to > hit the reset-button. > > Anyone got any tips on how to cure this? > > My specs: > > Win98SE > AMD 1,33ghz > 384mb Ram > GF2 GTS/PRO 64mb with the 28.32 drivers... > SB Live! Value > MSI KT7-Turbo Mobo (Via KT133A) > > -- > ed_ > > >

I have a GF2 MX400, and use OpenGL, its about 10fps faster, OpenGL is faster on virtually every game with a GF card. Give it time to enter Paintshop, it takes awhile as it compresses/uncompresses the texture files..I hope you paint your cars someplace else, like PSP. -- Biz "Don't touch that please, your primitive intellect wouldn't understand alloys and compositions and,......things with molecular structures,....and the....." - Ash Ed Solheim <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:E7Gr8.766$[email hidden]... > Hi chaps, > > I just recveived N2002 and I seem to have run into a few nasty bugs.. > > First and formost: whilch 3d-rasterize is best to use? > I got a GF2 GTS/PRO card with 64mb. > I'm currently using D3D and 1024x768x16. > > Now for the bug, > I cannot seem to get into Paintshop... or morfe correctly - every time I > enter the paintshop N2002 freeze and the damn menusound just keep looping. > (What schmock thought of that anyway?) > The only way to sop the looping and get the PC up and running again is to > hit the reset-button. > > Anyone got any tips on how to cure this? > > My specs: > > Win98SE > AMD 1,33ghz > 384mb Ram > GF2 GTS/PRO 64mb with the 28.32 drivers... > SB Live! Value > MSI KT7-Turbo Mobo (Via KT133A) > > -- > ed_ > > >

Hi Ed, as for the rasteriser, IMHO OpenGL is still better than D3D if you're prepared to stick to 16 bit colour depth. As for the Paintshop prob - I think at the US Pits there's a set of sound files that disables menu sounds. Maybe that would cure your prob. If you can't find it, I can mail you a set of sounds of my own that practically disables all menu sounds. I think I've read somewhere of a prob where N2002 didn't seem to configure the sound card properly during installation, but my memory of that is very dim - sorry. Achim "Ed Solheim" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:E7Gr8.766$[email hidden]...

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> Hi chaps, > > I just recveived N2002 and I seem to have run into a few nasty bugs.. > > First and formost: whilch 3d-rasterize is best to use? > I got a GF2 GTS/PRO card with 64mb. > I'm currently using D3D and 1024x768x16. > > Now for the bug, > I cannot seem to get into Paintshop... or morfe correctly - every time I > enter the paintshop N2002 freeze and the damn menusound just keep looping. > (What schmock thought of that anyway?) > The only way to sop the looping and get the PC up and running again is to > hit the reset-button. > > Anyone got any tips on how to cure this? > > My specs: > > Win98SE > AMD 1,33ghz > 384mb Ram > GF2 GTS/PRO 64mb with the 28.32 drivers... > SB Live! Value > MSI KT7-Turbo Mobo (Via KT133A) > > -- > ed_ > > >

The freeze you're experiencing is an issue with the D3D renderer with nVidia drivers of 23.11 or later (naughty drivers). Solution: use OGL, use <23.11 drivers, or wait for the patch. OGL is faster, but doesn't support texture compression so everything looks blurry which kinda sucks, but at least it isn't freezing. Texture compression support will be in the patch. Answer to you next question: I don't know when the patch is due, sorry. ;) Ed Solheim wrote:

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> > Hi chaps, > > I just recveived N2002 and I seem to have run into a few nasty bugs.. > > First and formost: whilch 3d-rasterize is best to use? > I got a GF2 GTS/PRO card with 64mb. > I'm currently using D3D and 1024x768x16. > > Now for the bug, > I cannot seem to get into Paintshop... or morfe correctly - every time I > enter the paintshop N2002 freeze and the damn menusound just keep looping. > (What schmock thought of that anyway?) > The only way to sop the looping and get the PC up and running again is to > hit the reset-button. > > Anyone got any tips on how to cure this? > > My specs: > > Win98SE > AMD 1,33ghz > 384mb Ram > GF2 GTS/PRO 64mb with the 28.32 drivers... > SB Live! Value > MSI KT7-Turbo Mobo (Via KT133A) > > -- > ed_

Grant Reeve wrote: > The freeze you're experiencing is an issue with the D3D renderer with > nVidia > drivers of 23.11 or later (naughty drivers). Solution: use OGL, use > <23.11 > drivers, or wait for the patch. Wow, no wonder I didn't have this particular problem. I just checked, I have 23.10 drivers. :-) No driver updates for me! -- Fester "There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws." --Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

Fwiw, I am running the 23.11's with a GeForce 3 Ti200 and via chipset mb, and don't have this problem. Don Burnette "Uncle Fester" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> Grant Reeve wrote: > > The freeze you're experiencing is an issue with the D3D renderer with > > nVidia > > drivers of 23.11 or later (naughty drivers). Solution: use OGL, use > > <23.11 > > drivers, or wait for the patch. > > > Wow, no wonder I didn't have this particular problem. I just checked, I > have 23.10 drivers. :-) No driver updates for me! > > > -- > > Fester > > "There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has > is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough > criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime > that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws." > > --Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged > >

It might be that his power supply ain't good enough. It may be dsending weird power signals to the agp slot. In article <nVZr8.36861$%[email hidden]>, [email hidden] says...

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> Fwiw, I am running the 23.11's with a GeForce 3 Ti200 and via chipset mb, > and don't have this problem. > > Don Burnette > > "Uncle Fester" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... > > Grant Reeve wrote: > > > The freeze you're experiencing is an issue with the D3D renderer with > > > nVidia > > > drivers of 23.11 or later (naughty drivers). Solution: use OGL, use > > > <23.11 > > > drivers, or wait for the patch. > > > > > > Wow, no wonder I didn't have this particular problem. I just checked, I > > have 23.10 drivers. :-) No driver updates for me! > > > > > > --

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Ed... This won't solve your PS problem, but don't expect much from that video card. Its a little on the weak side for running N2K2. A lot depends on the size of your monitor, and what resolution you've been running other sims at (sets the "standards" you are used to in racing sims). You'll need to have all your video card settings, system settings and correct drivers to eek out the max from that card....or N2K2 will just frustrate you. TP "Ed Solheim" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:E7Gr8.766$[email hidden]...

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> Hi chaps, > > I just recveived N2002 and I seem to have run into a few nasty bugs.. > > First and formost: whilch 3d-rasterize is best to use? > I got a GF2 GTS/PRO card with 64mb. > I'm currently using D3D and 1024x768x16. > > Now for the bug, > I cannot seem to get into Paintshop... or morfe correctly - every time I > enter the paintshop N2002 freeze and the damn menusound just keep looping. > (What schmock thought of that anyway?) > The only way to sop the looping and get the PC up and running again is to > hit the reset-button. > > Anyone got any tips on how to cure this? > > My specs: > > Win98SE > AMD 1,33ghz > 384mb Ram > GF2 GTS/PRO 64mb with the 28.32 drivers... > SB Live! Value > MSI KT7-Turbo Mobo (Via KT133A) > > -- > ed_ > > >

Seeing you live and die for a FPS Tom.... :-) what sort of frustration are we talking about here? Indeed my card isn't what it used to be - but I manage to get by.... for now..:-) I guess I could do with a better card, but for the time being I'll stick to what I got. I'm more than happy to turn the resolution down a few notches.... (19 inches has is't advantages (HEHEHE!)) and get a decent framerate rather than smack on 1900xwhatever, pump up to full graphics and 48 sounds - and then compain that the game is poorly optimised because the framerate is dead.... After switching back to OGL & 23.11 things seem to have improved and now PS actually works.. Now... if I could only get to the bottom of this strange "freezing" or pausing during loading of tracks on Sierra.com.... (the game freeze or pauses ("hangs") - until I open and close the CD-drive, which - just like magic - awakes the system again.... ??? -- ed_ "Tom Pabst" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:zV7s8.246784$q2.28135@sccrnsc01... > Ed... > > This won't solve your PS problem, but don't expect much from that video > card. Its a little on the weak side for running N2K2. A lot depends on the > size of your monitor, and what resolution you've been running other sims at > (sets the "standards" you are used to in racing sims). You'll need to have > all your video card settings, system settings and correct drivers to eek out > the max from that card....or N2K2 will just frustrate you. > > TP >