NR2002 Stopped working

Since it's release, I've been successfully running NR2002 with the D3D renderer at 1600x1200x32. This morning, I decided that I'd try out OpenGL. Well, I reconfigured the sim and then tried to load a replay, and the sim responded with the "Can't load track" message. I then attempted to just start a single race, and the program crashed to the desktop. I tried a couple of other resolutions, and got the same results. I just tried going back to the original D3D, and now, even that does the same thing. Is there a way to fix this without reinstalling the damn game? -- ========================================================= Redneck Techno-Biker & "programming deity" http://www.paddedwall.org/john DeMONS/1 for Nascar Racing 3 & Nascar Legends http://www.paddedwall.org/demons DeMONS/2 for Nascar Racing 4 and 2002 Season (in development) http://www.paddedwall.org/demons2 Barbarian Diecast Collector (460+ cars and counting) http://www.paddedwall.org/diecast If you want to send me email, go to the first URL shown above & click "Send Me Mail" in the contents frame. =========================================================

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> Since it's release, I've been successfully running NR2002 with the D3D > renderer at 1600x1200x32. > > This morning, I decided that I'd try out OpenGL. Well, I reconfigured > the sim and then tried to load a replay, and the sim responded with the > "Can't load track" message. I then attempted to just start a single > race, and the program crashed to the desktop. I tried a couple of other > resolutions, and got the same results. > > I just tried going back to the original D3D, and now, even that does the > same thing. > > Is there a way to fix this without reinstalling the damn game? > > >

Nevermind guys. I figured it out. The problem was that the game apparently doesn't like a MaxBlockSize of 786432 - I backed it off to 524288, and it now works (but FPS are WAY down with OpenGL). -- ========================================================= Redneck Techno-Biker & "programming deity" http://www.paddedwall.org/john DeMONS/1 for Nascar Racing 3 & Nascar Legends http://www.paddedwall.org/demons DeMONS/2 for Nascar Racing 4 and 2002 Season (in development) http://www.paddedwall.org/demons2 Barbarian Diecast Collector (460+ cars and counting) http://www.paddedwall.org/diecast If you want to send me email, go to the first URL shown above & click "Send Me Mail" in the contents frame. =========================================================

On Fri, 08 Mar 2002 22:58:43 GMT, John Simmons <[email hidden]> wrote: >I just tried going back to the original D3D, and now, even that does the >same thing. > >Is there a way to fix this without reinstalling the damn game? Just guessing, but open the app.ini in the n2002 folder and check under the [Graphics] section this line: lastRendererDLL=rend_d3d.dll ; Last renderer DLL selected Maybe it's still set to OpenGL on your system? Otherwise simply backup your N2002 subfolders, reinstall the game and copy your subfolders back to your N2002 folder. That will take you about as much time as reading this post :) Andre

On Fri, 08 Mar 2002 23:24:25 GMT, John Simmons <[email hidden]> wrote: >Nevermind guys. I figured it out. The problem was that the game >apparently doesn't like a MaxBlockSize of 786432 - I backed it off to >524288, and it now works (but FPS are WAY down with OpenGL). Ok, forget my 'just reinstall it' post then :) I have a MUCH lower fps in OpenGL too. I have a GF2 GTS 32mb and a P3 866mhz, one of the answers I got when posting this was that maybe my system was too slow to run openGL with the texturesize set to 100. With the default text.size=-1 it runs with about the same fps as in D3D but then the gfx are crap. Oh well, D3D runs good enough for me. Andre