Viper Racing Black Screens

Dear Y'all, My Specs:- AMD K6 750 128MB Ram Sparkle Geforce2 (64mb) AGP Creative Labs 5.1 Live! Player I have recently reinstalled Viper Racing and have been having severe problems with the game changing video modes. Every so often when it changes from 2d to 3d or vice versa I end up with a black screen. This is not confined just to the 3d portion of the game, it happens after races too. At first I thought it was the video card over-heating as I have had a problem with that recently, but now I am not so sure. I know the game wasn't designed to work with this particular card, but I assumed (possibly incorrectly) that because it was DirectX it would be OK. Anybody else have a similar problem with any cards? And more importantly, does anyone have a solution? Chris

On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 10:03:01 +0000 (UTC), "Chris" <[email hidden]> wrote:

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>Dear Y'all, > >My Specs:- > >AMD K6 750 >128MB Ram >Sparkle Geforce2 (64mb) AGP >Creative Labs 5.1 Live! Player > >I have recently reinstalled Viper Racing and have been having severe >problems with the game changing video modes. Every so often when it changes >from 2d to 3d or vice versa I end up with a black screen. This is not >confined just to the 3d portion of the game, it happens after races too. > >At first I thought it was the video card over-heating as I have had a >problem with that recently, but now I am not so sure. I know the game >wasn't designed to work with this particular card, but I assumed (possibly >incorrectly) that because it was DirectX it would be OK. > >Anybody else have a similar problem with any cards? And more importantly, >does anyone have a solution? > >Chris

Maybe try the latest patch? http://rdvr.btwracing.com/prog.php /petern

Thanks for the tip, I'll give it a whirl. Unfortunately I have never had any luck with viper patches as they don't seem to work on my european version of the game. Another problem is that I don't have Windows 2000 (my god! - he's still in the dark ages!) and this patch applies to that. I shall report back if anyone cares. Chris "Peter Nilsson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 10:03:01 +0000 (UTC), "Chris" > <[email hidden]> wrote: > > >Dear Y'all, > > > >My Specs:- > > > >AMD K6 750 > >128MB Ram > >Sparkle Geforce2 (64mb) AGP > >Creative Labs 5.1 Live! Player > > > >I have recently reinstalled Viper Racing and have been having severe > >problems with the game changing video modes. Every so often when it

changes > >from 2d to 3d or vice versa I end up with a black screen. This is not > >confined just to the 3d portion of the game, it happens after races too. > > > >At first I thought it was the video card over-heating as I have had a > >problem with that recently, but now I am not so sure. I know the game > >wasn't designed to work with this particular card, but I assumed(possibly > >incorrectly) that because it was DirectX it would be OK. > > > >Anybody else have a similar problem with any cards? And moreimportantly,

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> >does anyone have a solution? > > > >Chris > > > Maybe try the latest patch? > http://rdvr.btwracing.com/prog.php > > /petern

Didn't make a blind bit of difference I am afraid. (Spot the pun) What it did do however, was prevent the other cars from regenerating after a crash making it very easy to romp to victory. Chris "Chris" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:a4o3s0$834$[email hidden]... > Thanks for the tip, I'll give it a whirl. Unfortunately I have never had > any luck with viper patches as they don't seem to work on my european > version of the game. Another problem is that I don't have Windows 2000(my

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> god! - he's still in the dark ages!) and this patch applies to that. I > shall report back if anyone cares. > > Chris > > "Peter Nilsson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... > > On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 10:03:01 +0000 (UTC), "Chris" > > <[email hidden]> wrote: > > > > >Dear Y'all, > > > > > >My Specs:- > > > > > >AMD K6 750 > > >128MB Ram > > >Sparkle Geforce2 (64mb) AGP > > >Creative Labs 5.1 Live! Player > > > > > >I have recently reinstalled Viper Racing and have been having severe > > >problems with the game changing video modes. Every so often when it > changes > > >from 2d to 3d or vice versa I end up with a black screen. This is not > > >confined just to the 3d portion of the game, it happens after races

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> > > > > >At first I thought it was the video card over-heating as I have had a > > >problem with that recently, but now I am not so sure. I know the game > > >wasn't designed to work with this particular card, but I assumed > (possibly > > >incorrectly) that because it was DirectX it would be OK. > > > > > >Anybody else have a similar problem with any cards? And more > importantly, > > >does anyone have a solution? > > > > > >Chris > > > > > > Maybe try the latest patch? > > http://rdvr.btwracing.com/prog.php > > > > /petern > >