Nascar 2002 Lockups

Has anybody had a problem with the Nascar 2002 demo locking up when it gets to the race, or test session menus? The normal menus work fine for me, but when I try to go to a test session or race the menu screens are all garbaged up and the PC freezes solid. The only thing I can do is a hard reboot. I even tried the "learn the track" feature and Darrel gets a couple of words out and it freezes. My system: Dell Dimension 700 MHz PIII 512MB RAM GeForce DDR 64MB Thoughts? It's getting frustrating changing a setting then rebooting before I can try another change. TIA Rich

Does N4 work fine on your machine? -- Biz "Don't touch that please, your primitive intellect wouldn't understand alloys and compositions and,......things with molecular structures,....and the....." - Ash Richard Perkins <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > > Has anybody had a problem with the Nascar 2002 demo locking up when it gets > to the race, or test session menus? The normal menus work fine for me, but > when I try to go to a test session or race the menu screens are all > garbaged up and the PC freezes solid. The only thing I can do is a hard > reboot. I even tried the "learn the track" feature and Darrel gets a > couple of words out and it freezes. > > My system: > > Dell Dimension 700 MHz PIII > 512MB RAM > GeForce DDR 64MB > > > Thoughts? It's getting frustrating changing a setting then rebooting > before I can try another change. > > TIA > Rich

I haven't tried N4 on this PC since I had to format the C: drive and reinstall everything from scratch. N4 use to work fine before I rebuilt the machine. "Biz" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:msi58.6865$[email hidden]...

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> Does N4 work fine on your machine? > > -- > Biz > > "Don't touch that please, your primitive intellect wouldn't understand > alloys and compositions and,......things with molecular structures,....and > the....." - Ash > > > Richard Perkins <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... > > > > Has anybody had a problem with the Nascar 2002 demo locking up when it

gets > > to the race, or test session menus? The normal menus work fine for me,but

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> > when I try to go to a test session or race the menu screens are all > > garbaged up and the PC freezes solid. The only thing I can do is a hard > > reboot. I even tried the "learn the track" feature and Darrel gets a > > couple of words out and it freezes. > > > > My system: > > > > Dell Dimension 700 MHz PIII > > 512MB RAM > > GeForce DDR 64MB > > > > > > Thoughts? It's getting frustrating changing a setting then rebooting > > before I can try another change. > > > > TIA > > Rich > >

"Rich Perkins" <[email hidden]> wrote in news:1012326909.59141@go-sun01p:

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> I haven't tried N4 on this PC since I had to format the C: drive and > reinstall everything from scratch. N4 use to work fine before I > rebuilt the machine. > > > "Biz" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:msi58.6865$[email hidden]... >> Does N4 work fine on your machine? >> >> -- >> Biz >> >> "Don't touch that please, your primitive intellect wouldn't understand >> alloys and compositions and,......things with molecular >> structures,....and the....." - Ash >> >> >> Richard Perkins <[email hidden]> wrote in message >> news:[email hidden]... >> > >> > Has anybody had a problem with the Nascar 2002 demo locking up when >> > it gets to the race, or test session menus? The normal menus work >> > fine for me, but when I try to go to a test session or race the menu >> > screens are all garbaged up and the PC freezes solid. The only >> > thing I can do is a hard reboot. I even tried the "learn the track" >> > feature and Darrel gets a couple of words out and it freezes. >> > >> > My system: >> > >> > Dell Dimension 700 MHz PIII >> > 512MB RAM >> > GeForce DDR 64MB >> > >> > >> > Thoughts? It's getting frustrating changing a setting then >> > rebooting before I can try another change. >> > >> > TIA >> > Rich >> >> > > >

Just a folllow-up. I just installed N4 on my machine and tested it with both OpenGL and Direct3D and both work fine. Re-configured the graphics options on Nascar 2002 Demo and tried it again and it still freezes when I went to the Race option. This time the menus came up but it froze when I selected the drive option. Bummer! Rich

Something similar happened to me. But it was in random menus, once in garage and once in the graphics option screen. Seemed to happen I rolled over one of them noisy pointers with the mouse, suggesting a soundcard issue, imo. Abit KT7 T-Bird 800 256 MB PC133 RAM Xtasy GEForce 3 Ti 500 SBLive! Value Another post mentioned turning off the 3D Sound option, but mine was already unchecked. "Rich Perkins" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> "Rich Perkins" <[email hidden]> wrote in > news:1012326909.59141@go-sun01p: > > > I haven't tried N4 on this PC since I had to format the C: drive and > > reinstall everything from scratch. N4 use to work fine before I > > rebuilt the machine. > > > > > > "Biz" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > news:msi58.6865$[email hidden]... > >> Does N4 work fine on your machine? > >> > >> -- > >> Biz > >> > >> "Don't touch that please, your primitive intellect wouldn't understand > >> alloys and compositions and,......things with molecular > >> structures,....and the....." - Ash > >> > >> > >> Richard Perkins <[email hidden]> wrote in message > >> news:[email hidden]... > >> > > >> > Has anybody had a problem with the Nascar 2002 demo locking up when > >> > it gets to the race, or test session menus? The normal menus work > >> > fine for me, but when I try to go to a test session or race the menu > >> > screens are all garbaged up and the PC freezes solid. The only > >> > thing I can do is a hard reboot. I even tried the "learn the track" > >> > feature and Darrel gets a couple of words out and it freezes. > >> > > >> > My system: > >> > > >> > Dell Dimension 700 MHz PIII > >> > 512MB RAM > >> > GeForce DDR 64MB > >> > > >> > > >> > Thoughts? It's getting frustrating changing a setting then > >> > rebooting before I can try another change. > >> > > >> > TIA > >> > Rich > >> > >> > > > > > > > > Just a folllow-up. I just installed N4 on my machine and tested it with > both OpenGL and Direct3D and both work fine. Re-configured the graphics > options on Nascar 2002 Demo and tried it again and it still freezes when I > went to the Race option. This time the menus came up but it froze when I > selected the drive option. Bummer! > > Rich

I have a Vortex sound card and I do have the 3D sound turned on. I'll try turning it off tonight and see if it makes a difference. Thanks Rich "HHohn" <hhohn@catholic[nospam].org> wrote in message news:a3boud$l6$[email hidden]...

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> Something similar happened to me. But it was in random menus, once in > garage and once in the graphics option screen. Seemed to happen I rolled > over one of them noisy pointers with the mouse, suggesting a soundcard > issue, imo. > > Abit KT7 > T-Bird 800 > 256 MB PC133 RAM > Xtasy GEForce 3 Ti 500 > SBLive! Value > > Another post mentioned turning off the 3D Sound option, but mine was

already

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> unchecked. > > "Rich Perkins" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... > > "Rich Perkins" <[email hidden]> wrote in > > news:1012326909.59141@go-sun01p: > > > > > I haven't tried N4 on this PC since I had to format the C: drive and > > > reinstall everything from scratch. N4 use to work fine before I > > > rebuilt the machine. > > > > > > > > > "Biz" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > > news:msi58.6865$[email hidden]... > > >> Does N4 work fine on your machine? > > >> > > >> -- > > >> Biz > > >> > > >> "Don't touch that please, your primitive intellect wouldn't

understand

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> > >> alloys and compositions and,......things with molecular > > >> structures,....and the....." - Ash > > >> > > >> > > >> Richard Perkins <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > >> news:[email hidden]... > > >> > > > >> > Has anybody had a problem with the Nascar 2002 demo locking up when > > >> > it gets to the race, or test session menus? The normal menus work > > >> > fine for me, but when I try to go to a test session or race the

menu > > >> > screens are all garbaged up and the PC freezes solid. The only > > >> > thing I can do is a hard reboot. I even tried the "learn thetrack"

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> > >> > feature and Darrel gets a couple of words out and it freezes. > > >> > > > >> > My system: > > >> > > > >> > Dell Dimension 700 MHz PIII > > >> > 512MB RAM > > >> > GeForce DDR 64MB > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > Thoughts? It's getting frustrating changing a setting then > > >> > rebooting before I can try another change. > > >> > > > >> > TIA > > >> > Rich > > >> > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > Just a folllow-up. I just installed N4 on my machine and tested it with > > both OpenGL and Direct3D and both work fine. Re-configured the graphics > > options on Nascar 2002 Demo and tried it again and it still freezes when

I > > went to the Race option. This time the menus came up but it froze whenI > > selected the drive option. Bummer! > > > > Rich > >