Nascar Racing 4 w/ Athlon XP 1600+, Radeon 7500 FREEZES!!!

Specs: Asus k7t266-e mobo 512 MB DDR RAM Athlon XP 1600+ Radeon 7500 64MB DDR SB Live 5.1 X-Gamer Windows 98, Windows 2K 3dMark2001 score: 8423 Here is my problem. I can load the game without a problem. But usually, at the beginning of a race, sometime between the engines starting and the beginning of the first lap (it usually varies) my system locks up completely. I always get through qualifying OK. But when it freezes the video freezes completely, and the sound will either freeze, or repeat a second or two of the same sound over and over like a broken record. The only way I can end the program is to turn the computer off. I had this problem previously with a different Soc A motherboard (which I knew to be faulty) and video card, and I assumed that the reason was because of the faulty motherboard. But here I am with a faster video card and a brand new, good, working mobo and still the same problem I have this problem in both Win9x and 2k. I don't have any problems running any other games, and I am pretty certain that my video card is good. However, I have read in this group about people having some trouble getting Nascar 4 to run properly with an Athlon, so I was hoping someone could give me some advice on how to get this running. I have already disabled AGP Fast writes and UWSC(?) for AGP. Any suggestion on something else I can fiddle with to get this game to run? This game has run perfectly fine in my Intel Socket 370 board, but I haven't been able to get it to work correctly on any one of three Socket A boards yet. Thanks, Bob

I have a radeon....and it only works without freeze using d3d mode....every time I try opnegl...freezes before first lap...tried this video card in both my computers....p3 800 and celeron 500....both the same... In article <[email hidden]>, [email hidden] says...

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> >Specs: > >Asus k7t266-e mobo >512 MB DDR RAM >Athlon XP 1600+ >Radeon 7500 64MB DDR >SB Live 5.1 X-Gamer >Windows 98, Windows 2K >3dMark2001 score: 8423 > >Here is my problem. I can load the game without a problem. But >usually, at the beginning of a race, sometime between the engines >starting and the beginning of the first lap (it usually varies) my >system locks up completely. I always get through qualifying OK. But >when it freezes the video freezes completely, and the sound will >either freeze, or repeat a second or two of the same sound over and >over like a broken record. The only way I can end the program is to >turn the computer off. > >I had this problem previously with a different Soc A motherboard >(which I knew to be faulty) and video card, and I assumed that the >reason was because of the faulty motherboard. But here I am with a >faster video card and a brand new, good, working mobo and still the >same problem I have this problem in both Win9x and 2k. I don't have >any problems running any other games, and I am pretty certain that my >video card is good. However, I have read in this group about people >having some trouble getting Nascar 4 to run properly with an Athlon, >so I was hoping someone could give me some advice on how to get this >running. > >I have already disabled AGP Fast writes and UWSC(?) for AGP. Any >suggestion on something else I can fiddle with to get this game to >run? This game has run perfectly fine in my Intel Socket 370 board, >but I haven't been able to get it to work correctly on any one of >three Socket A boards yet. > >Thanks, > >Bob

I never got it to work with an A7A266 mobo with AMD processor. sorry...wasn't any help

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> Specs: > > Asus k7t266-e mobo > 512 MB DDR RAM > Athlon XP 1600+ > Radeon 7500 64MB DDR > SB Live 5.1 X-Gamer > Windows 98, Windows 2K > 3dMark2001 score: 8423

That is the VIA chipset board correct? if so you did get the 4in1 drivers right? Are you doing any overclocking? thats a pretty good 3dmark score. My 1.4 T-bird/a7m266/GF3 only pulls aroud 6300. What is the actual speed of the XP1600? MadDAWG

Yes. I installed the latest 4 in 1, the USB patch, and the latest drivers from ATI and Creative Labs. I also am using d3d rather than openGL. "MadDAWG" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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> Bob <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... > > Specs: > > > > Asus k7t266-e mobo > > 512 MB DDR RAM > > Athlon XP 1600+ > > Radeon 7500 64MB DDR > > SB Live 5.1 X-Gamer > > Windows 98, Windows 2K > > 3dMark2001 score: 8423 > > That is the VIA chipset board correct? if so you did get the 4in1 drivers > right? > > Are you doing any overclocking? thats a pretty good 3dmark score. My 1.4 > T-bird/a7m266/GF3 only pulls aroud 6300. What is the actual speed of the > XP1600? > > MadDAWG

> Are you doing any overclocking? thats a pretty good 3dmark score. My 1.4 > T-bird/a7m266/GF3 only pulls aroud 6300. What is the actual speed of the > XP1600? > > MadDAWG To answer your other question, no overclocking yet. I wanted to see if I could actually get N4 working before I tried overclocking. The 1600+ is supposed to be 1400 Mhz, but it is designed to perform or outperform a P4 1600 Mhz. I really wanted to get Nascar 4 working, but it doesn't look like I'll be able to. :( I doubt it's due to bad hardware.

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> > Are you doing any overclocking? thats a pretty good 3dmark score. My 1.4 > > T-bird/a7m266/GF3 only pulls aroud 6300. What is the actual speed of the > > XP1600? > > > > MadDAWG > > To answer your other question, no overclocking yet. I wanted to see > if I could actually get N4 working before I tried overclocking. The > 1600+ is supposed to be 1400 Mhz, but it is designed to perform or > outperform a P4 1600 Mhz. > > I really wanted to get Nascar 4 working, but it doesn't look like I'll > be able to. :( I doubt it's due to bad hardware.

I would almost guarentee bad hardware. Or bad settings. Too many users have gotten N4 working, your setup must have some left over file or incorrectly set bios option that is gumming up the works. Also you don't have to o/c your 1600+ to get performance greater than a P4 1.6. It already is there. We have one fellow in our DTM league who can't get F1 2001 and he has a Radeon 64. Starting to see a pattern here? It's not that you have bad hardware but the drivers or settings or AGP function is messed up. Unfortunately I don't have either so I can't begin to debug it for you. What vid card did you have BEFORE the Radeon? I am curious if all the previous drivers are clean out. Also, did you have N4 running properly before? N4 could still be looking for your previous hardware. Perhaps Eric or the hardware guru's can detail the registry settings N4 uses. Then completely cleaning those out will deleting and re-installing N4 may work. ditto for your previous vid card drivers...make sure all mention of them are cleaned out. Good luck. dave henrie

Have you tried OpenGL. I know the performance of openGl with ATI cards isn't all that good, but it might help narrow down the search. Have you reused any other hardware in the same systems? For example the SB Live card. Also have you checked to see if you have any hardware conflicts? Your video or sound card may be trying to use the same IRQ as another piece of hardware. I know when I had a SB Live I always had a problem with my modem and it trying to use the same IRQ. Since it always happens at the same point I really due think its a hardware problem. I know of plenty of Athlon systems running N4 just fine. MadDAWG

I have seen this same problem on both my computer and my friends. Try this it worked beautifully for both of us. Your video card is of course in your AGP slot. the very next PCI is called slot 1 and then the next slot 2, etc. Cards put in slot 1 i believe always share the same IRQ with the video card. Now everyone says that windows can manage two cards using the same IRQ but we both moved any card from slot 1 to another slot and everything worked. Now we are both using Windows XP. Not sure if this matters. Look at what IRQs are assigned to each card. Try to get them all on their own IRQ. I would uninstall the cards you are going to move first, shut down computer and then move. on boot up your computer should recognize them. One other idea, remove any cards you are not using. for example, people who are using cable modems or DSL usually keep their phone modem installed. If you are not using it remove it after you uninstall it. The video card has real problems when sharing an IRQ with the sound card. But mine was sharing it with the network card and after five to ten minutes my games froze. Not any more and not for my friends either. Good Luck!!! [email hidden] (Bob) wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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> Specs: > > Asus k7t266-e mobo > 512 MB DDR RAM > Athlon XP 1600+ > Radeon 7500 64MB DDR > SB Live 5.1 X-Gamer > Windows 98, Windows 2K > 3dMark2001 score: 8423 > > Here is my problem. I can load the game without a problem. But > usually, at the beginning of a race, sometime between the engines > starting and the beginning of the first lap (it usually varies) my > system locks up completely. I always get through qualifying OK. But > when it freezes the video freezes completely, and the sound will > either freeze, or repeat a second or two of the same sound over and > over like a broken record. The only way I can end the program is to > turn the computer off. > > I had this problem previously with a different Soc A motherboard > (which I knew to be faulty) and video card, and I assumed that the > reason was because of the faulty motherboard. But here I am with a > faster video card and a brand new, good, working mobo and still the > same problem I have this problem in both Win9x and 2k. I don't have > any problems running any other games, and I am pretty certain that my > video card is good. However, I have read in this group about people > having some trouble getting Nascar 4 to run properly with an Athlon, > so I was hoping someone could give me some advice on how to get this > running. > > I have already disabled AGP Fast writes and UWSC(?) for AGP. Any > suggestion on something else I can fiddle with to get this game to > run? This game has run perfectly fine in my Intel Socket 370 board, > but I haven't been able to get it to work correctly on any one of > three Socket A boards yet. > > Thanks, > > Bob