GPl crashes when pit board comes out

I have a friend with an almost identical system to mine. the two main differances are he has a Geforce 2 MX video card and a Sound Blaster live 5.1 sound card compared to my GF2 GTS and Philips AE sound card. When he runs GPL he will get a CTD when the pit board comes out. Sometimes he gets 3 or 4 laps in and has it come upa few times, but when it does crash it always seems to be when the pit board would be coming out. I don't have this problem and exept for those 2 parts are systems are exatcly the same hardware wise. Is this a problem with the GF2 MX cards? We are both running the same driver versions as well as DX 8.1. Any ideas? MadDAWG

Assuming that you both are running the the d3d patch, the pitboard and GF2 shouldn't be a problem. He may have another issue hiding underneath, like sblive compatibility or AGP setting in the bios. Go for updated drivers on both the sound card and vid card. Take the case off and blow a fan in to test if heatbuildup is the issue. and keep asking questions til somebody finds the problem. goodlluck dave henrie "MadDAWG" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > I have a friend with an almost identical system to mine. the two main > differances are he has a Geforce 2 MX video card and a Sound Blaster live > 5.1 sound card compared to my GF2 GTS and Philips AE sound card. When he > runs GPL he will get a CTD when the pit board comes out. Sometimes he gets3 > or 4 laps in and has it come upa few times, but when it does crash italways > seems to be when the pit board would be coming out. I don't have this > problem and exept for those 2 parts are systems are exatcly the same > hardware wise. Is this a problem with the GF2 MX cards? We are bothrunning > the same driver versions as well as DX 8.1. Any ideas? > > MadDAWG > >

His bios settings match mine and we are both running 21.88 drivers. The 22.xx up drivers have been nothing but problems so far. Its not a heat related problem because if he turns of the pit board it plays for as long as he wants. Of course he has no idea were he is at. He has the latest SB Live drivers as well :( Thanks MadDAWG

Try the 23.11 drivers, first off. And it's not a native MX issue, my MX200 and MX boxes work fine. Milhouse "MadDAWG" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > His bios settings match mine and we are both running 21.88 drivers. The > 22.xx up drivers have been nothing but problems so far. Its not a heat > related problem because if he turns of the pit board it plays for as longas > he wants. Of course he has no idea were he is at. He has the latest SBLive > drivers as well :( > > Thanks > MadDAWG > >

I had the same problems with my GF2 GTS when I updated the drivers. GPL was the only game that was affected. Can't remember which version it was (I was trying a few to improve F1 2001). All games etc work fine now with the 23.11 drivers. Stewart Milhouse <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:fZAT7.72410$[email hidden]...

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> Try the 23.11 drivers, first off. > > And it's not a native MX issue, my MX200 and MX boxes work fine. > > Milhouse > > "MadDAWG" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... > > His bios settings match mine and we are both running 21.88 drivers. The > > 22.xx up drivers have been nothing but problems so far. Its not a heat > > related problem because if he turns of the pit board it plays for as

long

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> as > > he wants. Of course he has no idea were he is at. He has the latest SB > Live > > drivers as well :( > > > > Thanks > > MadDAWG > > > > > >

Well its not a driver thing at all. We are both running the JF carset, and its somehow tied into the Ferrari and Lotus cars, all the others were fine. The GPLEA Ferrari works just fine, but the Lotus still caused the problem. So we found another Lotus and all is well now. thanks MadDAWG

Glad you at least figured out the cause...perhaps you could leave a post over at GPLEA's site or wherever the JF carset originated and see if they are aware of the problem. dave henrie "MadDAWG" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > Well its not a driver thing at all. We are both running the JF carset, and > its somehow tied into the Ferrari and Lotus cars, all the others werefine.

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> The GPLEA Ferrari works just fine, but the Lotus still caused the problem. > So we found another Lotus and all is well now. > > thanks > MadDAWG > >

Maddawg: what Lotus did you use to solve your problem? Cheers, Cyrille "Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> a �crit dans le message news: ln1U7.7293$NM4.2989440@rwcrnsc53...

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> Glad you at least figured out the cause...perhaps you could leave a post > over at GPLEA's site or wherever the JF carset originated and see if they > are aware of the problem. > dave henrie > "MadDAWG" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... > > Well its not a driver thing at all. We are both running the JF carset,

and > > its somehow tied into the Ferrari and Lotus cars, all the others were > fine. > > The GPLEA Ferrari works just fine, but the Lotus still caused theproblem.

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> > So we found another Lotus and all is well now. > > > > thanks > > MadDAWG > > > > > >

I'm not really sure what one he ended up with, I sent him a bunch of links and he came back and said one of them worked. He did make the coment that it was one file to download but you had to copy and paste from a bunch of sub folders because it was more of a collection of other peoples work and that way they got proper credit. He also said there was a yellow ferrari at the site as well. sorry. MadDAWG