Annoying NASCAR Heat problem!

Does anyone have an idea how to fix this... I've had the irl/cts patch installed for a bit now, and all was working fine till the other day when for some reason the game hung when i went to load a practise/race/beat the heat, whatever i tried it wouldnt work. So i tried it with no mods, and it worked fine. Now i have the same problem with them. I can do a test session ok, but it takes a while to load. I have a Celeron 374, 128mb ram, voodoo3 2000 ( i know your jealous :) ) Any help would be greatly appreciated! Luke -=87=-

It is probably because you are overclocking the chip, get some more cooling in the case. -Stuart Becktell "Luke Phillips" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:3b656161$0$20905$[email hidden]... > Does anyone have an idea how to fix this... > I've had the irl/cts patch installed for a bit now, and all was workingfine > till the other day when for some reason the game hung when i went to loada > practise/race/beat the heat, whatever i tried it wouldnt work. So i triedit

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> with no mods, and it worked fine. Now i have the same problem with them. I > can do a test session ok, but it takes a while to load. I have a Celeron > 374, 128mb ram, voodoo3 2000 ( i know your jealous :) ) Any help would be > greatly appreciated! > > Luke > -=87=- > >

You can't run Beat the Heat with the Mod's. You don't have the same car physics as the computer's cars. Gunner Luke Phillips <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:3b656161$0$20905$[email hidden]... > Does anyone have an idea how to fix this... > I've had the irl/cts patch installed for a bit now, and all was workingfine > till the other day when for some reason the game hung when i went to loada > practise/race/beat the heat, whatever i tried it wouldnt work. So i triedit

Its most likley no that seeing as its been run faultless for 2 years or so at 374, and can also run at 450.. Luke -=87=- Stuart Becktell <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:%ze97.156298$[email hidden]... > It is probably because you are overclocking the chip, get some morecooling

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> in the case. > -Stuart Becktell > "Luke Phillips" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:3b656161$0$20905$[email hidden]... > > Does anyone have an idea how to fix this... > > I've had the irl/cts patch installed for a bit now, and all was working > fine > > till the other day when for some reason the game hung when i went to

load > a > > practise/race/beat the heat, whatever i tried it wouldnt work. So itried > it > > with no mods, and it worked fine. Now i have the same problem with them.I > > can do a test session ok, but it takes a while to load. I have aCeleron > > 374, 128mb ram, voodoo3 2000 ( i know your jealous :) ) Any help wouldbe

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> > greatly appreciated! > > > > Luke > > -=87=- > > > > > >

But i cant even run beat the heat without mods, or even practice without the mods, only test. Cant practice with the cts mod either Luke -=87=- Gunner <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> You can't run Beat the Heat with the Mod's. You don't have the same car > physics as the computer's cars. > > Gunner > > Luke Phillips <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:3b656161$0$20905$[email hidden]... > > Does anyone have an idea how to fix this... > > I've had the irl/cts patch installed for a bit now, and all was working > fine > > till the other day when for some reason the game hung when i went to

load > a > > practise/race/beat the heat, whatever i tried it wouldnt work. So itried > it > > >

That is my point. When you overclock a processor, you start to degrade the parts in the chip. Since you have run the processor for two years at this increased speed, you have degraded the chip to the point where you are now getting errors. So it is the overclocking... -Stuart Becktell "Luke Phillips" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:3b65ebaf$0$20904$[email hidden]...

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> Its most likley no that seeing as its been run faultless for 2 years or so > at 374, and can also run at 450.. > > Luke > -=87=- > > Stuart Becktell <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:%ze97.156298$[email hidden]... > > It is probably because you are overclocking the chip, get some more > cooling > > in the case. > > -Stuart Becktell > > "Luke Phillips" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > news:3b656161$0$20905$[email hidden]... > > > Does anyone have an idea how to fix this... > > > I've had the irl/cts patch installed for a bit now, and all was

working

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> > fine > > > till the other day when for some reason the game hung when i went to > load > > a > > > practise/race/beat the heat, whatever i tried it wouldnt work. So i > tried > > it > > > with no mods, and it worked fine. Now i have the same problem with

them. > I > > > can do a test session ok, but it takes a while to load. I have a > Celeron > > > 374, 128mb ram, voodoo3 2000 ( i know your jealous :) ) Any helpwould

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> be > > > greatly appreciated! > > > > > > Luke > > > -=87=- > > > > > > > > > > > >

If you can only run with test mode, probably you have corrupted either the drivers.txt or one of the paint/paint256 resfiles, or even possibly be running out of system resources. Try uninstalling the program and all mods, then manually deleting any files in your install directory and/or c:\Program files\Hasbro Interactive\NASCAR Heat, and then reinstalling the game and then the latest patch (you don't need to apply the old patches first). If that still doesn't work and it still crashes, try posting the heat.log file (located in your temp folder, typically c:\windows\temp under win9x) generated by that run, and that may shed more light on the problem. Under non-NT-based Windows, it is possible (although unlikely) to corrupt any file that has been recently used when a program crashes... most of memory is protected, but the file cache is unprotected for performance reasons. It's also very easy to modify something without realizing it (from personal experience, at least). Good luck! -Dave "Luke Phillips" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:3b65ebd9$0$20909$[email hidden]... > But i cant even run beat the heat without mods, or even practice withoutthe

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> mods, only test. Cant practice with the cts mod either > > Luke > -=87=- > > Gunner <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... > > You can't run Beat the Heat with the Mod's. You don't have the same car > > physics as the computer's cars. > > > > Gunner > > > > Luke Phillips <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > news:3b656161$0$20905$[email hidden]... > > > Does anyone have an idea how to fix this... > > > I've had the irl/cts patch installed for a bit now, and all was

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> > fine > > > till the other day when for some reason the game hung when i went to > load > > a > > > practise/race/beat the heat, whatever i tried it wouldnt work. So i > tried > > it > > > > > > > >