Help with GPL.

I had to reinstall GPL from scratch and when I'm done I can't use D3D cause when I lauch the game it just drops to desktop even without showing anything. If I use OGL I can drive and stuff but when I exit the driving and return to the menus I have half the screen outside the viewable area. The screen is shifted down so to speak. Help, what do I do now? /Blackhawk

"Blackhawk" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:enQS6.982$[email hidden]... > I had to reinstall GPL from scratch and when I'm done I can't useD3D cause > when I lauch the game it just drops to desktop even without showing > anything. If I use OGL I can drive and stuff but when I exit thedriving and > return to the menus I have half the screen outside the viewablearea. The > screen is shifted down so to speak. Help, what do I do now? > > /Blackhawk >Suggest next thing to do is to post the problem to ras, specifying what video card you have! -- Laurence Wilmer [email hidden] --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.256 / Virus Database: 129 - Release Date: 31/05/01

Ok, I got a Elsa Erazor X2 Geforce DDR. Laters Elsa drivers. /Blackhawk "Laurence Wilmer" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:75RS6.798$[email hidden]...

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> > "Blackhawk" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:enQS6.982$[email hidden]... > > I had to reinstall GPL from scratch and when I'm done I can't use > D3D cause > > when I lauch the game it just drops to desktop even without showing > > anything. If I use OGL I can drive and stuff but when I exit the > driving and > > return to the menus I have half the screen outside the viewable > area. The > > screen is shifted down so to speak. Help, what do I do now? > > > > /Blackhawk > > > Suggest next thing to do is to post the problem to ras, specifying > what video card you have! > -- > Laurence Wilmer > [email hidden] > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.256 / Virus Database: 129 - Release Date: 31/05/01 > >

Have you adjusted your core.ini for DirectX? (Bearing in mind that on a fresh install it will be named "core.ini.sample" and do nothing at all). -- [email hidden] "Blackhawk" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:kmRS6.1078$[email hidden]... > Ok, I got a Elsa Erazor X2 Geforce DDR. Laters Elsa drivers. > > /Blackhawk > > "Laurence Wilmer" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:75RS6.798$[email hidden]... > > > > "Blackhawk" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > news:enQS6.982$[email hidden]... > > > I had to reinstall GPL from scratch and when I'm done I can't use > > D3D cause > > > when I lauch the game it just drops to desktop even without showing > > > anything. If I use OGL I can drive and stuff but when I exit the > > driving and > > > return to the menus I have half the screen outside the viewable > > area. The > > > screen is shifted down so to speak. Help, what do I do now? > > > > > > /Blackhawk > > > > > Suggest next thing to do is to post the problem to ras, specifying > > what video card you have! > > -- > > Laurence Wilmer > > [email hidden] > > > > > > --- > > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > > Version: 6.0.256 / Virus Database: 129 - Release Date: 31/05/01 > > > > > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.256 / Virus Database: 129 - Release Date: 31/05/01

Aye, I have. Done everything by the book but it still doens't work. Changed to different drivers as well. /Blackhawk "Laurence Wilmer" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:kRSS6.1283$[email hidden]...

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> Have you adjusted your core.ini for DirectX? > (Bearing in mind that on a fresh install it will be named > "core.ini.sample" and do nothing at all). > -- > [email hidden] > > "Blackhawk" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:kmRS6.1078$[email hidden]... > > Ok, I got a Elsa Erazor X2 Geforce DDR. Laters Elsa drivers. > > > > /Blackhawk > > > > "Laurence Wilmer" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > news:75RS6.798$[email hidden]... > > > > > > "Blackhawk" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > > news:enQS6.982$[email hidden]... > > > > I had to reinstall GPL from scratch and when I'm done I can't > use > > > D3D cause > > > > when I lauch the game it just drops to desktop even without > showing > > > > anything. If I use OGL I can drive and stuff but when I exit the > > > driving and > > > > return to the menus I have half the screen outside the viewable > > > area. The > > > > screen is shifted down so to speak. Help, what do I do now? > > > > > > > > /Blackhawk > > > > > > > Suggest next thing to do is to post the problem to ras, specifying > > > what video card you have! > > > -- > > > Laurence Wilmer > > > [email hidden] > > > > > > > > > --- > > > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > > > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > > > Version: 6.0.256 / Virus Database: 129 - Release Date: 31/05/01 > > > > > > > > > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.256 / Virus Database: 129 - Release Date: 31/05/01 > >

"Blackhawk" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:e9_S6.1923$[email hidden]... > Aye, I have. Done everything by the book but it still doens't work.Changed

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> to different drivers as well. > > /Blackhawk > > "Laurence Wilmer" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:kRSS6.1283$[email hidden]... > > Have you adjusted your core.ini for DirectX? > > (Bearing in mind that on a fresh install it will be named > > "core.ini.sample" and do nothing at all). > > -- > > [email hidden] > > > > "Blackhawk" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > news:kmRS6.1078$[email hidden]... > > > Ok, I got a Elsa Erazor X2 Geforce DDR. Laters Elsa drivers. > > > > > > /Blackhawk > > > > > > "Laurence Wilmer" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > > news:75RS6.798$[email hidden]... > > > > > > > > "Blackhawk" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > > > news:enQS6.982$[email hidden]... > > > > > I had to reinstall GPL from scratch and when I'm done I

can't > > use > > > > D3D cause > > > > > when I lauch the game it just drops to desktop even without > > showing > > > > > anything. If I use OGL I can drive and stuff but when I exitthe > > > > driving and > > > > > return to the menus I have half the screen outside theviewable > > > > area. The > > > > > screen is shifted down so to speak. Help, what do I do now? > > > > > > > > > > /Blackhawk > > > > > > > > > Suggest next thing to do is to post the problem to ras,specifying > > > > what video card you have! > > > > -- > > > > Laurence Wilmer > > > > [email hidden] There have been quite a few posts in the past re different problems with various cards and recommendations eg: =============================================================== > How dows GPL work with geforce. i am thinking of buying a geforceand i > wanna know how well it works with GPL. i am also going to buy aAthlon 700 > Mhz soon. then my PC will rock!!! you'll need the open-GL-patch from papy and make a little change in the registry: search for a key named "OpenGL" (e.g. under [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Class\Display\00 01\NVidia\OpenGL] or [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Class\Display\00 01\YourVendorHere\OpenGL]) and set the Value for "FlippingControl" to "0". I have a Athlon 600, Elsa Erazor X2 (DDR-Ram) and with trilinear filtering, mirrors every 2nd frame I get a constant (and I mean CONSTANT) 36fps in AI-races and online-races unless there is a very big crash with lots of stuff happening which lets the frames drop to about 25. If GPL is the only game you play: go for a Voodoo3. If it's not: buy a GeForce DDR. This card is more than enough for GPL and it's WAY faster with all other games (example: 78fps in Q2-crusher @ 1024x768, no tweaks, no OC). Lio ================================================================= Not sure if anyone has discussed this yet, but there are GeForce drivers out there that allow for FSAA (Full Screen Anti-Aliasing) in OpenGL and D3D (although not very well yet). I'm running Windows2000 on a Dell P3-866 with the 64MB GeForce DDR and gave FSAA a shot last night. First I made sure that at 640x480 I could get the max refresh rate which is 120Hz. In Win2K it's kind of funny in that if a lower refresh rate is available, GPL always uses it - so I have to hack the registry to get rid of them first. My hope was that at 640x480 + FSAA GPL would look better than it would at say, 1600x1200. My inclination was correct! at 640x480x32 with FSAA GPL was BEAUTIFUL and FLUID. 36+ fps and NO JAGGIES. Now the bad news - The menus are all hosed up. They write all over each other and generally make it impossible to navigate after a while. Secondly the mirrors in cockpit view are only 1/2 there. Just wondering if anyone has come up with a hack or knows of the settings that will fix these issues so that FSAA would be useable in GPL. I planned on putting a screenshot up in alt.binaries.simulators but for some reason pbf2tga doesn't work for screenshots with this video card. Must be the color depth or something... Looking forward to any idea's or comments. --David Cook =================================================================== On Fri, 23 Jun 2000 20:50:33 +0100, "MJS" <[email hidden]> thus spoke: >I've downloaded the new patch but it won't work on my system. I havea >geforce ddr and directx 7.0. It allows me to select d3d from thegraphics >options but when i restart the game i don't have any menus justpictures. >All the writing has gone. If i try to enter a race by clicking thearrows >(no writing anywhere) i just get 2 big tyres on screen and themachine >freezes. Anyone else having problems ? Maybe because you have "force FSAA" turned on? I just tested it out and got excellent results. Never below 36fps, sharper graphics than using the OpenGL patch too.Thx Papy. Looks as good as Glide mose now. Only problem was that with FSAA on the frame rate was unplayable, but I can hardly tell the dif with it on or off, and that's the truth. I got about 24-26fps with FSAA on, but it felt more like 8-10. Only problem I encounterd was that I got the following error when exiting the game the first time. DDHELP caused an invalid page fault in module 3DBGFD32.DLL at 015f:b00d8b03. Registers: EAX=8e1c5c38 CS=015f EIP=b00d8b03 EFLGS=00010206 EBX=8e1c5da8 SS=0167 ESP=00b3f910 EBP=00000000 ECX=00000000 DS=0167 ESI=82def01c FS=5097 EDX=d1d2b000 ES=0167 EDI=00000000 GS=0000 Bytes at CS:EIP: 8b 79 fc 8b 77 18 8b d6 81 e2 01 f0 ff ff 81 fa Stack dump: 00000000 82def01c 00b3f9e8 82def01c b00b38f0 82def01c 00000000 00b3fa24 82def01c d1d2b000 baab8af9 00b3f9e8 00000000 82def634 82def01c 802ded20 I ran the game 3 more times and got no error at all. DDHelp is a Directx Helper app. Rebooted before running GPL again and never got the error again. Running on Annihilator2 with Creative Labs 5.22 drivers. Excellent, just wish a few more developers would show the same support and make their games work properly on non-Glide video cards. You listening EA/Jane's? :-) BTW, here are the settings I used in the core.ini file.Just folllow the readme instructions. [ Int Profile Values ] value3 = Direct3D7:D3DDevice:0 value4 = Direct3D7:TossHighestMip:0 value5 = Direct3D7:TrilinearFiltering:0 value6 = Direct3D7:DoubleMirrorResWidth:0 value7 = Direct3D7:DoubleMirrorResHeight:0 value8 = Direct3D7:DirectMirrorRendering:0 value9 = Direct3D7:DisableZBuffer:0 [ Direct3D7 ] D3DDevice = 0 TossHighestMip = 0 TrilinearFiltering = 1 DoubleMirrorResWidth = 1 DoubleMirrorResHeight = 1 DirectMirrorRendering = 1 DisableZBuffer = 0 -- Nos ================================================================= Hope that helps - if not, repost with card name in subject - hopefully someone with the same card as you will notice (mine's a Matrox). -- Laurence Wilmer [email hidden] --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.256 / Virus Database: 129 - Release Date: 31/05/01

I finally got the Detonator 4 v12.41 drivers and now all of a sudden the D3D works great. Dunno why it didn't work with the other because I used the 6.5 from Nvidias homepage. Now I can finaly get some laps on that great Le Mans circuit and maybe improve on my lousy 3:42:68. /Blackhawk "Laurence Wilmer" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:kRSS6.1283$[email hidden]...

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> Have you adjusted your core.ini for DirectX? > (Bearing in mind that on a fresh install it will be named > "core.ini.sample" and do nothing at all). > -- > [email hidden] > > "Blackhawk" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:kmRS6.1078$[email hidden]... > > Ok, I got a Elsa Erazor X2 Geforce DDR. Laters Elsa drivers. > > > > /Blackhawk > > > > "Laurence Wilmer" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > news:75RS6.798$[email hidden]... > > > > > > "Blackhawk" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > > news:enQS6.982$[email hidden]... > > > > I had to reinstall GPL from scratch and when I'm done I can't > use > > > D3D cause > > > > when I lauch the game it just drops to desktop even without > showing > > > > anything. If I use OGL I can drive and stuff but when I exit the > > > driving and > > > > return to the menus I have half the screen outside the viewable > > > area. The > > > > screen is shifted down so to speak. Help, what do I do now? > > > > > > > > /Blackhawk > > > > > > > Suggest next thing to do is to post the problem to ras, specifying > > > what video card you have! > > > -- > > > Laurence Wilmer > > > [email hidden] > > > > > > > > > --- > > > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > > > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > > > Version: 6.0.256 / Virus Database: 129 - Release Date: 31/05/01 > > > > > > > > > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.256 / Virus Database: 129 - Release Date: 31/05/01 > >

Laurence Wilmer" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:LO1T6.4690$[email hidden]... > ---- snip loooaaads of info ---- Thanx for your effort and time. I finally got it to work early this morning. Seems it didn't agree with the ref. drivers. /Blackhawk