GP3 locks up. Help!

I recently picked up GP3 after the price came down to a reasonable $20, for a little variety from F1CS2K. However, I can't even run a full lap on any course, practice or race, before the game locks up and forces me to re-boot. The demo runs fine, but for some reason the full version locks up. I'm running: P3-933 128 MB V5 5500 SB Live! Value 20 GB with plenty of swap file space Act Labs Force RS I've tried 4 different video driver revisions, from the last official 3dfx release through to the V6 drivers, and none of them have helped. I've tried under DX8 and DX8a, but no luck. I'm pretty sure it's a video card/driver/setting issue, because when I run it under software mode everything works fine. Hopefully someone here can help, as I've scanned all the message boards I can find, and none of them had any record of this problem. Thanks for any help! Tex

My system's pretty similar to yours -- Celeron 566@850; 384 RAM; V5 5500; SB Live Value; LWFF and it runs GP3 just fine. You didn't specify the video driver you're using, so here's mine: 4.12.01.0666, dated 11-2-2000, running at 1024x768 at 16 Bit Color I'm running Win98SE, and DX8. I hope this helps... Bert Tex wrote:

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> I recently picked up GP3 after the price came down to a reasonable $20, for > a little variety from F1CS2K. However, I can't even run a full lap on any > course, practice or race, before the game locks up and forces me to re-boot. > The demo runs fine, but for some reason the full version locks up. I'm > running: > > P3-933 > 128 MB > V5 5500 > SB Live! Value > 20 GB with plenty of swap file space > Act Labs Force RS > > I've tried 4 different video driver revisions, from the last official 3dfx > release through to the V6 drivers, and none of them have helped. I've tried > under DX8 and DX8a, but no luck. I'm pretty sure it's a video > card/driver/setting issue, because when I run it under software mode > everything works fine. > > Hopefully someone here can help, as I've scanned all the message boards I > can find, and none of them had any record of this problem. Thanks for any > help! > > Tex

-- Bert

That did it! I tried going back to those drivers, ran a few quick races, and experienced no lock-ups. Thanks for the help. Now I've got to go about downloading all the add-ons and learning the driving model... Tex BRH <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > My system's pretty similar to yours -- Celeron 566@850; 384 RAM; V5 5500;SB

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> Live Value; LWFF and it runs GP3 just fine. > > You didn't specify the video driver you're using, so here's mine: > > 4.12.01.0666, dated 11-2-2000, running at 1024x768 at 16 Bit Color > > I'm running Win98SE, and DX8. > > I hope this helps... > > Bert > > > > > > Tex wrote: > > > I recently picked up GP3 after the price came down to a reasonable $20,

for > > a little variety from F1CS2K. However, I can't even run a full lap onany > > course, practice or race, before the game locks up and forces me tore-boot.

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> > The demo runs fine, but for some reason the full version locks up. I'm > > running: > > > > P3-933 > > 128 MB > > V5 5500 > > SB Live! Value > > 20 GB with plenty of swap file space > > Act Labs Force RS > > > > I've tried 4 different video driver revisions, from the last official

3dfx > > release through to the V6 drivers, and none of them have helped. I'vetried > > under DX8 and DX8a, but no luck. I'm pretty sure it's a video > > card/driver/setting issue, because when I run it under software mode > > everything works fine. > > > > Hopefully someone here can help, as I've scanned all the message boardsI > > can find, and none of them had any record of this problem. Thanks forany

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> > help! > > > > Tex > > -- > Bert > > > >