GPL Strange new problem. Help please

Hello. I've been playing GPL for a while and works great on my system. I recently did a few minor upgrades to my PC and now have problems with GPL (GPL only). I added new Sound Blasters speakers (should have no effect), another 64 meg of ram (total of only 256), and lastly I upgraded to DirectX 8.0a (No. I don't know why I did it...). Since doing these three things GPL is very strange. Frame rates go up and down randomly, sometimes freezes, and the sound goes in and out, sometimes sounds like interference or something. All other games are working fine. Even other racing sims seem to be ok. The version of GPL I have is with the latest Sierra update. I've tried to uninstall and re-install, even to a different drive with no luck. My system is a Compaq with an AMD K-6 380mhz, Voodoo 3000, Windows ME, Logitech Wingman FF and the ram shown above. If anybody can offer suggestions, I'd appreciate it. Thanks. Joe

I had problems left and right with an SB Live and WinME. 'Down' grade to Win98 and you will be a much happier camper. Jso wrote in message <3ade4ac5$0$18886$[email hidden]>... >Hello. > >I've been playing GPL for a while and works great on my system. I recently >did a few minor upgrades to my PC and now have problems with GPL (GPLonly).

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> >I added new Sound Blasters speakers (should have no effect), another 64 meg >of ram (total of only 256), and lastly I upgraded to DirectX 8.0a (No. I >don't know why I did it...). > >Since doing these three things GPL is very strange. Frame rates go up and >down randomly, sometimes freezes, and the sound goes in and out, sometimes >sounds like interference or something. > >All other games are working fine. Even other racing sims seem to be ok. > >The version of GPL I have is with the latest Sierra update. I've tried to >uninstall and re-install, even to a different drive with no luck. > >My system is a Compaq with an AMD K-6 380mhz, Voodoo 3000, Windows ME, >Logitech Wingman FF and the ram shown above. > >If anybody can offer suggestions, I'd appreciate it. Thanks. > >Joe > > >

Hey, I had a similarly strange problem that was driving me nuts, my frame rates in GPL (which was the program I'd use to test this) would jump from 36 down to 12 each couple of seconds.... It turned out to be one of the programs in the startup menu, that would automatically load at startup, and was rather hidden. Sorry I don't know the name of the Windows program that allows you to restrict which programs load at boot time, but it is pretty easy to research. Anyhow, this totally fixed my problem, which beforehand had completely stumped me. Rae

The program is called "msconfig". Jason. Rae wrote:

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> > Hey, > > I had a similarly strange problem that was driving me nuts, my frame > rates in GPL (which was the program I'd use to test this) would jump > from 36 down to 12 each couple of seconds.... > It turned out to be one of the programs in the startup menu, that > would automatically load at startup, and was rather hidden. > Sorry I don't know the name of the Windows program that allows you to > restrict which programs load at boot time, but it is pretty easy to > research. > > Anyhow, this totally fixed my problem, which beforehand had completely > stumped me. > > Rae

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