Re: N4 Lockups. Please help!

While at the track hit your "F" key which will display your frames per second (FPS) That number ideally should stay 30 or above for smooth performance. If not you need more horsepower from your CPU and video board. You can also decrease the graphic details to bring that number up. ThreeWide "Jon Thompson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:jHFC6.30810$[email hidden]... > I am having constant lockups almost every time I play. It only seems to > happen during replays or while editing the Driver Info (while the car > spins)... I'm thinking it might be a memory problem? I have plenty of RAM, > but could it be somewhere in my core memory settings? I have completely > wiped out and reinstalled N4, and it still happens. Here are my slowsystem

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> specs: > > Pentium II 333 > 160 MB RAM > Diamond Viper II Video Card > > I have nothing running in the background when I play. Any ideas? Thanks. > > >

I am having constant lockups almost every time I play. It only seems to happen during replays or while editing the Driver Info (while the car spins)... I'm thinking it might be a memory problem? I have plenty of RAM, but could it be somewhere in my core memory settings? I have completely wiped out and reinstalled N4, and it still happens. Here are my slow system specs: Pentium II 333 160 MB RAM Diamond Viper II Video Card I have nothing running in the background when I play. Any ideas? Thanks.

This happens even while i'm in testing, by myself, with about 50 frames a second. I also have most graphics turned down. ThreeWide <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:5jFC6.13573$%[email hidden]... > While at the track hit your "F" key which will display your frames per > second (FPS) > > That number ideally should stay 30 or above for smooth performance. Ifnot

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> you need more horsepower from your CPU and video board. > > You can also decrease the graphic details to bring that number up. > > ThreeWide > > > "Jon Thompson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:jHFC6.30810$[email hidden]... > > I am having constant lockups almost every time I play. It only seems to > > happen during replays or while editing the Driver Info (while the car > > spins)... I'm thinking it might be a memory problem? I have plenty of

RAM,

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> > but could it be somewhere in my core memory settings? I have completely > > wiped out and reinstalled N4, and it still happens. Here are my slow > system > > specs: > > > > Pentium II 333 > > 160 MB RAM > > Diamond Viper II Video Card > > > > I have nothing running in the background when I play. Any ideas? Thanks. > > > > > > > >

Jon Thompson <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:FeGC6.30822$[email hidden]... > > > spins)... I'm thinking it might be a memory problem? I have plenty of > RAM, > > > 160 MB RAM Just a friendly observation, but 160MB RAM isn't plenty any more, especially if you run Windows. My 2 servers for N4 each have 1,024MB (1 Gig) RAM and still have some issues. I think your main problem is your CPU. Pentium II just isn't enough horsepower for this game. I wouldn't run it on anything less than a PIII 700. Also, you need fast hard drives (ATA66-100) and you also really need a 64meg video card. All my computers have 32 meg video cards and trodge along, looking to upgrade my video card to 64 or 128 meg card in my personal racing machine, servers don't require any fancy cards. Hope all this helps, if enough to say ignore the minimum req's on the box. edb

Hi Jon, I would suspect the Viper II video card. Check the readme file about compatible video cards. You could try DirectX and OpenGL to see if either one of those work. Jason. Jon Thompson wrote:

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> > I am having constant lockups almost every time I play. It only seems to > happen during replays or while editing the Driver Info (while the car > spins)... I'm thinking it might be a memory problem? I have plenty of RAM, > but could it be somewhere in my core memory settings? I have completely > wiped out and reinstalled N4, and it still happens. Here are my slow system > specs: > > Pentium II 333 > 160 MB RAM > Diamond Viper II Video Card > > I have nothing running in the background when I play. Any ideas? Thanks.

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Seems to me that while those are pretty close to the minimum specs required to run N4 that it will probably not be adequate and is probably the problem. I know thats probably not what you want to hear but that would be my best uneducated guess. -- Michael Grandy NSCSE "Jon Thompson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:jHFC6.30810$[email hidden]... > I am having constant lockups almost every time I play. It only seems to > happen during replays or while editing the Driver Info (while the car > spins)... I'm thinking it might be a memory problem? I have plenty of RAM, > but could it be somewhere in my core memory settings? I have completely > wiped out and reinstalled N4, and it still happens. Here are my slow system > specs: > > Pentium II 333 > 160 MB RAM > Diamond Viper II Video Card > > I have nothing running in the background when I play. Any ideas? Thanks. > > >

I know my computer is horrible for this game, but I know it's powerful enough to run one single car testing with most graphics turned off. I never had a problem untill recently. Mike Grandy <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:xbIC6.54676$[email hidden]... > Seems to me that while those are pretty close to the minimum specsrequired > to run N4 that it will probably not be adequate and is probably theproblem.

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> I know thats probably not what you want to hear but that would be my best > uneducated guess. > > > > -- > > > > Michael Grandy > NSCSE > "Jon Thompson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:jHFC6.30810$[email hidden]... > > I am having constant lockups almost every time I play. It only seems to > > happen during replays or while editing the Driver Info (while the car > > spins)... I'm thinking it might be a memory problem? I have plenty of

RAM,

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> > but could it be somewhere in my core memory settings? I have completely > > wiped out and reinstalled N4, and it still happens. Here are my slow > system > > specs: > > > > Pentium II 333 > > 160 MB RAM > > Diamond Viper II Video Card > > > > I have nothing running in the background when I play. Any ideas? Thanks. > > > > > > > >

I was having similar problems this weekend when I moved to a new hard drive, freshly installing windows. I installed a memory cache handling program, cacheman is really good(http://www.outertech.com) and it seems to have solved the problem. Try it and let us know if it helps or not. Jon Thompson <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:vBIC6.54679$[email hidden]... > I know my computer is horrible for this game, but I know it's powerful > enough to run one single car testing with most graphics turned off. Inever

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> had a problem untill recently. > > > Mike Grandy <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:xbIC6.54676$[email hidden]... > > Seems to me that while those are pretty close to the minimum specs > required > > to run N4 that it will probably not be adequate and is probably the > problem. > > I know thats probably not what you want to hear but that would be my

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> > uneducated guess. > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > Michael Grandy > > NSCSE > > "Jon Thompson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > news:jHFC6.30810$[email hidden]... > > > I am having constant lockups almost every time I play. It only seems

to > > > happen during replays or while editing the Driver Info (while the car > > > spins)... I'm thinking it might be a memory problem? I have plenty of > RAM, > > > but could it be somewhere in my core memory settings? I havecompletely

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> > > wiped out and reinstalled N4, and it still happens. Here are my slow > > system > > > specs: > > > > > > Pentium II 333 > > > 160 MB RAM > > > Diamond Viper II Video Card > > > > > > I have nothing running in the background when I play. Any ideas?

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