Can't run N4 now - KERNEL32.DLL error?!?

I had been running N4 for a few weeks. I went back to it tonight (after 10 days or so off) and I get the following error message when I start it: "NASCAR Racing 4 NASCAR Racing 4 has caused an error in KERNEL32.DLL The program will close now. If the problem continues, try restarting your computer." Restarting doesn't help. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling N4 but I'm getting the same error. About the only change since I last ran N4 successfully was I had an old Windows95 install and an N4demo install on drive D: which I purged. I'm currently running WinME and have N4 installed on drive C:. Any ideas? Thanks in advance. "But in a way, fear is a big part of racing, because if there was nothing to be frightened of, and no limit, any fool could get into a motor car and racing would not exist as a sport." -- Jim Clark

It's been awhile, but I think you can get rid of that problem by going to display properties/settings/advanced/performance and changing the hardware acceleration setting. David G Fisher "Jeff Vincent" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> I had been running N4 for a few weeks. I went back to it tonight > (after 10 days or so off) and I get the following error message when I > start it: > > "NASCAR Racing 4 > NASCAR Racing 4 has caused an error in KERNEL32.DLL > The program will close now. > If the problem continues, try restarting your computer." > > Restarting doesn't help. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling N4 > but I'm getting the same error. > > About the only change since I last ran N4 successfully was I had an > old Windows95 install and an N4demo install on drive D: which I > purged. I'm currently running WinME and have N4 installed on drive > C:. > > Any ideas? Thanks in advance. > > "But in a way, fear is a big part of racing, because if there was > nothing to be frightened of, and no limit, any fool could get into > a motor car and racing would not exist as a sport." -- Jim Clark

Have you changed drivers for your video card lately? I was messing with drivers for my Gforce2MX card and then my N4 started having errors. I looked in my registry and found that I had 4 listings for display adapters! I deleted them all and reistalled the video drivers (making sure I only had one entry for display in the registry) and everything worked fine again! If you've messed with anything in those 10 days, check there first. Vintook "Jeff Vincent" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> I had been running N4 for a few weeks. I went back to it tonight > (after 10 days or so off) and I get the following error message when I > start it: > > "NASCAR Racing 4 > NASCAR Racing 4 has caused an error in KERNEL32.DLL > The program will close now. > If the problem continues, try restarting your computer." > > Restarting doesn't help. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling N4 > but I'm getting the same error. > > About the only change since I last ran N4 successfully was I had an > old Windows95 install and an N4demo install on drive D: which I > purged. I'm currently running WinME and have N4 installed on drive > C:. > > Any ideas? Thanks in advance. > > "But in a way, fear is a big part of racing, because if there was > nothing to be frightened of, and no limit, any fool could get into > a motor car and racing would not exist as a sport." -- Jim Clark

On Tue, 20 Mar 2001 03:23:56 GMT, "David G Fisher" <[email hidden]> wrote: >It's been awhile, but I think you can get rid of that problem by going to >display properties/settings/advanced/performance and changing the hardware >acceleration setting. Tried that with no positive results. Thanks for the tip, though, David. "But in a way, fear is a big part of racing, because if there was nothing to be frightened of, and no limit, any fool could get into a motor car and racing would not exist as a sport." -- Jim Clark

On Tue, 20 Mar 2001 12:04:32 GMT, "Vintook" <[email hidden]> wrote: >Have you changed drivers for your video card lately? I was messing with >drivers for my Gforce2MX card and then my N4 started having errors. I looked >in my registry and found that I had 4 listings for display adapters! I >deleted them all and reistalled the video drivers (making sure I only had >one entry for display in the registry) and everything worked fine again! If >you've messed with anything in those 10 days, check there first. My video install is fairly fresh, the last change was updated drivers around 2/28. I have N4 replays from after that, so it worked after that. I will poke around a bit more in the registry later, though. I've tried changing hardware acceleration levels and tried reconfiguring N4 graphics (both OpenGL and D3D), but still the same result. Since we're focusing on video, I'm using a V5 AGP with driver file 3dfx32vs.dll, version 4.13.01.0028, dated 10/13/2000. Anyone else with any more ideas? Is N4 jealous 'cause I've gone back to GPL? :) "But in a way, fear is a big part of racing, because if there was nothing to be frightened of, and no limit, any fool could get into a motor car and racing would not exist as a sport." -- Jim Clark