Strange GPL Lock Up with Voodoo5

After installing my new Voodoo5 card, and playing around with some graphics settings within GPL, I find that GPL locks up up my system, rock hard, when entering a race. One second after entering the race screen (in practice), my entire system freezes. The countdown clock stops, I have no mouse cursor and no green or red buttons. The only way to recover is for me to pull the power cord. The system's reset button is unresponsive. The strange thing is that I have no problem using Training mode. This problem surfaced only after I removed all glide dll's from within the GPL directory and subdirectories, as I thought that they were only needed for my old Voodoo2's. I would not have bothered with doing that, except that I was getting an annoying flicker at the top of the race screen in GPL, and thought that it might have been a conflict stemming from the old V2 drivers. My system is a Celeron 566@850, with 256 Megs RAM, MS Explorer Intelllimouse. Does anyone have any thoughts as to what the problem might be? Did I screw something up? Thanks. -- Bert

Go to www.simracingmag.com He did a long write up about that. The long and short of it is that it only happens in one situation and that's when using 2x FSAA I think. One fix for this is to use the D3D patch from papy and run it under D3D instead of 3dfx glide. I'm sure there are other solutions and I've heard that with the new V5 drivers this doesn't happen anymore, but I can't tell you for sure. BTW, the V5 is the best thing that ever happened to GPL for me, makes it look like a whole new game. Hope this helps, Rick Miller BRH <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> After installing my new Voodoo5 card, and playing around with some > graphics settings within GPL, I find that GPL locks up up my system, > rock hard, when entering a race. One second after entering the race > screen (in practice), my entire system freezes. The countdown clock > stops, I have no mouse cursor and no green or red buttons. The only way > to recover is for me to pull the power cord. The system's reset button > is unresponsive. The strange thing is that I have no problem using > Training mode. > > This problem surfaced only after I removed all glide dll's from within > the GPL directory and subdirectories, as I thought that they were only > needed for my old Voodoo2's. I would not have bothered with doing that, > except that I was getting an annoying flicker at the top of the race > screen in GPL, and thought that it might have been a conflict stemming > from the old V2 drivers. > > My system is a Celeron 566@850, with 256 Megs RAM, MS Explorer > Intelllimouse. > > Does anyone have any thoughts as to what the problem might be? Did I > screw something up? > > Thanks. > > -- > Bert > > > >

It is a problem with the original drivers. Get the newer drivers from Last November and you won't have any gpl problems with 2xfsaa. Unfortunatley,. I don't have a link to a site with archived 3dfx drivers...I did...but housecleaning my hard drive sorta kinda wiped 'em out. Somebody here should have a url. There are a few 3d gaming sites that have some of the newer drivers. dave henrie "BRH" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> After installing my new Voodoo5 card, and playing around with some > graphics settings within GPL, I find that GPL locks up up my system, > rock hard, when entering a race. One second after entering the race > screen (in practice), my entire system freezes. The countdown clock > stops, I have no mouse cursor and no green or red buttons. The only way > to recover is for me to pull the power cord. The system's reset button > is unresponsive. The strange thing is that I have no problem using > Training mode. > > This problem surfaced only after I removed all glide dll's from within > the GPL directory and subdirectories, as I thought that they were only > needed for my old Voodoo2's. I would not have bothered with doing that, > except that I was getting an annoying flicker at the top of the race > screen in GPL, and thought that it might have been a conflict stemming > from the old V2 drivers. > > My system is a Celeron 566@850, with 256 Megs RAM, MS Explorer > Intelllimouse. > > Does anyone have any thoughts as to what the problem might be? Did I > screw something up? > > Thanks. > > -- > Bert > > >

"Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:HjMq6.551422$[email hidden]...

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> It is a problem with the original drivers. Get the newer drivers from > Last November > and you won't have any gpl problems with 2xfsaa. Unfortunatley,. I don't > have a link > to a site with archived 3dfx drivers...I did...but housecleaning my hard > drive sorta kinda > wiped 'em out. Somebody here should have a url. There are a few 3d

gaming > sites that > have some of the newer drivers. > dave henrie Here's one place to get them: http://www.voodoosource.net/3dfx/drivers.shtml -- Ken's Sig 3.2 "Who is the more foolish? The fool, or the fool who follows him?" - Obi-Wan Kenobi volksy(at)yahoo(dot)com Go #43, #44, #45! R.I.P Adam, Kenny, Tony, and Dale...

Thanks to all for the advice. I've downloaded the newer drivers and will give them a go. Bert Ken Beard wrote:

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> "Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:HjMq6.551422$[email hidden]... > > It is a problem with the original drivers. Get the newer drivers from > > Last November > > and you won't have any gpl problems with 2xfsaa. Unfortunatley,. I don't > > have a link > > to a site with archived 3dfx drivers...I did...but housecleaning my hard > > drive sorta kinda > > wiped 'em out. Somebody here should have a url. There are a few 3d > gaming > > sites that > > have some of the newer drivers. > > dave henrie > > Here's one place to get them: > > http://www.voodoosource.net/3dfx/drivers.shtml > > -- > > Ken's Sig 3.2 > > "Who is the more foolish? The fool, or the fool who follows him?" > - Obi-Wan Kenobi > > volksy(at)yahoo(dot)com > > Go #43, #44, #45! > > R.I.P Adam, Kenny, Tony, and Dale...

-- Bert

I have a similar system with similar problems, but not all the time about 1 in 10 times this happens, and usually when trying to join an online race. I just live with it, as I would lose more time trying to fix it than the time I lose re-booting. Oh, and I find CTRL-ALT-DEL once followed by ESC then ENTER gets your mouse back sometimes, but it doesn't want to click anything... :-) Mikey "BRH" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> After installing my new Voodoo5 card, and playing around with some > graphics settings within GPL, I find that GPL locks up up my system, > rock hard, when entering a race. One second after entering the race > screen (in practice), my entire system freezes. The countdown clock > stops, I have no mouse cursor and no green or red buttons. The only way > to recover is for me to pull the power cord. The system's reset button > is unresponsive. The strange thing is that I have no problem using > Training mode. > > This problem surfaced only after I removed all glide dll's from within > the GPL directory and subdirectories, as I thought that they were only > needed for my old Voodoo2's. I would not have bothered with doing that, > except that I was getting an annoying flicker at the top of the race > screen in GPL, and thought that it might have been a conflict stemming > from the old V2 drivers. > > My system is a Celeron 566@850, with 256 Megs RAM, MS Explorer > Intelllimouse. > > Does anyone have any thoughts as to what the problem might be? Did I > screw something up? > > Thanks. > > -- > Bert > > >