N4 Crashing a lot

never while on the track but... someimes when I'm dealing with the paintshop... sometimes when loading a track sometimes when switching session from qualifying to race the good news is that it runs pretty well on my... P2 450mhz 128 MB RAM Nvidia TNT 16MB Sound Blaster Live! Ricoh DVD\CDRW I get around 20 FPS at rthe starts and in the 40's when by self. D3D 800x600x16 with a bunch of stuff on.

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>Subject: N4 Crashing a lot >From: "Kai Fuller" [email hidden] >Date: 02/25/2001 12:16 AM Eastern Standard Time >Message-id: <4z0m6.14319$[email hidden]> > >never while on the track but... > >someimes when I'm dealing with the paintshop... >sometimes when loading a track >sometimes when switching session from qualifying to race > >the good news is that it runs pretty well on my... > >P2 450mhz >128 MB RAM >Nvidia TNT 16MB >Sound Blaster Live! >Ricoh DVD\CDRW > >I get around 20 FPS at rthe starts and in the 40's when by self. D3D >800x600x16 with a bunch of stuff on. >

Are these "Black screen" crashes....?? I got that once in a while. Also noticed that often there is a fairly long period of "black screen" when switching sessions. Could be the "borderline" system. I thought I would be ok with mine PIII 600 192 MB ATI All-in wonder pro AGP 8MB Soundblaster Live Value Could run the game barely... Replaced the Video with ATI's RADEON All-in Wonder 32MB (would have preferred 64MB but the AIW version doesn't come this way) After playing around with the video config a bit the game seems to have stabalized.....still there are those long black screens that sometimes make me think that the game is crashing.. Before I made the expensive video card switch a Pappy tech told me (what I had already read on the box but didn't want to believe) that 12MB video RAM was a game minimum. I misatakenly thought that since I had an AGP card which could access whole bunches of system memory that the video ram requirement wouldn't apply.....the tech support guy informed me that this was not the case. Could be that 16MB is a problem for you since you are also running pretty close to the minimum on that P2 processor. (Don't gimme NOCRAP in E-mail)