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Demo ran fine........Now got full version installed fine ...went to start game and it hangs on the Sierra Sports screen! Pls help! Thxs! Kjet AMD K6-2 500 128mb 3dfx voodo No patches installed

Just a shot in the dark here -- Have you turned off all background programs (except Systray and Explorer)? If so, try re-installing after turning all background programs off. Good Luck. Kjetpilot wrote:

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> Demo ran fine........Now got full version installed fine ...went to start game > and it hangs on the Sierra Sports screen! Pls help! Thxs! > > Kjet > AMD K6-2 500 > 128mb > 3dfx voodo > No patches installed

-- Bert

First patch the game to v1.2. I 'beleive' the patch is located on the cd. if not, try www.papy.com. Then make sure you have up to date drivers. the 3dfx drivers released in November are very good. dave henrie "Kjetpilot" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > Demo ran fine........Now got full version installed fine ...went to startgame

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> and it hangs on the Sierra Sports screen! Pls help! Thxs! > > Kjet > AMD K6-2 500 > 128mb > 3dfx voodo > No patches installed >

"Kjetpilot" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > Demo ran fine........Now got full version installed fine ...went to startgame > and it hangs on the Sierra Sports screen! Pls help! Thxs! >Had the same problem... if I tell what it was... you won't believe me! It was the IRDA (ifrared adapter for cellular phone) when it was enabled GPL was trying to open it as a modem... and was hanging on the opening screen... hope that helps...(probably not!) aris

> Demo ran fine........Now got full version installed fine ...went to startgame > and it hangs on the Sierra Sports screen! Pls help! Thxs! There's a "Beginners Guide to GPL" which lists a whole series of patches you can make: http://www.slottweak.com/gplintro.htm However, it omits to mention the most important one of all: the 3dfx cards all have a bug in them when it comes to changing screen modes, in that they corrupt the texture memory or crash. George Smiley has written a patch that will fix this by preventing mode changes, which has the bad side-effect of making the menu screens too small, with pointer trails appearing at the bottom-right, but the good side-effect of making the game work. Sadly I can't remember where on the internet this is located, but I think the file is called "Glide2x" or something like that.

The patch is at GPLEA in the utilities www.gplea.org Also should do the V1.2 patch from www.papy.com 60's John "Kjetpilot" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > Demo ran fine........Now got full version installed fine ...went to startgame

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> and it hangs on the Sierra Sports screen! Pls help! Thxs! > > Kjet > AMD K6-2 500 > 128mb > 3dfx voodo > No patches installed >

never had to use the Smiley patch for either my V3 or V5 and gpl... dunno why tho. dave henrie "Neil Raine" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:IWTk6.55$[email hidden]... > > Demo ran fine........Now got full version installed fine ...went tostart > game > > and it hangs on the Sierra Sports screen! Pls help! Thxs! > > There's a "Beginners Guide to GPL" which lists a whole series of patchesyou > can make: > > http://www.slottweak.com/gplintro.htm > > However, it omits to mention the most important one of all: the 3dfx cards > all have a bug in them when it comes to changing screen modes, in thatthey > corrupt the texture memory or crash. > > George Smiley has written a patch that will fix this by preventing mode > changes, which has the bad side-effect of making the menu screens toosmall, > with pointer trails appearing at the bottom-right, but the goodside-effect

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> of making the game work. > > Sadly I can't remember where on the internet this is located, but I think > the file is called "Glide2x" or something like that. > > > >