Well, Microprose is about to lose one of their loyal customers to an
unmentioned major competitor unless I can resolve this problem.
I just moved to a new system:
AMD Duron 800, 128 Mg RAM, lots of HD space (not overclocked)
MSI K7T Pro MB
Creative Labs PCI 512 sound card
Voodoo 4 AGP (32mg) video card
Just the system to run gp3 right? Wrong! The game will load and let me run
for a random amount of time (in practice/quick race/race) - maybe I play for
10 seconds or maybe I play for 5 minutes. The net result is always a screen
freeze with the sound looping thru the last half-second of play. The only
way to escape is to reboot the system.
I have updated to the latest drivers for DirectX, sound card, video card,
and motherboard (ViaTech's AGP, Bus, and IRQ router drivers). I have also
updated to the official GP3 patch. And have tweaked the video, directx, and
sound card settings so much I cant's tweak no more.
The result is always the same. Any ideas ?
Thanks in advance.
Chris Gatto
On Wed, 07 Feb 2001 15:48:56 GMT, "Chris Gatto"
<[email hidden]> wrote:
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I also had problems very similar to yours using the MSI K7T Pro mobo.
However, I changed to the Asus A7V mobo and all my problems
disappeared. I know it sounds drastic but as my machine was new I got
the replacement for free. It also solved some problems with
"crackling" noises using Creative's soundcard drivers.
Note that the problem wasn't a GP3 problem...it was a DirectX problem
and I had the same problem in any game/programme that used DirectX.
The OS at the time was Win98SE.
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>Well, Microprose is about to lose one of their loyal customers to an >unmentioned major competitor unless I can resolve this problem. > >I just moved to a new system: >AMD Duron 800, 128 Mg RAM, lots of HD space (not overclocked) >MSI K7T Pro MB >Creative Labs PCI 512 sound card >Voodoo 4 AGP (32mg) video card > >Just the system to run gp3 right? Wrong! The game will load and let me run >for a random amount of time (in practice/quick race/race) - maybe I play for >10 seconds or maybe I play for 5 minutes. The net result is always a screen >freeze with the sound looping thru the last half-second of play. The only >way to escape is to reboot the system.Thats not the game its your system. (no i dont know what part)
I run GP3 on a P2 400 V32000 in 1024x768 just fine.
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> for a random amount of time (in practice/quick race/race) - maybe I playfor
> 10 seconds or maybe I play for 5 minutes. The net result is always ascreen
> freeze with the sound looping thru the last half-second of play. The only
> way to escape is to reboot the system.
>
> I have updated to the latest drivers for DirectX, sound card, video card,
> and motherboard (ViaTech's AGP, Bus, and IRQ router drivers). I have also
> updated to the official GP3 patch. And have tweaked the video, directx,and
