just before xmas I installed windows ME on my PC, I wasn't to know that this
would be so memory intensive and it made GPL totally unplayable on my PC
(Pentium 233, 64meg ram, voodoo 2 accelerator) Using Windows 98 beforehand
it was as smooth as silk. Even on VROC ,I was beginning to get the hang of
the sim.
As I didnt back up the windows 98 config, I had to reformat my HDD,
reinstall win 98 along with everything else. (I have a second HDD in which
GPL was installed so nothing was altered there).
After reinstalling everything back into the HDD , GPL worked fine until I
went on VROC, the problem being that the steering wheel (in the game) would
twitch intermittently and violently to the left side making accurate driving
impossible.
This problem never occurred when offline.
I decided to download drivers for the voodoo card and re install direct x 7.
The game worked ok exept that it wouldnt close properly and would lock the
machine up . blue screens , fatal errors and a kernel 32 fault whatever that
is meant I had to reset the PC.
I took the plunge and uninstalled GPL and its Sierra folders, reinstalled
it and found to my amazement that my times on a scarlet type hill track
(ahem!) were down by 4 seconds and very near Clark's record. Now this has
NEVER happened to me. I actually qualified pole in some of the the races
where I used to be positioned in the back few.
However, still the game won't shut down properly, and I attempted to get
on VROC last night to see if I was any faster on an online race but the sim
itself would not start..
Any suggestions to help me avercome my problems would be extremley welcome
Steve
"Semi" <[email hidden]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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Hi!
> As I didnt back up the windows 98 config, I had to reformat my HDD,
> reinstall win 98 along with everything else. (I have a second HDD in which
> GPL was installed so nothing was altered there).
> After reinstalling everything back into the HDD , GPL worked fine until I
> went on VROC, the problem being that the steering wheel (in the game)would
> twitch intermittently and violently to the left side making accuratedriving
> impossible.
> This problem never occurred when offline.
> [...]
> Any suggestions to help me avercome my problems would be extremley welcome
It seems that the reinstallation of W98 did something wrong with the
interrupts of your soundcard (or whereever your wheel is hooked on) and your
modem/nic or whatever you're going online with. They seem to have a conflict
with each other so that when you are trying to race online the "online
hardware" disturbs the "steering hardware". Solution is to look into the
device-manager and look if there's a conflict and get rid of it.
Regards
Crash
