GPL "Could not initialize replay system." - HELP!

HELP! I just upgraded my two-year old system to the following: MSI K7T Pro2 motherboard AMD Duron 800MHz @ 1000MHz ELSA Gladiac GeForce2 GTS 32MB 768MB RAM SoundBlaster Live! 1024 Sidewinder FF ..and GPL refuses to run - always failing with "Could not initialize replay system." and "Canceling the Weekend." I have tried v1.0.0.0 and the v1.2.0.0 (or whatever the latest patch was) in software, d3d7 and opengl modes, and always getting the same error. However I can view the replays OK in the "View replay" menu, and they run just beautifully. I don't think it's GeForce2 related, since I tried GF2 on my old system and it ran GPL just fine. I wasn't able to find any reference to the problem, let alone a solution for it. Any suggestions for solving the problem would be extremely welcome! GPL, afterall, was my main reason for upgrading the system - V2-SLI just wasn't smooth enough. Oh yeah, to save some time: yes, I do know Windows9x/ME cannot handle 768MB memory without modifications to the system.ini, and yes, I have defined max/minfilecache and chunksize. So that's not the solution. Thanks in advance, -Jari Please remove SPAMLESS when replying via email. Thank you. -- {~._.~} o Jari Ketola - if.iki@alotek - ICQ 7557999 - +358-50-3080693 ( Y ) : The University of Oulu Department of Electrical Engineering ()~*~() : Game&Watch - DVD - B5 - PSX - TV - http://www.AfterDawn.com (_)-(_) . [ View my DVD Collection on-line at http://tazty.com/dvd ]

"Jari Ketola" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:900vr5$bjt$[email hidden]...

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> HELP! > > I just upgraded my two-year old system to the following: > > MSI K7T Pro2 motherboard > AMD Duron 800MHz @ 1000MHz > ELSA Gladiac GeForce2 GTS 32MB > 768MB RAM > SoundBlaster Live! 1024 > Sidewinder FF >

I have a nasty feeling I heard somewhere that GPL does not like 512Mb or greater of RAM. I'm not certain of this but you could try taking out a DIMM and running GPL with less RAM. Cheers Phil -- F1 GPL Handicap: +2.79 secs F2 GPL Handicap: +117.19 secs

Hi Jari, This is just a stab in the dark: Try fixing the replay size in your core.ini file as follows... [ Replay ] replayMemoryOverride = 16000 This will give you 16MB of replay space. If this fixes the problem, you can bump up the replay size as needed. Jason. Jari Ketola wrote:

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> > HELP! > > I just upgraded my two-year old system to the following: > > MSI K7T Pro2 motherboard > AMD Duron 800MHz @ 1000MHz > ELSA Gladiac GeForce2 GTS 32MB > 768MB RAM > SoundBlaster Live! 1024 > Sidewinder FF > > ..and GPL refuses to run - always failing with > "Could not initialize replay system." and "Canceling the Weekend." >

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> Oh yeah, to save some time: yes, I do know Windows9x/ME cannot > handle 768MB memory without modifications to the system.ini, and > yes, I have defined max/minfilecache and chunksize. So that's > not the solution. > > Thanks in advance, > > -Jari > > Please remove SPAMLESS when replying via email. Thank you.

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In article <MJTU5.18390$[email hidden]>, Phil Lee wrote:

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>> I just upgraded my two-year old system to the following: >> >> 768MB RAM > >I have a nasty feeling I heard somewhere that GPL does not like 512Mb or >greater of RAM. I'm not certain of this but you could try taking out a DIMM >and running GPL with less RAM.

Thanks, Phil. I think you're right. I plugged out a DIMM to get down to 512MB, and GPL ran flawlessly (in D3D, in OpenGL I only the view filled only a quarter of the screen with the rest of the screen flickering in cyan/black - what's that all about?). I hope there's a fix for the problem. I wouldn't fancy disassembling the box every time I feel like playing a little GPL - and that's rather often. -Jari -- {~._.~} o Jari Ketola - if.iki@alotek - ICQ 7557999 - +358-50-3080693 ( Y ) : The University of Oulu Department of Electrical Engineering ()~*~() : Game&Watch - DVD - B5 - PSX - TV - http://www.AfterDawn.com (_)-(_) . [ View my DVD Collection on-line at http://tazty.com/dvd ]

In article <[email hidden]>, Jason Monds wrote:

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>> ..and GPL refuses to run - always failing with >> "Could not initialize replay system." and "Canceling the Weekend." > >This is just a stab in the dark: Try fixing the replay size in your >core.ini file as follows... > >[ Replay ] >replayMemoryOverride = 16000 > >This will give you 16MB of replay space. If this fixes the problem, you >can bump up the replay size as needed.

Thanks, Jason - I'll give it a shot. Got to plug the DIMM back in first to stop GPL from running ;-) -Jari -- {~._.~} o Jari Ketola - if.iki@alotek - ICQ 7557999 - +358-50-3080693 ( Y ) : The University of Oulu Department of Electrical Engineering ()~*~() : Game&Watch - DVD - B5 - PSX - TV - http://www.AfterDawn.com (_)-(_) . [ View my DVD Collection on-line at http://tazty.com/dvd ]

In article <MJTU5.18390$[email hidden]>, Phil Lee wrote:

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>"Jari Ketola" <[email hidden]> wrote in message >news:900vr5$bjt$[email hidden]... >> HELP! >> >> I just upgraded my two-year old system to the following: >> >> MSI K7T Pro2 motherboard >> AMD Duron 800MHz @ 1000MHz >> ELSA Gladiac GeForce2 GTS 32MB >> 768MB RAM >> SoundBlaster Live! 1024 >> Sidewinder FF > >I have a nasty feeling I heard somewhere that GPL does not like 512Mb or >greater of RAM. I'm not certain of this but you could try taking out a DIMM >and running GPL with less RAM.

Indeed the problem was with the amount of memory Windows 98 is seeing, and reporting to GPL. I found two solutions for the problem 1) Remove a DIMM module every single time you want to play GPL, or 2) Limit the amount of memory to less than 512MB using the MSCONFIG.EXE (found in \Windows\System) The second solution is obviously the more elegant one, and since Windows 98 takes advantage of large amounts of memory very poorly indeed, it doesn't actually do much harm. -Jari Please remove SPAMLESS when replying. Thank you. -- {~._.~} o Jari Ketola - if.iki@alotek - ICQ 7557999 - +358-50-3080693 ( Y ) : The University of Oulu Department of Electrical Engineering ()~*~() : Game&Watch - DVD - B5 - PSX - TV - http://www.AfterDawn.com (_)-(_) . [ View my DVD Collection on-line at http://tazty.com/dvd ]