I suppose the first thing I must ask in attempting to narrow down the cause
is:
Have you noticed it getting worse with each upgrade to your video drivers?
It is a common problem to have driver overlaps while upgrading video
drivers, and the jump from video modes may cause your anomolie.
Let me know..
Cheers,
Schumi
"Roger" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Thank you very much for your interest.
I guess there may be a correlation with Video driver updates. In
general I have had a lot of trouble with my voodoo 2 drivers so I very
rarely update. Let me expand:
My card is a Monster Voodoo2 and when ever I use their (Diamond)
specific drivers I have massive system crashes on start up. What I
have found is that if I use the 3DFX generic drivers they generally
work so that is what I have ended up using. I am somewhat worried
about updating again because of my problems in the past.
One other thing - it seems odd that the same thing happens whether I
am using the voodoo 2 card and drivers within GPL or if I use my
Matrox G400 and the new D3D patch/driver in GPL.
It sounds like I might have to go through the dangers of cleaning out
the registry setting and the like and reinstalling drivers - but this
scares me deeply becasue i have tried to follow the instructions for
cleaning out before with little success.
Cheers,
Roger
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000 20:32:49 -0800, "Jason \"Schumi\" Murray"
<[email hidden]> wrote:
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>I suppose the first thing I must ask in attempting to narrow down the cause >is: > >Have you noticed it getting worse with each upgrade to your video drivers? > >It is a common problem to have driver overlaps while upgrading video >drivers, and the jump from video modes may cause your anomolie. > >Let me know.. > >Cheers, > >Schumi > >"Roger" <[email hidden]> wrote in message >news:[email hidden]... >> Can anyone help? >> >> 9 times out of 10, when I close down GPL my machine crashes - either >> by freezing or in many cases actuallly invokes a machine shutdown as >> if I had pressed the reset button. >> I have two alternative video cards (Matrox 400 & voodooII) and the >> result is the same on either card. >> This happens both when trying to exit from an online race session and >> when playing alone. >> >> I am using GPL 1.2 ( which is I think when the crashes became more >> frequent) althjough I have lived with this for a year it seems to be >> getting worse - either way can anybody give me somethings to try to >> fix this.. >> >> TIA >> >> Roger >Goto: www.gplonline.com
goto the tech talk section.
There are many tweaks and tricks for hardware in there. Including some
hands-free patches that do the work for you.
Regards,
Schumi
"Roger" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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cause
> >is:
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> >Have you noticed it getting worse with each upgrade to your videodrivers?
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> Thank you very much for your interest. > > I guess there may be a correlation with Video driver updates. In > general I have had a lot of trouble with my voodoo 2 drivers so I very > rarely update. Let me expand: > My card is a Monster Voodoo2 and when ever I use their (Diamond) > specific drivers I have massive system crashes on start up. What I > have found is that if I use the 3DFX generic drivers they generally > work so that is what I have ended up using. I am somewhat worried > about updating again because of my problems in the past. > > One other thing - it seems odd that the same thing happens whether I > am using the voodoo 2 card and drivers within GPL or if I use my > Matrox G400 and the new D3D patch/driver in GPL. > > It sounds like I might have to go through the dangers of cleaning out > the registry setting and the like and reinstalling drivers - but this > scares me deeply becasue i have tried to follow the instructions for > cleaning out before with little success. > > Cheers, > > Roger > > On Fri, 10 Nov 2000 20:32:49 -0800, "Jason \"Schumi\" Murray" > <[email hidden]> wrote: > > >I suppose the first thing I must ask in attempting to narrow down theQuoted text (32 lines)
> > > >It is a common problem to have driver overlaps while upgrading video > >drivers, and the jump from video modes may cause your anomolie. > > > >Let me know.. > > > >Cheers, > > > >Schumi > > > >"Roger" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > >news:[email hidden]... > >> Can anyone help? > >> > >> 9 times out of 10, when I close down GPL my machine crashes - either > >> by freezing or in many cases actuallly invokes a machine shutdown as > >> if I had pressed the reset button. > >> I have two alternative video cards (Matrox 400 & voodooII) and the > >> result is the same on either card. > >> This happens both when trying to exit from an online race session and > >> when playing alone. > >> > >> I am using GPL 1.2 ( which is I think when the crashes became more > >> frequent) althjough I have lived with this for a year it seems to be > >> getting worse - either way can anybody give me somethings to try to > >> fix this.. > >> > >> TIA > >> > >> Roger > > >Can anyone help?
9 times out of 10, when I close down GPL my machine crashes - either
by freezing or in many cases actuallly invokes a machine shutdown as
if I had pressed the reset button.
I have two alternative video cards (Matrox 400 & voodooII) and the
result is the same on either card.
This happens both when trying to exit from an online race session and
when playing alone.
I am using GPL 1.2 ( which is I think when the crashes became more
frequent) althjough I have lived with this for a year it seems to be
getting worse - either way can anybody give me somethings to try to
fix this..
TIA
Roger
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