GP3 Lockups

Well I purchased GP3 and have been having problems with the game freezing. I run: Gateway PII 450 w/ 128 megs ram. STB Velocity 4400 video w/ 16 meg. Creative Soundblaster Audio PCI 128D Microsoft Force Feedback wheel. Spoke to tech support and they said update drivers which I did - no luck. Anyone have same type of problems and have a fix???? Thanks in advance, Terry

On Tue, 10 Oct 2000 20:57:55 -0400, "Terry McCann" <[email hidden]> wrote: Have you tried disabling things like power saving features? ie. have you anything set to put the monitor etc. into a suspended state after so many minutes? >Well I purchased GP3 and have been having problems with the game freezing.

Disabled power management - no luck. Uninstalled & reinstalled - no luck. D/L latest drivers for vid and snd - no luck. I'll try tech help one more time tomorrow but I'm about ready to scrap the game. Thanks for your help. "Paul" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> On Tue, 10 Oct 2000 20:57:55 -0400, "Terry McCann" > <[email hidden]> wrote: > > Have you tried disabling things like power saving features? ie. have > you anything set to put the monitor etc. into a suspended state after > so many minutes? > > >Well I purchased GP3 and have been having problems with the game

freezing. >

This is not normal in my experience. The only time I have seen this is when I overdid the overclocking on my video card. However in your case the problem most likely either a driver problem (which you seem to have eliminated) or another piece of software. You don't say whether you are running Windows 98/ME or Windopws 2000. Assuming you are running the former, I would check out what you have running after bootup. First (if you have not already done) so disable any screen savers. Next check Programs/Startup and MSConfig (run it from Start/Run) to see what gets run up at startup by Windows. Try to switch off or disable as many of these as possible. Cross check this by doing a single CTRL/ALT/Delete to see what tasks are running. mart In article <OUOE5.1794$[email hidden]>, Terry McCann <[email hidden]> writes

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>Well I purchased GP3 and have been having problems with the game freezing. >I run: > >Gateway PII 450 w/ 128 megs ram. >STB Velocity 4400 video w/ 16 meg. >Creative Soundblaster Audio PCI 128D >Microsoft Force Feedback wheel. > >Spoke to tech support and they said update drivers which I did - no luck. > >Anyone have same type of problems and have a fix???? > >Thanks in advance, > >Terry > >

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