Re: GPL Screen Freeze?

Had the same and found it due to Glide 2.54 driver. Had to use 2.53, which works fine. If that's not the problem, it could be comp overheating. Mark Alky <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > I'm having an incredibley bad time with screen freeze when I go onlinewith > GPL. Is it VROC or GPL? > Hitting ESC to go to pits gives me a black screen and the hour glass with > engine sound running. I can do ALT CTRL DEL at this point and get dumped > back to VROC. Other times I get stuck in the menu trying access carsetups, > at this point nothing works but a power off reboot <groan>. > This has become a problem with almost every attempt racing online :( > Anyone have experience with this?

I have the same problem, can you list your system to see if there are any common components. -- Steve Levett Flyer#10 on WON --------------------------------------------------------- Lets Go Flyers The European Racing League http://drive.to/erl Co-Founder of 502 Racing --------------------------------------------------------- "Alky" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > I'm having an incredibley bad time with screen freeze when I go online with > GPL. Is it VROC or GPL? > Hitting ESC to go to pits gives me a black screen and the hour glass with > engine sound running. I can do ALT CTRL DEL at this point and get dumped > back to VROC. Other times I get stuck in the menu trying access car setups, > at this point nothing works but a power off reboot <groan>. > This has become a problem with almost every attempt racing online :( > Anyone have experience with this?

I'm having an incredibley bad time with screen freeze when I go online with GPL. Is it VROC or GPL? Hitting ESC to go to pits gives me a black screen and the hour glass with engine sound running. I can do ALT CTRL DEL at this point and get dumped back to VROC. Other times I get stuck in the menu trying access car setups, at this point nothing works but a power off reboot <groan>. This has become a problem with almost every attempt racing online :( Anyone have experience with this?

On Sat, 16 Sep 2000 19:01:18 GMT, [email hidden] (Alky) wrote:

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>I'm having an incredibley bad time with screen freeze when I go online with >GPL. Is it VROC or GPL? >Hitting ESC to go to pits gives me a black screen and the hour glass with >engine sound running. I can do ALT CTRL DEL at this point and get dumped >back to VROC. Other times I get stuck in the menu trying access car setups, >at this point nothing works but a power off reboot <groan>. >This has become a problem with almost every attempt racing online :( >Anyone have experience with this?

Yes. I was having that problem. Do you have a Voodoo card and are you using the Glide Wrapper patch? Also, do you have adequate cooling for your video card? Regards, Brett C. Cammack That's Racing! Motorsports Pompano Beach, FL

I have a voodoo2 and I have been told it is the glide drivers, I used the older one and it still locks up. -- Steve Levett Flyer#10 on WON --------------------------------------------------------- Lets Go Flyers The European Racing League http://drive.to/erl Co-Founder of 502 Racing --------------------------------------------------------- "Alky" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > [email hidden] (Steve Levett) wrote in > <[email hidden]>: > > I've got an Athelon 500 with an OEM Voodoo3 and 128 megs ram. > > >I have the same problem, can you list your system to see if there are > >any common components. > > > >-- > > > >Steve Levett > >Flyer#10 on WON

If it only happens online, I wonder if your vid card (or sound card) and modem are sharing a irq. In article <[email hidden]>, [email hidden] (Alky) wrote: > I'm having an incredibley bad time with screen freeze when I goonline with > GPL. Is it VROC or GPL? > Hitting ESC to go to pits gives me a black screen and the hour glasswith > engine sound running. I can do ALT CTRL DEL at this point and getdumped > back to VROC. Other times I get stuck in the menu trying access carsetups, > at this point nothing works but a power off reboot <groan>. > This has become a problem with almost every attempt racing online :( > Anyone have experience with this? > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.

[email hidden] (Brett C. Cammack) wrote in <[email hidden]>: Hi Brett... I have a Voodoo3 card, Glide Wrapper? is that the rearview mirror thing, I tried it & removed it. I've even gone so far as re-installing GPL from scratch, cleaned registry as well :( Cooling I dunno, not doing anything special with that, tower sits under desk.

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>Yes. I was having that problem. Do you have a Voodoo card and are >you using the Glide Wrapper patch? Also, do you have adequate cooling >for your video card? > >Regards, >Brett C. Cammack >That's Racing! Motorsports >Pompano Beach, FL >

[email hidden] (Steve Levett) wrote in <[email hidden]>: I've got an Athelon 500 with an OEM Voodoo3 and 128 megs ram.

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>I have the same problem, can you list your system to see if there are >any common components. > >-- > >Steve Levett >Flyer#10 on WON

On Sun, 17 Sep 2000 00:30:10 GMT, [email hidden] (Alky) wrote: >Hi Brett... I have a Voodoo3 card, Glide Wrapper? is that the rearview mirror >thing, I tried it & removed it. I've even gone so far as re-installing GPL from >scratch, cleaned registry as well :( I know that I *still* had the problem after reverting to the original Glide Wrapper (it let's me reduce the mirror update frequency) and it wasn't until I removed everything from the Glide.Ini file except for "GPL Override=0' and "Mirror Frequency=10" that it became more stable. I had to revert because the new one was stepping on my internet connection somehow and I would drop my connection between my PC and the DSL modem as soon as I drove about 100 yards out of the pits in GPL. Shame, too, the new mirror setup had a huge impact on the FPS, making things much smoother and faster. >Cooling I dunno, not doing anything special with that, tower sits under desk. I had to pull the cover off my tower case and point a 12 v. "muffin" fan right at the card to insure greater stability. When my Voodoo2 was overheating I would get "artifacts" like a white triangle running through the black portion of the screen from top to bottom behind the actual graphic image or a flashing horizontal white line across the bottom where the FPS counter would display. I was mildly overclocking the card originally, but backed it down to stock for stabilities sake. I believe that you can easily take an old 486-style heatsink/cooling fan and clip it right to the main graphic engine chip on a Voodoo3. Regards, Brett C. Cammack That's Racing! Motorsports Pompano Beach, FL

Hello, I am not sure if this will help but when I had mouse lockup problems here is a fix I found. Problem Cursor stops responding w/no Voodoo 2 card. Upon launching the software, the mouse cursor stops responding. Solution Disable serial port polling. If the mouse cursor stops responding in the menu screens and there is NOT a Voodoo 2 card with Glide 2.54 drivers on the system, check to see if there is a serial mouse/trackball or any other serial port devices. If a serial device exists: 1. Click on Start, Find, Files or Folders. 2. In the Named: field, type APP.INI. Make sure the Look In: field says the drive letter of the drive where the game is installed (for example, C:). Check the box that says "Include Subfolders." 3. When the file is found, open the APP.INI (in the GPL directory) and look for the following line- [ Communications ] disableDirectConnect = 0 4. Change the 0 to a 1 and save the changes. If this section is not present, add it. Note that it must be added EXACTLY as above as it is case sensitive and there must be a space between the brackets in the heading. The only effect that this will have on the game (other than potentially fixing the problem) will be to disable the ability to race multiplayer via Null Modem direct connect mode. Hope this can help with your problems. Charlie -- Never argue with an idiot. He brings you down to his level, then beats you with experience...