ICR 1.05 woes

OK, so I've got ICR and the Indy tracks pack and I'm ready to go, but I've discovered a problem: whenever I get near or crash into a wall, ICR slows down and stays slowed down or occasionally just halts the processor in mid-race. Needless to say, since I spend so much time crashing into walls, this is very annoying. Here are the specifics: 386DX33, 8meg RAM, Conner HD (not compressed), MS-DOS 6.2, PAS 16 Basic, CL 5426 ISA video. I have tried a clean boot (via F5 at startup) and boot with just himem.sys, all to no avail. It should be noted that there is another HD (Maxtor 7120) that has been DoubleSpace'd, but it is not a boot drive, nor does ICR reside on it. Any help is appreciated! -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Terry Weiss | "...it was so charged with meaning, Computer Services | it had become incomprehensible." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To their credit, Temple U. accepts no responsibility for my opinions.

While I appreciate that people don't want to share their setups, could we discuss what different things generally do? For example, what happens when you change the gearing? For example, what's a circumstance when I'd want to change gearing? I gather that I'd want more RPMs in a gear if I'm planning to accelerate in that gear, and fewer RPMs if I'm going to use it to cruise to the flag with a 30 second lead. But is there another set of criteria? (I have this sort of question about nearly all of the settings!) Yes, I have RTFM'ed, and I do know that it depends a lot on driving style. --- Brian Wong Product Marketing Engineering 415-336-0082 Palo Alto, CA 94303

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>Engineering) >Subject: Setup effects? >Date: 24 Aug 1994 20:23:50 GMT >While I appreciate that people don't want to share their setups, could >we discuss what different things generally do? For example, what happens >when you change the gearing? For example, what's a circumstance when I'd >want to change gearing? I gather that I'd want more RPMs in a gear if I'm >planning to accelerate in that gear, and fewer RPMs if I'm going to use it >to cruise to the flag with a 30 second lead. But is there another set of >criteria? (I have this sort of question about nearly all of the settings!)

Discussion is what the groups are all about. We'd all probably learn more from talking abou tthe actual physics and mechanics of the cars and in turn become better setup chiefs ourselves. BTW, I think it woulld be a great idea if everybody would mark their posts with a header identifying the racing sim they are discussing, for instance: ICR IndyCar Racing F1GP or WC World Circuit ALL All Racing Sims in general Just a suggestion, it works with other groups. Not that there's a LOT of posts in here to cause people to get lost, but just to confirm what sim is being discussed. Ralf _____________________________________________________________________ _ ____ ____ ____ | | / __| | __ \ / ___| Ralf Southard ICRS Co-Director | | | | | |_| / \ \_ Editor-In-Chief of Online Racing Int'l _____________________________________________________________________ 6 Armsby Building, University Park, PA 16802