NFS SE: Probs. with game pausing briefly during races

I am having a problem with NFS SE where the screen pauses occasionally during a race. I have tried different video drivers and changes to my CD-ROM settings with no luck. It seems to pause when the CD is being accessed during the race. Is this normal? I thought everything was loaded at the begining. What can I do about this? These pauses basically ruin a really good game. I am running a SB16 SCSI, with a Toshiba 4X SCSI CD-ROM drive. Thanks, S. Egli

I have the same thing. I wondered if it was because my machine is on a small LAN though. Maybe not. Actually it does it 3 times within 5 or 6 seconds, waits 2 minutes and repeats. Anybody know why? **************************************************************** http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/terrace/abk85/leeker/index.htm

Hi, I have the same problem running it on my work notebook (at home, of course) when running the win95 exe. It seems to pause about every 2 minutes for about 2 seconds. The screen pauses, but the program continues to run. I have a network card in the notebook. It does not do this when running the DOS version of NFS SE. I remember someone in this group saying that it might be a problem with windows 95 checking the network connection. Jihn

Hello, I posted the original message on this problem and after much screwing around it turned out to be related to playing background music while racing. I could see the CD get hit everytime the game sort of froze. I turned off the background music and everything is fine now. Some have suggested this is just a Win95 quirk and I wouldn't be suprised with all of the odd things about DirectX. Anyone else have more info?? S. Egli

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> Hi, > I have the same problem running it on my work notebook (at home, of > course) > when running the win95 exe. It seems to pause about every 2 minutes for > about > 2 seconds. The screen pauses, but the program continues to run. I have a > network card in the notebook. It does not do this when running the DOS > version > of NFS SE. I remember someone in this group saying that it might be a > problem with windows 95 checking the network connection. > Jihn

Hi, I tried that (set song option to "none") and it doesn't pause anymore. Now I can play at work!! I won't have to go into DOS mode. The song option was set to "shuffle", so I assume it was going to the CD to get the next song. Thanks for your help!! John

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> Hello, > I posted the original message on this problem and after much screwing > around it turned out to be related to playing background music while > racing. > I could see the CD get hit everytime the game sort of froze. I turned > off the background music and everything is fine now. Some have > suggested this is just a Win95 quirk and I wouldn't be suprised with all > of the odd things about DirectX. > Anyone else have more info?? > S. Egli > > Hi, > > I have the same problem running it on my work notebook (at home, of > > course) > > when running the win95 exe. It seems to pause about every 2 minutes for > > about > > 2 seconds. The screen pauses, but the program continues to run. I have a > > network card in the notebook. It does not do this when running the DOS > > version > > of NFS SE. I remember someone in this group saying that it might be a > > problem with windows 95 checking the network connection. > > John