F1RS

Ok guys, after 4 days playing with F1RS, I give up, i'm tired to have so many crashes, to have to reboot most of the time, and ubisoft not answering my email.... My F1RS is for sale, i will reinstall GP2.

What kind of "crashes" are we talking about here, are these your car or your PC? :) If you e-mail me a few details of what happens I'll try to help. It runs absolutely perfectly on my system, no slowdowns, no stutters, fast menus and only one lockup in six days of racing. All we need to do is track down the crucial difference between your system and mine, then drag it outside and "take care of it". Cheers! John

Hi John, I saw the original post and thought that's exactly what mine does so here is my setup, hope you can help ; Pentium 166 Matrox Millenium 4Mb WRAM Orchid Righeous 3Dfx 4Mb 32Mb Ram & 45Mb Windows Swap File (on Drive D:), game didn't run at all until I changed this from 32Mb to 45Mb) Sound Blaster 32 + 8Mb Adaptec 2940 UW SCSI Card Toshiba XM3601 4x SCSI CD-ROM Drive U.S. Robotics 33.6 Sportster Vi Internal Modem Software / Drivers : Windows 95 : OSR 1 (original August '95 Release) Version of Game Installed : Minimum 3Dfx Install (67Mb) Indeo : Re-Installed straight off the F1RS CD-ROM DirectX : Version 5, straight off the F1RS CD-ROM Glide : 2.43, straight off the F1RS CD-ROM Hard Disk Free Space : C: 69.9Mb (this is where Windows 95 resides) D: 57Mb (this is where the game is installed) Other factors : Just to point point out, this is the only Win 95 / DirectX 5 game that causes trouble.I have POD (the full game) and that works perfectly, I have also run Tomb Raider II demo, G-Police Demo and Turok Demo all use 3Dfx and DirectX 5 and worked no problem. Crashes : The game crashes in different places sometimes when loading up a track just before the race. Also whilst in the game the thing just locks up, the screen freezes and the sound is constant. Hope you have some ideas, if you need any further info E-mail me on either : Cheers Mark Elliott

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>>Ok guys, after 4 days playing with F1RS, I give up, i'm tired to have so >>many crashes, to have to reboot most of the time, and ubisoft not answering >>my email.... >What kind of "crashes" are we talking about here, are these your car >or your PC? :) >If you e-mail me a few details of what happens I'll try to help. It >runs absolutely perfectly on my system, no slowdowns, no stutters, >fast menus and only one lockup in six days of racing. All we need to >do is track down the crucial difference between your system and mine, >then drag it outside and "take care of it". >Cheers! >John

>I saw the original post and thought that's exactly what mine does so >here is my setup, hope you can help ; I'm guessing, but it may be that this is a memory issue. Is it possible for you to borrow another couple of SIMMs from somewhere and try with 48 or 64Mb? My system is very similar to yours, I also have Soundblaster, PCI SCSI, SCSI CD-ROM, modem etc etc, the main differences being that I am using the full install of F1RS and I have 64Mb RAM. From looking at your hard disk space it doens't look like you have space to do a full install? I wondered if perhaps there's some conflict when trying to load the CD data from the SCSI? I have a SCSI and an IDE CD-ROM, and the only crash I had was with the CD in the SCSI. Since I've never seen it repeated that could easily be coincidence though. Perhaps a full install where it doesn't need to look at the CD at all would help? Cheers! John

Well, I've got 40 mo of ram, I will remove the 2x4 Mo simms to be sure to have the very same simms in the system. I'm ready to buy more memory if i'm sure its the pb I also have SCSI CDROM, and no IDE one so i can not try. I installed the complete game and have 600 Mo free .... John, Here is the Email i sent to UBI, maybe you'll be able to help me (ubi still didn't not answer)! (originally in french) ... I have a lot of crashes during the game, which put me back in win95. I installed win95 only for F1RS... The crashes can be during the race (tried 25%, and 100%), but most of them are when i crash in the race, i want to restart, so i press escape and ask for end of the race (btw restart does not work !!), i have all the laps with the different times of the other drivers till the last lap... and then it should go back to the panel where i can go to the next race, save, replay ... etc, but it doesn't go there, instead i have a page fault : F1VOO a caus une dfaillance de page dans (means page fault) le module F1VOO.EXE 0137:00556836. Registres : EAX=49d1f7ae CS=0137 EIP=00556836 EFLGS=00010202 EBX=02e003d0 SS=013f ESP=0154fe8c EBP=00000002 ECX=0054bc54 DS=013f ESI=00000008 FS=2627 EDX=005d5181 ES=013f EDI=00507f68 GS=0000 Octets CS : EIP : 89 50 14 c3 8b c0 8b 80 84 00 00 00 88 50 20 c3 Etat de la pile : 0054b865 00507f68 00000008 0050d2a4 815b7ad8 0048ef3d 009cd778 00000008 005e094b 0048571c 00507f68 00000008 ffffffff 0050d2a4 815b7ad8 0050d892 following is the configuration of my system : AMD K6 233, asus T2P4, SCSI card SC875 + disk SCSI SEAGATE 2.1Go, + IDE 1.3 Go 40 Mo RAM EDO, Monster 3d, Thrustmaster T1, Win95 (tryed with OSR1 and 2 : same pb), Matrox Mystic, Pionner 12 x scsi, SB 32 Awe... Installed full game + Direct x5 + glide from the CD .... I'M LOST !!!! I hope that UBI is not responding because they are working at the patch !!! BTW, i red that this game doesn't work with AMD K5 with Direct 3d card on www.f1racingsim.com FAQ.... I hope that's not for K6 ???? Thanks in advance...

Dear All, I have turned off the 'replay' feature in the configure options and spent an un-interupted 1.5hours playing (no crashes etc.), god I even saw the 'Are you sure you wish to exit' screen, I usually get back to Win95 desktop after a nice error message or two. I have also deleted some more stuff off my hard disks to get even more free space, jeez this game needs serious HD Space/Memory/Swap File space. It was never like this witg GP2 or POD, oh well that's progress for you !!!. Hope this helps someone out. Cheers, Mark Elliott

Hi everybody, I, first, would like to thank the people who helped me (unfortunatly none from UBI ! ) because you were all of you right ! all my pb are coming from replays, and as i thought i had disabled it, i was wrong on this : Most of the time i was reloading a saved game to continue the championship, and when you reload a saved game DURING the race, u don't seem to have a way to disable the replay (didn't look in help - though) if , when u started the game, it was enabled. That's why most of the time it was active in my game... I also found another trouble which is kind of weird... If you have your windows started in 256colors and in 640*480, then u won't be able to load a game : all the down part of the screen (corresponding to the taskbar) is not responding ! But if u go into a higher definition (1024*768 in my case - didnt try in 800*600) it works... thats what they say in the readme but i think it's not clear !! Now, see u back on the tracks i hope :-) !

I'm interested, how much do you ask for it? A. Renault