F1RS2/MGP illegal operation on exit

I've got the F1RS2/MGP demo working on my system. I'm using the DirectX v6 version and it runs fine. However, when I exit the game and the Win95 desktop reappears, I get a error dialog saying that MGP caused an illegal instruction (or operation, I can't remember). I can't make this dialog go away. After hitting the close button, it just reappears. I've tried hitting the close button about 30 times and it won't go away. At this point, if I hit control-alt-delete to get the process list, nothing happens. And when I shutdown windows, it never gets to the "you may now turn off your computer" screen. When I reboot, windows says that it did not shutdown properly and goes through the filesystem check. Anyone else having this problem? Any advice? -sam

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> I've got the F1RS2/MGP demo working on my system. I'm using the > DirectX v6 version and it runs fine. However, when I exit the game > and the Win95 desktop reappears, I get a error dialog saying that > MGP caused an illegal instruction (or operation, I can't remember). > I can't make this dialog go away. After hitting the close button, > it just reappears. I've tried hitting the close button about 30 > times and it won't go away. > At this point, if I hit control-alt-delete to get the process list, > nothing happens. And when I shutdown windows, it never gets to the > "you may now turn off your computer" screen. When I reboot, windows > says that it did not shutdown properly and goes through the filesystem > check. > Anyone else having this problem? Any advice? > -sam

I had the same thing with the original F1RS. This was using a V2200 card and directX 5. It would also just dump me back to the desktop after a while, too. I got no help, and returned the game. Now I have Windows98 and the new demo works fine. The problem might be Win95. Steve

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> > I've got the F1RS2/MGP demo working on my system. I'm using the > > DirectX v6 version and it runs fine. However, when I exit the game > > and the Win95 desktop reappears, I get a error dialog saying that > > MGP caused an illegal instruction (or operation, I can't remember). > > I can't make this dialog go away. After hitting the close button, > > it just reappears. I've tried hitting the close button about 30 > > times and it won't go away. > > At this point, if I hit control-alt-delete to get the process list, > > nothing happens. And when I shutdown windows, it never gets to the > > "you may now turn off your computer" screen. When I reboot, windows > > says that it did not shutdown properly and goes through the > filesystem > > check. > > Anyone else having this problem? Any advice? > > -sam > I had the same thing with the original F1RS. This was using a V2200 > card > and directX 5. It would also just dump me back to the desktop after a > while, too. I got no help, and returned the game. Now I have Windows98 > and > the new demo works fine. The problem might be Win95. > Steve

Nope, it's not W95.... I use that and it's ok! I also use Direct X6, so it may be that? Up-grade.... Jammer UK

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>> > I've got the F1RS2/MGP demo working on my system. I'm using the >> > DirectX v6 version and it runs fine. However, when I exit the game >> > and the Win95 desktop reappears, I get a error dialog saying that >> > MGP caused an illegal instruction (or operation, I can't remember). >> > I can't make this dialog go away. After hitting the close button, >> > it just reappears. I've tried hitting the close button about 30 >> > times and it won't go away. >> > At this point, if I hit control-alt-delete to get the process list, >> > nothing happens. And when I shutdown windows, it never gets to the >> > "you may now turn off your computer" screen. When I reboot, windows >> > says that it did not shutdown properly and goes through the >> filesystem >> > check. >> > Anyone else having this problem? Any advice? >> > -sam >> I had the same thing with the original F1RS. This was using a V2200 >> card >> and directX 5. It would also just dump me back to the desktop after a >> while, too. I got no help, and returned the game. Now I have Windows98 >> and >> the new demo works fine. The problem might be Win95. >> Steve > Nope, it's not W95.... I use that and it's ok! I also use Direct X6, >so it may be >that? Up-grade.... >Jammer UK

Jammer, I don't understand. Are you having the problem? If so, then why do you rule out W95? If not, then why do you suspect Direct X6? Also, what do you intend to upgrade? I am using a V2100 card (Diamond Stealth S220). Thanks for the responses. Nice to know I'm not alone. BTW, very cool sim! -sam