GPL: Hard drive access (revisited)

I know this has been discussed here some time ago, but I've lost the thread. How do you stop the hard drive from thrashing about in GPL. It seems to happen a few laps into pracitse and a race. I'm running 19 cars and lots of graphics on and I'm happy with my frame rate (I don't want to change these settings). My system: PII-266 o/c to 333 64mb RAM Diamond Stealth II S220 120mb free on the drive I have GPL on. thanks in advance. Rob Yates.

Could be many things. One thing to look for is "Findfast" program running. Control-alt-delete and look for find fast. If you find it, look up in the Help how to remove it froim the start folder. AFAIK, it is installed by MS Office and its job is to halt the system every few minutes just in case some of your files might have moved. ;(

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> I know this has been discussed here some time ago, but I've lost the > thread. > How do you stop the hard drive from thrashing about in GPL. It seems to > happen a few laps into pracitse and a race. I'm running 19 cars and lots > of graphics on and I'm happy with my frame rate (I don't want to change > these settings).

As mentioned, remove FindFast from your start group. Also, terminate all non-essential background tasks (hit ctrl-alt-delete and kill everything but explorer and systray). Finally, go to the VROC website and read the excellent article on memory tweaks by Doc Wynne - http://gpl.gamestats.com/vroc/tech.htm . Hope this helps, Dave Ewing