GPL: crashes computer regularly

Hi Everyone, I am racing GPL for the last two weeks, and loving every minute of it, except the frequent crashes! Info: PII 350 128mb RAM Matrox G200 Creative 3D Blaster Voodoo 2 12mb Asus P2B motherboard Sound Blaster Live Value Win98 The game runs great when it runs, but it has been crashing on a regular basis while driving or watching a replay (probably averages one crash-per-hour). It either locks up the screen and sound and will not allow a ctrl-alt-del reboot, or it closes GPL and throws me back to Win98 (happens less often than the complete lock up). When it does happen, one of the driver records is lost and/or the "best lap" records are transferred to the wrong driver's name while the original disappears. I emailed Sierra and they suggested turning down the clock speed of the Voodoo2 from 93mhz to 90mhz, which I have done, but the crashes still keep happening. I've uninstalled GPL twice to do a fresh installation, but the problem comes back. On Sunday, it locked up and upon reboot the buttons on my joystick weren't recognized by either Win98 or GPL. I tried rebooting and recalibrating several times - no luck. But, I started it up last night and buttons work again; played for an hour-and-a-half with no lock-up, but I doubt the problem is gone. Is anyone having computer crashing problems like this with GPL? Every other program runs fine for me. If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know. GPL is fantastic, but this is very frustrating. Thanks in advance Paul

I had to clock my voodoo down to 80Mhz Even 82mhz still gave problems.My theory is as you step up the processor that isn't evident with lower speed processors the same V2 If it was the overclocking of the processor i don't think underclocking the V2 would fix it. I don't know if anyone else has dropped as low as 80Mhz but it's cure to my lockups and still a full 36fps most every where. Hope this helps Ken

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> Hi Everyone, > I am racing GPL for the last two weeks, and loving every minute of it, > except the frequent crashes! > Info: > PII 350 > 128mb RAM > Matrox G200 > Creative 3D Blaster Voodoo 2 12mb > Asus P2B motherboard > Sound Blaster Live Value > Win98

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> Hi Everyone, > I am racing GPL for the last two weeks, and loving every minute of it, > except the frequent crashes! > (snippage) > Thanks in advance > Paul

Same thing has been plaguing my machine. I tried different mouse drivers, lower voodoo2 speeds, but lockups still kept happening. But last night I tried lowering my 2d card acceleration, and it seems to have fixed it (won't be absolutely certain until i've run it many more hours). From the windows desktop go into 'my computer' - 'system' - 'performance' - 'graphics' and move the slider to the left or second from the left. Before i was getting lockups roughly every hour, and after turning down the 2d acceleration, it ran 4 hours without trouble. Hope this helps, it's worth a try. Roy Berube

On Wed, 25 Nov 1998 12:31:41 -0400, "J. Paul Godfery" <...> I'm crashing a lot too- I will try this. What is the "penalty" for turning this down? if any. I mean, lower FPS, or what? When mine crashes, this inability to recognize my wheel is common. I tend to only crash during online races- and only at some servers, or perhas only some tracks. I've been trying to race at France 3 times tonight, with total freeze-ups each time! Irritating. meanwhile I ran a 21 lap Monza race with no prob. My crashes seem to come normally when in the waiting-to-race/practice room, with replays going on. Trying to chat, for instance, seems to be a reason to freeze.

Yes, I am having very similar problems. Racing at Silverstone right now and I seem to experience more system lockups here than on Monza or Wat Glen. My setup is: Celeron 450, 128mb ram, Voodoo1 4meg. I, too think GPL is fantastic. Pity about the lockups though. -- Richard Cowl

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>> Hi Everyone, >> I am racing GPL for the last two weeks, and loving every minute of it, >> except the frequent crashes! >> (snippage) >> Thanks in advance >> Paul > Same thing has been plaguing my machine. I tried different mouse >drivers, lower voodoo2 speeds, but lockups still kept happening. > But last night I tried lowering my 2d card acceleration, and it seems >to have fixed it (won't be absolutely certain until i've run it many >more hours). From the windows desktop go into 'my computer' - 'system' - >'performance' - 'graphics' and move the slider to the left or second >from the left. Before i was getting lockups roughly every hour, and >after turning down the 2d acceleration, it ran 4 hours without trouble. > Hope this helps, it's worth a try. > Roy Berube

If you are using a V2 card to run GPL, your 2d card is completely bypassed making any settings on this card entirely irelevent. Please correct me if I am wrong! -- Richard Cowl

Richard, You may be able to stop your crashes by slowing your Celeron down. While mine ran fine at 450MHZ for everything else, GPL (and N2) consistently crashed at that speed. Running at 374MHZ both work flawlessly. Dan.

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>>Hi Everyone, >Yes, I am having very similar problems. Racing at Silverstone right now >and I seem to experience more system lockups here than on Monza or Wat >Glen. > My setup is: Celeron 450, 128mb ram, Voodoo1 4meg. >I, too think GPL is fantastic. Pity about the lockups though. >-- >Richard Cowl

On Fri, 27 Nov 1998 09:53:35 +0000, Richard Cowl >Yes, I am having very similar problems. Racing at Silverstone right now >and I seem to experience more system lockups here than on Monza or Wat >Glen. > My setup is: Celeron 450, 128mb ram, Voodoo1 4meg. >I, too think GPL is fantastic. Pity about the lockups though. I'm assuming you have an overclocked 300A. I found the same problems, Windows was stable but GPL would dump me back to the desktop from time to time. The solution was to increase the CPU voltage, at 2.3V the problem went away. Peter Holt