Win98 and GPL probs!

Up till now I was running GPL on a Win 95, AMD K6 166 Mhz system with a Voodoo 2 3D Blaster from creative. Everything ran fine, a little slow, but it worked! Now I bought myself a nice and shiny Pentium II 400Mhz system, with Win98, I put in the Voodoo 2 card as well, the 2D card is a ATI Xpert98-8MB, and GPL is*** up. After it starts, it switches over to the driver-info screen right away, and after a few moments it just hangs itself, sometimes along with a flickering mouse-pointer, the system the totally blocks, I have to reset it to start again. I installed the lastest reference drivers by 3DFX and the problem is till there, so I don't think it's the Voodoo card, can anyone help me out here, cause I finally wanna enjoy GPL is rock-steady 36 FPS LOL!!! Please help! Regards, Roger

Have you tried reinstalling GPL? Alan [link lost in import: /~akh/simshop.html] ----

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> Up till now I was running GPL on a Win 95, AMD K6 166 Mhz system with a > Voodoo 2 3D Blaster from creative. > Everything ran fine, a little slow, but it worked! > Now I bought myself a nice and shiny Pentium II 400Mhz system, with > Win98, I put in the Voodoo 2 card as well, the 2D card is a ATI > Xpert98-8MB, and GPL is*** up. > After it starts, it switches over to the driver-info screen right away, > and after a few moments it just hangs itself, sometimes along with a > flickering mouse-pointer, the system the totally blocks, I have to reset > it to start again. > I installed the lastest reference drivers by 3DFX and the problem is > till there, so I don't think it's the Voodoo card, can anyone help me > out here, cause I finally wanna enjoy GPL is rock-steady 36 FPS LOL!!! > Please help! > Regards, > Roger

Your Problem is that GPL need the Glide 2.53 drivers not the 2.54 Drivers .. read othe messages about GPL lockups

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>Up till now I was running GPL on a Win 95, AMD K6 166 Mhz system with a >Voodoo 2 3D Blaster from creative. >Everything ran fine, a little slow, but it worked! >Now I bought myself a nice and shiny Pentium II 400Mhz system, with >Win98, I put in the Voodoo 2 card as well, the 2D card is a ATI >Xpert98-8MB, and GPL is*** up. >After it starts, it switches over to the driver-info screen right away, >and after a few moments it just hangs itself, sometimes along with a >flickering mouse-pointer, the system the totally blocks, I have to reset >it to start again. >I installed the lastest reference drivers by 3DFX and the problem is >till there, so I don't think it's the Voodoo card, can anyone help me >out here, cause I finally wanna enjoy GPL is rock-steady 36 FPS LOL!!! >Please help! >Regards, >Roger

> Now I bought myself a nice and shiny Pentium II 400Mhz system, with > Win98, I put in the Voodoo 2 card as well, the 2D card is a ATI > Xpert98-8MB, and GPL is*** up. > After it starts, it switches over to the driver-info screen right away, > and after a few moments it just hangs itself, sometimes along with a > flickering mouse-pointer, the system the totally blocks, I have to reset It may be something else, but I had a similar problem with Win98 and GPL, using a CL-Voodoo2. I was able to drive, but after some times, when I entered or exited the***pit, it took my computer (P2-333, 256Mb Ram) up to 20 Minutes to switch between Video modes. I first thought it was the processor or the Voodoo2 getting too hot. I checked the processor temperature, and it was 'normal' (28 or 30 degree centigrade). My next guess was that the screen blanker would start whenever I drove long enough and didn't use any mouse or Keyboard controls. And as it was running along with the game, it had a hard time registering and reacting to the occasional Shift-R. Disabling the screen Blanker didn't help, but it was the right track I think. Win98 tries to defragment and scandisk your HD's automatically whenever the computer isn't used. Yesterday I disabled this (under Accessories->system Tools you have two points called 'scheduled events' and 'maintenance Wizard' (I think) and the game ran perfectly for the rest of the evening, so I hope that this was the solution. bye, Sammy

Thanks mate!!! I searched through my pile of CD-ROM to find the old drivers, installed them....and it worked!!! Thanks a lot for your tip..... Afterall, GPL is one of the main reasons for getting the PII 400 Mhz in the 1th place..... I was really on the edge of installing Windows 95 again ;-)) Regards, Roger OldManWar schrieb:

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> Your Problem is that GPL need the Glide 2.53 drivers not the 2.54 Drivers .. > read othe messages about GPL lockups > >Up till now I was running GPL on a Win 95, AMD K6 166 Mhz system with a > >Voodoo 2 3D Blaster from creative. > >Everything ran fine, a little slow, but it worked! > >Now I bought myself a nice and shiny Pentium II 400Mhz system, with > >Win98, I put in the Voodoo 2 card as well, the 2D card is a ATI > >Xpert98-8MB, and GPL is*** up. > >After it starts, it switches over to the driver-info screen right away, > >and after a few moments it just hangs itself, sometimes along with a > >flickering mouse-pointer, the system the totally blocks, I have to reset > >it to start again. > >I installed the lastest reference drivers by 3DFX and the problem is > >till there, so I don't think it's the Voodoo card, can anyone help me > >out here, cause I finally wanna enjoy GPL is rock-steady 36 FPS LOL!!! > >Please help! > >Regards, > >Roger