F1C help!

The problem I'm having is that when I go to a track, all I get is a light gray screen. I can see the lights on the steering wheel (from the in car cam), and at Australia I can see a black structure that I think is the grandstand, but I don't see the actual people. It appears to just be the .3do (or whatever file EA uses) with no texture. Do you know what would cause this? Here's my system specs: Athlon XP 1600 (1.4 Ghz) 128 Mb RAM 32 MB video card DirectX 8.1 Win 98se Everything meets or exceeds the minimum requirements, and the only thing that doesn't meet the recommended requirements is the RAM. Any idea? Gary Beard

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> The problem I'm having is that when I go to a track, > all I get is a light gray screen. I can see the lights on the > steering wheel (from the in car cam), and at Australia I can see a > black structure that I think is the grandstand, but I don't see > the actual people. It appears to just be the .3do (or whatever > file EA uses) with no texture. Do you know what would cause this? > Here's my system specs: > > Athlon XP 1600 (1.4 Ghz) > 128 Mb RAM > 32 MB video card > DirectX 8.1 > Win 98se > > Everything meets or exceeds the minimum requirements, and the only > thing that doesn't meet the recommended requirements is the RAM. > > Any idea? > Gary Beard > >

I don't have the box that F1C came in any longer, but I'm suspicious of that 32MB video card. I would have thought that it would want at least a 64MB card (and a fairly fast one at that). I only get mid- range framerates using a GeForce3 card. You don't say what chip family your video card uses. nVidea, ATI, 3DFx....? It might be a driver issue -- assuming that the card does meet the recommended specs. HTH, -- Darryl

The box says 16mb vid card minimum, 32mb+ recommended. don "Darryl Johnson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:4veRb.30794$[email hidden]...

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> Gary Beard wrote in news:[email hidden]: > > > The problem I'm having is that when I go to a track, > > all I get is a light gray screen. I can see the lights on the > > steering wheel (from the in car cam), and at Australia I can see a > > black structure that I think is the grandstand, but I don't see > > the actual people. It appears to just be the .3do (or whatever > > file EA uses) with no texture. Do you know what would cause this? > > Here's my system specs: > > > > Athlon XP 1600 (1.4 Ghz) > > 128 Mb RAM > > 32 MB video card > > DirectX 8.1 > > Win 98se > > > > Everything meets or exceeds the minimum requirements, and the only > > thing that doesn't meet the recommended requirements is the RAM. > > > > Any idea? > > Gary Beard > > > > > > I don't have the box that F1C came in any longer, but I'm suspicious > of that 32MB video card. I would have thought that it would want at > least a 64MB card (and a fairly fast one at that). I only get mid- > range framerates using a GeForce3 card. > > You don't say what chip family your video card uses. nVidea, ATI, > 3DFx....? It might be a driver issue -- assuming that the card does > meet the recommended specs. > > HTH, > -- > Darryl

Darryl, I have a 32 Mb GeForce2 GTS video card. Is there a setting in the sim that I can turn down that might help. I've turned everything down that I can find, but wasn't sure if there was a hidden sumthin sumthin that I'm just not finding. I tried running the sim in 640 X 480 16 bit and that didn't help. I turned off replays and turned everything off or to minimum that I could find. I turned all the sound settings to minimum also. I'm off to get the latest driver for my video card right now. Being on a dial-up connection, I try to troubleshoot everything first before trying to capture a download. -- Thanks, Gary Beard

I had a similar system with a 64 mgb card and it wouldn't run F1-2002... at all.... Kevin (aka tlgtr) **** "A GOOD friend will come bail you out of jail... but, a TRUE friend will be sitting next to you saying, "Damn we screwed up!!!!."

Wow! I am surprised that the video requirement is that low. Not that I'm complaining. I hate it when I get a new game for $20 and then have to spend several hundred dollars upgrading hardware to get it to run properly. (My wife would kill me if she ever knew how much GPL has cost me over the years!) -- Darryl don hodgdon wrote in news:IMeRb.28$tP1.11@fed1read07: > The box says 16mb vid card minimum, 32mb+ recommended. > > don > > "Darryl Johnson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:4veRb.30794$[email hidden]... >> Gary Beard wrote in news:[email hidden]: >> >> > The problem I'm having is that when I go to a track, >> > all I get is a light gray screen. I can see the lights on the >> > steering wheel (from the in car cam), and at Australia I can see a >> > black structure that I think is the grandstand, but I don't see >> > the actual people. It appears to just be the .3do (or whatever >> > file EA uses) with no texture. Do you know what would cause this? >> > Here's my system specs: >> > >> > Athlon XP 1600 (1.4 Ghz) >> > 128 Mb RAM >> > 32 MB video card >> > DirectX 8.1 >> > Win 98se >> > >> > Everything meets or exceeds the minimum requirements, and the only >> > thing that doesn't meet the recommended requirements is the RAM. >> > >> > Any idea? >> > Gary Beard >> > >> > >> >> I don't have the box that F1C came in any longer, but I'm suspicious >> of that 32MB video card. I would have thought that it would want at >> least a 64MB card (and a fairly fast one at that). I only get mid- >> range framerates using a GeForce3 card. >>

In article <13iRb.4154$[email hidden]>, Darryl Johnson <[email hidden]> writes: >Wow! I am surprised that the video requirement is that low. Not that >I'm complaining. I hate it when I get a new game for $20 and then >have to spend several hundred dollars upgrading hardware to get it to >run properly. (My wife would kill me if she ever knew how much GPL >has cost me over the years!) I'm not married yet, so I don't have that problem. But I haven't trusted the minimun requirements of a game since I got burned BADLY with GPL... Eldred -- Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett Member Screamers Racing League IICC League GPLRank -6.0 MoGPL rank +267.80 ChallengeRank +52.58 MoC +741.71 Hist. +82.34 MoH in progress N2k3 rank:in progress Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

"Gary Beard" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > The problem I'm having is that when I go to a track, > all I get is a light gray screen. I can see the lights on the steering > wheel (from the in car cam), and at Australia I can see a black structure > that I think is the grandstand, but I don't see the actual people. It > appears to just be the .3do (or whatever file EA uses) with no texture.Do

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> you know what would cause this? > Here's my system specs: > > Athlon XP 1600 (1.4 Ghz) > 128 Mb RAM > 32 MB video card > DirectX 8.1 > Win 98se > > Everything meets or exceeds the minimum requirements, and the only thing > that doesn't meet the recommended requirements is the RAM. > > Any idea? > Gary Beard > >

Is "Enable fog table emulation" checked in your Display properties? Had that problem with my FX5200. Checking that box cured the problem. Tim

I found the problem. For some reason, F1C didn't install DX8.1 (which I thought was all ready installed). It never prompted me install DX so I figured I was all square. When I went to check, I had an older version. I installed DX8.1 and the sim works beautifully! Thanks for all the help, Gary Beard

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> >I found the problem. For some reason, F1C didn't install DX8.1 (which I >thought was all ready installed). It never prompted me install DX so I >figured I was all square. When I went to check, I had an older version. I >installed DX8.1 and the sim works beautifully! > >Thanks for all the help, >Gary Beard

Ok, so just don't beat me on the TRACK...<g> Eldred -- Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett Member Screamers Racing League IICC League GPLRank -6.0 MoGPL rank +267.80 ChallengeRank +52.58 MoC +741.71 Hist. +82.34 MoH in progress N2k3 rank:in progress Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.