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GPL Lockup during splash screen

9 posts by 9 people · 23 May 1999 - 08 Jun 1999

Mike 23 May 1999#469675
I am having touble running GPL. After installing, when the program is started, the machine will freeze during the splash screen. I have tried installing both the full and typical images, as well as choosing Software or 3dfx as the video choice. My system config is as follows: PII-400 AOpen AX6BC w/128M PC100 Diamond Viper 550 Diamond Monster 3DII Creative SB-Live Value Toshiba DVD 7502 Any suggestions/ideas? Thanks in advance Mike
peter.ash.. 29 May 1999#470872
same problem here on a laptop running win98 and a trident video chip, and also under nt with a rage pro. Wanted to show the folks at work who think rallycross 2 is racing what the real deal is. Bummer. Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
Phil Conr 03 Jun 1999#471679
Me too. My config is as follows : K6 233 64M Voodoo1 (Monster 3d) Riva 128 (Viper 550) AWE32 Win 98 If someone could help, I'd be a very happy chappy... Regards, Phil
B 05 Jun 1999#471926
pardon my overstating the obvious...but since i screwed this up maybe someone else has too. when you install GPL if MUST be off the root dir \sierra\gpl if you install it under - say - games\sierra\gpl, you will be able to do some things but it WILL lock soon after starting FWIW Bo
>when you install GPL if MUST be off the root dir \sierra\gpl >if you install it under - say - games\sierra\gpl, you will be able to >do some things but it WILL lock soon after starting My copy of GPL resides in a directory named games\sierra\gpl (although I would prefer to name it games\autosims\gpl, so it could be placed next to ICR2 and GP2, where it belongs, but that's another story) and has been working perfectly from day one. No lockups. So I'm afraid your theory doesn't hold water. -- Wolfgang Preiss \ E-mail copies of replies to this posting are welcome.
Kirk Lane 07 Jun 1999#472355
My GPL is under C:\games\Sierra\GPL, I get occasional locks, but most of the time it's OK. Hopefully 1.1 will fix it :) -- Kirk Lane ICQ: 28171652 RMRL #119 >>when you install GPL if MUST be off the root dir \sierra\gpl >>if you install it under - say - games\sierra\gpl, you will be able to >>do some things but it WILL lock soon after starting >My copy of GPL resides in a directory named games\sierra\gpl (although >I would prefer to name it games\autosims\gpl, so it could be placed >next to ICR2 and GP2, where it belongs, but that's another story) and >has been working perfectly from day one. No lockups. So I'm afraid >your theory doesn't hold water. >-- >Wolfgang Preiss \ E-mail copies of replies to this posting are welcome. cancellation warned.
Have to admit that I have never found this on my system. I have GPL installed under c:\games\sierra\gpl and it has locked up only a handful of times in the 7-8 months since I first got it. Is this supposed to be a known problem, if so I guess I have just been lucky... I have all my sierra sims under the same directory structure. Peter H
On Mon, 7 Jun 1999 21:32:20 +0100, "Peter Hooper" >Have to admit that I have never found this on my system. >I have GPL installed under c:\games\sierra\gpl and it has locked up only a >handful of times in the 7-8 months since I first got it. Is this supposed to >be a known problem, if so I guess I have just been lucky... I have all my >sierra sims under the same directory structure. Yes, it has run fine under my c:\games\sierra\gpl too (haven't got ANY lockups for over half a year). Lockups are due to hardware drivers and such, not the directory. Glide 2.53 and that sort of stuff, enough of those questions lying around to fill Alexa!
Quoted text (15 lines)>Peter H >> pardon my overstating the obvious...but since i screwed this up maybe >> someone else has too. >> when you install GPL if MUST be off the root dir \sierra\gpl >> if you install it under - say - games\sierra\gpl, you will be able to >> do some things but it WILL lock soon after starting >> FWIW >> Bo
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