GPL - Help!

Hi, I just reciently reinstalled GPL because the patch should be here soon so I wanted to use a fresh copy. My problem now is that after a few laps GPL just freezes at any track! I could run 4-5 laps at Monza and they without reason the screen just freezes, I can still hear the sound like normal, I can stop the car, but my screen is frozen, I have to CTRL+ALT+DELETE to return to the desktop and after that the perfromance of graphics seems slowed, the start menu doesn't just jump up, I restart my computer and everything is back to normal as far as that goes. I have a feeling it is DirectX 6.1 or something, I installed a while ago. There deson't seem to be a straight forward way to just uninstall driextx thought. Anyway here are some of my system stats: AMD K6-2 333 128 MB RAM Diamond Monster Voodoo II (12/16/1998) Matrox G100 SB 64 sound card This didn't happen before I reinstalled, has anyone experienced a simular situation? Thanks, John

I'm going to take a stab in the dark here. I think the V2 drivers you have are glide 2.54. Some people have reported problems with these. I would suggest getting the 2.53 and placing them in you GPL folder. Should take care of it. Hope this helps. Cheers, Bob

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> Hi, > I just reciently reinstalled GPL because the patch should be here > soon so I wanted to use a fresh copy. My problem now is that after a few > laps GPL just freezes at any track! I could run 4-5 laps at Monza and > they without reason the screen just freezes, I can still hear the sound > like normal, I can stop the car, but my screen is frozen, I have to > CTRL+ALT+DELETE to return to the desktop and after that the perfromance > of graphics seems slowed, the start menu doesn't just jump up, I restart > my computer and everything is back to normal as far as that goes. I have > a feeling it is DirectX 6.1 or something, I installed a while ago. There > deson't seem to be a straight forward way to just uninstall driextx > thought. Anyway here are some of my system stats: > AMD K6-2 333 > 128 MB RAM > Diamond Monster Voodoo II (12/16/1998) > Matrox G100 > SB 64 sound card > This didn't happen before I reinstalled, has anyone experienced a simular > situation? > Thanks, > John

I had a similar problem a while ago. The cause was that I had overclocked my Voodoo2 slightly too much. Once I slid the bar down a tad, it worked just fine. Check in your Voodoo2 tab... The Excelsior "Second star to the right, and straight on 'til morning..." Captain James Kirk [William Shatner], The Undiscovered Country

Thanks! That seems to have done the trick so far! I am still wondering why it didn't do it before even thought I had glide 2.54 installed before I reinstalled GPL! I am still testing it out a bit more to see if it happens again though. Thanks, John

Hi again!, Just another quick question! Is there a site out there I can go to where I can find a list of different glide library versions to download? (2.53, 2.51, etc.) It seems that most of the driver sites just list the latest driver for your card. (i.e. diamondmm.com). Is there also a quick way to tell what the version of a glide2x file is? With this computer, this is my first experience using a 3d accelerator! :) (give me time it's only been 9 months!) Later, John

I had exactly the same problem with my Creative Voodoo2 12Mb. Fixed: First I removed the whole card and then reinstalled Creatives own drivers and now it doesn't freeze, but I get small graphical errors(specially with mousepointer) My Quake2 was also doing similar screenfreezes, so I also installed MiniGL drivers. I think I will still reinstall Glide 2.53 drivers back, Creatives are sooooooo slow... :) It's really frustrating to get screenfreeze in a league race, and specially when you're leading... :( John Courtney kirjoitti viestiss? ...

You can find all the older Diamond drivers at their FTP site ftp://ftp.diamondmm.com/pub/display/monster/monster3d2/ I don't know of any other site with the full run down of just the glide versions. As for telling which version you have, I would say just check it in the display control panel, voodoo tab, system info. Or, you can select the file and check its properties. Hope this helps. Cheers, Bob

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> Hi again!, > Just another quick question! Is there a site out there I can go to > where I can find a list of different glide library versions to download? > (2.53, 2.51, etc.) It seems that most of the driver sites just list the > latest driver for your card. (i.e. diamondmm.com). Is there also a quick > way to tell what the version of a glide2x file is? With this computer, > this is my first experience using a 3d accelerator! :) (give me time it's > only been 9 months!) > Later, > John

Go to http://www.3dfx.com and get the Quake III drivers and they should work well for DirectX 6.1 games, older DirectX games and GPL. % I had exactly the same problem with my Creative Voodoo2 12Mb. % Fixed: % First I removed the whole card and then reinstalled Creatives own drivers % and now it doesn't freeze, % but I get small graphical errors(specially with mousepointer) % My Quake2 was also doing similar screenfreezes, so I also installed MiniGL % drivers. % I think I will still reinstall Glide 2.53 drivers back, Creatives are % sooooooo slow... :) % It's really frustrating to get screenfreeze in a league race, and specially % when you're leading... :( % John Courtney kirjoitti viestiss? ... % >Hi, % > I just reciently reinstalled GPL because the patch should be here % >soon so I wanted to use a fresh copy. My problem now is that after a few % >laps GPL just freezes at any track! I could run 4-5 laps at Monza and % >they without reason the screen just freezes, I can still hear the sound % >like normal, I can stop the car, but my screen is frozen, I have to % >CTRL+ALT+DELETE to return to the desktop and after that the perfromance % >of graphics seems slowed, the start menu doesn't just jump up, I restart % >my computer and everything is back to normal as far as that goes. I have % >a feeling it is DirectX 6.1 or something, I installed a while ago. There % >deson't seem to be a straight forward way to just uninstall driextx % >thought. Anyway here are some of my system stats: % > % >AMD K6-2 333 % >128 MB RAM % >Diamond Monster Voodoo II (12/16/1998) % >Matrox G100 % >SB 64 sound card % > % >This didn't happen before I reinstalled, has anyone experienced a simular % >situation? % > % >Thanks, % >John -- **************************** Michael E. Carver ************************* Upside out, or inside down...False alarm the only game in town. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=<[ /./. [- < ]>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

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> >Hi, > > I just reciently reinstalled GPL because the patch should be here > >soon so I wanted to use a fresh copy. My problem now is that after a few > >laps GPL just freezes at any track! I could run 4-5 laps at Monza and > >they without reason the screen just freezes, I can still hear the sound > >like normal, I can stop the car, but my screen is frozen, I have to > >CTRL+ALT+DELETE to return to the desktop and after that the perfromance > >of graphics seems slowed, the start menu doesn't just jump up, I restart > >my computer and everything is back to normal as far as that goes. I have > >a feeling it is DirectX 6.1 or something, I installed a while ago. There > >deson't seem to be a straight forward way to just uninstall driextx > >thought. Anyway here are some of my system stats: > I had a similar problem a while ago. The cause was that I had > overclocked my Voodoo2 slightly too much. Once I slid the bar down a > tad, it worked just fine.

Yep, it worked for me too! I had it 'overclocked only one Mhz but it was too much. Putting it back at 90MHz (instead of 91) solved the problem for now (didn't experience a freeze for the last week). J.H.Hovius.vcf < 1K Download