Had a very strange thing at Monza yesterday. Everytime I went to load
Monza GPL would crash. Tried a few other tracks and they all worked
fine. After tying loads of different things, I finally replaced the
monza track .dat file and things are now back to normal. Weird. Anyone
else get anything like this happen to them? Running GPL 1.1 by the way.
Neil
Neil Everett wrote;
A variety of things can cause a file to be corrupted.
Such as a power outage or near lightning that causes the
lights to blink. Or GPL may have a bug, or any other program
including Windows could have a bug that can overwrite
harddrive data. If you have been programming, you might
have a wild pointer. Run Scandisk, or some other utility.
I once had a power outage that caused some problems, and
I was able to get a listing of every corrupted file by using
chkdsk (DOS). I had to reinstall a half dozen games.
If you don't check, some of the bugs caused can be very
subtle and effect gameplay without you ever knowing it is
a corrupted file. Some people do a complete harddrive
format and reinstall everything including the OS once a year.
Tom
Neil,
I haven't had exactly what you describe, but do occasionally get a weird problem
at Monza (GPL 1.1). When I leave the pits the Eagle engine sounds like it is
firing on 3 cylinders and won't rev over about 6000 rpm. Monza is the only track
where this happens, and then only on rare occasions. This is happening online,
and leaving/rejoining the server doesn't help. I have never figured out how to
fix it, other than to race somewhere else and then come back to a different
Monza server. Never happened with GPL 1.0 either.
Keith.
