N3 Online System Crashing Blues

Nothing overclocked here, Latest greatest Audio, Video drivers. This Sim just wants to dump you to the desktop now and then. Seems some experience this, others do not. Hope a fix is in the works, or I figure this out, or someone else does. PII 450, 128meg ram, V2-SLI, Diamond MX300 Rick

Getting the following in the Debug file just before it crashes: Trap handler called with exception 94f64c code c0000005 flags 0 trap addr 4fb741 context_flags 1001f CONTEXT_INTEGER Register contents: EAX: 0x00016b4710 EBX: 0x0000000280 ECX: 0x0005304f00 EDX: 0x000a88006c ESI: 0x0005304fc6 EDI: 0x0000000001

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> Nothing overclocked here, Latest greatest Audio, Video drivers. This > Sim just wants to dump you to the desktop now and then. Seems some > experience this, others do not. Hope a fix is in the works, or I figure > this out, or someone else does. > PII 450, 128meg ram, V2-SLI, Diamond MX300 > Rick

Your system is Identical to mine (except I run a PII 350, but that shouldn't affect stability). I have had no problems with N3, but right before N3 came out I had tons of problems with a few other games. The fix for me was completely removing the V2 drivers (mine are a pair of STB Blackmagics) in safe mode, then installing the drivers that came with the cards (glide2x version 2.50) now all of my stuff works great. Apparently some people are having trouble with the latest drivers and SLI. This might now work, my problem was usually a hard lock-up, but I had a couple crash to desktops. Also, if you do this I don't think you will be able to run anything that requires the latest drivers. Hope I helped, Rick Miller

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> Getting the following in the Debug file just before it crashes: > Trap handler called with exception 94f64c code c0000005 flags 0 > trap addr 4fb741 context_flags 1001f > CONTEXT_INTEGER Register contents: > EAX: 0x00016b4710 > EBX: 0x0000000280 > ECX: 0x0005304f00 > EDX: 0x000a88006c > ESI: 0x0005304fc6 > EDI: 0x0000000001 > > Nothing overclocked here, Latest greatest Audio, Video drivers. This > > Sim just wants to dump you to the desktop now and then. Seems some > > experience this, others do not. Hope a fix is in the works, or I figure > > this out, or someone else does. > > PII 450, 128meg ram, V2-SLI, Diamond MX300 > > Rick

I would guess some sort of IP instability... TCP/IP instabilities can take a system down to it's knee's. Quickly. Are you experiencing this with any other Sim, or have you noticed any other flakyness with IP? -Larry

Well I run GPL online and I never experience anything other than the problems associated with the 1.1 patch which destroyed my online experience with GPL. GPL did not crash though. Could be an IP problem though. I captured a snapshot of the crash in the debug file and have sent it off to pappy. Thanks for the response. Rick

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> I would guess some sort of IP instability... > TCP/IP instabilities can take a system down to it's knee's. Quickly. > Are you experiencing this with any other Sim, or have you noticed any other > flakyness with IP? > -Larry > > Nothing overclocked here, Latest greatest Audio, Video drivers. This > > Sim just wants to dump you to the desktop now and then. Seems some > > experience this, others do not. Hope a fix is in the works, or I figure > > this out, or someone else does. > > PII 450, 128meg ram, V2-SLI, Diamond MX300 > > Rick

Your correct in that alot of new games require the latest drivers along with DX6

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> Your system is Identical to mine (except I run a PII 350, but that shouldn't > affect stability). I have had no problems with N3, but right before N3 came > out I had tons of problems with a few other games. The fix for me was > completely removing the V2 drivers (mine are a pair of STB Blackmagics) in > safe mode, then installing the drivers that came with the cards (glide2x > version 2.50) now all of my stuff works great. Apparently some people are > having trouble with the latest drivers and SLI. This might now work, my > problem was usually a hard lock-up, but I had a couple crash to desktops. > Also, if you do this I don't think you will be able to run anything that > requires the latest drivers. > Hope I helped, > Rick Miller > > Getting the following in the Debug file just before it crashes: > > Trap handler called with exception 94f64c code c0000005 flags 0 > > trap addr 4fb741 context_flags 1001f > > CONTEXT_INTEGER Register contents: > > EAX: 0x00016b4710 > > EBX: 0x0000000280 > > ECX: 0x0005304f00 > > EDX: 0x000a88006c > > ESI: 0x0005304fc6 > > EDI: 0x0000000001 > > > Nothing overclocked here, Latest greatest Audio, Video drivers. This > > > Sim just wants to dump you to the desktop now and then. Seems some > > > experience this, others do not. Hope a fix is in the works, or I figure > > > this out, or someone else does. > > > PII 450, 128meg ram, V2-SLI, Diamond MX300 > > > Rick

Its a bug in N3 ... you have to have at least 1 ai car in practice in the pits...if not ...as soon as all HUMANS take up all avaliable slots it dumps you into windoze. I host a server every nught for 3 hours. If I have no ai or less then the total allowed in the setup IT WILL DUMP. If I have more ai then the Setup it runs fine. Aman

> Its a bug in N3 ... you have to have at least 1 ai car in practice in the > pits...if not ...as soon as all HUMANS take up all avaliable slots it dumps > you into windoze. I host a server every nught for 3 hours. If I have no ai or > less then the total allowed in the setup IT WILL DUMP. If I have more ai then > the Setup it runs fine. Great! at least something to try! Hitch-Hiker