N3 Video Lockups

I've been experiencing frequent video lockups with N3 in direct 3D mode. The video freezes, but the games continues on. I need to re-boot the system when this happens. My system: PII 450mhz 128meg ram STB Velocity 4400 AGP 16mb video card DirectX 6.1 I run the graphic options maxed out, full field, using a joystick with either the papyrus or Direct X driver. Everything works great, graphics fast and smooth, full sound, but at a random time the video will freeze and the game will keep going, forcing me to re-boot. This happens alot on the 'Vegas' and 'Phoenix' tracks, intermittently on the 'Bristol' and 'Rockingham' tracks. I've been able to get it to fail on a few others at random times as well. Tracks like 'Vegas' will only run mabey 10 laps before failing. It mostly happens during a race, but it's happened during a qualifing session once. With N99 it rarely happened. I've tried the latest drivers found at the Gateway computers and STB sights, tried using earlier drivers, backed off on the graphics settings, tried resolution at 16 and 24 bits. I'm not sure if the graphics cpu is being overclocked or not, not able to adjust it. It's happend a few times in software mode, but nowhere near as often. I'm wondering if anyone has if anyone has run into this and found a fix for it. Not sure if it's an issue with N3 and this Video card, or a driver problem. I've run Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator, which gives the video a workout, and never had this happen. I've tried everything I can think of, no luck. Any suggestions or ideas would be appreciated. This is the only problem, N3 runs excellent otherwise. I'm very happy with it. Thanks in advance, Mike --------------------------------------------------- Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice Doggie", until you can find a rock. --------------------------------------------------- Minnesota - The state where nothing is allowed. ---------------------------------------------------

I also am having these problems. Similar configuration but I have a 12MB VoodDoo2. Nothing in my system is overclocked either. Even though the video freezes, you can hear the car go on and wreck... Mike Kogan

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> I've been experiencing frequent video lockups with N3 in direct 3D > mode. The video freezes, but the games continues on. I need to > re-boot the system when this happens. > My system: PII 450mhz > 128meg ram > STB Velocity 4400 AGP 16mb video card > DirectX 6.1 > I run the graphic options maxed out, full field, using a joystick with > either the papyrus or Direct X driver. Everything works great, > graphics fast and smooth, full sound, but at a random time the video > will freeze and the game will keep going, forcing me to re-boot. This > happens alot on the 'Vegas' and 'Phoenix' tracks, intermittently on > the 'Bristol' and 'Rockingham' tracks. I've been able to get it to > fail on a few others at random times as well. Tracks like 'Vegas' > will only run mabey 10 laps before failing. > It mostly happens during a race, but it's happened during a qualifing > session once. With N99 it rarely happened. > I've tried the latest drivers found at the Gateway computers and STB > sights, tried using earlier drivers, backed off on the graphics > settings, tried resolution at 16 and 24 bits. I'm not sure if the > graphics cpu is being overclocked or not, not able to adjust it. > It's happend a few times in software mode, but nowhere near as often. > I'm wondering if anyone has if anyone has run into this and found a > fix for it. Not sure if it's an issue with N3 and this Video card, or > a driver problem. I've run Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator, which > gives the video a workout, and never had this happen. > I've tried everything I can think of, no luck. Any suggestions or > ideas would be appreciated. This is the only problem, N3 runs > excellent otherwise. I'm very happy with it. > Thanks in advance, > Mike > --------------------------------------------------- > Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice Doggie", > until you can find a rock. > --------------------------------------------------- > Minnesota - The state where nothing is allowed. > ---------------------------------------------------