Ok, GPL guru's, what's the problem here? I have plenty of disk space and
a lot of RAM, running a Voodoo3 3000 and SBLive with the 1.1.0.3 patch.
When I select a track to enter, no matter which one, I get an error that
says "unable to initialize replay system", I press ok, and get "exiting
race weekend", press ok, and I'm back to the track selection screen.
Ideas?
Respond via this newsgroup as email will not work.
TIA!!!
Rich
I had this once with only the Nurburgring, figured it was a disk space
or RAM problem cos when I upgraded my computer the problem disappeared.
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I have the same problem with my new machine. Posted here and at the APEX
GPL forum a few weeks ago and didn't get any real tips. Wrote Sierra
support and they mentioned that they had never seen it before and to
uninstall, reinstall, etc.
My machine that has the problem is a P3 500, 19GB, 756MB RAM, TNT2 Ultra
running Win98. I get the error in software mode and OpenGL mode. Plenty of
disk space on GPL drive (2GB).
How much RAM do you have? I was thinking that somehow the large amount of
RAM I have throws GPL off.
Where does GPL write the replays?
Let me know if you come up with anything!
jb
Jeffrey, I think I know our problem... you have 756M RAM, and I have
768M... I think this has something to do with GPL initializing the replay
BUFFER system. I too wrote Sierra and they tried convincing me its my
screen resolution size. Heh, NOT. I haven't tested this yet, but I bet if
I drop my memory down to 256 that it'll work fine on this system. Don't
change a thing in the machine, but try dropping you memory down to 256M
and see if it works, I'll drop my to 512M tonight when I get home and
I'll see if it works. Then, let's post our results here. Then, maybe some
GPL .INI guru can tell us of an option in the .INI to control the replay
buffer size. I bet if there were such an option, and we told GPL to only
use 128M or so for replay, that it would work too. <g>
Rich
Guys...
Try adding the following to your core.ini:
[ Replay ]
replayMemoryOverride = 65535
That should force GPL to use 64MB for its replay buffer.
Trips
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>> disk space on GPL drive (2GB).
>> How much RAM do you have? I was thinking that somehow the large amount of
>> RAM I have throws GPL off.
>> Where does GPL write the replays?
>> Let me know if you come up with anything!
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>Jeffrey, I think I know our problem... you have 756M RAM, and I have >768M... I think this has something to do with GPL initializing the replay >BUFFER system. I too wrote Sierra and they tried convincing me its my >screen resolution size. Heh, NOT. I haven't tested this yet, but I bet if >I drop my memory down to 256 that it'll work fine on this system. Don't >change a thing in the machine, but try dropping you memory down to 256M >and see if it works, I'll drop my to 512M tonight when I get home and >I'll see if it works. Then, let's post our results here. Then, maybe some >GPL .INI guru can tell us of an option in the .INI to control the replay >buffer size. I bet if there were such an option, and we told GPL to only >use 128M or so for replay, that it would work too. <g> >Rich >> I have the same problem with my new machine. Posted here and at the APEX >> GPL forum a few weeks ago and didn't get any real tips. Wrote Sierra >> support and they mentioned that they had never seen it before and to >> uninstall, reinstall, etc. >> My machine that has the problem is a P3 500, 19GB, 756MB RAM, TNT2 Ultra >> running Win98. I get the error in software mode and OpenGL mode. Plentysays...
That did it, thanks you very much!!!
Rich
YES! - fixed mine too. thanks
