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GPL and Win2k

6 posts by 5 people · 18 Feb 2000 - 22 Feb 2000

Anyone had any success with this yet? I'm using a V3 3K with the new Win2K drivers and all I get is a hard crash:) When I fire it off it gets to the splash screen then poof computer is foobar. If I change from 3dfx to software it works perfectly but looks like crap. So far I've tried DTR and N3 and both work perfectly. The ones I thought wouldn't work did and the one I thought would didn't:) -Scottie
I wonder if it might be a joystick driver problem. It doesn't sound to be, as it sounds like you get far enough to switch to the software graphics driver. At any rate, GPL hangs on my NT system when it finds improperly configured joysticks. I'm hoping W2k lets me use the MSFF wheel with GPL; sure would like to see it with the second processor going. Has anyone had success yet with FF on W2K? Michael.
Mark F. 19 Feb 2000#520244
Well, I was going to tell ya it was a D3D/Glide Driver problem for you card, but n3 and dtr games work. Though, I would recommend you go and download the latest release of voodoo 3 drivers that didn't make the rtm release. Though, after, should work fine,c ause it's all good here! -- Sincerely, Mark F. Director Of "SimGo, Inc." SimGo, Your SimRacing Specialists Site Is At: Oh Yea, And Lets Not Forget About The N3 Multi-Rank System! http://members.xoom.com/DaRacerz/ http://www.crosswinds.net/~daracerz/ http://simgo.dynip.com (Usually 24/7, My System) Dedicated SimRacing Newsgroup Server! AT: NNTP Address: simgo.dynip.com Port: 119 (Default) Contact Info: ICQ: 2164331
Walter Ego 21 Feb 2000#520390
Yep, FF with an MSFF wheel worked great in Beta3 and RC1. However, when I tested the time-limited 'final' version, the FF drivers were buggy as hell - full left force when going in a straight line, with no force while turning right. Here's hoping they got it sorted for the final release - GPL rocks on dual 550s! Scott - are you using a dual CPU machine? Quake3 locks solid when you enable SMP with a Voodoo3 as the drivers are incompatible, I wonder if this could be the case here?
Quoted text (13 lines)> I wonder if it might be a joystick driver problem. It doesn't sound to be, > as it sounds like you get far enough to switch to the software graphics > driver. At any rate, GPL hangs on my NT system when it finds improperly > configured joysticks. I'm hoping W2k lets me use the MSFF wheel with GPL; > sure would like to see it with the second processor going. Has anyone had > success yet with FF on W2K? > Michael. > > Anyone had any success with this yet? I'm using a V3 3K with the new
Win2K > > drivers and all I get is a hard crash:) When I fire it off it gets to the
Quoted text (7 lines)> > splash screen then poof computer is foobar. If I change from 3dfx to > > software it works perfectly but looks like crap. > > So far I've tried DTR and N3 and both work perfectly. The ones I thought > > wouldn't work did and the one I thought would didn't:) > > -Scottie
Actually, GPL _was_ specifically designed to take advantage of a multi-processor system (well, a two-pocessor system, anyway). There were one or two small programming glitches in 1.0 that caused problems on a multi-processor system, but those were fixed in version 1.1. Randy

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