GPL and XP = Problems

I"ve installed GPL on my new drive with XP and I'm having problems. Basically, GPL will start and is fine up to where you select a track. When I select a track, it returns me to the desktop. This is the procedure I followed in installing: I wanted to keep all of my settings from my old drive (Win98), so I copied all of the files in the c:sierra/gpl folder over to the new drive. At this point, GPL would not start at all, so I decided to install from the GPL CD over it, then applied the 1.2 patch, the D3D patch and then the fast CPU patch (in that order). That left me with the situation that I'm in. It won't even run under Compatibility mode. GPL is installed on an NTFS partition, and the videocard is a Radeon 9700Pro, running the latest Cat 3.5 drivers (just release today), and SBLive card. I know that the SBLive card will give me sound problems, but GPL should at least run, right? Any help/suggestions in getting GPL to work correctly would be greatly appreciated. (Thank Goodness that I still have it on the old Win98 drive. I just swap out the drive and I'm up and running. But, I want to run everything under XP eventually....) Thanks! Bert

try gem+, a utility that lets you use all kinds of graphic accelerators. For the soundblaster, turn the hardware acceleration off to get proper sounds. with xp, im getting all kinds of errors installing winvroc too, but luckely the only thing you have to do is ignore them. "BRH" <[email hidden]> schreef in bericht news:3HOJa.1797$R73.993@sccrnsc04... > I"ve installed GPL on my new drive with XP and I'm having problems. > Basically, GPL will start and is fine up to where you select a track.When > I select a track, it returns me to the desktop. > > This is the procedure I followed in installing: > > I wanted to keep all of my settings from my old drive (Win98), so I copied > all of the files in the c:sierra/gpl folder over to the new drive. Atthis

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> point, GPL would not start at all, so I decided to install from the GPL CD > over it, then applied the 1.2 patch, the D3D patch and then the fast CPU > patch (in that order). That left me with the situation that I'm in. It > won't even run under Compatibility mode. > > GPL is installed on an NTFS partition, and the videocard is a Radeon > 9700Pro, running the latest Cat 3.5 drivers (just release today), and

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> card. I know that the SBLive card will give me sound problems, but GPL > should at least run, right? > > Any help/suggestions in getting GPL to work correctly would be greatly > appreciated. (Thank Goodness that I still have it on the old Win98 drive. > I just swap out the drive and I'm up and running. But, I want to run > everything under XP eventually....) > > Thanks! > Bert > >

YOu probably dont have disk indexing turned on...but heres a guide to running GPL on XP http://eaglewoman.simracing.dk/gpl/faq-xp.htm "BRH" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:3HOJa.1797$R73.993@sccrnsc04...

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> I"ve installed GPL on my new drive with XP and I'm having problems. > Basically, GPL will start and is fine up to where you select a track. When > I select a track, it returns me to the desktop. > > This is the procedure I followed in installing: > > I wanted to keep all of my settings from my old drive (Win98), so I copied > all of the files in the c:sierra/gpl folder over to the new drive. At this > point, GPL would not start at all, so I decided to install from the GPL CD > over it, then applied the 1.2 patch, the D3D patch and then the fast CPU > patch (in that order). That left me with the situation that I'm in. It > won't even run under Compatibility mode. > > GPL is installed on an NTFS partition, and the videocard is a Radeon > 9700Pro, running the latest Cat 3.5 drivers (just release today), and SBLive > card. I know that the SBLive card will give me sound problems, but GPL > should at least run, right? > > Any help/suggestions in getting GPL to work correctly would be greatly > appreciated. (Thank Goodness that I still have it on the old Win98 drive. > I just swap out the drive and I'm up and running. But, I want to run > everything under XP eventually....) > > Thanks! > Bert > >

"Guido Mielekamp" wrote... > try gem+, a utility that lets you use all kinds of graphic > accelerators. For the soundblaster, turn the hardware > acceleration off to get proper sounds. with xp, im getting > all kinds of errors installing winvroc too, but luckely > the only thing you have to do is ignore them. To get rid of the WinVROC errors, rename or delete (depending on how brave you are) "riched.dll" (or somesuch) from the Program Files\VROC\WinVROC directory. Jan. =---

"Jan Verschueren" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:JcUJa.64729$[email hidden]... > To get rid of the WinVROC errors, rename or delete (depending on how brave > you are) "riched.dll" (or somesuch) from the Program Files\VROC\WinVROC > directory. You don't have to be very brave to delete it. :) WinXP will use the correct dll found in \Windows\system32\ (riched32.dll) -- Jone Tytlandsvik http://tytlandsvik.no