F12002 won't start

I have a Pentium 2.0 GHz laptop with a ATI 9000 card with 64 meg, and 512 Meg ram. It use to run f12002 great, and I could multiplay with others on my network. I installed DX9 for another game, and had to reinstall winxp awhile back. Everything seems fine, and I can run GPL, Netkar, but now when I try to start f12002, the screen goes blank right away, and I have to kill the computer to get out of the screen. I thought the install might be corrupt, so I removed and reinstalled F1202, but it still behaves the same way. Any suggestions?? Thanks, Bob

You may have turned sound acceleration away from max in dxdiag. F12002 always goes to black screen if sound acceleration is not set on max on my comp. cheers "wasson" <wasson[remove]@prodigy.net> wrote in message news:IysHa.11050$[email hidden]...

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> I have a Pentium 2.0 GHz laptop with a ATI 9000 card with 64 meg, and 512 > Meg ram. It use > to run f12002 great, and I could multiplay with others on my network. > I installed DX9 for another game, and had to reinstall winxp awhile back. > Everything seems > fine, and I can run GPL, Netkar, but now when I try to start f12002, the > screen goes blank > right away, and I have to kill the computer to get out of the screen. I > thought the install might > be corrupt, so I removed and reinstalled F1202, but it still behaves the > same way. > Any suggestions?? > > Thanks, > > Bob > >

RF wrote: > > You may have turned sound acceleration away from max in dxdiag. F12002 > always goes to black screen if sound acceleration is not set on max on my > comp. > That or (re)run the 3Dconfig.exe inside your F1 2k2 folder. Paul

Thanks for the info. You were very close. I looked at the sound, and remembered that I had installed a program called Total Record. Setting the sound back to original allowed F12002 to now run. Thanks alot for the help Bob "RF" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:IZuHa.7689$[email hidden]...

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> You may have turned sound acceleration away from max in dxdiag. F12002 > always goes to black screen if sound acceleration is not set on max on my > comp. > > cheers > > "wasson" <wasson[remove]@prodigy.net> wrote in message > news:IysHa.11050$[email hidden]... > > I have a Pentium 2.0 GHz laptop with a ATI 9000 card with 64 meg, and

512 > > Meg ram. It use > > to run f12002 great, and I could multiplay with others on my network. > > I installed DX9 for another game, and had to reinstall winxp awhileback.

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> > Everything seems > > fine, and I can run GPL, Netkar, but now when I try to start f12002, the > > screen goes blank > > right away, and I have to kill the computer to get out of the screen. I > > thought the install might > > be corrupt, so I removed and reinstalled F1202, but it still behaves the > > same way. > > Any suggestions?? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Bob > > > > > >