Help, GTR 2002 is Eating My Computer!

Hi Experts: I did a full install of F1-2002 a couple of weeks ago, and added that two part carset, base and extended, where the car's paint is supposed to change from race to race. That worked great and the F1 side has been cool. Last weekend I downloaded a bunch of GTR-2002 files from Blackhole and last night I ran the file from Blackhole that had a name like "final release". This was the install file. The sim seemed to install fine, I found the GTR 2002 startup file in the F1 2002 directory and fired that baby up. I got the cool opening graphics of Porsches, Vipers and Lamborginis. When I got out of the opening movie I found myself in a screen where I was to enter my name. The screen didn't seem to fit completely on my display, and it was apparent that I was only looking at part of the image. The "Enter your name" message was off the display on the right, and no buttons were visible. I had mouse control of the cursor, and I could type into the name field. But the <enter> key yielded only a ping sound, and I was unable to leave that screen. I couldn't escape or even <CTL-ALT-DEL>. So I had to hit the reset key. The system came back up with that blue Scandisk screen that warns of possible damage to the files. I tried again with the same results. When friends came over for an evening of online NFS/PU, that game would freeze shortly after it started. This also required a hard reset and after that happened 3 times it was apparent that GTR 2002 had not been playing nice. A full tape recovery from a January backup turns out to be less entertaining on a Friday night than racing NFS/PU online. My desktop is at 1600x1200x32. Because of the high resolution I'm using large fonts. F1-2002 was running fine at 1024x768x16. I haven't applied the no-CD patch. A spin through Deja shows that GTR-2002 doesn't like my desktop settings. Rather than finding a hint here and a tip there in the 942 messages found on deja, could someone point me at a comprehensive list of things to do prior to starting my first GTR race so I can avoid these problems? My system is a P3/600 running WIN98 SE with Voodoo 5 and a Santa Cruz sound card. As stated, F1-2002 runs fine. Thanks Larry

In article <[email hidden]>, Larry Lindstrom <[email hidden]> writes

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>Hi Experts: > > When I got out of the opening movie I found >myself in a screen where I was to enter my name. >The screen didn't seem to fit completely on my >display, and it was apparent that I was only >looking at part of the image. The "Enter your >name" message was off the display on the right, >and no buttons were visible. I had mouse >control of the cursor, and I could type into >the name field. But the <enter> key yielded >only a ping sound, and I was unable to leave >that screen. I couldn't escape or even ><CTL-ALT-DEL>. So I had to hit the reset key. >The system came back up with that blue Scandisk >screen that warns of possible damage to the >files. > > I tried again with the same results. >

Perhaps your monitor wasn't correctly setup for the resolution that the game had changed to and all you needed to do, in order to see what was required to be entered, was to adjust monitor via its own buttons. > Larry -- Peter Ives (AKA Pete Ivington) Remove ALL_STRESS before replying via email If you know what's good for you, don't listen to me :) GPLRank Joystick -50.63 Wheel -21.77

Peter Ives wrote:

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> > In article <[email hidden]>, Larry Lindstrom > <[email hidden]> writes > >Hi Experts: > > > > When I got out of the opening movie I found > >myself in a screen where I was to enter my name. > >The screen didn't seem to fit completely on my > >display, and it was apparent that I was only > >looking at part of the image. The "Enter your > >name" message was off the display on the right, > >and no buttons were visible. I had mouse > >control of the cursor, and I could type into > >the name field. But the <enter> key yielded > >only a ping sound, and I was unable to leave > >that screen. I couldn't escape or even > ><CTL-ALT-DEL>. So I had to hit the reset key. > >The system came back up with that blue Scandisk > >screen that warns of possible damage to the > >files. > > > > I tried again with the same results. > > > > Perhaps your monitor wasn't correctly setup for the resolution that the > game had changed to and all you needed to do, in order to see what was > required to be entered, was to adjust monitor via its own buttons.

Thanks Peter: No, I adjusted the monitor to fit the image. Larry

"Larry Lindstrom" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> Hi Experts: > snip > When I got out of the opening movie I found > myself in a screen where I was to enter my name. > The screen didn't seem to fit completely on my > display, and it was apparent that I was only > looking at part of the image. The "Enter your > name" message was off the display on the right, > and no buttons were visible. I had mouse > control of the cursor, and I could type into > the name field. But the <enter> key yielded > only a ping sound, and I was unable to leave > that screen. I couldn't escape or even > <CTL-ALT-DEL>. So I had to hit the reset key. > The system came back up with that blue Scandisk > screen that warns of possible damage to the > files. > >> My desktop is at 1600x1200x32. Because of > the high resolution I'm using large fonts. > F1-2002 was running fine at 1024x768x16. I > haven't applied the no-CD patch. > > A spin through Deja shows that GTR-2002 > doesn't like my desktop settings. >

Its definitly your fonts . I had the same problem back in December and posted the following mesage: Just a heads up for those few of you that may have changed your font sizes from their "normal" DPI setting to some custom setting. This *will* cause a problem with the pre-game panel of GTR2002; the panel where you set your player name and decide on number and class of opponents. In my case the panel was displayed missing the right side and the bottom of the panel. Of course the right side has half of the option setting buttons on it and the bottom has all the exit and continue type buttons on it. The only way I could exit the screen was by ctrl-alt-del. After days of messing around with options, video card drivers, reinstalling F1-2002 several times and downloading GTR 3 times (thank heavens for cable :) ) , I finally picked up a clue on the simbim forums. Reset my font DPI back to normal and now the pre-game panel shows up as it was meant to. Excellent game , BTW, well worth the effort it needed to get it to run DavErb

David Erb wrote: < Snip > > Its definitly your fonts . I had the same problem back in December Thanks Dave: It's definitely my fonts. After a full system recovery from tape, I changed the fonts to small, and made no other changes, it works. I'm jazzed. Now I'm having problems getting the patch to run. I'll describe those in a new thread if I don't find anything in Deja. Thanks Larry