Grand Prix 4 crash

I know that plenty of people have had problems with this game, but please - has anyone got any ideas? I have GP4, and it's been running fine - not one crash. But for seemingly no reason, it gets past the 'Safedisc' screen and then crashes to the desktop! Because of this, I have updated all of my display, sound, etc. drivers and DirectX. The only thing I have done is set up a network card since it last run ok. Surely this couldn't have affected it? I have Windows Me, and a Geforce2 MX. Thanks for any help. -- Andrew Jones [please remove 'spluc.' from my email address]

Andrew Jones wrote:

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> I know that plenty of people have had problems with this game, but > please - has anyone got any ideas? > I have GP4, and it's been running fine - not one crash. But for > seemingly no reason, it gets past the 'Safedisc' screen and then crashes > to the desktop! Because of this, I have updated all of my display, > sound, etc. drivers and DirectX. > The only thing I have done is set up a network card since it last run > ok. Surely this couldn't have affected it? > > I have Windows Me, and a Geforce2 MX. Thanks for any help.

And the patch does absolutely nothing. -- Andrew Jones [please remove 'spluc.' from my email address]

Try running with the downloads you find here: http://lfrs.com/gp4/download/downloads.shtml. So start GP4 from GPxPatch, and use the decrypted exe. I'm not sure it will help, but you never know.... Bart "Andrew Jones" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:b7cp32$g29$[email hidden]...

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> I know that plenty of people have had problems with this game, but > please - has anyone got any ideas? > I have GP4, and it's been running fine - not one crash. But for > seemingly no reason, it gets past the 'Safedisc' screen and then crashes > to the desktop! Because of this, I have updated all of my display, > sound, etc. drivers and DirectX. > The only thing I have done is set up a network card since it last run > ok. Surely this couldn't have affected it? > > I have Windows Me, and a Geforce2 MX. Thanks for any help. > -- > Andrew Jones > [please remove 'spluc.' from my email address] >

No, they didn't help. Thanks for trying, though... and GPxPatch looks interesting! Maybe I'll be able to try it one day :) Bart Westra wrote:

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> Try running with the downloads you find here: > http://lfrs.com/gp4/download/downloads.shtml. So start GP4 from GPxPatch, > and use the decrypted exe. > I'm not sure it will help, but you never know.... > > Bart > > "Andrew Jones" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:b7cp32$g29$[email hidden]... > >>I know that plenty of people have had problems with this game, but >>please - has anyone got any ideas? >>I have GP4, and it's been running fine - not one crash. But for >>seemingly no reason, it gets past the 'Safedisc' screen and then crashes >>to the desktop! Because of this, I have updated all of my display, >>sound, etc. drivers and DirectX. >>The only thing I have done is set up a network card since it last run >>ok. Surely this couldn't have affected it? >> >>I have Windows Me, and a Geforce2 MX. Thanks for any help.

-- Andrew Jones [please remove 'spluc.' from my email address]