F12002 & GTR2000 - Run in compatiblity mode?

Let me try again. I've been playing these 2 games in Windows 98SE without any problems. But after I installed Win XP and re-install both F12002 & GTR 2002, I keep getting kicked to the desktop after finishing a race or leaving a race circuit. Does these 2 games run normally in WIN XP or should I run in Windows Compatibility mode? Thank you. My system : Athlon XP 1600 DDR 512mb Shuttle Mainboard Geforce 4 Ti4200 128mb SoundBlaster Live WinXP Professional DirectX 8.1

I never have problems like this with these games. I would look at the drivers for your video first. Make sure you have downloaded and installed the latest drivers for your card. And there are different drivers for WinXP than Win98 just in case you are trying to use the same ones. After that, make sure your sound card drivers are the latest release also. Other than those, I can't think of anything except trying to run in a different mode, i.e. 16 bit instead of 32 bit color, or vice-versa Glen Pittman "santana" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:b18dnt$nsc$[email hidden]...

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> Let me try again. > I've been playing these 2 games in Windows 98SE without any problems. But > after I installed Win XP and re-install both F12002 & GTR 2002, I keep > getting kicked to the desktop after finishing a race or leaving a race > circuit. Does these 2 games run normally in WIN XP or should I run in > Windows Compatibility mode? > > Thank you. > > My system : > Athlon XP 1600 > DDR 512mb > Shuttle Mainboard > Geforce 4 Ti4200 128mb > SoundBlaster Live > WinXP Professional > DirectX 8.1 > > >

You say you had it running perfectly in Win 98... Then you changed to Win XP. Vital things to look for are graphic card drivers....98 and XP use different versions of the same version numbers. e.g ..... 41.09's in Win 98/Me flavour will taste different in XP flavour... Secondly the guy above is right....soundcard drivers from 98 to XP will influence as all GPL addicts will confirm :) It is nothing major wrong you can sleep easy,just a matter of elimination. AD

Thanks for replying Glen & Aidee. Yes, I'm aware of the driver issue that you mentioned. Right now I'm using the 41.09 WinXP driver. Haven't checked the sound card drivers tho. Will check it and feedback here. Best regards. "Aidee" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:b18ium$sns$[email hidden]... > You say you had it running perfectly in Win 98... > > Then you changed to Win XP. > > Vital things to look for are graphic card drivers....98 and XP usedifferent

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> versions of the same version numbers. > > e.g ..... 41.09's in Win 98/Me flavour will taste different in XP > flavour... > > Secondly the guy above is right....soundcard drivers from 98 to XP will > influence as all GPL addicts will confirm :) > > It is nothing major wrong you can sleep easy,just a matter of elimination. > > > AD > >

Just to confirm both run perfectly in XP...and that it is most likely a video driver issue. Marc "santana" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:b18dnt$nsc$[email hidden]...

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> Let me try again. > I've been playing these 2 games in Windows 98SE without any problems. But > after I installed Win XP and re-install both F12002 & GTR 2002, I keep > getting kicked to the desktop after finishing a race or leaving a race > circuit. Does these 2 games run normally in WIN XP or should I run in > Windows Compatibility mode? > > Thank you. > > My system : > Athlon XP 1600 > DDR 512mb > Shuttle Mainboard > Geforce 4 Ti4200 128mb > SoundBlaster Live > WinXP Professional > DirectX 8.1 > > >

"santana" <[email hidden]> wrote in news:b18jh9$oah$[email hidden]:

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> Thanks for replying Glen & Aidee. > Yes, I'm aware of the driver issue that you mentioned. Right now I'm > using the 41.09 WinXP driver. Haven't checked the sound card drivers > tho. Will check it and feedback here. > Best regards. > >

One other thing to consider is the ammount of RAM. Running 512mb of ram in XP is similar to running 128 in win9x. You may be running out of resources due to the increased footprint of xp. Does anyone know if utilities like Enditall2 run with xp? Make sure you shut down as many processes as possible and perhaps try to scrounge up at least another 256mb of RAM. dave henrie

I've never had to... Larry "santana" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:b18dnt$nsc$[email hidden]...

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> Let me try again. > I've been playing these 2 games in Windows 98SE without any problems. But > after I installed Win XP and re-install both F12002 & GTR 2002, I keep > getting kicked to the desktop after finishing a race or leaving a race > circuit. Does these 2 games run normally in WIN XP or should I run in > Windows Compatibility mode? > > Thank you. > > My system : > Athlon XP 1600 > DDR 512mb > Shuttle Mainboard > Geforce 4 Ti4200 128mb > SoundBlaster Live > WinXP Professional > DirectX 8.1 > > >

Did you 'upgrade' or clean install XP? If you did a dirty install over Windows 98, this your never-ending run of problems is just beginning... Larry "santana" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:b18dnt$nsc$[email hidden]...

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> Let me try again. > I've been playing these 2 games in Windows 98SE without any problems. But > after I installed Win XP and re-install both F12002 & GTR 2002, I keep > getting kicked to the desktop after finishing a race or leaving a race > circuit. Does these 2 games run normally in WIN XP or should I run in > Windows Compatibility mode? > > Thank you. > > My system : > Athlon XP 1600 > DDR 512mb > Shuttle Mainboard > Geforce 4 Ti4200 128mb > SoundBlaster Live > WinXP Professional > DirectX 8.1 > > >

I have had no problems doing that...but then my system was working properly before the upgrade... Marc "Larry" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:NZWZ9.53817$[email hidden]...

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> Did you 'upgrade' or clean install XP? > > If you did a dirty install over Windows 98, this your never-ending run of > problems is just beginning... > > Larry > > "santana" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:b18dnt$nsc$[email hidden]... > > Let me try again. > > I've been playing these 2 games in Windows 98SE without any problems.

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> > after I installed Win XP and re-install both F12002 & GTR 2002, I keep > > getting kicked to the desktop after finishing a race or leaving a race > > circuit. Does these 2 games run normally in WIN XP or should I run in > > Windows Compatibility mode? > > > > Thank you. > > > > My system : > > Athlon XP 1600 > > DDR 512mb > > Shuttle Mainboard > > Geforce 4 Ti4200 128mb > > SoundBlaster Live > > WinXP Professional > > DirectX 8.1 > > > > > > > >

I have not upgraded from Win98 to WinXP myself, I have always reformatted etc., But from all the people I have heard comment on this, it seems that WinXP does a great job when upgrading from Win98. Most people reported no problems at all when upgrading. That is a huge change from previous versions though. "Larry" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:NZWZ9.53817$[email hidden]...

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> Did you 'upgrade' or clean install XP? > > If you did a dirty install over Windows 98, this your never-ending run of > problems is just beginning... > > Larry > > "santana" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:b18dnt$nsc$[email hidden]... > > Let me try again. > > I've been playing these 2 games in Windows 98SE without any problems.

But

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> > after I installed Win XP and re-install both F12002 & GTR 2002, I keep > > getting kicked to the desktop after finishing a race or leaving a race > > circuit. Does these 2 games run normally in WIN XP or should I run in > > Windows Compatibility mode? > > > > Thank you. > > > > My system : > > Athlon XP 1600 > > DDR 512mb > > Shuttle Mainboard > > Geforce 4 Ti4200 128mb > > SoundBlaster Live > > WinXP Professional > > DirectX 8.1 > > > > > > > >

Are you running it from an account with administrator privileges? For some reason a lot of games require this. "santana" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:b18dnt$nsc$[email hidden]...

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> Let me try again. > I've been playing these 2 games in Windows 98SE without any problems. But > after I installed Win XP and re-install both F12002 & GTR 2002, I keep > getting kicked to the desktop after finishing a race or leaving a race > circuit. Does these 2 games run normally in WIN XP or should I run in > Windows Compatibility mode? > > Thank you. > > My system : > Athlon XP 1600 > DDR 512mb > Shuttle Mainboard > Geforce 4 Ti4200 128mb > SoundBlaster Live > WinXP Professional > DirectX 8.1 > > >

I'm running those games in XP with 384 meg of RAM with no problems. Also there is no need for Enditall2 with XP. You seldom need to shut things down in XP, and when you do it can easily be done from the task manager, which is much more comprehensive than the one in Win9x. "Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > > One other thing to consider is the ammount of RAM. Running 512mb > of ram in XP is similar to running 128 in win9x. You may be running outof > resources due to the increased footprint of xp. Does anyone know if > utilities like Enditall2 run with xp? Make sure you shut down as many > processes as possible and perhaps try to scrounge up at least another256mb > of RAM. > dave henrie

"santana" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:b18jh9$oah$[email hidden]...

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> Thanks for replying Glen & Aidee. > Yes, I'm aware of the driver issue that you mentioned. Right now I'm using > the 41.09 WinXP driver. Haven't checked the sound card drivers tho. Will > check it and feedback here. > Best regards. > >

FWIW, the 30.82 nvidia drivers have provided me with the best stability and performance over the last few months. Tried later version but always went back. Upgrading to DX9 shouldn't hurt, it actually improve my Combat Flight Sim 3 performance and had no negative impact on any games. AMD 1600+ ECS K7S5A 512 MB RAM GF4 Ti 4400 Turtle Beach Santa Cruz Win XP - SP1 DX9 -- Joe M.

It was a clean install of XP after formatting the hard disk. "Larry" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:NZWZ9.53817$[email hidden]...

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> Did you 'upgrade' or clean install XP? > > If you did a dirty install over Windows 98, this your never-ending run of > problems is just beginning... > > Larry >

I've updated my nvidia drivers from 41.09 to 42.70. My SBLive card are also using the latest drivers. Still the same problem. Will try to uninstall and reinstall the games again. "Marc Collins" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:cARZ9.3063$[email hidden]... > Just to confirm both run perfectly in XP...and that it is most likely a > video driver issue. > > Marc >

I've uninstall and then reinstall both F12002 and GTR2002, but still the same problem. Too bad for me, these 2 are really great games. Will try to solve problem and feedback here if solution found. Thank you very much to all who help. Best regards "santana" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:b1bb81$tap$[email hidden]... > I've updated my nvidia drivers from 41.09 to 42.70. My SBLive card arealso > using the latest drivers. > Still the same problem. Will try to uninstall and reinstall the gamesagain.

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> > > "Marc Collins" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:cARZ9.3063$[email hidden]... > > Just to confirm both run perfectly in XP...and that it is most likely a > > video driver issue. > > > > Marc > > > > >