F1-2002 CTD after race finish?

I've started messing with F1-2002 in anticipation of the GT-2002 mod, and to check out the cool Alfa mod, but I've been getting annoying stutters, and it consistently CTD's at the end of a race session. I've been playing with graphic settings, and that hasn't helped the CTD's - I haven't had time to try all combos of graphic/sound settings to fix the stutters, either. Win98SE, Gf4-4200, XP2100+ CPU, 512mb DDR RAM I'm running the 30.82 nvidia drivers, and not-quite latest VIA 4-in-1's. I'm contemplating going to the 40 Dets, but as a test, and to get migrated I've gone ahead and setup a parallel install of XP Pro on a new HD (using XOSL to hide the Win98SE boot partition). I'm going to try this with the latest 4-in-1s, Dets, etc. I'm reluctant to run in XP, though, because from what I've read you cannot completely eliminate the wheel deadzone (because DxTweak doesn't work). The XP is really just for IL-2 (since I've read that framerates under XP are *much* higher). Anyone had similar problems? Any tweaks? TIA! Kendt

Hi Kendt, When you say I have played with graphic settings, could you be more precise? Are you aware of the technique of copying & pasting info from config.ini to Alfa147.ini? Have you turned FSAA off? Crashing after the race means that you're crashing when the game takes contro,l of what you see in a TV like fashion. This is a clear indication to me that your prob is video related. =[O-)] "Kendt Eklund" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> I've started messing with F1-2002 in anticipation of the GT-2002 mod, > and to check out the cool Alfa mod, but I've been getting annoying > stutters, and it consistently CTD's at the end of a race session. > I've been playing with graphic settings, and that hasn't helped the > CTD's - I haven't had time to try all combos of graphic/sound settings > to fix the stutters, either. > Win98SE, Gf4-4200, XP2100+ CPU, 512mb DDR RAM > I'm running the 30.82 nvidia drivers, and not-quite latest VIA > 4-in-1's. > I'm contemplating going to the 40 Dets, but as a test, and to get > migrated I've gone ahead and setup a parallel install of XP Pro on a > new HD (using XOSL to hide the Win98SE boot partition). I'm going to > try this with the latest 4-in-1s, Dets, etc. I'm reluctant to run in > XP, though, because from what I've read you cannot completely > eliminate the wheel deadzone (because DxTweak doesn't work). The XP > is really just for IL-2 (since I've read that framerates under XP are > *much* higher). > Anyone had similar problems? Any tweaks? > > TIA! > Kendt

"Kendt Eklund" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > I've started messing with F1-2002 in anticipation of the GT-2002 mod, > and to check out the cool Alfa mod, but I've been getting annoying > stutters, and it consistently CTD's at the end of a race session. I used to see that in SCGT when I had a big modded track like LeMans. It was a memory overflow. But with 512mb of ram that shouldn't be a problem. The config ini for each mod should match the bottom half of the f1 2002 config.ini file. Make sure that everything under the line: gridsize = 22 is exactly the same on your mod as the original f1 file. good luck. dave henrie

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> Hi Kendt, > > When you say I have played with graphic settings, could you be more precise? > > Are you aware of the technique of copying & pasting info from config.ini to > Alfa147.ini? > > Have you turned FSAA off? > > Crashing after the race means that you're crashing when the game takes > contro,l of what you see in a TV like fashion. This is a clear indication to > me that your prob is video related.

FSAA off (in game and via Rivatuner) and still no luck, even with card settings back to normal and Rivatuner unloaded. I get crashes even with a fresh unmodded install. I'm downloading everything I'll need to get the 40 dets running under XP - I'll post back results if it works. I better have this sorted by the time GT-2002 comes out or I'll go nuts ;)! Thanks! Kendt Thanks! Kendt

[email hidden] (Kendt Eklund) wrote in message [snip] XP and the 40.72 fixed it - OH YES! I setup a "gaming tuned" XP install (turning off all extra services), installed the 40.72 dets, the latest Rivatuner, and did some 3dmark benchmarks. Without OC'ing the card, my system benched faster than it ever did in Win98SE - and get this, I can OC my 4200 (128mb) to 320core/580mem stable, which is much higher than I was getting in Win98SE. So far F12k2 is all I have installed, and I'm worried about the fact that my pedals are controller 1 and my wheel is controller 2 (which means I can't just copy all my configs over from 98). A race with 2xFSAA went just fine. So far so good - I've got alot of re-installing ahead of me :). Kendt