DirectX 8.1 and GPL

Had GPL running reasonably well on my machine (Dell p3, 1khz, 128 mb, ATI rage 128) until I installed DirectX 8.1. Framerate is ok, but now it freezes/warps - usually when the hard disk light is on. Tried changing the hardware acceleration setting in dxdiag, but with no effect. Any ideas? Would a better video card help? TIA, Martin

On Mon, 09 Sep 2002 02:09:25 GMT, "Martin Pipho" <[email hidden]> wrote:

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>Had GPL running reasonably well on my machine (Dell p3, 1khz, 128 mb, ATI >rage 128) until I installed DirectX 8.1. Framerate is ok, but now it >freezes/warps - usually when the hard disk light is on. Tried changing the >hardware acceleration setting in dxdiag, but with no effect. Any ideas? >Would a better video card help? > >TIA, >Martin >

Video drivers? Background tasks running? Virus checkers? etc.

On Sun, 08 Sep 2002 21:13:54 -0500, rrevved <[email hidden]> wrote:

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>On Mon, 09 Sep 2002 02:09:25 GMT, "Martin Pipho" <[email hidden]> wrote: > >>Had GPL running reasonably well on my machine (Dell p3, 1khz, 128 mb, ATI >>rage 128) until I installed DirectX 8.1. Framerate is ok, but now it >>freezes/warps - usually when the hard disk light is on. Tried changing the >>hardware acceleration setting in dxdiag, but with no effect. Any ideas? >>Would a better video card help? >> >>TIA, >>Martin >> >Video drivers? >Background tasks running? Virus checkers? etc.

Looked somewhat like texture memory overflow here... Strange though, since texture memory is abundant these days (for old games that is). Ruud van Gaal Free car sim: http://www.racer.nl/ Pencil art : http://www.marketgraph.nl/gallery/