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Hi Jeff,

I know you said it failed without the soundcard; however, there is
a SB AWE64 patch for Win95/98.  Check the Creative Labs site:

 http://www.soundblaster.com/asp-scripts/download.asp?file=/creative/drivers/sb16awe/sbw9xup.exe&Agrmt=slicense.html

Wow!  They put a new driver up today -- Oct 1st.

Jason.

Jeffrey Hunsberger wrote:

> Alison Hine <alison@nh.ultranet.com> wrote:
> : Jeff-
>
> : Just a wild guess, but have you tried the latest drivers for your
> : Monster video card?  Also, you might try removing the sound card
> : temporarily to see if that makes any difference.  Also, if you are using
> : a nonstandard mouse driver, try de-installing the driver temporarily to
> : see if that helps.  Before you do anything, ensure you have at least
> : 256k of L2 cache.
>
> Thanks for the help.  I got the latest Monster drivers in anticipation of
> this release.  As far as the sound card goes: if I run it without the
> soundcard and it still does it, where does it leave me?  Every other game
> I own works perfectly with it.  The mouse driver is standard.  I believe I
> do have the required amount of L2 cache.
>
> I will try as others suggested and reinstall but I don't think it will
> help.  It really seems to be some sort of "clock crash" internal to the
> game.  Sometimes it gets setup correctly, sometimes not...
>
> : Two other things to try, if you are willing to spend some money on
> : hardware that will make GPL run better, assuming you are able to get it
> : to work on your machine:
>
> I plan on buying a new computer sometime soon.  A G6-450 from Gateway.
> That should solve the problems, but i want to race until that day comes!
> It is such a tease to be able to run it one minute and not the next.
>
> : 2. An 8 mb Hercules Thriller.  The Rendition architecture is much more
> : efficent in terms of CPU utilization than the Voodoo, so a Thriller will
> : offload the CPU and let it concentrate more on the physics.  If, by
> : chance, some kind of thrashing is going on, the Thriller might help
> : eliminate it.
>
> Do these cards do 2d as well?
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Jeff



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