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From: dripton@netcom.com (David Ripton)
Subject: Re: Booooo! My GPL Broke
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In article <79tak1$vhm$1@news4.svr.pol.co.uk>,
Iain Miller <idm@bigfoot.com> wrote:
>HELP ! MY GPL is broke!
>
>Running a Diamond Viper 550 with the latest 255 drivers, DX 6.1, & beta 2
>OGL patch.

Do you have a good reason for running DX 6.1?  If not, you might want to 
go back to 6.0.  (Upgrading DirectX is like flashing your motherboard's 
BIOS: you do it when you need to, not just because there's a new version.)

>Since I installed the latest Viper Drivers I can't run GPL in more than
>640x480 without it giving me a GPF immediately I hit the green button to go
>to the track.
>
>Also when I did manage to get on the track the drivers arms are "twitching"
>all over the place & car is hopping around when on the straights like it
>never used to..this has happened since I reinstalled Win 98 - Using a Saitek
>R4
>
>Used to run in 1024x768 with no probs
>
>Anyone got any ideas? Anyone had the same probs?
>Anyone got GPL working at higher than 640x480 with either the Diamond 255
>drivers or the Nvidia Detonator drivers...?

I have an AGP CL TNT.  The Detonator drivers work fine, at all resolutions
from 512x384 to 1600x1200.  With the old 0.48 drivers, I had frequent
crashes above 640x480.

Try DX 6.0.  If that doesn't fix it, try the Detonator drivers.  If that
doesn't work, I'm stumped.

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