GP2 locks up???

Help!!!!!!! I just purchased GP2 by Micro Prose. I have a Packard Bell P133 w/32 mb Ram and what ever sound/video card the PB comes with! The game runs fine and doesn't seem slow or anything, but all of a sudden (every three lap race) the system stops, the sound freeezzzzzes at one point over and over and the screen goes black! The only method to get it unlocked is to hit escape, this brings Windows 95 back with the GP2 is in the task bar, hit the GP2 task bar, and the game takes off (with a 3 sec delay for the monitor to go!) I ran this same exact game/cd on a Dell P120, w/16mb ram and the game never froze once! Does anyone know the prob?? TIA Ric

Ric, GP2 is not designed for Win95.Try running the game from DOS. Regards, Tom

I think that you should install it under DOS, as the game is intended for DOS. I have the same PB computer you have and I have no problems runing it under DOS. Steven

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> Help!!!!!!! I just purchased GP2 by Micro Prose. I have a Packard Bell > P133 w/32 mb Ram and what ever sound/video card the PB comes with! > The game runs fine and doesn't seem slow or anything, but all of a > sudden (every three lap race) the system stops, the sound freeezzzzzes > at one point over and over and the screen goes black! The only method to > get it unlocked is to hit escape, this brings Windows 95 back with the > GP2 is in the task bar, hit the GP2 task bar, and the game takes off > (with a 3 sec delay for the monitor to go!) I ran this same exact > game/cd on a Dell P120, w/16mb ram and the game never froze once! > Does anyone know the prob?? > TIA > Ric

Yeah, Run it straight from DOS instead of WIN95. Sizzle -- Only people without imagination, flee into reality

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>The game runs fine and doesn't seem slow or anything, but all of a >sudden (every three lap race) the system stops, the sound freeezzzzzes >at one point over and over and the screen goes black! The only method to >get it unlocked is to hit escape, this brings Windows 95 back with the >GP2 is in the task bar, hit the GP2 task bar, and the game takes off >(with a 3 sec delay for the monitor to go!) I ran this same exact >game/cd on a Dell P120, w/16mb ram and the game never froze once! >Does anyone know the prob??

Your computer maybe going into energy savings mode which the DOS game will not like at all. Joystick feedback will not keep a computer active. Try turning off the energy savings or setting the time to shutdown to much longer than you play the game.

> Help!!!!!!! I just purchased GP2 by Micro Prose. I have a Packard Bell > P133 w/32 mb Ram and what ever sound/video card the PB comes with! > The game runs fine and doesn't seem slow or anything, but all of a > sudden (every three lap race) the system stops, the sound freeezzzzzes > at one point over and over and the screen goes black! The only method to

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> get it unlocked is to hit escape, this brings Windows 95 back with the > GP2 is in the task bar, hit the GP2 task bar, and the game takes off > (with a 3 sec delay for the monitor to go!) I ran this same exact > game/cd on a Dell P120, w/16mb ram and the game never froze once! > Does anyone know the prob?? > TIA > Ric

Try and do 'Shutdown' and 'Restart in DOS Mode' and run it from there. It wasn't made for Win95. If that doesn't help then it is probably a hardware conflict (mis-setup, etc). We can't help if we don't know your hardware. Good luck, -- _____________ E-MAIL: ____/ / / /_ / /_/ /_ / _ / / / / / HOMEPAGE: /____/ \__/ \____/ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_/ http://dux.isec.pt/~storm96/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ... I Feel The Need ... THE NEED FOR SPEED ! ...

GP2 is not a Windows 95 game so running it in windows 95 is not a good idea it will crash every time. The only way to make sure it does not crash is to run it in MSDOS mode or MSDOS 6.22 if you have it. I have setup my windows 95 setup with an option to load my old dos 6.22. Remember if you are going to use a previous version of msdos you need to have an autoexec.bat which loads all your sound and cdrom drivers.

This is not true. The original game has *never* crashed when I run it in Win95. What DID happen was that it crashed when saving a game after using one of those '97 carsets (and OLNY when using such a carset). It is true that running from Win95 costs you about 1.5-2 fps though... JOH =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= When everything else failed, we can still become im- mortal by making an enormous blunder.... John Kenneth Galbraith =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=