F1RS can anyone help with problems?

F1RS, has given me nothing but grief since I got it over 6 months ago. Without going into ever problem I've had, I'll just list my current problem. I can get maybe 2 to 4 laps in (sometimes 1/2 lap) and I get booted back to Win95 with a page fault error in F1voo.exe. I have a Creative Labs 12meg V2 card (tried the original drivers, and the gold drivers) Matrox Millennium 1 with 3.8 drivers, and a Diamond Monster sound with the new 1.6 drivers. (1.5 gave me the same problem) (also have the new 3D sound patch from Ubisoft, had the same problem with the old sound patch) have over 200 megs free on my windows drive, and 300 megs free on the drive F1RS is installed. I have a iP233 mmx w/64 megs of ram. Any ideas? Thanks, Andy Andy Please use address below for all email replies

I'm not to sure about this but try going back to the Matrox 3.7 drivers. I seem to remember that was a cure for something, maybe your problem.

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>F1RS, has given me nothing but grief since I got it over 6 months ago. >Without going into ever problem I've had, I'll just list my current >problem. I can get maybe 2 to 4 laps in (sometimes 1/2 lap) and I get >booted back to Win95 with a page fault error in F1voo.exe. >I have a Creative Labs 12meg V2 card (tried the original drivers, and >the gold drivers) Matrox Millennium 1 with 3.8 drivers, and a Diamond >Monster sound with the new 1.6 drivers. (1.5 gave me the same >problem) (also have the new 3D sound patch from Ubisoft, had the >same problem with the old sound patch) have over 200 megs free on >my windows drive, and 300 megs free on the drive F1RS is installed. >I have a iP233 mmx w/64 megs of ram. >Any ideas? >Thanks, >Andy >Andy >Please use address below for all email replies

(Andy), the following was written: Try running with the case lid off, sounds like the 3dfx card chips are getting too hot. Mike.

On Thu, 23 Apr 1998 17:08:29 +0100, "Tim Harrison" >I'm not to sure about this but try going back to the Matrox 3.7 drivers. I >seem to remember that was a cure for something, maybe your problem. Tim, I just upgraded to the 3.8 drivers, was running the 3.7 for awhile, and had the same problem. Thanks anyway. Andy Andy Please use address below for all email replies

>(Andy), the following was written: >> I can get maybe 2 to 4 laps in (sometimes 1/2 lap) and I get >> booted back to Win95 with a page fault error in F1voo.exe. >Try running with the case lid off, sounds like the 3dfx card chips are >getting too hot. Mike, I will give this a shot, but am doubtful. F1RS is the only game it does this on. (of all the 3DFX games I have) Still it is worth a try. For some reason I think it is sound related. I also get some really strange driving physics to. Like the car will go nose up and spin like wild, then I'll be dropped back on the track. I have seen AI cars lift off the track for no reason as well. (usually just before the game crashes) Not overclocking my system at all, but will be upgrading my system next week. (case and all) So I'll wait till then, do a fresh install of 95, add some extra cooling, and maybe get F1RS to work. Andy Andy Please use address below for all email replies

Andy, I got the same exact problem. The weird thing is that it ran great for like 3 days straight and then it started crashing. So I uninstalled it and deleted all references to it in the registry and it still crashed even after I reinstalled it. I can only race about 1 or 2 laps and then I get the error message as well. But my error is associated with the WAVPWBVR.DLL file. I have tried all the other WAV dlls but none of them work at all. It sucks that they have no technical assistance for this game in their website (Ubisoft that is). I emailed them anyway and they never got back to me. I feel ripped of and I am not happy about it. This should be awesome but only if it worked. Someone needs their ass reamed over this one. Keep me posted on how things go with your new system. I too was thinking about upgrading to a P2 system but I was gonna wait a few more months. I am curious how yours is going to turn out. Hope we find some answers here...or somewhere. Take care, Kas

If you search for snd_cpa.ini and change the reference from wavx2 to wavpw it should work. >Andy, > I got the same exact problem. The weird thing is that it ran great for >like 3 days straight and then it started crashing. So I uninstalled it and >deleted all references to it in the registry and it still crashed even after >I reinstalled it. I can only race about 1 or 2 laps and then I get the >error message as well. But my error is associated with the WAVPWBVR.DLL >file

On Thu, 23 Apr 1998 22:49:13 -0400, "Kasparov"

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>Andy, > I got the same exact problem. The weird thing is that it ran great for >like 3 days straight and then it started crashing. So I uninstalled it and >deleted all references to it in the registry and it still crashed even after >I reinstalled it. I can only race about 1 or 2 laps and then I get the >error message as well. But my error is associated with the WAVPWBVR.DLL >file. I have tried all the other WAV dlls but none of them work at all. It >sucks that they have no technical assistance for this game in their website >(Ubisoft that is). I emailed them anyway and they never got back to me. I >feel ripped of and I am not happy about it. This should be awesome but only >if it worked. Someone needs their ass reamed over this one.

Kas, As the other post suggested try editing the ini file, but now that I read this again, I have a feeling you already tried this. :( (the 3D patch should solve _this_ problem if you have a 3D sound card) You can't even begin to guess how many problems I have had with this sim. It has never worked right since the day I got it. (I live in the US, and ordered the UK version) Tech support has been no help either. My pleas on their message board went unanswered as well. It is a GREAT sim when it works, but as it is now it is useless. :( I was hoping it was some conflict with the older glide drivers left on my system, but I don't think that is the case either. I refuse to give up though. :-) Thanks, will let you know. I was going to wait and see what happened with the BX boards, but decided to go with the LX (Abit LX6/333) combo for now. P2 350/400 prices are out of my range anyway. :-) Least I won't be testing a new chipset. (although early reports have been positive) Should be here on Monday! Andy Andy Please use address below for all email replies

>As the other post suggested try editing the ini file, but now that I >read this again, I have a feeling you already tried this. :( (the 3D >patch should solve _this_ problem if you have a 3D sound card) That 3D sound patch was only for one specific sound board. It was not really for a 3D sound board with DirectSound 3D drivers. Has this changed in the last 1.5 months? I would suggest running without the sound patch and see if that helps. Also, I have a Voodoo1 card and no problems (from day one in Jan98). Are you overclocking your Voodoo2 chip? What params do you have loaded in your autoexec.bat? -- Header address intentionally scrambled to ward off the spamming hordes.

On 26 Apr 1998 09:01:20 EDT, "Greg Cisko" >That 3D sound patch was only for one specific sound board. It >was not really for a 3D sound board with DirectSound 3D drivers. >Has this changed in the last 1.5 months? I would suggest running >without the sound patch and see if that helps. Not sure if that has changed. I know for me, (I have a monster sound) it solved a few problem. I believe the readme file, stated with was for a few 3D sound cards. For me the game would not work with my old OR3D card in glide mode. Well it worked, but I was missing part of the***pit art, D3D worked ok, but with the 1.7 patch I lost the use of the pedals in D3D mode only. (also with the 1.8 patch) With the V2 card the***pit art is complete. (which leads me to believe there was some defect with my old card, and somehow only F1RS found it, others have reported this problem as well) I am not overclocking my V2, nor did I ever overclock my V1 card. No sst commands in my autoexec.bat file either. I will try disabling SLI mode with the V2 card. (I only have one card) and have read that this has caused problems with some games. (even thought SLI isn't detected anyway. Still waiting on my upgrade to come to. :( Its sitting at UPS less about 20 miles away, and they only come to this "rural" area once a week, Should have paid for FedX! :-) I'm still holding hope that a reformat will solve the problem. New case has extra cooling as well, so maybe it is a heat issue, but can't see how the card can get that hot in such a short time. It has to be something specific to my system though, since others are not having a problem. Thanks, Andy Andy Please use address below for all email replies