GPL and OpenGL

Hi folks, i have just installed GPL for the third time this week, since it stopped working after loading OpenGL files to my GPL folder......after loading OpenGL and adjusting the settings in core.ini, i played for awhile and shut down.....after restart, I could not get game to run....illegal operation.......invalid page fault....blah blah blah....but a r.a.s. post advised me to change display setting from 256 to 16 bit...which I did, and the game started, but all commands executed slooowwllyyy, and when I finally saw the trainer sitting on pit road, i selected first gear and stabbed the pedal..car sat in pits, while I heard the sound of a car squealing away and crashing into the pit barriers....so, uninstall, reinstall,drive around some,and wonder, what did I do wrong? I saved opengl before the uninstall, so i can copy it in if I want....but does it really help? It didn't seem to make a great deal of difference when I had it running...Any ideas? Ed Go #2 and #88 " Suckin' Gas and Haulin' Ass "

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> Hi folks, i have just installed GPL for the third time this week, since it > stopped working after loading OpenGL files to my GPL folder......after > loading OpenGL and adjusting the settings in core.ini, i played for awhile > and shut down.....after restart, I could not get game to run....illegal > operation.......invalid page fault....blah blah blah....but a r.a.s. post > advised me to change display setting from 256 to 16 bit...which I did, and > the game started, but all commands executed slooowwllyyy, and when I finally > saw the trainer sitting on pit road, i selected first gear and stabbed the > pedal..car sat in pits, while I heard the sound of a car squealing away and > crashing into the pit barriers....so, uninstall, reinstall,drive around > some,and wonder, what did I do wrong? I saved opengl before the uninstall, > so i can copy it in if I want....but does it really help? It didn't seem to > make a great deal of difference when I had it running...Any ideas?

hmm. that was my post. I have almost the exact same setup as you ('cept my bother has 16 MB of my RAM) and could run GPL on Open GL, albeit S - L - O - W - L - Y. It is better than software, however. You'll notice the difference in graphics if you actually have it running. My first suggestion is to buy a voodoo2 card - it makes the game playable. If, for instance, that won't happen until Xmas, try making sure you have the correct opengl.dll in windows/sys. set mipmap=1 in core.ini, make sure you set the resolution to 640 x 480. Read posts in comp.sys.pc.video (something like that) they go over over common problems, or search on dejanews. I didn't have much trouble, but don't remember exactly how i set it up. good luck!