GPL + Powerslide = No GPL

I installed Powerslide...didn't work. reinstalled...didn't work.never got going.gave up. Sat down to drive GPL...didn't work. It got as far as the "Sierra Sports" screen and that was it. Freeze time. I've been on the computer for the last five hours trying to get it working again. I believe Powerslide installed directx6 drivers on my computer. I tried reinstalling directx5. Reinstalling voodoo2 reference drivers. nothing worked. Even my Jack Nicklaus 5 doesn't work now. HELP>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>HELP>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> roy AMD k6 300-2. 64 megs ram. V1000 board under a 12 meg Diamond Monster II.

What sound card do you have? There have been some messages in the microsoft.public.directx newsgroup about the direct sound component in directx6 and AWE64 Soundblasters causing games to crash. The solution has been to disable the sound card when using directx6. You can't just reinstall directx5, you have to remove directx6 first. There are apparently some utilities available to do this (sorry I don't have any links, someone else might like to help here)

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> What sound card do you have? > There have been some messages in the microsoft.public.directx > newsgroup about the direct sound component in directx6 and AWE64 > Soundblasters causing games to crash. The solution has been to disable > the sound card when using directx6. > You can't just reinstall directx5, you have to remove directx6 first. > There are apparently some utilities available to do this (sorry I > don't have any links, someone else might like to help here) > >I installed Powerslide...didn't work. reinstalled...didn't work.never > >got going.gave up. > >Sat down to drive GPL...didn't work. It got as far as the "Sierra > >Sports" screen and that was it. Freeze time. > >I've been on the computer for the last five hours trying to get it > >working again. > >I believe Powerslide installed directx6 drivers on my computer. I tried > >reinstalling directx5. Reinstalling voodoo2 reference drivers. nothing > >worked. > >Even my Jack Nicklaus 5 doesn't work now. > >HELP>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>HELP>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> > >roy > >AMD k6 300-2. 64 megs ram. V1000 board under a 12 meg Diamond Monster > >II.

Thanks for the tip. I've got an AWE32, but I don't see much point in disabling it whenever I play a game that uses directx6.I'll see if I can find that directx6 uninstaller. Other than that, it looks like I might have to reinstall Windows. roy