Won't work in XP

Hey, I've just realized that this game still is "alive", I'm absolutely impressed with all these mods and updates that you all are really into!
I decided to try out this game once again, but can't get it to work in XP at all..

I've installed the 1.13 patch as well as the NO CD patch, but the screen just gets black for at moment, and then returns to the desktop..

What can I do?

Best Regards
Anders

Hi,
No idea, sorry. Mine works excellent with XP.

try changing cpu to 1 in gpx-patch, then set verbosity to medium and post the crash log in a new topic. Post your system info.

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come again?? I'm not really into the tweaking-part of the game.... mostly just racing

Win XP Pro, Intel Centrino CPU, 2GHz, 1GB RAM, nVidia video card. I'll get more details if needed, later...

You are using the gpx-patch utility? If not, download it. You need that to create the error log. Is your puter dual core? gpx-patch can turn off one cpu to prevent crashing. The verbosity setting in gpx-patch determines the volume of information in the error log. Try running GP4 in Win98 emulation, right click select properties advanced.

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Set the GP3.exe to run in Win98 emulation. If you are using XP's SP2 then there are some minor issues with some tracks but that has been covered here often enough to get on a search. I run GpxPatch in debug mode with low verbosity (first tab in GPxPatch) but you may need higher or some combinations of hardware. A Centrino is well enough to run the game even with lots of patches and add-ins, so good luck with it.

Nico bites yer tyres!

Hi, once again, Anders,
Just a small clarification to my previous post. I do not have any problems running GP3 in XP. I use Intel 4 and ATI Radeon card. But after trying to run GP3 in XP, with Intel CoreDuo (and ATI Radeon, more sophisticated) everything collapsed. Graphics were extremly slooooow, no chance to even thinking about playing. All tricks with GPxPatch nor running GP3exe in 98 emulation, described and advised, did not help.
Anyway, good luck.
Andrzej

Do you have a gpx_patch error log?

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maybe the graphics card antialiasing is on, turn off antialiasing and anistropic
filtering, these kill the cpu.

pk

Hi mortal,
Here is mine GPx_Patch error log. Would you please look at ? Thanks pk, also. I will try that, although I am not good at all those tricks...

Starting log
GPxPatch version: 3.91
GPx version detected: decrypted GP3 v1.13
Verbosity level is 0
OS version info: Windows 98 build 2222
Total physical memory: 1022 MB (free: 539 MB)
Debugging gp3.exe
Waiting for debug events...
Injecting DLL loading code...
Error changing access to memory: (487)


Error writing process memory: (487)


*** error injecting code: (487)

First chance exception
Exception address: 0x004e3997
Exception code: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION
Process tried to write to virtual address 0xffc40600
Unhandled exception
Exception address: 0x004e3997
Exception code: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION
Process tried to write to virtual address 0xffc40600
Stack trace:
004E3997: <no module><no symbol>
77D38744: <no module><no symbol>
77D38826: <no module><no symbol>
77D3C64F: <no module><no symbol>
77D3F66D: <no module><no symbol>
73711967: <no module><no symbol>
77D38744: <no module><no symbol>
77D38826: <no module><no symbol>
77D3B4D0: <no module><no symbol>
77D3B51C: <no module><no symbol>
7C90EAE3: <no module><no symbol>
0051E4CC: <no module><no symbol>
A0A06800: <no module><no symbol>
Registers:
EAX=03300000 ECX=00000190 ESI=034A000C
EBX=00000258 EDX=FFC40600 EDI=FFC40600
CS:EIP=001B:004E3997
SS:ESP=0023:0013F834 EBP=0013F8A8
DS=0023 ES=0023 FS=003B GS=0000
Flags=00200206
Stack dump:
0013f834: ffc40600 00000000 00000404 0013f8a8 '................'
0013f844: 0013f858 00000000 ffc40600 00000700 'X...............'
0013f854: 03300000 0051ef61 0013f910 0051e980 '..0.a.Q.......Q.'
0013f864: 00000000 0000010f 0013f8a8 0051e980 '..............Q.'
0013f874: 77d3d569 0000000a 00000218 00000000 'i..w............'
0013f884: 00000000 0051e980 00000001 0013f8bc '......Q.........'
0013f894: 77d38744 0002042a 00000047 00000000 'D..w*...G.......'
0013f8a4: 0013facc 0013f8d4 77d38744 0002042a '........D..w*...'
0013f8b4: 00000404 00000000 00000000 0051e980 '..............Q.'
0013f8c4: dcbaabcd 00000000 0013f910 0051e980 '..............Q.'
0013f8d4: 0013f93c 77d38826 0051e980 0002042a '<...&..w..Q.*...'
0013f8e4: 00000404 00000000 00000000 00000404 '................'
0013f8f4: 0051e980 00fbde08 00000014 00000001 '..Q.............'
0013f904: 00000000 00000000 00000010 00000000 '................'
0013f914: 77d388f0 00000001 00000000 00000000 '...w............'
0013f924: 0013f8f0 0013f458 0013fa3c 77d6046f '....X...<...o..w'
0013f934: 77d38840 00000000 0013f96c 77d3c64f '@..w....l...O..w'
0013f944: 00000000 0051e980 0002042a 00000404 '......Q.*.......'
0013f954: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 '................'
0013f964: 00fb7238 7c809728 0013f98c 77d3f66d '8r..(..|....m..w'
0013f974: 0051e980 0002042a 00000404 00000000 '..Q.*...........'
0013f984: 00000000 00000001 0013f9b8 73711967 '............g.qs'
0013f994: 0051e980 0002042a 00000404 00000000 '..Q.*...........'
0013f9a4: 00000000 0013fa20 737116d4 00000000 '.... .....qs....'
0013f9b4: 0051e980 0013f9e4 77d38744 0002042a '..Q.....D..w*...'
0013f9c4: 00000404 00000000 00000000 737116d4 '..............qs'
0013f9d4: dcbaabcd 00000000 0013fa20 737116d4 '........ .....qs'
0013f9e4: 0013fa4c 77d38826 737116d4 0002042a 'L...&..w..qs*...'
0013f9f4: 00000404 00000000 00000000 00000000 '................'
0013fa04: 0002042a 716420f0 00000014 00000001 '*.... dq........'
0013fa14: 00000000 00000000 00000010 00000000 '................'
0013fa24: 0013fa94 00000001 00000000 00000000 '................'
0013fa34: 0013fa00 0013f458 0013fa90 77d6046f '....X.......o..w'
0013fa44: 77d38840 00000000 0013faa0 77d3b4d0 '@..w...........w'
0013fa54: 00000000 737116d4 0002042a 00000404 '......qs*.......'
0013fa64: 00000000 00000000 0125db8c 00000001 '..........%.....'
0013fa74: 77d396c8 00cde7b8 716420f0 77d396c8 '...w..... dq...w'
0013fa84: 00000000 0013fa74 0013f458 0013ffb4 '....t...X.......'
0013fa94: 77d6046f 77d3b4e0 ffffffff 0013fac8 'o..w...w........'
0013faa4: 77d3b51c 0125db78 00000404 00000000 '...wx.%.........'
0013fab4: 00000000 737116d4 00000000 00000000 '......qs........'
0013fac4: 00000000 0013fb14 7c90eae3 0013fad8 '...........|....'
0013fad4: 00000018 0125db78 00000404 00000000 '....x.%.........'
0013fae4: 00000000 737116d4 77d3b483 77d391ce '......qs...w...w'
0013faf4: 77d44ac2 00cde7b8 00000000 00000000 '.J.w............'
0013fb04: 00000000 716420f0 77d396c8 77d38c06 '..... dq...w...w'
0013fb14: 7c859d78 0051e4cc 00cde7b8 00000000 'x..|..Q.........'
0013fb24: 00000000 00000000 7c901005 00000000 '...........|....'
0013fb34: 0013ffc4 7ffde000 e7ffffff 02020e8a '................'
0013fb44: 0013fb34 00000000 00000002 02020e99 '4...............'
0013fb54: 00000002 0013fc30 0013fc34 02020e8a '....0...4.......'
0013fb64: 0013fc10 7c80a409 001528f8 0e000001 '.......|.(......'
0013fb74: 0013fc34 00000002 0013fc30 00000002 '4.......0.......'
0013fb84: 00000000 0013fc30 00000002 00000000 '....0...........'
0013fb94: 01f00bd0 00000000 01f005bc 00156a30 '............0j..'
0013fba4: 00000000 003b0000 0013fc34 00000000 '......;.4.......'
0013fbb4: 0052ccc0 01f00598 001569f8 00000000 '..R......i......'
0013fbc4: 003b0000 00000000 003ea2d0 003b0000 '..;.......>...;.'
0013fbd4: 00000000 00000000 00000000 0013fc30 '............0...'
0013fbe4: 7c90253a 00d21840 0013fcc4 7c835148 ':%.|@.......HQ.|'
0013fbf4: 00d21898 0013fc6c 00000040 00d21844 '....l...@...D...'
0013fc04: 0013fc18 00000040 0000000c 7c8351f2 '....@........Q.|'
0013fc14: ffffffc4 0072015a 0064006f 006f006b '....Z.r.o.d.k.o.'
0013fc24: 006f0077 00750065 006f0072 00650070 'w.o.e.u.r.o.p.e.'


Andrzej

turn up the verbosity level to medium, then post the new error log in a new topic. Make the topic gpx patch error log.

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Where's the error log placed?
I'm not sure if its even created...??

I get the error report "please fill in the message body" when trying to write the error log

@KingCourse, the error log is created by gpx_patch when the game exits abnormally, if you do not have gpx_patch, download it, it is on this site, or google for it. You must run GP4 from gpx-patch. Post your gpx_patch error log in a new topic please. Someone will look at it, meanwhile try the other suggestions within this thread as well.

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