P.O. Problem!!

Im playing standard Gp4 on windows XP with all the updates and GPX. When I start a race the p.o is fine but after a couple laps it goes up to %300 and obviously becomes unplayable.

What could be causing this as a couple weeks ago it was totally fine.

Cheers in advance for any help.

Alastair

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/22/2007 05:44PM by bestobritish.

Processor heating may be causing this.

Check if your processor is getting enough air, if the fans aren't dirty, things like that.


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ok il look into it, you can find out the running temp at start uo cant you? if so what should it be?

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bump...

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Have you installed anything from when it was running fine and now?

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"Trulli was slowing down like he wanted to have a picnic" LOL

Nope. All ive done to my PC in the last couple weeks is remove a virus and loads of spyware, the spyware being normal lol. I did a race yesterday at monza n on the fourth lap the p.o went from 96% to over 300% in an instant, weird.

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ok, it happened again just a minute ago so I got a screen shot of the process and memory usage while the game is open.





From those process's what can I get rid of to make more memory space?

All help is desperatly needed and appreciated!

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/13/2007 08:42PM by bestobritish.

end the following processes

googletoolbar...
incd.exe
realplay.exe
jusched.exe
rundll32.exe

might be some more if anyone else can help

cheers for that mate. I got to do two 10% races with a load of programmes turned off. It was only at the start of the 3rd race I did that it played up.

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Well, i had the same problem, in a race, the PO was from 100 to 350, and then i found the problem, textures size.
I resized all my cars and helmets to 1024x1024, 1,32mb each. and then, 80% of PO, and this with an 6800xt 256mb. this fix my problem, you can try it.

i used to have that problem too... since moving to windows vista it appears to have vanished

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Yes, I guess the windows updates causes the performance loss. I updated my system regularly. In former times GP4 runs fluently. Now it is realy slow. It only seems to run well with disabled audio hardware accelation.

weird thing is im on windows XP pro with no updates (for a secret reason ) and im playing standard Gp4, so I dont see how this problem can suddenly occur?

But say it is the texture size, how can I easily reduce them?

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What graphics card and CPU have u got mate?

Got latest graphics card and sound card drivers? do you use onboard sound (if so, what mobo do you have?)

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/20/2007 12:48PM by simcut.

lol a Nvidia MMX400 its around 5 and a half years old. Gp4 is pretty much the only game I play on the PC so maybe the card is failing?

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Try to update the CPU driver!





Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/23/2007 06:50PM by Sebbo.

CPU driver? exactly how do I do that?

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Start, Run, Msconfig. You get a Microsoft dialog box and you can stop certain things from running on startup.

cheer. I tried that but the problem is now worse. P.o at the start is %200 so I cant even begin to play. Ive tried reinstalling the game but theres no change

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When I got GP4 I had a PC that was way to old. But I knew I would get a new PC those days so in the meantime I asked a friend if I could play on theirs

Well, indeed after like 5 laps I got the same problem like you, but then I tried to press ESC and save the race. When I got back on track after I pressed 'Back to cockpit' (or something) the PO was all fine again..

Well, maybe thats a temporary solution..

I don't know anything else

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