computer restarting when playin gp4

so far after installin gp4 for the 5th and last time. when i am about to race, the computer blacks out and restarts on the xp starting screen!!!!

im usin a

ibm aptiva a30p 8311
pentuim 4 1.7ghz
64mb radeon 7000
128mb ddr dam
winxp

i have alrady intalled the patch but it still doesn't fix the problem...
GOD i am so MAD!!!

plz help asap!!!

Yeah this is a common problem Alex. Just go to:

Start
Control Panel
Add/Remove Programs
Grand Prix 4, [ok]

That will probably fix it :-p



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yeah....???

and um... how am i supose to plau gp4 then?

No, that's the point - you can't! Sorry.



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i have XP and GP4 works fine

what video card do you have?


if its a geforce, what detonator drivers are you using?






LS's Tip of the week
ESSENTIAL OILS aren't essential unless you're an engine, a gearbox or a twat

I'v got a same problem and finaly install nividia detonator 31.40 WHQL from www.guru3d.com/ and now is everithing ok(God know's how long I thing you have to figure out what is the best driver for your cart(newest is not always the best)
I have:
AMD 1400
geforce 2,32 mb
512 mb ram
windows xp

I hope this will help you

i have tried different detonator drivers and GP4 has just died on my system


total lock up every time


my system specs are

1.4 ghz athlon cpu

512 pc 133 ram

geforce 2 gts 32mb video card


the detonator drivers i use are the WIN2K-XP_23.11



Let us know how you get on






LS's Tip of the week
ESSENTIAL OILS aren't essential unless you're an engine, a gearbox or a twat

i have a ati radeon 7000 64mb which is standard on my pc...
at the moment i am dealing with the problem with ibm and microsoft

I have never been able to get GP4 to run on my system. I just got a couple of tips from the Microsoft Website on dual adapters uninstall, but I need to uninstall/reinstall the game, and after using the patch when I try to uninstall it only tells me that it has alreaady been updated. Anyone know how to uninstall without just deleting all the files? I think I have some old Nvidia stuff in the registry from a card I tried that didn't work. Could this be locking me up?

PIII 500
Radeon 8500 LE 128meg
512 pc 133 ram

Mike

Hi,

I found exactly this yesterday on a clean XP install - all drivers current.
As soon as the race started it would crash (or within a few seconds).

Not sure if its a sound bug in the game or some hardware/driver issue - its using motherboard onboard sound solution with (I'm guessing) much CPU assistance - so could be either.

For me, turning off both 3D and 2D sound acceleration solved it, and its not crashed since.

Try it yourself.

Regards
Jason.

Run gp4 with gpx_patch3.10, the gp4 must be a clean install with the decrypted exe from this site and no officialbutreallyunofficial patch installed, set gpx_patch to run in debug mode with verbosity set to high. When a forced exit occurs gpx_patch will generate a log file. The log should show the cause and where the forced exit occured. It's also a well documented fact here that it's pretty tricky getting gp4 up and running on xp for the majority of users. For some including myself it was much easier to revert back to win98 xp gobbles huuuge amounts of ram for some strange reason although this is not directly the cause it sure don't help, jason b is definately on the right track, I had problems there too. If you think you have redundant registry entries causing you problems use cleanreg3, it's shareware so deleting the selected entries must be done manually Use enditall to be sure all available recources are available to gp4. Some of the info may be useful, get back to us with your final solution. btw say "Hi to Tara" for me

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You cannot play it. Plain and simple (until a "real" patch goes out - if ever).
Or sell it and buy F1 2002. eheheheh

Got the same problem and worked around it as follows:
a) Deleted manually the folder where Gp4 is
b) Install the game again without adding patches and other @!#$
c) Uninstall it

Worked for me.

Good luck