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Article #1GPL/Voodoo 1 freeze - A solution
From: Alain Genouille
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 00:00
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 00:00
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Just wanted to let you know my experience with GPL and the fact that it was always freezing. T make a long story short I have a decent system (PII MMX 400 with tons of memory and a Diamond Monster I. I read lots of messages regarding this darn freezing problem and like many others went on to upgarding my drivers, reinstalling DirectX, adding/removing one after each other, copying glide into the GPL directory etc... To make it short I was desperate to one day be able to at least run four or five laps in a row. The solution came up 2 days ago through a call at Diamond when I was getting rather irrate of not being able to play and explained the tech that in the past 2 months I hod done everything , including (YES) reformatting and reinstalling everything. My problem was, simply, HEAT ! Three days ago, I took the casing off from the PC and since then, I have been able to play for hours without any hang. Obviously this is a temporary solution and if you have the same problem you could do what I did yesterday, order fans at www.3dfxcool.com . Hope it helps some, but let me tell you also that only reading messages in these newsgroups has helped me try any solution (and gain some knowledge).
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