The 1955 F1 Mod For Grand Prix Legends Is Released

[Jeep]

Something else which happens over time with older systems that have had numerous system upgrades is the system files and page file can become heavily fragmented. Many system files are in use for most tasks and a normal defrag can't touch these as it ignores files in use.

One solution is to do a boot defrag before windows is loaded There is a link on the MS support page https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/pagedefrag

Alternatively Piriform's defraggler also supports this. (Piriform are the guys who develop ccleaner).

Might be worth investigating to see if it helps. Miners suggestion regarding a fixed page file is also a really good tweak which can help if your system is struggling to keep up.

TTFN
John.
 

[Clive Loynes]

Thanks John I shall look at that.  I have a feeling that it is the Avast virus protection that keeps chipping in.  There doesn't seem to be any way of stopping it short of a complete uninstall!

I also found that my graphics driver needed an update.

The end result so far is that I haven't managed to have it running long enough to establish if the low fps bout has been dispensed with as the blue screen of death hits before a lap of Spa67.

I've really upset it good and proper!

I run Advanced System Care to shut the pc down and a registry defrag is a part of that.   

[Cookie]

I found: "Avast is a resource whore, an okay antivirus but there are better ones out there. "

I have Avira free for years and no problems.

[Clive Loynes]

I found: "Avast is a resource whore, an okay antivirus but there are better ones out there. "

I have Avira free for years and no problems.

I switched from Avast to Avira as you suggested and saw an immediate improvement.  Off-line and sat in the pit lane at Spar67 gave around 30fps instead of 22 and on the move I spotted a full 60fps after Eau Rouge.  I nearly fell off my chair!

The rotten thing timed its last crash to perfection and I was not quite able to make the start at Buenos Aires.  I continued swapping things about as I had doubts about the RAM.  In the midst of this I noticed, having shut it down, that the CPU cooling fan was moving in short bursts in time with the blinking on and off of the green light on the motherboard.  Not a good sign I thought.

I removed the power supply and tested it with a little gizmo that I have.  This showed that there was no -5v supply.  I'm hoping that, if the PSU has been on its way out, that this will have been the cause of my woes but I won't know this until tomorrow.

[Clive Loynes]

I may possibly be back in business!

When I first installed the new PSU, the pc would not boot.  It just sat there looking at me.

I then swapped back to the original RAM that came with the motherboard and hey presto it is up and running.  Looks like my original RAM has been iffy.

I've done half a dozen laps of Spa67 off-line at 60fps (more like 25 to 50fps in my case) and another couple on-line at 36fps without issue.

So long as I don't louse anything up in the meantime I may make Buenos Aires!

[EvilClive]

woohoo!!!!   

[Clive Loynes]

Don't think that the sound card is doing me ant favours but 1:42.698 in Training mode is my best so far with the 250F.

Race pace will drop from that so that I can keep some Ferodo in hand!

[Cookie]

For XP a soundcard is good to have, but maybe the driver isn't the best possible...
Make shure that the onboard sound is disabled in bios!

Can you give me the name of the soundcard, or the soundchip?

[Clive Loynes]

Can you give me the name of the soundcard, or the soundchip?

Now I already know that you are not going to like this ;-)

Written on the card itself it says SB0220, Soundblaster Live.

The plug n play couldn't find a driver so I searched for and installed a SB0220 driver.

It's running on this but the device is recognised by XP as an EMU10Kx Audio [DC00].
If I look at the hardware it calls it a Creative EMU10K1 Audio Processor (WDM).
The installed driver is version 5.12.1.296

I shall check the bios tomorrow.

[Cookie]

I have several SB-live cards myself...

For me the best XP driver allways was this one,
first use the driver only, if there are problems try the patch.

There are also alternative KX project drivers available  

First you have to clean the registry from all former Creative drivers, that is the worst job

[Clive Loynes]

I have several SB-live cards myself...

For me the best XP driver allways was this one,
first use the driver only, if there are problems try the patch.

There are also alternative KX project drivers available  

First you have to clean the registry from all former Creative drivers, that is the worst job

Not sure that I want to do anything until after tonight's race, unless you think that the effect will be staggering.

Not sure how to go about cleaning out all other Creative drivers from the registry.

For me, GPL has always required a lap to get itself sorted.  During that lap there are several glitches on both sound and video.  After that lap things run smoothly.  Well reasonably so anyway.

[Cookie]

I just testet it with my SB-live!5.1

Make the HW acceleration like this:



https://picload.org/view/rwaplwcw/sb.jpg.html

If there are old or other Creative drivers, the app will give you the choice to delete it

[Clive Loynes]

You gave me a nasty fright there Axel.   

Part way through the installation I have the Blue Screen of Death again!

Have decided that I will leave it as it is for now.

Also, I tried turning down the hardware acceleration by a further notch as you suggested.  I didn't detect any difference so I have put it back to standard acceleration.

I don't know if my sound is playing up or if the Maseratti actually has a missfire at the top end?   

The tanoy sound track as I pass the pits seems to cause problems and sounds distorted?  This is not new.  It always has.

Hope to see you on track tonight and many thanks for your efforts.

[Cookie]

Put these files in the BA track folder and you will have a quiet pit..

PS
One thing I remember is that the SB-cards are sensible with the IRQ sharing, if you have a free PCI slot left, try to move the card

The OS must be on the edge if an install causes a BSOD,
if you use CCleaner look not to have any unnecessary programs running with autostart.

[Clive Loynes]

Thanks Axel.

The pit didn't seem to cause me any issues last night, but I think that the system caved in when I was trying to worry Will into an error and then had Tristan trying to do the same to me!  It went into slow jerky motion and whilst I was trying to accelerate out of the first hairpin I obviously didn't move as expected and Tristan hit me.  Not his fault.
As soon as the cars spaced out a bit there was no problem.  Strange as the start was fine.  Perhaps there is something else still chipping in.  I was running in Advanced System Care's speed boosted mode which shuts down unwanted programmes and releases RAM.  So they say.

As you say, we are right on the edge.  Does Avira have a "Leave me alone, I know what I'm doing" setting?  Even when the pc is idle, about 40% of the RAM is taken up.