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Carmageddon with saves or full screen

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First post, by cparker

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I have Carmageddon High Octane and I got it to work with GLIDos 1.3 and VDMSound 2.1. It works fine when I run it in window mode AND when I don't load a game. If I load a game, it locks up after a few minutes. If I go full screen, it seems to lock up in a few minutes. If I load and go full screen, it locks up before the start of the race

* Motherboard - Gigabyte GA-7N400-L
* Processor type and speed - Athlon XP 2200+
* Amount and type of RAM - 512MB PC3200
* Video board w/ RAM amount and type - GeForce 5200 w/ 128MB
* Sound board - builtin
* Operating system - XP Pro
* Game name (and version, if applicable) - Carmageddon High Octane (DOS)

The first time I ran it, I downloaded a 3dfx patch (the link was broken) and installed it, and got the results posted. I then reinstalled carma. It seems that Carma HO comes with the 3dfx patch. There was a carm3dfx.bat file that ran MainProg.exe with no params. I copied MainProg.exe to carmav.exe and it worked as well as it did the first time.

Thanks for your help.
Chris

Reply 1 of 4, by Snover

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There is a strange lockup bug that I reported to Paul some time ago that we were never really able to trace. It sounds like you've got the same problem.

Yes, it’s my fault.

Reply 2 of 4, by Guest

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That was only with one level, I thought. And not dependent on whether in full screen or windowed mode. Is "High Octane" an expansion pack? I suppose its possible that all its levels have the problem that the original had in just one level.

Snover: do you have High Octane?

Reply 3 of 4, by Snover

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Yeah, I've got High Octane.
High Octane is a re-release of the game on a "budget" label without any of the CDA tracks.
Our guest did not post what level they were having the problem on. I think I had it occur on the first 'snowy' level, I don't recall what it was at the moment and don't have time to test.

Yes, it’s my fault.

Reply 4 of 4, by cparker

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I never had problems on the first level, but i did not try going back to that track after loading a game. I will. I had problems with the 2nd, and 3rd (which is the first snowy level)

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