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First post, by sandtreader

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I installed GliDOS to play Tomb Raider 1. The graphics and gameplay look great. But one problem I have found: When I hit the Inventory key (default 'esc' key) to access Lara's stuff or to save a game, the game freezes for @ 15 seconds before the inventory pops up! The ambient background sounds continue to play, but I can't do anything else during that time.

I can foresee this being an annoying problem during gameplay. Anyone have the same problem? How can I fix this?

Thanks for any help!

"I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered! My life is my own..."

Reply 1 of 7, by Kaminari

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Odd. Doesn't happen here. Just to be on the safe side, did you install the latest OpenGlide library (though I can't really see how it could fix your problem)?

http://openglide.sf.net/

Reply 2 of 7, by Glidos

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This is a new problem I'm hearing from people just lately. What graphics card, and which drivers?

Reply 3 of 7, by sandtreader

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I have an ATI Rage Mobility-P AGP using the ati2drab driver. I noticed that it also "freezes" like that when I go to the next level in the game. My system doesn't crash it's just an irregularly long pause. In the past I don't recall this problem occuring when playing the game without Glidos.

By the way, Kaminari, I downloaded the English version of JoyToKey after readed one of your past threads - awesome piece of software! Works great with Tomb Raider!

"I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered! My life is my own..."

Reply 4 of 7, by Glidos

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Yeh it was an ATI card in the last report, although I don't think
it was that card. It might help to remove the line

VesaSupport: Yes

from the Glidos.ini file. But it might not.

Nothing surprising about it happening only when using Glidos. Under Glidos, there are all sorts of screen mode switchings happening.

Reply 5 of 7, by Snover

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Have you tried NOLFB.COM? ATi cards have bad VESA support though, for whatever reason, this seems to be changing. (Not on a RAGE though.)

Yes, it’s my fault.

Reply 6 of 7, by CraigG

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Is it me, or is there a pattern emerging with owners of old ATI cards ?

Seems the most reported problems so far are for old ATI cards.

Athlon 64 3000+ stock
MSI NForce 4 K8N Neo Platinum
2Gb RAM
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SBLive! Platinum + Audigy ZS2 Drivers
WinXP Pro SP2

Reply 7 of 7, by Glidos

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I think that's right, but there have been several quite different problems.