Re: [Torcs-users] Torcs causes hard crash

[Bernhard W. <be...@bl...>]

Hi Bob

> Now I'm running Windows XP. I grabbed the Torcs binary installer late last
> week. The install went smooth. I then tried to run torcs. The little
> ~640x480 window popped up with the penguin in the car. Then it tried to do

Penguin in the car, do you really use TORCS from the TORCS site or am I blind, 
please explain? Just a little joke?

> something to my display and it just turned off the display instead. Same as
> what was happening in Linux.

The default is to run TORCS in a Window, so there must be something totally 
screwed with your system if even that does not work. If I understood you correct 
you do not even get the menu? Weird...

> So the common factor here is my hardware. I have an AMD XP 2800+ and an ATI
> Radeon 9600 XT video card. My sound card is one of the original SB Live
> cards.
> 
> Note that in neither of these cases did I screw with the configuration. It's
> out of the box.

What about other OpenGL games? Do they work? For me this sounds like a problem 
with your system (driver, BIOS setup, overclocked, too weak or broken power 
supply, forgotten to plug in additional power connector to your graphics board, 
...).

What you can try is to edit "screen.xml" in the "config" directory, set the 
frequency lower (the funny thing is that it does not matter if you do not use 
full screen), but it should NOT help.

Bye, Bernhard.

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