Carmageddon (1997) freezes a few seconds after race starts

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msteel
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Carmageddon (1997) freezes a few seconds after race starts

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Hello , I have been trying to get Caramageddon MaxPack to run on PCem with minimal success. The game loads fine however when the race starts the game will freeze shortly after. I have tried the released version as well as the latest dev build with the same result.

Host CPU i7-6700k
Tested running game on Windows 98 and MS dos 6.22
both 3dfx and software rendered versions.

If the game is run on windows 98 (dos) I am able to ALT TAB back to the desktop so PCem does not appear to be crashing just the game itself.

I'd like to help resolve this, I believe PCem to be the best way to relive classic OS's and Games short of playing them on the actual hardware they were made for.

Thanks,
Chris.
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leilei
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Re: Carmageddon (1997) freezes a few seconds after race starts

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Can reproduce on stock Carmageddon w/o addons and these settings:

Pentium MMX recompiler
Cyrix6x86 recompiler
IDT Winchip interpreter
486 recompiler
24mb
256mb
ATI Mach64
S3 Trio64
VGA
No sound
Sound Blaster 16
Sound Blaster AWE32
Win95
Win98SE
Also trying -hires

REALLY REALLY LATE EDIT: The Splat Pack's Windows 95 engine doesn't freeze.
msteel
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Re: Carmageddon (1997) freezes a few seconds after race starts

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Does anyone have a suggestion for a process monitor for windows 98 to see what's actually being requested from the OS when the game crashes?
altheos
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Re: Carmageddon (1997) freezes a few seconds after race starts

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Process Explorer 11.11 should work ;)
msteel
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Re: Carmageddon (1997) freezes a few seconds after race starts

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No luck, that program only shows processes running under the windows kernel. DOS games don't register at all ::
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SarahWalker
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Re: Carmageddon (1997) freezes a few seconds after race starts

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This is looking like some horrible floating point issue. Might take a while...
msteel
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Re: Carmageddon (1997) freezes a few seconds after race starts

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No worries, I appreciate you looking into this.
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ender
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Re: Carmageddon (1997) freezes a few seconds after race starts

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Carmageddon used to work for me, but it's been a while since I tried it.
msteel
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Re: Carmageddon (1997) freezes a few seconds after race starts

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I tested back to PCem version 11 with no success
msteel
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Re: Carmageddon (1997) freezes a few seconds after race starts

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Update, carmageddon now crashes back to a desktop in windows 98 immediately when the race starts rather then freezing at random.
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Re: Carmageddon (1997) freezes a few seconds after race starts

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The windows version of Carmageddon plays fine on the same setup, all be it slower then DOS. It’s odd that only the DOS exe has this issue.
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