Paul:

I tried running TR1 through Glidos, with the Direct3d instead of OpenGL. The game itself seems to work just about as well through there. However, I also tried running Orthos while doing this. The same thing happened as before. After several minutes my pc started beeping intermittently. When I left TR1 to check it, the Orthos had stopped again and was showing all red with errors.

If the cut and paste will work here, I'll show you an abbreviated version of the error list.

Type: Blend - stress CPU and RAM Min: 8 Max: 4096 InPlace: No Mem: 767 Time: 15

CPU: 1662MHz FSB: 133MHz [132MHz x 12.5 est.]

8/4/2007 7:17 PM

Launching 1 thread...

Using CPU #0

Beginning a continuous self-test to check your computer.

Press Stop to end this test.

Test 1, 4000 Lucas-Lehmer iterations of M19922945 using 1024K FFT length.

ERROR: ILLEGAL SUMOUT

Possible hardware failure, consult readme.txt file, restarting test.

ERROR: ILLEGAL SUMOUT

Possible hardware failure, consult readme.txt file, restarting test.

ERROR: ILLEGAL SUMOUT

Maximum number of warnings exceeded.

Torture Test ran 20 minutes 41 seconds - 0 errors, 100 warnings.

Execution halted.

Oh, good. It worked.

Anyway, as I said once before, it says something about consulting a readme.txt file. I didn't see any readme.txt file anywhere in the Orthos folder. :(

And I have no idea what a ILLEGAL SUMOUT is. :(

So this doesn't even tell me what possible hardware has possibly failed. :(

Another thought just occurred to me. Is the Orthos program designed in England? I heard the main AC voltages used there are different than here. Our main AC voltage is usually 115 or 120 volts for regular house current. Could the difference in voltages make a difference on how the programs respond?

The only thing I can see thus far is that ...on MY machine at least...Glidos and Orthos don't seem to be compatible.

Also. Considering all the problems I was having keeping the game running. Is it at all possible that the English-made Glidos and my US-made pc program, could have a conflict just because of the voltage differences?

Just a thought. I don't know how it could be checked.

Solo.

:)