Anyone freezing in GTR?

[G_Ilott]

The demo and now the proper game are annoyingly freezing randomly in the menus and sometimes on the race monitor screen.

There doesn't seem to be any logic to when it freezes, though it appears to do it more often if I have altered a graphic setting in Options but never after changing the same setting and it doesn't always freeze.

It properly freezes - no access to Windows whatsoever.

It freezes less if I leave the config on 56hz refresh rather than 72hz. I wouldn't have thought that would make a difference in the menu.

It doesn't freeze at all in the race itself. This is totally backward to other games I've had!


I have:

P4/2.8
512Mb
256Mb Radeon 9600
XP Pro
DirectX 9.0c

No virus checkers running
No background clutter
No hardware conflicts
No joystick plugged in (I have a Momo wheel but I haven't got as far as trying it yet because of this problem)


This seems more than enough ooomph to run the game well.

Apart from the freezes, it seems to take an age to load a race and cursor and effects move a bit sluggishly - not crisp and instant. Is that normal?