.plr file changes to .tmp file on its own

[btraylor]

I have Windows XP. I recently started playing the game after a year or so of having it sit in a box.
For some reason, when I play, the screen gets all glitchy after a while, and when I restart it doesn't recognize any driver name. When I look at the userdata file, the plr file has changed to a tmp file on its own. Any thoughts on how to fix this from happening?
This did not happen when I played before.

[tiptop]

It happened to me but once in a while. Have you tried giving the file its old name and restarted the game?

[tdurrett]

I thing the system crashed inthe process of saving the game. If you look at your trace file at close the game saves to .tmp then to .PLR ....
last lines of my last game...
plrfile.cpp 3386: Entered PlayerFile:ost()
plrfile.cpp 2510: Attempting to save to USERDATA\TCferrari\TCferrari.TMP
plrfile.cpp 2533: Retcode: 0 for renaming to USERDATA\TCferrari\TCferrari.PLR
game.cpp 717: Entered Game::Setup()
hwinput.cpp 6383: Entered HWInput::Setup()
options.cpp 1561: Entered Options::Setup()
plrfile.cpp 2510: Attempting to save to USERDATA\TCferrari\TCferrari.TMP
plrfile.cpp 2533: Retcode: 0 for renaming to USERDATA\TCferrari\
TCferrari.PLR
game.cpp 1141: Entered Game::Exit()
sound.cpp 856: Entered Sound::Exit()
specialfx.cp 3906: Entered SpecialFX::Exit()
hwinput.cpp 6491: Entered HWInput::Exit()
dynman.cpp 1541: Entered DynMan::Exit()
onscreen.cpp 3056: Entered OnScreen::Exit()
vidman.cpp 1796: Entered VidMan::Exit()
osman.cpp 516: Entered OSMan::Exit()