rec.autos.simulators

Needless to say, we both crashed heavily, not too pleasant for two reasons.

1. I hate wrecking someone else's fun ,
2. I hate wrecking mine.

Are there any adjustments/tricks I should do at my end to alliviate this or
is it hopeless until a patch or something else comes along ?

My config is as follows:

-ABIT BH-6, 300a OC'd to 450, 64meg PC-100, VooDoo2 12meg, AWE 64, and a
cable modem.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Robert
Hull, Qubec

    First thing to do is to *not* join any races where the ping to the server
is above 350.  That in it self will help a *great* deal!
    Second thing to do is to hope that everyone else observes the first thing
to do!

    next, the AWE 64 I think is a ISA card(?),  get a PCI card! that will, and
wont, help with the connection. But at least you will be sure to have a good
FPS value.

    Last thing that will help is to have the same Core.ini that everyone else
uses in that race.

    I did hear that the GPL 1.1 will help with the problem you are having.
Don't quote me though.

Mike Barlow

Race Communications Association
http://members.xoom.com/RCA/toc.html

Holodyne Engineering

Mystic Music

Everyone, PLEASE check your latency (alt-L) when first entering races.
If it's too high (.400+), you'll do better elsewhere, and everyone
else will be grateful.  Or at least use the chat pad to let the host
and your competitors know what it is so they can weigh in.  If they
don't mind, then have at it!

Steve B.

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Living in Australia, our latency times to America will never see the
light of day under 450 milliseconds, and if we have good connections
and a good router path to America, we might be lucky enough to see
pings in the 450 to 500 area.
I have been running in an American based on-line league ever since GPL
was released, and my ping times are rarely under .490 milliseconds, and
NOT ONCE have i effected the other players in the league through
latency issues.  The major problems we have had with warping, has come
from the new drivers that entered our league without knowing the
correct way to set up a DUN and once the DUN issues were resolved, we
have not had problems arising from latency issues at all.  These
drivers had latency figures in the 100 to 200 millisecond range, and
created havoc.!!!

Why some people have to insist on running their analogue modems at
beyond 26400 to join a race is totally beyond me.  It is not necessary.
 Some people are under the false belief that the slower a modem speed
is, the higher the latency is, this once more is totally false..     A
modem connection speed effects the bandwidth of the sent and recieved
packets, NOT the speed at which the packets are sent and recieved..
The light from a torch still travels at the same speed, regardless of
the size of the torch,  so do the signals from your modem.

So, to top this off, all of you with cable and ADSL etc in America, if
you want to effectively cut off the rest of the world from entering
your races in VROC, then use the, " no pings over 400 allowed" ...
You will certainly stop drivers from Australia entering your races, and
a lot of other places outside of America as well will also be excluded
from your future races,  and this will NOT cure your problems.  The
problems come from the people who do not take the time to set up their
DUN and modems correctly, not the guy with a 500 millisecond latency
and a good error free connection...
Cheers from Downunder,
Ron

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Good points all, Ron, and thanks for addressing the DUN issues that I
neglected.  My comments about high pings were based primarily on anecdotal
observations, certainly not any technical expertise on my part.:-)  I'd noted
from racing and watching replays that drivers who'd reported higher pings were
warping badly, and hadn't really considered the effect of connection stability.
 I just figured that much packet loss would result in them disco'ing.  I
suppose it's a mix of factors.  So much to keep up with..........

Steve B.

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Jens

On Sat, 08 May 1999 10:29:36 -0400, Michael Barlow

I'm im Malaysia and suffer the same problems.
One more question:
When my connection is bad, how can I find out not to spoil the race.
Do I see all other cars warping?

See you

Jens

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