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GPL and screen hickups

Michael Barlo

GPL and screen hickups

by Michael Barlo » Sat, 06 Mar 1999 04:00:00

    The last few days I've hosted a bunch of Watkins Glen races. A bunch
of drivers come and a bunch leave sometimes I'll have up to 18 drivers
running.

    What happens is this...    During early practice everything is fine,
but after a bunch have come and stayed My screen starts to hickup.  I'll
be driving down the back strait with everything fine and dandy, But then
for a second my screen stops and then continues.  This doesn't happen
just down the back strait, it's more of a random act.  Every time it
gets bad I'll get POed and ask "who has the bad frame rate".   I
remember reading something about hosting a race and having someone with
a bad frame rate joining with this as a result.

    Am I right with that being the reason or could it be that someone
has connected with a slow modem? Or is there something going on that I
should know about?

    This only happens while I'm hosting.  If I join someone else's race
with many drivers I don't have any problems.

Any ideas?
Mike Barlow

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Bart Westr

GPL and screen hickups

by Bart Westr » Sun, 07 Mar 1999 04:00:00

What is your upload capacity and what are your core.ini settings? It sounds
like you need more bandwidth and/or more cpu to host that many. For
bandwidth calculations see http://people.A2000.nl/bcwes/gplol.htm.
Bart Westra

>    The last few days I've hosted a bunch of Watkins Glen races. A bunch
>of drivers come and a bunch leave sometimes I'll have up to 18 drivers
>running.

>    What happens is this...    During early practice everything is fine,
>but after a bunch have come and stayed My screen starts to hickup.  I'll
>be driving down the back strait with everything fine and dandy, But then
>for a second my screen stops and then continues.  This doesn't happen
>just down the back strait, it's more of a random act.  Every time it
>gets bad I'll get POed and ask "who has the bad frame rate".   I
>remember reading something about hosting a race and having someone with
>a bad frame rate joining with this as a result.

>    Am I right with that being the reason or could it be that someone
>has connected with a slow modem? Or is there something going on that I
>should know about?

>    This only happens while I'm hosting.  If I join someone else's race
>with many drivers I don't have any problems.

>Any ideas?
>Mike Barlow

>--
>=========================================
>Mike Barlow of Barlow Racing?
>MikeBa on the TEN network.
>Member of R.O.R. 1999
>http://w3.ime.net/~marknjess/noflame.html
>=========================================
>Racing online with the help of......

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

>Holodyne Engineering

>Mystic Music


Jack Ramb

GPL and screen hickups

by Jack Ramb » Sun, 07 Mar 1999 04:00:00

http://people.A2000.nl/bcwes/gplol.htm.

What a superb piece of work, Bart.

The GPL community owes you a debt of gratitude.


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