Angry Hitch-Hiker
(not one you'd want to pick up tonight!)
I do believe there are quite a few of us, myself being one. Are you hosting
on WON or at your IP? I'm not sure about WON-- I don't go there often-- but
when I'm hosting at my IP I haven't had one problem.
Alanb
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> Angry Hitch-Hiker
> (not one you'd want to pick up tonight!)
I used the "one AI minimum" theory, but it didn't work for me. It was a
couple of minutes into practice, racers were joining, and .... total lock
up.
I hope Papy gets the N3 multiplay more stable very soon!!
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I hosted about six or so races tonight, with no lockups at all. But, we
never went into practice mode. We just went straight to the track. No AI
cars either, and no problems at all.
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Totally false. This is just another case of something happening to someone
and then that someone just saying that because it happens to him it must
happen to everyone. I host periodically with no AI cars and I've gone an
hour of practice and then qualification then race-- no problems. The whole
process of online racing is very touchy and actually anyone who joins your
hosted race can***things up. But I doubt it has a thing to do with
using AI racers.
Alanb
>>Hosted a beauty tonite, no problems. BUT, I tried three times
>>to host with the "Computer Opponents" box un-checked and
>>locked up every time. I mean solid, have-to-hit-the-reset-
>>button lock-ups. I think someone already posted that you have
>>to have at least one AI car in there or you're screwed. Hope
>>this helps.
>Totally false. This is just another case of something happening
>to someone and then that someone just saying that because it
>happens to him it must happen to everyone. I host periodically
>with no AI cars and I've gone an hour of practice and then
>qualification then race-- no problems. The whole process of
>online racing is very touchy and actually anyone who joins your
>hosted race can***things up. But I doubt it has a thing to
>do with using AI racers.
I never once said that it would happen to everyone, and in fact never
hinted that was the case.
Papy is working on a patch, and I hope we don't have to wait 9 months for
it like we did with the first GPL patch.
Until a patch is released, check your NR3 directory. There's a file
called debug.txt that is created (I think) every time you run the
program. Immediately after a crash, send that file to Charlie Heath.
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Example:
1. Enter your name and car file. Click host. then set the max connections
to 30.
2. On the next screen where you choose the track, yellows and stuff, set
the field size to 40.
This should cure hosting problems. It is a known bug that if you have a
full server and the field size equals the max connections the program will
hang.
Jason.
PS: Thanks to the Aman and Underdog for the info and testing.
> Angry Hitch-Hiker
> (not one you'd want to pick up tonight!)
d3dpmesh.dll, d3drm.dll, d3dxof.dll
Win98 will ask you to load your win98 CD, do this and reload the corrupt
d3d files.
After doing this, I have had no problems with N3 crashing on-line, or
offline.
Rick Sweeney
> Angry Hitch-Hiker
> (not one you'd want to pick up tonight!)
Rick
> Example:
> 1. Enter your name and car file. Click host. then set the max connections
> to 30.
> 2. On the next screen where you choose the track, yellows and stuff, set
> the field size to 40.
> This should cure hosting problems. It is a known bug that if you have a
> full server and the field size equals the max connections the program will
> hang.
> Jason.
> PS: Thanks to the Aman and Underdog for the info and testing.
> > Is there anyone out there that is able to Host online races that is NOT
> > getting kicked out to windows while sitting at practice waiting for
> > others to join the race? (I know its a run on sentence, but I'm MAD!)
> > Doesn't seem to mater if 4 are connected or 29 are connected. BANG,
> > straight to windows with now warning?
> > Angry Hitch-Hiker
> > (not one you'd want to pick up tonight!)
> --------
> Jason Monds
> "My other car is a Ferrari"
> http://members.home.net/gpl.mondsj/gpl - For my combined gas/brake setups
> (Please remove 'no extra spork' when replying)
Jason.
> Rick
> > This solution has been passed on to me by known stable hosts:
> > Make the field size (in the second screen) greater than the host limit you
> > set on the first screen (max of 32).
> > Example:
> > 1. Enter your name and car file. Click host. then set the max connections
> > to 30.
> > 2. On the next screen where you choose the track, yellows and stuff, set
> > the field size to 40.
> > This should cure hosting problems. It is a known bug that if you have a
> > full server and the field size equals the max connections the program will
> > hang.
> > Jason.
> > PS: Thanks to the Aman and Underdog for the info and testing.
> > > Is there anyone out there that is able to Host online races that is NOT
> > > getting kicked out to windows while sitting at practice waiting for
> > > others to join the race? (I know its a run on sentence, but I'm MAD!)
> > > Doesn't seem to mater if 4 are connected or 29 are connected. BANG,
> > > straight to windows with now warning?
> > > Angry Hitch-Hiker
> > > (not one you'd want to pick up tonight!)
> > --------
> > Jason Monds
> > "My other car is a Ferrari"
> > http://members.home.net/gpl.mondsj/gpl - For my combined gas/brake setups
> > (Please remove 'no extra spork' when replying)
Again thanks for all the feedback,
sooner or later, we'll have this solved.
A Happier Hitch-Hiker
hosting in bravo
Hitch-Hiker
I raced on Alan's server yesterday night. We had a 40 min practice and a
20 min race, 7 racers, not AI drivers, and noboby go booted. Was pretty
fun! Some warping but, I think that you can expect that given the
different connection speeds and location.
Philster
