rec.autos.simulators

by **Mark Robert** » Tue, 21 May 1996 04:00:00

I recently raced a race on Hawaii and wanted to save the replay of the
race. Before I exited the race I saved the replay and thought
everything was fine. But when I go to view it, it freezes up on my
machine. Does anyone know what I did wrong, and has anyone saved hawaii
replays succesfully?

M. Roberts

by **Lakeata Bree** » Tue, 21 May 1996 04:00:00

I have saved multiple replays successfully with no problem. Wish I could
give you more info,
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by **Whatbra** » Wed, 22 May 1996 04:00:00

writes:

Same thing happened to me. I finished the race and wanted to check out hte
close finish ahead of me and decide to tapeit to watch later so as not to
dilly dally after the race but when I go to watch it I see my car for
about 1 sec then the screen goes grey and the machine crashes.

Gene Gagne
SKL LVL 2 but moving up

by **Eldred Picke** » Wed, 22 May 1996 04:00:00

>Subject: Hawaii Replays
>Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 01:07:03 -0400
>I recently raced a race on Hawaii and wanted to save the replay of the
>race. Before I exited the race I saved the replay and thought
>everything was fine. But when I go to view it, it freezes up on my
>machine. Does anyone know what I did wrong, and has anyone saved hawaii
>replays succesfully?
>M. Roberts

Been there, done that<g>
Maybe it's a memory problem. How much (base/extended) memory do you have.
Actually, check your hard drive space. I just remembered I had problems like
that, and I discovered my HD was full...<BURP!>

________

Eldred Pickett

I am NOT paranoid. And why are you always watching me?!?

by **Young4go** » Wed, 22 May 1996 04:00:00

writes:

Same exact thing has happened to me. I've tried to save about 6 replays
and a couple of them freeze up with only the sound working.

Phil

by **Gary Hama** » Wed, 22 May 1996 04:00:00

>writes:

>>I recently raced a race on Hawaii and wanted to save the replay of the
>>race. Before I exited the race I saved the replay and thought
>>everything was fine. But when I go to view it, it freezes up on my
>>machine. Does anyone know what I did wrong, and has anyone saved hawaii
>>replays succesfully?

>>M. Roberts

>Same exact thing has happened to me. I've tried to save about 6 replays
>and a couple of them freeze up with only the sound working.

>Phil

Haven't had any trouble saving replays!

by **Terry L. Adam** » Wed, 22 May 1996 04:00:00

> >Subject: Hawaii Replays
> >Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 01:07:03 -0400

> >I recently raced a race on Hawaii and wanted to save the replay of the
> >race. Before I exited the race I saved the replay and thought
> >everything was fine. But when I go to view it, it freezes up on my
> >machine. Does anyone know what I did wrong, and has anyone saved hawaii
> >replays succesfully?

> >M. Roberts

> Been there, done that<g>
> Maybe it's a memory problem. How much (base/extended) memory do you have.
> Actually, check your hard drive space. I just remembered I had problems like
> that, and I discovered my HD was full...<BURP!>

> ________

> Eldred Pickett

> I am NOT paranoid. And why are you always watching me?!?

The "replay bug" started when Papyrus added the .RPX associated file,
that links the saved replay to a file that links the names of the
drivers that were in the saved On-line race. A quick fix is to upgrade
to 32meg. Not a great solution but, it worked for me. I believe it has
something to do with running out of memory space when saving the replay
to the HD.

Since upgrading to 32meg. I have saved all my HAL races that are 18% to
23% in length, from various tracks and have had no problems.

What does Charlie (Hawaii programmer) Heath think of this?

--
Terry L. Adams

Compuserve: 102115,2033
HAWAII: Adams

by **Marcus Thomps** » Thu, 23 May 1996 04:00:00

I must be lucky I saved the replay to disk and it works fine!

by **Eldred Picke** » Thu, 23 May 1996 04:00:00

>Subject: Re: Hawaii Replays
>Date: 21 May 1996 16:24:30 -0400

>writes:
>>I recently raced a race on Hawaii and wanted to save the replay of the
>>race. Before I exited the race I saved the replay and thought
>>everything was fine. But when I go to view it, it freezes up on my
>>machine. Does anyone know what I did wrong, and has anyone saved hawaii
>>replays succesfully?

>>M. Roberts
>Same exact thing has happened to me. I've tried to save about 6 replays
>and a couple of them freeze up with only the sound working.
>Phil

Check your HD space, guys...

________

Eldred Pickett

I am NOT paranoid. And why are you always watching me?!?

by **Young4go** » Fri, 24 May 1996 04:00:00

>Check your HD space, guys...

>________

>Eldred Pickett

Not the problem, Eldred. I got 113 megs free HD space.. I would venture
a guess and say it's a .rpx bug on Papyrus' side for us bums who have less
than 32 megs of ram....

Phil

by **Eldred Picke** » Fri, 24 May 1996 04:00:00

>Subject: Re: Hawaii Replays
>Date: 23 May 1996 05:06:31 -0400

>>Check your HD space, guys...

>>________

>>Eldred Pickett
>Not the problem, Eldred. I got 113 megs free HD space.. I would venture
>a guess and say it's a .rpx bug on Papyrus' side for us bums who have less
>than 32 megs of ram....
>Phil

Hmm, when did it change? I've only got 12MB (16 on my other system) and my
replays saved fine...

________

Eldred Pickett

I am NOT paranoid. And why are you always watching me?!?

by **Charlie Hea** » Sat, 25 May 1996 04:00:00

>The "replay bug" started when Papyrus added the .RPX associated file,
>that links the saved replay to a file that links the names of the
>drivers that were in the saved On-line race. A quick fix is to upgrade
>to 32meg. Not a great solution but, it worked for me. I believe it has
>something to do with running out of memory space when saving the replay
>to the HD.

>Since upgrading to 32meg. I have saved all my HAL races that are 18% to
>23% in length, from various tracks and have had no problems.

>What does Charlie (Hawaii programmer) Heath think of this?

I'll look into it. Hadn't seen it, but I've heard of several people having
problems, so I suspect there's something broken. If the problem is with
the .RPX file, you <might> be able to resolve it by moving the RPX file out
of the track directory; if you do this, you won't have driver names and car
numbers from the multiplayer race, but you might be able to load the
replay. (I'd be interested in hearing about it if this is indeed the
case).

Charlie Heath
Papyrus Design Group

by **Randy Magrud** » Sat, 25 May 1996 04:00:00

>I'll look into it. Hadn't seen it, but I've heard of several people having
>problems, so I suspect there's something broken. If the problem is with
>the .RPX file, you <might> be able to resolve it by moving the RPX file out
>of the track directory; if you do this, you won't have driver names and car
>numbers from the multiplayer race, but you might be able to load the
>replay. (I'd be interested in hearing about it if this is indeed the
>case).
>Charlie Heath
>Papyrus Design Group

I have a 24 meg machine on a P-133 and replays save fine, but the
camera jumps from one car to another a lot, the cars disappear and
re-appear, and some cars seem to be accessible for only parts of the
race.

What's going on?

Randy

by **Frank Perreau** » Sun, 26 May 1996 04:00:00

>Hmm, when did it change? I've only got 12MB (16 on my other system) and my
>replays saved fine...
>
>________
>
>Eldred Pickett

>
>I am NOT paranoid. And why are you always watching me?!?
>

I've got 16 meg and it saves fine expect when playing back files. Cars
disappear and reappear during replay.

--- Frank ---

by **Gary A. Hangslebe** » Sun, 26 May 1996 04:00:00

I have NFS and would like to use it without the CD
Is there a way to do this, i have a Syquest 135 drive,
so the space is not a problem.

Thanks

Gary H...