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GPL rear view

R A Wrigh

GPL rear view

by R A Wrigh » Mon, 05 Nov 2001 04:41:30

A while ago I heard of a rear view patch for online so as to be able to see
up to five cars behind. Is this a good patch to have or does it have
limitations as I only have a 56k connection any advise would be appreciated.
If the answers yes do you know where I can download it.

Regards

Bob

Dan Leac

GPL rear view

by Dan Leac » Mon, 05 Nov 2001 06:18:20

   Rich its basically unusable for 56k connections as the load is to high.
Even ISDN struggles i think
  dan


Bart Westr

GPL rear view

by Bart Westr » Mon, 05 Nov 2001 16:51:03



Hi,

The patch is here: http://www.xs4all.nl/~westrab/gpl.htm#bw. See the
readme's for estimates on how many cars can be shown on what connections.
You can't use the patch individually, all participants in a race must follow
the server's settings. We use it in Mara to show 4 cars in front and 2
behind, which helps already a lot to reduce incidents due to cars suddenly
appearing. For 6 cars total, a 19Kb connection is sufficient.

Bart Westra

Ian Robertso

GPL rear view

by Ian Robertso » Mon, 05 Nov 2001 18:33:51

Great patch Bart, we are running it on the ASRG servers in winVROC with
great success.

56K modem, cable, ADSL all have reported it to be working fine with no
increase in ping or loss of quality.

Bye,
Ian_R

R A Wrigh

GPL rear view

by R A Wrigh » Tue, 06 Nov 2001 07:06:40

Thankyou for the help

Regards

Bob




> > A while ago I heard of a rear view patch for online so as to be able to
> see
> > up to five cars behind. Is this a good patch to have or does it have
> > limitations as I only have a 56k connection any advise would be
> appreciated.
> > If the answers yes do you know where I can download it.

> > Regards

> > Bob

> Hi,

> The patch is here: http://www.xs4all.nl/~westrab/gpl.htm#bw. See the
> readme's for estimates on how many cars can be shown on what connections.
> You can't use the patch individually, all participants in a race must
follow
> the server's settings. We use it in Mara to show 4 cars in front and 2
> behind, which helps already a lot to reduce incidents due to cars suddenly
> appearing. For 6 cars total, a 19Kb connection is sufficient.

> Bart Westra


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