rec.autos.simulators

I have a problem with GPL when racing online.
Quite often during a race or practice I suddenly loose my Sound and at the
same moment my keyboard doesn't react anymore.
(my controller still does react by the way). Because of this problem I have
to reboot my system and because of this GPL online racing isn't much fun for
me.
I'm using a 56K modem.

Does anybody have the solution for this annoying problem.

Gr. Dogge

This is gonna sound stupid, but have you turned off all your power management in
the BIOS and Control Panel?

            Zog

Yes I think I have (can't check now because I'm at work now), but when this
would cause the problem, why only online??? Offline I don't have that
problem at all.

Gr. P. Dogge

It sounds like something is stealing focus away from GPL.  Push the
mouse towards the upper left (never mind that the cursor either doesn't
move, or isn't visible), and click the left mouse button.  If this gets
your sound back, but you are then soon disconnected from the server,
then your Internet connection has probably closed down, and the thing
that was stealing focus away from GPL was a dialog box asking if you
want to reconnect.

On Win95... Double click on My Computer.  Open the Dialup Networking
folder.  Right click on the icon for your Internet connection, and
select Properties.  Select the General tab, and hit Configure.  Select
the Connection tab, and remove the check-mark from the line that says
"Disconnect a call if idle for mor then <N> mins."  Windows' notion of
"idle" is screwy.  Just be sure to manually disconnect from you ISP,
since the machine will no longer do it for you automatically.

If that's not it, any program that activates itself while the system is
idle (virus checker, screen saver (though we try to disable these),
power management stuff, ...) could rear its ugly head.  If you whack
the space bar once every few minutes while driving and you no longer
have the problem, then it's something along these lines.

Randy

I once had a similar problem with keyboard stopping working, not sound
though, and that was after I had reinstalled win98 and it had put wrong
lines for my KB in the autoexec.bat and config.sys files .Since Win98
doesn't need those lines I deleted them and it all worked fine again.
Probably not at all related to your problem but something to try
nevertheless.
--
Vince Fisher

Or hit <alt+tab>. First once, then two times in a row, then three times in a
row, possibly even four times. This will step your system through the
currently running applications and hopefully bring GPL back to focus - without
closing down your network connection or anything and probably more safely so
than trying to hit a close button you can't see.

Cheers,
    /ft, who had this problem - though no more *shrug*

Exactly my problem.
I located it to a setting in Explorer - internet alternatives - connection-
settings which told the computer to quit my connection after 20 minutes of
no activity.
As racing online via SpyBoy there is no activity in the Explorer connection
and - pof - race is over.
I took away the tick in the box and my problems are now on the tracks.

PieBo

Two more things to add to my post quoted above.

1) This occured offline, and always just when entering the car and hitting the
accelerator.

2) A quite possible culprit is the little free space remaining on my GPL (and
other) drives at the time. I find it possible, and even likely, that GPL
created some sort of swap file or performed a disk operation which caused the
drive space warning dialog box to come up and steal focus. I know I often
found it when closing down GPL...

Cheers,
   /ft

Check that your screensaver is switched off, and if its only happening
online that your modem isn't set to auto disconnect (setup from within
internet explorer I believe )

--
Ian Parker

UKGPL League
http://start.at/greenflag

--

Clicking on the mouse is simply a way refocusing on the GPL window, not
trying to find and hit the "close" button.  And it's much easier than
trying to guess how many times to hit <alt+tab>

Randy

Aha, gotcha. Was seeing a non-3D screen with GPL minimized in front of my
inner eye, not one with a small dialog box on top of a large GPL window.
Thanks for the input.

Cheers,
    /ft

This (or a similar problem) was posted earlier.
The problem was that one of the background tasks (e.g. ICQ) was asking
for a keyboard input.

Close all running programs before starting GPL

Hope this helps.
Jens

On Mon, 30 Aug 1999 12:27:38 +0200, "Patrick Dogge"

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