rec.autos.simulators

my friend bought F1RS some weeks ago and as we had lots of fun playing
GP2 in serial link mode before, I wanted to test the multiplayer-***
prior to buying it myself. so we made a copy of his CD and tried serial
link and either it did not work at all (with his p2-300, voodoo2 as
master) or his computer had a complete lockup after connecting and mine
told me after about 30 seconds "other player lost" or something ... my
question is: is this because of the fact that we were using a copy? or
is this a general problem with F1RS? we both used the 1.09 patch and
configuration was:

        p2-300
        asus p2l
        64 mb
        3d blaster II, 8mb
        mystique 4mb

and     p200mmx
        asus tx97
        64 mb
        monster 3d, 4mb
        millenium I, 4mb

anybody experienced similar problems?
--
Lio

No, we had the same problems trying to connect with two genuine
F1RS cd's. IMHO the game sucks in multiplayer mode, but that seems
to be a common thingy except for ICR2, which is the only sim that
works without performance loss over a serial link.

We spent two hours debugging the configurations, even doing
a fresh install and patching to 1.0.9, but to no avail.
We got maybe 15mins of playing time during that evening, and then
still the cars warped around the circuit.

uwe

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