rec.autos.simulators

Although I have my doubts that this patch is official, how about
collecting a list of bugs here, so that Randy and friends can easily
see what's wrong with this patch and they can save some beta testing
time :-)

Bug description:

 - The player number and the number on the car do not always match.

Bug details:

 We had a good online race with about 20 people at Kyalami.
 I joined the race and got #8 assigned to me.

 In the first race the number on the car was #8 as it should be.

 Then when that race was over, another race was run on the same
 track. Now when entering the track I got assigned #3 in the player
 list, but my car still had #8 on it.

Otherwise the patch worked great! We were able to run very close and
not much warping was seen, but we all were from Finland and the
latency was low for everyone. Anyways, he new synch method seems to
work brilliantly!

 -Juha

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I noticed a bug (if you can call it that) in offline mode. My setup is prone
to lockups (that new V3 I think). With 1.1, and now 1.2, I nearly always get
a lockup of about 10 seconds near the start of a race. Trouble is with 1.2
GPL seems to be running in realtime during the lockup, so by the time i get
control of the car back i'm half a mile down the road, spun out, or up a
tree! I've gone back to v1.0 for now, at least when it locks up I'm back
were I started, and you don't get the slow down thing.

I installed 1.2, started gpl and it worked fine. Then I quit GPL,
started vroc and joined a race at Monza.
I was very happy with the update, the connection was absolutely
P-E-R-F-E-C-T !!!
After the race I quit GPL and VROC. I wanted to train offline, so I
started GPL.

Nothing happened.

I restarted my pc, clicked on gpl.exe, and still nothing happened.
I reinstalled 1.2, still nothing.
Then I installed 1.1003 and gpl worked again.
Finally reinstalled 1.2, and gpl.exe didn't work anymore.

I really, really start to think that this is a leaked BETA indeed :(

Andre