rec.autos.simulators

Anyone having problems online where other cars disappear and when they
reappear your car goes into a slide and usually spins? I first saw this
in the demo but, thought it was my video card having major glitches. A
couple of  my friends are noticing this also. I haven't seen any
discussion about it here so i am starting to wonder how many racers, if
any..are experiencing this. Does anyone know if there is a fix? A
core.ini line that might help? Thanx in advance for any info.

You have a bad internet connection (or the person who you are racing against
does).  It's called lag or latency.  Try upgrading your connection or racing
on servers where your ping to it is 150ms or less.

Mr. B

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Warp sucks, doesn't it? <g>

--

Fester

Restrictor plate racing killed Dale Earnhardt.

Yes, you must be new to online racing. Its called "warp" and has been around
since the days of Quake (first big multiplayer, real time game I ever played
over the net circa '92-'93) when we called it "lag". Be prepared to deal
with it until everyone in the world has a broad band connection to the
Internet. Warp and lag are general terms for dropped or lost data packets
between host and client.

It can be minimized by making sure nothing extraneous is running in the
background on your computer and by connecting to servers (dedicated or not)
that are on T1+, DSL, or cable (and even then you will still get it due to
other racers having bad connections and various traffic between you and
server). OF course a cable or DSL connection on your end would help greatly
too. Consensus is that each racer requires 20-30k bandwidth from the server,
so to host 20 guys one would need roughly 500-600k up and down stream as a
minimum. If you have 56k, you'd be lucky to reliably host 2 guys outside of
yourself. Book recommends a cable host only host 15-20 players, I have cable
and get 2.8-3.0 MB Down, and about 360-500k Up and can host about 15 guys
decently.

Learn how to use PING and TRACERT from a DOS box, but you have to know hosts
IP. If you run TRACERT and get more than 10-12 hops between you and server,
good luck.

Diehard racers get together at LAN events and hook all their gear up to a
100MB LAN and race over the network to reduce warp.

Anyway, race on and good luck.

edb

While i thank you for your responses i must say that i have never seen
this type of behavior and i have been doing this quite a while...Hawaii
which was a bit different, kali and kahn before Ten as far as internet
racing. Nobodys car is hitting me and making me spin, i realize that it
is probably some sort of warp and was hoping that i was not one of the
only ones with this problem. N3 doesn't spin ya like that! So i thought
maybe someone heard that Papyrus had addressed this and i hadn't heard
yet. Wishful thinking? There was a lot of discussion and tweaking with
the core.ini file by some smart racers in GPL and i hope it continues
with N4. Thanks again for your time.

   I'm experiencing the same thing.  Never had it in GPL (with the
same machine).  For me I think it's a lack of CPU power to run the

N4).  If the CPU can't keep up with the game as well as talking to the
modem, you get warps.  I think the new factor that N4 is adding is the
banking of the tracks (not in GPL) and the ability to bottom out (not
in N3).  When you warp, you get moved abruptly around the track, there
is a greater chance to bottom out on the banked track, and the result
is you're into a skid before you know it.  :(

"But in a way, fear is a big part of racing, because if there was
nothing to be frightened of, and no limit, any fool could get into
a motor car and racing would not exist as a sport." -- Jim Clark