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GPL Rank question...

Simon Brow

GPL Rank question...

by Simon Brow » Fri, 07 Jul 2000 04:00:00

I don't know if I'm the only one this applies to, but since I bought GPL I
must have re-installed it about 50 times, mostly due to windows going wrong
and needing re-installing, so hardly any of my best times are in my
player.ini file.  I'm sure this must apply to someone else out there.  Has
everyone else edited their player.ini and put their best times in it?
Alex Kihuran

GPL Rank question...

by Alex Kihuran » Fri, 07 Jul 2000 04:00:00

That's not a good idea. Then people can easily cheat. If you made those best
time by skill, you should be able to do it again, and improve. I don't think
one fast, lucky lap really indicates how good at GPL you are anyways.

Thanks,
Alex

Don Scurlo

GPL Rank question...

by Don Scurlo » Fri, 07 Jul 2000 04:00:00



That would be frowned upon Simon. If you did then once, you can
probably do even better now. Go do a few laps.

--
Don Scurlock
Vancouver,B.C.
GPLRank -2.86

Come see how you rank, at the GPLRank site
http://newgplrank.schuerkamp.de/

Tony Whitle

GPL Rank question...

by Tony Whitle » Fri, 07 Jul 2000 04:00:00

Simon,

I don't know what you're doing to cause so many re-installs but backing up
your player.ini to a floppy sounds like a simple, honest solution. In any
case you should be able to get within a second of your best times without
too much trouble (except at the 'Ring maybe).

Tony Whitley


Randy Rig

GPL Rank question...

by Randy Rig » Fri, 07 Jul 2000 04:00:00

GPLRank already backs up your player.ini for you. After a re-install
you can run the feature 'restore your "player.ini"'.

Randy

On Thu, 6 Jul 2000 08:08:41 +0100, "Tony Whitley" <t o n y . w h i t l

>Simon,

>I don't know what you're doing to cause so many re-installs but backing up
>your player.ini to a floppy sounds like a simple, honest solution. In any
>case you should be able to get within a second of your best times without
>too much trouble (except at the 'Ring maybe).

>Tony Whitley



>> I don't know if I'm the only one this applies to, but since I bought GPL I
>> must have re-installed it about 50 times, mostly due to windows going
>wrong
>> and needing re-installing, so hardly any of my best times are in my
>> player.ini file.  I'm sure this must apply to someone else out there.  Has
>> everyone else edited their player.ini and put their best times in it?

Simon Brow

GPL Rank question...

by Simon Brow » Fri, 07 Jul 2000 04:00:00

I read all the replies and you've convinced me to go and do the times again,
i've still got times in there for several tracks anyway, so it's not like I
have to do them all.
As for why I'm always re-installing GPL, i dunno.  I always re-install my
games when I re-install windows so i've got all the correct registry
entries.  As for why I'm always re-installing windows. again I dunno.  I do
a lot of programming, which means a lot of hangs, and every hang has the
potential to mess up some crucuial system files.  My system seems to hang a
lot anyway, probably due to the amount of hardware connected up or the
network card i've got in it.
Actually, every time i've re-installed GPL, if i'd thought of it I could
have just took out the player.ini file first and then put it back after
installation.  Then again I never needed to keep the file before someone
invented GPLRank.
:)
Woodie

GPL Rank question...

by Woodie » Sat, 08 Jul 2000 04:00:00


Wow, I would have eaten my gun by now if this was happening on my box.  I built
this thing myself, without much knowledge, and it's been going for more than a
year without a re-install.  Maybe I'm just lucky.  More to the point, GPLRank
features a way to restore your player.ini after a re-install.  Update your
stats to the site regularly, and if you have to format, you can just go reclaim
them and carry on.

Don McCorkle

Simon Brow

GPL Rank question...

by Simon Brow » Sat, 08 Jul 2000 04:00:00

Thanks for the advice.  If I'd known the player.ini file would some day be
important then I could have saved it, i've saved all my replays and setups
afterall.  As for re-installing windows (never needed to format the drive
btw), obviously 50 times is an exageration.
Less than a week ago, I had some V3 drivers downloading, I was typing out an
e-mail, I opened up another IE window and suddenly everything started going
slow until the machine wouldn't repond at all, not even with Ctrl-Alt-Del,
so I hit the reset button, and when it booted back up I got a purple screen
with the message "windows is invalid" on it.  It turned out that about 12 MB
worth of system files had been destroyed, so I had no choice but to
re-install.
There's nothing I could have done to prevent that.

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