rec.autos.simulators

At times, I can't exit the car to return to the pits.  In other words,
when I hit <esc> then <enter> when I'm in the car, nothing happens.
That command should return me to the pits so that I can tweak my set-up,
etc.  In fact, even <Shift-R> won't work at those times, either.

The only thing that I can recall changing recently was that I enabled
fast Disk read-writes in my BIOS.  I don't think that this caused the
problem though, because when I went back to disable it, the problem
still persists.

My system is an Athlon XP1700, 512 megs RAM, Win 98SE, Radeon 8500LE,
SBLive sound card.  One thing I noticed that may or may not be related
is that the sound in GPL crackles a bit.  Not sure wthen that started,
though.

Any thoughts/help with this would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Bert

Do you have anything installed which auto-updates itself, like an anti-virus
software or RealPlayer or somesuch? -Scanning for virus activity (trojan) or
spyware is something you should look into. Also, if your graphics card
allows it, try running GPL in a window at 320x200 or somesuch, so you can
have it in the corner of your screen an see what's going behind your back as
you play GPL.

HTH,

Jan.
=---

I can only suggest two pretty obvious possible causes. Occasionally in an
online race I got to press esc/enter, but accidentally miss pressing esc.
This means the chat entry is activated, so you can't shift-R, press F10 or
anything else until you've pressed enter again.

The other possibility is that some app like ZoneAlarm or a virus scanner
update has brought up a dialogue box in the background. You have to alt-tab
to get control back in gpl. I doubt this second one would be the problem
though, since the sounds usually completely disappear when gpl doesn't have
focus.

hth, Malc.