no races found - help

I should have asked sooner, because now I'm desperate. I don't want to miss the RASCAR race. Been looking forward to going to Kansas all week. For the last three days now I've been unable to see any races on sierra. I'm patched, I can connect, my ratings show up, I can see others and chat in the lobby, but no races ever show up. The upper screen displays "No Races Found". I've installed and re-installed. I've selected the option to check for other ways to connect. I've tried different combinations of IP address where it allows you to select between the two. All other internet fuctions seem to be working fine. I've left the game up for over 30 minutes on several different occasions, but still no races appear. Thanks for any insight -Kosmo

This is probably a stupid suggestion, but did you hit the "refresh" button? Of course the races should show without hitting it . -- David G Fisher "Kosmo" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:5r1D8.93306$[email hidden]... > I should have asked sooner, because now I'm desperate. I don't want to miss > the RASCAR race. Been looking forward to going to Kansas all week. > > For the last three days now I've been unable to see any races on sierra. > I'm patched, I can connect, my ratings show up, I can see others and chat in > the lobby, but no races ever show up. The upper screen displays "No Races > Found". > > I've installed and re-installed. I've selected the option to check for > other ways to connect. I've tried different combinations of IP address > where it allows you to select between the two. All other internet fuctions > seem to be working fine. I've left the game up for over 30 minutes on > several different occasions, but still no races appear. > > Thanks for any insight > > -Kosmo > > > >

Thanks Dave....that's not a stupid suggestion. The refresh button is grayed out, and thus ineffective. -Kosmo "David G Fisher" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:uT1D8.139224$[email hidden]... > This is probably a stupid suggestion, but did you hit the "refresh"button?

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> Of course the races should show without hitting it . > -- > David G Fisher > > > "Kosmo" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:5r1D8.93306$[email hidden]... > > I should have asked sooner, because now I'm desperate. I don't want to > miss > > the RASCAR race. Been looking forward to going to Kansas all week. > > > > For the last three days now I've been unable to see any races on sierra. > > I'm patched, I can connect, my ratings show up, I can see others and

chat > in > > the lobby, but no races ever show up. The upper screen displays "NoRaces

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> > Found". > > > > I've installed and re-installed. I've selected the option to check for > > other ways to connect. I've tried different combinations of IP address > > where it allows you to select between the two. All other internet > fuctions > > seem to be working fine. I've left the game up for over 30 minutes on > > several different occasions, but still no races appear. > > > > Thanks for any insight > > > > -Kosmo > > > > > > > > > >

<snip> > > > For the last three days now I've been unable to see any races onsierra. > > > I'm patched, I can connect, my ratings show up, I can see others and > chat > > in > > > the lobby, but no races ever show up. The upper screen displays "No > Races > > > Found". <snip> Just a shot in the dark here, but if you are running a NoCD exe this could happen. elrikk

<snip> <snip> Just a shot in the dark here, but if you are running a NoCD exe this could happen. elrikk

"elrikk" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:NpdD8.37888$[email hidden]... > > Just a shot in the dark here, but if you are running a NoCD exe this could > happen. > > elrikk > Thanks for the suggestion. I am using the CD. I've never even tried the NoCD.exe I'm just speculating here, but what if somebody banned my key for some reason. Is this the indication I would have? -Kosmo

Kosmo, I think if you'd have gotten banned, you wouldn't have access to Sierra.com at all, and I also think you would have received some sort of information, either by email or at login time. They couldn't just ban you without ever letting you know. You say you've reinstalled so I assume you have all the ini files in default state? Achim

"Joachim Trensz" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:abk2e7$isd9s$[email hidden]... > Kosmo, > > I think if you'd have gotten banned, you wouldn't have access toSierra.com > at all, and I also think you would have received some sort of information, > either by email or at login time. They couldn't just ban you without ever > letting you know. > > You say you've reinstalled so I assume you have all the ini files indefault > state? > > Achim > I would think so as well Achim. After the reinstall, I've left everything in a default state. Haven't even set my driver up yet.

Could my problem be indicative of a bad modem, or poor ISP? -Kosmo

Are you on a regular modem connection or a broadband connection? I use a regular 56k modem now (no broadband in my area) and I have trouble seeing the race servers thru sierra. If I'm connected to a race my connection is fine, it's just that seeing the servers thru sierra can be troublesome. Couple things to check, and try. First try connecting to sierra at a very low usage time, like mornings or early afternoon, I could see races then. I now use a program called modemmax, which seemed to help me out some. Dont have a link but should come up on google if you look. The bad part is that for a smooth connection when racing you want data compression and error correction off, however if you turn these off, you'll never see any races thru sierra, so you have to enable them just to race, but this causes you to lose some connection quality once connected to the servers. For me the problem seems to a bandwidth issue with sierra at peek hours. Hope this helps. Jay Taylor "Kosmo" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:5r1D8.93306$[email hidden]... > I should have asked sooner, because now I'm desperate. I don't want tomiss > the RASCAR race. Been looking forward to going to Kansas all week. > > For the last three days now I've been unable to see any races on sierra. > I'm patched, I can connect, my ratings show up, I can see others and chatin > the lobby, but no races ever show up. The upper screen displays "No Races > Found". > > I've installed and re-installed. I've selected the option to check for > other ways to connect. I've tried different combinations of IP address > where it allows you to select between the two. All other internetfuctions

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> seem to be working fine. I've left the game up for over 30 minutes on > several different occasions, but still no races appear. > > Thanks for any insight > > -Kosmo > > >

You said earlier 'all other Internet functions work fine' or something to that effect. If that referred to other Internet applications like downloads website viewing etc., then I'd say no, your connection is probably fine. Are you perhaps behind a firewall which prevents N2002 from using the ports it uses to display the racelist? Or are you perhaps using a proxy which could cause this effect? Achim "Kosmo" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:a6wD8.111254$[email hidden]... > Could my problem be indicative of a bad modem, or poor ISP? > > -Kosmo