Muli Player N2 BAD after both Patches

All, I have been using N2 and a Cardinal Voice/Speakerphone modem with my friend for quite some time. This setup works great. We can talk to each other while we drive. No headphones or headsets needed, just speak into the mic attached to the modem and walla. We have always connected with a Latency for .10. We race Charlette and Tally with 35 cars. We have NEVER received any lag or glitches while racing. We applied the new patches from Papyrus. Now when we connect, we get the same latency. When we race it goes fine for about 5 laps. Then The CALLER's AI cars disappear for a few seconds, then come back. The AI starts jumping all over the track. They appear in the pits, on the grass, on the track. Now imagine 34 cars appearing wheverever they want! Car parts and smoke are all over the place and the spotter is constantly yelling about the reck, which you can't see of course. The info screen (F2) would scroll and jump about like crazy! The car positions would change ever second. The scenereo for Tally was much less dramatic, but the same results. Does anyone have any IDEA on what causes this? It worked great before the patch and lousy after. Can this be fixed or do I have to go back to the original version of NAscar2? -- Lannie Schafroth Pathworks Network Administrator Iowa Network Services, Inc. Voice: 515 830-0443 4201 Corporate Drive Fax: 515 830-0123 West Des Moines, IA 50266 Any statements herein are my own opinion and not that of my employer.

snip snip I don't know if this is still true after the patches, but if the mult.lst is changed on one of the systems, it causes exactly the kind of behaviour you're describing. By changed, I mean cars deleted from the list, and new ones introduced that have different #'s and such. A local racing buddy and I had this same problem after he did some modification of the multi.lst He had completely deleted most of these cars from the sim, and added custom cars he had created. He had to delete and re-install N2 to correct the problem. (it was much easier for him to take this route) Hope this helps, Shawn Wise Midwest Motorsports ProHCS3 & HGNS3 on Hawaii

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>I don't know if this is still true after the patches, but if the >mult.lst is changed on one of the systems, it causes exactly >the kind of behaviour you're describing. By changed, I mean >cars deleted from the list, and new ones introduced that have >different #'s and such. A local racing buddy and I had this >same problem after he did some modification of the multi.lst >He had completely deleted most of these cars from the sim, >and added custom cars he had created. He had to delete >and re-install N2 to correct the problem. (it was much easier >for him to take this route) >Hope this helps,

thanks for the reply Shawn. This doesn't appear to be our problem. We both have the default N2 installation WITH the patches. We haven't modified anything but our Modem init string. -- Lannie Schafroth Pathworks Network Administrator Iowa Network Services, Inc. Voice: 515 830-0443 4201 Corporate Drive Fax: 515 830-0123 West Des Moines, IA 50266 Any statements herein are my own opinion and not that of my employer.