RASF1: Important regarding race on 03 Apr 2004

I was planning on hosting A1 Ring this weekend, because Eldred is out-of- town and no one else mentioned whether they had the bandwidth to do so. My connection surely isn't good enough for a full grid, but we haven't had that many cars yet. Anyway, I went into F1RST2 to test it out, and I have a weird problem. I select "Austria A1 Ring" in the drop-down list of tracks to host, but when the game launches, it loads Albert Park instead! Unless I can figure out why this is happening, I won't be able to host it tomorrow. -- Ped Xing GPLRank -31.657 "A good racing driver doesn't really look like he's going that fast; but in fact it's a clean, smooth, progressive performance that supplies the real speed." -Sir Jackie Stewart

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> I was planning on hosting A1 Ring this weekend, because Eldred is out-of- > town and no one else mentioned whether they had the bandwidth to do so. My > connection surely isn't good enough for a full grid, but we haven't had > that many cars yet. Anyway, I went into F1RST2 to test it out, and I have > a weird problem. I select "Austria A1 Ring" in the drop-down list of > tracks to host, but when the game launches, it loads Albert Park instead! > > Unless I can figure out why this is happening, I won't be able to host it > tomorrow.

Hi Ped Xing: This started to happen to me a week or two ago. I also wanted to try driving a different car. After logging into F1RST, selecting a Renault, hosting a race and selecting A1, I watched the Sepang map as the track loaded. And there I was in Sepang's pits in my Ferrari. Try starting F1C, without F1RST, and select the track. Then log into F1RST and see if that helps. I'm iffy for tomorrow. I haven't had a chance to get more than 10 laps of practice in. Larry

Larry Lindstrom <[email hidden]> wrote in news:WrDbc.176495$po.985536@attbi_s52: > Try starting F1C, without F1RST, and select the > track. Doesn't work that way. F1RST2 asks that the game be shutdown; it has to launch the game itself. -- Ped Xing GPLRank -31.657 "A good racing driver doesn't really look like he's going that fast; but in fact it's a clean, smooth, progressive performance that supplies the real speed." -Sir Jackie Stewart

I guess this race is off; I can't figure out how to get F1RST to load Austria 2002, it always loads Australia instead. I CAN get RH2003 Austria to load, but I'm probably the only one using RH2003. I guess it was silly to try and run without Eldred. ;-) -- Ped Xing

Ped Xing wrote: > I guess this race is off; I can't figure out how to get F1RST to load > Austria 2002, it always loads Australia instead. I CAN get RH2003 Austria > to load, but I'm probably the only one using RH2003. I guess it was silly > to try and run without Eldred. ;-) Hi Ped Xing: I can't get anything but Australia when hosting on F1RST either now. It used to work. Is anybody but Ped Xing and me selecting a track when hosting? Why not have a password race using F1C's multiplayer? That still works for me. Larry

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> Larry Lindstrom <[email hidden]> wrote in > news:WrDbc.176495$po.985536@attbi_s52: > > >> Try starting F1C, without F1RST, and select the >>track. > > > Doesn't work that way. F1RST2 asks that the game be shutdown; it has to > launch the game itself.

Hi Ped Xing: Yea, I must have been mistaken. I thought starting F1C, selecting a track, then stopping F1C, would cause it to "remember" the last track and default to that when F1RST starts up. What changed in the last two weeks that would cause us to have these problems? Are we the only ones? It's not working like that for me. As I said in my other post, F1C's multiplayer works. Larry

I tried hosting Austria with the 2002 season, and it loaded up Australia as well. We are probably the only one's who still run 2002 anyway, as every race listed when I was in F1RST2 was the RH2003 season. David G Fisher "Larry Lindstrom" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:IqWbc.180145$_w.1829335@attbi_s53...

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> Ped Xing wrote: > > > Larry Lindstrom <[email hidden]> wrote in > > news:WrDbc.176495$po.985536@attbi_s52: > > > > > >> Try starting F1C, without F1RST, and select the > >>track. > > > > > > Doesn't work that way. F1RST2 asks that the game be shutdown; it has to > > launch the game itself. > > Hi Ped Xing: > > Yea, I must have been mistaken. I thought starting > F1C, selecting a track, then stopping F1C, would cause > it to "remember" the last track and default to that > when F1RST starts up. > > What changed in the last two weeks that would cause > us to have these problems? Are we the only ones? > > It's not working like that for me. As I said in my > other post, F1C's multiplayer works. > > Larry

David G Fisher wrote: > I tried hosting Austria with the 2002 season, and it loaded up Australia as > well. > > We are probably the only one's who still run 2002 anyway, as every race > listed when I was in F1RST2 was the RH2003 season. Hi David: 17 minutes to race time. Can someone host RASF1 on F1C's Gamespy? My dog slow 600MHz system is not a good choice. What did we decide about car types and car physics? Larry

Ped Xing wrote in news:[email hidden]: > I guess this race is off; I can't figure out how to get F1RST to > load Austria 2002, it always loads Australia instead. I CAN get > RH2003 Austria to load, but I'm probably the only one using > RH2003. I guess it was silly to try and run without Eldred. ;-) > > The *very* interesting thing about all this is that there was someone in the chat room named Mike_P, who _was_ able to select Austria 2002 as the track and the correct track loaded for him. Ped and I both downloaded his track directory contents and installed them on our machines, but no joy. IIRC, Ped also re-installed the track files from his CD. That didn't work either. My original theory that the listbox of track names at F1RST had the wrong value associated with Austria 2002. But the fact that Mike_P could get the correct track loaded seems to blow that theory out of the water. The 2001 track works, as does the 2003RH track. The 2002 track works if you fire up F1C locally. The three of us futzed around until a few minutes after 12:00 EST, at which point we just gave up. As they say in the crime shows on the telly: "Eldred, don't even think about leaving town!" -- Darryl

Since next week is an off week, why don't we run it then? I'll suggest again that we switch to the RH2003 car set. David G Fisher "Darryl Johnson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:TjYbc.3163$[email hidden]...

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> Ped Xing wrote in > news:[email hidden]: > > > I guess this race is off; I can't figure out how to get F1RST to > > load Austria 2002, it always loads Australia instead. I CAN get > > RH2003 Austria to load, but I'm probably the only one using > > RH2003. I guess it was silly to try and run without Eldred. ;-) > > > > > > The *very* interesting thing about all this is that there was someone > in the chat room named Mike_P, who _was_ able to select Austria 2002 > as the track and the correct track loaded for him. > > Ped and I both downloaded his track directory contents and installed > them on our machines, but no joy. IIRC, Ped also re-installed the > track files from his CD. That didn't work either. > > My original theory that the listbox of track names at F1RST had the > wrong value associated with Austria 2002. But the fact that Mike_P > could get the correct track loaded seems to blow that theory out of > the water. > > The 2001 track works, as does the 2003RH track. The 2002 track works > if you fire up F1C locally. > > The three of us futzed around until a few minutes after 12:00 EST, at > which point we just gave up. > > As they say in the crime shows on the telly: "Eldred, don't even > think about leaving town!" > > -- > Darryl

Darryl Johnson <[email hidden]> wrote in news:TjYbc.3163 $[email hidden]: > As they say in the crime shows on the telly: "Eldred, don't even > think about leaving town!" > Someone needs to go to DETROIT and sit down with Eldred and help him install the mods. RH_2003 is waaay better graphically and the 2003 versions of the tracks are often mucho better than 2002. I know Magny Cours is improved, and I think that super tight chicane at Suzuka has also been updated to mimic the more open corner used last year. until RH_2004 comes out, you guys should be seriously looking at RH_2003. (which reminds me..I haven't checked out the new Suzuka yet...hasta!) dave henrie

Dave Henrie <[email hidden]> wrote in news:[email hidden]: > Someone needs to go to DETROIT and sit down with Eldred and help > him > install the mods. RH_2003 is waaay better graphically and the 2003 I am local to him, but I think it was ETC he was having problems with. I don't know if he's tried installing RH2003. -- Ped Xing

"David G Fisher" <[email hidden]> wrote in news:[email hidden]: > Since next week is an off week, why don't we run it then? I'll suggest > again that we switch to the RH2003 car set. > > David G Fisher I'm all for it. Guys, at least try to download and install RH2003 before nixing the idea, if you are opposed. Here is the link: http://www.sportplanet.com/emac/f19902/download2003.html -- Ped Xing

Ped Xing <[email hidden]> wrote in news:[email hidden]:

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> Dave Henrie <[email hidden]> wrote in > news:[email hidden]: > >> Someone needs to go to DETROIT and sit down with Eldred and help >> him >> install the mods. RH_2003 is waaay better graphically and the 2003 > > I am local to him, but I think it was ETC he was having problems with. > I don't know if he's tried installing RH2003. >

:) well if he can't get etcc going..then RH will really mess with him. Hold his hand, spend an evening or two.. :) dave henrie

In article <[email hidden]>, Ped Xing <[email hidden]> writes: >I guess this race is off; I can't figure out how to get F1RST to load >Austria 2002, it always loads Australia instead. I CAN get RH2003 Austria >to load, but I'm probably the only one using RH2003. I guess it was silly >to try and run without Eldred. ;-) > Wouldn't have mattered. I just tried to host A1-ring, and it loaded Australia for me as well. Weird... Eldred -- http://www.umich.edu/~epickett Screamers League IICC League GPLRank -6.0 MoGPL rank +267.80 Ch.Rank +52.58 MoC +741.71 Hist. +82.34 MoH:na N2k3 rank:in progress Slayer Spektera lvl 72 assassin Slayer Spectral_K lvl 38 Necro US East

In article <[email hidden]>, Dave Henrie <[email hidden]> writes: > :) well if he can't get etcc going..then RH will really mess with him. >Hold his hand, spend an evening or two.. :) Great... That's just what I need - another mod to screw up my system. I couldn't get the ETCC mod to run on two different systems. On my server, I couldn't get it to install. On my home machine it installed, but gave a CTD when run. I used the same zipfile for both installs... Eldred -- http://www.umich.edu/~epickett Screamers League IICC League GPLRank -6.0 MoGPL rank +267.80 Ch.Rank +52.58 MoC +741.71 Hist. +82.34 MoH:na N2k3 rank:in progress Slayer Spektera lvl 72 assassin Slayer Spectral_K lvl 38 Necro US East

In article <[email hidden]>, Ped Xing <[email hidden]> writes:

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> >Dave Henrie <[email hidden]> wrote in >news:[email hidden]: > >> Someone needs to go to DETROIT and sit down with Eldred and help >> him >> install the mods. RH_2003 is waaay better graphically and the 2003 > >I am local to him, but I think it was ETC he was having problems with. I >don't know if he's tried installing RH2003.

Correct - ETCC doesn't work for me. I don't even know what RH2003 *is*... Eldred -- http://www.umich.edu/~epickett Screamers League IICC League GPLRank -6.0 MoGPL rank +267.80 Ch.Rank +52.58 MoC +741.71 Hist. +82.34 MoH:na N2k3 rank:in progress Slayer Spektera lvl 72 assassin Slayer Spectral_K lvl 38 Necro US East

[email hidden] (EldredP) wrote in news:[email hidden]: > Correct - ETCC doesn't work for me. I don't even know what RH2003 > *is*... > > Eldred > RH2003 is a highly detailed 2003 version of the F1 cars. All the Tobacco adverts are on the cars and about 6 of the tracks were available from Tantra to match the changes made at the tracks from 2002 to 2003. RH stands for the creator, Roland Hummerich(sp?) and 2003 is the season, which is one not covered in the original F1 C 1999-2002. I have just installed and EVEN MORE high rez/detailed 2003 carset for F1c. By the CTDP group. As with the RH2003 carset, the 3d carshapes were updated so that the 2003 GA Ferrari did not look like the 2002 car with 2003 paint. Whew...stunning...the reflections on the windscreen as you zoo...err as you slowly run RECON laps..yeah dat's it...REEEECON laps. Dats what I do. :)

Dave Henrie wrote in news:[email hidden]:

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> [email hidden] (EldredP) wrote in > news:[email hidden]: > >> Correct - ETCC doesn't work for me. I don't even know what >> RH2003 *is*... >> >> Eldred >> > > RH2003 is a highly detailed 2003 version of the F1 cars. All > the Tobacco > adverts are on the cars and about 6 of the tracks were available > from Tantra to match the changes made at the tracks from 2002 to > 2003. RH stands for the creator, Roland Hummerich(sp?) and 2003 is > the season, which is one not covered in the original F1 C > 1999-2002. I have just installed and EVEN MORE high rez/detailed > 2003 carset for F1c. By the CTDP group. As with the RH2003 > carset, the 3d carshapes were updated so that the 2003 GA Ferrari > did not look like the 2002 car with 2003 paint. > Whew...stunning...the reflections on the windscreen as you > zoo...err as you slowly run RECON laps..yeah dat's it...REEEECON > laps. Dats what I do. :) > >

You got a URL for those new cars, Dave? -- Darryl

Darryl Johnson <[email hidden]> wrote in news:x9Tcc.25514 $[email hidden]: > > You got a URL for those new cars, Dave? > -- > Darryl > > Both are listed in the mods section of F1simlinks http://www.f1simlinks.com/main/ The Ctdp link works http://racingmag.gamesurf.tiscali.de/ctdp/index.php? PHPSESSID=b11b7fe5dc9763d4da9e20d4271fb358 THe EmacsF1 site, which is where the RH2003 stuff is, http://www.sportplanet.com/emac/ both are high quality but not just a single complete file. so it could be confusing. Ctdp has released one or two of 2004 cars but I think RH will wait til his team has the whole field redone. I wouldn't expect either site to get the complete 2004 carset anytime soon.

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> Darryl Johnson <[email hidden]> wrote in > news:x9Tcc.25514 $[email hidden]: > >> >> You got a URL for those new cars, Dave? >> -- >> Darryl >> >> > > Both are listed in the mods section of F1simlinks > > http://www.f1simlinks.com/main/ > > > The Ctdp link works > http://racingmag.gamesurf.tiscali.de/ctdp/index.php? > PHPSESSID=b11b7fe5dc9763d4da9e20d4271fb358 > > THe EmacsF1 site, which is where the RH2003 stuff is, > http://www.sportplanet.com/emac/ > > both are high quality but not just a single complete file. > so it could be confusing. Ctdp has released one or two of > 2004 cars but I think RH will wait til his team has the > whole field redone. I wouldn't expect either site to get > the complete 2004 carset anytime soon. >

Thanks, Dave. I downloaded the RH2003 tracks sometime last year, although I haven't spent much time driving them. I'm downloading the cars now... -- Darryl