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GPL: Too many mods? (won't start)

4 posts by 2 people · 16 Mar 1999 - 16 Mar 1999

JoHS 16 Mar 1999#456389
Recently a weird error has occured: When I try to launch GPL with no Dial-up connection alive, GPL won't start, but generates a dialogbox: GPL caused an invalid page fault in module GPL.EXE at 015f:004b09e8 If I dial up my online-connection, everything works as it should. At first I thought: Maybe I should leave GPL in a Traing or Single race "state" and not the Multiplayer state I normally quits from (GPL remember what state it was running in last time...). This had no effect in my situation. I can leave in whatever state I want, and it simply don't start offline. Does VROC alter anything to the GPL .exe? I have also tried to remove my nic to try to solve the problem with two network devices using each tcp/ip setup with no help. Any ideas are very welcome, as I have to pay my own phonebill :-) Thanks in advance, JoHS, Norway
JoHS 16 Mar 1999#456390
> Recently a weird error has occured: When I try to launch GPL with no > Dial-up connection alive, GPL won't start, but generates a dialogbox: > GPL caused an invalid page fault in > module GPL.EXE at 015f:004b09e8 <snip> > JoHS, Norway I just have to add the following: I tried a clean reinstall of Gpl to another drive, and the same error occurs, so I can't blame the modifications done to gpl.exe. And what's more frustrating, Gpl will only start _once_ after I have connected to internet. After that the same error message appears... I need "just one fix" here. Ideas still very welcome, and yes I have reinstalled Voodoo2 ref. drivers and latest dx61 release with no effect. JoHS, Norway
Are you using a core.ini that contains the following? [ Communications ] alternate_ip_addr_lookup = 1 If so, remove the alternate_ip_addr_lookup line. If your only TCP/IP connection is made using normal Windows Dialup Networking, this core.ini setting is not necessary and, as the readme.txt says, can cause problems. If you're not using this setting, or if removing it doesn't help, you can disable GPL's networking capability by putting the following two lines in a plain text file named core.ini in GPL's home directory [ Communications ] disable_network = 1 (or, if you use IPX on a LAN, you can try disable_tcp_ip = 1, instead. IPX will still be available). When you do want to play GPL on-line, though, you'll need to comment out the second line. Just put a semicolon (;) at the beginning of the line. And, be sure to connect to the Internet before running the game. This won't affect anything. No, it does not. Randy
JoHS 16 Mar 1999#456392
<znip> > > If I dial up my online-connection, everything works as it should. > Are you using a core.ini that contains the following? > [ Communications ] > alternate_ip_addr_lookup = 1 <znip> <znip> Thanks alot, In my "old" installation of gpl I'm using the alternate_ip_addr_lookup method, because I have a rather complex situation here (I'm using internal ISDN thru Dial-up adapter to internet for VROC and ICQ to work flawlessly, but also have an external Cisco ISDN Router running DHCP on my lan for my racingbuddies to call directly into (0.111LAT)). But as I said in my own reply to this tred, I have done a clean installation of gpl also, and the same problem still occur there(no alternat_ip---). Now, I have to try to disable the network as you say to solve this problem. I also said that I'm very unsure what caused this error at first, but the only thing I can remember altered in my system the last 14 days is an upgrade of Netscape, from Comm. 4.5 to 4.51. Is it possible to "pass" different core.ini-files to GPL.EXE so we could have different network-configs at the same time? Thanks again, I'll try to report back whatever happens, you deserve it all. JoHS

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