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Hi Guys, Got "blinking screen" when offline racing????tho., not in replay???every 20 seconds or so the screen will just blink once!! very strange!!! recently reloaded with patch 1.103, started happening since then, any ideas or input would be appreciated. Dave.

> Hi Guys, Got "blinking screen" when offline racing????tho., not in > replay???every 20 seconds or so the screen will just blink once!! very > strange!!! recently reloaded with patch 1.103, started happening since then, > any ideas or input would be appreciated. Dave. I think this is the "known problem" with GPL 1.1 - it gets clock smashes offline due to the new synchronization method they introduced for online play. I believe Randy said it had been fixed, so we have to wait for the patch to the patch (or go back to version 1.0 for the time being). The frequency seems pretty variable to me - sometimes I can go several laps without it happening, and then it will happen several times in one lap. Hasn't made me crash yet, fortunately!

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> > Hi Guys, Got "blinking screen" when offline racing????tho., not in > > replay???every 20 seconds or so the screen will just blink once!! very > > strange!!! recently reloaded with patch 1.103, started happening since then, > > any ideas or input would be appreciated. Dave. > I think this is the "known problem" with GPL 1.1 - it gets clock smashes > offline due to the new synchronization method they introduced for online > play.

Thanks for sharing that piece of knowledge, I was just about to ask. Did you notice BTW that the tell-tale is also reset when this happens? Cheers, /ft

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> > > Hi Guys, Got "blinking screen" when offline racing????tho., not in > > > replay???every 20 seconds or so the screen will just blink once!! very > > > strange!!! recently reloaded with patch 1.103, started happening since then, > > > any ideas or input would be appreciated. Dave. > > I think this is the "known problem" with GPL 1.1 - it gets clock smashes > > offline due to the new synchronization method they introduced for online > > play. > Thanks for sharing that piece of knowledge, I was just about to ask. > Did you notice BTW that the tell-tale is also reset when this happens?

Yes - that's what led me to believe it was a clock smash, as Alison Hine mentioned it when talking about online clock smashes in GPL 1.0. The weird thing now is that I hardly ever get clock smashes online with 1.1 - only offline, which never used to happen with 1.0! Bugfixing is like that: two steps forward, one step back (just as long as it's not the other way round...).

>Hi Guys, Got "blinking screen" when offline racing????tho., not in >replay???every 20 seconds or so the screen will just blink once!! very >strange!!! recently reloaded with patch 1.103, started happening since then, >any ideas or input would be appreciated. Dave. I had this when racing on VROC via a web browser (only in GPL 1.1). Moving over to GPL Spy Boy 2 instead seemed to fix it. Joe McGinn ========================================== Staff Writer for the Sports *** Network [link lost in import: /***.com/] ==========================================

> Yes - that's what led me to believe it was a clock smash, as Alison Hine > mentioned it when talking about online clock smashes in GPL 1.0. OK. Now, can you explain what a clock smash is? I have a computer nerd diploma on my wall and I still don't know... Chances are I'll go "oh, THAT" when I read it of course, but I'll take a chance here. Or is it just the same that on quite a few occasions has happened in the vicinity of my bedtable on early mornings? -:D Cheers, /ft

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> > Yes - that's what led me to believe it was a clock smash, as Alison Hine > > mentioned it when talking about online clock smashes in GPL 1.0. > OK. Now, can you explain what a clock smash is? I have a computer nerd diploma > on my wall and I still don't know... Chances are I'll go "oh, THAT" when I > read it of course, but I'll take a chance here. > Or is it just the same that on quite a few occasions has happened in the > vicinity of my bedtable on early mornings? -:D

Apparently it's what happens when the internal clocks of the local machine and remote server get out of synch, and GPL "snaps" the local machine back into line with the server. It seems that in trying to use a more cunning method of re-synchronisation so that you don't notice it happening online, Papy inadvertantly created a new bug, in that these "smashes" can now happen offline(!). There's an explanation of this on Alison Hine's online FAQ page.