GPL - Can't get any servers on SpyBoy...

I have installed GPL SpyBoy on my friends computer, but whenever it loads, there are never any servers visible. He has exactly the same setup as me, the latest version of SpyBoy, and the 1.2 patch for GPL. I can click on the refresh button, but nothing comes up on the server window. You can see the chat messages though, which means that there must be a connection. I just don't understand it. Any suggestions welcome... Scott Boham

Don't know if this will help or not but if you are running Win 95 you may need to upgrade to winsock 2 from the Microsoft website. -- Ian Parker UKGPL League http://members.xoom.com/ukgpl/index.html http://www.ukgpl.com --

No, we are both running the identical release of Windows 98. 4.10.2222 A Thanks anyway.

ac.uk.remove_this_bit> writes I found that the best thing to do when this happens is to close SpyBoy down and then restart it. This has cured it everytime for me. -- Peter Ives (AKA Ivington)

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>ac.uk.remove_this_bit> writes >>I have installed GPL SpyBoy on my friends computer, but whenever it >>loads, there are never any servers visible. He has exactly the same setup >>as me, the latest version of SpyBoy, and the 1.2 patch for GPL. >>I can click on the refresh button, but nothing comes up on the server >>window. >>You can see the chat messages though, which means that there must be >>a connection. I just don't understand it. >>Any suggestions welcome... >I found that the best thing to do when this happens is to close SpyBoy >down and then restart it. This has cured it everytime for me.

I get this problem sometimes too but if you wait they will show up eventually. It might have something to do with the number of people and races going on since it takes longer for the list to appear when there are more races going. Vintook

Scott It could have something to do with the SpyBoy bug in the most recent version. (1.2 came out too quickly, I guess.) I can't race in GSB anymore, so I chat there, then join races through vroc. I'll keep doing this until the fix is out. DD

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> I have installed GPL SpyBoy on my friends computer, but whenever it > loads, there are never any servers visible. He has exactly the same setup > as me, the latest version of SpyBoy, and the 1.2 patch for GPL. > I can click on the refresh button, but nothing comes up on the server > window. > You can see the chat messages though, which means that there must be > a connection. I just don't understand it. > Any suggestions welcome... > Scott Boham

No no no, I mean it **NEVER** comes up. I mean, on my computer, sometimes you have to wait a minute or so for the list to come up, but most times it's fairly quick. But on my friends computer it has NEVER come up. Also, when mine is waiting for the list, it says 'Requesting current race list from VROC' but it doesn't even say that on his computer. We have identical versions of windows, GPL and GSB, and as far as I can tell, they are all setup in the same way. Weird???? Scott > ac.uk.remove_this_bit> writes > >I have installed GPL SpyBoy on my friends computer, but whenever it > >loads, there are never any servers visible. He has exactly the same setup

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> >as me, the latest version of SpyBoy, and the 1.2 patch for GPL. > >I can click on the refresh button, but nothing comes up on the server > >window. > >You can see the chat messages though, which means that there must be > >a connection. I just don't understand it. > >Any suggestions welcome... > I found that the best thing to do when this happens is to close SpyBoy > down and then restart it. This has cured it everytime for me. > -- > Peter Ives > (AKA Ivington)

Make sure you look at the race list not the GSB adressbook (the VROC/Adr.book tabs at top left corner). I belive GSB defaults to the adress book when installed and your description indicates that you are looking at it. -Bj?rn

I installed GPL1.2 this weekend, and ran it via VROC2 successfully, without the use of SpyBoy, at least until apparently my IE5 or winsock or something got hosed during an online race. Now I can't access VROC2 without the main VROC window on my IE5 freezing but, have not yet had time to analyze the problem and clear it. Anyway, with VROC2 it seemed that until the Refresh button came on full time if I clicked the MOTD button no races showed and got a message saying that no races were available, though some were. If I wait for both buttons to show solidly before clicking MOTD, the current race list comes up just fine. That usually takes upwards of 1-3 minutes, and several cycles of the "loading races" message. If I can get the IE5 problem cured (or just install NetScape as a sorry workaround), I will try it with SpyBoy and see if the same problems occur. Also will keep watching r.a.s. for other responses to your post. Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.

I posted this about a week ago, but here it goes again if you haven't tried it: I had that same problem. Haven't been on GSB for months since I could never se any races there. But today I tried the new GSB2 beta. It didn't work again, just as it didn't for you, but by mere coincident I went into options while I was still online and checked that I got the GPL-folder right. It was alright, but when I clicked OK, all of a sudden all the races popped up! Can't explain why (bug?), but it worked for me. Finally. Try it. Karl On Sun, 14 Nov 1999 19:09:15 -0000, "Scott Boham"

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>No no no, >I mean it **NEVER** comes up. I mean, on my computer, sometimes you have to >wait a minute or so for the list to come up, but most times it's fairly >quick. But on my >friends computer it has NEVER come up. Also, when mine is waiting for the >list, it >says 'Requesting current race list from VROC' but it doesn't even say that >on his >computer. >We have identical versions of windows, GPL and GSB, and as far as I can >tell, they >are all setup in the same way. >Weird???? >Scott

writes I have this problem with IE4 - which is up to date enough by the way - in that I cannot access the Vroc racelist through my web browser without my whole computer freezing. I'm only guessing here but it seems to stem from the java applet, because when I restart and run Scandisk it finds the same size data block in error - something like 143,000 bytes - and when I've examined this data block it has the word "java" all the way through it. I can still race online through SpyBoy though so I've just stopped using the Vroc web site to join races. -- Peter Ives (AKA Ivington)