Slightly OT... NFS server???

[masraum]

Cool, I hosted two other fellas on my server, tomorrow we will have to be more centralized so we can get more people. I think we played for an hour or two, time flies.

Tomorrow I'll host or I'd also love to get on someone else's server.

I had Pari, Par911, and I think Leland, Cool Lee, but above he says he was on Emcon, so I'm not 100%, it seemed like him, and Cool Lee did have an SC fetish going on, so it must have been.

Very fun, we'll have to do it more often.

[Leland Pate]

Oops, sorry Steve... I thought I had connected to 24.6.3.253.
My bad...


Ryan, what kind of firewall are you running?

[masraum]

Hey, this looks cool too
Who wants to zoom down the Mulsanne in a 914/6 GT being chased by a 917LH?

[derek murray]

...just back from 24.6.3.253... wow... i've never had so much fun getting "kicked"... spent more time on my roof than tires... this needs to happen more often.

[masraum]

Here's a past thread with more about NFS PU
NFS Porsche Unleashed & too much free time (pics)

I invited the 914 guys, they had a thread on this a few days ago.

They'll have to drive 911's though because the 914's in this game are painfully slow.

[masraum]

Cool, how many people were on Emcon's server?

Dr Ryan, man, I'm sorry that you got left out. I'm not sure what is going on, I tried a couple of different times to get on Emcon's server too, but always got "connection lost". I'll look around tonight and see if I can find anything on the net.

All, it looks like this might happen again tomorrow night probably starting around 9eastern/8 central/6 pacific

[masraum]

another thread with more info

Need for speed Porsche unleashed (revisited)

[emcon5]

That was awesome. We had 4 drivers, without a hitch, racing everything from 65 911s to GT1s. 935s in the Alps was a hoot. Thanks for playing.

Originally posted by masraum
Hey, this looks cool too
Who wants to zoom down the Mulsanne in a 914/6 GT being chased by a 917LH?

Unfortunately for Sports Car GT the speedsims website is gone, and with them many of the files with cars and tracks were lost. I downloaded a bunch of cars for SCGT, and played it all the time before the good mods for the F1 series came out. I posted some screenshots a while back, in this thread.

IMHO at this time** the best sports car racing game is the GTR2002 mod for F1-2002.

Electronic Arts F1 series is an good game, as it is readily modified to do things the designers never planned, including some excellent mods for sports car racing. A group of very talented guys got together and on their own made a patch that lets you race the FIA GT series, with 7 new tracks, 37 new cars, using 4 tire models (with different grip, heat, and wear profiles). It was built as a simulation along the lines of Grand Prix Legends, and it meets that goal.

There are some screenshots and details in a old thread here:
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsche-911-technical-forum/107984-martini-993-gt2-vir-gtr2002-post782223.html

You can find a list of download sites here:
http://home.cablerocket.com/~waldroff/gtr_sites.htm

There are several other mods for F1-2002, like the full 50 car field from the 24 hours of Le Mans (with 4 versions of the Le Mans track for 4 times of day), the LMP675 and LMP900 classes from the ALMS series, Alfa Romeo 147 single car series, plus a few open wheel series.

And yes, you can race the Nurburgring Nordschleif.

There is a list of mods here:

http://home.cablerocket.com/~waldroff/index.htm

** I say "at this time" because the newest (and last) version of EA's F1 series is out, and there are a ton of new mods coming down the pipe.

Check out the list here:
http://www.bhmotorsports.com/F1C/mods

Tom
(Down to 7:26 on the Nordschleife in a 993 GT2.)

[masraum]

Hmm, I found this at one point concerning lack of peer to peer connectivity

If you have deleted gimme.dll, you can under some circumstances be unable to
connect to EA's servers and Peer to Peer TCP/IP servers.

[emcon5]

Originally posted by masraum
If you have deleted gimme.dll, you can under some circumstances be unable to
connect to EA's servers and Peer to Peer TCP/IP servers.

For what it's worth, I am running Win2000, and had to delete Gimme.dll to get it to run.

Tom

[masraum]

it'l weird, does anyone else have this problem

garbled text
it's most obvious in the track names. It made chatting a real pain. I had to guess what the fellas were saying. certain places it's worse than others and the smaller the text the worse the problem.

I've got a geforce 4 fx 5200 with the latest nvidia drivers.


Yeah, that gimmee.dll is a weird one. I didn't have to do anything to get nfs to run on my xp pro box, but I know several others have. I am going to try to connect to your server tomorrow if you have it running. Or anyone else if they get it up.

[jrdavid68]

Originally posted by surflvr911sc
damn! why couldn't you connect? I'll try Steve

surflvr911sc,

Do you by chance have a router connected to your DSL? If so, the address: 169.254.250.241 may not be the correct address to give out. I have been following this thread and tried pinging that address and never got a reply.

Trying going to http://www.whatismyip.com and see what it says. If you are on a router, the above site will tell you what the actual IP is that you have from your internet provider.

[masraum]

Good call, but 9 times out of 10 the ip on the inside of a router is going to be in the 192.168.1.x network. Definitely worth a check though.

It was kind of depressing tonight to be playing when I was pretty sure the main guy pushing for this was stuck. Hopefully we'll come up with something for tomorrow.

[masraum]

Hmmm, a microsoft patch that fixes (something) in NFS Porsche Unleashed.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q319580

Nevermind, just realized how old this is, April 2002. I think if you have Service Pack 1 then you have this patch.

[jrdavid68]

Yes, 192.. and 172.. are the most common. However, I just did a search and found the following:

http://lists.ethernal.org/cantlug-0205/msg00006.html

I didn't really read it - maybe somone can decipher this.

[masraum]

You know, I have seen that address before when I was having DHCP problems.

Ryan, what sort of modem do you have? Is it plugged into an ethernet port or is it a USB modem or something. Maybe that is part of the problem. We'll get your problem licked by tomorrow night if you are still interested.

Can anyone else who has AOL and DSL tell me what their IP address is? Lets see if it is similar to Ryan's.

[masraum]

Yep, definitely looks like that isn't a valid IP range...

NetRange: 169.254.0.0 - 169.254.255.255
CIDR: 169.254.0.0/16
NetName: LINKLOCAL
NetHandle: NET-169-254-0-0-1
Parent: NET-169-0-0-0-0
NetType: IANA Special Use
NameServer: BLACKHOLE-1.IANA.ORG
NameServer: BLACKHOLE-2.IANA.ORG
Comment: Please see RFC 3330 for additional information.
RegDate: 1998-01-27
Updated: 2002-10-14

[adomakin]

sorry to butt in but is anyone as into GranTurismo (playstation) as i am?
is anyone looking forward to GT4 as much as i am? are any of you pelican boys going to be up for some online bizniss?
whats the general view onthe ps2?

Andy, very fast UK GT3 driver!

[sammyg2]

I'm a NFS/PU junkie too, but my machine locks up every time i play in evolution mode. It works fine in factory driver and quick race, I can't figure it out. I changed gimme.dll, reconfigured it every way possible, compatibility mode, changed page file size, version 3.5. etc.
I'm running XP pro with a decent video card and current DX and plenty-O-ram.
Any suggestions?

[magilla]

The 169.x.x.x subnet is what my cable router uses on the internal lan. I think this is one of the reserved ranges for private use (not allowed on the Internet). Are you sure you are giving the IP address on the external interface of your router? Try telneting to your router and see what address is bound to that interface OR try tracerouting to something on the Internet and the third address (after your 169.x.x.x address on your host, and the 169.x.x.x address on your router's internal interface) will be your external IP.

I dunno, just a thought.