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F1rs and Kali. OK, One more try at this. Is anyone out there?

4 posts by 3 people · 08 Feb 1998 - 12 Feb 1998

Phil Bowe 08 Feb 1998#395886
A friend and I have been trying to get F1rs to work on Kali for some time now. We've been looking around for information on how to play it but can't seem to get BOTH players in the game. Does anyone know how to get this working? Both of us are relatively literate when it comes to things like this. Played lots of other games on there, I even built a Kali Server. With all the FAQ's in the world, we must be missing something, but, obviously, can't tell what. Anyone who has experience with this, please post your game configuration from Kali so we may use it. I have found a bunch of other people who have the same problem as we do, and a few who say they've gotten it to work. Just the ones who say it works, don't seem to reply. Any help appreciated. Thanks in advance... ---------------------------------------------------------- If it weren't for Lawyers, we wouldn't need em. And, did you know that, in the United States, they're Un-Constitutional!. George, Adam, John and the rest of the gang saw something comming! RR #3 Box 96 Williamsport, Pa. 17701 (717) 745-7697
On Sun, 8 Feb 1998 23:21:36 -0500, "Phil Bower" >A friend and I have been trying to get F1rs to work on Kali for some time >now. We've been looking around for information on how to play it but can't >seem to get BOTH players in the game. Best I've achieved so far has been 6 in a single race. 2 got booted during the race but I think 4 finishing is still a record ;-) F1RS seems very susceptible to dropped packets :( The best settings I have found is to have both of the 'dropped packet' check boxes UNCHECKED. But it is still a bit touch and go. If either of your connections is regularly dropping packets though, you've probably had it. Do a ping test and see how many time outs you get between each other. If it's a significant number you've probably had it I'm afraid and your only option would be to get a better connection method or try another ISP. Drop by the #f1rs channel at Where to Race and you should find quite a bunch of F1RS drivers. Even if you can't get going with your friend, you both may be able to race against other drivers if yuo have better connections to them. Cheers, Richard
(Ben Sides 09 Feb 1998#395990
On Sun, 8 Feb 1998 23:21:36 -0500, "Phil Bower" Dear Phil, I wish I could give you some technical details about my Kali\F1RS setup. Truth is, I don't know that much about the intricacies of pings and packets...all I can tell you is that when I installed the Kali Software, it scanned my hard drive and loaded up Nascar2 on the launch bar. Next, I simply supplied the path to f1voo.exe in the game setup window, using Kali defaults (the packet settings UNCHECKED). The sim launched fine and we were online playing multiplayer. If you haven't done so already, you might want to check out the site www.nh.ultranet.com/~alison/sims, which contains a section with detailed instruction for sucessfully launching F1RS from Kali, Good Luck, Ben Sides
Phil Bowe 12 Feb 1998#396226
Thanks very much. Just got it working. It seems the trouble we had was to do with our ping. We also couldn't get Canada working and that was the track we tried together.
Quoted text (18 lines)>On Sun, 8 Feb 1998 23:21:36 -0500, "Phil Bower" >Dear Phil, >I wish I could give you some technical details about my Kali\F1RS >setup. Truth is, I don't know that much about the intricacies of >pings and packets...all I can tell you is that when I installed the >Kali Software, it scanned my hard drive and loaded up Nascar2 on the >launch bar. Next, I simply supplied the path to f1voo.exe in the game >setup window, using Kali defaults (the packet settings UNCHECKED). >The sim launched fine and we were online playing multiplayer. >If you haven't done so already, you might want to check out the site >www.nh.ultranet.com/~alison/sims, which contains a section with >detailed instruction for sucessfully launching F1RS from Kali, >Good Luck, >Ben Sides

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