UKGTL Season 16 Fifties Sprint Races - East London - Jan 4

[Wiltshire Tony]

Ok, that's good. I think it depends on what type of GTL you have (original fixed or Steam download) as to what steps you need to take to connect to the lobby.

[phspok]

More fun and games getting GTL to work....
Now whatever car I choose, off line or on line it lets me select the car, show the pic of it, but when I join the session
I am in a LolaT70 

I can create a new driver, go through all the setups, select a Merc for e.g do some laps at East London, then I connect to the server
and I am in a Lola again, and from that point on whatever track or car I choose I see the pic for what i have chose, but when i get
to the track I am in the Lola. Now I rather like the Lola, but hey i can't stand clingy cars 

I have tried editing the .plr file and changing the lines that have the path to the Lola, and repalce all with the path to the Merc
but when I fire up GTL and go to track I still get put in a Lola...

Any clues?

[Wiltshire Tony]

That is astonishing 

The Lola isn't turned on for server use so how are you getting to see it  In fact I've just checked and the Lola isn't on our server at all 

I have no idea what is going on.

[Geoffers]

If you cannot connect try changing your Lobby.txt file content to say

gtl-server.net

That worked for me.

[roguk]

Hi Tony   with no change to GTL ie no lobby txt file i can go online see 14 servers and UKGTL backup which i can join, but cannot see ours, inserting lobby text file with gtl-server.net text GTL will not go online?

[Jeep]

Hi Tony,
 Same here, I was on line earlier but now the UKGTL MONDAY server is missing from the list. (All the other usual servers are visible).

I can't get on-line at all with the lobby.txt file.

TTFN
John.

[phspok]

If you can see my test server then you are using the correct lobby. GoldTop is running a 90 minute R3E event tonight
and has probably stopped the other servers for that race. We traditionally stop all other servers when we run an event
I don't always do it, as the grids are not so big that it is critical, but it the "correct procedure" 

[Wiltshire Tony]

Hi Tony,
 Same here, I was on line earlier but now the UKGTL MONDAY server is missing from the list. (All the other usual servers are visible).

I can't get on-line at all with the lobby.txt file.

TTFN
John.

Yeah like Matt said............GT turned off the GTL server whilst his RRE race was on. Correct procedure and not a problem.

[Wiltshire Tony]

Hi Tony   with no change to GTL ie no lobby txt file i can go online see 14 servers and UKGTL backup which i can join, but cannot see ours, inserting lobby text file with gtl-server.net text GTL will not go online?

There was an RRE race tonight so GTL was turned off. Sounds like you don't need the Gtlserver.net so revert to as you were.

[Jeep]

Aha, ok. (So much to learn, so little time)

I do hope to try to make this one although if the lap times posted in the 1st post are indicative of how fast you lot will be circulating then I will be looking in my mirrors so I can get out of the way as often as I'll be looking at the track ahead. 

TTFN
John.

[Wiltshire Tony]

@ Matt - Can you set up a trace file please https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=13381.msg241379#msg241379

Cos at the mo I'm still struggling to understand what the heck is happening 

[BillThomas]

Just to stir the pot  yesterday I lost my steering wheel setting when I logged on our server. The good news is my computer glitch preventing me designating my settings has gone!  Wheel now reset.

[phspok]

Hmmm, That was interesting. I uninstalled the Lola, and got a 917k, I unistalled all that class, and I now get a mercLM55...
so, I have created a new install, not a copy, a completely new install from disk.
I have added only Prince George Circuit, and the 50s cars.

AT first off line I can select any track and any installed car and I get whatever car I chose when I go to track.
Then, I go online to our server, choose Jag55 I see the jag in the joining screen, but when I go to track
I am in the Merc55... and am now always in the Merc55 off line whatever car I select.

The matt38.plr file has this:

[ DRIVER ]
Profile Vehicle File="GAMEDATA\TEAMS\GTC-TC-76\PORSCHE 914\370\370_SIM_TC76_PORSCHE914.CAR"
Vehicle File="GAMEDATA\TEAMS\GTC-65\MERCEDES 300SL\SL_LM 55\LM53_SIM_GTC_MERCEDES.CAR"
Sim Vehicle File="GAMEDATA\TEAMS\GTC-65\MERCEDES 300SL\SL_LM 55\LM53_SIM_GTC_MERCEDES.CAR"
Pro Vehicle File="GAMEDATA\TEAMS\TC-65\MINI COOPER S\593-594\593_SIM_GTC_MINI.CAR"
Driver Name="Ferdinand Schreckensteiner"
Nationality=""
Starting Driver="0" // Not used
AI Controls Driver #2="0" // Not used

And if I edit it to change the car, it puts it back to this.

The trace file says I have an illegal garage.gar file:

PlayerGarage  394: USERDATA\Matt38\garage.gar is an illegal garage file
plrfile.cpp  2510: Attempting to save to USERDATA\Matt38\Matt38.TMP
plrfile.cpp  2533: Retcode: 0 for renaming to USERDATA\Matt38\Matt38.PLR
PlayerGarage  394: USERDATA\Matt38\garage.gar is an illegal garage file
PlayerGarage  394: USERDATA\Matt38\garage.gar is an illegal garage file


I assume return code 0 is no success, it usually is in Unix, it should say return code: 1 for success  I expect.
So something fishy with my garage, not sure why it is illegal, I didn't steal it or anyfink guv, honest.

[Wiltshire Tony]

Is the .gar file a large one in size? it it's possible maybe someone can copy their's and let you have it?

[phspok]

If I delete the garage.gar file it recreates one, and I can use any car I like off line.
When i go on line to either mine or the SROUK server It puts me in a Merc whatever I select.
It seem that goin on line sets something, and makes the garage.gar unwritable.
I will test with a different track on my test server and see what happens.

One other odd thing, I have installed the AstonDBR2, but it doesn't appear in the car list.
It asks about using the original classes? somthing like that. Is that something in particular
that should be chosen?