F1 2011 Problem - solved

[nonomnismoriar]

Hello Cristiano!
My name is Steve, I’m from Austria and I bought a few month ago a ProShift, a GI-Max and a SimScreen. They all work perfectly in my race-rack with Race07 and I’m really satisfied and thank you for your great work.

So now I bought F1 2011 and yesterday I downloaded your SimDash 1.3.4 beta to try to get my parts running with this game.
The problem is, if I change the “hardware_settings_config” in the documents (like said in your documentation) and start the game, as soon as it is loading the race-track the game quits to desktop with the following line (also see attached picture):
“sendto failed with error 10038: Ein Vorgang bezog sich auf ein Objekt das kein Socket ist”
(in englisch: „sendto failed with error 10038: a process refers to an object which is not a socket”)

Now I’m really not a pc-expert but I think my problem is because of my internet connection (mobile internet with usb-modem) and the following line in the “hardware_settings_config”. Because my line in this file looks like this:
<motion enabled="true" ip="dbox" port="20777" delay="1" extradata="1" />
…and in your documentation it shows an ip-adress instead of “dbox”.

I had the same problem already in Dirt 3 but after reading your forum I thought this was the “usual”problem people had after the 2nd patch of CM and so I didn’t investigate it further.

But now that you wrote in the change-log of the beta-version that F1 2011 should work with the equipment I thought I ask if you probably know what to do in my case because I’d really love to have it work with this game!

Many thanks in advance!

[Cristiano]

hello.
the problem is you haven't changed the configuration file correctly.

instead of

ip="dbox"

you should have

ip="127.0.0.1"

Cheers
Cristiano

[nonomnismoriar]

Thank you for your help!
Indeed I have tried it right now and it works perfectly.

I'm sorry but I thought it's just necessary to change the "extradata=0" to "1" (because in the documentation on your homepage stands in both lines the ip-adress already) and not to have the ip also correct.

Again thank you very much! As I have received my Thrustmaster F1 Addon also today and with the Symprojects gear working the game is 100% more fun!

Greetings
Steve