B-Spec Grinder 2.5.2: Automate Remote Races
- Thread starter yonis
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- xPrinceDavidx
Yeah look s like servers are down now. I was still signed in before and was able to start a remote race but I tried logging out and logging back in but can't connect to the login server, so the grinder might have some trouble tonight.
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- Rosebudteg
I'm currently able to log in to the website and start remote races. I can also view the status of my remote races with the website.
But the grinder times out when verifying internet connection.
Edit: Left it to automatically retry and the next morning it had still not succeeded. Also still able to start and control remote races via G-T.com. This is a US server if that makes a difference.
But the grinder times out when verifying internet connection.
Edit: Left it to automatically retry and the next morning it had still not succeeded. Also still able to start and control remote races via G-T.com. This is a US server if that makes a difference.
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Yonis,
I'm running a 2+Ghz dual core AMD CPU with 4GB or RAM yet when I attempt to manage my drivers, the GUI is freezing and either becoming unresponsive or turning white completely as though none of the graphics have loaded at all. I then have to wait for it to show again which can sometimes take a few minutes.
I can close the grinder (or widget itself) completely and restart it (which resolves the issue) but I then lose whatever I was going at the time - not a great problem.
This doesn't happen all the time but seems to occur when the grinder has been running for a good few hours. I've checked its' CPU and RAM usage with Process Explorer and there doesn't seem to be excessive use of either.
I wondered if anyone else experienced this and wondered if you - Yonis - were aware of it.
Many thanks
I'm running a 2+Ghz dual core AMD CPU with 4GB or RAM yet when I attempt to manage my drivers, the GUI is freezing and either becoming unresponsive or turning white completely as though none of the graphics have loaded at all. I then have to wait for it to show again which can sometimes take a few minutes.
I can close the grinder (or widget itself) completely and restart it (which resolves the issue) but I then lose whatever I was going at the time - not a great problem.
This doesn't happen all the time but seems to occur when the grinder has been running for a good few hours. I've checked its' CPU and RAM usage with Process Explorer and there doesn't seem to be excessive use of either.
I wondered if anyone else experienced this and wondered if you - Yonis - were aware of it.
Many thanks
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- GYMKHANA_RYAN43
I too can connect to the Gt website but the grinder isn't working. I've set it to the keep trying automatically setting but it's been like that for 3 hours now with no luck 
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- Hobart, Tas
- X3rx3s44
I can unfortunately report the same issue with the Australian server (if that makes any difference at the verifying stage...), widget times out when trying to "Verify Internet Connection" yet I can control remote races through G-T.com... 
Hope that it is a passing issue.
Hope that it is a passing issue.
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- Norman, OK
- McClarenDesign
- 5,785
- Norman, OK
- McClarenDesign
I still can't log into the GT website. The Maintenance Notice still pops up when attempting to sign in. Poor widget and PS3 up all night with nothing to do!
Although I couldn't use 2.0, v1.1.3 ran like a champ all yesterday, even during times I was having problems logging onto GTHome.
Up until yesterday, 2.0 loaded and ran great for me. I have no idea what happened, but I'm sure it'll get resolved, and I still have Old Faithful (1.1.3) to fall back on.
Strange.
I've been leaving the grinder on while I'm at work for a few days, and today my PS3 got YLOD when I started it up. I thought it was not YLOD, since it actually flashes red, not yellow... So I started up again, and it did start once, so I thought there was no problem. And being an idiot, I did take backups immediately, so, now I have dead PS3 and no backups. 
🤬
Well, that's it for grinding for me.
🤬 Well, that's it for grinding for me.
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- Norman, OK
- McClarenDesign
Tried to reinstall the widget to no avail. Reloaded and recieved this:
Welcome to Yahoo! Widgets 4.5.2 (build 10A50) on 04/20/11 06:51:44.808
Type '/help' for help.
SyntaxError: syntax error (JSON.js: Line 27)
[JSON.js:27] SyntaxError: syntax error:
[JSON.js:27] ()
[JSON.js:27] .^
Loaded Widget 'B-Spec Grinder' from C:\Users\Ronald\AppData\Local\Temp\Temp7_B-SpecGrinder2.widget.zip\B-Spec Grinder.widget
Welcome to Yahoo! Widgets 4.5.2 (build 10A50) on 04/20/11 06:51:44.808
Type '/help' for help.
SyntaxError: syntax error (JSON.js: Line 27)
[JSON.js:27] SyntaxError: syntax error:
[JSON.js:27] ()
[JSON.js:27] .^
Loaded Widget 'B-Spec Grinder' from C:\Users\Ronald\AppData\Local\Temp\Temp7_B-SpecGrinder2.widget.zip\B-Spec Grinder.widget
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- Dorset
- GTP_RedShift
I can unfortunately report the same issue with the Australian server (if that makes any difference at the verifying stage...), widget times out when trying to "Verify Internet Connection" yet I can control remote races through G-T.com...
Exactly the same with the UK servers...
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- Gaylord Michiga
Yonis, I love the wording in the debugger:
"Somehow got stuck in no man's land"
made me chuckle
"Somehow got stuck in no man's land"
made me chuckle
Also having the same issues, can start a remote race from my PS3 no issues, but widget is continuing to verify internet connection.
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- UK
- sgllocal
+1 i have the same and just came to this forum to see if anyone else had issues
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- Silicon Valley
- yonis
I am aware of this issue... Unfortunately there appears to be performance issues in Yahoo! Widgets when a Widget with frequent and plentiful URL requests like this one is used for a long period of time. On Mac OS X, the issue is more obvious because the Widget ends up using over a hundred megs of private memory.
Unfortunately, I chose to develop this for a dying platform, and I may have to port to native code if I want to resolve this problem with my own memory management code.
Thanks, I'll have a look when I get home... Sounds like they may have changed things around a bit.
I got the same problem here, the widget will not connect.
The widget hangs up on verifying internet connection, and I am also having problems logging into the GT5 website as well.
It seems like everyone is having the same problems. The widget has been running great for a week or so for me, must be something wrong with there servers today. It was working great last night also.
The widget hangs up on verifying internet connection, and I am also having problems logging into the GT5 website as well.
It seems like everyone is having the same problems.
The widget has been running great for a week or so for me, must be something wrong with there servers today. It was working great last night also. 
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- Frankfurt am Main
- GTP_mcfizzle
- LotsaMcfizzle
I haven't been able to connect all day. I installed the widget yesterday and ran races all afternoon. I set it up again before going to bed, excited to wake up to a ton of credits. I woke up and it only ran one race! I assume that is when the server issues started. Oh well, will try again later.
I assume that is when the server issues started. Oh well, will try again later.
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- serpentdriver
I was using my computer to run remote races from work. I picked up a few new friends, logged out and logged back in to update the list and it now does not even bring up the sign in screen? I think its been hacked! Sony may be just updating their site? Needless to say its very frustrating. If you are logged it, stay that way. DO NOT LOG OUT!
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- A_Major_Rash
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- twitchyzero
well the good thing is my PS3 can finally get some rest after working almost none stop for two weeks
