iGOR FAQ

Hopefully your questions will be answered here!

Where is the Race List ?
A missing racelist could be due to any number of problems...

User Interface:  have the splitter bars that separate iGOR's window been moved so that the racelist view is hidden?  This can happen when the window is minimized/maximized, or when you switch between Combined and Tabbed layouts.

Filtering:  do you have racelist Filtering switched on, and filter settings that would cause no races to be shown?

No updates:  look in the Status Bar - does it say 'Connected' ?  If not, you have a network problem preventing iGOR from connecting to the racelist server (the IP of which can be found in iGOR.ini - IP = w.x.y.z). 
If it does say 'Connected', does it also say 'Racelist updated at ...' ? 

Make sure the Racelist Updating button is pressed (top-left yellow clock in the toolbar).  After a period of inactivity, iGOR automatically switches off updating in order to save bandwidth.  Press the button and iGOR will immediately request an update.

If you cannot get connected, check your network (i.e. firewall) is allowing connections to the racelist server ip and/or ports.

Is the racelist server down?  It could well be - go to chat and ask around.



Connecting to Chat takes forever!
In order to connect to the IRC (chat) server, iGOR must identify you using the completely and utterly pointless IDENTD protocol - similar to someone knocking on your door, you asking who they are, them replying with 'me' and you opening the door.  Yes it's that lame ;-)

Anyway, this protocol requires a connection on port 113, and if you don't have that port set up in your firewall/router, the process of connecting to chat will have to wait for the timeout, which can take minutes in extreme cases.  Nothing much I can do about this, IDENTD is required for most IRC servers...



I can't join or host any races :-(
Is iGOR complaining about 'no mods' ?  If so, have you set the path to GPL properly? (options dialog).  Is GPL installed properly?  Does the file /gpl/mods/gplmods.ini exist?  If not, how did you install iGOR?! 

Okay, so gplmods.ini exists, and iGOR has the correct path to GPL - does gplmods.ini contain the correct info. relating to your installation of GPL?  Ask/search the forums for more detail...



Setup Shop is useless
Yes, it is fairly minimal :) 



iGOR keeps telling me I have Authentication Errors
When joining an Authenticated GPL server using iGOR, it will check that you are using physics that match with the host.  If you aren't, GPL will not be started, and you will be returned to iGOR with the Authentication message.  Check you have patched GPL properly using GEM+, and check that your gplmods.ini points at the correctly named exe for each mod (e.g. ident=GPL65 should have exename = gplc65.exe).

Additionally, check your firewall/router allows connections by the security protocol: port 30198.  If iGOR cannot make a security connection, you will not be able to join an authenticated host.



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