Gadfly

It actually does restart the game by clicking on the mta client start game button. I know what you are talking about though. I get that about 1/10 or so crashes. It does not show the other players on the map, and you can see them chat, but you cannot chat. If you quit, and let it the restarter restart the game, it will be ok again. And it should not be happening often, for me its like 1 in 10 times or so that it restarts like that. Yeah it also does not disable the restart button as well. I think the issue is that the program might be clicking the restart button to quick after the crash and for some reason the mta vc client program is restarting VC only partially. It did not appear to be doing this when I was scanning for crashes less often, before I only checked once a second. And now its every 300 milliseconds. I will bump it back to once every second on my next build. Was it doing this to you every time? Or did it just happen on the first time and you just turned it off after that? It seems to be working ok for most people. And if it does that just try quiting the game and letting the restarter restart it again.

Yeah, it should not be to hard to add a keybinding text file where you can set the keys to any numberic., function or alpha keys. One thing I have been adding is having it navigate the menus so it will take you right to the player selection window whenever it restarts. It is a bit hard for me to test everything as I dont have any decent gaming machines running XP. I have to get a friend to test my changes when he has free time. If anyone is willing to test Ultra Alpha versions that may not work at all but have the latest features, let me know. There are definately a few differences between 2k and XP.

What is that avatar gif a clip of? Anyone know? It looks like some japanese little red riding hood story gone bad.

Yeah I can set it up so people can set their own keys. I originally just wrote this for a friend and me, so I hardcoded values that worked for us. A few people ingame asked me to make it available for them so I posted it here. I will work on setting various toggles etc too.

There was some talk here about auto enabling F10 the other day. I have written a small program for myself and a friend that does a few things. It monitors the state of your game and if it crashes, it auto closed all the error messages and restarts the game for you. It also monitors if you time out and tries to reconnect. Lastly when it does start the game, it auto enables F10. Wartech was very nice and offered to host the file for me, so people can download it. Let me know if it is useful to you. It is beta and I will be continuing to work on it. Gadfly The file is here mtavcr2.zip

You just keep ASE as it was before. This program is run seperately, it sits in the background and monitors what is happening and does recovery steps if needed.

I wrote a little program that auto closes the error message windows (like unhandled exception) and clicks on the restart button when MTA crashes. It also detects if MTA has timed out (disconnected) and attempts to reconnect automatically. It just makes things a little less of a pain. It also auto presses f10 for you when it starts the game. I just wrote it for a friend and me, to save us some hassle. I mentioned it in the game to a few people and they were interested in getting a copy so I was going to post it here, but I guess you dont allow attachments. How do I get it included in your download section. Gadfly