RR 01/2009 ... Plenty of news..

**guino** · 01-22-2009, 06:38 AM

Originally Posted by PontiacGA

Curious, can ya just take the new Riderunner.exe and place it in the existing RR folder? Like we use to do when the new Roadrunner versions came out? Will this still use whatever you added/subtracted from the file?

You should be able to upgrade by extracting ALL the update files over a "RoadRunner" install.

**Sonicxtacy02** · 01-22-2009, 07:59 AM

Originally Posted by Mazda6gp

Is this maybe the reason for the name change?
Roadrunner is a supercomputer built by IBM at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, USA. Currently the world's fastest computer, the US$133-million Roadrunner is designed for a peak performance of 1.7 petaflops, achieving 1.026 on May 25, 2008,[1][2][3] and to be the world's first TOP500 Linpack sustained 1.0 petaflops system. It is a one-of-a-kind supercomputer, built from commodity parts, with many novel design features.

Here in the states there is a telecommunications company called Cox which has trademarked the name Road Runner for there high speed internet service.

**chevyn8** · 01-22-2009, 07:59 AM

Installed it (RoadRunner is a much better name). Everything works perfect on my way to work, except for my wireless remote. I use Girder and it's talking to the remote. RR isn't getting the commands from Girder. I think I remember doing a search and replace for RR.exe to RoadRunner.exe that fixed it the last time. Probably need to do that and switch to RideRunner.exe?

**Blue ZX3** · 01-22-2009, 08:25 AM

That would be better than having the poor old middle man(RoadRunner.exe) receive and pass the messages along....

**PontiacGA** · 01-22-2009, 08:40 AM

Originally Posted by guino

You should be able to upgrade by extracting ALL the update files over a "RoadRunner" install.

Check. Did it and it works fine. Thanks.

**chevyn8** · 01-22-2009, 08:42 AM

Originally Posted by Blue ZX3

That would be better than having the poor old middle man(RoadRunner.exe) receive and pass the messages along....

It doesn't seem to be passing the girder stuff along.

**pcpete** · 01-22-2009, 08:45 AM

Just noticed the Riderunner installs to a folder named 'C:\Program Files\RideRunner' but references in rr.ini point to launchpath=C:\Program Files\Ride Runner\Launch\ , skinpath=C:\Program Files\Ride Runner\Skins\Carwings_Dynamic\...

in the ini there is a space between ride and runner...

**Blue ZX3** · 01-22-2009, 09:09 AM

Originally Posted by chevyn8

It doesn't seem to be passing the girder stuff along.

This would and will be looked into...

**Konrad** · 01-22-2009, 09:12 AM

@chevyn8: How did you setup Girder ?
I see no reason why it shouldn't work with the new RoadRunner.
My Girder is setup to simulate keypresses. But this is global and not restricted to RoadRunner. So if it works in Windows, it should also work in RoadRunner.

**chevyn8** · 01-22-2009, 09:27 AM

A simple search and replace in the girder config file fixed it. This is the old and free version of girder. Does both roadrunner.exe and riderunner.exe run in the background at the same time?? AFAIK, my installed girder looks for the running exe and sends it keystrokes? Anyway, it was the only issue and it's solved for me. Go Riderunner!!