Quote from kepp1313 :

Maybe you can add yourself to my insim? It will be easier

I have no knowledge of programming, so no clue what to do with the files you included.
All I know is that what you want (registration + login) can easily be written within LFS Lapper.
In fact, all things needed for a Cruise insim, can be done within Lapper.

Quote from kepp1313 :

How do i set up this login/register code?

Look for this event: Event OnMSO( $userName, $text ) # Player event
Then look for this: SWITCH( $command )
Add a new CASE followed by the command you want to register, something like:

Have you considered writing that cruise insim within LFS Lapper?
The things you mentioned so far, can easily be made in LFS Lapper and then saved in a database instead of a TXT file.

I believe the problem is either on the machine hosting our VPS or one of the other VPS's causing a disturbance.
Sadly the technical department of our current ISP isn't willing to look any further into the issue, but now that I know that Server 2008 isn't the cause, we will move on to yet another ISP.
Thanks for your help.

We have tried both the dedicated.exe as the Dcon.exe, but it doesn't make any difference.
We run the server from RDP and we have also tried it with TeamViewer, but that doesn't make any difference either.
We even tried not to run TeamSpeak and not to run LFS Lapper, but still no succes.
It really isn't lag, it are just 3 short freezes and once they are over, the cars are at the same position they were before the freeze started.

Specs:

2 Cores
4 GB memory
150 GB Harddisk
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise
Max 5000 GB datatraffic

Recently our team has changed ISP's and while we used to run our servers on a Windows XP (x86) machine, we are now running them on Windows server 2008 R2 (x64).
Since we moved them, we have run into a very nasty issue of having micro stuttering every 15 minutes for three very short moments.
At xx:00 , xx:15 , xx:30 , xx:45 the screens on all clients are freezing for a split second, run on and then freezes two times again.
After that, the car is still at the same position as when the freezing started, so it's not caused by lag.
After having turned our new main server upside down, we haven't found anything that could cause these freezes.
No spikes in CPU use are noticable, no sudden memory spikes, no scheduled tasks that run every 15 minutes.
We tried using the old dedicated server, as well as the latest version and it won't make any difference.

After a lot of communication with our current ISP, they told us that LFS is probably incompatible with Server 2008, while our feeling is that something happens on the main server (all ISP's use shared hosting these days) or that one of our neighbours has something going on every 15 minutes.

Main questions now are:

- Is LFS dedicated server incompatible with Server 2008 R2 (x64)?
- Does anyone else run an LFS server on Server 2008 R2 (x64) and has seen any of these issues?

We are now considering to move to another ISP, but if we would then run into the same problem, it wouldn't help us.
Any help, thoughts, etc. are highly appreciated.

In November 2013 I switched from Lapper 5.x to Lapper 6.x and added my Pubstat keys into the new Lapper.
I also removed the # at the beginning of the line, so all should be fine.
Because our team has moved servers this week, I had to adjust the IP address in LFS World.
While doing that, I noticed that no Pubstat data was used since November 2013.
I double checked my settings in Lapper, even created a new Ident-key to make sure all is working, but still no data seems to be used.
Any ideas on this matter?

Quote from Victor :

No worries.

Pubstat is a means to programmatically retrieve stats from lfs world.
It's all explained in the first post of this thread https://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=14480
It can be useful for people to collect and show statistics on their own website for example.
You or your team must have been using some application that collected stats, until November when apparently you stopped using the application.

The Keys are inserted into LFS Lapper, which I still use.
It might be that I switched from Lapper 5.x to Lapper 6.x around that time, but then the keys should still work.
I will look into it again as it puzzles me.

*edit*
Indeed, I switched from Lapper 5.x to Lapper 6.x on 16-11-2013.
So that should explain it.
Although the keys are still properly set into the new Lapper as well.
Well, since I haven't heard anyone complain about missing something, I best leave the subject alone I guess.
Thanks for the help.

Last edited by Yisc[NL], Wed, 30 Apr 2014 20:03.

Quote from Victor :

/w pb is an in-game command and has nothing to do with pubstats.

Ow, sorry for the "stupid" comment.
When is pubstat information used?
All I know is that it used data every month consistently and apparently it stopped after November 2013.
Until yesterday the keys were binded to the IP of our previous servers and I changed them to the IP of our new server yesterday evening.

Quote from Victor :

I can see lots of stats recorded for people since november and I can see my own pubstat usage from yesterday when i had to fix a bug. So I assume stats are being recorded and displayed as usual, but I can confirm stats for Yisc[NL] stopped after November 2013.
Which account are the ident keys assigned to?
Maybe you're really using ident keys from someone else?

The keys are assigned to my account.
I have copied my keys and put them into LFS Lapper again, but no data is generated.
Just tried to gather data using: /w pb
That returned correct values, so the keys should be working.

Any help or direction to solve this problem, is highly appreciated.

I was just on LFS World to adjust IP addresses, since our team has moved servers.
Then I noticed there's no PubStat usage available after November 2013.
That's weird, since we have races every weekend and practice during the week.
I double checked the Ident keys and those are okay.

Any ideas about this one?

Quote from kittenrape :

can anyone help me by uploading the xrg defaulTM-Kopi skin becuase it seems to be missing from my folder please help<i am also new to the game

If you see the skin when driving on- or offline, the file must be on your computer.
Find the folder LFS is installed in and then look in the "data" folder and then in the "skins" map.
The file should be there.
Copy/paste it to your desktop and then upload it to LFS World.

Last edited by Yisc[NL], Sun, 27 Apr 2014 14:44.

Quote from CodeLyoko1 :

lovely how cargame only looks at public racing and not leagues and such (where the biggest part of the community is).

@cargame.nl:

I am not denying anything.
Only asking a question.

I think above quote about leagues is true.
Being a member of Absolute-Beginners.nl, I know that those leagues (sunday evening) always have a huge turnup and some good racing.
Maybe the public interest has gone down, but the people who are really interested in this game, do still race in leagues.

Prime time while most european people are working at the moment?
I think prime time is/was in about 2 hours, when work is finished, dinner is done and everyone enjoys a free evening.
Having said that, free time is something that is becoming less frequent year by year.
More and more people have all sorts of things to do in their spare time, meaning that playing computer games in general, goes to 2nd plan.

Last edited by Yisc[NL], Wed, 23 Apr 2014 15:49.

@S.E.T.H: I'm just wondering. How can you have such strong opinions on LFS and tell other people how they should feel about the game, while you are only around for 2 years and are a Demo racer? Unless I have missed something, you aren't really qualified to be on the high horse at this subject.

Source: click

Later this month Microsoft will announce DirectX 12.
So be aware of a next version coming in

Wow, very very very impressing.
Keep up the good work and Scawen....... keep an eye on this guys work.

I'm still reading your progres reports, thoughts, worries and all.
Please keep them coming.
What you are trying to achieve is way beyond my skills and knowlegde, but reading while things are happening is very interesting for me.

All that can easily be done in LFS-Lapper without hardly any knowlegde of coding things.

Quote from T3charmy :

PRISM would probably be a better bet as LFSLapper hasn't been updated in a long time(that I know of), and is lacking the new packets, and depending on what the user would like to achieve it may not be very much help over what he has now...

Sorry to hijack this topic, but for these questions I don't want to start a new topic.
I've been coding in Lapper for a long time, but it has a couple of ... , well how would I say this in a political way, issues I can't get my head around, while I suspect they are bugs within Lapper.
So I have been thinking to re-write all my programs in PRISM.
There are 2 questions I would like to get answered:

1) Can PRISM do anything Lapper can?
2) In Lapper there seems to be a bug when checking tyretypes before/after pitstop, do you think that's working correctly in PRISM or is that an Insim bug?

Or just download LFS Lapper and start coding all these features in there, if you don't want to learn hardcore program code.
What it is lately with all these people come asking to get someone to code for them?
If there would be a good salary at stake, I would quit my job sooner or later and start earning my money with this

It might be useful to explain what you want to have coded?
Speaking for myself, I can code within the Framework of LFS-Lapper, so might be able to code your request, but if it is very complicated and needs to be written in machine code, I won't be able to help you.
See my point?

Last edited by Yisc[NL], Fri, 24 Jan 2014 20:43.

Quote from GAVD999 :

Really interesting to follow something like this and watching it develop, looks like a mammoth task to complete but looking promising so far, keep at it

Yeah very interesting to read about and see the progress.
Be aware that many people will read your postings, but don't want to react in this topic to keep it organised and/or because they haven't got the knowledge of what you are doing. (I am no exception to that)
Keep up the good work and keep those updates coming.

@OSAMA-AK47: Please do us a favor and turnoff your capslock. Writing in only capitals is online seen as screaming and there certainly isn't a need to scream here. Thank you.