Looks sweet! Good work.

Hi all, another newbie to the scene.

The first thing I noticed upon loading up the demo is that I need a new rig, this one is about 4 years old now with only moderate upgrades to the graphics card and sound, and they're not recent.

I'm having issues calibrating my Logitech Momo to the sim atm, everything lined up in the calibration tests, but on track the wheel needs to be at 110 deg approx to steer straight. Also my peddles can't be calibrated to different axis, any idea why that is? I've clicked on the seperate button, but to no avail.

I'd also like to give a big thumbs up to Sim Racing Tonight, if it wasn't for those guys, I'd be completely unaware that Live For Speed exists.

How do I pay for these?
It's a nice change that a company is not ramming promotions and offers down my throat,quite the opposite, I want this premium service and can't find it!
Can anyone show me a link?
Thanks.


Yes I have searched.......

Thanks Deko! Was that you overtaking on the outside of the oval at KY Nat then?

The racing in this series is so good it wasn't hard to find some great footage to use.

I probably wouldn't be able to make it for several of these races as I'm often away at the weekends, but when I'm able to I'd enter.

Qualifying is 20 minutes. 5 minutes for FOXs only followed by 15 minutes for both classes. So the race usually ends just before 11pm BST. When the clocks go back it will start an hour earlier (8pm GMT)as the race time is set in GMT, so please come and give it a try then if it's too late at the moment.

This issue has been raised by some European racers before, so it may be that the start time is changed for next season.

As Gentlefoot says this a really great series which I would thoroughly recommend. There’s a great atmosphere between drivers and the racing is really clean. The length of the race is a real challenge too, requiring pit stops and plenty of concentration, which adds to the tactical element of racing which you don’t generally get in the short races on public servers.

There’s a good spread of experience too so anyone can join and have a good race. I started as league n00b but my driving has improved rapidly and now I’m fairly competitive. Some of the best single seater drivers in LFS are involved too, so there are some great drivers to learn from. In fact 2 world records have been broken in the course of the season.

Only a few drivers have managed to complete the majority of races too, so there’s still a chance of a decent championship position.

Hope to see some new faces at Westhill in 2 weeks time, you won't regret it!

Thanks Did you leave it at 60fps then or did you somehow convert it again back to 30fps? 60fps would be too high becasue I want to post it on the web once I'm done, and obviously most vierwers wouldn't benefit from a frame rate above 30fps anyway.

EDIT: I suppose I could do what Gratrix suggested in post 243 and just re-record the footage at 14fps and then follow the suggestion above but at 30fps as that would also probably result in a smoother video as my PC struggles a bit with lots of cars in the race. Shame as it means I'll have to re-shoot everything but if it works then that's what I'll do.

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I'm trying to make my first movie but I can't get Virtualdub to double the frame rate. I followed the instruictions in the first post, recording with fraps at 30fps playing the replay at 0.5X speed. In virtualdub I select process every other frame and hit F7 but it just saves the clip unchanged, still at 0.5X. If anyone has any ideas why it's doing this I'd be really grateful.

I would try a few different driver versions, even if they are not the latest. That's what sorted it for me. I would try that first and if it doesn't work go back to my first post for a list of things to try! Most of those I found elsewhere on this forum and various people have reported that they have solved the problem.

Still a week to practice, and still places left, so get your entries in! It's a great and challenging track this. Takes a bit of practice but once you get the hang of it it's a thrill to drive round!

Yes works fine with X for me. It's a great program, I use it regularly.

Excellent! The firmware upgrade seems to have fixed it. It was dropping the connection every 8 hours or so before, now it has been running for 36 hours+ with no problems

Last edited by Nick A, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 10:20.

Thanks Albieg, you always give me a load of things to try!

First thing's first though, I found they released a new firmware last month, so I'll get that on there tonight. Then I can start on your list...

Some good news

Have now done about 5 hours testing with the 61.77 drivers posted by kx_mole (post #115) and no freezes! I have had a few more graphical glitches as I mentioned before, but they only last a few frames if that and I can happily live with them.

I suspect that there is a problem somewhere in my system, which is still present, but these drivers seem much better at coping with the problem.

Thanks very much for everyone who has helped me and others on this thread. I think it was more persistence than cunning diagnosis that solved the problem in the end but I have learnt a lot about how to diagnose problems in the process. It’s funny because I found a good deal on a new PC this week and I decided if I got 1 more freeze, I was going to replace the lot, but I’m glad I don’t have to now.

Special thanks to moley for the magic drivers!

PS: I now have a new problem though: my internet connection drops once or twice a day and the only way to get it back up is to reboot the router. Oh well, something else to fix...

Yeah, I heard they have a habit of continuing to charge you once you leave too. But I am coming round to the idea of staying anyway. It seems to me that it's pot luck whether you'll have connection/customer service problems wherever you go unless you're prepared to go for Newnet or an Entanet reseller, so I'd rather avoid the hassle and stay with AOL. It's not perfect, but for £10 a month it does what i need and i don't want a load of hassle when I switch.

I’ve looked into 20 or so ISPs now and narrowed it down to:

Talktalk – read bad things about severe throttling after using only 5 or 10GB/month. Not keen on 18 month contract.
Virgin – looks OK but would need to buy a new cable router with wireless access point. Also can’t migrate after contract is over.
Newnet – Look good, 12GB limit Ok for now, but in a year’s time I may need more. £16.50/month a little pricey.
Entanet retailers (eg UKFSN.ADSL24) – look fantastic, no port blocking, excellent pings, but £20/month
BE: Look good, but 4GB limit not enough for me and next package up is £24/month
Demon: bad customer service, but big allowance but would probably rather go for Newnet.
And finally…
Staying with AOL, looking increasingly likely, as it seems I may be able to get it for £10/month and get a speed upgrade.

Danowat – are you on their Home or Evolution package? If you’re torrenting I assume it’s Evolution but they give that only 2* for performance so surprised to hear that it’s OK.

Sorry to hear those peasky freezes are back.

I use Firefox but I still had freezes on my fresh Windows XP installation, which didn't have Firefox installed.

I will try and do some testing tonight.

No, AOL isn't that bad compared to the other big name ISPs I think. Torrents run OK, LFS runs well too and the service is fairly reliable but it conked out during my league race at the weekend

Also, I'm not in an LLU area, so it would be £20/month from next month I think. For £20 a month I could be with ADSL24 or UKFSN who have fantastic reputations and don't throttle or port block.

I still havn't decided what to do but I've got it down to just 5 ISPs now! Will post again when I've decided!

Yeah, there must be plenty of Redliners out there who would fancy this.

Patience! I havn't had any more time to test it and I'll be driving less over the next few weeks as I don't have a GFC race for a while. But I will do a few hours this week and report back.

Hehe. I am still working on it. I just go through quiet period when I am testing and thinking

At the moment I am using the 61.77 drivers. I've done 2/3 hours with no freeze. I did have a second when the GFX went crazy but recovered. Maybe that would have turned into a freeze with different driver versions but this driver can deal with whatever the problem is a bit better? I'll keep testing and keep you posted...

Thanks for all your comments! The reason I was looking at those 4 is simply because they are considerably cheaper than some ISPs (they work out around £80 a year), but I guess you get what you pay for and from what I've read the technical support is generally much better woth the smaller companies.

Sounds like Virgin would be the best of those 4, but I will look into some of the smaller ones suggested and decide if it's worth the extra.

Quote from kx_mole :

it will definitely solve the problem but first, try a driver change , I will search another driver for you.

here: http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_61.77.html

or the last from 6x.xx :

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_66.93.html

Cheers Moley, I'm not optimistic but I'll give them a go

Last edited by Nick A, Fri 27 Jul 2007, 17:37. Reason : Wrong quote!

I'm with AOL at the moment, they've been OK I'm but going to switch next month. As I race in a league I really want a stable connection which won't drop (AOL has actually been very good like that). Speed isn't that important, 2MB would be OK. I use around 10Gb/month so need that allowance or preferably a bit more. I was thinking of Virgin/Tiscali/Supanet as they're all dirt cheap but have read bad things about all 3. Then again I've read bad things about AOL and they were OK. Any suggestions?