Thanks for testing. Saw this only now and there was nobody from AA in then.

The command to clear the board is !mbclear. Seems like I forgot it from the readme. I need to add an admin command help.

In Top Gun there was a song by Kenny Loggins called Danger Zone. If you listen to it you understand it is not about flying or anything like that... it is clearly about driving in a (demo) server.

Kenny oggins - Danger Zone

Revvin' up your engine (start lights in a race)
Listen to her howlin' roar
Metal under tension
Beggin' you to touch and go

Highway to the Danger Zone (T1 mayhem)
Ride into the Danger Zone

(etc etc)...

Thanks for your offers. I sent one of you an email and other one a PM. Remember to check

I would recommend allowing both XFG and XRG, because their performance is quite similar. Also the lapper doesn't take any commands (like !help).

"Do you want me to push?"

Bumping this thread with this one... at least IMO they look a lot same

Really funny idea

I think you could improve if you tape plastic or metal sheet/card (about size of a playing card) to the buttons. So it would be easier to hit the sheets/cards than tiny buttons. Maybe so that one end is taped to the floor and other end rests on the button

I'm a mouse user too... maybe I should do similar system

Quote from Leprekaun :

Sorry about missing the last round, I was asleep . I'm very excited tonight tho so I'm looking forward to it

Were you sleeping again? No sign of you in tonight's race

I didn't put it into the database yet, because I would like to test it with some "guinea pigs" online. Tryed tonight, but again nobody joins. Oh heck, I guess I have to give it to somebody to test who can get more people join.

Yes. Maybe I would need to make a new thread.

Now it has the flood filter. Also the increased delays in the rotator. It would need little public server testing first.

Quote from fakeman :

It would be great that after breaking best split/lap it shows by how much it is improved: New PB: 02:14.30 (-00.02.30)

Added that too.

Quote from mcintyrej :

Just reminding everyone

I can't wait! Should be good - maybe as good as last weeks. I think i've got a few fellow Fusion's coming along for a bash.

Last week? I sure hope there wasn't a race last week
I think it was 2 weeks ago... right?

What ever, but maybe it would have still been easier to read the manual

Quote from SilverArrows77 :

ive had the same prob mate -am finding the rotator to be a little strange at times- i have had a few probs too with it not changing track - only changing weather, laps etc

One thing ive noticed is that it seems to work more often than not with more than one person on, but with just one person it sometimes doesnt change (i cant work why that would affect it though) - what seems to be happening if u look at the lfs host console is that once race start has been voted for vcom issues the /end in preparation for track change but often it seem that it the track change tries to happen before player is back at server entry screen and then gives a "cant change track during race" ( or something like that) error

i found that deleteing the vcom files and putting in a fresh copy - then edit the setup.dat before ever starting vcom seems to make a difference too - but overall im am still having problems with consistancy of rotator too

Hmmm. Yep, I've heard this sometime before. It seems to happen in multiplayer only. At least I cannot make it fail offline. There is a delay it waits before issuing the track change (/track) after the /end command. It could be that in multiplayer there can be sometimes excess delay before the entry screen is loaded. So in the new version I put more delay and also user given delay is not limited to 10000.

Quote from SilverArrows77 :

On another note while talking about rotator - had roator working great on server today - few racers on (about 6) went trough several tracks changes with no worries, but then on a change from aston to blackwood, one player didnt recieve the track change - he was still on server with us but was still driving on aston while we were on blackwood - a quick rejoin fixed this problem

Im guessing that maybe it was caused by a latency/lag issue - am thinking the if due to latency/lag he recieved the /end cmd late then would have missed track change and this been left on previous track?? does that sound possible?

Yes, but that is not my fault. I read that it happened sometimes in W patches, but it still seems to be an issue. I've understood LFS should keep the order of packets and quarantee their delivery to clients (it uses TCP) except the car position packets (UDP). So the /end should arrive earlier than /track, but maybe they arrive with a too short interval sometimes.

I hope the newer versions fixes that. In principle you would like to keep the delay at minimum but still long enough that it never fails. Best would be if you could send one packet which makes LFS go to the entry screen, load new track, make car selections, weather changes etc etc.

Quote from fakeman :

Everything works except when you close it your pb times are gone...and the file where I think it should save pb-s says: <name>(game not in multiplayer mode?)</name>

The best times are saved in *.log files in the log directory. The xml files (e.g. sb_WE1.xml) are outputs of the log files showing only the pbs (all players) in the browser compatible form (it has XSL to show them). When the program loads the same track (e.g WE1) it loads the log file (not the XML files). You need to set the log saving mode on (the mode 512) too.

The <name> tag in the sb_... xml file is the server name. If you are running it offline there is no server name, so that's why it says so.

REQ: World
IP: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
DB: FINLAND
RES: 1

I told you so. "Re-install the mobo drivers". Well, good that it works now.

You can install the monitor drivers too or Windows might not show all the available resolutions correct. (It should say the monitor name like Viewsonic VA902 in the optimal case and list only those resolutions and frequencys compatible). If it is an older monitor Windows might have specs for it without giving it the monitor disk.

Quote from LFSn00b :

It's 'integrated' in the motherboard, so i am really confused at the moment.

Oh. I've never had an integrated gfx so not sure, but... I guess it belongs to motherboard stuff then. So what if you try re-installing all the mobo drivers from the mobo install disk?

I'm not sure if I dare to write here. Anyway I would try this...

Quote from CSU1 :

control panel/system/hardware and see if the gfx card is listed...if it is update driver and choose to update from location(where ever your driver is)

...if you haven't tried it already. IIIRC you can also see the card by clicking right mouse key over the desktop -> properties -> settings -> advanced -> adapter, even if your drivers aren't installed yet. In that adapter sheet there is the properties button which gives you the troubleshooting and driver install/rollback options.

If you cannot see the card and install the drivers I really have no ideas at the moment. Maybe the card is half dead?

No... never tryed that one. Forget it.

0.471 is here

http://www.lfs-database.com/in ... yid=2&p13_sectionid=6

Looks like when their system crashed they lost the older versions than 0.470... If somebody really wants 0.460 I can post it somewhere.

0.471 works in X (and X2). There is an older version (0.460) for earlier version of Insim too (W and pre W).

If interested try lfs-database.

Quote from romus74 :

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- less popular combos (like slower cars and Westhill)
...

Yeh... sounds good. I like to drive Westhill in XFG/XRG, but my problem has been that nobody else does. So I have been forced to cruise it offline when I have felt like it

Quote from fakeman :

Is there something that can save your best splits/times for track/car for hotlapping and single player and show them in game?
I mean something like LFSLapper but on client side

VCom. Hotlapping, single player races, non dedi server, dedi server, replays... what ever you like.

Because the rotator works now I don't return to that...

Quote from SilverArrows77 :

...
Also i was wondering if there is any plans to include a flood action line or word(swear) filter (where we can set the word list that sets off an auto-actions such as /kick) - not to make it a LFS Lapper clone - but the main problem we would have switching to vcom from lapper would be the lack of these abilities that have proven to be very handy on a busy server
...
Silver77

Flood action... Ok. How do you want to define it? Some frequency (messages/time)? Do want it to allow a short time crossing of the limit with a warning?

Swear filter... Considering. Are you sure that is a working thing? I mean that there are 101 ways to go around it. Also the list must grow quite long if you add all the curse words. I bet there would be always one missing and in the end I would feel dirtier writing such a list than having to see an occasional dirty word in a server. I do understand if there are children driving, having to see such words is not good, but nowadays those words are unfortunately so frequent that you can hear them in a kindergarten too (not saying it means you have to listen to them in LFS servers too)... ...(just considering the good and bad sides here)

Yep. Wasn't too hard.