BHMS always do better awards. This is funny shit though. LFS is on 71% or something now.

Perhaps I can get someone to ask the Kyalami guys if they're interested in something like this (I think a few people I know have connections higher up - if not, I'll just send them an e-mail). I know of two other SA tracks that won't be too difficult to get but they're both rubbish TBH - Wesbank raceway and Zwartkops. Aston National is probably more challenging than the former and I've been around Zwatrkops in a Porsche Boxter S on semi-slicks and its very mickey-mouse.

Wait, if you're being lapped, then you're not racing for position. "If the other guy has a faster car he'll overtake you on the straights"? No, not necessarily - he may be going faster in the corners and his advantage on the straights may be tiny. Whatever the case may be, if you're a back-marker you should slow the front runners as little as possible. I just don't get what you're complaining about. Its not as if you lose position if you let the guy through. illepall

I've got a pair of Sennheizer HD-595's (no Mic). In all honesty, LFS sounds better on my Creative 4400's. These Senn's are said to have a great sound-stage etc. (and for listening to music they really are on another level compared to most speakers). Maybe its something to do with having my Creatives' subwoofer on the floor behind my pedals and things like that that just make it feel that little bit more immersive with speakers. Having said that, I do hear tyre sounds much more accurately on my headphones so I drive better with them.

Quote from abz1 :

Every time I switch out of LFS (shift + F4) and return back into the sim my wheel needs recalibrating again. I don't remember having this problem in patch U.

Microsoft sidewinder ff wheel

You just need to enable calibration lock (once you have it calibrated) under Controls -> Axes/FF.

Quote from Glenn67 :

And your saying this to the current WR holder in that car/track combo

Hotlappers. Pffffffft.

Maybe you just rely too much on your speedo when you drive which is now inaccurate so you can't really rely on it. Only time I look at my speedo is on a straight when there's wind... and when I'm setting up a car's gearing. You shouldn't be looking at the speedo through corners. You'll go much faster without it. You can see the shift light with peripheral vision.

Quote from Vain :

...until you join a full grid of cars.
The fps are very jumpy. On some sections you get fewer than 50% of the fps you get in other places. Put in 20 cars at such spots and suddenly LFS doesn't run that smooth anymore at all.

Vain

I don't think you can do much about that at all TBH. This will happen in any sim. Apart from having "mip-map" style thing of the mesh rendering it with a different number of polys depending on distance, I can't think of many ways to improve it.

Quote from AndroidXP :

Because replays only store the player's inputs. If you watch a replay, it uses the current physics engine and feeds it with the stored inputs. If you have the same physics engine as at the time the replay was recorded, you will get the same result upon watching it.

If the physics change only one tiny bit, the replay will go OOS (out of sync) and it will be broken. Thus, the still working replays are the ultimate proof the physics have not changed.

I think they also store position or something like that too, to which the physics results are compared and if that doesn't match, then you get the OOS error. Otherwise you have no way of knowing if you're in sync or not because you have nothing to compare it to.

AFAIK, LFS will be getting a graphics update once S2 final is out - ie, in the first official S2 Final patches. Right now the focus is probably AI, sound, physics and improvements to netcode to support larger grids.

Quote from scoobyrbac :

Yeah well...There is some things that need to be better....Like tyre smoke without use the smokemod would be nice like in S2 they can view everyones skins..be nice if they can do that in the demo...and change the cars up some..becaus those 3 cars get boring and there slow....and a couple more track selections...

You're kidding, right? Firstly smoke is something that has a huge hit on FPS on lower-end graphics cards so while the devs are aware that there isn't enough smoke in most circumstances, they are doing this for the sake of performance.

Secondly, if you pay money - £24 is all you need - you'll get the rest of your requests.

Tristan has a FOX in his garage but I doubt he'd want to sell it.

Just as a little thought, you need some kind of energy to go into producing sound. This is energy that can make you turn, so with racing tyres you'd try minimise the energy going into whatever else and just focus on turning.

Happy birthday, Scawen! Have a great year ahead! Good luck to you and your family and Live for Speed.

Site: LFS-Database, Setupfield - can't pick one over the other, it depends on your nedes
Team: Quite likely, T7R - they're a great friendly bunch of fast racers.
League: I'd say STCC in terms of administration etc. They're doing a cracking job in getting the league "out there". I dream of getting LXCC to that level one day but first, we must get our server issues sorted .
Application: Has to be LFS-stats. That thing is simply awesome.
Person: Todd Wasson. Durr.

I got an LFS crash to desktop at last night's LXCC event just as the qualifying was started. I hadn't realised I was running U29 before this though, but it may also be a U30 thing.

Wait, I may have been a shmuck, I'll get back to you on that one.
As for steer look, it should be disabled on button-press.

Heh, doesn't really work out. Its way too unsmooth without center reduction and with it, the whole system goes haywire - ie. reverse view is in the wrong place etc. Perhaps use a Shift+U camera and control its rotation (not sure if its possible)... that way I guess you could get smooth resutls. That's really only if you're a masochist and want to program car heading into it because LFS doesn't turn the view with the car turning. This would be a huge project probably you can set follow car but I'm not too sure that even does it vertically. And you'd also have to program the vertical view angle... basically, don't bother.

LFS does have some form of TrackIR support, no? Is that abusable?

This is probably not the place for this discussion but anyway.

Quote from tomylee :

All should really try it with the U version. When I installed the first patch (U20) I got those disconnects. Later on I thought about changing back to the U and the disconnects were gone. Two coincident's exact at this time, that would be something crazy

Not as crazy as you might think. Its basically impossible that the connection existed in the first place if netcode was any different I should think. Unless you got lots of OOS errors which would probably imply that what the server is recieving as packets from you and what's actually happening don't appear coherent (as I understand it). You can't magically increase pings with a suttle netcode change anyway (or a change of any other part of the code for that matter).

Quote from traxxion :

I have to say though Scawen, connectivity really seems to be a more general problem lately. Never before have I heard of so many player disconnects, even server crashes and much lag on the servers. At first I thought it was just me, but both here on the forum and on various irc channels I hear I'm definitely not the only one who experiences these problems.

Maybe it's because there are a lot of leagues going on, that people complain more about disconnects (disco is always more annoying in an important race). Maybe it's because a lot more servers run InSim applications lately. But maybe it really is a more general (and LFS related) problem.

I don't know for sure either of course, but I thought I'd just ventilate my thoughts... because of my recent experiences I'm starting to think that maybe there's something that you haven't thought of yet, that causes more connectivity problems (no offense, just trying to help solving what seems to be a problem).

Back in the S1 days I could race lag-free on a 56k modem. Those days are long over thanks to the increasing number of packets that have to be sent with S2 - damage etc.

Also bear in mind that if your country has some kind of general capping policy, people will normally save bandwidth at the start of the month and towards the end of the month, pings will go up and up because everyone thinks "oh look, I have 2gb to spare!" (2gb doesn't sound like much but here 3gb is all you get). This tendency is a real problem here. Pings during the day tend to be much higher than at night etc. There's so many things that affect it.

Quote from AndroidXP :

LFS Advanced Head-Turn 3000™

Hmm, so you want look with steer... should be possible, I think. Depends if LFS lets me read the wheel turn state, but as the buttons work, this should work too. Then I'll just move the "center" around depending on the wheel position. Good idea!

I guess you can expect an update sometime in the evening (when I'm back from work). Any other suggestions for a name change? Anyone?

I was driving around this morning and no look-to-apex really confused me. I kept overcorrecting slides etc. Its an awesome program otherwise, looking forward to the update!

Quote from Viper93 :

I am having the same connectivity issues as tommylee is. If I go onto a server that is full I will ping out within a few minutes, guaranteed . I can stay connected to an empty server for awhile but then again I will eventually be disconnected.

This all started when I switched to U30. I am still seeing if any of the programs I am running are causing any problems, but I never had an issue before U30.

You should try this with an older version to confirm that it is an U30 issue. Connectivity problems can be caused by so many things.

See ya in 2009 I guess!

Hopefully you've grown up a bit by that time. :haha:

Android, I think the only reason your program hasn't been a huge success is the name. I only clicked something named "MouseLook" because I was bored and out of curiosity. Get a mod to rename it to something like AdvancedLook I think. You should have a 7 page thread here because of what this thing does . BTW, I'm used to using the look-to-apex thing. I find it helps me judge corners better. Is it possible to monitor steering angle too and make the head turn slightly with that?

Absolutely awesome work! I love it.

Thanks for clearing that up. The story sounds rather different from the one I heard. Knowing the facts now, can a moderator please move my vote from option 4 to option 2?

Quote from SamH :

Oh dear. Well, I was there for that and I'm really sad to see that the actual FACTS of the matter are clearly completely lost. Well doesn't that just figure, huh? THAT's put me in a bad mood.

Care to share the facts then? ... That's what I was told.