Scawen has already noted the force feedback issue.

we had an lx6 series for MNR 2 months ago...

you can already adjust every element of steering rate as far as I can see. not sure what Gunn is talking about, unless he means he wants a dfp / g25...

rfb for me. I stab the brake every gearshift otherwise.

all 858 combos are hardly exciting new experiences.

An open modding system, with a core (but changeable) set of mod testers / confirmers / valuers, would rock. But I have no interest in pick up and play racing anyway, leagues are what I enjoy.

fair enough. couldn't find anything on it with a search, but it doesn't strike me as easily searchable either

Sure - Scawen seems to have gone to reasonable lengths lately to allow some external fancyness, if he chooses to ignore this that's fine obviously, but figured it was worth a mention

only noticeable with external programs like pitspotter and CSR - it's quite evident that lfs is still spectating someone but just has the pits graphical overlay.

Really not sure whether this is a bug, improvement suggestion, or even technical assistance... but the shadow draw distance seems quite low, car shadows pop into existence and look rather odd. At first I assumed it was just my dynamic LOD setting, but I've been unable to find any settings or sliders to correct this. I only noticed because I'm sifting through replays making a movie...

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Imho, lfs has some real funkyness with the way tyre pressure relates to forces generated, causing sharp spikes when the pressure is up, temporarily overloading certain wheels - and it affects cars like the mrt and lx's the most. Run the lx6 with 11psi in the front (max grip) and then try with 20psi in the front, if anyone wants to see what I'm trying to talk about

The lx's are a lot easier to drive and just as quick with low power side locking on the dif - try 20/50 if you're struggling with it.

Gene Wolfe's 'Book of the New Sun' series is head and shoulders above everything else I've read. Regarded extremely well by literary types, it's pretty damn dense reading - is written quite differently with a very interesting first person viewpoint from the far future, with a reasonable bit of internal thought / monologue. After reading this many other sci-fi / fantasy's fall very short for me with the way the author's draw so much influence from current social habits, and generally fail to create a truly fresh situation.

I use auto screen recorder 2.1, it works well. Seemed more customizable than fraps.

Quote from mrodgers :

First, let's talk graphics. I've tried the GTR, GTL, and rFactor demos. I didn't mess with rFactor much at all, but did try and try GTR/GTL. Their graphics engine sucks, period. Ok ok, if you have that $4000 graphics card and the quad processor running 350 GHz, sure the graphics are great. But, that's the point, you need that hardware to run it. My most recent non-LFS experience was GTL. You can configure it differently. If I'm getting 50 FPS with all LFS gfx options maxed and with a bit of AA/AF on my onboard graphics and must say, it looks fantastic, then when I configure GTL to run 640x480x16 with dx7 and only getting 10 FPS, I have to say their graphics engine sucks. I'm sorry, but if you minimize all ingame options, and run the PC settings I state up there and still can only get 10 FPS, then there is something wrong, and it's not the PC. I could see if it was limited to staying at high resolution and Dx9, but it is not. The option of reducing graphics and settings are there.

The games are designed for people with the money and desire to buy steering wheel hardware - doesn't seem surprising to me they are not designed to run on low end systems. Most games as they are released are tailored towards fairly recent systems...

the ability to alt-tab is worth the occasional blank screen to me Only happened a few times recently, so naturally I suspect something in the test patches.

yes, I am a bad person and didn't see that post
I also realised the cmd file for CSR works fine, you just have to manually specify it instead of browsing to it.

Hinirags - put this in your csr folder and point bfs to it.
http://members.iinet.net.au/~cdriver/csr.cmd
edit: this doesn't work actually, didn't realise bfs could only be pointed to .exe files. Running bat and cmd files would seem a worthwhile addition Wabz??

Wabz - the latest release is not working well for me. every time I try to connect to a server it gives the 'host has a different game code' error - it's trying to connect to demo servers instead of s2 servers, for some reason. These are servers that would previously connect fine with BFS.

I got a black screen after exiting normally today. I joined 2 servers as admin, set them up, alt tabbed in and out a couple of times, exited, then I had a mouse cursor, and could do things but couldn't see them - I had to run a command window and make it full screen before I was able to see anything beyond the mouse.

there are sometimes when it is easy to go out of bounds where no damage to the car would have occurred and it would be easy to drive back to the road, though. If these locations were setup with barriers instead then fair enough.

spectate is a bit rough, why not just fix the teleport location...?

We've had some brilliant racing in the TB (no O) MNR series Reverse grid racing with them has been great, everyone gets up to a reasonable speed with them, and passes are pretty hard fought...

Fern Club and South Classic still to come

Quote from Renku :

I don't know whom are you referring to atm, but I remember this "bug" being present long before the patch U. This is not a matter of an U test patch. I believe this will be taken care of if and when the new qualy starting\finishing changes come.

sorry, my post stands alone, it did sound kinda like a reply to someone. Fair enough if it's always been happening. Only happened to me a few times recently and I couldn't find an old bug report for it.

It's not a u30 bug, as it happened to me last monday at some point too, but I believe it may be a test patch related bug - a few times now I have started qual from the start line, instead of normal positioning. I don't remember this ever happening at all except in the last couple of weeks. Happened tonight when I exited pits just as qual was starting.

Quote from Bob Smith :

I mean, it's a valid point Hyperactive, I just don't care enough about going fast to worry about it. So long as I'm driving hard, to my limits, and having fun, surely that's all that matters?

I'm with hyperactive on this one. It's less about 'winning' and more about 'not handicapping myself'.

I am noticing what seems a minor bug. When I press shift-s to go to pits, the ff is not released and my wheel keeps moving to one extreme on it's own.

edit: nice timing Dumpy