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burnsy1882
S2 licensed
well, it's probably mobo dependent. my P5W DH DLX had it enabled by default, but it's always the first thing when installing vista that you need to check.
burnsy1882
S2 licensed
you need to turn off RAID on the mobo, as vista does not come with RAID drivers at the beginning, and it locks up trying to access the harddrives. if you are wanting to use RAID, you have to load the raid driver on a separate floppy to load up when prompted to press a keystroke to load the driver.

i had the same problem when i first got vista for my E6600, P5W DH DLX mobo. updated the BIOS and turned off the RAID, and it worked. i turned it off, as i wasn't going to use RAID.
burnsy1882
S2 licensed
for the next iteration when you post it, remember to include the dll file that's needed to run the program. tried to run it right now, and it's missing that dll file.
burnsy1882
S2 licensed
the program doesn't know if you've "entered" the pits if you just shift+p/s. it does if you actually enter it when driving, but i don't think that that is really a bug.
burnsy1882
S2 licensed
did you make sure the right IP address was in the config.ini file? you would use 127.0.0.1 if you have the program on the same server as the dedi host. otherwise, if you are running it from your own computer, get the IP address from either the setup.cfg file of the dedi host, or ask the hoster for it.
burnsy1882
S2 licensed
then i spin out . i think the set's as far as i can get it to be stable and fast for me. i'm sure someone else could take the same set, no changes, and blitz my time, or change something small and also blitz my time. but meh, hey, i beat Zolt, that's all that matters .
burnsy1882
S2 licensed
Quote from mcgas001 :Burnsy, There is a few issues there, you could fix with a few simple checks. That said, InSim still wont be best to create someting like this. Sadly, i dont think InSim will get anymore attention in S2...

yeah, true. but would be a lot of work to check and recheck; i still think there'd be a lot of false-positives though.

however, i think someone could do it (read; not me, not smart enough i think)
Quote from Gekkibi :Driven by one of the admins.

I will try your program later today. Downloaded and checked the config.ini, and now I have one tiny (And n00bish) question for you: How can I activate two separate insim-ports, as I am also running LFSremote?

use the same insim port number as the other one. you can have 8 different TCP connections on the same port number.
burnsy1882
S2 licensed
Quote from Gekkibi :Ok, here is my plan: I'm going to make BL1 FBM competition for demo-users only. The race will be pretty long, say, 40 laps, so just about anything can happen. You guessed it right: The first prize would be S2 voucher!

It would make it much more interesting if I would use safety car if required. Sure, I could use it without any kind of logic, but it would require too many admins to monitor if someone is overtaking while safery car is on track etc. I made a rough list for the features I would like to have:

first question is, is the safety car being driven by a person, or you making the safety car an AI car?
Quote from Gekkibi :
When safety car joins track (Not just exiting garage, but to leave pit-lane also), it will automatically activate these features:
- Every racer gets a message on upper corner of his screen. Something like "Safety car on track".

for this, you could try out a program i already submitted which allows you to control the condition of the track and pitlane.
http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=40857
Quote from Gekkibi :
- When you are near the safety car and you are not the leading driver, message "You are allowed to overtake the safety car" will replace the "Safety car on track" message. When the leading driver is behind the safety car (And there are no cars between), no more overtaking is allowed.
Quoting wikipedia:

When the leading driver is behind safety car, it receives message (Only the safety car receives the message) "Leading driver behind the safety car", so he knows that he should initialize the lights (By using LFSstrobe, for example).

could possibly be done, though there may be problems, as explained below.
Quote from Gekkibi :
- After this have happened and someone overtakes the safety car, he will get a black flag (Instant disqualification for a driver), and thus gets a message "You are disqualified for overtaking the safety car". He will then enter the pits within next lap or he will be instantly specced. After he makes a pit-stop, he gets specced. I just hate suddently disappearing cars...

problem with this is, when two cars are really close together, during a safety car period, LFS starts to report them as switching places numerous times, depending on acceleration and braking, etc. so you would end up probably with numerous false-positives, thus maybe giving a black flag to possibly everybody.
Quote from Gekkibi :
- If someone overtakes any other car, he will get a "stop & go" penalty. However, if he overtakes someone who initilizes yellow flag, he don't get that penalty.

same thing here.
Quote from Gekkibi :
- When safety car enters the pit-lane, message "Safety car on track" will disappear and race continues.

These features would also be nice. However, these requires more work. Quoting wikipedia:


Questions: When safety car is on the track, is it allowed to overtake other cars, even the leading driver is not yet behind a safety car? If yes, make it so that when the message "Safety car on track" appears, it is not allowed to overtake. I'm not sure how it goes, I am not a big fan of F1...

for something like this for your league, which is a great idea BTW, i still think that you would need real people as marshals. though being a demo league, you're limited to the number of people on the server, but you may be able to get away with at least 2 people as marshals on the server. then afterwards, review the replay for penalties that were not caught during the race.
burnsy1882
S2 licensed
Quote from Rooble :Your differential settings sound and look a little weird, I'm sure you're losing a lot of time each lap because of it.


Good race though, although you could of probably taken him a lap sooner if you had only waited a little longer.

that's the Clutch Pack LSD for ya. i find that i like it a lot, allows me to get on the power as soon as i can, without drifting the car too much. specifically, it's 45%/65% and i vary the preload based on testing at the track. although, yes, i'm sure i am loosing a bit of time whenever i hit the curbs and spin the inside wheel.
burnsy1882
S2 licensed
Quote from BigTime :Yeah I think I could probably do that some time tonight. Also depending upon what some of the officials think, I might just give you access to the youtube page for future projects.

no need for that, probably just a once in a while thing of making a video. besides, yours always come out completely awesome, no matter the subject.
burnsy1882
S2 licensed
Quote from BigTime :You should totally post this on the LOTA Media Youtube page! Nice to see someone coming out with some media! Good job, see ya on the track.

And BTW... DAMN THAT WAS CLOSE!

i'd have to reupload the video to the LOTA media page right? i'd say go ahead and download the highres one, and upload it to the LOTA media page, as i'm sure you've only allowed certain people to upload it. otherwise, if you can show me how to either copy or move the video, that'd be cool.

thanks for the compliments guys. it was a very fun race. both ZoltUSA and I were involved in a Lap 1 Turn 1 incident, and subsequently came out of that last place. so we both had a good fight to get up to 6th place, but it only got better once i caught up to him those last two laps. for the LOTA GTCC, there are series-wide intake and ballast restrictions, to increase the competition. he was running less intake and ballast than me, but it did seem that i had more speed on the straights, probably because of the XRR maybe.
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LOTA GTCC - Race 2 - Last two laps onboard
burnsy1882
S2 licensed
after seeing the parody movie made about the closest finish on here, it reminded me of Race 2 of the LOTA GTCC, and how ZoltUSA and I had a drag race at the end of the race. so, i made a movie showing the last two laps of the race from the roof camera of my car, plus some other shots of the finish line.

HQ (5:30, 100MB DivX): http://files.filefront.com/GTC ... i/;9978515;/fileinfo.html
LQ: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2SIiYTYeqg

i would recommend the HQ one, as youtube almost always destroys the quality if you didn't output the video in their format in the first place.
burnsy1882
S2 licensed
i used this little tutorial to make a lightbox gallery with photoshop, that you would then upload to your site. http://www.photoshoplab.com/li ... 20-web-photo-gallery.html

here's my example of using it. nice and easy as far as i'm concerned.
http://burnsy.no-ip.info/albums/
burnsy1882
S2 licensed
Quote from sam93 :The software needs to be on both computers and as I said above, we can't install software on the computers as it just shuts the installer down.

I will quickly upload some screenshots of what our school access is like and then people with catch my drift.

no, the software only needs to be on your computer, then you just log in through their website.
burnsy1882
S2 licensed
Version 1.0.5.0
Bug fix: buttons would show to new racers connecting to the server when the program is configured to hide on green.
burnsy1882
S2 licensed
Quote from InSim Docs :#define ISB_C1 1 // you can choose a standard
#define ISB_C2 2 // interface colour using
#define ISB_C4 4 // these 3 lowest bits - see below
#define ISB_CLICK 8 // click this button to send IS_BTC
#define ISB_LIGHT 16 // light button
#define ISB_DARK 32 // dark button
#define ISB_LEFT 64 // align text to left
#define ISB_RIGHT 128 // align text to right

// colour 0 : light grey (not user editable)
// colour 1 : title colour (default:yellow)
// colour 2 : unselected text (default:black)
// colour 3 : selected text (default:white)
// colour 4 : ok (default:green)
// colour 5 : cancel (default:red)
// colour 6 : text string (defaultale blue)
// colour 7 : unavailable (default:grey)

since i'm using LFSLib, it's already in there as buttontextcolor or something like that, not looking at my code right now.
burnsy1882
S2 licensed
Quote from mcgas001 :Burnsy: I have to ask this, How did you get that shade of green and orange in LFS? The only colours i know are 0-8.

for what part of the program?
burnsy1882
S2 licensed
Quote from AndroidXP :PS: As far as I know it doesn't have anything to do with the Coriolis effect as the force it exerts is far too low on such a small scale.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C ... g_in_bathtubs_and_toilets
interesting, thanks for pointing that out.
burnsy1882
S2 licensed
Quote from ZolArT :I see buttons CLOSED and RED but they not work when I press

Quote from burnsy1882 at the beginning of the thread :You access the Race Director menu by combining the prefix and admin command from the config.ini file.

burnsy1882
S2 licensed
no problem, just trying to direct you to mcgas001's nice program.
burnsy1882
S2 licensed
Quote from goldwing :Excellent program! A few suggestions: track/car change after a random number of laps... Car/track prefixed combinations... Good work, very usefull!

that's not what this program is for, but mcgas001 made one that does what you're wanting.
burnsy1882
S2 licensed
Quote from mkinnov8 :In that case..

Ive had ideas for a concept for ages, but havent a clue how to even start to think about it.. If you can impliment any of this.. would be fantastic

you're wanting that implemented in this program, or a new program?
burnsy1882
S2 licensed
thank DeadWolfBones, he was bugging me to make him a "custom" version for him to use in IGTC, and so took some of the ideas and put it in the "production" version. any other ideas are always welcome.
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