Sure, with some skill you of course can an should fight for position - no matter how fast you are.

But as I beginner I had problems to drive the car at all. So my whole concentration went in to the driving itself and I was not able to concentrate on other drivers too.

So I decided to stay at the back of the field to improve my car handling and my times first before starting to fight.

Should be possible, but I don´t know how to code it.

Well we are also running 2 XFG/XRG Demo servers and we have the same problem:

A lot of idiots are joining our servers with the only purpose to crash other cars.

This is the reason why our team members and marshals are quite nervous kicking someone quite fast to ensure a safe race.

Of course mistakes are done and we might kick someone by error!

But for this case every team running a server has a own forum and you can post your issue there and it is possible to check the logs or auto-saved replays then - and to excuse of course.

Anyway, 2 seconds off the leaders pace really is quite slow, so I would advise to drive VERY careful and try to avoid every contact. Once being last you have time enough to improve your times. Once you are able to do low 1:35 or high 1:34 times I would suggest to start learning to fight FAIR for positions. In my opinion letting someone go is better than forcing an overtaking which leads in to a crash.

However chatting with our admins and marshals to share setups and experiences might help a lot. There are a lot of damn fast guys on our servers - even driving with mouse or keyboard.

I just made LFS working via CrossOver. But my G25 only has a few degree to stear

Is there any workaround to get the profiler working on crossover too together with LFS?

I am running a 9600GT, 512MB PCIe on Win7 64bit and receive about 150-200 fps @ 1920x1080x32 - all options in LFS are set to maximum.

Did you edit your config with the normal Windows editor? If so, try to edit the untouched, original one with PSPad.

Well I am getting this error message atm in the control center:

"An error has occurred. Contact an administrator. If you are an administrator please contact TCADMIN SUPPORT."

Last edited by Crady, Fri 13 Nov 2009, 12:04.

The shift beep only works with cars that still have a sift light. Demo cars don´t have a shift light - except for the FBM.

The beep sound itself is quite silent. So you might not hear it with a loud engine sound. Perhaps try to make it louder with a sound editing program like Audacity.

The fuel indicator only works online!

Well the welcome.txt only shows up while a guest is connecting to your server - a few seconds only at a fast internet connection.

The best way would be to install and run some kind of insim Application like Airio or Lapper as I said.

Afaik there is no other way to display a text longer then a few seconds else.

guess you mean the welcome.txt, don´t you?

Well then indeed you need to remove the / and you have to create a welcome.txt file in root folder.

Quote :

// optional: welcome message up to 200 chars
//welcome=welcome.txt

But to display such kind of messages in game I would recommend to install an insim app like Airio or LFSLapper - sorry all Lapper friends, but for me Airio is much easier to configure.

Ok... to make it clear:

I asked Yamakwa in a PM if he also could add a button showing the number of pit stops the guy in front or back has done.

If have done such a custom version by my own with the help of a friend since I am not good enough in coding. But I am not able to add the support for the ShiftBeep.

Anyway, first of all Yamakawa´s version with Pit seems not to work for me.

So I used a TextDiff tool to find what he changed to enable the ShiftBeep.

The result is a version with a working ShiftBeep, working Pit indicator and it has been compiled with Win7 64 bit - so it definitely works with Win 7 64 bit!

I don´t know if it still works on 32bit windows though. If not, just recompile it.

However, the TS thing does not work for me so I set this option to false in the cfg.

Well for me the windows size and position aren´t saved too.

Win7 64 bit, Nvidia 9600GT (latest driver), desktop at 1920x1080.

Every time I close LFS in windowed mode - not matter if I choose the Exit button or just use the X and no matter which window size or position I manually choosed - LFS starts with a quite small window positioned top left.

Nice! Everything seems to work. Even the shift light for the MRT is back.

But I guess due to the new outgauge package some programs to hear a shift beep need to be adjusted... So atm I cannot hear a shift beep anymore.

z19_test2 perfect for me on the click issue, thanks

Well the Z17_test files behaves way better, but it is still not as good clickable as the other versions.

You have to click a button twice sometimes and and you have to move the mouse on the button to find a point where the click works.

But it did not bring me to the driving school while clicking on multiplayer.

Quote :

Shift lights removed from all road cars other than RaceAbout

is the MRT a road car too?

was on Z19 shortly and had the buttons problem... copied back the Z18 exe but I still have no shift light at the MRT

I have a button click problem:

I only need to start in FULL screen mode and it is not possible to click the buttons. I have to try to find a "clickable" point to select multiplayer but then it opens the driving school instead..

I am back to Z18 for now.

Windows 7 64bit final, Nvidia 9600GT driver version 191.07, 1920x1080x32

EDIT: sorry was typing while you posted... seems to be a known problem right now

Ok, I got 86-87 FPS on that SPR...

Q9550, 4GB, 9600GT, Win7 64Bit - all eye-candies on (8xAA, 16xAF etc...) @ 1620x1080x32

But I am planning to buy a GTX260 or 275 next month - or an HD5770...

EDIT: Forgot to compare with plain Z version...

With plain Version Z (just exchanged the exe from my Z18 install) I just got around 78 FPS...

Last edited by Crady, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 17:32.

Quote from Scawen :

I'd like to know more about that too. Of course, it works fine in XP where you can set the two monitor ports to act as a single screen.

Why would they go backwards? Is this something to do with copyright protection? I can't think why... just wondering why MS had to "break" their new OS's.

As far as I know this is a NVidia driver related problem. With the new Aero they are not able to use the span mode anymore.

Anyway, facing this issue it would be REALLY great if you could manage to broach every single display - as Windows system configuration does: I have 3 displays with 2 display cards. But using Win7 (or Vista) I cannot either span all three of course nor two of them. I only can uses every screen as a single screen (or clone them).

I like that behaviour in Windows - I would hate having one BIG desktop! So I never would buy a TH2GO...

Perhaps you are able to "read" the windows display setup and LFS might know that the main display is a 1080p display, the two others are 1280x1024 displays and how they are ordered and then LFS would render 3 independent pictures...

Or perhaps if it is not possible to read the windows setup an option to enter how many screens are connected with which resolution may do the trick too.

However, else there are no issues with Z18 yet thx

Ah, ok... anyway, it is hard to get a non widescreen TFT todays... so perhaps it would be possible to change the button size at widescreen resolutions...

Well I don´t know if it is a bug - and if, if it is known... But I bought a new 23´´ widescreen today and I am running it at 1920x1080.

However, while racing I often check my tire temperatures - but I only realize the colour - not the shown temperatures. But using this resolution I am not able to see the colours because the temperatures are shown at the tire surface showing the temperature in colours... (see screenshot)

Do I have to live with that issue, or might that become fixed?

oops didn´t think about mouse users... but on the other hand I think this function is useless while driving. So in spectate mode you should be able to interact with the mouse in every situation.

Right, but if you want to spectate a special car by choosing it from the map, you probably would like to know who he is. So once selected the car you either have to press V several times to see his name in the TV or chase view, or you have to press N again to see the little arrow pointing at his name...

Thank you very much for the hard work to release patch 16/17!

However I have to say that I am kind of "addicted" to the shift light - but it is much harder to see than the old one. So I would suggest to make it a bit brighter or - would be my favourite - to add a shift beep (with a turn on/off option in sound menu of course).

Second thing is the pit speed limit shown with the direction arrow... Well all tracks have a speed limit of 80km/h... So why to show it?

Or does this mean Rockingham will have another speed limit in the pits than the other tracks?

Or do we get an option to choose custom speed limits in further versions - which would be much appreciated esp. in Kyoto and Westhill?

Thanks for your help, Dean!

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