Just for the record, it was Fraps that was killing it, as turning it back on killed the game again. Changed the Fraps hotkey, and all is good again. Cheers guys

Following on from the hi-res skin thing, I'm a little confused:

I know where I need to add money, that's fine. But are these hi-res skins official skins from the game developers? Do they replace all of the low res skins in the game? If so, where do I actually purchase them? If not, then what, where and how? Please, assume that I know absolutely nothing about modifying this game.

Please god no Skylines. No Scoobies. No other typical street racing cars, in fact. We have a Ferrari / Porsche hybrid We have an F1 car, a Mini look-a-like, and pretty much everything in between, in one form or another.

I think that there's nothing wrong with the number of cars that are currently in the game. If people spent as much time learning how to drive them properly, as they did suggesting new models, perhaps they wouldn't be so quick off the mark to do the suggesting!

I always let much faster people straight past, regardless of whether or not they joined mid-race / we're racing for position. As I see it, if they are obviously much faster than me, what's the point in holding them up? Perhaps I might change my mind about this when I become more competitive, but because I'm still relatively new to the game, I gain nothing from having people behind me.

To find out why only a 90 degree rotation on your G25 is bad, set it back up 90 degrees, and get on a circuit. Drive down a straight, flick the steering wheel to the left, and release it. The wheel will bounce from half lock left to half lock right all the way down the straight, without touching it. I couldn't imagine less realistic driving physics!

When you set your G25 to 720 degree rotation, you can hapilly let the wheel slide through your fingers out of a corner, and get optimum power-down.

Quote from ussbeethoven :

'KY Endurance'

I had to stifle a little chuckle about this. Where I come from, this could mean something entirely different

But either way, I do like the idea if the Kyoto Endurance track. Would be utterly epic. With that sort of set up, you would really want to force 3 or 4 pit stops. In fact, you'd have to as tires would be dead after 10 laps of that

If it was ever put down to a public vote, Spa Francorchamps would be my choice. Corners 3 and 4 up over the hill would be immense in some of the LFS cars.

I was gong to say, I used to boost at 1.2bar at traffic lights in my old Saab, in neutral, just to make the dump valve hiss at other people. Comments about gearing affecting boost pressure is a misnomer.

Airflow, on the other hand ...

Right chaps, you might have nailed it. In one move, I turned fraps off, and also ran LFS in XP SP2 compatibility mode. One of these corrected the issue, and I can now see my tire and clutch temps!

I'll turn XP compat. mode off tonight and report back with my findings. Cheers guys

Quote from evilpimp :

=_= These F1 cars have too much technology. They can't even race properly anymore. Everytime someone messes up it's a problem with some technology. Pfft.

This is just what the drivers tell everyone, to keep them in jobs. I don't believe that the technology fails as often as some people make out

Quote from obsolum :

I mean, do you honestly believe that it makes a noticeable difference in your laptimes if you add a few liters of extra fuel as a safety margin?

Do you really want to know my answer? Hehe ... The reality is, that fuel does make a difference, even if it's by only 0.1 seconds in 2 laps, that's good enough for me - especially seeing as I'm constantly finding ways to better my times. I understand what you are saying though, as invariably in a race other drivers are a much bigger factor on your lap times than the fuel in your car

Quote from IlGuercio :

Not again please...

You mean "not more questions in a beginners forum"?

Voted for Hamilton, purely based on his Silverstone performance.

I attended the race, and was sitting in the Farm enclosure overlooking Abbey in the pishing rain. I can tell you now, at mid-race, only two people were actually in control of their cars in the standing rain, and that was Lewis Hamilton and Rubens Barrichello. The youngster, and the master \o/

I've noticed that it's probably quite a split - some racers use a conventional gated gear shift, and some use a sequential gear shift. I understand that using a sequential box is faster for shifting, but is this the only benefit gained?

Quote from Bean0 :

You should have seen a message 'FUEL WARNING - RACE LENGTH X LAPS' or similar.

Hmmm, maybe I missed it then. I'll look for it again tonight. Is it in the usual "Race is restarting in..." position on the screen?

Also unrelated: I'm stealing loads of your skins, if that's OK

Quote from Franke :

Unless my calculations are incorrect that is LESS than 2%

Diff / Targettime = Percent

That is:

(95-93.8) / 93.8 = 1.28%

Regards
Franke... Click

Hah! Beat me to it

At the OP: I was racing last night, and got a setup from the fastest guy on the track at the time - it improved my lap times by about 1.5 seconds per lap, but I was still about 2 seconds off his pace, and we were using effectively, exactly the same car. Setup alone might equal a second here or there, but it's not a race winner.

I was racing last night in the Baby-R, and a race had finished. Since the last race started, a load of new people joined the server. This meant that a few laps were added to the next race. My problem was that between race finishing and a new one starting with more laps, I didn't get any notice of the lap change and at the start of the race didn't have enough fuel to see me to the end.

I don't suppose that when a race restart happens, we can get a message that says something along the lines of "x laps have been added since the last race, check your fuel" and granted a minute or so to change fuel? I know I'm probably being really cheeky asking this, and it's just a niggle ... but would be nice

Also, my question; when a race is about to start and all the cars are on the grid waiting for the green light, if at this point the missus demands my attention () and I have to switch to spectator, does that count as a race started that wasn't finished?

Cheers chaps!

While driving last night, I hit F9 to see if my clutch was getting warm, and the game screen froze. The sounds buffer started looping whatever it was playing at the time. After about 5 seconds or so, a Vista message popped up saying "LFS.exe has stopped responding, looking for a fix" or whatever it does. All other hotkeys work perfectly fine, apart from F9 (tire and clutch temp). This was mid-race.

Spec is: AMD X2 4500, nVidia 8600GT, 2Gb RAM, Windows Vista Ultimate.

Greetings.

My name is Dave, I'm 29 from sunny Manchester in the UK. I race under the name of "Slowpoke Rodriquez" - hoping to change my name to "Speedy Gonzalez" one day

I'm an OAG (old aged gamer), and have done all of the "addictions", from Warcraft 3, Day of Defeat, Star Wars Galaxies, GTR 2, Geoff Crammond's GP(!!!), World of Warcraft, and now back to LFS. Last played LFS in a very early pre-release about 6 or 7 years ago (?), and only just found it again now. Very pleased to be back, hoping to spend a lot of time here

I'm very approachable, and can occasionally be found in a cruising server if I've been drinking, or on a CTRA server when sobre

Quote from Dru :

lol - oh yes - forgot you weren't getting a push ;P

Speaking of which, hahah ... in a race last night, I came out of the last corner on the last lap on Cadet Rev, and the engine died - ran out of fuel. The guy behind me drop the finish line, then turned around and pushed me over the finish line ... haha genius ... I'll never cut my fuel so close again though

Quote from Jakg :

BTW - Whats your current PB on AS Cadet Rev in the Baby R's? I'm still trying to drop mine below 1:18.7x

Well, seeing as you posted your club time, I will too :P ... my PB is 1:20.680, using a default race setup.

On Cadet Rev however, my PB is 1:00:940 using a setup that *someone* gave me last night. I just know that I can get another second off this time, I just need to have a lap where I don't screw at least one corner up

Not bad times for someone that's been racing for 2 days

Quote from Beltaine :

I got my G25 a couple days ago, and bought my S2 license yesterday and ran my first couple races online yesterday.

Disclaimer: I realize I'm probably too green for online racing since I'm still getting the feel of a wheel, but I wanted to do some real racing.

I ran two races yesterday, 1 on CTRA Race 1, and CTRA UF-BR.

I was scared to death, but I think I did fairly well. I didn't run into anyone. Did my best to honor my blue flags. Was careful about getting back on track when running off. Saw a lot of great driving and realized I have a lot of practice ahead of me.

I think I enjoyed the UF-BR race more and may focus on it for a while.


1st goal: Stay on track for an entire race.

2nd goal: Stay on lead lap :P

Hey man,

I just got my G25 on Friday last, and signed up for my S2 license on the same day. Guess where I ended up, too? Yep, CTRA UF-BR. It's almost as if I was watching your every move, and copying you ... hehehe

I, like you, am feeling a bit wet behind the ears. Some of the racers on the UF-BR server are really very good, and tremendously good sports when it comes to relatively newcomers like myself. So long as you show them respect on the circuit (i.e. blue flag = get off the racing line ) they will show you the same back

I've also a lot of practice in front of me - the good thing I've noticed though, is that on the CTRA servers, people generally always vote to restart the same race, so it's quite a good way of getting to know a circuit in a relatively short space of time. In one night, I've seen my lap times on Aston Cadet Rev drop by 4 seconds. I'm still 3 behind the leading drivers though ...

Good luck out there, and maybe we can have some ding dongs of our own?

As a relative newcomer (actually, a long-time returner) I've got the unique opportunity of looking at this thread with an completely open mind.

I don't see what the issue here is at all. If drifting is what people want to do, let them do it. So long as they are doing it in drift races / competitions, and it doesn't get in the way of anybody elses enjoyment, then I see nothing wrong in just letting them get on with it. It's not like they invade race servers and tear the tarmac up

Woohoo, excellent links and advise. Cheers guys (and gals?) for the informations. I'll consume and continue

Hey all

As you can probably see by my post count, I am VERY new to this here game. However, I'm a complete motorsport fanatic, so I know how and how not to race, the genetics of driving a car fast on a track, etc.

I "happened" on one of the CTRA servers last night at about 2200 GMT, and found a load of people flying around in the wonderful UF GTR (w/ 45% intake restriction). Looked like a whole lot of fun, so I jumped in for a few races. Had a flippin' great blast. Pack racing in little mini-esque motors is heaps of fun, and the guys on the server were all exemplary racers, give or take the odd wayward nudge in the 1st corner (even the best do it, eh?). Lovely to experience this, after having some horrible experiences on other servers, with the usual kids driving into anything and everything.

Obviously, it took me a bit of time to get going, but towards the end I was eeking the odd half second here and there - fantastic stuff. However, consistently my times were a good 3 seconds off the lead, which meant at the end of a 17 lap race, I had been lapped by the first three drivers - bummer.

In racing, I _swear_ I wasn't doing anything that far different. So after watching in spectator mode, I found that the other drivers were able to get a good 5+ mph extra in a straight line. It wasn't down to fuel, because I had fuelled the car to run literally to the finished line and then die. Is this 5mph purely down to the setup being used? If so, where in the world can I get these setups?

I'm probably asking in completely the wrong place here, so please bear with me

Cheers chaps