Excelent pack, Dave! Wish it were in the next official release.

I think the best way would be to make an area with 100 km of connected roads (LFS can handle 65*65 km area), so that there were a lot of combos. That would be enough for a rally of a national championship scale (150-200 km of specials).

According to my estimations, 1 km of track takes 2-2.5 MB disk space and 6-8 MB of RAM. Whatever config you load (AS1, AS2, etc), LFS keeps all the area (all the Aston, Blackwood and so on) in the RAM, and some memory is used for textures. So, 100 km will work OK on systems with 1GB RAM.

Last edited by detail, Wed 24 Jan 2007, 17:22.

tecwizrd, thanks for help! I oversaw those threads. Will try a bit later.

I hate black clothes.

Quote from Gunn :

The title of the topic still sucks. Better to put "D - the new programming language" or something like that.

I think it's quite ok. There are 10 types of people: those who understand it instantly and those who don't.

@Chris758: I do have a copy. I've copied misc\f*.xxx as well. All files have a proper mode (rwxr--r--).

As for copying the registry, I don't see any changes to system registry upon unlocking LFS. (Used regmon)

Good old Sony J70 (without "Ericsson"). 5 years, still works quite well, like a good wine becomes better with age. Many envy me.

Can't run LFS in wine. "Probable error in graphics driver"

If I can copy registration checksum within my PC with a registry entry, maybe I can copy it from Windows registry? Where do I search?

I was locked beyond a proxy for some days, and now, after unlocking, I've heard the new sounds.

Well, I see clearly that the new system has bigger potential, but currently the sounds need urgent improvement. I guess they've been released so because of Christmas pressure from the community.

GTR and some other cars sound poorly. The transmission is a cool feature, the sound "cone", that defines the volume depending on your position relative to the car, is also cool. But the engines are weak, like trombones, but not like engines. It seems that they produce a narrow band of frequencies, narrower than before. GTR and FO8 sound really badly: in chase-cam view transmission noise is louder.

The engines themselves sound like muted, like a car out there in the yard through a triple glass packet. In real life, a very loud sound makes a lot of echo and is heard farther. (Remember pit-lane interviews or just night ambient footage from Le Mans).

BF1 sounds exactly like an electric coffee-grinder. RAC, RB4 need improvements.

Patch V installed perfectly on my Mandriva Linux, but I can't unlock it. The game password is correct, LFS connects to master server, but then gives "Unlocking error" message. If I copy LFS from windows partition to ext3, it locks.

Maybe Scawen takes care about Linux unlock too? HELP!

Last edited by detail, Wed 27 Dec 2006, 09:37.

I wish to see one day instead of news regarding Vista

Quote from Scawen :

RPM packages with native Linux binaries are downloadable

Great patch and merry christmas to LFS developers and testers!

That's the same as Cedega (Wine) in Linux. It is not a porting engine, but a Win-API emulator for Mac (Cedega for Lin).

If you have Mac, you can run LFS in this program on your own, it needs no action from the developers.

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I like that now the sound is louder at the exhaust side (rear). This is a step toward the reality!

I had disabled it beforehand.

"Error while waiting for reply"

Upgraded from u30 to u32 (in Win XP). I get this error. The connection is definitely established - otherwise LFS shows a special message. I use Proxifier to go over SOCKS5 over our LAN firewall. What may go wrong?

An opened letter to Scawen.

Recently, you've made translatable the configurations. For the latin-script languages this is ok. But for the languages with non-latin scripts, it is a half-measure.

1) Writing in native script is more natural because of phonetics and grammar. For example, we use to write world maps in Cyrillic, though not translating the names, just transcripting [writing their sounds in cyrillic]. If we write them in latin, the sound will be unclear.

Thus
Track names also need to bee translatable. (or transcriptable)
I'm not going to translate "black" and "wood" literally, I need to write it in cyrillic. (Translating or transcripting of foreign titles is a different question, I don't rush into discussing it here). Others may leave them as they are.

2) Translations are needed to conduct the ideas. "Blackwood Rallycross" means "rallycross configuration of Blackwood raceway". This has to be expressed correctly, and in Russian I need auxilliary words to avoid ambiguity or a different word order.

For example, if I transcript "Fern Bay" and translate "Gold" into Russian, and join them as in English (Ферн Бэй Золотая), it will be odd. (For example, it will have another meaning: "Fern Bay is golden").

The best in Russian would be "Gold circuit of Fern Bay". (Well, here I could ask to decline track names, but that's too much I guess ), ok, "Gold circuit. Fern Bay"/"Fern Bay. Gold circuit" will be fine.

So,
I need something like "Fern Bay%s" string, where I could write "Ферн Бэй. %s кольцо" to sort out the titles. This part will be useful not only for my translation.

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The problem is what to do in winecfg. Add libraries? Which?

[edit2] SOLVED THE AUDIO PROBLEM! CTL device: default, PCM device: default. "Use MMap" - unchecked. And killed arts daemon to be safe.

Since I had no old software, aRts engine was not needed anymore, I've turned it off: Control center (shell> kcontrol) > Sound and multimedia > Sound system > uncheck the "Enable sound system" box.

The command to make a windows-like desktop icon: in Cedega, you have, for example, "My games" folder and "LIve for Speed" application there.
shell> cedega -run My\ games Live\ for\ Speed

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What will they do if "Other" wins in any category?

On my PC, LFS in Wine 0.9.25 gives a message: "probable error in graphics driver".

Quote from S14 DRIFT :

OMG.
I suggest buying a cheap newer gfx card like a nvidia 6200. Its crap, but is better than what you have, and can support 32bit !

Sales agent?

I've written already up there, it supports 32 bit.

JohnUK89, thanks for explanation! Yes, I expected to have the overhead caused by emulation engine, but not that much. Turning shadows off worked well!

One strange thing is that LFS, running in the same resolution as desktop (1152*864) reduces the monitor refresh rate to 75 Hz. That's tolerable, but inconvenient. LFS thinks that it works at 60 Hz and <=60 Hz in the screen modes list.

I'm sure, the sound issue is purely Mandriva's, nothing to do with LFS. The same thing happens with Opera: if I start it when any sound is being played, there will be no sound in Flash animations. I'm a bit dissapointed that Mandriva 2007 is not better than 2006 in this sense. Again, a whole zoo of sound systems.

GeForce FX 5200, legacy driver (downloaded yesterday from Nvidia website)

My desktop is 24-bit (can't set 32, just not present in the list). In LFS under windows i had 32 bit and copied LFS to Linux. With cedega LFS uses 24-bit and crashes when I choose 32-bit mode.

Furthermore, it can't set 100 Hz.

Let's continue the omonimous RSC topic here, discuss running LFS in Linux.

I've finally set it up to run. Mandriva 2007, Cedega engine 5.2.6. I've got some questions and observations.

1) The graphics performance is twice lower than in the same view settings in Win (FPS limit turned off), though, according to KSysGuard, system is loaded only by 75%!
2) Viewing own car from outside, or AI cars, you see the track sector very dark, and a normally illuminated square, 5*5 meters large, around the car.
3) If music is played at LFS start, I have no sound in the game. Cedega's audio test shows OSS engine doesn't work, ALSA works (so ALSA is selected). Music player settings are: sound engine - Xine, plugin - ALSA.
4) Just a strange behaviour: pressing Esc in the entry screen changes it's background image.

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keys.pdf is a quick reference, so my one must be slow reference. It contains all the possible keystrokes (as far as I could remember), it is in English. You may use it as you like, I release it in public domain.

I must have made mistakes in English in the file.

P.S. I've figured out that adding new styles to the document makes it explode in size. 3-4 more styles (and probably using style-brush tool) made it be 550 kb instead of 250kb (which is also much). This is an overkill, but OpenOffice doesn't have any settings in PDF export.

[edit] Fixed: Commands_Russian.txt => Commands.txt

Last edited by detail, Fri 8 Dec 2006, 08:43.