Quote from danowat :

The strange thing is, I have found LFS to be one of the lesser nigglely programs in regards to drivers, I have had rock solid fast performance with every release of the ATI driver forever, but not with this latest one, in fact, I dont think I can ever recall any program have such an adverse effect (100fps to 15fps) to a new driver.

I agree 100%

Quote from danowat :

Hopefully Scawen can look into it and discover why, it might be a simple switch that can be switched.
Dan.

As has been said already, it's not LFS's problem. This is a case of "Mmm, odd that" Revert to the old drivers and return to enjoying life.

For the first time EVER the latest drivers have been worse than the previous ones.(for me anyway) I too have a P4 3.4 X800XT and 1.5gig of ram. With 5.11 I was getting 85-95 fps under any circumstances with 8x AA and 16x AF. With 5.12 it plummeted to 10-15 fps!:yikes: Moved back to 5.11 pretty damned quick!

Like a breath of fresh air.

On a more serious note, is XP up to date?(not hookey is it?) Is it patched to SP2? Is the latest DX on board?

Quote from Bawbag :

'till I get my pirate symantec disk back.

:doh: Now they know where you live and the polis will come knocking on your door!

Last edited by Doorman, Thu 8 Dec 2005, 20:18.

What a nice man.

Quote from L(Oo)ney :

If thats his best attempt, then i really do not want to see his practice tests..

This is from a guy that can't spell 'Kingdom'

Good job.

Quote from Anarchi-H :

If everone did that, no one would complain, and that would suck. Corporate shafters like Sony with their DRM antics would be off scot free.

Besides, it really doesn't look good; It would certainly look better if LFS didn't stretch the pixels so thin though.

*note to self* Don't install wood trim with your ICE */note to self*

I hardly think that some guy doing his best and 'corporate shafters' are in the same league, but if you think that's cool then so be it.

Quote from Lautsprecher[NOR] :

DAMN! that looks crappy.

How does the saying go? "If you can't say something nice, don't say anything"?

Quote from Gabkicks :

make love not war.:grouphug:

Make love to a strine? Well not a male strine anyway! :icon23:

I really must stop using humour on these forums. :banghead:

Many would say I still am a beginner.

Quote from ysu :

You guys are top notch...
You don't read the review the thread is about but start posting in the thread straight away... illepall

Are you infering that I didn't read the post? Naughty to make such assumptions

Quote from axus :

Good idea, I agree with what you have said. I did have trouble with the double negative, I remember that...

Yeah, but now you're a member of that elite group that does understand the menus eh?

/stands by for 'but we have to think of newbies' type posts

Don't you just LOVE computers?

Quote from CharlieP :

A lot of posts just from the 1 review

I didn't read the review.... I see no point in it for me.

LFS for me is the best experience I've ever had on a computer, it's not the graphics, sound, physics etc that does it for me, it's the whole package. The fun, excitement, frustration, determination.... you can go through many emotions and states whilst racing online

Good post Charlie, summed it up for me.

Y'know, that Union Flag thing has always bugged me. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. Whenever you get the 'Country' option I can't recall ever having the choice between UK and England.

Quote from thisnameistaken :

Try editing your account profile at liveforspeed.net :rolleyes:

Well now I know everything, just like you. Which nationality is ?.?

Last edited by Doorman, Tue 6 Dec 2005, 20:30.

Quote from thisnameistaken :

*ahem* You appear to be flying the Union Jack yourself. :chairs:

*ahem* See if you can find a St. Georges flag on this forum and I'll gladly use it. :uglyhamme

Quote from thisnameistaken :

I voted to separate them. The English aren't all that fussy and are usually happy to be considered British,

Speak for yourself you dirty lefty. :slap:

Quote from Ignatz :

and it's very important to have clutch control for race starts.

Not in LFS it ain't.

Quote from ATHome :

Profiler Setup:

Overall Effect Strength: 100%
Spring Effect Strength: 0%
Damper Effect Strength: 0%

Enable Centering Spring = OFF

Use Special Steering Wheel Settings = ON

Report Combined Pedals = OFF
Degrees Of Rotation = 720°


Ingame Setup:

Wheel turn: 720°
Wheel turn compensation: 1.00
Force Strength: 65-85 depending on car (FXO GTR for example 65, UF 1000 85)

Ditto, except 100% Force strenght in LFS

I am the archetypal sucker. I got GTR after being seduced by the demo. Couldn't wait for it in English so I went the 'translation' route. GTR has now been consigned to the bin! Lousy online accessability. Next came rFactor. Ever the optimist, I bought that to. Wrong! Same online crap.
Whaddya know I was suckered into GTL as well! Straight jacket someone, please! Same online nonsense. I run/ran a dedi GTL server and there's a 'startline' bug whereby some players are trapped in a never-never land and don't get to start. That leads to consternation all round and a general exodus.
Which is a bloody shame because the models, sounds, graphics and 'feel' (once you've got used to it) are good. They shoot themselves in the foot every time.

As for Starforce............If you're on teamspeak and start GTL, Starforce screeches in you ear and knocks out TS. You have to start GTL first. Copy protection is all very well but using a nuke to beat a gang of skinheads is overkill. There are LOADS of ways to prevent piracy but sheesh! Sledgehammer/nuts comes to mind

Sorry GTL you blew it!

All of the above waffle serves only to highlight what a bloody fine game LFS is. If there were the cars, tracks and sounds of GTL and the coding and online accessibility of LFS...........The mind boggles.

Quote from marsden1002 :

Yes running the logitech profiler,

Didnt do this before thou, its since i have partitioned hard disk into 4 sections

What you need to do is: Point the Profiler to the LFS.EXE and then start LFS using a shortcut pointing to Pitspotter.exe
I'm not 100% certain if it's necessary, but I have the 'Apply profiles to games automatically' selected in Profiler. That is in 'Global Profiler settings'
Hope that helps.

Are you running Logitech Profiler? If you are I think I have the answer.