Hi!

I'm trying and trying and can't get LFS to run using both monitors attached to my 7800GS via DVI.
Is there a workaround or a patch or smth. to run VISTA AND LFS and other games on a multimon config?
What about TripleHead2Go?? and using 3 monitors? same sh*t? different name?

What I've found out was that the nview tool, which can do horizontal span only runs on Windows XP. Is there a similar tool for Vista? Do I have to install XP for playing games on 2 (or more) monitors??? This would be a regression with vista

sincerly

i will not be in the race tonight

what is REALLY wrong with patch W to use it for a month of nice/mayhem racing? there's nothing more to say! don't discuss, stamp rules! 'til tomorrow!

Last edited by DrFred, Mon 23 Apr 2007, 21:54.

@Dru

canceling ppl is always bad, but you're some kind of a leader of this league and have to say what's the matter and what not. if you only want to run one/no divisions then there's a simple way. to be short: open 2 servers for qualifying, the best 20 times are in the race. hotlapping? -> the fixed times for qualifying would cause a similar "chaos" like the hotlap submission for qualifying for the league

Last edited by DrFred, Mon 23 Apr 2007, 21:26.

as i don't want incompatible test patches and updating every other day the answer is: NO
if there's a second season, there we can take all the benefits of a final patch.

regards
marquisor

why chasing every (incompatible/compatible) patch? that'd give problems with install issues, incompatible issues, bug issues (maybe someone can't run (or with certain problem), someone can).

i would appoint two things. patch V/ even W was and is good enough for running this league first time... we may not want to have problems during updating, downgrading, 20/28 racers, bugs and so on... let them do their work on test patches, let us do our "serious" racing on stable servers/clients so noone should have a bunch of problems.

second thing... i think the times are quite close if you let the 54-59 out. 3 seconds for - what did you say? 28 ppl? - is not that bad, since it is hotlapping and can change, i didn't have the 5 days time nor hardware! to seriously do a hotlap, but that's discussed in another thread i could get 1 sec. better i think. so others can do (as i browsed some PBs, they are also experienced drivers, and maybe did their first laps on UF1000 even since this cup?)

furthermore why do we discuss 1 week before race start some of the principals? they were statuated in the announcement of the UF1000 mayhem cup, and should not have been changed so much, that it won't be the same as initial mentioned. some finetuning here and there is ok. but i signed up at the facts of sign up form and the rules from 04.04.07 and not with changes in qualifying, patches, now doing hotlaps, shifting all 1 or 2 weeks and so on... please hold on the initial concept (as it's good) too much discussion there wouldn't make it better. i think you now have all good ideas to finally stamp it to the ground and release an official procedure BEFORE the first race starts. and then we'll maybe have some ppl who don't want to enter as their ideas didn't come to touch
that's my thought of the whole thing of organising this.
as written in another thread: if there's a second season, there we can take all the benefits of our first expierence AND a final patch.

regards and keep it up but realistic... and as we say in germany -too many cooks spoil the broth- or smthng. like this

Last edited by DrFred, Mon 23 Apr 2007, 18:37. Reason : making it more readable :-)

ok so here my hotlap done in a hurry... w/o training and modified "rc10racer"-set

Quote from Dru :

My sentiments exactly Paul.

Also the indication of sending in a Hot Lap is to confirm the interest in the league.

For instance of the 44 signed up people we have only had 18 HL submitted, therefore the exact timing of the HL is not critical, its also a way of saying - yes definately i've put the effort in to say i'm in this league

NO EXTENSION'S for HL times.

People who post after the agreed time may or may not be put into the correct league or maybe not even entered at all

Harsh but Fair

Sunday is for organising hte leagues so that monday can be published EXACTLY what is happeneing regarding hteleague and the divisions... ie if only 20 people have submited HL in time, i'm tempted just to take those commited guys racing only

I hope you understand my point

Dru.

alright i've got planned the weekly thursdays at 1900 UTC. and this week i have and had no technical possibility to play/hotlap reasonably because i got no wheel and no good hardware (laptop?) to play it. as the qualification is only 5 days open as a new idea of a ranking and putting us into divisions, there might be enough time for people which are at home with same hardware/equipment and so on but not for me. trying to do it til 23:59 though...

how about moving the deadline to tomorrow (sunday 22nd?) since not everybody (as me) may have enough time on FR/SA... so the complete WE is used?

Last edited by DrFred, Sat 21 Apr 2007, 13:29.

my UF1000 Mayhem Cup skin. 1024 & 2048 i'll use "UF1_JDmhc78.jpg" as filename as it is on lfsworld too.

greetings
marq

as a short idea i had now shortly you could do a "final challenge" with the best drivers of each league in a final endurance race? (the best 10 of each div.)?

why 10/6/3 pts for endurance qualification? qualify time is same and no more performance is done there?

for races:
the 2nd gets 1 point less than 1st place? not a good idea and motivation i think.
i would restrict 1/2/3 places more cleary to f.e.
30/27/23/20/18/16/14/12/11/10 down to 0 for 20 racers. (last place = 0 pts) or put the 13 pts in then last place = 1 pt.

the 10 pts twice for fastest lap in 60mins endurance race is legitimate...

all together with 2 divisions there's maybe some more work to do
so far my idea for the scoring system

regards
marquisor (DrFred)

-cleared- :P
post my skin here soon (WIP) dang...

Last edited by DrFred, Tue 10 Apr 2007, 14:14. Reason : cleared ;)

our posts overlapped so the last 5 drivers don't get any points, how about that? (only at 20 drivers each div) if 15 drivers then i would lower it to 4 or 3 who change the divisions... and maximum of 10 drivers who get points because 24 is max. players on servers since patch W? if 2 divisions with 13 players drive so the "challenge" of ascension is still there

i would not do it via qualify... because the best of the 2nd division isn't that challenging? i'd imagine...
how about doing it like football leagues? mayba a bit wider spectrum... the last 5 of 1st div of the race will drive in 2nd division next time and the first 5 from 2nd div in the 1st in the next race?
or only 3 best/worst and so on...? only an idea but the qualifying setting and splitting exactly to two leagues is a bit sterile i think
you have to put the 2nd divs 1st place pts lower than last 5 places (or no pts?) in 1st league, so that a 1st div driver doesn't drive consciously bad to become more points in 2nd div next time... that's my humble opinion to this

Last edited by DrFred, Tue 10 Apr 2007, 12:31.

maybe silly question. but does it work with latest patch W? since the network code has changed? but still compatible?

LFS User Account Name DrFred
LFS Racer Name marquisor
Team (if racing in a team)
Race Number 78

yes thats not bad, send them back i'll have a look alright some plain stripes over the car are more simple than my chequered flag idea... the UF1 has some complicated c-pillar layers at the back what makes it very fiddling to match the whole skin

thx for feedback so far, i know the back is probably not quite good... but the wavy chequered flag is a "must be" my first inspiration and some own design. how could i arrange it better? i will do some fine tuning at the back for sure... but i don't want to change the design also i don't want to make a nascarlike car out of a 55hp car

updated: did some more decals see first post last attachment. changed the back
edit: the topic jack daniels racing could be mistakable... i didn't know there is an aussie team with the same name and i don't make a skin out of their template. i'm sorry but can't change the topic anymore

Last edited by DrFred, Tue 3 Apr 2007, 19:41.

it will if i'm sure about its final design

Hi,

here another WIP from me: a black/white Jack Daniels skin...
have some first looks and give me some feedback

Last edited by DrFred, Tue 3 Apr 2007, 16:53.

ah the autocross editor! dang me i didn't realize that

sry for another "dumb" question... but how can i view the whole track without driving over it? i know there are some programs with which they make "tv shows" and so on but i don't know them?! would save me time...

yes thats exactly what i meant! i thought i could use fixed sizes 128x128 and up by factor 2.... so i could save time.. but that doesn't seem so.

second thing... what format do you save them?? see attachement for self explanatory

in my attachement in the first post there are no mipmaps if i open them in photoshop. it seems only that the gravel textures have mipmaps... (also opened in photoshop)

my first part:

if textures are originally in 256x256 size and contains f.e. 4 squarish ads, with the sizes 128x128... just imagine 4 tiles with that size...
my question is if i could upsize it simply so that lfs can recognize them as 4 x 512x512 textures in a 1024x1024 .dds (instead of 4x128x128 in a 256x256 .dds)
but i just give it a try...

edit: uhm there are pretty much settings in those .dds plugin, did you let them all default? and under what format do you save them?

Last edited by DrFred, Sun 1 Apr 2007, 12:32.