sweet setup thisnameistaken

HELP. I suck with the MRT. I can manage any other car, even the LX6, but that damn MRT kills me. Every once in a while I will find a setup that will let me get a hold of it, but I havent looked for one lately. Other than a setup, I just want some tips in general. Basically, what setting in the setup make it easier to handle, and what driving techniques should you use in the MRT? In general I just find that once the weight shifts the wrong way, its all over and my car will become a flaming piece of wreckage on the side of the road. So please dump all your MRT knowledge on me!

it just shows that fast driver is not the same as good driver

devs please help

i am thinking of maybe putting a monitor in my old car and wiring the wheel and pedals of the car to a pc then i can play LFS in my car

i turned off write combining and turned down AA and AF but i am still getting lockups

the only problem i have is the really fast guys who dont understand the difference between hotlapping and racing. it doesnt matter how fast you can go if you hit other cars. even qualifying is not hotlapping, there are other cars on the track and you have to respect that no matter how fast or good you think you are.

hmm, from what i remember it was advertised as switched ports... not sure though

im about 90% on buying the D-link

by the way usenet is awesome

i can download at 7 mbps - (which guarantees an angry knock on my door)

actually i was specifically referring to newsbin, and it is just straight downloading from a usenet server. no matter what i limit the bandwidth to the other computer will stutter badly during online gaming (even if the ping still looks good).

I am thinking about buying the D-Link DGL-4100 to try to solve this. Currently I have an 8-port SMC router which has been great except for this issue.

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awww thanks i got it that time....Thanks for the help dudes,sorry but had a few to many bundy's but much appreciated for your patience

whats a bundy? something tells me it has alcohol in it

Hey I have been getting these freezes too. This is what I know. When I am online it happens lots of times when I hit a kerb or another car. That made me think it had something to do with sound. My PC will freeze and the sound will loop for about 20 seconds. The weird part is then LFS comes back and says lost connection to host and everything is OK again.

But here is the weird part, when i am OFFLINE racing by myself, I get the same lockup, EXCEPT i am never returned to LFS. Instead, i get a windows blue screen and it is complaining about nv4disp.sys

Now that nv4 problem bluescreen I have gotten before when I play Oblivion. That is the weird part, because its almost the exact same lockup, except that when I'm online in LFS, i dont get a bluescreen, my PC comes back to life when LFS quits the race.

So here are my theories. Maybe when a sound file gets played, it is conflicting with the video. So maybe disabling write-combining eliminates that, and turning down AA or AF makes it less likely? Also, maybe the devs could answer this, but what happens when i get that Connection to host lost message? I ask because that is the only thing saving me from a blue screen, maybe quitting the race kills some action LFS is trying to do that escapes out of the problem before windows gives up?

Here are my specs:
Athlon X2 3800 (dual core)
asus A8N-E (geforce 4 ultra chipset)
EVGA Geforce 7800 (AA and AF turned on in windows)
Creative X-Fi Xtrememusic
2 gig dual channel ram


I think everyone who has this problem should also post their sound card

my problem is basically we have 2 pc's, one downloading, and one playing games. whenever i use the download pc and download stuff, even if i limit the bandwidth, the gaming pc gets very laggy i guess cause of all the packets flooding my network. so its not the bandwidth thats the issue. my hope is a gaming router or this QoS or packet shaping will solve this.

oh wow i didnt know QoS existed but it sounds just like what I have been looking for. it will save a lot of fights at my house.

i just looked on newegg and i saw some d-link gaming router that everyone likes, but it only has 4 ports. if i put an extra switch on it will i still get the bandwidth shaping stuff for at least some of the pc's ???

im leaving work soon, when i get home I WANT TO SEE SOME F08 races, has anyone found a server? lets take over!

the reason i dont use the bf1 is simply because i have to change my view settings and control settings every time. if there was a way to have custom settings for each car i would race it all the time. (is there?)

oh before i forget... i was using the templates i got from the link in the sticky on the forum... just a tip i discovered (maybe everyone knows already)... well i was messing with all the layers and i basically ended up messing them all up, but a great thing i found is to take the bottom layer (the main skin called black base or something) then move it on top of all the other layers, but then change its overlay mode to darken. that way you keep all your colors and stuff but the shading gradients are overlayed so you get a nice lighting effect... i hope that made sense (my enter key doesnt work in this browser)

thanks al yea, i guess the firestones are too smalll for 512, but i uploaded it at 1024 so they are still legible, but i still want to change them. from the image of the car i was using, the firestone logo is actually on the front sidepods, but the area is so tiny in the skin i just put them on top. im gonna try to get them on the front. the red part on the back sure is a bitch to get aligned right, but i think it looks good enough.

This is my first attempt at a skin, modelled after Helio Castroneves IRL scheme. I just grabbed it from LFS world since I'm at work so i dont know if this is the right format. Just looking for comments and critisisms

i want a mazda3 zoom zoom i bet mazda would sponsor it just like bmw is doing im drunk