FF is realistic, just like driving in cockpit view is realistic since you're "sitting in the car". FF is also unrealistic, just like the missing peripheral vision which makes cockpit view unrealistic.

ie. FF lets you feel certain things, feels like the steering wheel is "connected" just like in a real car, but it's not perfect, just like everything else.

Compatible ideas:

Instead of letting the sound engine update on each frame in a replay running in slowmotion, sample one frame of realtime sound and convert the sample rate to match whichever speed you're running the replay at. This would allow capturing replays at say 0.25x speed with sound which you could just speed up later, instead of recording the sound separately or using time-stretching which doesn't really produce good results. Optional perhaps.

Also, hitting ESC while loading a replay asks me if i want to shut down LFS, i'd like it to cancel loading the replay instead.

For anyone with codec troubles, get yer hands on Mplayer or VLC and you'll (probably) not be needing to download or install any codecs for a few years.

Captured in .25x speed at 18 fps with LFS locked to 18 fps. Clip set to 400% speed in Premiere with project set to 30 fps, frame blending on, rendered to uncompressed avi. Final stop in VirtualDub adding a field bob smooth filter, a chroma smoothing filter, and compressing with the xvid details already posted by dawesdust_12.

Fraps'd!

Quote from alland44 :

Fraps stinks, as a piece of software. Maby because there is no competing programme on the market.

Fraps does exactly what it's supposed to do, there's no other / better way. It's even completely unbloated, which is really rare.

Quote from alland44 :

I have tried using the tv out from one machine, to another. The picture quality is not to good, but framerate is just the same, as in the game.

Because you switch the load of processing/saving the frames to another system.

Quote from Jakg :

but if you have the resolution its 4 time smaller file, thus 4 times less disk activity, making it do it alot quicker surely?

Why not go for the best of both, LFS at half resolution, fraps at 'Full size'.

Quote from Shotglass :

so in other words its all done in software which of course isnt exactly the best idea in a game that loads the cpu as much as lfs does

And this is somehow different from the current system?

Quote from Shotglass :

what exactly does that mean ?

Probably the track layout drawing, for the new setup screen and .. in game?

There were new .pth-files, too!

Track selection screen is very very nice.

Quote from Honey :

.. too much work opening firefox browsing lfsworld

Opera.. sessions.. mmmm..

Quote from Quint999 :

Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded. Make sure that your X server is running
..
if youve any good pointers to get wine / lfs running i'd very much appreciate it, thanks

My guess would be - change /dedicated=nogfx to /dedicated=invisible, which i'd guess would stop LFS from trying to create a window.

Quote from Jakg :

if that doesnt work try this file, rename it from Ping.mp3 to Ping.bat, seeing as i caqnt upload .bats here

Maybe a good idea to actually try the batch file yourself first.

Quote from Honey :

i guess that people with no asio hardware prolly have so outdated hardware that they will not run anything newer than windows xp.

If LFS is using DirectSound, anyone who has sound in LFS could also run DirectX ASIO. Simple as that. It's not nearly as effective as native ASIO support of course, i think most if not all Creative cards these days have native ASIO, so a Creative card owner could run sound at ~2 ms latency.

The ASIO SDK was still completely free and without any form of royalties last time i checked.

Quote from nutty boy :

What's a dial CPU.

http://google.com/search?q=what's+a+dual+cpu

Quote from DEVIL 007 :

And whats the CPU usuage using ASIO?What was in your test?

Around ~26-28%, running Cubase SX3.

I guess it's fair to say LFS would never need/use the complexity offered by Cubase, thus load would drop quite a bit.

Quote from Lateralus :

ridiculous considering that the X800XL is quite a bit more powerful than the 9800XT.

~25 fps on the grid, 40-90 fps while driving depending on all it depends on, Celeron D, Radeon 9550SE, 4xAA/AF (720x576 :shy

Something's wrong with your stuffies.

Been there.

I think i solved it by using /e, eval.

Quote from Honey :

this is a good point, but you'd be surprised about how few people have an asio sound card...moreover it is some years that audio is integrated on motherboards

What i'm saying is everyone has an ASIO card, even integrated $0.5 chips.

Attached is a realtime recorded clip of my budget realtek chip on my budget motherboard playing 9 channels of asio sound, using 6 different virtual instruments and 2 mastering plugins. At 16.6ms latency (DirectX).

Quote from Honey :

.. it would only work for users with expensive audio cards

Not really, ASIO has had DirectX drivers for over 7 years. With reasonably simple content such as LFS' engine sounds a budget card/chip should easily be able to run with latency well under 20ms.

There's also http://www.asio4all.com/ (WDM).

Quote from Cue-Ball :

I think you've got your numbers wrong somewhere.

Actually, i think it's you who's got both your numbers and units a bit wrong.

16 kilobytes per second equals 128kbit/s, still a quite common upstream speed.

256Mbit/s equals 32 megabytes per second, not a very common upstream speed really, and i guess you mean 256kbit/s, which is 32kb/s.

154 laps, 1:01.56

Quote from Vaillant :

What's the meaning of "artificial"?

"at x amount of speed, set the wheel rumble to an amount of y", without any real connection to physics.

Quote from dmwright :

mine takes about an hour to do

As joen says, defragmenting after uninstalling something is basically completely useless, but if you need more speed: http://www.oo-software.com/en/products/oodefrag/

S2? 16 new cars, 40+ new track configurations, 859(?) total car/track combinations, etc.

@shim

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=103128

First hit on google, might be something.

Quote from nutty boy :

What is AA+AF.

Anti-aliasing is a way of making an image looks softer, by first rendering the image larger (hence the x2, x4) and resizing it to the final size with some trickery to make neighbouring pixels affect each others colour, resulting in softer edges due to more gradient changes in colour between close pixels.

Anisotropic filtering is a method for enhancing surface graphics rendering, mostly noticeable on steep slopes in the distance where there's usually quite a bit of blurring and loss of detail, which AF tries to reduce.

Follow Renku's first URL to find out how to turn them on.