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. Unfortunetly there is no way to prevent LfS programmaticly from showing the blue flags.

There is now a command to set lapcount of drivers. So after a disconnect admins can give back the lost laps. It was used in same races, seemed to work good..much better than always wrong blue flags.

Somewhen earlier this year hotlap tracklimit checks got stricter and some times were removed. But even if that lap was still listed, look at WR charts, the top-10 times (or even whole first pages) for all tracks are always wheel and mouse is exotic minority.
And that is in a mode that kinda favors mouse due to its unlimited retry nature.

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I've played LFS one all 3, mouse keyboard and wheel, and I'm much faster with mouse and even beat quite a lot of wheel users online.

When and on which tracks would that have been, because in online stats you basically have no laps counts.. There are only few tracks/cars where you even have more than ten laps and your laptimes are all slow.

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If you don't belive you can look through the forum posts and WR's.

People say lots of things in forum posts and WR's with mouse are super rare.
In theory hotlap would be perfect for mouse because there is no reacting required, only memorizing. Rather believe in race results, like mpRes statistics.

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I am using a KB and Mouse and when using these setups the rear would spin around without any warning or feel.

With keyboard/mouse driving those cars is harder. A ffb wheel gives feedback so it is possible to react before the car spins because you feel it coming. With mouse it is more of a surprise and when you see the spin it is already too late.
One can learn that too, but the process of blind trial & error is slower than feeling it naturally with wheel.

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I even set the engine braking to 0

Yes, that could be one setting to adjust.
But just to make sure: It is "engine brake reduction", so you would want a high setting to have less engine brake.
Also try to shift gears down later. (Maybe even do not shift down for a turn at all until the exit, and then gradually shift down earlier)

Noise = music in the menu?
Or noise = sound of cars when you join a race, meaning the menu displays normal but in race it turns black?
Needs more details..some common problems:
-check/install graphic card drivers
-test if other games/3D software works
-plug monitor into correct port (into graphics card, not the mainboard's onboard graphics)
-check/install directX
-Press shift+F12 to toggle between windowed and fullscreen mode. Maybe it changes something.

Welcome all new drivers
If someone is looking for a place to start racing maybe visit: www.absolute-beginners.nl
It is weekly racing with varying cars and tracks.
This sunday evening new season starts, but can join mid-season too:
https://www.lfs.net/forum/thread/90144
(advertisement break over)

http://absolute-beginners.nl/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?15316.last

First race of new season today at 19:30 CET - 1,5 hours from this post

that was good track

From quick look it gives the vectors, from which you can calculate yaw. And from yaw changes over time you can derive yaw rate.

Insim has functions to set a car's position now. But it is more to to move cars out of sand traps and such.
While in theory it seems possible to use LFS as a visualisation of external/foreign physics, it would be very crude.

Insim, Outgauge, telemetry-export ( https://www.lfs.net/programmer/raf ) etc all give some very detailed data, but nothing suitable for the realtime "back and forth" you seem to plan.

Maybe have a look at TORCS? http://torcs.sourceforge.net/

hi
the layout will be the same as on server?

changed server, see chatbox on site

Today, while next season is being prepared, a special event:
"Mario Kart" racing on a modified SouthCity track, with moving haybales and drivers can deploy obstacles.
Idea and implementation by GeneralPurpose and xx151, see this post for details:
http://absolute-beginners.nl/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?15091.10#post_15299

Usual time: 19:30, which is ~50minutes from this post

I use Ubuntu on a bit more powerful laptop but MINT would be okay choice too. Both are good & popular distros.

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My next step would be to burn the iso to a DVD, which I would have done already, if I still had DVDs at home

Not really an answer but from USB there are more things that can go wrong. DVD is guaranteed to work.

That is some mixed list..
WipeOut and HiOctance seem misplaced in a list of car games.
Mariokart, Stunts, RBR, Re-Volt, NFS series, Micro Machines,.. all great games. (LFS too obviously) But completly different styles and time periodes, impossible to pick a best one.

Season of main league already finished but still one race left in the Cup:
3 x 24 laps with the Formular XR. At Fernbay Club.

real F1 is boring

Today on the calender is the smallest track: 'Rockingham Lake' for 3x 33 laps with the FBM.
Also note change to wintertime: http://absolute-beginners.nl/comment.php?comment.news.821

like this?

The camera can be freely moved to any position, angle, FOV can be adjusted etc.

Does it have to be a perfect round circle?
It is not so easy to keep going in excact circle for long duration.
Would something like this be acceptable:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8vCm_vUs9U

What car should it be? Color?
You can view the cars in 3D here: https://www.lfs.net/cars

Have driver's name and maybe country flag on the car. Might make people less like to re-use the skin because others can see its origin.

Today as part of the Small-Track-Cup:
Raceabout at Rockingham Handling ( RO6 )
3 x 19 Laps

Start at 19:30 CET
(~70min from this post)