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Better do it so if you crash and die you lose your S2 license and you can't play anymore.

And sell your PC, cremate the racer, and 6 months later have someone else move into your house and start sleeping with your missus............now that would be realistic!!!

No - it doesn't.

This is LFS - not 1nsane Off Road you know.

+1 for rear view.
+1 for default view.

+1 for me.

I've spent 20+ years racing RC cars - so I get a better "feel" from chase view than cockpit view, but a rear mirror would be a big help.

If it does happen can we have it on a keyboard/button to turn it on/off rather than in the options screen - that way you can toggle it on and off mid race if it hampers your FOV and you only want it on whilst in traffic?

I picked up a MS Sidewinder wheel at a bootfair last weekend for £5. Had a power adaptor in the box as well so I thought it was the FF model - when I got it home it's the non-FF model.........

But hey - for £5 I'm not complaining - beats using KB.

Still not quite as quick with it yet as when using my Wingman Rumblepad - but with a bit of practice.........

There is a bit of play in the bearing - is there any way to tighten this up?

Same here - follow the instruction from the link Android has posted - sorted my problems out immediately.

I may have to grow old but I refuse to grow up.

34 and counting.................

As long as I can grow old enough to be an embarrasment to my kids I'll be happy.

Wish this was available to us Demo racers.

On the odd occasion I've started a "full contact" demo server I've sat there and been the only one who wants a wreck up!!

Now a dedicated 1/4 mile oval with post and wire for LFS - that would be fun.

As soon as I can get S2 licenced - count me on for some roundy roundy smashing

I too use a Logitech Wingman Rumblepad - 'cos a wheel is out of my budget at the mo - and can pull mid 1.35's on Blackwood with the GTi no problem.

I run auto clutch, but manual downshift on the left trigger button and upshift on the right. I use the left analogue stick for throttle and brake, and the right stick for steering - but this is because I race 1/10th scale RC as well and this is what i'm used to.

In fact I find if I miss playing LFS for a while my RC driving starts to suffer too!! Must be a case of keeping my thumbs in trim I guess??

BINGO!!!!

Thanks for the link Albeig - went into the device manager and updated the driver for the ACPI PC within the "computer" settings - a quick reboot and it's all sorted. Back to a nice smooth online game with a decent FPS of 90+.

As to why it happened who knows - one of those PC things I guess illepall .

Perhaps we could get the devs to make a sticky link to this apparent "freezing" fix?

Thanks to everyone who posted and offered advice - your time and efforts are much appreciated.

Just done a System restore back to May 1st - no changes were made to my PC and no improvement has happened to LFS.

I'm really starting to doubt my graphics card.........

Okay I just un-installed any Windows updates and fixes that had been installed in the last few weeks - with no change in LFS.

Now going to look for updated drivers and then get the hoover out on the PC case!!!

You might have somethiong there Mocky - now you mention it I did download some Windows updates the other week - so it would seem that one of these has caused the problem.

Rooble - how do I list my PC setup and post it on here?

Okay - thought I would bump this back up a bit.

Not had chance to try any additional cooling yet - but think I have stumbled across another possible indicator.

Just run a few laps offline - no AI cars - just to see what's what. Lo and behold I'm still getting my reduced frame rate, but what does seem noticable is that the game itself seems to be running "fast".......

It's difficult to describe - but for the same lap times that I usually run with the GTi round Blackwood (1.35 ish) the scenery and everything seems to be whizzing past at increased rate! I'm still topping out at 115mph on the straight - and I've been playing LFS for a long time so I've got used to the feel of 115mph - but now it just feels "faster".

Would this be the possible cause of my freezing? That the clock within LFS is out of sync and running fast - so fast that in fact every 5 secs or so it has to take a breather to catch up?

Further thoughts and comments are welcome.......

Nothing is overclocked on my PC - but I will check the vents to make sure there is plenty of airflow - plus I have some spare fans kicking about so I will try it with the case side off and a fan on the card.

Might be coincidence but it has been warmer in the UK recently - perhaps enough just to tip the card "over the edge"......

Right - this is giving me the pox now.

I've been through everything to do withmy connection now - searched for other available connections that the PC might be searching for and everything - and have drawn a complete blank.

One thing that seems odd is if I go for a few practice laps, on my own, my FPS has dropped to 60+, whereas before I could get in the high 90's even with a full grid online!

So I'm wondering now if it's not a connectivity issue, but more perhaps something to do with my Radeon 9250 graphics card? Is there anything I can do to check it's working properly (I've already run dxdiag)?

The most baffling thing out of all of this is that nothing has been added or taken away from the PC - it's just "happened"!!!

Norton AV is running in the background - but then it always was before I had this problem!!!

LFS is the only online game I play so I can't tell - nothing else to do with my Internet connection seems to have any failings.

What's TS2 by the way?

Last edited by Hog700, Fri, 9 Jun 2006 08:44.

Cheers SamH - will get onto it as soon as I'm able.

Watch this space...........

I see what you're saying SamH - I do have a new neighbour one side, but he's around 140 years old so I doubt it's him.

I'll have to check the chav family on the other side and see if they have changed anything. It certainly sounds like what you are describing.

Somehow I need to find the http address that I had to type in when I first installed the wireless setup so the card found the router..........

Will look within Windows anyway and see if I can "order" the card to stick with my router.

Thanks for that. I saved my settings and went for a complete fresh un / re-install of Patch U, rather than the patch by patch upgrade.

Still have the same problem.

I downloaded a bandwidth / ping tester last night and ran that several times, but nothing major showed up at all, and packet loss was virtually 0% across the board.

So now I'm stuffed. I will try again with AV and Firewall off, but what puzzles me is that I've changed nothing on the PC but now have this problem out of no-where!!!

Thanks for the replies chaps.

Nothing is overclocked in my PC. As I said I have been playing LFS for a while now and it's only in the last couple of weeks I've had this problem.

Nothing has changed with my ISP as far as I know - 2Mb Blueyonder. I do run a wireless setup at home but again this was running fine beforehand and has done so for months.

I'm suspecting something with my connection - because when I watch my own replay I'm getting 90+FPS and no stuttering, the same as in offline mode, so it's something to do with my online connectivity.

Are there any diagnostic checks I can run to see if I have a problem with my connection? I'm no PC expert so don't baffle me here guys - I've heard mention of packet loss???

SamH - you really seem to know your onions mate - what's this SSID you mention? If I want to try a completely fresh LFS install what do I need to save from the old one so I don't lose my setups?

Again - thanks for any advice 'cos at the moment I'm stuffed for my nightly fix of LFS!!!!

Hi guys - can anyone help with a problem that has manifested itself over the last week or so.

Having been playing online fine - including all the patches - with no problems. Even got round to switching to a gamepad rather than keyboard, and all has been fine.

However in the last week or so I've got a problem in that the game freezes every 5 seconds or so, and I have no idea why. Nothing on my PC has changed - spyware etc shows nothing. LFS is the only main application running - and I'm at a loss.

At the start of an online game it seems to show everyone lagging, and also my FPS has dropped from a good 90+ to mid 50's / 60's.

Attached is the latest replay - any thoughts would be much appreciated!!

Edit: Actually you can't see a lot from the replay - but from actually playing at the time I get the above symptoms!!!

Last edited by Hog700, Mon, 5 Jun 2006 22:45.