LOL.... Too true
Having said that... unless you want to spend a fortune on rubber you shouldn't take a defender anywhere near a flat grippy surface...
I still beleive CTRA was awesome... it was born of a great philosphy... like all good ideas, however it was flawed from the beginning...
I beleive strongly that you cannot run such a project if you have an interest or a part in the system you are regulating... or at least the regulator/administration cannot be completely run by drivers/players of LFS
PS. Dustin... I can't stand Visual Studio either... I try to steer as clear from it as I possibly can.
I beleive strongly that you cannot run such a project if you have an interest or a part in the system you are regulating... or at least the regulator/administration cannot be completely run by drivers/players of LFS
PS. Dustin... I can't stand Visual Studio either... I try to steer as clear from it as I possibly can.
They can't be going on much further...
BBC Coverage has just finished too...
EDIT: or it should be... hehe
BBC Coverage has just finished too...
EDIT: or it should be... hehe
Well, the race will be interesting I hope... Hamilton and Vettel at the back... with a dry setup.
I hope you don't just mean girls with a drivers license....
Although I do have to agree with you, I also has this guilty crush on women who can drive better than me.
The main reason I started here was because I couldn't afford to start Rallying for real. I now, however, can afford it but still play LFS (well, Rallying for 6 hrs straight can be VERY expensive).
I have ticked "For the physics" but that's really the reason I stay, when I started we had S1 which while it wasn't a bad game (certainly was better than many games I have seen), the physics weren't (at the time) much special. What really got me to stay in the early days was the fact that Scavier (contrary to peoples opinions in this thread) were putting out updates as quickly as the team at EA Games when I was QA testing for them, and EA have a few more Developers on their team than Scavier do.
That and when the updates did come out, they worked, which was a VERY nice change from working as a QA Tester.
:soapbox::haha:
Worst race for me so far (worse than the ones I couldn't make it to 
) On the live start I drove into Steel, got caught by almost everyone behind me and than couldn't overtake the two IRT lads...
That said, the two or three laps I did do were bloody good fun. Thanks again to the OLFSL guys and SonicRealms for the server...
Just wish I had a bit better luck in this, my favourite, car in what I have always deemed a challenging track for me... and all with a setup I have spent weeks working on, it was well within a 1:25 on friday evening....
EDIT:
Oh and for the guys running R4s, I ran 35 laps this morning on R2s, getting a touch warm (starting to to orange) however I found the car started behaving oddly so I stuck to the old R3s.... I could do 1:25s on R3s but only 1:26s on R2s...
) On the live start I drove into Steel, got caught by almost everyone behind me and than couldn't overtake the two IRT lads... That said, the two or three laps I did do were bloody good fun. Thanks again to the OLFSL guys and SonicRealms for the server...
Just wish I had a bit better luck in this, my favourite, car in what I have always deemed a challenging track for me... and all with a setup I have spent weeks working on, it was well within a 1:25 on friday evening....
EDIT:
Oh and for the guys running R4s, I ran 35 laps this morning on R2s, getting a touch warm (starting to to orange) however I found the car started behaving oddly so I stuck to the old R3s.... I could do 1:25s on R3s but only 1:26s on R2s...
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My LFS constantly runs at 30fps (because I have now locked it at this....) and I use a CRT to stop motion blur....
But anyway, this is getting close to being a flame.
I hope you get the desired result
It's frustrating, but, if you've followed the advice given so far, I have a feeling it's a hardware issue. Random restarts would hint to it being a processor issue. Is it an ATI HD graphics card? Can you check your system log and search the HDD for a .dmp file?
Hmm, looks like I need to give my day job... (seeing as this is what I do day to day, hour after hour, giving support to people over the phone)
Recording and saving a 500+MB video file will take up more than just 30MB of RAM, but you are right, it is perfectly doable on a PC with just 1GB of RAM, I wouldn't like to try smaller because I find windows alone struggles under less than 512MB
Again, it is possible, by using a low loss codec (saves massive files) you CAN reduce the load on the CPU by a large amount. The CPU is used the most in actually compressing the video, so less compression, bigger file, faster CPU response time, but bigger files, faster disk writing speeds and thus the need for another HDD
See above
Yea, a dual core CPU will help, indeed, however, myself I have not tested this, as I would have to replace my entire PC to run a dual core, whereas a new HDD will cost me less than £30
25-30fps is more than enough for most things, for instance Video tapes are recorded at such rates and it is not obvious when watching these back, and the before mentioned Youtube as well. It is best, is possible, to record at a multiple (or division) of the final devices refresh rate (for instance watching on a 100Hz TV, a framerate of 50 or even25fps would look better than 60fps.....)
But yes, recording at half speed is a good idea
Spot on, also, probably best to make sure while recording your Pagefile (Virtual Memory) is on the same drive as LFS...
It is also VERY important you have as little load on the PC as possible (close down as many processes as possible, especially Firefox windows or Internet Exploder windows
Hows the issue? Still getting the random CTDs?
Bah, well, I'd love to, is one hell of a trek to do alone... Any Hampshire/Home Counties lads already heading up, or wanting to head up if they were able to catch a lift?
Dude, you disappoint me! (read on)
First off, I agree, that sounds like a fantastic day... I actually had a similar encounter (without the wife) in my old Spitfire....
But mate, whether the car was originally aimed at the mass production British "we'll buy anything that looks remotely sporty" market (my Spitfire) or whether it's a 1 of 200 Jag XJ220 sports car, no one here will question your empathy if you enjoyed driving it. I personally preferred the front engined Porsches over the rear engined ones. I hope you get a car you can enjoy just as much, and that they find, hang, draw and quarter the bar stewards who did this to your car.
NOTE: You used GPS to find this random location? I used a map for mine.....
First off, I agree, that sounds like a fantastic day... I actually had a similar encounter (without the wife) in my old Spitfire....
But mate, whether the car was originally aimed at the mass production British "we'll buy anything that looks remotely sporty" market (my Spitfire) or whether it's a 1 of 200 Jag XJ220 sports car, no one here will question your empathy if you enjoyed driving it. I personally preferred the front engined Porsches over the rear engined ones. I hope you get a car you can enjoy just as much, and that they find, hang, draw and quarter the bar stewards who did this to your car.
NOTE: You used GPS to find this random location? I used a map for mine.....
This may help out, as the dust settles in heatsinks and fan channels this of course will increase the temp of the affected component. Also, how close to limit are you for your power supply? First, don't forget they age (dependant on use) and a brown-out at a critical time could cause performance issues.....
Nah, a partition still uses the same physical drive. It's the drive itself that causes the issues.
There is a maximum read/write speed to the drive, having a partition still means you're chasing back and forth over the same drive with your Page file (virtual RAM), LFS files and the fraps recording.
The best setup is to run two (or three) seperate drives/arrays ideally on different controllers, too, but the controllers won't be too much of a bottleneck....
There is a maximum read/write speed to the drive, having a partition still means you're chasing back and forth over the same drive with your Page file (virtual RAM), LFS files and the fraps recording.
The best setup is to run two (or three) seperate drives/arrays ideally on different controllers, too, but the controllers won't be too much of a bottleneck....
Man, just got redirected. I feel for you, I say the entire LFS Forum hunt these bar-stewards down and slowly torture them with Microsoft Error Messages and baseball bats
I dunno, I had the joy of driving one once.
Nah, Insurance companies always payout low, I was offered £500 for my CR-X when the front end was torn off in a car park, ironically, though, I rebuilt it for £400.... (not including 2 weeks labour)
I dunno, I had the joy
of driving one once.Nah, Insurance companies always payout low, I was offered £500 for my CR-X when the front end was torn off in a car park, ironically, though, I rebuilt it for £400.... (not including 2 weeks labour)
Been there, got told off for wanting a Stag!
I want a Caterham type... umm, oh, ok, I have two. Ok, I want a sporty hatch.... one of them, too, what about a F1.... Errr....
The cars are (for the most part) balanced, any change in that would be painful...
Agreed, all servers with mods should state it, that would be the case of the mod writer? Mind you, would that include things like the CTRA X system and Grid-calling mods?
But definitely, if you're looking for a tweak server, you'll have OOS errors constantly unless you have the EXACT setup the server host has. Generally tweak is a SP thing, I guess. Can't see the desire to use tweak myself, just run a different car/class...
@Gekkibi, you avatar... What happened?
Sounds like either Video or processor if it's not generating dmp files, the latest drivers should support video crash recovery, but that wont help in a race.
First, why that port in particular? Second, please refer to your routers manual on NAPT and Port forwarding, or see one of the MANY threads already covering servers not connecting, not be able to connect to.
Then, Do you need 15 connections? Could you get away with fewer?
If you can add the port forwarding to the router correctly and reduce the connections to say 5, give it another go and see if you still get the same issue.
For a while I had this issue too, and, although I doubt it was due to the DFP, it certainly seemed to make things worse... I noticed that my hard drive got hit suddenly while the slowdown happened. The way I sorted it out was to move my paging file (virtual memory) off the drive my LFS was installed on and increase it to 2.5GB (2.5x my RAM size) fixed rather than windows choosing whats best...
Latest Video Drivers, if it still happens I would hedge a guess that it might be RAM, out of interest has it ever Blue Screened?
With using Fraps, I personally don't have an issue, one thing that helped me was a fast hard drive (a 2nd one) and make sure your swap file (Virtual memory or paging file) is not on the disk you are recording to. Fraps is generally fairly resource non-intensive as the codec is a fairly low loss .avi format, requiring very little in the way of compression and processing.
If you are taking a video for a generic unbranded media sharing website, for sharing via email or to play on a TV then you can lower the resolution of LFS easily to 640x480 without noticing a drop in quality in the final video, as the process of compressing the video will get rid of most of this quality itself...
RAM is very important when recording/editing video, and although 512MB is adequate for low spec recording, doubling this will have more than double the effect on the recordng (imagine Windows uses a total of 64MB, LFS uses 128MB and you've got another 64MB given to background processes like firewalls and antivirus, this leaves 256MB for the recording process, 256MB for a fraps video is actually not that long (it being low loss) so another 512MB will increase the amount of RAM available by about 3x, it will also, as long as you're using the same speed RAM, allow for load sharing across the RAM sticks and improve response time, unless you have maxxed out the speed on stick)
Again try to lower the spec as far as possible, but avoid running with compressed texures, as this will increase load on the processor (although freeing up RAM). If you have Anti-virus, turn off on-access scanning as this will check your replay files as they are being written, which again maxes out the processor load and fills up the RAM.
I run a system that needs to be replaced but has no issues recording videos....
Athlon 64 3200+ (running slightly clocked 2.2GHz (Pentium rated 3.6GHz)
1GB Corsair XMS DDR (400MHz)
Radeon X800 XT (256MB VRAM)
Asus GTi Turbo Uberflinging Megaujamaflipping Lightyear motherboard (I forget what model it is, so I made up a similar model name)
a IDE ATA 133 HDD
a SATA Promise HDD
If you are taking a video for a generic unbranded media sharing website, for sharing via email or to play on a TV then you can lower the resolution of LFS easily to 640x480 without noticing a drop in quality in the final video, as the process of compressing the video will get rid of most of this quality itself...
RAM is very important when recording/editing video, and although 512MB is adequate for low spec recording, doubling this will have more than double the effect on the recordng (imagine Windows uses a total of 64MB, LFS uses 128MB and you've got another 64MB given to background processes like firewalls and antivirus, this leaves 256MB for the recording process, 256MB for a fraps video is actually not that long (it being low loss) so another 512MB will increase the amount of RAM available by about 3x, it will also, as long as you're using the same speed RAM, allow for load sharing across the RAM sticks and improve response time, unless you have maxxed out the speed on stick)
Again try to lower the spec as far as possible, but avoid running with compressed texures, as this will increase load on the processor (although freeing up RAM). If you have Anti-virus, turn off on-access scanning as this will check your replay files as they are being written, which again maxes out the processor load and fills up the RAM.
I run a system that needs to be replaced but has no issues recording videos....
Athlon 64 3200+ (running slightly clocked 2.2GHz (Pentium rated 3.6GHz)
1GB Corsair XMS DDR (400MHz)
Radeon X800 XT (256MB VRAM)
Asus GTi Turbo Uberflinging Megaujamaflipping Lightyear motherboard (I forget what model it is, so I made up a similar model name)
a IDE ATA 133 HDD
a SATA Promise HDD
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