Well, "for ever" is a looong time for me to be sure.

But I know that LFS is the best game I have ever played and that I have already stop playing other games, because they seem too shallow compared to LFS.

Awesome game (sim)

Happens to me also from time to time, but I'm 99% certain that this is because my Windows intallation is getting "old".

I could verify if this is the case when I make a fresh install but I really hate the idea of all this installing/customization all over again , so I'm postponing it all the time .

really nice of you sharing this info

I agree also but this put things in prespective

Quote from BuddhaBing :

Out of curiousity, I contacted Silverstone Circuits Ltd and MotorSport Vision Ltd, the owners of Silverstone and Brands Hatch, Oulton Park, Snetterton, Cadwell Park and Bedford Autodrome respectively, and asked whether they required any licensing agreements and/or fees to use the 3D likeness of their tracks in a software application.

There is a £35-45,000 licensing fee required for the use of the Silverstone circuit and a £10,000 per venue fee for each of the circuits owned by MotorSport Vision Ltd. Additional track hire fees would be assessed for access to the track for photography, surveying and so on.

So, there you have it.

Quote from ZisT :

Can i watch online replays ? if so, how ?

But as a demo user you can't watch them if they have S1 or S2 content.

Quote from P5YcHoM4N :

This video makes me laugh, first because everyone calls it barbaric, but a barbarian is someone who cannot speak Greek.

This word is originated from the ancient greece almost 3000-4000 years ago and yes at the begining it was used to refer to people who didn't speak greek, (which was an international language at these times, like english is today) but over the years it's use involved, to characterize someone who is uncivilized and cruel, with no feelings and almost un-human.

So the use of this word in this clip isn't inrelevant with the content of the clip.

Quote from P5YcHoM4N :

Secondly, where are all the hippies about tuna?
"ZOMG, how can j00 kill teh dolphins!!11oneone."
"What about the tuna?"
"Tuna? **** tuna"

Thirdly, all animals for food are killed like that. Slit their throat open and let them bleed to death, prevents the meat getting damaged, some places might stun the animal with a bolt gun first, but it is extra work so most don't bother..

We know that we kill other animals to feed ourselves .
But videos like these have the purpose to wake up common people to force companies and goverments to use less cruel methods to achieve the same results.

That's the whole point.

Quote from th84 :

I just tried it and it worked fine for me. I didnt even know about that! Nice feature.

Just be carefult to remove the screenshots from there after each session because they'll be overwrited the next time you launch LFS and hit the Ctrl-S again.

Scawen recognized this as a bug and it will be fixed with the next patch.

@Sketchyrollin564
Yes that's the procedure. Install V2 and hit Ctrl-S.

Here's one http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=70752#post70752

It's in the cfg.txt file. This file is in the same folder with the LFS.EXE

Open it with notepad and find the line

Quote :

Master Port 29339

29339 is the default as you can see

Unplug the printer and leave the wheel only and see if the problem continues.

Also use another USB port for the wheel.

Quote from Biohazard :

(why´s everybody bothering about setups atm?)

Seems to be the new forum trend

But recently the MoE season just ended so everyone is looking for a way to be more competative for the next season and OWRL leagues are in progress or about to start and everybody's looking for improvements.

Or it's just the moon phase lol

Thanks a lot for the quick reply wabz

It seems that it isn't an easy task to do, but it's not impossible either.
Let's hope for the best then.
Thank you, and keep up the good work

Quote from wabz :

There's always Browse For Speed, an external server browser which lets you add favourites, and friends (shows which are online). One of its advantages is not having to load LFS just to see if there's a server you want to join. And it's open source, so you can add features you want yourself (or just ask)!

I like BrowseForSpeed, but there is a drawback compared with the LFS's screen.
When I click on the question mark on the LFS multiplayer screen, I can see who is in the server, what car he drives, if there is a race or qualifying in progress and in which lap each racer is.

Are these info available from BrowseForSpeed?
If not will they implemented or is it impossible (not provided by pubstats)?
Please illuminate this topic a little.

No, the first thing I do whenever I install a game is to turn off the music
I find it annoying even in the menu screens.

I like to be focused on the sounds from the action only (foot steps and gunshots in FPSs and engine roars and skid sounds in racing games).

Download and install this utility http://readerror.gmxhome.de/
to test your needs.

I don't use torrents, but I surf a lot and I never got above 5-6GB per month.
I have a 768/192 connection with no volume limit.

I think 40GB is a very relaxed limit.

EDIT
I saw you first post again, and you are mentioning a TV service also. I only have internet for surfing, so no much comparison with yours and my connection, but the program I suggested might still be useful.

Last edited by KMSpeed, Wed 14 Mar 2007, 15:40.

tbh that was really good driving.

Next time you 'll be looking for a team, instead of introducing yourself as an unofficial WR holder, give them a link to this video. (no sarcasm here)

Nice driving and beautifilly presented

Quote from shaun463 :

that would be impossible everyone hates me

including yourself?

What's the point of being so harsh at yourself?
Stop giving people more importance than they ought to, and give yourself a break...

Life is much more than a game... (even if this game is LFS )

Never heard this before, but since this flickering happens only when you are surfing but not in other ocasions, it sounds like a software problem to me.

For start you can download portable firefox http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable and see if it happens there also.

Another action you could try is to download a Linux LiveCD distro like Knoppix or Ubuntu.
Burn the iso to a cd-rom and boot from it.

It installs NOTHING on your hard drive, it loads all the stuff in to ram so have no fear about your Windows installment.

Quote from thisnameistaken :

It seems the Intel Core Duos are the chips to have now, so maybe:

CPU
Mobo
2gb of RAM sounds good
For graphics I personally would go with something like this until DX10 hardware becomes a bit more mature.
You should get a 200Gb-ish 7200rpm SATA HDD for under £50, and a DVD/RW for £30-ish, so all that would be ... *counts on fingers* ... £570?

+1 for the above configuration
CPU: the 6400 processor has very good performance and low price
MOBO: a mobo based on the 965 chipset is the best option because traditionally intel CPUs have less combatibility issues with its own chipsets and the 965 is very fast also.
memory: 2gb is almost mandatory if you are planning to upgrade on Vista, otherwise 1 gb is enough. As mentioned before DDR2 is the memory you are looking for.
GPU: the 7900GS ia a great card. If you want to save some money goto the 256MB memory model http://www.dabs.com/productvie ... igationKey=11137,42750000 with no performance drop issues compared to the 512 model
Audio Card: I always use the integrated onboard ones. Don't waste money on a super duper SB, cause the onboard chips work just fine.

Last edited by KMSpeed, Tue 13 Mar 2007, 16:27.

As far as I know LFSWorld stats are not editable by users. The only thing you can delete is one or all your pb times.

But imo this "too many 1st positions" matter is not a big deal really and it shouldn't puzzle you.

Quote from AndroidXP :

I've never tried this and cannot verify if it makes any difference, but make sure that "AI use player colours" is set to "no" in Options > Misc. Otherwise the desired behaviour of a AI specific skin might be overridden by this option.

Hi, if you set this option to YES it has the following effect:

If you haven't done the above procedure, instead of the AIs having the default white, red, blue colors they use the player's skin, so you end up with a grid full of "teammates" sort of speak. All cars use the player's skin.

But if you have done the above procedure it has no effect, cause the AIs will use the skins you gave them with the AI 1, AI 2, AI 3... procedure.

Quote from al heeley :

1) Go into the options menu where you can rename each of the 12 a.i. drivers.
2) Give them all names.
3) Go to Garage.
4) Click New colour scheme button, name it exactly the same as the name you gave your first driver.
5) Then select the skin texture you want that driver to use.
6) Repeat for each named a.i. driver.

Quote from Venus :

That doesn't work. I tried that, but it only changes your skin. Even if you create an alternate colour scheme, then select AI, go to garage n select Ai colour scheme, it just changes your colour scheme. Not the players. You miss a step or something?
V

It works. Forget about the renaming options for now.

1. Go to Garage
2. Click on the "New" button
3. In the box that pops up write AI 1
4. To the bottom of the screen there's a line called "Texture name"
Next to it there are two buttons one with the name of the car and one with the name of the skin.
Click on one of them and select the skin for this AI.

Repeat these steps for AI 2, AI 3, ... AI 12. Just replace the AI 1 name at step 3 with the new one.

For your convenience I suggest to press that "New" button one more time and create a new profile named MySkin or something and use this for your player.

If your card has a TV-out then by 99% it already has the required cables in the package.

It should be an S-Video or a composite video cable.

If you can't find one buy one that has S-Video and composite video IN to SCART out.

Also after you hook them up you have to select the TV from the control panel of your graphics card and choose "clone" to have the same picture in the monitor and the TV.

Quote from D4RK1 :

and the possibility to tell the "crew" not to repair the car or only repair if damaged > XY%.

The Preset feature would mean that i can make maybe 3 different pitstop setups.

1. refuel to 18%, repair no damage, change tires if damaged > 30%
2. refuel to 1%, repair damage > 25%, change no tires
3. you get the idea... i hope :P

Those freely defineable settings can be loaded during race by single key inputs.

Im kinda new to LFS, so if there is already a possibility to do this, let me know =)

Jens

Hi, the damage isn't partially repaired for the moment I think there is a plan for it in the future.

The rest (tyre change and fuel load) can be done in real time by pressing the F12 key and navigating with the arrow keys or shift+ arrow keys if you have them bind to some functions.

But I would like pit stop presets, it would be usefull, specially for the long league races.

Quote from Milki :

I have the demo version... will it work?

And install the latest V2 test patch also http://www.liveforspeed.net/fi ... .php?name=LFS_V2_TEST.exe

With this you need only to press shift-a and the editor appears.