Quote from DeadWolfBones :

Pit entry and exit commitment lines are indicated in the layout.

Entry commitment line is the thing most likely to change, though.

Is this layout the final version then ?

If not, it would be nice to have the final version as soon as possible and not one day before the race

Quote from evilgeek :

1.5 seconds ahead of the WR at the split

I've found the replay and I've sent it to the devs.

This guy is doing 300+ km/h on the straights with the FXR :rolleyes:
There is absolutely no doubt that he's using a speed hack.

Quote from FM-Failure :

2 days ago (April 12th at 3:43pm) a guy called Mephisto (efexas16) drove a new Oval/FO8 PB on one of our servers: 31:29. This time is impossible to get.

efexas16
12 Apr 2008, 15:39
FXR @ AS3
LFSW - PB for efexas16 on AS3 FXR : 1:41.000
LFSW - Split1 0:43.380

A 43.38 split is impossible with any of the GTR's.

Options -> Audio -> Interface volume

Quote from Scawen :

So the only mystery is why your unfocussed frame rate with cars in race sometimes goes down to 64.

I"m still not sure about how the no focus/64 FPS lock occurs but I've found a way to 'unlock' the FPS:

If I'm running another DirectX app such as the standalone Flash player or Media Player Classic or VLC, then the FPS are going back to normal (still when LFS doesn't have the focus, of course). It doesn't matter which other window has the focus.
As soon as I close the other DirectX app the FPS are locked to 64 again.

Quote from Victor :

To anyone : When you see it happen again, please report it as soon as possible (in this thread), so that i can look it up in my log files straight away. I have logfiles of 'today' and 'yesterday', so I can only do lookups in that time frame.

13:46 CET (11:46 GMT)
Server [CD] ConeDodgers 1
I just got the error message about my skins being not found on LFSW.
Skin names: XRR_Lotesdelere4_NG and FZR_Lotes04_NG4

For some reason it seems to happen more often when the server is populated.


EDIT:
14:00 CET (12:00 GMT)
No error message anymore

Last edited by Lotesdelere, Sun, 13 Apr 2008 12:01. Reason : Added more infos

Quote from Scawen :

His computer for some reason is getting a "file not found" and is notifying your LFS that your skin was not found.

I get this error message about my own skin from time to time as well: "Your skin was not found on LFSW etc..."

My skin IS on LFSW and I haven't changed it for months.

One hour ago I got the error message but right now it's working fine.
I haven't changed anything during the past hour

Quote from Scawen :

So the only mystery is why your unfocussed frame rate with cars in race sometimes goes down to 64. Maybe you could check the CPU usage in the CTRL+ALT+DELETE menu in this case.

Here we go:

P... = CPU usage
Screenshot 1: LFS has the focus. CPU usage is about 30% average.
Screenshot 2: LFS doesn't have the focus. I still have normal FPS but CPU usage is about 3-5% lower average.
Screenshot 3: LFS doesn't have the focus. FPS are stuck to 64 and CPU usage is 0.

It seems that I got normal FPS with no focus when I've just started LFS but after using Shift+F4 many times, and/or opening/closing other apps, it got stuck to 64 FPS and won't go back to normal FPS again.

Still I haven't yet found a way to reproduce that every time
Although I noticed the 'loss' of a GDI object in screenshot 2.

I'm not sure if it's related to the test patches only but this is a FPS strange behaviour report:

In windowed mode, by using Shift+F4:
Screenshot 1: The window has the focus, normal FPS.
Screenshot 2: The window does not have the focus (clicked on the desktop), normal FPS.
Screenshot 3: The window does not have the focus, but the FPS are stuck to 64.

Screenshot 3 is showing the most usual behaviour I got when the windows does not have the focus. FPS are stuck to 64.
I haven't found a way (yet) to reproduce every time the normal FPS I got in screenshot 2 (no focus, normal FPS).


Now something even more strange when there are no cars on track:

Aucune voiture en course = No cars on track
Screenshot 4: FPS suddenly drop down to about 40 FPS (focused)
Screenshot 5: 32 FPS only if the window doesn't have the focus (Hm that's half the 64 FPS we have seen before)
Screenshot 6: Everything is normal when there are cars on track (focused)
Screenshot 7: Same view with no cars on track (focused)
Screenshot 8: Same behaviour on another track and in full screen mode


Windows XP, DirectX 9.0c (March 2008), Radeon HD 3870.
Catalyst 8.2 video driver only with ATI Tray Tools (Control Center is not installed).
Vsync is OFF in both video driver and LFS. AA is OFF, AF 4x (set in-game, video driver is set to application preference).

Quote from Bob Smith :

Permanent solution:

http://www.miranda-im.org

Congratulations and all the best to all of you

Bit late but:

http://www.google.com/intl/en/ ... srel/20080401_virgle.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new ... 008/04/01/npenguin101.xml

Quote from BenjiMC :

As i said, there are both Teamspeak AND Ventrilo servers there for everyone to use. it's not a matter of convenience but more a matter of being arsed to use them (although Stu is one of those people that used Ventrilo for a moment). The information is there for everyone to use. I am always on both during a race so i see no reason why nobody else can be.

Because we already are on our team TS server.
So what you're saying is that the driver who is racing, and maybe involved in the accident, should inform his team on TS, then one member of the team who is not on track should disconnect from the team TS server to join the admins TS server for giving you the information ?
Then you have to check the accident and to take a decision.
How long all of this would take ?
Not to mention that you'll only see the consequences of the accident and not the reason why it happened.

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

Stu, we also have IRC and MSN/AIM as means for communication. I haven't seen any S3R guys yet on IRC. We highly recommend it.

Same as above.
It would take too much time and IMO it's the admins job to check the whole field especially on critical moments such as the start and SC periods.

Quote from MaxHeadroom :

Ierror message: "Your car's skin was not found at www.lfsworld.net".

Yep, I've noticed that as well during the past two weeks and all the drivers who were on the server got the same message.
It randomly happens, from time to time.

Quote from the_angry_angel :

The downloading of skins is working fine here, I'm afraid.

The skins are downloaded and are working fine even when we got the error message.
The message is shown even when we haven't changed skin.
It happened to me with both patch Y and test patch Y14.

The server seems to be down / offline to me

I've posted a report about a possible memory leak bug here:

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=753578#post753578

I have used the standalone Remote.exe (dated 07/03/2008 12:19) for watching at the IGTC 4 hour race yesterday.

I had to stop and restart it after about 3H30 of the race because it was using a HUGE amount of memory, over 600 MB of what Windows XP calls Virtual Memory and over 578 MB of working space.

FYI there were about 32 connections to the server all race long and we also had several drivers who had bad lag what we could feel and see as well in Remote.

Quote from BreadC :

good race, and i am over the moon at getting 5th place here

Yep, that was not really a good day for us.

First our TS server went down in the afternoon.
Then one our of drivers had PC troubles, reinstalled Windows and then ran out of unlocks, so we had to change our strategy at the very last minute.
Another driver had microphone problems during the race.
And finally the engine of our car #28 got damages so the last part of the race was a nightmare.

There are days like that where everything is going wrong...

But enough crying and congratulations to anyone who took part in this race
Special mention to CoRe, TDRT and Spdo who gave us some good competition

That was a good race overall, see you all in next round

Quote from dawesdust_12 :

... Is it just me that sees J.Basford (Clownpaint) as a lag icon while coming onto the ovally bits?

(Tracker is recording his laps, but he was a lag icon while I was driving, and Sam reports a lag icon there too.)

Yep same here.

Works fine in the tracker and the LFSW progress window but he appears as being stuck on LFS remote.

Tracker is down for Droemel and me.

Is it working for anyone else ?

LFSW - new FZ5 PB by BenjiMC: 3:09.73 (new)

Quote from niall09 :

"nmanley has chosen not to receive private messages or may not be allowed to receive private messages. Therefore you may not send your message to him/her."

1. DeadWolfBones has exceeded their stored private messages quota and can not accept further messages until they clear some space.

Quote from franky500 :

but a new rule of sorts to keep cars going faster at the end of their quali laps for future races.

Yep, it's quite scary to see so many slow cars on track while there are still drivers doing qualifying laps.
I hope the FIA won't wait for an accident to happen...

This Q3 is a non sense to me as it's all about race strategy while the battle for pole position should be about pure performance only.