Quote from Scawen :

Maybe you had done one of those things which can corrupt unused mirrors or dashboards. The latest one is changing to AA.

Yep, I have played a lot with AA and AF in-game settings during this race and also used Shift+F4 many times.
Just to let you know

I've noticed some troubles with some nick names which are using special characters:

Screenshot 1: how it should be and how it's displayed in patch Y
Screenshot 2: same nick name displayed in patch Y14
Screenshot 3: this nick name destroyed the whole line including "s'est déconnecté" (has disconnected)


And the screenshot 4 is showing a FXR with a TV screen on the dashboard (Patch Y14)
It's from the default TV cam, the car had stopped on the side of the track after the race.
Not sure what is the cause of that, there was no other strange glitch on screen but it vanished after switching views from TV cam to cockpit view and back to TV cam.

Quote from Scawen :

I still can't reproduce it - please can you describe exactly how to do this?

Single player -> on the entry screen change track, wait for the track to load and now select another track,
Once you have selected the new track, click on the Garage button and select a setup or go to the Car selection and change car, say select a GTR,
Click on OK (twice if needed) and if you're fast enough you're back to the entry screen while the track is still loading and bingo! You get the message.
Happens online too if you select another setup during a track change. Works with any track. FYI I'm mostly driving the GTR's (including the 'small' ones) and the single seaters.

Quote from Scawen :

As LFS is non-unicode

Oh I have misunderstood then as I thought LFS was now fully unicode compliant.
OK I got it, thanks for the answer.


BTW there is a little interface annoyance since patch Y:
When you're on the main menu if you hit Esc to exit the game you are prompted for confirmation but if you click on the Exit button there is no prompt.
I sometimes click that fast and once too much that I exit the game while I only wanted to go back to the main menu.

Note aux traducteurs après avoir essayé la nouvelle traduction contenue dans le patch Y14:

Menu Options -> Affichage: Jauge de direction virtuelle. Virtuelle n'est pas au féminin.

Son Marche et Arrêt sont inversés. Ca indique Marche quand je coupe le son et Arrêt quand je le réactive.

Dans le menu F12 quand on est sur la piste:
- Pneus usure: pas de S à Pneus.
- Réparer les dommages: ça sonne un peu bizarre, peut-être utiliser Dégats au lieu de Dommages. Ou tout simplement Réparations tout court.
- Roues sont asymétriques. Il manque le S à la fin de Asymétriques.

xxx vote pour exclure yyy (LFSyyy) [3/8] (pressez 1) : il manque le C de Exclure

xxx a été retiré yyy de la grille de départ : c'est xxx qui retire yyy de la grille, donc le "été" est en trop: xxx a retiré yyy de la grille de départ

Last edited by Lotesdelere, Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:11. Reason : Added more items

Quote from dev :

I get a message saying: "Warning: Road tyres on rallycross track"

Yep, same for me and it happens even with patch Y.
It happens when you select a car/setup while the track is still loading (any track).


Something else now:
I can't paste any of the asian languages into the chat text input box. I only get question marks but sometimes some random character is taken into account.

Example with Japanese text:
I open Commands_Japanese.txt with Notepad and I copy the first line after the title (screenshot 1)
I open the text input box in LFS, I select Japanese and I paste the text (screenshot 2)
Only one character is shown, but I'm not even sure it's the correct one.

Last edited by Lotesdelere, Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:48. Reason : Added bug(?) report

Quote from balee :

Is anyone using this
169.28_forceware_winxp_32bit_international_beta
driver?

As I said in the Y13 topic, 'let program controlled' option just doesn't work for me.

Seems to be a known problem with some nVidia drivers:

Quote from word. :

Forcing AA from the control panel is broken in all drivers after 169.13 and before 171.xx. This is common knowledge on guru3d forums.
That's why I'm using 174.20

Quote from Jertje :

Baaaahhh they borked up the cameras big-time, oh well ;p

Well, it was a night launch and it was cloudy

Yep it's possible, we did it two years ago when we still had our own servers.


Done

Quote from chanoman315 :

anyone know where i can find the vid of a 747 taking off that airport?... when ppl fly?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HRxppaWTdc

Daily Motion is also experimenting HD:

http://www.dailymotion.com/hd/

Flash v9.0.115.0 required.

Quote from AndroidXP :

Hey guys, I tried making the chicane a bit more cut-proof. What do you think?

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=713894#post713894

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

4) Lapping drivers must use caution when overtaking lapped cars. Over-aggressive or poorly-presented overtaking attempts resulting in contact will result in a SG penalty as described in rule H5.

Please define what a poorly-presented overtaking manoeuvre is.
Thus define what a properly-presented overtaking manoeuvre is, just to be sure that we are all going to talk about the same thing.

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

We're simply stating that sometimes it's not in the lapped cars' best interest to let a lapping car by right away. They might be fighting for position themselves, they might be in a difficult spot on the track, etc etc. We do expect lapped cars to give way to a faster car at the first sign of an attempted pass.

I've already posted earlier in this thread that the real problem was from some drivers who were 4, 5 or 6 laps down, and who were not having a close fight for position at this moment, fighting with the leaders for several laps while being under blue flag, even pushing the faster cars at fault or forcing them to make risky overtaking manoeuvres.
And this not happened to us CD only but to almost all teams which finished in the top 5.

By the rules as they are now, on a track like South City a slower car can easily hold up the whole pack behind him while doing nothing against the rules.

I fully understand that there might be slower cars on the track for many different reasons and that is part of racing but I find not acceptable that some drivers are ignoring the faster car(s) behind them for several laps while they are themselves not fighting for position.
The general blue flag rule doesn't say that it's an obligation to give the racing line nor to slow down but that you have to facilitate the overtaking of the faster car. What some drivers have deliberatly ignored during round 1, hence the need of a new set set of detailed rules to avoid any confusion.

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

So please, wait for us to formulate a new policy.

Then we can start another round of arguing.

OK, let's wait and see

Very nice and usefull tool, good job, well done

It would be nice to see the number of pit stops done in a future version

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

However, I will clarify it further if you really think it's necessary.

I believe it is.

When some drivers who are laps down are making the leaders to lose one or more second per lap during several laps it IS a problem.
We know from the previous season that even after four hours of racing it's often a matter of few seconds between the teams on the podium.

Not to mention that it's an opened gate to some abuse.

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

The blue flagged driver's responsibility is to hold his line and not try to block a lapping car. Blue flagged cars are NOT required to slow down for you on straights, nor to give you any special openings.

Quote from BenjiMC :

Blue flag doesn't mean "MOVE!". Blue flag means make yourself predictable and easy to pass. It's not the job of the lapped car to move out of the way, But they shouldn't defend.

I can't find anything saying that in the IGTC rules.

In fact there is not only one blue flag which rules for every series.

Quote :

In some series, the blue flag is not mandatory - drivers obey it only as a courtesy to their fellow racers. In other series, drivers get severely penalized for not yielding or interfering with the leaders, including getting sent to the pits for the rest of the race.

How can we guess which one IGTC is using ?

However, watching at the replays, I've seen some drivers who were 5 or 6 laps down, and who were not having a close fight for position at the moment, fighting with the leaders for 3 or 4 laps while being under blue flag.
This is just stupid and useless to me.

You need to clarify the blue flag rule you want to use in IGTC as soon as possible.

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

Yes.

So..?

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

Wind conditions for each round will be announced 24 hours prior to the time of the race.

It's time to do it

For those who don't know it, Windows XP SP3 RC2 is officially out for two days:

http://www.microsoft.com/downl ... 2c68a7&DisplayLang=en

Quote :

Language: English

System Requirements
* Supported Operating Systems: Windows XP Service Pack 2

Instructions
Download the script and run it on a machine currently running Windows XP Service Pack 2. The script sets a registry key on your system. The registry key is required for Windows Update to recognize your machine as a valid target for Windows XP Service Pack 3 RC2.

Versions of Windows XP Service Pack 3 prior to Release Candidate 2 should be removed before attempting to use the registry key. Windows Update will not offer Release Candidate 2 to machines with previous versions of the Windows XP Service Pack 3 beta.

It is recommended that you apply the resulting update package to an activated, genuine copy of Windows XP, in a test environment. As with any pre-release software, it is also recommended that you back up files and settings on your machine before applying this update package.

Quote from SamH :

There seems to be a problem with the engine sound trigger with Y. Watching a particular car, the sound keeps ceasing for cars that are closer to your spectating position than the car you're watching.

Yep, I've noticed the same thing

For Windows only (all versions):
PCLoupe

For Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X:
Virtual Magnifying Glass

I just got myself a HD 3870 and I wonder what are the best drivers to use.
Official Catalyst 8.2 or Omega drivers 4.8.442 (based on Catalyst 7.12) ?
Any advices ?

Quote from chanoman315 :

it would be fun to put an unexpected barrier at the end of the pitlane, and all the cheaters would be trapped

We have done that on our servers, but we haven't blocked the pits because you may fall there by accident during a race so a strong chicane is doing the job.

Here is the layout:

Quote from SamH :

I'm not usually given to begging but I desperately need "XName removed YName" fed into the server debug log at race end screen. With our auto track rotation, we're losing the first race each cycle due to some SOB removing everyone from the grid to cause a premature restart. I need to know who the hell they are, and they need to bloody well stop doing it. Pretty puhleeeze Scawen. This really isn't a feature request, it's core debug info that's missing at the moment, IMO.

Yes, and also a core debug testing option to disallow AI's to join the track of a racing server

Attached file contains both CD FZR #15 and #28 skins.

Notice: these skins are private and shouldn't be used by anyone not being a member of the ConeDodgers Racing Team.
IGTC offcials and members of other teams involved in the IGTC league are allowed to use these skins for renders but not for driving online on any server.