I believe that WINE maps the Unix root directory to drive Z: by default so you may want to try that. Using a Windows-formatted relative path might work too.

Ouchie, what you have is a pre-Sandy Bridge CPU with an integrated GPU. You didn't mention what FPS you are getting or if it suddenly got worse but I'd guess that besides making sure that your laptop isn't overheating there isn't much you can do. Especially the new Westhill or Rockingham are probably just far too taxing for the kind of hardware you have.

Quote from Ped7g :

MadCatX: how does https resolve MITM attack, when you don't pin certificates?

It requires that the attacker has a certificate that appears as valid in the victims browser which raises the bar for a successful MITM considerably. As long as HSTS and HPKP works I'd say that HTTPS itself provides a good assurance that your data were not modified anywhere in flight. A hacked mirror with a modified file is far more likely that someone MITMing a HTTPS session anyway...

I'd be a lot more concerned about possible MITM since most of the mirrors don't employ HTTPS. With HTTPS in place you'd have to replace the file on the mirror to deliver it to the victim. Better checksums wouldn't hurt but people rarely check those by hand.

Quote from _Andrei_ :

Will overclocking the gpu help?

If AA and AF is indeed the problem, overclocking won't do much. You can't really overclock anything in a laptop because the cooling system is usually designed to be just enough for the stock clocks.

I guess it's the AA and AF that is killing your performance. GF 610 is a very low-end card and it's fairly possible that it struggles with AA and AF.

QM is a full quad core CPU which can be problematic to cool properly in a laptop. Have you checked at what speed is your CPU actually running and that it's not throttling down? Given how cheaply designed heatsinks a lot of laptops have I wouldn't be surprised if overheating was at least part of the problem.

It's a drivers issue that has never been fixed. Setting a framerate limiter in LFS might help.

Quote from sermilan :

Nah... it suddenly became the best topic on the forum

Yeah, it closely beats the "STDs thread" and anything authored by AtomAnt. I suppose that we all deserved an XMas gift

Quote from franc51 :

Are you really saying that you have to ignore anything anyone says to you? I don't think so. Yes, there are thing you can pass, but there's a limit.

Well, you are your own's person so don't *have* to do anything. However, the ability to stay above any irrelevant or inflammatory babbling is pretty useful and not just behind a computer keyboard. Spitting obvious trollbaits, ad hominem insults and empty rants is similar to shooting blanks. They cannot really hurt you *unless* you start to react to them. Whenever you are in the middle of an argument and see your opponent resort to these, it is a sign that you are winning and our opponent has run out of live ammunition to fight you. If you sink to his level and allow him to turn a battle of facts, reason and logic into a pissing contest, you lose. If you keep it together, you can both win and earn some respect of others for your mature behavior. I think the second option is worth taking a few verbal punches, right?

Quote from franc51 :

Scroll up. The most important fact is that i really want to buy a licence(not necesairly now, because as i said i can't right now) but how can i do that, if i'm insulted in such a way? Could you possibli do that? What would you say if you would be in my position?

And what position would that be? I assume that you're not new to the Internet where there is trolling, cussing and bullying flying all over every discussion board or comments section that I've ever seen. Please stop trying to look abhorred just because BeNoM made a joke in a bad taste, it's lame. Instead show that you have a big enough personality to dismiss such irrelevant comments - that might actually win you some points around here. On the other hand, moaning about the Internet being the Internet only paints you as a crybaby.

Quote from franc51 :

But, you guys don't understand us, you don't understand that we love lfs. Scawen, you did a great job, and i congratulate you for that. But please understand that nobody will be the same, if x will pay for it, y won't. So Scawen, next step is to think about a way to sell it better.

What are you trying to say? That you didn't buy LFS only because you disagree with its business model? You claim to love LFS and if we were all living in a Unicornotopia it might have been enough. However, in the world we actually live in your love and congratulations won't pay ScaViEr's bills or keep the servers running; the money made by selling the licenses will. That is the bottom line of this whole argument which the cracker community doesn't seem to be getting.

Nobody can make you buy the game or prevent you from cracking it but at least show the modicum of common sense and stop trying to justify yourselves in front of people who in a way allowed you to have your fun for free for all that time Pereulok was up. If all of us went with the cracked version, LFS would've probably been abandoned long before even S2 was released. Has that ever crossed your mind?

Quote from CozmicDragon :

I always said that the biggest problem with buying a LFS license in Brazil wasn't really the price, but rather, a lack of proper payment methods. But I changed my mind. This game is not worth my hard-earned cash.

I'll admit this now: I played on a LOT of cracked servers for several years. Yeah, ban me. Do whatever the **** you please.

Am I the only one seeing the contradiction here?

Quote from MicroSpecV :

Both sides have valid points.

No they do not. LFS developers have the right do ask for as much money for a license as they see fit. LFS is a product they created using their own knowledge, skills and resources and nobody but them gets any say about how much should it cost. If they set the price wrong they will suffer the consequences of not making LFS a viable business. However, just because some people cannot - or at least claim so - afford it does *not* give them any right to steal it.

Quote from MicroSpecV :

We need to accept each other.

Again, no. As far as I understand the people who were running the cracked servers - people who have invested their own resources into doing so - decided to shut it down. Yet who I see crying on the forums is people who contributed next to nothing to the LFS community. They were used to having premium stuff for free, now it has been taken away and they think they somehow have the right to complain about it. If I were to extend this logic I could have had the right to steal my highschool buddy's BMW just because his dad could afford buying him one and mine could not.

I do not mean to come off as an insensitive butthole. I, however, know a large bunch of people who pirate software even though they can actually buy it. I have heard all of their excuses - none of them was justifiable. In the end it all came down to "Why should I pay for something I can get steal? I need my money for stuff that cannot be stolen that easily". Also, let's try to reverse the perspective. Last time I checked, Scawen had a wife and two kids to support and LFS was the only source of his income. They all live in GB where there is a certain cost of living and the price of a LFS license reflects that - how "right" is it to ask them to sell you a product he worked his ass off developing for less?

Quote from Anonymous41 :

We Brazilians can not afford a license of 50R$ and if they come here to tell us that we have conditions GO **** because they do not know what it's like to earn a very low minimum wage and get high taxes and we just want our peurelok back or we'll knock them down The servers one by one

- Don't generalize, there are lots of Brazilian LFS players with a license they actually bought
- I'm well aware of the materialistic inequalities in the world and I'm sorry, but attacking LFS won't solve it.

And the most important question of all: If you did have money to buy LFS, would you do it? Or would you use that money to buy something that is not as easy to steal as software?

The installation media is broken. If you're installing from a CD, it's most likely burnt improperly. Try burning the image at a lower speed or get a different batch of DVD media, the drive in the computer may have trouble reading those that you're using now. You may also try redownloading the installation image on the off chance that the image itself is corrupted.

I've always wondered what people expect to get from a game like this. GTA-style game are popular and fun not because you can drive a bunch of vehicles there, but because it's an open world filled with things for you to do. Stripping away most of the mundanities of every day life is what makes these games so accessible and fun, that includes the simple driving model.

Imagine that you're in the middle of a difficult mission with the cops all over your tail and another gang shooting at you from a truck. Driving, shooting, avoiding traffic, accomplishing the mission goals and forming an escape plan is difficult enough already, now imagine that you'd have to take care about changing gears, overheated brakes, tyre hotspots, running out of fuel etc. on top of the raw unforgiving LFS tyre model. I'm of the opinion that such a game would quickly turn from fun to extremely frustrating even for people who have thousands of miles in LFS under their belt.

Hardcore racing sims do not make up a large market, narrowing it down even further by crossing it with a GTA/Mafia shooter would probably make the target audience so small that it wouldn't justify the production costs. Following this logic I might ask for a Cessna 172SP simulator with advanced flight model, ATC and stuff just so I could mess above the Liberty City.

Don't take me wrong, I'd like to try such a game once but I'm down to the Earth enough to see why it's not going to happen anytime soon...

Quote from SimulatorRental.com :

I just need to know WHY the primary GPU runs at 100%, and the secondary runs at 50%. I do not want to run into the same problem if I build a different PC.

Just because your components are of "server" grade doesn't mean it won't run games. The problem you're facing most likely has to do with the way rendering works. LFS runs on a primary GPU but you want to display it on a screen that is connected to a different GPU. This means that every frame rendered has to be copied over from the primary GPU to the GPU to which the screen is hooked up to. Such an operation is quite slow which probably explains the drop in performance.

Quote from TFalke55 :

Since my computer is still off to be repaired, I have my mother's Notebook as Interim machine. But before she could give it to me, I used my Dad's old and probably heavily infected Notebook. Now since he has no interest in getting it back, I thought give it a try to revive it. My Initial plan is to install a Linux distirbution and my first idea was Ubuntu as it was the only Distribution I came up with directly, but maybe MINT would be better?
Anyway I had Trouble so far. I first used "unetbootin" to create a bootable USB stick, the Notebook would Show me a removable device in the BIOS (hard drive, CD/DVD and Network were the others), however booting from that device would result in jumping back to the menu I could choose the booting source from. Moreover, trying to open the stick on that very machine ultimately lead to the error "you're usb device is not formated" asking me to proceed and do so (Windows wasn't able to complete the process though). I grabbed the next stick, but it resulted in the same Problem after all.
Funnily though, it was no Problem to Input the stick in my mum's computer and to use it as normal.
My next step would be to burn the iso to a DVD, which I would have done already, if I still had DVDs at home. Times are a-changing.

Maybe someone has experience on such things, as I am a bloody newbie to any form of UNIX System I choose to use because I chose to want it^^

The System:
Windows XP SP3
Intel Pentium 1.7GHz
2 GB RAM
ATI Mobility Radeon 9600/9700 Series

The most gentle start would be to grab a version of Ubuntu that comes with a preinstalled lightweight desktop environment such as XUbuntu. Mainline Ubuntu nowadays requires some degree of 3D acceleration which the ancient Radeon likely won't provide. Booting off a DVD should not be a problem, nor should be the installation itself.

Successfully booting directly from a USB stick used to be a bit of a challenge back in the days your laptop is from...

Does this happen just online or even offline? One possibility would be that your computer clock is running slightly faster and LFS compensates for it by pausing itself for a little while when the time delta exceeds some threshold.

You cannot change any FFB parameters individually. As far as I understand how LFS works inside, it's physics engine doesn't know anything about SAT explicitly. The physics engine works with forces acting upon the car. If a car starts to slide, the laws of physics result in a force that pulls the front wheels into the direction of the slide. LFS' engine implements these physical principles and therefore you can feel the wheel doing what you'd expect to happen. However, as the "SAT effect" is just one of the results of the physics engine and not something "hardwired" in the code, you cannot tweak it. If the SAT feeling is it fact too strong, it's a deficiency of the physics engine itself.

Quote from softslider :

One question, what are the parameters when game gives FFB to steering wheel? Are they maybe position , torque and speed?

As far as I understand LFS calculates the overall force acting on the front wheels as part of the physics calculation loop. The lateral portion of that force is then applied on the steering wheel through FFB. One potential source of inaccuracy is that LFS doesn't know the parameters of the FFB motor in your wheel so it cannot reproduce the strength of the force accurately. That's why there is the "FFB strength" slider in the controller options.

Quote from expr :

I may have phrased myself unclearly, but I think we are talking about similar issues.

For me, LFS works like it used to when you start it the first time, but if you (un)focus, window-ize or fullscreen the window, or reinitialise the controllers, or close LFS the centering spring turns on and stays on until you reset the wheel (and as far as I can tell, masks all other FFB). The wheel still "works", you can still steer with it, but it tries to center itself (as far as I can tell, with full force).

It sound like the same problem. Does it change anything if you enable the "Keep controls active even when LFS looses focus" option in the menu? WINE somewhat senselessly switches the centering spring (sometimes referred to as "autocentering") on whenever the Unacquire() DirectInput function is called on the device. I find it very odd that the centering spring stays on, WINE is supposed to disable it when the device gets grabbed again by the game. It will probably take some actual debugging to get to the bottom of this. It'd help to know if there were any relevant changes made in LFS that could possibly mess with the centering spring effect.

Quote from valdasbutkus :

Im not sure if my GPU is integrated.

Your laptop is most likely equipped with AMD PowerXpress technology and two GPUs. It's possible that the driver mistakenly lets LFS run on the less powerful GPU. You should be able to force on which GPU is the game supposed to run in driver settings.

If that's steady 60 FPS you're perfectly fine. Your laptop's display most likely can't redraw faster than 60 FPS anyway. You can click off VSync in settings to let LFS run as fast as possible but it's not going to make much of a difference. Anything more than 100 FPS will make literally no difference because LFS engine updates only each 1/100th of a second.