I kind of fail to see the benefit of that. LFS has well established and perfectly working distribution system which is under full Scavier's control. Right now LFS is Scavier's property and they can do whatever they want with it. Once it's available on Steam, the devs will be bound by some contract with Valve and I can't see that being a good thing. Valve would also certainly keep some percents of the profit for themselves, so the end-user price of the Steam version would be higher.
What useful features LFS could benefit from that outweigh the cons does Steam offer?

I take it you use other version of LFS than 0.6B which is why you use the "runleds"? method? Could you please enable debugging mode in the mod's config file and post the output?

Quote from KiRmelius :

Okay, despite placebo being the only positive effect caused by drinking it and the only reason making people drink it being a great marketing scheme, and ignoring all the nausea and toothache, it's pretty good, I guess. Sorry, but I really don't think that drink is useful for anything else than making money.

100's of millions buying it doesn't say anything about quality, but more about advertising. Like, for example, there always are people buying those expensive fuel activators and putting them in their cars, even though those are just simple magnets. Some even reported decreased fuel consumption, although it's obvious how much bullshit it is.

Or if you can explain why is it good, I'll consider apologizing, as you've said you like my car once, and I value that a lot.

Energy drinks contain caffeine, which has measurable and well described effect on CNS. In this respect energy drinks work just like a cup of coffee. Other usual ingredients include taurine (An aminoacid. It's known to help prevent certain heart diseases and improve mental performance), B-family vitamins and glucose (human brain needs glucose to function).

There is no placebo effect nor are any of the substances that an energy drink is made of toxic. Of course, too high consumption can lead to side effects and even diseases, but hey, you can die of drinking way too much water.

Yes, that's pretty much it.

Quote from stadtpirat :

Hi,
When i switch FF on the LED on G27 works.
When i switch FF off the LED dont work.

I use proxy DLL version 1.05C.

This is expected behavior. The mod needs FFB to be enabled in LFS, unfortunately I forgot to mention this in the README. If you want the LEDs to work with no FFB, switch the FFB on but set its strength to 0 in LFS settings, that should work.

Quote from stadtpirat :

Hi MadCatX,
Can you help me please.
I use proxy DLL version 1.05C and debug for you.
I drive with XFG on Blackwood.
My G27 Led dont work.
The Led work only at ledsTestA.exe
Sorry for my Bad englisch.

Update:
I switch FF on and now it works without runleds.bat
I use 1.05C

So does it work right now or not? Do I understand correctly that it works without the helper app and doesn't work when helper app is running? Do you need to use the helper app for any reason mentioned in the README? If not, it's better not to use it at all. Which version of LFS do you have?

The Form1.cs file has almost 20000 lines? Seriously?

Anyway, the variable C is probably not declared in the context where you are trying to access it. Are you sure you wrote all your code in the correct place?

I guess this is a problem with the ENBConverter. LFS tries to capture DIRECT3DSURFACE8 type of surface, but because ENBConverter translates DX8 calls to DX9 calls, there is no DIRECT3DSURFACE8. ENBConverter probably doesn't have the functionality to capture DX9 surface and convert it to DX8 surface. (I might be wrong though, this is just a guess based on a quick googling.)

This doesn't look like overheating. It's not that easy to really overheat current hardware and even when it happens, the machine would more likely power itself down rather than reboot.

Random reboots with no error message whatsoever can be caused by a power problem. If the electricity supply you are connected to has a fluctuating voltage or runs at unstable frequency, the PSU might not be able to filter that out. Your system might therefore not get enough power under load and reboot randomly. Failing capacitors in the PSU can also cause similar problems.

Quote from Scawen :

^

Thanks for taking the time to summarize this, it's always interesting to read some technical info. Just out of curiosity, have you considered using HPET instead of TSC (or whatever timesource Windows picks) to check for any clock delta? The way I understand it, HPET is supposed to be both more precise and accurate at the expense of having bigger polling overhead...

The hard part of getting this working with LFS would be obtaining the time diffs. OutGauge and OutSim don't provide any sort useful lap time info. The only way I can imagine is reading the raw lap time from memory and matching it to track nodes.

I just estimate the POV at the moment, but that can be fine-tuned pretty easily. Default FOV in LFS is set to 90 degrees in so that's what I'm using for the time being. I didn't do any testing with different FOV values so far but the algorithm should have no problem working with any FOV in <0; 180> range.

Quote from cargame.nl :

Or maybe other cruise servers working with InSim alerts above cars which get bigger when you come closer.

Just so we're clear, scaling buttons proportionally to distance does not necessarily mean 3D projection. What I'm going for an algorithm that will correctly project arbitrary polygon on a flat plane. Given the very constricting limitations of IS_BTNs this might seem like a hell of an overkill, but such a flexible algorithm could be used for much more interesting stuff than a few floating buttons.

Quote from cargame.nl :

Ehhmm... This is quite normal on cruise servers like TC?

I honestly don't know, but I bet that they don't supply an opensource library for this (nor do I ATM, but I will once it's done)

The demo runs at 5 FPS, but it's not a problem to let it run at say 25 but it would hog the bandwidth quite a bit because everything is done through InSim. I might upload some smoother demo once I get the worst problems sorted out...

This is another one of my "must-try-some-day" kind of projects. I've been playing with the idea to make an IS_BTN appear like an actual object in 3D space and project it correctly on the screen. I guess that such a system could be very useful to dynamically mark various places on the track. Provided that the server has enough bandwidth to resend buttons often enough there should be no problem using it online.

This is a very early version I hacked together today, so it has some quite apparent issues

http://youtu.be/skIsbd7LwY8

You only need 4th paragraph in this section. If you installed LFS into your desktop folder, something like this should work

(note that all commands are case sensitive!)

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingTheTerminal

Switch to the directory where you installed LFS using "cd" and type "wine LFS".

I assume you mean Ubuntu 12.04? How did you run the installer and where did you install LFS? You might need to run LFS from console, it will at least tell you what goes wrong.

Can you be more specific about your problem? Which version of Ubuntu do you run and how do you launch LFS? What exactly happens when you try to start LFS?

Quote from cargame.nl :

You guys forgot to motivate your request. IPv6, talked about for over 10 years but lack of implementation is still there today. Why waste time with something almost nobody is going to make use of?

IPv6 has been supported on all major platforms for a very long time (Linux has it implemented since 1999). With the RIPE NCC completely dry ISPs will not be able to give new customers public IPv4 addresses. This already is the case in CZE where Telefónica O2 assigns a public /64 v6 block and a NAT'ed v4 to every customer who signed up after 1. 7. 2012. IPv6 is a necessity and the sooner LFS get IPv6 compliant, the more time there will be to debug it before it becomes a worldwide standard.

I think it could be a good topic for another interim patch before the new tyre physics is done.

Have you failed to notice the word TEST in front of the word PATCH? You are not supposed to install the patch unless you're prepared to deal with problems. Most servers will update once the final version out.

This doesn't work on Win7, you might be able to get it working with SoftTH.

The oldschool bitshifting and ORing method doesn't seem to be working with Java 7.

You could probably use tracert tool to find the bottleneck. Type something like "tracert -w 1500 youtube.com" and look for a hop on the way which takes long to respond.