Quote from jwardy :

i was thinking why cant we have a funcioning radio in the cars so we can listen to our music in game without having to have winamp, windows media , etc open in the background .

-1. Racecars don't have radio's Winamp is fine for me.

They promised to make it more realistic. Maybe it is compared to Carbon i don't know. I can't even play it on my pc, so i can stay in my closet playing LFS

From what i've heared it's not very realistic. Cars with 400 HP still slow down when you take a corner. It looks nice, maybe i'll buy an Xbox someday and then arcaderacers can be fun.

Great show, enjoyed watching it.

Quote from Electrik Kar :

Time passes...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elIAMgSulWM

Lol, it's actually a pretty good imitation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bj570ZqJEM

Now some 40 year old should make the same video

Quote from Racer Y :

You know, I've been thinking, What will happen post S-3? Like to the master server and to LFS world? like i dunno about two or three years after the final s-3 patch. What happens then?

Why do you worry about that? Then there will come something new. Maybe S4 with the same masterserver, or maybe everyone will be playing Need for Speed Carton.

Quote from di48lo :

I have so many things on my PC... it would take almost 2 dayst to get over it...

You said "reinstall the game", not your entire computer

Or just install an other version in an other directory. A lot of people have multiple installs to be able to use other apps (slickmod, smokemod, ghostcar and so on) and to test stuff.

You did not use any crack? Cracks can do strange things and make games look bugged. (i don't expect an other answer then no, but if it is yes you could save us some time thinking about what it could be).

Quote from Chrisuu01 :

I just found this and had thee idea of hey i regondnice that roll

Its a UFR rol just like it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eshe3Hr57Y

That's just stupid how he drove that.

Quote from Tweaker :

lol what???? Smarties are everywhere here, and made in NJ. I don't buy the little kids pack ones too... I get MEGA Smarties

M&Ms are so-so... I'd really only like to have Peanut Butter M&Ms or Reeses Pieces.

M&M's and smarty's are everywhere. Here in the Netherlands there widely available too. With smarties the capsule is too sweet (kidsstuff), M&M's FTW

I did try early S1 versions but i did not play it enough to miss the old blackwood i guess. I played it a few times and a few years later (the S2 U or V patch ) i rediscovered LFS and bought S2

Quote from jimaxx :

Ok im currently running a middle spec system (in my opinion)
6200gefoce graphix
1.2gb of ram
and my crappy xp2000+ procceser

Now on some games on LOW graphics (thinking of mainly css here) i can run down to about 15fps :| im guessing this is down to a 1.7ghz procceser...would it be possible for me to overclock this to get an improvement? and how noticable would it be?

Cheers,

Edit: from first post,
Im running the standard cooling system which came with this pc...which im guessing isnt good... if that helps at all,
Edit2: Cheers Jak for that, ill have a look and see what i get

I don't think you can overclock it much. For me it is the bottleneck as well (XP 2000+, 756 MB ram andd an Radeon 9500@9700 pro).

Problem with this CPU it's already very warm (hot) at stock speeds. Last summer I had to underclock it to be able to use my pc. I've got a better cooler now, but it still doesn't overclock. For a 300/400 euro's you have a now PC with decent specs (amd X2 dualcore, 2gb ram and a videocart)

My pc does handle it well BTW. Decent framerates, but very low details with 30+ people on a track

Last edited by marzman, Mon, 5 Nov 2007 18:30.

Quote from GruntOfAction :

Hey im running a Compaq Presario (Everything about it is unchanged from the factory except for the video card which is a geforceFX5200) and I was wondering what is the easiest way to set it up for LFS without buying a new computer or without killing my own? It runs fine at 40-60 FPS but it looks..ehh..What settings do you reccomend for a computer like mine?

I think you have to give more details of your pc (processor and memmory are important).

But i think most stuff from the startpost will work. It does on my 6/7(!) year old computer. Only when there are a lot of cars on the track it doesn't look that good anymore (all the details are gone, but it doesn't lag).

The S1 streetcars look like old 80's (or early 90's) models. Where there rollcages in all racingcars 17 years ago?

Quote from z3r0c00l :

the old panda was much more fun.

A panda would be nice competition for the UF1.

A SUV? Sure, why not. A Mercedes ML63 AMG and Porsche Cayenne Turbo S could be fun

Quote from fraghetti :

-1 for SUV's. Those stupid things are just prestige objects nobody needs. I'd rather like to see some real jeeps and some nice rallycross tracks with some slower parts. (like some bigger stones)

I like that thought. Rally tracks where you ruine your car if you don't slow down. But there will always be aliens that can blow trough big stones full throttle.

Longest time for me is about 50 hours. I woke up on Thursday's at 07.00 am and went to sleep at Saturday's at 09.00 am every week for a few years because i worked Thursday and Friday nights and had to go to school during the daytime. It got me a head age every Saturday (like you have when you had to much to drink the other day)

Quote from dieselfuelonly :

Hi everyone. Thought that those of us that are hosting servers could share what hardware we use.

This is going to be my new server soon... I plan to my my S2 license soon too to make it worthwhile. This server will be shipped out to Chicago to be colocated in the next couple months.

Here is the current hardware:

• HP Proliant ML570 G2 (130lb. 7u Rack-mount Case)
  
• 4x2.0GHz Xeon MP Processors (4 individual hyperthreaded processors)
  
• 8x512MB PC1600 DDR ECC RAM (Total of 4GB)
  
• 2x15k RPM 36GB Ultra320 SCSI HDs - RAID 1 (Main OS)
  
• 2x10k RPM 73GB Ultra320 SCSI HDs - Not in use ATM
  
• HP Smart Array 6402 Ultra320 PCI-X SCSI RAID Controller
  
• CentOS Linux 5.0 - Operating System

Here are the planned upgrades:

• Addition of 2x10k RPM 73GB Ultra320 SCSI HDs - Set up in RAID 0+1 along with the other 2 current 73GB drives
  
• *Possible* Addition of another Memory Board allowing for 8 more sticks of PC1600 DDR ECC RAM
  
• Dual Gigabit NIC

Anyway, can someone give me an idea of how many LFS servers this would support?

Thanks, and share your servers too!

Dennis

(I'll post pics in a second, I have to take a couple )

You don't need that for a dedicated LFS server

I run it on a 533 Mhz VIA C3, with 2 GB compact flash (storage) and 256 MB ram (memmory). That's all and the connection is the bottleneck (1 mbit up)

Quote from mrodgers :

Has anyone ever tried to open their door on their real car at 60 mph? Now just try to open your door at 160 mph. Go on, I want to see someone be successful with that......

It can be easy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_doors
[edit]
Sorry for the spuit elf (needle eleven? ) reaction.

Last edited by marzman, Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:58.

Quote from Woz :

The passenger code has beeen there forever so it has not really cost anything on dev recently (At least in the past 3+ years).

It was probably added early on as handycap and also for testing the cars reaction etc.

There is no harm it being left in from what I can see.

And it was kind of allready there because they made a function you can sit on the left or on the right. Not to much work to make you sit on both sides and in the back to then.

Quote from danowat :

I think that the first time someone runs LFS S2, there should be a warning screen the warns new drivers that the pit lane limiter is on by default.

Would stop the slew of "why doesnt my car go faster than 80kph" posts

You see a green light on your dash that you don't have in other cars (and it's only on when your starting from the pit). I think it's kind of clear that there is something going on.

Not even a cage in that car? These guys are crazy

Quote from 1995CobraR :

I think we should have some kind of effect that if we crash hard enough the glass shatters/breaks/cracks..... It kinda gets anoying when the glass bends

~cobra

Like that great effect Stunt had back in the days. Krrrr.

In the Neterlands we had reverse racing and caravan racing. That was the best

Reverse:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxu--_HsYHE


Caravanrace:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmTrqb1fx3E

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

...talk about missing subtle jokes...

American's making subtle jokes. Are you guy's going for something new here?

I've heard some rumors i could get free cookies here. Yummie.

Quote from LFSn00b :

But he's a demo racer :P

Cruising is not racing. This is a racing simulator.

Also, i would give a +1 if it would be used for only speed testing.

What is the use of a speedtesting area if you can't get to that speed on the racetracks? It seems useless to me.

Quote from mcintyrej :

Lol? Wangan racing at the highway? Isn't Wangan racing done on the Wangan highway? Not in a british city? Also, you've got a drag strip. Whats the difference?

It would end the it's a racesim, not a cruisingsimulator discussion because je need cruising trafic on the highway

Quote from The Very End :

If the mayority of the server wants to end the race and chance a to a new track I guess there is nothing you can do. But half of the server has to agree so I don`t really see anything wrong with people changing track, as long the mayority of the server wants it.

If someone is still making his last lap you should wait till he has finished. Especially when it's not a half-race joiner.

Quote from AstroBoy :

Ive been racing just me and 1 more person and he makes a mistake so BANG restart, they just cant suck it up.

That's annoing too. On some servers that happens almost every lap.