I like the mug looks appropriate

Quote from 6bolttsi :

hey guys new here but i was wondering if anyone was having problems with finding a sever with someone on playing.bout a week sence ive seen someone on s2.it pulls up all the servers but no one is on except on the demo.

illepall

If you can only see demo servers, then that means you have the 'DEMO' tab/button selected at the top when you goto get server lists. Try selecting the 'S2' tab/button before getting the server list. Other than that the other guys are probably right about the patch.

Quote from Blackout :

oh but this is a classic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ... L27vAs&search=Montoya
Someone (Ron Dennis for example) should have shouted in to his ear "You f**ing idiot! *******!"

classic F1 moment. i love the look on Ross Brauns face

you know you are getting older when you have to think about how old you are! maybe i just dont want to grow up.........

Quote from Anton-GR :

Hi fivecheebs,
I have exactly the same problem as you. I first start the game 10 days before already at U patch and I got my S2 lisence at the same day. It worked fine both offline and online. Then 3 days before I bought a Logitech Formula Vibration FB wheel. As soon as I installed it my problems started. I continue to play fine offline but when I try to race online I got a 1 sec freezes every 5-6 seconds interval.In spectator mode cars moves seems very jerky too. I was lucky because the problem starts as soon as I installed the wheel so I pinpointed it there.
I found a temporary solution (which I suggest you to try too) and I am in search for a more permanet one.
So my solution is to unplug the wheel, start the game, go online and as soon as I join a server I plug-in the wheel again. When I do that all works fine as before. No lag and packets lost at all. I even change servers at will with no problem. The only limitation is dont exit the game. If you do that you have to do the same procedure again.
Strange solution for a strange problem, but it fits to me.Hope it fits to you too

PS1: Looking forword for a more proffesional and clear solution

PS2: Packet loss has nothing to do with my provider and my connection as I can play lot of other demanding games online with no problem

your problem sounds as though it has something to do with your wheel, not packet loss.

try turning on 'minimum sleep' to at least 1ms. this should be in the 'misc' section in the options menu if i recall correctly.

They are possibly down with the rest of the LFS sites. The official sites are just back up, so give them a chance to sort things out.

Welcome back all! :hyper::bitehard:

So we have to sign up in this thread too?

Ok, im in.

I am sure I ran LFS with a Voodoo 3 in the past. That may have been before the haze effect (HVS) was complusory (is it?).

I think it was back in the days of S1 or early S2 I had a Voodoo3 Titanium. However, it was on a much better spec of system, i.e. 1.3GHz I think.

Quote from jaimi :

Put up a Cymru team topic, see what interest you get, i saw a nice welsh flag BF1 so some interest (unless it was you of course).
I have been playing for almost 2 1/2 years and this is the most scots ive seen gathered in one topic. so just goes to show it takes time?!...

alot of Scots are lurking behind those union jack flags anyway, i know i was until i saw you could get a saltire.

Packet Loss seems to be very common at the moment.....

Check the thread I started in this section for a useful tool for checking packet loss. Or just google for 'Ping Plotter'.

Nice skin Typhoon

Keeping scottish logos is a good idea too. The ones you already have are pretty cool.

A few others to add would be:
Irn-Bru/Barrs
Famous Grouse (+any other scots booze)
RBS (you already have but is a good one)

There is already another Irn-Bru skin going about which is made by my brother, if you want to see it ill maybe post it later. I think the flag one is best though.

Good luck chaps.

Quote from ayrton senna 87 :

tristan not to post for a day

£1000000000000000000!!!

£20.01

what are we bidding for again? for tristan as a slave for a day?

Ok, £6

Quote from tristancliffe :

unless you wish to bribe me to cut the wheels of the fast guys karts

£5 in the post

Sorry, Im already taken

If there are every any other 'nations' events though, let me know

classic....

Quote from colcob :

But if memory served, it was just there as a backup for people who couldnt get UDP packets through the firewall, there are performance problems I think.

I am pretty sure that UDP packets arent being blocked in my case, but is there anyway to check this? I am sure TCP/UDP packets are enabled for when I host a server, but I do not usually use a seperate rule for normal LFS.

A crap connection is still the #1 cause due to the results I get from Ping Plotter, but ill check out the firewall for UDP allowances anyway.

Quote from AndroidXP :

Ohhh, nice to know

except that after a quick test i still lagged out on an empty server..........

when you press CTRL-T it says "Requesting TCP Packets for positional updates", however there is no confirmation of this request.

edit: In the CFG file would it be 'Conn To Master 0' ? Otherwise I can just do it in game.

Last edited by mrbogeyman, Thu 4 May 2006, 19:41.

Thanks for the tips guys!

Basically online play is impossible at the moment, and so I might try this out for a while.

Does this apply to the Server List aswell? It is REALLY slow too! Anyway, ill give it a try and see.

Yeah, I sort of knew it would create more traffic, but I was unsure as to how much more.

Another reason I ask is that games like Doom3 still run perfectly online for me. Is that becuase it relies soley on TCP packets? Surely LFS isnt that much more of a bandwidth hog?

Quote from ArosaMike :

They got accused of it in the first few GPs though where they were doing rubbish! People just noticed the flexing from the onboard cams. You could see daylight appearing between the wing elements and the nose!

yeah, they have had it all season and it was easy to see.

when ITV showed the front wing cam, you could see the element coming away from the nose, thus the wing was flexing.

ooooh, me jealous!

looks like fun, and im glad you showed them what LFS racers are like

Quote from Noni :

Thanks alot!

But, to counter your argument, there will be a option to turn it off :P

LFS doesnt allow you to turn anything 'OFF'. It is a simulator The only things that can be turned ON/OFF are graphical/sound features etc etc. So if damage were to be implemented fully, fair enough the visual aspect may be tunable, but the physical effects would not be.