I have my iPod plugged in to the computer with iTunes on shuffle. I voted rock since thats the closest genre to what I listen to, though most of what I have is probably considered metal.

I guess I'm just lucky then. I upgraded to SP2 as soon as possible and never had any problems, even though it seems everyone I hear talking about it has only had bad things to say.

I never had any pop ups with SP2. You must be listening to a lot of rumors.

I'd like to know what that guy said to Zidane to get him to do that. I couldn't believe my eyes! What a sore way to go out in retirement.

Maybe some people did not see this:

Quote from Scawen :

I am not asking for requests at all

Come on people...this thread is getting very annoying with all the requests. I don't see how Scawen hasn't completely flipped out already. Give the guy a break!!

Hmm I turn 21 in 6 days, wonder if I'll get anything

I've been engaged to my girl for nearly 2 years. We're getting ready to move into our own apartment in about a month. But then again, I certainly don't devote as much time to LFS as a lot of people here.

The only way I can see LFS getting in the way of anyone getting a girlfriend is if that is ALL you do. People need to have more hobbies than just sitting on the computer all day.

Quote from wsinda :

I would like to, since it's also my preferred setup when I play Racer. But in LFS, there is a problem with that: there's hardly any visual clue how far the throttle/brake is pressed. LFS hides the mouse arrow, and the only replacement if offers are two small vertical bars in the corner of the screen. That makes it very hard to judge how much input you're giving.

Press N a few times, the cursor shows up with one of the options This is a little annoying online because if you want the cursor to show up, then the connection list is also going to be showing, and with a large server it can block a big chunk of the screen. But really it isn't all that bad. I've been doing it for a long time. And yeah you just reminded me about Racer. I believe this is the default setup for Racer if I'm remembering correctly.

I just don't get it...why do so many mouse drivers think they are restricted to digital throttle and brake?!? You can put the throttle and brake on the Y-axis of the mouse and steering on the x-axis! It is an incredible advantage over the digital input. I have mine setup that way, with shifting, clutch, horn, ect on the keyboard. It actually takes very little time to get used to. My hotlaps aren't that far off from some WR's, and benchmark times are easily reachable. But if you take a look at my hotlaps you might notice it says I use a wheel. That's where one problem comes in. You have to select the wheel option to assign the extra axis to the mouse. I really wish this little part would get fixed in a patch :-)

Quote from XCNuse :

have we all been .. wrong by calling the "FXR" the FXO?

im really confused lol

I dunno about you but I don't know anyone that calls the FXR the FXO. These are two different vehicles.


FXO:


FXR:

Nothing but disappointment from USA this morning :-(

The mouse can already control throttle and steering smoothly without using the buttons. Throttle/brake on Y-axis, steering on X-axis. The center of the screen is the neutral zone(no brake, no throttle, tires straight) above the center the throttle starts getting applied, below the center the brakes get applied, and such with the steering right and left that you already know about. Much better than the sudden on/off of a button.

lol first time I've ever seen something like that happen. :-D

Turbo Dad, I just upgraded a few months ago from an Nvidia geforce mx 440. I see people are suggesting the x800gto, and that is exactly the card I upgraded to. It is definitely amazing bang for the buck! Unfortunately I see your PSU is 220W, which is the same as my old one. The x800gto and I think a lot of newer cards require hooking up to the PSU and require atleast 300W. I had to also upgrade my PSU, so you might have to go that route too.

I bought a 500W PSU, x800gto, and 1gig of ram and it boosted the FPS from (everything off/low detail) 25-30 FPS to (everything on, high detail) 170-180 FPS.

Quote from micha1980de :

i think your idea of break-out racing is a bit odd.

It's not my idea, bracket drag racing is real.

Quote from BrandonAGr :

At least I think he was refering to bracket racing where instead of racing the guy next to you to see who can get the fastest time, you see who can get closest to a 'dial in' time that you guess before hand without going any faster than that time. It basically allows cars that are not equal in horsepower or ET time to compete against each other, because it tests driver skill more than how much money you have dumped into your car to make it go fast in a straight line.

Bingo! It brings in some skill and calculation. You would initially need to do some runs to figure out what your ET would be(this could be done offline). Then lets say you take out the slowest car LFS has and you run 17.919 and you run this consistently. You would set your ET as close to that time as possible, but it has to be less, so just say 17.8 to be safe. If you run faster than your ET then you 'breakout' and are disqualified for that run, kinda like redlighting. This brings in the reaction time too. A little example:

::Slow car::
ET: 18 s
Race starts
Reaction Time: .689 s
Race ends
Time: 17.89 s
Total: 18.579 s (adds in the reaction time to 17.89)
So you ran .579 s slower than your ET.

::Faster car::
ET: 10 s
Race stars
Reaction Time: .599 s
Race ends
Time 9.99 s
Total: 10.589
So you ran .589 slower than you ET

In the above example the slower car wins because he was .579 s off his ET while the faster car was .589 off his ET, both without breaking out.

With bracket racing, a slow car can run up against a fast car and still win even though the fast car passed the finish line first. The winner is the one who gets closest to their ET without breaking out.

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The option for bracket racing should be added to, instead of just heads up drags all the time.

All the above ideas sound great too. I haven't done much drag racing in S2 but it was fun for a little while in S1. These ideas would make it TONS better.

I haven't viewed your video(i'm on dialup :-( ) but I'm assuming you're talking about the FXO GTR at Blackwood? I've been hotlapping around BL and the curbs flip me over many times. It's annoying and not very realistic, but it's not too hard to avoid it from happening. Just don't turn too sharp while cutting the corners short.

Well you can download the replays and watch them, which is certainly helpful as you can see where the good lines are and such. If your idea was able to be done, it would have to be against a ghost car to cut out any drafting, and plus having to pass an actual car and take a different line would slow your time anyways. I just watch the WR replays a few times to study the lines and braking points, write down the split times, and then take off on my own hotlapping.

Quote :

Sorry guys but the official US attitude to the rest of the world is" F*%k you, you have something we want - we'll take it."

Maybe Americans don't see this, for a variety of reasons, but the rest of the world does.

America isn't one person; not everyone in America has that attitude, but thanks for showing your ignorance.

Looks good! I don't see why that wouldn't work just fine :-)

Quote from 96 GTS :

This kind of amused me, hehe

Bummer, looks like it happened at basically the peak time.

Looked like he purposely did it to me. It initially looked okay, the front-right tire lockup seemed odd. But then he could have made the turn, but he went straight to the wall instead. Just goofy. Guess he would rather make himself look bad than start second on the grid. Is pole position really THAT important to do something lame like that and make yourself look like an ass?

Liveforspeed.net is showing 3 people online...I think Scawen, Victor, and Eric shut everyone out for a while to have a go by themselves :-D

Quote from XCNuse :

not even a bird poo simulator?

(inside joke)

If we're gonna have rain effects we might as well have bug splatters and bird poo, it happens in real life