As a current member of the GFC in a FOX and doing quite nicely in the league I'd encourage newbies who are after good, clean racing to apply.

I started the GFC with very little LFS experience and have hugely improved over the past few months learning new tracks and racing with very experienced guys.

Pure speed isn't that crucial if you race consistently and fairly.

I'm not the only slower runner who's doing well either - there's several of us.

RE: Event Viewer - go :

All programs/Administrative Tools/Event Viewer and see if there are any error relating to the time of the last crash.

Sorry - should have suggested this when you first mentioned the problem.

This would be incredibly simple to program (I guess) but would be hugely beneficial to those a few laps down in races.

The number of times I've seen people ask the question in a race.

+1 for animated pit crew + defined pit boxes for each racer.

would make the game much more realistic.

Quote from Hankstar :

Some people around here are like the frickin' paparazzi. How are the devs' earnings anyone's business, or even relevant to the game? Sheesh. Get a hobby

he he.. And some are so damned tetchy!

anyway, I agree. Let's move on.

Quote from AndroidXP :

Yes, it has. And it's more like 40000-50000 licenses.
Anyhow, if there is someone who has to care about the finances then it's the devs themselves - all that is none of our business.

Clearly but it's still interesting to understand some of the background.

I'm sure everyone has some kind of interest in it even if they claim not to have ;-)

P.S. I'd be grateful if people could alert me to the specific threads as this is a classic instance where searching isn't terrible helpful.

I was just thinking about the business side of LFS since the devs need to eat and look after home/family etc...

Just wondered where LFS generates revenue/profit?

Clearly the biggie is the S2 licenses.

I'd guess somewhere around 10,000 S2 licenses have been sold.

That being the case it translates to revenue of £240,000. Plenty for the time being but as it's a one-off payment it doesn't lend itself to the devs being able to live and develop LFS for ever.

Clearly, it is worthwhile for the devs but also interesting to ask the question.

If it has been covered before I apologise.

Do you reboot your PC before playing LFS?

If not, I'd recommend doing that.

I've never had this particular problem but Windows is pretty flaky at the best of times and doing a complete reboot will clear everything out.

IF you have less than 1.5Gb of RAM it could be the virtual memory churning away in the background.

Count me in too. Don't mind either car.

Quote from tombarlin :

nigle your were banned for constant crashing and getting in the way of the leaders. Also id likie to say yes we will kick slower drivers if another team member is wanting to join the server as kieren rightly put (thanks btw lol) its ours we can do what we want with it

I which case I suggest you ban pretty much everyone else in that race as I was barged off three of four times!

How long does the ban last?

I was actually enjoying my time there.

Kieran,

Yes, I was witness to all that nonsense!

Another example of poor admin.

You clearly said sorry but they pushed and pushed to ban you until someone saw sense.

I however wasn't so lucky - they just booted me out!

I use 500 for everthing - suits my driving style.

Quote from keiran :

You're ignoring the fact they pay for the server. They can do what they want. Condisering the server is almost always full I'd say that most people are happy enough.

Yes, it's a good server and I enjoyed racing there but the admin leaves a lot to be desired.

Quote from Gentlefoot :

As I said, if those running the server choose to bann people who's names start with G for example, that's their perogative. Find another server.

And the excuse that it is the only one running that combo is ridiculous. Just go to an empty server with the cars that you want that also lets you choose tracks. and choose whatever track you like.

Not when it's the only competitive one racing.

Mauni,

You are right but there are some servers that are particularly unfair and deserve mentioning.

Note that last night this was the only server running the BLGP/FOX combo with anyone on as well so makes it awkward if you want to race a particular set.

All I'm asking for is that admins give a little bit.

Deliberate wreckers of course - ban them!

Others who might not intentionally cause harm - maybe just warn them.

We have lists of bad drivers/wreckers but is there also a case for having bad servers listed i.e. where folk seem to be banned indiscriminately?

I'd say it might be a worthy thing to include somewhere on site.

At least to discuss/debate the problems.

see :

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=10750
http://www.lfsforum.net/showth ... ight=%22redline+racing%22


for examples of one such particular team that seems to ban without genuine reason of late.

Redline Racing definitely have a problem IMHO.

I also got banned last night for trying to get back on the track after being punted off by another driver! But was given no explanation!

Accidents happen for christsakes!

Did the other driver get banned? Nope.

I'm assuming they have a little cliche going on and decide who they want on and off. interesting that the server was full at the time so I reckon one of their pals wanted to get on.

Not sporting behaviour IMHO but if you don't like it don't race there is I guess what they will say.

1:35:02 - sounds pretty good to me! ;-0

Best bet afterlife is to watch a replay and use set up of the chap who's done a 1:33:10- round blackwood in the gti.

I'm still three and bit seconds off but it helped me no end to get closer.

spot on madcat!!

Thank you very much indeed.

Now getting 70-80 fps!

thanks very much madcat - a scholor and a gentleman. I bet that's the problem.

I'll let you know how I go.

what's the deal on simple track??

I'm also going to delete the cfg.txt and run LFS again as it's possible the new nvidia drivers have caused some problem.

Good point on the sound acceleration - will have a look.

<quote>you sure? i have a 6600GT (well, i used to have until i got SLi working), and i got ~80 fps on my own, and never got into the 20-30 fps range, what drivers you ogot?
</quote>

6600GT is roughly twice as fast as 6600 so maybe I'm getting expected speed.

http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/gffx/nv43-p03.html

downloaded the latest DirectX 9.0c.

Seems to have helped slightly. I'm getting 30-50 fps range when hot lapping round blackwood.

Haven't tried a race yet.

Any other thoughts/ideas/suggestions?

No CPU issues either!

hmmmm...

I did mention I'm running it at 1280x1024 32-bit colour didn't I?