A small wish or suggestion for improvment:
The information for the allowed pit lane speed and the drive direction is only displayed in a short time window. Please display this information for a few seconds longer. The luxury variant would be if that you could determine this value yourself in the settings. :-)

Quote from TROLDMANDEN :

will all sounds have to be remade ?
im thinking about engine sounds mainly from current version to new.
but also other sounds (sound folder)?

Already answered in this post from Scawen:
https://www.lfs.net/forum/post/1947381#post1947381

Short: Nope, not in the this update

Did i misunderstand your question? Do you mean because of the new environments or new materials?

Maybe a stupid question, but:
When I drive with a Pimax 8K and 20 AIs with this current test version, the frame rate drops from 80 to 40 fps at most times. But it depends on how many cars are around me. Is the GPU or the CPU limited here? I guess it's the GPU (RTX2070) because the 20 AIs have to be calculated at all times, even if I can't see them, right?

By the way: I could fix the problems described above by starting LFS via a user-defined entry under "My Games" in the PiTool control panel.

Interesting project - thanks for sharing

Quote :

small question. will sound be updated? (thinking specially about ambient sounds)

Already answered in thread https://www.lfs.net/forum/thread/93185-Test-Patch-U11%3A-Fixes---VR-updates

Quote from Scawen :

Well this is something I just don't want in my head at the moment at all. Any sound improvements would be a several weeks/months project and the current sound quality doesn't prevent us releasing the new graphical improvements.

wish was fulfilled > https://www.lfs.net/forum/thread/94445-June-Progress-Report

Thanks to devs

Quote from Bose321 :

Are we getting lightning?

I know, my english isn't perfect but if I write in swiss german no one understand me, too. :-)
Typo is fixed.

Hello Devs

Do we get a little update about the current state/progress of LFS development?
- Tracks
- Lighting and/or DirectX 11
- Tire physics

The last (progress) video was from dec 2019. Hopefully you can publish some newer videos, too.

Many thanks

Last edited by Pasci, Fri 26 Jun 2020, 10:10.

I'm sorry for the late feedback. In the meantime LFS works again with my Pimax headset. But I'm not sure, which step resolve the issue. Perhaps reseting Nvidia settings? Normaly I do not change GPU/driver settings in the control panel.

Quote from Vilix :

As you said I'm not a complete expert on LFS, but from a casual players perspective this is my opinion.

What do you mean with that? That hundreds of route variants and vehicles are required for a simulation to be good?

I like LFS as it is and how it "feels". Of course, I would also prefer some variety in terms of new routes and vehicles ... but the older you get, the more patient you will be, or you just get different priorities. :-)

I also have other racing sims like AC, PC and AM. But I hardly played them in comparison because they hadn't convinced me; because they have too high hardware requirements (which I could not always understand), they were too unstable or they had complicated / cumbersome menu navigation.

I can't judge whether mods make a sim better. I never used mods for any racing simulation. However, it can certainly keep (old) racing sims alive longer.

Quote from Scawen :

Thanks for the information. That crash (0xc0000005) is a memory access violation.

Unfortunately the offset of the instruction that caused the crash is not within the LFS exe. It might be in D3D or the Pimax drivers (or the graphics card drivers). That doesn't prove that LFS is not at fault but it doesn't prove it is at fault and certainly does mean I can't locate the problem.

I have the same issue again. Also after PItool update (to version 1.0.1.259). :-( But other VR-games (like Fruit Ninja or Vanishing Realsm) work fine. BTW: Reinstallation of the current NVIDIA drivers does not solve the issue this time.

If I'm not mistaken other drivers also have pimax headsets. Nobody else has problems?

I still post the deb.log.

And the application error event:

I will report to the pimax forum as soon as possible.

Such a feature was available as mod from Kegetys
http://www.kegetys.fi/lfs/ (under Ghostcar)

It's based on a proxy solution for d3d8.dll (Direct3D 8; currently LFS uses Direct3D 9). I don't think that this solution works with the current LFS version.

Correct me if I'm wrong. :-)

Quote from Scawen :

But I have worked on them in the new tyre physics system and I think they are more challenging now.

That would be really great!

Quote from Scawen :

I hope to release the new tyre physics with the graphical update.

Really?!!! I hope that too!

You (the whole team) develop very cool things. I can hardly wait for the update. It is always impressive how LFS continues to develop.

Suggestion
Perhaps could you integrate a simple benchmark in the current test patch (0.6Ux)? With the benchmark you could play a given SPR file and log the smallest and largest FPS values and calculate an average. This would give you an indication of how well / badly the current LFS version is running on your own system and whether switching to D3D10 / 11 would ideally allow better FPS rates despite the more detailed tracks in the new version. In any case, I would be very interested. But there are certainly other ways to benchmark the smoothness of LFS; but not so convenient. ;-)

Thanks you for verifying the data. In the meantime I have installed the latest NVIDIA drivers. Looks like something was wrong before. The installer was not aible to detect the driver version installed before. Very strange

But now everything works again. Thank you for the fast support.

I have found following entry:

@Scawen: LFS crash before I can press any key. I only see for a short time that the headset position menu is displayed. I have no chance to confirm with any key press.

I will check the windows event log asap.

I can't start LFS anymore. LFS close after display view calibration.

The openvr.log contains following information

The deb.log contains this data

Today I updated the PiTool. Afterwards the firmware of the headset was updated automatically, too. By the way, SteamVR home works without any problems. I haven't tested any other games yet.

I already rename the cfg.txt. After that I can start LFS. But when I configure 3D again, I got the same issue.

Does anyone else use the pimax 8k and have updated the pitool?

Quote from Eclipsed :

Warscheinlich die groesste anforderungen von allen teams hier...
(sorry,could not resist )

Sorry, I discovered now your comment. Better late than never?

That is probably the reason why the team has not grown and I now mostly drive alone against the AI...

@nacim: Which seat do you use? Looks interesting. Homemade or a purchased solution? :-)

Very impressive lighting / shadow effects

South City also looks very impressive ... and with the many details you can see Eric's hard work too (but I didn't doubt it!).

If the windows of the cars were transparent, the models could run smoothly as new vehicles.

Read this thread:
https://www.lfs.net/forum/thread/14788-Crash-Address-Important%21

@Scawen needs more information as mentioned by MandulAA. Otherwise no one can help you.

Quote from Scawen :

I haven't asked Eric about that, I've just recently sent him an update with the bloom and various lighting updates. I know he has been working on South City the whole time and I'm sure he'd like to show it soon. I've got some things to finish off. Like today I am trying to get the bloom working properly in VR.

I'm guessing we won't show anything this weekend, but it would be nice if we could prepare a progress report in mid-December.

Thanks for your answer - Then we are looking forward to the middle of december.

Scawen: Can we expect a new progress report for this month/in the next few days from Eric and you? Or are you not ready for that yet?

Thanks anyway

Guys, discuss your topics (other sims, what the devs should do differently, and so on) in another threads, please. This thread is - from my point of view - the wrong place for that topics.

If you are dissatisfied with LFS (as is and/or development) anyway, then just drive your favorite sims.


I expect information about the development progress here.