Hmm, is there's a reason why I'm twice in the results table? #15 and #18

Any news of the schedule?

Any schedules yet for the summer?

How will the one be chosen?

Thanks Mazda. It was fun first race, even tho I had wrong settings...

I noticed that I had a pause of 6 years from LFS racing. I'm happy to be back! ...and gonna drive as slow as usual

I would love to join, but I have no password for the server... :-P

Hello,

I noticed that you guys are still racing. And new season starts probably mid May?
I could join again, and try some racing... not gonna be fast tho. But modern racing simulators are pretty boring, and I could play LFS still it's having its last breaths.

Quote from cargame.nl :

Although Scawen improved CPU usage, LFS still isn't true multi core. This means that its quite important to know what kind of CPU we are talking about here. As stated by the LFS devs themselves;

Quote :

LFS is mostly CPU dependent due to its physics calculations.
A full multiplayer grid requires a fast CPU more than a fast GPU.

https://www.lfs.net/downloads (at the bottom of the page)

an i7 960 is pretty old and single core performance is not that great, but, for LFS it should be able to keep up I agree with that.

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I don't think the GTX650Ti and/or the drivers can get pretty excited of LFS but maybe NvidiaInspector can tell more. My mobile GPU tends to go into power saving mode often. It's because I told it to do so @Nvidia control panel otherwise I am sitting with a full speed cooling fan all the time. But, LFS rarely manages to get the GPU out of this power saving state, resulting in screen lag in some situations.

You only know whats going on if you start diagnosing and measuring. Take a look at values. Processor speed in Mhz, GPU core speed in Mhz.. Memory.. Etc.

Why do people not do this anymore nowadays? When I was @school I heard so much about overclocking, Mhz, CPU and GPU types that I got sick of the talk about it.

Talking about CPU speed in this case is totally pointless. It has been running perfectly and CPU is very overpowered for LFS, so no problem there. As I told, I have no problems with hardware or the power of hardware.

And again, as I told, hardware is running perfectly. Since I said this, I've diagnosed everything before I made this topic - I'm doing this for living, so I know this stuff.

Anyway, I found the solution. As I feared, the problem was with Nvidia. Not with the drivers, but with Shadowplay Record software. There was a bug with it which caused this freeze spiking.

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish.

Quote from Gutholz :

since last update there are some new settings in Options in Misc section:
"sleep every frame", "max buffered frames" etc.
Recently was also added option for AA in mirrors or something.
On right side is also some new debug-graph, think it is supposed to help find problems or tell if bottleneck is CPU or GPU.
(maybe look in patch thread or so)

I need to try this. I already forgot the whole issue, until I raced again..next time.

Quote from cargame.nl :

Quote from pmw :

So if this is LFS related, it must be related to pretty new version of LFS.

So, do you run LFS 0.6J or not? And why such a big story and not telling CPU/GPU specs? Resolution played?

A littlebit confusing text, anyway, I'm running the latest LFS version. I meant that this bug is pretty new, not sure when it came.

And about the specs, I don't know how CPU is related to it, since I told it is enough powerful. And about the GPU, highly related to drivers -- however, this issues has been with multiple different drivers. Resolution has never changed.

But if you have some experiences of this GPU, go ahead and tell.

CPU: i7 960
GPU: GTX650Ti

But like I said in first post, there's no problems with the actual computer. So it's highly related to LFS or the discussion between LFS<->GPU driver. Of course it could be something else too, something totally out of the box. Feel free to comment.

Hello,

I've now faced a lot of random fps drops. My computer is enough powerful to run LFS with fps, but I have a really interesting fps drops.

A) Fps drops to somewhere between 15-30, I think. Not sure, because LFS's fps-limiter shows 100fps, same with Shadowplay/Fraps
B) Fps drops only when there are lot of cars. But most of the time I have static 100fps
C) Fps dropping lasts only like ~3-5 seconds, but in racing, it is REALLY long time
D) Fps doesn't seem affect to steering wheel / mirrors (different viewports?) - however, not sure about these, since mirrors are small areas to notice fps drops
E) This issue is pretty new

I haven't played that much now, so I'm not sure when this started, but I managed to play new westhill with no problems at all. So if this is LFS related, it must be related to pretty new version of LFS.

Game feels like it would choke, like with many cars, it would start to choke and fps is getting lower, then game starts to breath again and gains some extra fps and goes back to 100fps.

Just to make sure, my computer is enough powerful, it has no problems (heat, I/O, etc), and software are fine, no problems. Running Win 7 Pro.

Ofcourse many times this kind of problems are related to bad GPU drivers, so that's what I'm mainly thinking. I'm waiting for new drivers for my GPU and try again. But for now, everything is up-to-date, and I have no problems with any other game / software.

Feel free to comment / ask if you have something in your mind.

I just noticed that one of my WE replays are pretty broken: http://lfs.petsamo.fi/mpr/2015-03-01_1.mpr

Just take a look and you'll understand. It seems that I'm not the only one whos replay of that race is broken.

Does anyone else have a problem like this? Or is this already reported?

EDIT:
Forget this. If someone else is wondering the same thing..remember something; it might be that you raced in the OLD Westhill, not in the new one.

Nothing to see here.

Last edited by pmw, Mon, 18 May 2015 18:32.

There have been problems with simrace.tv now for couple times.
Could you guys switch to Twitch/Youtube stream etc?

Reminds me of Men in Black.. Good stuff there.

btw, try to add an another curve so you can go back to the track.

Why XRG/RB4/XRT/FXO/RAC/FZ5 are disabled on WE4 (gokart track)?
I understand formulas, but especially XRG, it's really great on tight track like that. And no problem with TBOs either.

Why are cars even disabled by the game, you can drive rallycross with formula, but not drive XRG on gokart track?

Sad to see this. I think it was the last server with ~all cars and strict rules (no cruising etc). I had really good time on cargame from 2010 to 2014. And I have _a lot_ of videos from that era.

Thanks.

Looks really good. I'm gonna join and race on next time.

ps. is it possible go get replays of the last rally event?

Last edited by pmw, Sun, 22 Feb 2015 01:12.

oh thanks thanks. But I must admit that d_cury is more badass with UF1 - It's so terrible car to drive!

I loved this league, and I want to see something similiar racing in future.
Thanks to Gutholz.

Inspired by you, I made a compare video too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aO1Rzhz9t0

But.. In fact, this video is not 100% accurate. Because I synced videos in faulty way. I used cars *first* move as sync time. Not the actual *green light*. So I deleted the actual reaction time of the start... But it's good enough!

Quote from Gutholz :

Track: Three lanes
Car: LX4
Lap Time: 20.21

At least for me UF1 is faster
Overall maybe too but it gets difficult.

Interesting route. But, your time was 21.88 in the replay?

Interesting to see UF1 being faster than LX4.. Maybe possible, interesting.

Basetime again, now for track Three lanes.

Track: Three lanes
Car: LX4
MPR time: 5:14.00
Lap Time: 0:19.96
MPR: http://kk4.fi/u/gym5_1996.mpr

ps. Bonusmaterial; I took a testvideo of Motorkhana, recorded pedals etc (Japanese style): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXzcqEJkZbI

You are right.. I watched his replay and he is not 0.01sec faster than me. When will the new track come out? 00:00?

Damn you are 0.01sec faster than me. I need to make better time today.

That's a really nice video Gutholz. Video like this is really good way to see actual time difference between two cars.

And yep..some kid came on my server, luckily he didn't ruin my run!

dcury almost made a better time.. I may need to rerun and get 42sec..

Ok.

Here's my result for Half Dozen Gates:

Track: Half Dozen Gates
Car: LX4
Time: 19:33
Replay: http://kk4.fi/u/gym3_1933.mpr


And since there are no results for Oval thing, I'll start.
Here's a basetime for you guys:

Track: Big Eyes
Car: LX4
Time: 43:28
Replay: http://kk4.fi/u/gym4_4328.mpr

I'm not sure is it good or bad. I managed to hit 42sec but I hit the cone in the ending with speed of 0.000000001km/h..... Frustrating.

Last edited by pmw, Sun, 11 Jan 2015 22:59.