Awesome job! the realism and physics of LFS coupled with the storyline and thrill of NFS or Fast and Furious

Great version! My fav is the arrows being shown in pits even in open config. I really wanted that fix.

Although I prefer racing. drifiting is cool, fun and the satisfaction you get by delicately balancing and dancing the car at the limit of grip and balance. But what I hate is people drifting in a race server and crashing into people. Other than that, it is cool.

What about this? "Car so and so is stationary - he might have rolled or out of fuel and needs help" I am sure In Sim gives information if a car is stationary.

It is cool, it kinds brings in the seemless app/OS interface usually seen in smartphones. Live tiles rock. Of course, I miss the useful Start->Programs. One bad thing that happened to me, ever since I installed win 8, my keys (steer/throttle ) etc get stuck mid corner, in LFS

I upgraded to Windows 8, and soon enough, the keys started getting stuck. So I am in a fast corner, and I turn right and the left steer keys and throtte gets stuck sending me to oblivion I first thought, it was due to my keyboard malfunctioning or key wear and tear. But:
1) Even when i remapped the keys, it is getting stuck
2) My laptop is just 2 months old.
2) Keys do not get stuck when I type etc. It seems to be a windows8-LFS thing.

Does anyone face such issues? Because of this, I have started using mouse now. I have to almost re-learn LFS. I am 1-2% slower now
I think I may be alone because finding a keyboard driver who has upgraded to windows 8 may be difficult

Even in 0.6B your sets rock! for nervous cars, like LX4, LX6, RAC etc. Thanks a lot Bob, I am a KB driver and I never used to be able to control the LX's though I liked them. With your sets, I can easily control them and it is my primary choice now and am able to get "great splits" and "good laps" with it, after making minimal modifications. So hats off!

I think the OP browsed for C:/Program Files hoping that LFS will auto create LFS sub folder.

Quote from matijapkc :

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@rageshgr, these numbers seem a little too low...

ya well it was a ballpark. But it certainly was under 15 GB. No way near Dave's statistics

Quote from cargame.nl :

Well you are now on a server with a maxxed out grid. Then it goes pretty fast

About 22.5 Megabyte a minute
1.35 Gigabyte an hour.

Seems also that you are just spectating. That doesn't really help.

If you really need to watch out try the S1 server or other lower populated servers.

Correct if I am wrong, but, I am surprised with that data. 22.5 MB/min would mean 384 KB/sec, that would mean 3 Mbps. (Megabits). I am on a 2 Mbps connection and play on maxed out servers all the time with no issues. Also if you would download 1.35 GB per hour, that is 16 GB per day, that is 480 GB per month.

I have played LFS on busy servers for 10 hours per day for many months, but it has never crossed say 6-10 GB per month. I have hi-res skin downloads enabled too. Probably you mean 22.5 Megabits per minute rather than MegaBytes, even then it seems a bit too high

Last edited by rageshgr, Mon 20 Aug 2012, 14:26.

You might also want to disable skin downloads , or set it to 512 k skin, in case you have set it to download hi-res 1024k skin

Quote from DANIEL-CRO :

BTW Tonight I dreamed how Scawen implemented that skin :

Rofl. Did you also dream that, when using matte paint, it produces more turbulence and hence the car is less aerodynamic? Lol

Quote from S.E.T.H :

i was 0.2-0.3 sec faster each lap, and much better in races myself.

I agree that F view may be unrealistic and may provide some extra info. But Morgan's post indicates that even in real life they use such devices.

First of all, you say you are faster with F view. Is it because you can see the naked tyres and the road clearly? In that case even the custom view provides similar thing. So you should oppose that too. Or is it that you are actually usin the red bars to gauge grip etc which is helping you fine tune your steering angle, braking etc?

In anycase, this is a sim, so there are many features in this which are not available in real life. But since a sim does not have the many luxuries of real life, like a crew of automobile engineers to help you out, accurate feeling of forces on your body (ignore FFB, FFB is also simulation or approximation), the smell, the sounds etc. Since a sim has many limitations compared to a real life racing, there are many extra features added to help you out, to balance the limitations of a sim, vs real life racing. And as someone said, when we use non-FFB wheels, joysticks, keyboars, mouse to drive, these kind of extra features do help.

But for the record, personally I get distracted by the F view. My most comfortable view is the custom view with "none" visible, not even tires, just the road. And just like the F view, this is unrealistic too. But this is what works for me, and this is a sim which caters to different kinds of people with different kinds of controllers etc.

And my main problem is, when you talk about unrealistic features in a sim, the F view may not be the biggest problem.

And I also sense a feeling of frustration that you have that after a month of driving you are not the fastest etc. But trust me, I don't know anyone who drives around in F view. We have people like Chesnos, who uses cockpit view, manual clutch, manual gears on a keyboard, and beating World Records! So don't worry that people are fast by exploiting some undue advantage. Those who are fast, have really earned it, with knowledge, talent, hardwork, practice and (1000 other factors which make u fast).

And, well ur FBM time is only 2 sec off WR in just 254 laps. With practice I am sure you will be up there.

Last edited by rageshgr, Wed 15 Feb 2012, 11:39.

Hey that is Cool work dude! Yeah glad ti know my theory was experimentally tested too. So acceleration increases. Interesting. But as u said since top speed does not increase, aa scawen mentioned, the error in speedo due to lessended wheel diameter persists i guess.

Last edited by rageshgr, Wed 15 Feb 2012, 07:50.

Quote from S14 DRIFT :

The dacia sandero?

Good one, This whole Sirocco thing reminds me of that

Nice one dude, but these bankings always damage the suspension in my experience

Quote from acp___(pl) :

trend is chosen appropriately, but to illustrate the problem well, I added prediction of 100 results to the front

He he, ya which means devs have to remove existing features in the next patches for ur trend to come true, so -ve as Rasmusl said lol

lol, but I have a feeling the curve is not the accurate best fit curve for that given graph

Last edited by rageshgr, Wed 4 Jan 2012, 14:23.

Nice ones!

Quote from Flame CZE :

How is it computed to show how much the patches changed the game?

He has n't, he has just given each version/release 1 point weightage on the Y axis..

Thnx

Btw, kudos for making running a dedicated LFS servee such a cakewalk, great abstraction! well done.

yeah suspected the same, thanks

hey I got the same error as well

Thanks guys, there was some random characters in server name and I changed it and restarted the server. Seems to be working now. Well I am in that server now.