That was an awesome reading, now I want to know more about this subjet.

I've been using this user name for 7 years, no regrets here, the only problem is that it's kind of short and a lot of pages require at least 6 characters on your user name so i have to add something to it.

I've never experiences any kind of stutter in the new patch, also my PC has enough power to handle LFS with 32 cars so I guess it's a hardware problem, I also use to play in servers above 250 ms of ping and I hardly get any complain about lagging.

I'll tried to reproduce the black screen bug and now It doesn't happen any more will keep looking for new ways to reproduce to see if it is totally bug proof.

I wonder how many times this questions will pop up, maybe whe should have a counter for every time someone starts a thread asking if more realistic features will be implemented.

About what you are asking, every thing you are asking is supposed to be completed in S2 final, well maybe not everything but most of them.

I found a way to reproduce the black screen bug, at least in my system*, what I have to do is this, start LFS in full screen mode without the wheel controller connected to the USB port, then join a server, connect the wheel controller, hit shift+c, then shift+f4 and when you go back to full screen you got a black screen.

*system specifications:

Intel Core2Duo E6300
Asus P5N-SLI
1GB 667 Supertalent
nVidia Geforce 7600GT
Windows XP SP2 with all the Microsoft updates
Microsoft Sidewinder Precision Racing Wheel

Sorry if this was already known, I didn't have time to read the whole thread

I agree with Leprekaun, when I'm being lapped I usually know before the blue flag appears, and what I usually do is get off the best racing line (If I'm not battling for a position) and wait till the lapper gets close to me and then lift of a bit the throttle, then I usually stick to the back of the lapper so I don't loose a lot of time. Doing that I've never had an incident being lapped, so I'll stick to it

I hope that this patch can be released before Friday, I'm getting too anxious!

I had to disable the skin download option if I wanted to be able to connet or else when the skin download finished the server was already full, also when I did finally connect I was kicked out, but that was from my side, my brother was downloading torrents at full speed

Totally NO, racing rims are not nice at all.

All i can say is congratulation to the winners and the podium, and also to Buenos Aires Racing that squeezed though the table and ended in 13th place, it was their first endurance race, I'm really happy that one of the argentinian teams did that well be aware of us! I'm willing to participate in the next event

I'm using AVG Free, tryed Avast, NOD32 and a buch of other AV tools and AVG was the only one that didn't slow down my PC at all.

I was bored and made this crappy skin, it's kind of horrible

LX6 on AS North without wind was my choice, it's a really nice track and the car makes it even more fun, the bad thing is that most ppl don't know hot to drive the LX6 so they give up and the servers end empty

I was in that server but it keeped kicking me from it, damn you my dear ISP!!!

Imagine a full grid with the saubers on it! it would be maddness :P

that's cheap, i'd love to live in europe, here games are really expensive, LFS is about 130 argentinian pesos and average wage is about 950 pesos, quite expensive

By the way, what I read in local newspaper was that the car had some sort of malfunction and went off the track and then rolled over 3 people, sadly one of them died, so it's not the spectators fault.

Pay biggie to make the WR in your name

Quote from Rayo :

Rigun: Little clown, try reading a bit before posting, ok? My previous thread was closed because ppl started fighting each other over STCC bans and I didnt get a proper answer to my question. Now that I got one it is safe for you to go back to your little fantasy world (macondo, lfsla or whatever you call it this days) and keep running there with your girlfriends, Im not going back even if I was being paid to do it. Kisses.

Yes your old thread was deviated from it's original topic, just like this one, a nice repeating pattern that's built in that brain of yours. I'll just tell you that by being a bully you wont get anything from this community, so you'd better think about the way you express yourself and maybe in a not too distant future you'll get some answers in your threads.

EDIT: By the way it is not necessary to write the messages in spanish and english, we both speak english so be it.

Quote from theirishnoob :

cant watch it... stupid video format.

ROLF, that stupid video format y a SPR wich stands for SINGLE PLAYER REPLAY in LFS :P, you must have S2 unlocked to be able to watch S2 replays.

Quote from Shoe Maker :

Nice... I spend my own money and take the time and trouble to try and host quality servers for people to enjoy, and then morons come along and post stuff like this, well f*ck you very much, nice to know all my hard work is appreciated.

It's exactly the kind of attitude that causes all the good servers to be closed down, the people spending their own time and money to run them feel they are wasting their time and it's not being appreciated, I totally understand why Becky did what she did with the STCC and it's because of comments like yours.

Don't like my servers or my combo's ? Host your bloody own then, instead of coming on the forums and bad mouthing mine!

Forum mods should do more to stop people like you posting inflammatory remarks about servers but it seems only some server hosts get that kind of preferential treatment, while others are just left hanging out to dry.

My servers are always full for a reason, we have rules, we have a website, if someone breaks the rules (ie blue flag, or wrecking or what ever) then you can save the replay, upload it to our website, and that person will be dealt with, if that's too much trouble for you too, then there isn't much more anyone can do and I will thank you to stop slamming my servers here in the forums.

If you have a problem with one of my admins, once again, save and send me a replay and I will deal with it, I run these servers for everyone to enjoy not just redline members. If we were a bunch of elitist idiots then the servers would be private and no one would use them except us, the fact is all my team drivers will take the time to help new LFS users, we share sets and are always happy to help slower drivers, my servers have been running for over a year now, for the benefit of all the racers on LFS, and for no other reason.

Perhaps I should take a leaf out of Becky's book and close the Redline servers too, that would be good, wouldn't it ? In the space of 1 week, 6 of the busiest servers in LFS get closed down because of mouthy idiots like you ? Where is everyone going to race then I wonder ? And how long would it take before everyone starts complaining about those servers too ?

If you have something constructive to say, make your point in a fair and objective way, attacking my servers, or anyone else's servers for that matter, is NOT the way to go.

Furthermore, being in Argentina, its quite possible that YOU are the cause of all the lag on the server, the servers are located in London and it's a bloody long way from Argentina, so perhaps I can cure the lag issues by banning your licence name from using them, lets try that, shall we ?

Redline EVO

I understand what you say, I'll let you know that rayo used to be in another LFS community in which I participate and the only thing that he could make was trouble, he was finally banned from the servers and community, but as far as I can see he didn't learn anything, his mind and stills thinks that he is right in everything that he believes

Now talking to you rayo, you created a thread about this same subject about a week ago and almost everyone said that the ladder system is a good idea but it shouldn't be built in LFS but rather be an add-on, so I ask you know, why do you come back and start this discussion again, do you believe that if you are annoying enough you will get what you want? because that's the impression that I'm getting from you right now.

I posted my thoughts about the system in the older thread so that's all from me.

Quote from Renku :

http://www.lfsforum.net/showth ... 14386&highlight=white
VGA drivers gone bad, reinstall should help. Find newer version if you can.

Sometimes newer isn't better, for old video cards newer video drivers tend to have more graphical glitches than rather old but stable drivers, Sticky-Micky tell us what graphic card do you have and maybe I could tell you wich are the best drivers for you.

I belive that the STCC system is OK, but i wouldn't like to be restricted (in all servers) to a certain class of categorie because I don't have a "licence" for other cars.

About the question involving "it really adds a lot to the game the way its done" I'm not able to see your point, there is already a ladder system in a server so the only thing that an official ladder could add is a racers ranking, a ranking involving acumulating ponts and everybody knows that oval racers tend to earn lots of "points" if you undestand what I mean, so at the end I adds nothing to the game.

Using the LFS bandwidth calculator isn't quite right for this case because the server has to send the info to each client, so if you deduce that if the server has to upload about 380KB/sec for 48 connections, each computer would recibe about 8kb/s, what i can't tell from that is how much you need to upload to the server.

If you think that because you have lots of cars around you your video card can't handdle them and that's why your FPS drop you might be right, only if you have a really old video card like a GF440, otherwise the main FPS drawback is from CPU and belive it or not it's from the sound engine, try to disable your sound card and then run LFS, you'll see that you get a lot more of FPS, this applies to the start grid when all the cars around you are making varous sounds killing your CPU.

Another way to test that is to watch a replay in 2x, that way LFS automatically disables sound, you'll see a sudden increase of FPS.