Scawen, good to see you in here too!
Here are my screenshots:


While converting




Original DDS folder (yes, I have those files)




Bug while loading Blackwood, converted textures

http://i.imgur.com/OUt4jUF.png


No bug using the backupped DDS folder

http://i.imgur.com/kunlWHx.png

Last edited by Ripley, Thu 19 Jun 2014, 12:35.

Quote from DANIEL-CRO :

...Failed to open? Do you have these textures in your dds folder?...

I didn't have time to see the failed files' names.

After conversion I noticed some error messages while loading Blackwood.
After restoring the 2 backupped folder, error messages disappeared.
I'll try to grab some screens.

Quote from DANIEL-CRO :

...Did LFS run at the time?...

No, it didn't.

Quote from DANIEL-CRO :

...Re-runing shouldn't hurt, already converted textures will go much faster than first time (format check, ...)

This format check hopefully make it skip the reconvertion?

While converting, i noticed few lines saying "failed to open".
I looked for a log but there wasn't any.
Can I activate it in some way (command line switch)?

Also, does it "hurt" to re-run it (if I download new textures packs, for example)? Do the already converted textures get unnecessarely reconverted?

I haven't tried it yet, but judging from the posted figures, this (or directly the converted textures) should be part of next version vanilla LFS.

I'm no professor, but this is the correct section where to post language requests:

https://www.lfsforum.net/forum ... der=desc&daysprune=-1

Quote from pepijnb :

...A timeless piece op digital art. A racing game which defined a class of its own...

Couldn't say it better!
Thanks!!

I had some PB problems, too.
From some posts above this:

Quote from Ripley :

...I am driving @ Westhill+BF1, and I have the impression that my PB is cleared each time...I mean, I was driving slower than last time, still I made my "new" PB...

In the first post, the link to "Virtual LFS Dashboard (Its nessesary in another PC/Laptop)"
doesn't work anymore.

Here's a (hopefully) working one:
http://www.tuttovola.org/index ... ion=media;sa=item;in=3803
(scroll down & click on "download")

IIRC, F9 shows tyre temps.

Works here too.

A very quick search for "steering wheel" on Google Play gave this result, but there are others.
I didn't test it though.

https://play.google.com/store/ ... om.tincanman.virtualwheel

+1

Thanks for the update Scawen!
And thanks to Fordman for starting this thread, too!

Quote from Nilex :

...Right now i have to make PB with LFSStats opened before it knows what my PB is.

LFS "Stats" or "State"? Isn't that a typo?

Quote from Racer X NZ :

...
2) No, we've all moved on and thanks for your support. Now shut up and go away.
...

C'mon!
Without wanting to sound rude, do you really think that if LFS was really dead, there would not be an official statement from the Devs?

I'm sure they're still working on it, at their own pace, compatible with real life issues.

So, whenever an update will come, I'll know it from my email.

I am in the middle of formatting/restoring my lousy pc...
I'll report when finished.

Hi again.

As soon as I started an online race (I started my own server) I noticed bad fps and lagging, going from 200fps to 10, every 2-3-seconds. Totally unplayable.

Then I started configuring LFSState, and switched off every option one by one.

The option that was causing this was the "splitter". When I switched that off, fps were suddenly normal again.
I'll try to recreate this.


Then, not connected to this problem, I minimized LFS and noticed this:



Translated:
"The specified key was not present in the dictionary" or "Specified key not found in the dictionary".

What can it be?


Edit: I am driving @ Westhill+BF1, and I have the impression that my PB is cleared each time...I mean, I was driving slower than last time, still I made my "new" PB...

Last edited by Ripley, Tue 17 Sep 2013, 20:29.

I'm already doing it, thanks.

Yesterday I was trying to keep an eye on it with Process Explorer, but LFS was suddenly smooth! I will watch it and report here if there's something wrong.

If you have a better program to suggest, I'll listen.


Edit: It could also be that I have a virus, or something nasty...still investigating, but lately RL keeps me from devoting too much time on it.

Last edited by Ripley, Wed 11 Sep 2013, 10:37. Reason : added virus chance

Quote from Lexanom :

exactly, I has not considered that...

Perfect!

Another clue to what's happening (with relation to LFSState automatic start) is that with this line enabled


a new "lang" folder is created into LFS folder.
The "Path access denied" error could be because "E:\games\LFS\data" already exists in default LFS install.


I don't know how you handle the relative paths inside your program...but it could be an easy fix (being a programmer...).

Maybe your program assumes to find all its files and folders in the same path where the exe is, but you have not coded it.
It just takes it by default, because it's how DOS works.

Last edited by Ripley, Sun 8 Sep 2013, 11:31.

Quote from Denny12 :

I've had some issues with /exec.. Try to make an shortcut and run shortcut instead, it solved problems for me..

Yes, of course I already have a shortcut to it.
I just wanted to launch one thing instead of two (and I also wanted to experiment something more "technical").

I have a request (if possible).
I was trying to automatically launch LFSState from LFS, so I wrote in my autoexec.lfs:


LFSState starts but with this error message:





"E:\games\LFS" is where my LFS is installed.

(The first italian text string means: "Path access denied")

So I tried adding the folder where I have LFSState, as a parameter:


Nothing changed. Same error message.

Is this something you can do?
Or am I making a syntax mistake somewhere?


Edit: anyway, I still have serious framerate issues (generally after some laps. At the start of a race/practice session it is fine) and I have to kill LFSState, which results in this error:



After killing it, frames are high again.

Last edited by Ripley, Sun 8 Sep 2013, 11:03.

Yes! It works (I disabled the "insim 29999" line in the autoexec of course).

Thanks.

I made another couple of tries with your latest 0.9.8.

First, I removed the line "insim=29999" from autoexec.lfs file, as you said;


LFS does like this: the opening screen (main menu page) keeps on saying

"Ripley: .insim 29999"
"Ripley: .insim 29999"
"Ripley: .insim 29999"
"Ripley: .insim 29999"
.....
.....

and it has a very strange behaviour in LFS, it prevents me from clicking in the game, or I can click randomly. It is as if somebody is clicking (or typing) instead of me.
I guess LFSStats sends some characters to the buffer.


LFS




LFSStats






Second, I reenabled the line "insim=29999" in autoexec.lfs file;
Everything works.


LFS




LFSStats




After some time (maybe 10 minutes) LFS starts lagging very badly and I have to kill LFSStats, but maybe this could be a problem on my side.

Sorry it was my typo this time ;-)

I meant of course the file in LFS\script folder named autoexec.lfs
I had to enable a line "insim=29999" in that file to make LFSState work.

When I posted the first image in post #51, I configured it, and it ran well.
I was alone on a track so many functions were "useless", but the splitter was working fine.

Then I joined a server with AIRIO (I think) and it stopped working...

Now it doesn't work anymore, even if i am alone on a server created by me.
Strange!
The first symptom is the framerates go veeeerrry slow, audio interrupts...then that fatal insim error message appears, LFSState crashes, and LFS is playable again.

I will retry later on.

Last edited by Ripley, Sat 7 Sep 2013, 17:45.