good news you found your problem Tim - interesting side effect to overclocking utils there, everyone should take note!

Well that's a point - we don't always even use 23 slots do we?

that makes good sense - anyway we have too many crashes with 23 racers on track, let alone more.

Hey Solar - just wondered - if you could go back in time, would you still buy the Prius or not?

try different browser maybe, rease cookies

How did everyone's race go?

Mine was ok - wanted to finish and I did, made up two or three places too.

Internet Explode - ha, like that!

Me and FienDi spent all day trying to fix, problems with sound for some reason - hope to have it fixed - think I need to reinstall Windows XP to be honest, haven't got time though

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i've never got on well with IRC, never seems to work properly.

FienDi has just told me the IRC channel is dead anyway....!

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How about a small live chat room for the OLFSL homepage?

Couple of similar issues.

When logging onto a server with hires skins enables but you have no credit and there is a lot of cars on track and new skins to download, lots of messages about no credit, this caused big lag for me and others on server. Now obviously people with no credit shouldn't have hi res skins enabled, but, say they only have enough credit for two skins and don't realise when they log on, they get the first two skins but then it gets laggy while it's checking if you can afford each skin or not.

Also it's possible that someone doesn't know they have it enabled until they log on, causes uneeded lag.

My ideal solution would be that if you can't afford the first skin it doesn't keep checking if you can with every skin, but to not check for any more until the next time you run LFS.

Now after switching hi res skins off I get this.

Second problem was that the general time it takes to check for skins seems to have increased, the usual pause when someone leaves the pits and the game checks to see if you have their skin or not is longer than before and in my opinon causes problem.

only kidding chum - just I haven't managed to get time to test it on new pc yet - but should be fine!

Looking forward to it!

Thanks for putting the pressure on the tv side Ant (gulp) hehe, not got, I must go and set that up now you've reminded me!

Simple, ditch the AI cars until the point comes when they are proper intelligent racers.

On a personal basis, I think the formula is getting more and more compicated - I can't see why, in reality we cannot just use a total score from each team driver for team standings say to a maximum of 10 drivers.

If there are teams with only 4 racers, well, it's time to start recruiting. That is just my personal opinion, not that of OLFSL.

Quote from Scawen :

I've been trying to understand what could have changed.

I cannot find any reference at all in the old code, that a replay was saved when you went to the garage.

I've also loaded the old patch W and driven around a bit, then gone to the garage... as expected, no replay was auto saved. So I'm confused, I can't reproduce what you said it used to do. I've only tried in patch W.

What I've thought it always did (if auto save is on) is : save the replay if you restart or exit. I've never heard of it saving when you went to the pits or garage, until you told me that's what it used to do. Which version can you reproduce that in, and what method did you use to go to the pits?

Hi.

Well it was on all LFS versions up to now basically, after doing some hotlapping I'd pull over, press the escape button and click to go to garage and it would auto save (with the message at the top). I don't think I imagined it for all this time, but you're making me worried now, I do hotlapping all the time for OLFSL and am sure I haven't been pressing 1 all this time

If anyone else is running older LFS versions can you test this.

I guess having autosave to be able to do this on garage would be helpful too, if, I am imaginging it all this time.

Quote from Scawen :

I don't think I ever knew that hotlaps were saved if you went into the garage. Maybe that was a bug. I guess it would be an ok option though, if replay saving is set to fully auto save - saved under the same conditions as when a replay is saved if you restart race? I guess that's what you mean?

I wonder if the auto saving condition is correct? Maybe it should only auto save replays if at least one lap is completed, or maybe if a race is completed (if it's a race) or one hot lap is completed (if it's a hotlap).

I'm just trying to think how to prevent every quick restart being saved as a replay. Though I say this without even looking at the existing conditions for auto save - it's a long time since I've thought about that.

Thanks for getting back Scawen.

Yes since I've been playing LFS I haven't really bothered to press 1 or 2 to save as auto save always kicked in when I went to garage or left the server, this is now not working still on latest patch and autosave enabled on both single and multi (although I've only tested this on hotlaps at the moment).

I think pherhaps, what would be good, is if you are leaving the server (multi) or track (single) then a box would come up saying "The current replay is not saved, would you like to save it YES or NO"? This box could be turned on by default but turned off in the menus for the guys who will obviously complain about a box popping up when they are leaving.

Or of course the auto save system just auto saving whenever a 'event' occurs. By event I mean, Garage, Leave Server, Lag Out etc would be good also.

yes it's quite impossible to change a system like this to suit everyone. I think FienDi has it all under control, once he see's there is a problem, he's already working at it before most of you start complaining about it, but it takes time. We've established that the point system is a bit unpopular, fine, it'll be looked at. Please leave it at that, we don't like to close threads but you know, if you act like babies we will do, will even take away some of your toys as well.

Problem with Auto Save and Hotlapping.

When I finished hotlapping, I used to press Esc and quit to the garage. It used to save my hotlap. Now it does not, it says Not Recording in the top right corner. This is bit frustrating as I'm used to doing this, I know I should press 1 to save, but as quitting to the garage always worked for me before this is bit getting used to.

Yes I agree - we not had enough longer or shorter races this season.

We need some long races where pit stops are needed, and some frantic short events. On my wishlist for next season.

Thanks Ant! - I've not done one single lap of this combo yet!!

I dunno - we're over halfway through the season now - why not suggest points system for next season?

A mystery for Sherlock Holmes, or if we can't get hold of him, we'll use FienDi instead.

Only later versions of the stats program shows the flag details, some hosts use the earlier version.

Thanks horrgakx mate - yes we did have some good scraps didn't we? I could tell I was faster than you, but you were a bit more steady, I was sliding all over the place allowing you to catch up hehe.
I knew I had to brake very late down the straight to beat you into the chicane, battle of nerves, I was listening to your car carefully just to make sure I broke slightly later than you. But you were pushing me hard, I knew if I made any mistakes you would be there to take the place, and you were :-)

Yeah the puncture ruined my race, frustratingly I used the same tyres and drove 47 laps on the tuneup race, and I drove on the gravel a lot during the tuneup, but I drove a lot faster and harder in the race, and so I guess that wears them out much more than the gravel does.

Really fun race - bit annoying to be leading for 30 odd laps and finish fifth, but, I am pleased with my performance, and hope we can do some GTR racing again sometime - we have too many slow races in OLFSL.

I did have two awful blue flag moments, either as you say horrgakx they didn't show, or they didn't know how to get out of the way.