It should run sweet on your Uber PC, as your drivers appear OK, you have to wonder whether it's the Game or your hardware.

The game side is posting here - pref someone with similar software. I would suggest you have a poke around the Planet64 forums for hardware specific help...

I would like to see point being awarded for qualification places, fastest lap times and maybe even fastest sector times.

I would like to see sector times flash up in game just as fastest lap times do...

Quote from Doorman :

I confess to being a Profiler fan. One of the main reasons, apart from the button thing, is that it actually provides a 'force feedback' stop to the rotations. While the DFP has a rotation of 900 degrees you don'y really need that much, not in LFS anyway. If you set the rotation to 720 degrees you get a 'stop' at that setting or any rotation you like.
How does it 'fubar' games? I am interested to know.

Buggers up button asgnments, particularly it makes it a twat to set things up the way I want. I simply got fed up with it after the first year of use. I've had my wheel 5 years...

or an English teacher...

I don't use profiler at all. It fubars most games for me. As windows happily detects the wheel in the first place and then set up in game works...

Quote from Bawbag :

No I have the force up full, I tried the wheel on the PS2 with GT3 and it still didn't work so i've contacted the company I got it off and hopefully they get this fixed as it was supposed to be Brand new. <_<

Perhaps you should have mentioned it was busted in the first place...

If you are running the controllers drivers, you may need to launch game through its programme after selecting the set for the relevant game. I found this an embuggerance, so I use the built in Windows ones, which work fine for me.

If you are doing the same:

Check the control panel. Start/Control Panel/Game Controllers/Your wheel Name. Double click it and run the tests, calibrate if necessary.

In game there is Shift C to reset controller and ,. Increases/decreases FF which might help to tune the amount of FF you like/want/need...

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I don't like it. And I don't think anyone else here appreciates it either.

It's good to see someone with an intimate knowledge of other peoples 'opinions' speaking up, but then opinions are like arseholes, everyone has them...

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Well congratulations to you!

Thank you.

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I don't see what HL2 has to do with LFS.

Obviously plain English is not enough for you. Some people play more than one game, therfore what's good for one is not much cop for another. HL2 is an example of an extremely popular game with high hardware requirements.

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Oh I get it, alright. I get that you're an egotistical jerk who thinks you know what's best for everyone else. Every single post you've made in this thread has been condescending and downright rude. The OP said he was looking to spend $70 to upgrade his machine. Instead of trying to help you you insinuate that the OP is poor, call people stubborn and stupid, and you suggest that the guy buy a new motherboard, CPU, RAM, etc which is way out of his price range. You've been about as unhelpful as you could possibly be.

Pot calling kettle.

You can't be bothered to do the research - clearly. You don't like the answers provided - tough. You don't have a sense of humour - I don't care.

HANDFOAD

Quote from Cue-Ball :

Sorry, Seahorse, but you're just plain wrong. My LFS rig is a Sempron 2800+ with a friggin' Parhelia and it runs LFS just fine. My second machine is a Barton 2500+ with a 9600 and it runs even faster. I can pretty much guarantee that Playlife will triple his frame rate simply by buying a new video card. He doesn't need a whole new PC and what he's running isn't a junk "museum piece" as you keep stating. Some of us have better things to spend our money on than having the latest, greatest PC hardware. I've spent very little on my PC and it runs everything I play just fine.

Personally I don't spend much on my PC either, but it outspecs all of yours by a country mile. I also pay a mortgage, run a car and motorcycle (expensive hobby) and feed a wife & 3 kids. I also buy shiny things with buttons on as and when I can.

Therefore don't waste my time babbling on about your better things to spend you money on. Try playing Half Life 2 etc with your PC and see how far you get; LFS isn't the only game I own.

Why spend good money buying out of date hardware? You just don't get it do you. I have explained the 3 options in terms a child could understand but you continue to bleat. You are either obtuse or stupid, take your pick...:Eyecrazy:

If the processor is the bottleneck a better graphics card will also suffer from the bottleneck, Duh! Being short of money doesn't mean you have to waste what you have. By the same token, there comes a point in every PC's life when it's time to accept your hardware is not up to the job. His clearly isn't. I offer three solutions:

1. Live with it - a fast graphics card is wasted on that machine.

2. If he is skint, I suggest he starts saving like the rest of us or get a better paying paper round/job whatever.

3. Hope that Father Christmas reads this thread...:wmann3:

Why put an obselete 9600 (2 year old) graphics card in? besides, he was talking about a GF6600. Waste of time & money.


A cheap mobo/cpu/ram/bundle would be a better option. LFS love processor power. Like I said, museum piece, bin it...

Clearly you are (probably deliberately) missing the point. His CPU is the bottleneck and throwing a modern graphics card will do nothing for the problem. I have explained it in simple terms but you are probably too stubborn to believe me. I am confident that if I told you the sky was Blue you would argue.

Go chat to Google boy... :noob:

Don't waste your money on the 6600 - your PC should be replaced first - it's a museum piece...

Unfortunately the muppets out there weave most laps, don't follow racing lines or allow you to pass on the left which is the racing ettiquette most adopt...

Quote from colcob :

The sad thing about this is that nobody cares about LFSWorld overall stats apart from the desperate souls who compete for them. Nobody looks at them, nobody knows the the names of the people who get them.
Now if someone was 'cheating' to get first place in the Main Hotlap Rank, or the most world records, or win a league, then it would be another matter.

Its a bit tragic that he feels the need to do this (see also his flaming rant at the devs when some of his races didnt register on LFSWorld), but like with the crazy guy singing to himself in trowbridge park, just walk on by.

A pretty good point - I have no idea how far I drive, how often I win or even where to find the info...

Shame all the nay-sayers don't watch F1. You should see the amount of LEDs they have for gearchanges...illepall

Yes, I'd like some more use from my other screen too. Programmers, get on it...

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I guess YOU are an ancient museum peice, with you being 40 years old and all..

Im running S2 on a amd 2200+ and get about 40 fps, so i dont think its his pc at all, just a conflict somewhere.

I'm 19 years younger than my Dad, so I'm not that old.

Considering the hike in performance with every new CPU and his being 4 generations out of date...

Quote from Skytrill :

my board is a p4s8x-mx 2.4ghz. the game should run fine from the thoughts of my friends but it doesn'T.. please help i love this game!!
thanks!

Throw your museum piece in the bin. Buy new PC...

Quote from XCNuse :

i wouldnt say FV8 is the most popular.. its just done the most laps (which isnt surprising at all.. keep in mind, 10 laps at oval with fv8 is only 15ish minutes.. and when there is 20 some people for 3 races.. thats already 600 laps.. lol

What is up with your car setup? 10 Laps takes me about 6:40...

Quote from Chris_Kerry :

How they run their server is up to them, if you don't like it you don't have to go there. I haven't really been in since it changed to SO Classic so I can't put forward an opinion.

Then why bother posting...

I wouldn't bother driving there again mate. They are dirty bastards at the best of times...

Quote from Tweaker :

Probably a server issue. Sounds like something I have seen a few times on any server really.... Usually might happen if the server crashes the dedicated application running, or maybe even if someone lags out in the game while playing and things can go haywire sometimes .... Not common, but oh well

I was on too - server went pop...

Quote from GT Touring :

i have a problem too, my frame rate wiggles from 19-20ish to a full 90FPS depending on the cars visible and the action
why would it be so demanding?
i runa p4 3.4 and 1.5 gig ram ad a ATI radeon 9600 pro.
i find this drop in FPS so disturbing as my PC is but 6 months old yet.
i have no hop e for S3

There is no way your PC is 6 months old with an 18 month old graphics card in it. Unless of course it's some kind of buget one with cheap compomnents. A better card would help...