Maybe that might be because your graphics card is of an older GPU generation. No idea really.

If you go out on the track and hit Shift+O while driving, you can play around with the ingame MIP settings and see how they alter the look of textures on the fly.

- Reduce user LOD
- Reduce mirror LOD
- Increase dynamic LOD (under Misc settings)
- Reduce muliplayer car drawing distance (also Misc)
- Turn drawing of trees and flags completely off
- Draw rubber only in main
- Reduce or turn off anti aliasing (if you have any on)
- Use simple car shadows, or even turn them off if you can manage without them

You can also experiment with the other settings. To see what helps your FPS and what doesn't, you can pause the game while beeing at the back of a full single player grid: Turn off Vertical Sync, and have no limit on FPS. You must also turn on the FPS indicator if it isn't already on. Start a new single player race with 19 AI racers, and yourself at the very back of the grid so your computer has to draw all those 19 AI cars. Before the lights turn green, press P to pause the game, and shift+O for options. You can now experiment with different setting and see how they affect your FPS.

Could there be a low pressure zone (say 0.95 bar instead of 1 bar) behind the car infront, dragging the other car along?

Some of the cars available in S2 can engine brake so heavily you'll lock up your wheels under normal braking if you are not carefull and/or do not use heel-toe to smooth over the engine resistance.

I believe you can buy a LFS license with paypal.com. You create a paypal account, and then you have the option to transfer money to your paypal account. This can either be done from regular net bank (same way as paying a bill), or even in a physical bank.

In this way, paypal will be a link to hide any credit card or bank account details for potential bad guys. Even if badguys could accsess your paypal account, they can not obtain any money from the credit card or bank account used to transfer the money.

Last edited by Skagen, Mon 19 Dec 2011, 18:44.

I have no idea how the ban system works, but is it possible to block racers based on their registered email? In that case, you could try using wildcards: *@fakeinbox.com

V8 Supercar hits a curb and destroys front left suspension: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PSn4yU5Z1k

Blackwood chicane, anyone?

@Si Mclaren
It's funny to see him trying to correct when the car starts turning left just before hitting the wall.

Quote from Kristi :

With some of the current curbs? Are you serious about that?

Absolutely. I don't think you relize just how big the forces are when cutting curbs and bumps like most racers do in certain corners. I.e the KY3 oval exit chicane, or the last chicane at AS4. People cut these corners and run over curbs that makes the car jump voilently about, but there is very little to no suspension damage, and no tyre damage. Turning on the forces view while flying over the KY3 oval exit chicane, and you can see that the force vector almost reaces into deep space.

If you tried jumping the curbs like this in real life, your suspension would be in more pieces than a shark got teeth.

Last edited by Skagen, Sun 18 Dec 2011, 18:29.

Any puncture should be the direct results of tyre damage or wear. Would be nice if curbs can damage and puncture tyres.

If the game supports joystick or gamepad, you can use software to translate mouse movement to virtual joystick or gamepad movement. But I've already spent many hours of my life trying to get these mouse-to-joystick emulators to work, without any luck. And another problem with emulation is lack of fine tuning the mouse steering with center reduction, etc., as you can in LFS.

As already mention by the others, the level system seen on servers these days is from third party server-addons, namely Airio. Airio uses some data from LFSworld.net (if you have allowed the data to be shared) aswell as gathering and storing its own data from sessions raced on Airio powered servers.

Your Airio level/rank is divided in two: Globally and host specific points.
The global points is the LFS Experience Index (LFSEI). Any other rank or level/points systems you see online is host specific.
For instance, if you race alot on one specific server, you gain some LFSEI, and some host specific points. If you connect to another server, your LFSEI will follow you there, but you start from scratch gathering any host specific points.

PS. If you have disabled data sharing in your LFSworld profile, these data won't be available to Airio, and your level/rank might be lower than it should be.

http://stats.airio.eu/index.aspx

Under "AIRW Custom Cars"
Seems it hasn't been updated with the restriction for GT3.

I'd love to see official cars similar to Airio's GT3 and GT2 class.

If you press Shift+A while out on the track, you will open the engine sound editor. In the editor you can experiment with the off power volume, idle boost and exhaust volume to make the engine more quiet at lower RPMs. I haven't tried this myself, but it's my best guess.

I've had problems with updating the line too when I change cars. Very annoying when racing an unfamiliar car online, and it shows you the line of a completely different car ^_^

Go into the options menu and check if the car, skid and wind volume is set to 0.
Also try pressing Shift+A while you're driving to load the default engine sound for the car. If you can't find any engine sound files to load, you are missing files in your LFS\data\eng folder.
In that case you can restore these files by downloading the .ZIP-version of the game and extracting the engine sounds back into your LFS\data\eng folder.

The racing line is the line that the AI would use with that set. It is calculated by LFS, and will be different with each set. Some sets produce lines with very little difference so you won't notice it, while other can be noticeable.

If you register at Cargame.nl you can now download GT2 sets other members have uploaded.

I use headphones because it's alot easier to hear where surrounding cars are to me, compared to my speakers. In the config screen you can also set up keys to turn your head around to see to your sides.

Quote from cargame.nl :

Eehh no, not really. Gearing is different, suspension. Everything.

Start from scratch.

I totally agree. There is no good way to convert GTR sets to GT2 or GT3 by just making minor changes. The cars are so very different that if you opt for top Airio laps, you will have to either make sets from scratch, or ask fast racers if they mind sharing theirs sets.

But in general will GT2 and GT3 benefit from a bit more oversteered suspension settings as there is less engine power to be counter balanced. And softer tyre compunds should work in most cases.

Is the server down for good?

If you lift in the FZR when shifting, the clutch should stay cool. But the FZR clutch can take alot of heat before it starts slipping compared to the other GTs. Many people utilize this and do clutchless shifts in strategic places during the race to reduce the speed drop while the throttle is lifted. But keep an eye on the clutch temperatures if you do clutchless shifting.

Go to a decent server, and the tossing should stop.

Is it possible to use mouse steering in the same way LFS does it?