I can do all but #4. My theory is, why make a drift video if it's not recorded in whole? I want to show the mistakes (or lack thereof)

I also leave the tach and pedal display on due to a request from someone who doesn't play yet and likes to see how accurate the rev range and pedal work is, but I think I can lose it now

Anywho, thanks for the feedback, I'll see what I can pull off this weekend

(P.S.- No offense taken, your feedback is exactly what I was looking for!)

P.S.S- haha, I just noticed your country, good to see you! I'm half Latvian myself on my Father's side. I have a sign over my desk that reads "Parking For Latvians Only!" Currently live in Florida to help take care of my Grandmother who actually still speaks Latvian. Svieks! Did I spell that right? lol

Last edited by Slopi, Sat 30 Dec 2006, 01:14.

I've had similar issues but haven't found a way to fix it. Seems to occur most often at the start of a race, right after the track loads, but is not restricted to that time frame. Several times (sucks when mid-drift) the screen sort of 'locks up' and the sound distorts for a second or so, then everything is back to normal. It honestly sounds like a program crash about to happen, but it never does.

Either way, it's rather frustrating.

I've made more than 2, but these 2 movies are the only ones that I put 'effort' into for transitions and proper cuts. I used Fraps for the recording of the replays and Ulead 9 for the simple editing and Virtual Dub for a more 'custom' encode before uploading to YouTube. Hope you enjoy

South City Town Course Rev: 1 Lap (Music: The Freestylers- "Push Up")
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SSP20WIdWk

South City Sprint Track #2 Rev: 3 Laps (Music: The Chemical Brothers- "The Boxer")
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UU9-EQr59jY

Constructive feedback is welcome

I had a similar issue as well. Here's the thread where I asked for help and got it working again. Wish you luck

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=17075

SparkyDave!

I'm not sure if that's what did it or not... I turned FFB off in the game, then back on and went to drive with no result. I exited LFS, closed the profiler down, went to eat before trying again, then when I relaunched LFS, I went and turned FFB off and on again, double checked everything for the thousandth time, then went to race and YAY it works!

Thanks guys for trying to help with this, seems like a rather random issue to say the least. Just glad to be back on the track

Thanks for the feedback people. I'll be trying the full LFS install here today most likely. The fact that after the patch I had the error come up in LFS immidiately after launching the game tells me something went wrong with the patch on my machine, not that there's something wrong with the patch.

As for the logitech controller software, it's set to default to my wheel. I haven't actually used the Rumbple Pad in about a month so I'm not sure why that'd cause a problem now. Like I said though, nothing had changed until I put the patch in and everything was fine litterally the day before that :|

Anywho, wish me luck... I already miss my FFB hehe, and thanks again for the help.

I thought I made this clear, apparently not. As of the day before the patch, everything was exactly the same. THE ONLY THING CHANGED is the patch. All FFB devices were hooked up, everything was a mirror image of how it is now, asside from the patch.

So, no I wont reinstall my Logitech software because one game suddenly doesn't want to work with it. Not to mention this would be the ONLY game not to work with it.

As for reinstalling LFS, I might just do that, thing is, I need to do it within the next few days if I want the unlocks for January to be full, in case this IS a patch issue, I have another unlock to go back to V.

Anyways, any more help would be appreciated

I patched to V today. Went in and reconfigured my controls and everything, while noticing the second light on the Logitech Momo wasn't comming on when I launched LFS. It had come on yesterday when I launched LFS and everything worked fine, but since the patch it's stopped...

What this means is, though the game sees the each axis on the wheels and pedals, when I drive the car I have no force feedback whatsoever because the wheel doesn't see LFS as a game. I checked and rechecked, everything seems to still be fine as far as the wheel is concerned and I even made a new profile for the controller software for LFS with no results. Everything points to the patch as the issue so far

I have noticed an error when I launch LFS, that error reads exactly:
"DI: SetProperty - Unknown Error"
Besides that, no other erros through windows or LFS. Attatched is my DXdiag report if someone who knows what they're doing needs it. Thanks in advance for any help, until then I'll wait a couple days before reverting to version U.

lol, sorry about the lack of the link... I had some "Christmas Cheer" in me last night :P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l2cA8rCsf8

Again, enjoy lol....

I was browsing YouTube for race vids, burning time. Found this and thought it was rather amusing. Watch turn one...

I don't normally 'spam' links to stuff like this, sorry if it's not a good thing to do, but I thought I'd remind people that even the pros have bad days on the track

Enjoy, and Merry Christmas everyone

Awesome. Thanks for the response Angel. Much appreciated

This is a very VERY simple question...

Does no one use this mod anymore than can shoot me an answer?

Did I post in the wrong part of the forums?

Someone want to PLEASE give me a head's up?

ugh...

Yes, I read the read-me that came with the mod, but that's almost useless. The questions I have (sorry if it's been answered on the forums, I couldn't find it) is, do you have to have smokemod.exe running while playing the game. Secondly, does it have to be in your LFS install folder, and do you need to have the .cfg file in the install folder?

Thanks in advance for constructive help

Yes, I read the read-me that came with the mod, but that's almost useless. The questions I have (sorry if it's been answered on the forums, I couldn't find it) is, do you have to have smokemod.exe running while playing the game. Secondly, does it have to be in your LFS install folder, and do you need to have the .cfg file in the install folder?

Thanks in advance for constructive help

Awesome responses people!

Posted this before bed last night and I see more than my share of answers. Thanks all

What's the best way to go about finding a team, or a casual group of people to race with? I'm about fed up with public servers and the non-stop BF1 crap, and this is about the last thing I can think of to keep this game fresh for me.

I see what looks like team servers all over the place, but they are usually empty. I also see members from teams on some public servers, but most of them won't give you the time of day unless you have some 'ubar' skin or something...

So, if anyone knows how to go about this or is part of a casual/hardcore racing team that knows to brake at turn 1.... please let me know, I'd like to continue to play this game

Yeah, I've tweaked with everything that would affect his connection in the host settings, but it doesn't seem to help much. He's getting his net fixed this Tues, but that basically means I wont be racing until then, because most of the public servers are all BF1 now... and it's gotten old

I know in a couple games, you can sometimes tweak something in a .cfg file, but I was unable to find anything in LFS's that might tweak the default timeout setting for connected clients. I'm starting to think you can't edit it, do to the possibility of 'induced lag' from clients, much like you sometimes see in FPS games. I dunno.

Either way, any input is appreciated

(Side note, if any of you know of some good casual race servers where people aren't whoring the hell out of the BF1, feel free to let me know... thanks)

I'm trying to race with a friend who is on a less than perfect connection right now. We can tolerate the lag, but we cannot tolerate the constant dissconnects he's getting.

Is there any way to change the default timeout when running a server to avoid this? Thanks in advance.

Aye, got it all working now. I guess I just didn't know what to make of something called "show non-square modes", as I'm used to seeing an option like that's maybe called "Widescreen Resolutions" or whatever.

Either way, thanks people for the help, now I can enjoy LFS in the way it was meant to be, with more than I can see :P

Haha! Thanks for the quick reply

Now to check it out!

Just recently got a 21" widescreen LCD, and upon launching the game, I didn't seem to notice any resolutions that are natively widescreen. Does this mean I'll have to pick a current resolution and tweak the FOV until it gives a fake widescreen appearance, or is there something I'm missing?

Running the screen at 1440x900 on the desktop, but it can max at 1680x1050 if I recall...

Thanks for any input

I've raced on a couple servers with noname///M5 on them and I didn't encounter any issues with him. Maybe he just had a bad day? Maybe you had a bad day? It's just a race anyways

I should be on tonight. I got registered on your forums, and plan on asking for the TS password if that's ok. Anyways, I'll look you up a little later on, until then, it's errands for me...

I'm not looking to join a team if the're worried their image will be tainted by someone who doesn't race enough for their taste.

That said, what I do want is simply a group of people to hang out with, and judging by the responses here, I may have found a couple. If this is a club, more than a team, that's fine. I don't care what you call it, I just wanna hang out with some good people. I know there's lots of people that play this for reasons other than 'appearing god-like' on a leader board, main reason beyond that is FUN.

I have one friend in real life with this sim, and he doesn't play nearly enough to be considered reliable, in terms of company. That and if he could make it around the track without crashing, that could be even more fun...

So anyways, not trying to make it more complicated than it is, but maybe the definition of 'team' isn't what I'm looking for, but maybe something along the lines of a 'motoring club'

Thanks all who responded, hope to see you in game

Both layouts look pretty good, but I'm no pro

Just a suggestion though, you may want to host a screenshot of your track, just in case someone on dial-up doesn't want to download a 15mb .zip