Looks like you have a flat right rear there Dan

At least its only flat at the bottom

SD.

A very early start time for me, but I managed to send the kids to bed early and was happy to make it just in time for the race.
Started the race at the back with BBO I wasn't expecting too much as I have been away, and only had about 1-2 hours practise last night, with a set that I hadn't tested over the full race distance, but hey ho, off we started.
I had some great first few laps and managed to miss all the carnage with cars rolling and spinning off and after about lap 10, found myself inside the top 10 and climbing, all I could think about was catching 3Jump

Then I came up behind Franky and oh boy, it was some fun trying to make a pass stick, we swapped positions for a few laps fighting close and hard, until, I forget exactly what lap but between lap 15 and 20 I saw an opertunity to overtake through the middle chicaine, almost got away with it too but I clipped Franky in the apex of the right hander and found the wall at around 90mph then bounced into Franky again and got launched about 10m into the air.

With the traffic I thought only best to spectate at this point, so as not to risk landing on anyone

Not your fault Franky, just a racing incident, I was AFK when you left our server after the race, incase you thought my silence was me being stroppy

Great event looking forward to the next one

Congrats to Kamo who drove an almost perfect race from start to finish.

SD.

lol @ this thread

Grats Failure

Soon, or maybe not so soon, all the Z stats will be cleared/reset ready for the next official LFS release tee hee hee.
although I expect travled distance and fuel, laps etc will stay like the last LFSW reset.

SD.

Quote from tauntdevil :

Hello.
I have a problem with my S2 account. I try to log in but it says "Username was not found" when i know its the right name becuase i have been using it for 3 years and it has always worked until now. So i was wondering if anyone could help. And please dont say ask the fevs because they dont help at all, i have already emailed them 3 times about it and they did nothing. So any chance someone can help me?

Quote from tauntdevil :

Banned for what, i havent done anything wrong. Other then ask for help.
And even after i explained my problem as well as i have proof of purchase you decide to not help but ban my account. Man you guys are kinda on the slow side of helping. I would suggest instead of telling me that you guys are busy and cant help anyone, get someone who can help others while you guys work. Ya theres alot of us to be helped but theres no reason why you cant help help alot us.

Reason for the ban was becuase people all over the world are using the account. Thats great that you guys finaly figured that one out. Im glad, i mean its only been a year since i told you guys its been hacked into and i cant access my account. So for however i am banned for all i got to say is when i get it back can you please fix the dang account and put the original password on it so i can have my account back, otherwise i have to buy a new one in which i know (by law) if perma-banned for reason not caused by owner, i can ask for at minimum a quarter of what i paid back. I baught this account i think in 2007 or so. Iv used it for 5 months... and either way im not a person to fight for this but when its not my fault and the your saying it is, thats kinda messed up.

So i ask yet again can you help me get my account back? Once the ban is over?

Maybe I am confused, you say a year ago, your account was hacked? and you have been using it for 12 months without changing the password?

You are responsible for making a password that is hard to guess and for looking after it.

I also think giving your account details to other LFS users is against the terms that you agreed to when you purchased a licence.

If you do buy another S2 licence, make a hard password and keep it to yourself, also don't use a hotmail account with a soft pass either as it seems MSN hotmail and messenger like so many other MS products have security problems and make you an easy target.

Good luck

SD.

Quote from rich uk :

I love reading through these replies.

If :bump: drafting really annoys you that much I truly feel sorry for you all. Just go out there race and enjoy the game.

Oh and wave as i bump draft right by you

Rich

We will all wave back as we pass you and your victim in the gravel

SD.

Can we get away from slagging off each others countrys and get back to helping the OP who came here to this LFS racing forum!

I think you do have to drive over the limit to find the edge of the cars capabilities, but the best way to get quicker laps at any combo is to work the other way and go form slower times and keep trying faster and faster apex speeds until you hit your taget lap times, however you need to mentally learn the track until you can lap confidently and in total control of the car.

If you join a populated server and ask for help, depending on the server you should get some good advice, its also good to spectate some of the cars to watch how others deal with overtaking (lines etc) I find its easyer to learn from driving with others than on my own

By all means pop into the T7R Teamserver if you see it in the list I feel confidant that any one of our members would gladly spectate you and give live feedback and advice

The best advice in this thread was "get a FF wheel"

Good luck

SD.

Quote from evilpimp :

Drafting - Advantage for you and a little bit for the car in front

Unfortunatly this is not correct in LFS the lead car gains no advantage in speed at this time.

Quote from dawesdust_12 :

Does anyone actually think I know what I'm talking about?

Now that really made me laugh

The problem with drafting irl comes in the additional heat produced for the following car, with a "racing car" the cooling system for the engine and brakes can't do its job well without "clean air" this is what we will see hopefully in future LFS release, meaning longer braking distances and eventually premature engine falure for cars that choose to stay in the draft and stupidly bang into the car infront.
people keep saying its legitimate and used IRL, however I really think its not as common as people seem to believe, also its the sort of thing that will get you disqualified in most racing disiplines.

As people have said before if you are good enough, you dont need to cheat by using a glitch in the simulation software, and you end up feeling better about your own ability as a "clean" driver.

SD.

Quote from Agressor :

I tried Win 7 RC today for the first time (after hearing so many people having good experiences with it).

I must say the installation and system setup were fast and easy.
The OS runs smooth and everything seemed to work from the start.
(I updated my GFX card drivers with the latest ones from Nvidia for Win 7)

LFS ran great (slightly more frames per second than on my XP) but the lack of working drivers for my Logitech MoMo wheel made me return to XP.

Not having Force Feedback and the usual feeling of a decent wheel sucks.

Since the RTM of Win 7 is out it shouldn't be long before we see real Win 7 drivers from Logitech ( i hope).

But the overall feeling of the OS is great. It may look like Vista but it's FAST.

Did you visit www.wingmanteam.com and install the logitech gaming software?
that should be all you need, you should install this before plugging in your wheel it supports both the red and black Momo wheels and W7 uses the vista driver just fine.

@ Logitekg25, all versions of vista, above home-basic that are purchased with a new PC will be eligable for a free upgrade to W7 in october I would look around at other PC makers other than Dell, there are some great bargains to be had

SD.

Last edited by SparkyDave, Sun 9 Aug 2009, 10:10.

Yes I had the same problem after re-installing the OS, I find its better (for me) to globally max out the quality settings in the display driver control panel (AA +AF etc)
I think the "let application decide" settings are sometimes ignored by the GFX driver if another setting is set to performance or what not.
I think this is more a problem with ATI than LFS

SD.

It would be better if you posted the replay, do you have tyres locked up at point of impact? how much faster are you than normal at this point?, would you have made the corner without his impact?

replays are always better than stills

SD.

How much fuel do you have in the car? you can see the slider in the garage/pits under info or F12 whilst in the car.

SD.

I was thinking of adding my results and set about re-installing my XP64 yesterday, however after numerious bootloader problems I ended up reinstalling all my OS's onto seperate drives (not partitions on same drive) today, I'm still restoring stuff now

Hopefully Ill be able to post some results soon

SD.

Have you tried installing a new fresh LFS in a folder on your desktop (or your system drive) and just copying your skins,setups,cfg file etc across, you will probably have to unlock LFS again, but at least W7 will know its all meant to be accessed because you will have extracted it there, instead of just moving it, if you get my drift.

Worth a try

I have known people have this prob on older OS's, I used to see one or two regulars drop off the ctra server everytime it changed track

good luck.

SD.

Welcome to the forums

SD.

Quote from Fuse5 :

Meh, i didn't think of that, sorry. I thought that the related pic is enough proof. You can't watch replays with OOS errors anyway :P

You can if you have the same version the replay was made in.

Quote from SF-Turdtron :

Every hotlap i upload comes back that the hotlap has been deleted because it was out of sync, what does this mean and how do i stop it, its done it with 5 today..

What version of LFS are you using? have you downloaded any of the test patches? if so you just need to go back to the official Z 0.5 ALPHA version, repeat the lap, then upload as normal

SD.

Congratulations

Welcome to LFS S2

Dont forget to unlock your game


SD.

Victor is one cool cucumber

So it looks like all you need to do is what victor writes in this part of his e-mail to you....

Quote from galies :

if you _manually_ transfer the entire 23.84 pounds to [email protected] then I will process it later on as an S2 license purchase.

You should be fully S2 licenced soon

Good job.

SD.

Quote from Deutschland2007 :

Such a childish behaviour really deserves a ban.

I just watched the replay.

I totally agree.

SD.

I doubd that official LFS tech will give (sell) a licence for less than stated amount, they are a bussiness after all.

You never know galies may post back saying all is good, if not however, in this single instance, I would be happy to pay the outstanding 16p required to make it up.

If a dev is reading this, and its possible, please PM or mail me, I think I can just send it in the post, with a link to this thread and the OPs account name "galies" on the back of the cheque, or maybe just the cash

SD.

Have you recieved an e-mail from LFS Tech to say you have not paid enough money?

If not, go to lfs.net make sure you are logged in, then go to this page to send an e-mail to the Devs.

Explain exactly what has happened in the e-mail, I'm sure you will get a reply letting you know exactly what to do next.

Good luck.

SD.

As long as your money order was in GBP, I would imagine it takes up to 3 working days, after your money order is recieved and banked, it could take a little more.

Credit card payments online, are dealt with almost instantly.


EDIT: C & P from lfs.net site............ (this example is for S2@£24GBP)

"As soon as your money order has arrived, your payment will be visible on your status page. Your payment status will show 'Received' until the money order has been cleared by the bank, after which your account will be upgraded to S2 licensed."

SD.

Last edited by SparkyDave, Sun 2 Aug 2009, 11:37.

What build of W7 are you using Billy?

I'm on 7100, seems to be stable as a rock, quick enough, and I really can't fault it, but thats only on my HW

SD.

Thanks for explaining

So you downloaded LFS (the full version) and it wont extract properly on your W7 desktop.
If you still have the original Zip7 file (LFS_S2_ALPHA_Z) try making a new folder on your desktop first then move the zip7 file into that and double click it then just click run, then extract without altering the destination, if you get the same result (not supported archive) try again but this time right click it and choose "run as admin".

You may have to re-download LFS again, it may be a corrupted archive.

Good luck.

SD.

Quote from BlueFlame :

Just tried to get another quote for my Jetta 1.3 LX, can anyone guess what the quote was per year? I bet you can't ..... :P

£190 Fully comp?

SD.

Hi Mastershake, Could you explain the issue your having?

I see its something to do with file compression, could you be more specific?

I'm sure someone here will be able to help.

SD.