Quote from danowat :

Ahh...you (tiger) were on the same server last night, the OLFSL server, someone said I was lagging, so I assumed i was, TBH, I don't know how to tell if I am or arent.

Dan,

I also am not sure if it is me or others that lag, but last night I had a massive 3-4 second lag, where everybody else dissappeared and then they came back again. Then about 10 seconds later, I disconnected without any warning. (apart from the big lag, of course :-) )

Tim

Quote from the_angry_angel :

Try updating the firmware. A lot of netgear routers come with old firmware, which doesnt work particularly well. The DG834(g)'s for example usually comes with v2 firmware, and if I remember correctly theres now a 3.01 revision.

There is indeed a 3.01 revision of firmware for the DG834G, and as yet I am on the one before this, 2.something. I will try this new version also.

Tim

Danowat, the "problem" you see at hop 5 is not a problem, it simply means that the router at the hop in the process does not respond to pings. This is normal practice for the internet.

Makes debugging things like this hard, though.

Tim

I get disconnected a lot and have experienced quite a bit of lag lately. My ADSL is also through a Netgear router and have always had problems. I have done a tracert on that IP address from my work (just now) and it works. I will try it from home and see what I get from there, because my disconnections are starting to annoy me.

I am also going to try using the USB ADSL modem that I got with my connection, but I would expect a router to be better.

I will keep you posted with my results.

(PS I will have to look up my ISP as it my ADSL (512K) is through Utility Warehouse and they use a seperate ISP whose name I can not remember)

Congratulations Geraldine and Scawen, my best wishes are with you and Leo.

Tim

Thanks, I was kinda hoping that he may have seen some more lately, possibly even read the report in AutoSimSport. Maybe Scawen wants to keep away from it so that it doesn't give him ideas which could be classed as 'copying'.

We shall see.

Tim

Hi Devs,

Just curious, two questions,

1. What do you think of netKar Pro?
2. Will you be watching the upcoming F1 season?

Please feel free to elaborate (if you can find the time).

Thanks
Tim

My advice would be to join a league (once you have bought S2 first, of course). I found that there were some cars that I just wasn't interested in at all, for example the UF1000. I tried it and it bored me. Then I joined the Original LFS League, and one of the events used the UF1000 at Aston Cadet. I had to use it, and I am really glad I did. Now I really like the UF1000, and am willing to try all the other cars and tracks.

The last event of the season is in the LX4, which I can not control for toffee, but I have a goal now, I can practice and get better and then use the new skills to compete in an event to look forward to at the end of it.

Just my thoughts, hope they help!

Tim

They are saved as one of the following:

Single player/hot lapping replays - as a .spr file - in the DATA\SPR folder
OR
Multi player replays - as a .mpr file - in the DATA\MPR folder.

They can only be viewed within LFS, but you can use a utility like FRAPS to create an AVI.

Hope this answers your question.

Tim

The title of this post caught my eye, because I knew instantly where it came from (especially as I have been playing all my old favorites on CCS64 which is a C64 emulator for the PC and recently found a C64 emulator for the Pocket PC!). Anyway, I read the rest of the post and thought "did I write this post?" It is absolutely word for word what I think (apart from the fact that I have only been playing since November 2004 when I found the demo on a magazine CD).

Agree totally with everything you say - and I am not arse kissing either.

Thanks Devs,
Thanks Community,
Thanks LFS.

Happy Birthday Scawen!

Quote from mrfell :

I'm officially 33..........

but i'm training my lad who is 3 to play LFS!!!

I am 30 now (31 next March) and I too am teaching my 3 year old to drive in LFS. He, however, prefers turning the wheel a lot and smashing into the walls ...and no, he has not been online!

OK, thanks for answering me - will do.


Tim

smith, is there any chance of you sharing the source code with me, please. I am trying to make an insim app (to do something very similar to yours) but I have only got the original LFS Control project and was wondering if yours was easier to start with. Also what do you write it in? Do you use VB or C++ and if so which flavour?

I will understand if you do not want to give it away that easily, so if you could just give me the minimal I need to initialise insim and start sending and receiving packets - I would be very grateful.

Tim

Quote from SabersKunk :

I'd prefer to see position number next to the blobs on the map, as well as position number next to the name over the car. That would make sense.

That could work, if the numbers on the map were clear enough. I would just like to know who is directly behind me (position wise not track wise) and who is in front of me. I don't think it matters about the other cars until they are either a threat to you or your next target!

EDIT: After more thought, I think the car directly in front and directly behind should be a darker or lighter shade of the colour system that is already used.

Last edited by t1ger, Fri 19 Aug 2005, 22:02.