Great thanks for the quick response.

Hi all
Can any one use any of the skins posted here or do you need to ask permision first? I'm new to the skinning end of things and haven't been able to find anything on this yet.

This happens to me all the time. I have talked to lots of different people who this is happening too and no one so far has had a solution. Hope you find on and share.

Quote from ShowStoppa :

ok, im losing my connections again, if anything its slightly better than before and i stay connected longer but none the less not long enought to finish a race, Ive been trawling through the forums and there are so many threads with people with what seems to be exactly the same problem and there isnt a definate cause or solution posted in any of them.
Unless im being stupid and have missed it then it doesnt look like its been properly looked into because with this amount of people with the same problem it must be something similar causing it.

please HELP! :weeping:

This is what happens to me as well and I haven't been able to find a solution either sorry. (Other than bang my chest and threaten my computer with bodily harm!) My CTRA stats for completed races are shit because I lose my connection all the time.
Let me know if anything helps you and i'll do the same.

As a parent, I hope you kill only yourself and not anyone else acting like an **** on public roads!!! Who cares about your insurance!What about all the inocent people out there? Just because you can race on a video game doesn't meen you can race a real car. Don't be an idiot. Grow up and realize what you are doing may not only effect you. Please rethink doing this!!

Quote from SamH :

Ever since then I've realised there are two levels to "alien", in LFS. Since I'm not that fast, I decided to try and be the other kind.. the one you can race door-to-door with, lap after lap, and never unintentionally surprise or be surprised by the other drivers. Aspiring, not achieving yet.. but working on it

+1 to this. I would rather lift and keep racing and having fun than pushing too hard and wrecking both of us. Even if its a mistake it kind of sucks to take another out.

Quote from Zomah :

well you wont be happy with either one but i'd go for 6200. 256mb of video memory will not do any good for you if you can't play games that use that much graphics memory. and im guessing you want it for liveforspeed so there you go. also be sure you've got a decent soundcard, cause that can reduce framerates too

EDIT: damn my slow typing

Could you explain please? How does the sound card afect frame rate?
Thanks Toddshooter

Quote from Gener_AL (UK) :

well Ive now got 3 installations , Just been racing around on the CTRA Server 2, with Fresh Install of LFS (VerX) which then prompted to auto install X10 so i did, before joinng any server i switched off Auto downloading skins , and hey presto ... no stuttering.

So its seems it is skin related, will test with this install a bit more
Find out if its a file size issue, does LFS convert to jpg > DDS as soon as a player connects ? or if LFS.exe restarted ?

But first some coffee

I didn't even think of this! But I always have skins turned off so they don't bog down my connection.

Quote from mrodgers :

Look in the LFS folder system with Windows Explorer, find the files and press the little button on your keyboard, that may look similar to all your other buttons, but has hieroglyphics that look like this --> Delete

Smartass!!

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Er.... it's the message.wav and sysmessage.wav files in the LFS>Data>sound folder. Just change the name extension to message.old or similar so you don't have to hunt copies down if you want them back. Though, once you hear the glory of silent chat, you'll never want them again. I haven't heard chat sounds in over 2 years .[/

Thank you

Quote from mrodgers :

FWIW, I also have stuttering.


I also deleted the system and the chat message sound and chat has been quiet for me for years, so that's another variable that shouldn't be a cause of the problem.

Could you let me know how to do tis please? I find that noise so annoying and would love to get rid of it.
Thanks Toddshooter

Quote from Intrepid :

I am not condoning wrecking, but in real life if you are

1. not up to speed
2. not 'aggressive'

you will get destroyed, especially in tin top racing...

what you get is guys who want to make real strong moves, and if you not ready for it, or just wimping around you will get engulfed.

Its a begining server!! You shouldn't be there engulfing anyone.
Move up to the next server and let the platinums engulf you if your into engulfing.

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You will notice that the fast drivers, that are blamed for all this, once they are all racing together there isn't any major contact, nor is there much complaint between them. The reason for this is because they are used to it. It's how you gotta be....it's the same in real life.... and that's a testament to how good racing in LFS is.

I've raced against lots of drivers that were so much faster than me it was laughable. But the really good ones didn't ever touch me! They could drive where ever they wanted on the track and pass with no problem

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I am in no way saying to win you should wreck people, but I am recognising the fact the the driver who is indecisive, not aggressive, and non-ballsy enough can cause as much carnage as anyone else. Of course they look blameless, but it's something I see time and time and time again. The driver that is indecisive and unpredictable is the one that can cause all the trouble for themselves.

No your not, BUT you are saying if a faster driver takes out a slower driver its the slower drivers fault.

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sometimes ppl don't understand how much of a nuisance they are.

Maybe you're the nusance and just don't realize it!!

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Quote from Fox_Mulder :

Well you've called us. Now what?! Organize hosting and times and lets get this show on the road.

At no time did I state that I was looking at adding more scheduling time to my already overloaded calendar!! I was looking for a place to race with low ping and people in my own time zone. One day when my kids are grown and my wife has left me for a younger man, I might have the time! But for now I will leave it for others.

Hi I'm willing to join in as well just tell me where and when. Going to try out thoughs new sets from earlier in this thread and come a calling.

Quote from KSheppard :

Barrie here

My sister taught in Kasabonika Lake for a while.

I work for the goverment and ship stuff there everyday. Small world eh.

I live in Northern ontario. And I mean NORTH not Barrie or Sudbury.

Sioux Lookout here

Great thanks for the update.

I keep looking at the LOTA servers but nobody is ever on them. I would go and race but nobodys home. Oh well.

Hey Mischief007 I used to live in London when I was a kid. Went to Sir Wilfred Laurier High school.

Is the server named LOTA? I don't think I've seen it before. Texas is on Central time right?

Giday Eh!

Just wondering how many Canadians race on a regular basis and if we could get together for some good racing with nice low ping?I have played on a couple of Canadian servers and had lots of fun but can't always find them.

I went on a cruise server for the first time last night to see what it was. I still don't get it what are people doing there besides talking? Why don't they talk on a form instead of in a racing game?
Let me know! I am not putting it down I just don't get it.

+1 me too and only then!

Don't know if this would work or if everyones wives, girlfreinds, boyfreinds, mothers, and fathers wouldlike it but why note use a conference call on a speaker phone? Then you don't use up any of your bandwidth.

My question is do you set a max frame rate when playing online? And will this help in anyway. I keep getting the lost connection to server message and get disconnected. The thing is my connection bars are merrilly bouncing away in the bottom left corner and then all of a sudden BAM I'm dissconnected. Does frames per second have anything what so ever to do with this?

Quote from birder :

Maybe this is my fault, well sort of

The Target times to beat are:
CD1 AS3 1.44.00
CD3 AS1 0.52.40

On 15th i used 52.40 as the setting for licenses
On 27th i used 52.39 as the setting

No times recorded on CD1

Your times for CD3 are

52:40 in the XFR
52.41 in the UFR

Now how close is that.

Oh I didn't know I was that close I'll go back and get faster then!
Thanks for the response!