I complained to my ISP for so long they checked my line all was good, I replaced all cabling in the house still had problem, finally replaced the old Modem they had given me and now all is going good. I've had two days of dissconnect free racing!!! I'll let you know if it continues.

SOLVED: My modem/Router was the problem replaced it and all is well!!!!!! Hope you all get yours fixed too.

Last edited by Toddshooter, Sun 18 Nov 2007, 12:24.

Quote from thisnameistaken :

OK, here's how I feel about the tracks:

BL GP: Straight is too long, corners all too similar.
BL RallyX: OK, reverse is annoying because everybody cuts T1.

FE Club: Useless. Too small.
FE Green: Gay chicanes.
FE Gold: OK-ish.
FE Black: Too long, too re-used, but doesn't matter because nobody ever uses it anyway.
FE RallyX: Alright.
FE RallyX Green: Gayishly small.

SO Classic: 3 corners - oval in disguise.
SO Sprint 1: Needs pits due to gay kerbs.
SO Sprint 2: Alright.
SO Town: Alright.
SO Long: Alright.

AS Cadet: Surprisingly not bad-ish.
AS Club: 3 corners - another oval circuit.
AS National: 20 miles long and not enough corners.
AS GP/Historic: One track masquerading as two.
AS GT: Reverse makes it slightly interesting.
AS North: Cuts out most of the gayest parts of National/GP/Historic, making it the best circuit at Aston.

KY Oval: 3 corners. As wide as it is long.
KY National: Most corners flat out in most cars, then made even less interesting by the long boring oval bit.
KY GP: I don't think I've ever done a race there so it might as well not exist.

Westhill: Quite interesting.

There. Hopefully that will help explain how people can be bored of certain circuits. I wish I was more easily entertained, I really do.

WOW can you say HOMOPHOBE three times fast?

I don't have a problem with not having that many improvements. I really don't pay that much attention to the trees and tracks and the graphics. I have to turn them all down anyway because of my computer.
My fun comes from the racing! Battling it out with the other racers is what keeps me coming back day after day. The personalities of the people are what makes it interesting more than anything else. I don't even have time to worry about if things could be improved. Before this game I was one of the gamers that had a few games on the go at all times. Since I've started playing LFS I haven't played anything else.
Hope to see you all on the track!

Now I know what to get my wife for Christmas. Big black army boots to wear to bed!!

I have been trying to find the same thing. My problem is when I'm racing I don't want to have to look down to press control+F1 or any other combination. It takes to much time. Can we assign a one key press for messages instead of two keys?

edit: I know how to change what the keys say. What I want to find out is if you can press one key: say the "Q" key and get the "Sorry" message to appear?
If anyone knows the answer please let me know.

Last edited by Toddshooter, Wed 14 Nov 2007, 21:20.

I agree +1

Quote from z3r0c00l :

you suck at graphics? blimey.

I suck at setups Everything else in life I'm the absolute best at!!

Quote from Ball Bearing Turbo :

Well the waiting part is right anyway. We used to have good discussions about lots of different topics but everything's been beaten to death over and over because there really isn't anything to talk about with LFS for now, which is why these threads keep coming up.

Is LFS great? Yes, physics wise.
Is it taking eons? Yes
Can anyone change that? No
Do I have a right to talk about it? Fundamentally yes; but based on this forum, no.

I for one:

A: haven't been here that long. So its mostly new to me
B: Like to hear everyones veiwpoint
C:Fu*&ing love this game. Mostly for the competition, not the graphics, or physics, or tweaking setups(because I suck at it!)

Quote from greg_slideways :

so that you can know when someone is next to you...it will decrease crashers....Like nascar..

This is what the look left and right buttons on your steering wheel are for right?

If your quick enough and learn how to do it well you don't even miss a race. Just save it and go edit the report later at CTRA website.
NO PROBLEM

I don't want them to finish developing!! When and if they do all the people that want the latest and greatest will disappear very quickly, just like every other game out there:-( Then you will see the fan base disappear I think. There will always be a core community but all the hangers on that need new all the time will go! The way it is now keeps everyone coming back and waiting and disscussing and disscussing and disscussing!!!!!

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 FL!P :

Sam, I got and saw yellow flags with the GT2 on the Cadet's finish straight that's part of Aston Grand Prix. I don't have a replay, though.

This has happened to me before too. I really don't care that much for stats but for thoughs that do I feel your pain.

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 SpikeyMarcoD :

No posts in like forever...just had to break the silence.
So how come....even jakg is silent

I was wondering the same thing. I say we start an argument about points and how there awarded just for fun!!

Then we'll discuss T1 and overtaking rules and regulations and everyones inturpretation of them.

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!!

Quote :

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

Just a question but can I get a ringer to log in as me and run up my points while I sleep? This seems like an easy way to get a platinum licence in no time, and then not have the experience to race on a platinum server?! This is not what IceMan31x has done I'm sure but others could. Just a thought by the way. As you can tell from my slow progress this is not happening with my user name!

I like the new tracks but I like racing against some of the more experienced racers who don't crash everyone better:-) Had fun with Sam and Jakg and everyone could actually finish a race.