alles gute zum geburtstag SCAWEN
that was german for "happy birthday"

Quote from Furiously-Fast :

This hasn't got much to do with the game itself. It's just what they see on their monitors. They just aren't allowed to be shared on offical forums though.

it HAS: just watch the improvement suggestions section how often engine tuning, choice of rims/wings/bodykits was suggested, what they do with their models i their cup of beer and i cant see it on my client.... so where is the sense behind model modding?

Quote from NoYPiDRiFTER :

Hi Live for Speed Racers,

I have noticed around this LFS community, that a lot of people are just getting flamed for no reason. I've seen reasons like someone made a topic for something and there is already another topic for that something. Then when someone bumps that said topic and its very old, that person gets flamed again. I think people really should be able to say their thoughts without getting flamed or dissed. We should all be friends. This is really unacceptable in my opinion. If there is more flaming here, then I would suggest a mod to close this thread.

-NoYPiDRiFTeR

i am with your opinion, the agression factor got very high in the last year and i am somtimes disappionted that some posts reaches counterstrike and WoW nieveau...
but why the choice of words go so negative? i dont know why some here got so agressive.... even some mods... its inacceptable!

so here are my two cents i write as a racer:

to the racers: accept that there are people out there using this racing simulation for drifting and cruising and stop this flaming on counterstrike nieveau!

to the drifters: accept, that this game is a RACING simulation and drifting is normally not a feature of the game. use what is in the game and please forget wings, spoilers and other tuning parts.

to the cruisers: same i said to the drifters, except the tuning parts

to the mods: you are responsible that this forum should be clean of flaming and "f" words.... dont get agressive and stand over all posts!
in the last time i saw some things i would better forget!

to the flamers: shut up and drive!

to the devs: good sim, take it further please

omg, the fish 'n' chips have a champion ^^

congrats to Lewis and GB

we have made the same a long time ago
for the german speaking people here: http://forum.lightning-racing.de/showthread.php?tid=138

Quote from [GR]Evolution :

+1 but i don't think FXR will be much better with just better engine.

watch hotlaps, the fxr has only no top speed in relation to the other ones

the balancing of small gtrs is ok i think, the times are track depended very close to each other.

the big ones are good on a distance more than 3 hours.... but for short races the fzr is totally imba. followed by xrr, which is much slower than fzr but much faster than fxr...

the fxr needs a bit more engine performance
the xrr should stay as it is (as a base)
the fzr should be slower and the fuel consumption has to be lower

look here for the "balancing" in qualyfying:
http://www.racing-minds.net/16hpage/?page=qualresult

Last edited by Trekkerfahrer, Thu 23 Oct 2008, 11:01.

While i have watched a replay my computer gets a bluescreen on every time i watch it (shortly before lap 5 starts)
Link to replay: http://www.raceauthority.com/r ... _KY3_13_Sep_2008_2228.mpr

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Problemsignatur:
Problemereignisname: BlueScreen
Betriebsystemversion: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3
Gebietsschema-ID: 1031

Zusatzinformationen zum Problem:
BCCode: d1
BCP1: 000000000000008C
BCP2: 0000000000000002
BCP3: 0000000000000001
BCP4: FFFFFA6002A3B521
OS Version: 6_0_6001
Service Pack: 1_0
Product: 768_1

Dateien, die bei der Beschreibung des Problems hilfreich sind:
C:\Windows\Minidump\Mini101908-01.dmp
C:\Users\XXXXXX\AppData\Local\Temp\WER-52119-0.sysdata.xml
C:\Users\XXXXXX\AppData\Local\Temp\WER952.tmp.version.txt

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System:
Windows Vista x64 Home Premium SP1
Intel C2D E6750 @ 2,67 GHz
2 GB Teamgroup RAM
Geforce 9600GT
Intel P35 Chipset
3x 500 GB Harddisk (Samsung)

If the files listed above are needed, contact me via PM.

track for server 1 changed to as7 with gtrs

Quote from Shadowww :

If you want stress test,say me server IP's, i will do ping -f IP from all school PC's.

better drive

Hi guys and girls,

i would like to make a stress test of our new windows server for our team LFS servers.
Anyone is invited to take part

Servers are:
Lightning Racing Public 1
Lightning Racing Public 2

Server 1 has KY1 with BF1
Server 2 has AS2 with FOX

I made this because the races should be short for now

Thanks to everyone who takes part!

Stress test is running, i am keeping an eye on cpu, ram and bandwidth

Con: Like in rFactor and GTR 2 you have to download Gigabytes over Gigabytes ofcontent only for joining a server....this is because i dont race them

Quote from SabersKunk :

a computer

good one

Quote from mcintyrej :

I loved that game but I lost the disc a while ago and havn't been able to buy it again. Some great times playing it online - first played it years and years ago and loved it straight away.

same here....
lost my cd but i still have my cd key

Quote from haelje :

i run lfs on vista64 without any problems

same here

i am using Jakgs way since my thread which is linked above, works good because the stealer is a good brake for all the others
WORKS and PWNED

The only way to prevent skin stealing would be an own fileformat where the skin is in and a list of LFS usernames who are allowed to use them (like an encrypted ZIP or RAR archive)

Last edited by Trekkerfahrer, Tue 30 Sep 2008, 15:24.

Quote from slugz :

This game is pretty old, and the graphics are terrible. But I downloaded it because it supports the clutch for my G25.

Yes the game is old, but LFS mostly supports new technologies first in all Sims (i. e. TrackIR).

Now the training exercises are pretty kool, but the racing itself is far from realistic.

You have only tested XFG, XRG and FBM... i.e. the FBM... have you ever seen a race in TV? Compare it with a replay from V1 Challenge and make your points then before writing such critics like this.
The XFG feels like my VW Polo GTi with Standard Setup... its campareable because the weight and the engine specs are similar. So i think its realistic too. For XRG i have never driven a similar street car.

First of all, the AI aponents love to bump you off the track, and that is not realistic.

I agree, but AI is updated in since patch Y, see patch X and you know what real wrecking is!

Second of all, your car skids and loses traction when going 20-30km/h.

Try it with your real car... drive 30km/h and make a hard turn und kick the pedal onto the ground... you will see what happens... YES YOU LOSE TRACTION.

that is NOT realistic. This game has obsolete game physics. The only thing I can find that's realistic is the gear shifting, but you can't tear your clutch. So once again, not realistic.

LFS is one of the most realistic games out there... sure there are some failures in it, i.e. our good old moonphysics barricades, but Scawen works on it and mostly in new patches we have physics updates.

I hope GTR 2 will seem more realistic, a good thing this game is torrent'ed because it's not worth buying.

GTR2 and realistic? With all driving aids off its drivable, but if you race with aids, you maybe have choosen the wrong game genre... its simply boring with driving aids.

I find GRiD to be 100x more realistic than this game.

Pedal to the metal with over 300 hp and nothing happens (slides etc.)??? THIS is not realistic! Its simply easy driving.... i got 100% there in 2 days...

My 2 cents are bold

Quote from Tomba(FIN) :

http://manta.univ.gda.pl/~tsulkows/lfs_strobe/

LFS Strobe is very horrible to use.... a better one would be nice, maybe with an insim button to activate so that no shortcut has a conflict with strobe

Quote from JCTK :

a little bit OT...
but that car's basically same everything as the Golf, which means next to zero development cost on anything mechanical (well they did improve on a certain areas and added some extra bits somewhere, but u get the idea), design a new body, and that's basically the same car with a wider appeal. Those that didn't like the Golf might perhaps go for the Scirocco instead.

that's how car manufacturers do business these days...

watch the scirocco 1, looks similar to the golf 1 at the front

http://de.wikipedia.org/w/inde ... etimestamp=20050207110314
http://de.wikipedia.org/w/inde ... etimestamp=20071115235558

fire on my cigarette and mostly i have my cup of coffee in my other hand

Quote from Rudy van Buren :

Well yea im not realy going for a removing but more updating it but yes 200m before next corner is a chicane isnt realy usefull but the fact of taking it flat flying over curbs with 160 kph ( fzr ) is more unrealistic

normally you would have no suspension anymore

Quote from Rudy van Buren :

Well the dont need to be removed but updated in a way that you can take them in a fast / safe way. and offcourse the corkscrew should stay there but som others Fe-2-3 ky3-3r we1 can get som work maby even last As chicane because its alot of cutting there aswell.

for the we update: lets see what scawen has for us, he said that westhill gets an update soon

but i think the fe3 chicane should be (re)moved, there is no sense to make a chicane 200m before the next corner

Quote from N I K I :

I totally agree with whose post above.
What I'd like to add is that chicanes aren't must on track, lots of tracks doesn't have them at all, and one great example of great track without chicane is Interlagos.
This thread doesn't mean that all chicanes have to be "slow", but it means that like 70% of them should be "slow". For example Aston and Blackwood chicane (the ones before main straight), are pretty fine as they are now, and it's also quite hard to manage them fast, unlike some others. But they aren't "uber" fast, they're just "fast".
So maybe the rule is fast chicane before straight and if chicane is located at end of straight, then it should be slow, to make opportunity to pass.

these two and the corkscrew at as historic/north and cadet should stay as they are! they are legendary

but i agree with rudy, the actual chicanes are too fast and overtaking there is more like suicide than racing.

they should be like the graphic by darkone, only the westhill chicane, both fe chicanes (the chicane in gold can be fully (re)moved) and the kyoto gp chicane off the oval (like the chicane in national) should be updated.

my opinion:
+99999999999999.....

Last edited by Trekkerfahrer, Sun 21 Sep 2008, 16:58.

great performance by vettel, gratz

Quote from FlyeThemoon :

if Scirocco has been Realsed for DEMO

I Gonna make this :P

http://www.ibherdesign.com/eb/seat/seat-leon-II-kondor.jpg BACK
http://www.ibherdesign.com/eb/seat/seat-leon-body-kit.jpg FRONT

hop it will only be released to s2 licensed users. demo has enough cars i think