Quote from ANAMENOONEHAD :

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those using mouse/kb should be palying on mouse/kb only servers[if you cant afford a wheel i understand jsut saying] or something becuase you cant turn lock to lock in .1 seconds with a proper wheel again whatever but i will agree people miss the point if they use these things it meant to be a serious sim and that takes away from the vision well...
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Give me a steering wheel and I'm surely going to use it on LFS. Otherwise, don't tell people who can't get a wheel to play on separate servers. I play with mouse but there's no point on turning lock to lock in 0.1s, it's plain ridiculous.

About the chase view, even though I don't think it's realistic, I can't see any problem at all on people using it. Actually I think it makes driving much more difficult than on cockpit view. Now, using cockpit view with wheels only is very weird, and I don't like it. I'd never use it. But people have this option by default, so I don't mind it at all too

Quote from S14 DRIFT :

Or alternatively we can use the WASD keys to simulate the turning process, as we have to circle the WASD keys in a counter clockwise way to make the window go down.

No way!
I already use all of the keys you mentioned.
A - look left
D - look right
S - downshift
W - upshift
E - clutch
Q - look back
Z - speed limiter
X - traction control
C - ignition
G - lights
B - horn
V - change view

But I wouldn't mind if you choose any other keys It could be like IJKL as Zen321 said...

@ the OP, well I'm neutral to this idea, I wouldn't mind it in the game but I wouldn't be against it either... I like it on TDU though, and I use it very often.

Quote from Dajmin :

The drag created by opening a window would make this utterly pointless.

I'd keep it closed on LFS

Quote from sam93 :

I know lol, I am thinking of doing a all nighter to do get it all done, have a couple of hours sleep in the morning and don't go back to sleep until it's finished lol.

Change "to sleep" to "to the forum/TV/playing/etc" and then you'll get it right. You should not stop sleeping (or sleep less time) just because you need to finish work which you haven't done because you were doing something else. You should instead do your work rather than finding something to get yourself distracted

Quote from only.one.RydeR :

Is it recognized by the Windows Explorer? This is really useful. I could store an LFS copy in there!

Yes, as well as all the other devices I mentioned

I didn't even know this hack existed when I got MC2, so I didn't do that on mine
Although I doubt it, that can be the reason Rockstar doesn't make the game on PC. You see how great security they did on GTA IV? They've spent 200,000 on DRM and created a lot of triggers to make cracks don't work (and if they worked, people wouldn't be able to play correctly), but a working crack was released a few hours before the game got out. And also the ability to mod game files: they've put a single .txt file to track other files' size and modification dates and make modding impossible, but this file also had to check itself so all we had to do was rename it and make it track the original file (even though they seem to have made mods unable to run online on patch 1.0.3.0)

So it is possible to imagine how long would take to someone create a hack similar to MC2 for MCLA.

Last edited by Velociround, Sat 18 Apr 2009, 04:40.

Quote from EliteAti :

Ololol, Wine sucks, Only thing i get with my new comp on Linux is blank Blue screen and 13 fps. Way to go on the track.... I certainly hope i can get Windows again... I mean Computer is alot better then previous one, but Wine sucks

You can try downloading Windows 7 beta from a reliable source or waiting until RC goes out (most likely May) and installing it... to get a key for it, go to Windows 7 Beta official page, select which version of Windows and log in to a Windows Live account (e.g.: hotmail, xbox, etc). If you get this original key, you'll be able to activate Windows Seven and download Windows Updates, drivers etc just like you would on any other Windows installation.

Note: Build 7000 is the "beta" one that Microsoft released to public, anything other than that is a leaked version.

When I'm home, I'm lazy until I start working on something.. after starting, I can take hours or even a full day (24hrs) on it (taking 10 min pauses every 5 hours, of course).

And I usually start working faster when I'm over pressure. For instance, if I don't have much time before I have to finish whatever I'm doing, I won't be lazy to do it and will work faster.

I don't have concentration problems, and I can pay attention to more than a thing at once (i.e.: writing something to a friend on MSN and saying/listening to someone near me). This often piss my parents off because they think I'm not paying attention, reading and writing on the computer, "so repeat what I've just told you", and I always repeat it perfectly

But I have a problem, I'm very perfectionist and I always check everything I do a lot of times. Sometimes I get myself reading something I've written more than 10 times before actually considering it finished or sending it (if it was a email for example). And I almost never change anything, just read it all over again.

The Pirate Bay wasn't taken down yet... http://www.torrentspy.com/
(But TorrentSpy's owners weren't fined or jailed )

I finished all of them at least "quick", and tried to get "pro" on all of them.

It was one of the first things I did when I wanted to improve my driving skills, in 2005, when I started playing LFS. But after completing all lessons, I never touched them again.

Opening Credits
Walking on clouds - DJ Tiesto feat Kirsty Hawkshaw

Waking Up
A horse with no name - America

First day of school
Crashing foreign cars - Helmet

Falling in love
Bullet for my valentine - hand of blood

Fight song
Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple (I hate this song)

Break up song
Quarter - Fuel

Prom
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Kiss kiss

Lifes ok
The death and resurrection show - Killing joke

Mental breakdown
London bridge - Fergie (don't like this one too)

Driving
Seven Nation Army - Arena

Flash Back
I am rock - Rock

Back Together
Disco bus - Stereo Bros.

Wedding
Global Deejays - Stars on 45

Birth of child
T.A.T.U - Sacrifice

Final battle
Breaking the Habit - Linkin Park


In the first instance I didn't like this thread so much, but after doing it I found it quite funny, specially because of some songs and how amazingly they fit (or not at all) the title

Quote from 5haz :

You can set an Ipod Shuffle up as a USB flash drive.

Useful.

You can set a cell phone and any other mp3 (mp4, mp5, mp724372872, etc) player as a USB flash drive too (basically, everything that connects on a USB port). And, on Windows 7, you can set a CD-R or DVD-R disc as a USB flash drive too. And you can copy or move files to it as much as you want, then just eject the disc and put it in another computer. You'll still be able to burn files on it again, whenever you want (until it gets out of space, of course).

Windows 7 also records .iso images by default... Nero or any other burning program aren't needed anymore

Quote from saumilsingh :

Does the full installer put together by Velociround include all the latest bug fixes (skyboxes and any others)?

Yes.

Quote from saumilsingh :

Btw, the installer by Velociround doesn't include all the menu backgrounds, particularly the garage, multiplayer and replay ones.

The installer includes all files that were made until now (also with the latest bug fixes).

About the menu backgrounds, if you download the files from the original link (without installer) you will read: "Unfinished Addon", and will also notice it doesn't include these menu backgrounds you mentioned.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=G2JQWK2X

So, the installer is complete with all files available until now. And I'll create patches for it and update the installers if Lynce make any other updates too.

Last edited by Velociround, Thu 16 Apr 2009, 23:41.

Looks great!


(BTW the images worked when you first posted it, and it still works on Opera.)

November 1995 if I'm not mistaken. I usually played Dave and "Bump" (or something like that, a MS-DOS game in which the main character was a yellow ball). And quite a while later, Commanche 3. But I loved Destruction Derby 2 too!

Quote from hazaky :

Its not that people dont care, its just that we cant do anything against it. Its gone for now and yes ... better luck next time.

It's not gone, I've recovered plenty of my friends' accounts.
Just go to https://support.steampowered.com/ , register on the website, and send a request for a hijacked account.
https://support.steampowered.c ... le.php?ref=2347-QDFN-4366

It's simple as pie. Just do what it says and you'll get your account back within 4 days. The last hijacked account I recovered was answered on the day after I sent the request (almost all of them took a very short period of time to get solved (i.e.: 1 day)). The only exception being when I lost my password and my secret question: I got the account back on the same day (sent the request 11am, received the answer 7pm, GMT-3).

Thanks a lot, I updated my channel now

Quote from S14 DRIFT :

I stopped with Youtube when they decided I wasn't capable of deciding whether I wanted to choose HQ/HD or not. Not only does the &fmt stuff not work, no matter what I do I can't get the option to appear in the video window. I'm told it's because my connection is only 1mb, however surely if I wanted to wait for a video to load in HQ, that's my choice? Although generally I could stream HQ without a problem.

D:

Wow, things seems to be really bad there. But browsing Youtube from here (Brazil) we still have the HD and HQ buttons and also fmt 16, 18 and 22 work correctly. Also we don't have any music videos censured, only if we post a video with copywrighted song, but they usually don't find many of these videos. Actually I've only seen 2 "censured" videos so far: both of them were posted on this forum, and gave me a "region restriction" message.

All cars - 12/12
Hard - 8/12
Easy - 8/12 (a lot of cars I've never seen before)
Sport Cars - 12/12 (I didn't know one of them but I got it right )

ROFL
It's simply amazing, and looks veery familiar too

me wants to download this video hi-def...

Filled it... I was serious when I filled it, now I'm reading things other people said...

Quote from bunder9999 :

it probably would if i wasn't playing it on a tv...

Strange, because my FPS is the same regardless of playing on a TV or a monitor

Quote from Lynce :

I understand now.

Awesome pictures mate, I love the reflections on the cars, specially on the first and last screenshots.

Quote from Lynce :

The last pic with more size?

Yes

Quote from R.Kolz :

Had him to run a couple of hyper pi ( 1M@35secs Q6300@63degrees) tests yesterday. Graphics or software related error, I think.

@ Post 32 & 33 : 8600GT 150-200 FPS?
@ Office FX5200 never under 35 FPS with a prob. single core P4 only?
I´m sure you got the Saltsa-Version of a FX5200 then.

You should've seen my sister's FX5500 256MB then: stable 40~42FPS on a Celeron D 1.8GHz, 1GB RAM DDR 333MHz no less than 26fps with 9 (online) cars on the track. (no AA, full textures, AF 4x, minimum car LOD, 1280x1024 32bit). I gave her a new computer for birthday by the way

And of course, a 8600GT can get even higher FPS on LFS depending on the PC's processor.

By the way, is there a difference between hyper pi and super pi? (the programs)
I have the "Super PI" program here, and my E5200 stock (2.5GHz) calculates 1M @ 22secs. (42°C)
Is his processor dying or something? A friend of mine overclocked a E2160 @ 2.93GHz (sth like that) and got 1M @ 23sec (also on "Super PI" program).

But please let's not stay too far from the topic
I mentioned the CHKDSK feature because I have once turned the PC off incorrectly and when I started Windows it found plenty of errors which were slowing the PC down.

Quote from -liberto- :

Still no pack ?

Direct link, just to make sure:
http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=56099

Quote from bunder9999 :

weird... my 6600gt runs great... 1024x768, 32-bit, 60hz, 1x AA, 1xAF...

capped at 30fps, it never goes lower than 25fps, but that's pretty rare.

edit: you said you tried the latest driver... how about an older one? newer doesn't always mean better.

I'm sorry but this is not great at all
My FX5200 128MB ran LFS at 1024x768, 32bit, 75hz, no AA, 8x AF, about 45~60fps on Pentium 4 2.8ghz. (full textures, full skin res)
Never went lower than 35fps on most demanding parts (too many cars online).

Your graphics card should run LFS a lot better than this.

And from what I've read it may seem weird, but for me, newer driver always meant better performance (except for ancient graphics card such as GeForce MX440)

@ hazaky: +1, except for resolution: 1680x1050 + enbseries and 4x AA, 16x AF = stable 85fps on Pentium D.

By the way, back on topic
@ Tazer: Have you turned off your computer in a not usual way on Tuesday? (i.e.: remove the plug, hold the "turn off" button for a few seconds instead of waiting Windows shut down, turn off the stabilizer, turning off the PSU, etc).

Try running CHKDSK on your disc and see if it finds any errors.

Quote from Mackie The Staggie :

theres a new film out about a tractor.

i haven't seen it but i've seen the trailer.

Warning, I'm going to tell a dirty and heavy joke:
The elephant fell on the mud.