file "fly.rar" added, please confirm

Quote from Clownpaint :

What will Yugo cover, the bumper car class? :P

Yap, that will be in our special "how to race against clownpaint members" section

Easily

(For students)

Go to our site www.itekracing.com , click on "forums", then go to "ITEK Racing School" section, subforum "students". Read the aplication, fill out the form

- reserved post if needed -

Have you heard this before?

"You nOOb, get out of the WAY!"
"Respect the blue flag!"
"Go offline and practice!"

The list goes on........

In recent times I have seen so much anger towards new people in LFS. Anger such as getting banned and kicked out of a server. This gave me an idea.

The "ITEK Racing School"

Yes, I know what some of you may think, "what the hell, who is he to give lessons?" But read this very carefully and you will get the idea I had in mind.

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Introduction: (For those who dont know the ITEK racing team)

The team was founded by Keith Malcomson (B11TME) in November 2005. Soon, others followed:

- Alain Lang (LRB_Aly)
- Ian Metcalfe (Strobe)
- Sam Yip (Sam)
- Marko Dzalev (YUGO45)

The main reason ITEK was founded was to challenge existing pro teams in various leagues. In the time which passed after the foundation of ITEK, we started focusing on big championships, for example the "Masters Of Endurance" which we are particuraly proud to drive in.

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What can we offer?

Well, we can share our experience with other "novice" drivers. It doesnt matter if its on the track or just talking about racing setups, team strategies, statistics, etc. We would like to see more fair and fun driving and this is the main goal for us and I hope for OTHERS!
Nobody was born with the knowledge how to drive the LFS combos. Even the pro´s from the ESL had to start somewhere!

*Drivers which finish all classes can later apply for ITEK membership (this is optional). The board commitee will decide your aplication.*

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The racing school idea:
There will be three classes in which drivers will be devided:


I. Novice
II. Moderate
III. Advanced


What you will learn in these categories.


I Novice:

1. Introduction in the world of fun LFS racing, theory!
2. Basic training.
3. How to control your speed pedal.
4. Getting the right lines in corners.
5. When and how to shift gears.
6. Using your the left/right view.
7. Learning the cars.

II Moderate:

1. The most feared moment in LFS, getting through the first corner SAFELY!!!!
2. Deliberately avoiding accedents.
3. How to use your brake pedal.
4. Using drag, SAFELY and WISELY!!!!
5. What to do in a BLUE FLAG situation.
6. First steps in overtaking.

III Advanced:

1. Braking fast by shifting gears without locking the tires.
2. How to stay in position even if your opponent is faster, blocking (FAIRLY!).
3. Advanced overtaking (where and when!).
4. Slide and recovery techniques.
5. High speed lapping.
6. Lead-follow laps with instructor.
7. How to stay focused, using equally fast opponents for longer races.

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Rules:

General:

- S2 licence (I am considering the possibility of demo as well)
- All the talking will be done with TEAMSPEAK! Only in specific cases will a driver be allowed to talk by typing.

- Player Conduct:

All players are asked to behave in a humane way towards other drivers, and to any member of the administration team. Treat others as you would like to be treated! If a player is found guilty of misconduct by an administrator, he or she could be asked to leave.

- Language:

On all 'public' sections of the forum only English may be spoken.
On the Teamspeak server English, German and French can be spoken.

*This isnt a league so not too many rules, just please repsect them.*

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How will this all work?

Each class will get their own instructors, depending on his or hers knowledge the instructors will be also divided into groups. There will be a board committee to decide further improvement of the school. The board will also decide if one driver is good enough to move to the next level.
I will try to assign tutors to specific drivers (if people are interested) that are in need of extra help. The tutors will work with you and report back to the board.

Also, I will see if any professional drivers that race in real life can share his or hers experience.

The committee will at the end of each class give points to every driver on the scale between 1-10 for improvement, so we can make this a little more interesting.

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Aplications for students will be made on the ITEK forum

Those who want to help out by beeing instructors can feel free to contact me.

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This is just a begining of the plan. Further development to improve the "school" will be done. What I am asking is that the more experienced get involved and that the new guys try to improve. This will result in more fun in racing for all of us.

For info:
[email protected]

Or by contacting me via msn:
[email protected]

Students can apply for training by registering on the ITEK forum, where a special section exists specifically for this matter. But first of all I would like to see if there is interest.

-Future instuctors: It DOESNT matter if you arent in a TEAM or if you are already active for another!

-Future students: DONT be shy! First steps are allways the hardest. Lets make the racing for ALL fun!

This is all just brief and made so you dont fall asleep while reading.
Comments are welcomed.

www.itekracing.com

NOTE: Site is new and not yet finished, but working properly.

Dont drink votka, try Absent :schwitz:

Damn, my appologies then. Must have slipt somehow


Still a thing not to forget

Would it be possible to make the lap timer with a one thousend of a second?

It has happend often that the same times appear in qualyfing and during a race. Its more exact when we have .001 instead of .01 timing.


Dunno if this was posted before, tried to search and coudnt find anything related to this subject.

I think everyone of us had such a stage. The sence of "freedom" when you get your licence is for some like theys think they can drive better and faster than pro´s.

The only difrence is some aknowledge the risk and drive on their own on public roads where there is no trafic and the others never grow up thinking they know better.

I personally love driving fast. But, always calculating that no one is near me, neither in the car nor on the road. Thank god for german autobahns .

If your thinking of "not growing" up, take everyones sugestion and do it on the track. Its more safer for you and for everybody else. Buy yourself a used race car. Depends which one but i found some between 4000-8000 € (not profesional, but with cage and everything you need to be fast and safe)

Quote from Clownpaint :

:chairfall

What a constructive post!

You must have worn out yourself illepall

@Thisnameistaken

Dunno what happend here, but i suppose you are somewhat complaining about the writing in the news part?

Well the site isnt finished and the guys that are doing it have still little bits of pieces to put on it. Nevertheless dont see whats the fuss about the writing? We know its small, its just that people are doing the more importing things atm.

btw, try ctrl and mouse scroll up/down , ...... does wonders.

Really nice orginized, thumbs up

I deleted the helmets, turned auto download on and it worked! Tested it on four diffrent servers and without problems it downloaded the skins.Thanks a lot TagForce!

Also thanks for you guys that helped out with my situation!

Ok, on it right now.

No, the hidden option is not turned on. The default skins are in the skins folder and i did not delete them. Positivly 100% i dont have a firewall of any kind, no router, no norton, nothing..... yet.

What about changing the .cfg files? Forcing downloads in another folder, say "skins_y" for example. Its like it doesnt let the skins appear.

Just a reminder, the only way i can see them is by going in a server, waiting for the download to end(about 30secs.), turning "download" option off, disconecting, then going back in the same server with the "download" option on OFF. Just like Tagforce described (in which i followed his instructions to the end, but didnt work for me, only works until this point).

inst -> isnt -> is not

Quote from Hyperactive :

Just a simple list of questions, not trying to be witty or have a go at you. Some questions sound stupid but could you answer these so people know exactly what have you done with these? Thank you.

You have enough empty space on HD?
You have installed your windows from legit and non-edited CD (haven't made your own install cd)?
You are not running LFS inside the *.zip - you have unzipped the folder to some place on your HD?
You haven't edited your windows' settings without being sure what they do?
You have re-downloaded LFS from liveforspeed.net (the whole package, not just update file...) and it doesn't change anything?
Your firewall has allowed LFS to edit folders/files/use net connection/use DLLs it needs, etc.?
How much memory does LFs use for graphics? To check this go to the graphics settings, look at the text right from the menus. Compare this to your graphics card memory.
Have you updated your graphics drivers and they are set up ok, without conflicts?

And people, take it easy, shouting or arguing won't solve this

Answers:

1. 200GB S-ATA Seagate "Baracuda" ---> free space 165GB atm
2. Windows installed by Medion company, with all the drivers. Its their brand PC with legit Windows
3. LFS inst running from .zip folder
4. Windows setting were not touched
5. downladed full version from ocrana racing site with new Q patch, still same simptoms
6. Dont have a firewall
7. Also no problem their
8. Uptaded grahic driver (omega 2.6.83) Tested it with Call of Duty 2 and BF2. No sings of problems (also with LFS).

Quote from Victor :

you can all forget about lfsworld being the problem, because lfs world has exactly null to do with the _actual downloading_ of skins. The only relation is that LFS will download skins from the website called LFS World, but there no interactivity whatsoever.

I don't see why you guys think so far off topic - yugo had no problems, then he changed something about his computer and all of a sudden he had problems that noone else has. Gee where would the problem be... LFS WORLD?

Now, you can call this post sarcastic, rude, whatever you want yugo, but if you, again, decline advise other people give you, then I really don't feel like helping you.
I still didn't see you reply that you tried boris's advice, to start from scratch, with a clean hd and then download S2 again from our website and install that version.
It's quite likely that version won't have any problems and then we could take things from there, copying stuff over from your backed up cd, piece by piece, to see if this new problem of yours comes up again and if it would, it would be easier to pint point the problem this way. But now, I can't help you because you don't follow the advice given to you.

Good luck.

Ok let me start from scratch.


First of all, I did some changes, but only to my hard drive. The reason was that it didnt work properly (mechanical error) and I knew that "Medion" was sending me a new one, so I experimented a little bit.

Yesterday about noon, a technition brought me the new hard drive. Xp, drivers, were already installed, so basicly it was like the day i bought the PC (this i mentioned in the thread). Now, the only thing i have changed since then was the graphic driver (omega), nothing else. I mean, its brand new, so do I need to format a new installed HDD?

I will say this again. REally, I have tried every single sugestion in here that was posted by other members. I am also thankfull for comments, hints, etc.

Where did I say that I decline help? That i think its not a good idea to try anything out (only the sugestion to format a newly installed HDD by profesionals thats not even 24h in use)?

Just watch the clip, you will see what I am on about.

Made a small clip for some of you that wish to see the actual problem at work.


http://rapidshare.de/files/104 ... LFSmisssingskins.wmv.html

"Originaly posted by yoyo45orsomething"?


You really need to grow up.

This can happen to anyone, maybe your next tristan!?!?!?

What you gonna do? Turn on your magic ball for help?


I dont want to argue and I aint no "super brain" with PCs, thats why i need some help here to solve this.

The nearest that i have come to solving this was from TagForces sugestion, like i said in my previos post.

Quote from tristancliffe :

Phoning Microsoft just shows how little you know about computing (as if they'd know), so getting cross when people TRY to help isn't gone win you many favours.

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Please READ, I did not phone microsoft because of LFS!

Mierly because the folder didnt want to turn off its "write protection", which some of the guys thought was the problem!

Quote from TagForce :

Let me get this straight...

So... LFS says it's downloading the skins... And says its downloading some of those more than once in a loop...
While it is downloading those skins you don't see any of the downloaded skins, but when you disco and reconnect to the server, you see the previously downloaded ones, but not the ones it hasn't finished downloading yet?

If so... I've had that problem once... There's a list of skins it's downloading in the player options (I think)... See which skins are on there, and try to stop them downloading (you can cancel the downloads by clicking them or something, can't really remember... When you've done that, turn automatic skin downloading to off, and connect to the same server again... Then disconnect, turn automatic skin downloading back on, reconnect, and for some strange reason, from that moment forth, it would simply download all the available skins for me. There may be a small bug in the automatic download functions, causing the skins to become corrupted, or the wrong message received when downloads finish. Most common for me were helmet skins not downloading correctly.

Thank you! I am getting somewhere now!

The moment i turn off auto downloading, and then reconect to the same server it shows all the skins, ALL OF THEM! but, the moment i disconect, go to options and turn the automatic skin download back on, it does it again, doesnt show skins, except few. Its like he is choosing which one!

Tried something,....... turned on automatic download option when the skins we on the vechicles. After i done that, what i saw was how skins disapear from the cars, they just became WHITE again (not all). There were three cars on the track that had the same skin (this is wierd) and one of three of them had the skin on (when i turned the Automatic option on), the two didnt, just disapeared. I wish i had fraps on so i could film it, to let you know that i aint imagining things illepall

Quote from Victor :

Why don't you try the suggestion Boris Lozac gave you instead of assuming it's not the problem? Start all over again and download the latest full version, unzip it cleanly to a new folder and then see if you still have the same behaviour?
If you don't want to try people's suggestions, then why did you mail me asking for help? I can't really give more suggestions than are written here in 1 day.

I have tried every sugestion their is in here! Not one did i miss!

Like you see on the first post ,its 4:53, and i just formated my hard at 15:00 i got a new hard drive with everything installed (meanwhile trying peoples suggestions), etc, etc........

I asume its not the problem, because i already tried it! Damn it! I even phoned f**king microsoft to see if there is a solution! So dont go and tell me i havent done anything people said in here! IF you dont want to help its ok, just dont say i havent done anything, since this sh*t has been bothiring me the whole day! illepall

Why did I mail you for help?
Because i ran out of options, after trying everything!

I even asked you two weeks ago if it was ok to burn LFS on a disk and then copy it on the hard drive because i had an entition on getting a new hard! Well since I did that LFS cant download skins (tried also downloading the full version)!

BAH!

Quote from STROBE :

I presume you've tried deleting all the skins in there and then testing auto-download with an empty skins_x?

yes, tried that aswell.

I have the same configuration as you, meaning the folder setup.


Running out of solutions, contacted the devs via mail, waiting for reply.