I touched schick.fx and i apoligize, wasnt a hard hit, but enough to make him spin.

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.

Just made a few screenshots, very interesting ones!

As you can see some skins were downloaded! And i can see them, but not the other ones! So it must be LFS related?


Borise got a new hardrive today, so i dont think thats the problem!

ebem ti ovu zajebanciju!

Quote from huxorator :

Have you got administrator rights on the account you use for gaming?

yes i have

Called microsoft..... called medion again........ they ashoured me that only when a "tic" is beside the option, then its "Schreibgesützt" (writeprotected?).
As you can see in the pictures 1,2,3 there is no "tic" only a green filled box.
Can this be LFS?

Ok, a guy from Medion came to me and brought me a new Hard drive (Seagate S-ata "Baracuda"). Everything installed, drivers, the works. I gave LFS another chance, and still the same problem.

I have realized that it downloads the skins, but cant show them! How? I erased my "skins_x" folder and waited for downloads. Lets say that appr. 80% of skins were downladed, and those 20% were still downloading and downloading every 5 secs. Not even one of the skins which it automaticly downloaded apeared on the screen!

I tried showing this guy my problem and asked him to fix it. But, due to the fact he is a "tehcnition" he said just call microsoft, they should know.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

EDIT: again i copied, pasted it from my burned CD, maybe a download of the original LFS could help, dont know why it should?!?!?!?

No, doesnt work. Not gonna bother you guys any more. My pc is not in good shape, 80% of my hard drive isnt formated, and the 20% is formated by FAT32, maybe i should have done it with ntfs.

Thanks for the help anyway.


Just a word of advise! DONT BUY MEDION/MICROSTAR PCs!

This is becoming really frustrating for me.......... that also doesnt work!

The PC stalls when its doing " Atributen Aktualisieren "


Wrongly installed windows?



btw, never had this problem before!

I did it like you said (1), then clicked on "OK" (2), the result is (3).........

It just wont do it, i have really no idea why. Its not just the LFS folder, its all of them..........

Just formated my hard drive...... copied lfs from my cd....... and now i cant see a single skin. Its downloading, but not showing and yes i got the automatic download option ON. Downloading the same skin again and again and again and i cant see it!

Any solutions?

Last edited by YUGO45, Wed, 4 Jan 2006 04:20.

Happy new year folks! All the best!

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