Why not just play Trackmania instead? Much better fun, IMHO.

I like it clean too. Free Launch Bar deals with that.

Last edited by zorrofox, Tue 31 Jan 2006, 19:52.

Tristancliffe - Excellent wheel setup! And it was "wrong" too. I'll need to try changing my drivers to 50% and maybe it'll feel even better.

I've been playing this game for months now and to be honest the best thing for me was always the netcode. Not anymore. After sifting through this forum for a long time over the last few weeks I've found three things which have dramatically improved my experience and my times.

1. Obvious really, DON'T GRIP THE WHEEL TOO HARD! As someone mentioned above, if you can't drive at normal speeds with just a couple of fingers then it's too heavy! Dial it back.

2. BALLS! Squash balls to be precise. Adding a halved squash ball under the brake pedal helped immensely. In fact, the effect is somehow similar to that gained with the wheel gripping tip. I get far superior feedback as regards wheels locking up. Don't underestimate this.

3. Tristan's setup above. I use a DFP and felt I had to have the ffb settings up high to kind of justify having the wheel. Rubbish. Just dial things back and the improvements can be amazing.

The squash ball trick alone knocked a consistent second off all my lap times. It's perhaps worth bearing in mind that I'm not all that good at the best of times. lol

I'm not a racing driver or anything (I wish) but I am a van driver and drive every day, all day. I'm lucky enough to be driving day to day on some of the best roads in Scotland and it's good to be precise. Now I can get that buzz in LFS now, at long last.

Lastly, stick in. Practice makes perfect.

Man, I thought sure I'd get some help here. Nevermind.

Thanks for the advice but I'm assuming the setup I'm using is a good one since the driver who sent it to me is consistently 1sec faster. This being the case then it can only be one or both of two things. I'm slow or our wheel settings are different. I'm trying to rule out the latter before I end it all.

EDIT : I posted the above in response to the first reply.

Your right! I've dropped the lock on my wheel with some improvements but I'm less stable also. I feel that adjusting the in-game lock to compensate for my wheels lock must be the answer but I can't figure out what the relationship is.

I realise it's not all that clear but these are the variables that occur when using a wheel with an adjustable lock. It's a minefield.

Last edited by zorrofox, Wed 4 Jan 2006, 17:36.

Hi folks. I can't seem to get close to the guys at the top and I'm clutching at straws to find out why. I'm using a DFP with 450degrees lock. I've been given setups by the guys who are beating me regularly but I'm always just that wee bit behind. The setups clearly work but my application of them doesn't, if you follow me.

Most wheels only have 270degrees of lock so assuming the setup that I have was arrived at using a 270degree wheel, and I'm using 450degrees, shouldn't I have to adjust the max lock in-game? If so, do I turn it up or down? 450degrees is the lock of the car according to the guides I've read so I'll be keeping that.

I am also having problems braking. I can't seem to get rid of the front wheels locking up under heavy braking. LFS appears to have a control to adjust the sensitivity (?) of the accelerator/brake. I can't remember what it's called and I'm away from my gaming rig at the moment so I'm sorry for not being clearer.

I hope some of you guys can help and I look forward to hearing any advice you may have.

Of course, I also allow for the possibility that I'm just crap.

Quote from NotAnIllusion :

I don't mind bumpdrafting at all, if it's done safely, i.e. on straights only and if no pass is attempted, the bumping car backs off early enough. I do it often on BL1 w/ XFG when catching up with the leaders or trying to outrun someone i know is faster. I do it safely, and can't remember a time it's ever resulted in a lag crash. In fact, I see it as not wanting to catch up with leaders if it's not done when possible (wtf, you want to lose eh?).

@the ppl who brake in front of bumpdrafters:
That's wrecking/blocking (depending on the outcome), deliberately slowing the other car down or taking it out. Bumpdrafting is not wrecking and when practised correctly is beneficial to both racers involved. What justifies you to wreck instead of informing you don't approve of this? I bet most BDs including me will back off and won't try it again with you.

The same as a flame: You brakers are a sad lot of losers, rubbing in racing is everyday stuff when done with cars that can handle it. Take your head out of your ass and see it does wonders for both of you.

It's incredible to read that you think we're losers. Don't you think the onus is on you to ASK whether this is acceptable?

As for the inflammatory remark in your last paragraph - T...W...A...T!!!

I only drive the open-wheeled cars but you bump-draft me at your peril. I'll give you a brake test so fast. It may be legitimate in NASCAR type racing but not in single-seaters.

Quote from zeeaq :

hey guys.....

any wanna help me out with this.....
well i was just planning to change my system and get a new one.......my current system is outdated but i have no trouble running LFS....except that its a bit sluggish in multiplayer mode.
So any suggestions as to what might be the optimum config. .....to run lfs even better.... i.e processor,ram,graphics card, etc.......moreover this is isn't mentioned anywhere too (min. sys. req.)

It's a bit difficult to suggest upgrades when you don't say what you have at the mo'.

Quote from Kegetys :

A good soundcard will also make a difference in FPS in games, though in case of LFS the difference isn't that big (About 6% for me between an integrated SoundMAX chip and an Audigy 2 ZS). Bad news is that Creative cards seem to be the only ones that have true hardware acceleration, and creative sucks. I wouldn't have wanted to buy this Creative crap myself but there was no other choice.

I agree with the above. I've got an Audigy ZS as well and the drivers are mince! Registry entries all over the shop.

Having said that, any seperate card will give improvements over on-board sound, even if it's only in CPU clock cycles. I'm currently thinking of getting rid of the Creative drivers and using the open-source kx drivers but that can be a minefield. Everything works alright for now so I'll probably wait 'til something breaks first.

BTW, for what it's worth, the sound on LFS is by far the programs' worst feature, IMHO.

Good luck.

Quote from TagForce :

The problem is neither winAmp nor ITunes...
The problem is indeed (as mentioned) the power management working on the harddrive... It's a common problem, and can only be (partially) fixed by turning off ALL power management in both Windows and the BIOS. If it doesn't work then, all you can do is copy the music back to the internal drive.

I stand corrected.

Both Itunes and Wimp are hogs. Try something lighter, like QCD or even QMP.

http://www.quinnware.com/index.php

Or maybe it's Def Leppard.

So the word "Ricer" is used to infer that the cars defaced are usually of Oriental origin? Or is that only in my head? illepall

Quote from Batterypark :

I don't know what a weedwacker is, perhaps that is why I didn't find that his act funny at all... no originality what so ever.

Never mind "weedwacker", I don't know what a "ricer" is. illepall

Quote from Shotglass :

sweet jesus ! why would you go through all this hassle ? anytime i ran one of those two they never found anything except alexa and a few cookies (except that one time i was in a tired yeah yeah just shut the hell up mood and accidentally clicked on yes while closing a whole bunch of popups)

I'm a moody git.

I'm currently driving a Volvo 850 but by the end of the week I'll have changed to a Honda Accord. The Volvo's fast, especially in a straight line. Did I mention understeer?

Funnily enough, I'm faster everywhere in my works Peugeot Partner white van.

MX-5's, Boxsters? Bring 'em on. In the van it's all about momentum.

I use - Avast! anti-virus
SP2 built-in firewall
Ad-aware
Spybot S&D
Spywareblaster

I scan for virii twice a week and run Ad-aware and Spybot every night before bed.

I use Firefox 1.5 (MUCH better than 1.0.7) and Thunderbird 1.0.6

Sounds like you maybe need to recalibrate the wheel. Go to "options\controls\..." I can't remember what comes after controls but you'll next see the option to recalibrate. Hope it helps.

I have to recalibrate every time I start the game up.

Quote from Gabkicks :

nope.. no mods are needed. it works perfectly on the pc as long as you have the latest logitech wingman software. do a search on driving force pro or dfp and you should find tons of stuff. either here, on rscnet, or on gtplanet. every question you have has probably already been answered

You're not kidding there. I must have posted half of them.

Got it fixed now guys. It was just one of many problems I was having. I wasn't setting up the profile in the nvidia drivers correctly for LFS which made the driver go to default desktop settings.

Now it's back to superb all round again.

Thanks to all who helped.

I may return. lol

Quote from tristancliffe :

I see no sparkles!

Well maybe I used the wrong word. The kerbs are all wavy, shimmering lines.

Quote from zorrofox :

Tried that, doesn't work. It keeps telling me they are being used by another program. I am seriously pissed off! I can't even figure out how to get into safe mode to try. It's certainly not F8 on this BIOS. My BIOS is a Phoenix.

Makes no difference. I finally got into safe mode and still I can't get rid of these 2 files. Has anyone got any idea how to get rid of them?

This issue is FIXED.

Last edited by zorrofox, Thu 8 Dec 2005, 18:09.

Here's the offending article.

Doesn't look too bad at this size but it's much worse that it used to be.

Quote from kidzer :

Try resetting the PC and deleting the files then (Assuming they are just setup files ofcourse)

Tried that, doesn't work. It keeps telling me they are being used by another program. I am seriously pissed off! I can't even figure out how to get into safe mode to try. It's certainly not F8 on this BIOS. My BIOS is a Phoenix.

OK. What I really need to know is how to UNINSTALL nhancer. Because the crash had set corrupted my Firefox extensions I'm left with 2 nhancer files on my desktop. I'd really like to get rid of them. When I try to it tells me they are being used by another program.

HELP!