hi all

i dunno but maybe someone else has same problem. It's that whn LFS is on and im on server my LFS is twitching like freazing all the time. It doesent freaze totaly just bits by bits. What is strange is that it does that when someone is joining from pits, to the server, ... , or NONE OF THAT. Sometime when i play alone on server it just startss doing that. I tryed to work it out with sound delay or graphics and stuff options and nothing helps.
I shoud also say that it works ok for 1st 2 min or so then it just gets bad
dunno anymore what to do

Quote from Alles :

hi all

i dunno but maybe someone else has same problem. It's that whn LFS is on and im on server my LFS is twitching like freazing all the time. It doesent freaze totaly just bits by bits. What is strange is that it does that when someone is joining from pits, to the server, ... , or NONE OF THAT. Sometime when i play alone on server it just startss doing that. I tryed to work it out with sound delay or graphics and stuff options and nothing helps.
I shoud also say that it works ok for 1st 2 min or so then it just gets bad
dunno anymore what to do

Check for anti-virus software running in the background - i used to have those problems.

no antivirus problem is causing this or any other. CPU usage is almost at 0%
and no other program is running bad just lfs and i dunno why
and LFS is UPDATING PATH every time i start it, so thats wierd aswell

Hm strangely, but something similar happend to me too. I launched LFS and minimized it to tray, because i was doing something else at the moment. After a while i went back to lfs, full screen mode and it was like game was runing on very low fps and then smoothly again and so on. So i quit the session, reloaded the track and there it was again. Didn't happen to me when i just launched lfs and went racing immediately. And i didn't get this ever before. And no i didn't make any changes to my comp whatsoever. Happend to me only once tbh, but i didn't get this in previous versions.

Do you get the same problems when you start a "fresh installed" lfs from an other directory?

I have same sort of issues as Skynet, if I have LFS in window and go to setupfield and then back to lfs and change to fullscreen, soon after I've changed back to fullscreen. I think the problem gets bigger the longer LFS has been in a window. Couple days ago I forgot LFS to a window while doing other stuff on the pc few hours. And then came back to LFS, I got wierd pauses (0.5-1s) every 10-20s or so. Restart LFS and the problems were gone.

I used to have this happen with my older graphics card. Sometimes when I used shift+4 to go to windowed mode, and tried to use a different app, LFS would slow way down. If found that resetting the graphics driver by changing a setting would sometimes fix it. Other times it would just crash the program. It did not seem to be a LFS problem, but more of a DirectX / Graphics driver problem.

I do get stutters from time to time now, but that has been happening since S2 alpha came out. I think it is realated to another app trying to do something in the background.

In your case it sounds like it only happens while online. I don't know the answer, but if you system is a bit on the old side, then you could be getting too many packets from the server. It might be set at 6, where 4 is better for slower computers. Try running in a window and watch the CPU meter in the task manager to see if it is peaking out.

Same thing happens to me. It was occasional after the T patch, and more noticable after the U patch, I think.

The FPS sometimes jumps between 100 and 80 for no apparent reason.
Many times in the middle of a turn, it's like someone comes and blanks out 5 or 6 frames, and I'm that much farther along.

Pretty annoying, but not happening all the time ( which is curious)

No virus scan or background stuff running, and I have more than enough computer / video card to run the game. Never noticed it at all before the T patch. As far as I can tell, the video settings weren't changed after installing the patch, either.

yes FPS drops here aswell by 5-10 for few seconds
and pc shouldnt be problem 3200+, R9800Pro,...
and LFS is the only app that does that

Ive had problems since patch u of lfs just freezing completly. I will b playin with about 50 fps then it will freeze completely, i dont move then after about a minute it unfreezes usually with me in the wall.
Ive yet to try pre patch lfs out to see if it does the same.

Restarting lfs usually cures the problem for a bit, but i cant get it to stop it completely.

Paps, I used to have this problem. Does it happen always on the same server? I had this when racing on two servers: it turned out the they were using a "previous" patch, and this caused the problems. Downloading the new dedicated LFS version solved the problem. I still get this at some servers - I just go to a different one

Conslusion: IMO, it's the server's fault.

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Paps, I used to have this problem. Does it happen always on the same server? I had this when racing on two servers: it turned out the they were using a "previous" patch, and this caused the problems. Downloading the new dedicated LFS version solved the problem. I still get this at some servers - I just go to a different one

Conslusion: IMO, it's the server's fault.

Well it on the mg team server, but im not running the server so i dont no if they are up to date on the patches, will have to ask

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Well it on the mg team server, but im not running the server so i dont no if they are up to date on the patches, will have to ask

[MG] Racing (Public) Server is showing as version 0.5T in the serverlist.

i think i solved the problem
there is one option in graphics oprions called Use compressed skins
it was "OFF" and i have puted it to "ON" and it seemd to work good
havent had any FPS lags, and before when i that "OFF" FPS laging was on almost all servers
dunno why that was "OFF"
anyway works fine now

I bet you talking about when other people are connecting and disconnecting, this happens to me all the time, hopefully they will address it soon

The problem shows up (randomly) when I'm alone on a server, with no one joining or leaving the pits.

I've actually seen it a few times when in 'hotlap' mode, so I don't think
it's always a server problem

During the first few days after the patch release, I assumed perhaps the master server was just extremely busy, but the problem hasn't gone away.