On the note of 0.6E though I have actually been expierencing weird server lag and crashes, when I never ever have had before. However the new connection system works is annoying as heck.
Also if He's only playing a Demo [AA] server what's it matter? 1 demo "Race" server compared to all the drift and cruise servers, Maybe just put some AI on the server and let him just fool around with them. He will never know! lol
I think you mean that because you don't race there, nobody else should care either?
Last night, Skywalker came onto one of our daily FBM events and ruined the race for a whole load of regular racers, all of whom had pbs of 1:12 and 1:13. We also have a vibrant community of good and fast racers and members who compete in S2 leagues.
Yes, we have our fair share of crashers too. But these demo servers are where the LFS players of tomorrow will come from.
And if this guy can hack our servers then he can hack yours too.
I seriously wondering why he only go to race servers, must be some patetic cruiser/drifter that got bored of it and just want to make some mess. Why he doesnt go to cruise servers, I'm pretty sure he will have far more fun there than on racing servers.
Yesterday I heard he also visited other demo servers, so its not only [AA]
Well i disagree, letting him do what he wants will drasticly decreas the number of players that are playing on our servers or in this case anyones servers. People will lose interest because they will get sick and tierd of being banned everytime by this power hungry, control freak, that i would personaly :chairs: because people like him iritate the hell out of me. We need to figure out how to stop this lowlife once and for all. Because Anakin Skywalker if you want attentione, go out an get yourself a dog... Because i doubt you can get a girl..
Almost all of of u just can't take it.
Comments by those admins from big servers and big teams are pityful. Insults, that's all you can do, and it's useless, shame on you guys.
Anakin has style and a pure spirit, you just are gross and fearful, that's no match.
I would suggest to call Obi One Kenobi, and go meditate while waiting for him.
No, frustrated people write like this. Because you have no idea how much effort my team put into the managment of those servers, and how much time it took to get those servers full and keep them runing full. And now we cant do nothing either than stand and look how this Anakin dude is ruining all the hard work because he hasent got anything else to do..
Some of us are not programmers, and we dont do this kind of stuff, and as i can see people that are programmers and do this everyday, even have a problem on how to stop him, so please think before you say anything at all.
I suggest this topic is being closed, as it has turned into a mud throwing contest.
I am sure Scawen will deal with the actual problem and will contact people personaly if he needs help/information.
In the first reply all the three cars are AI's. However he stands as host and using the license name similar to Daniel Cro.
Best thing would be to have the replay where he connects to the server. Scawen mentioned that having the connection log (probally only in the hands of the host itself / airo) will be good help.
Wizard - read the full thread. I provided all the AA logs already. And the Anakin Skywalker server I think was the one set up by Daniel-CRO (as a joke?). Honestly, this continual debate is not actually helping things. It's merely providing the hacker with the attention and importance he craves. The devs are working on a fix and they're the best people to provide that. All the rest is just speculation and gossip.
I believe he has everything he needs right now. Replays were provided. If he wants anything else he'll come on here and ask (if he can be bothered to read through this mess of a thread).
I have the same issue, a definite "hitching" while skins download is turned on and the skin isn't available.
We were on CGNL S1 at the same time last night, and my skin wasn't available on LFSW so you might have been suffering as a result of me. I was experimenting with this exact issue, so your report confirms my findings too. I've reviewed the replays, and cannot see anything that confirms the problem, but, it is definitely present in the live game.
For the record, I'm on a AMD 3200+ @2GHz, 2GB Ram, ATI 4850 1GB, Stable and fast ADSL connection.
I know I'm CPU bound, and can tolerate the occasional slow downs, but the hitching while attempting to retrieve the skin - especially at turn in - throws me right off my pace.
GT spec cars leaving the pits is an odd one and I was under the impression this had been fixed. As for the rest of the multiplayer improvements, everything seems to be much more stable, and my impression is that I see fewer people lagging out.
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I omitted to say that whenever a new client connects and the sound/message is played to notify you that your own skin wasn't available, seems to cause a slight hitch too. - Hence the reason for my experiment last night.
Could be the harddisk, I had some microstuttering too on skin loading so I made symlinks to the skins_x/y/dds folders on my ssd and kept the rest on the old hdd, since then it's not happening anymore.
For what is worth it's nice seeing new updates as small as they are! Hope more are coming soon ! .On a more serious tone ,just wish there was some work done outside tire physics .Like a new dx 9/10/11 engine with shaders and weather effects.I do love lfs but its slowly becoming obsolete.When rfactor 2 is starting to get some very high quality content as more excellent tracks and cars are converted from rfactor 1 to higher rfactor 2 standards and project cars shapes really really well ,lfs is very stale.
That's a good point, but it seems to happen whenever the skin isn't available from LFSW, so your suggestion probably doesn't help in this particular case.
What you mean by stutter / hitch? Is is connection wise or FPS / screen wise?
I had this strange thing yesterday, was having some lag but was fine. Entering corner and everything is ok, then it just seems 0.5 sec disapeared. I was not in the corner anymore I was at the exit of it with an blink of an eye. The others did not notice anything but I have never experienced such a thing in LFS anymore, like a shortime warp.
For me it is a short freeze of the screen, but the frame rate doesn't appear to drop. Warping could be another way of describing it, and as I said before, during cornering is very disconcerting. The replays do not show anything happened at all, so I do not believe it is a connection problem, but could be wrong as the required skins are pre loaded anyway for replays.
Wouldn't lfs still access the disk while searching for it locally? I know demo users can't use skin downloads and get around that limitation by just putting the skins in their skins folder manually. So it could still be something with disk access? Not 100% sure of course, you only getting it on skins not available on lfsworld rules out dds loading when a new car joins I guess.
