Memory leak? Sometimes it causes the game to page out resources to the swap that it needs, resulting in a long Round Trip Time to get the data. It's rare, but it happens. The guy who is having the problem should be looking at task manager when this happens to see the memory and CPU usage of your process.

I'm already doing it, thanks.

Yesterday I was trying to keep an eye on it with Process Explorer, but LFS was suddenly smooth! I will watch it and report here if there's something wrong.

If you have a better program to suggest, I'll listen.


Edit: It could also be that I have a virus, or something nasty...still investigating, but lately RL keeps me from devoting too much time on it.

The standings list is a nice feature... but shows also spectators. If I use a dedicated server (and also a dedicated streaming host with TV Director), then this hosts will also be show in the list. 1. and 2. because of lap time of 0:00:00. A filter for this "lap time" should be implemented.

host = Dedicated host
[SVRT]KI = Streaming Workstation

fail
I used a 00:00 time to display all the players on the server when test. It is strange that you told me about it just now.
P.S. add show button "last lap".

http://bar.do.am/files/lfs/LFSState/LS099b.7z

Hi again.

As soon as I started an online race (I started my own server) I noticed bad fps and lagging, going from 200fps to 10, every 2-3-seconds. Totally unplayable.

Then I started configuring LFSState, and switched off every option one by one.

The option that was causing this was the "splitter". When I switched that off, fps were suddenly normal again.
I'll try to recreate this.


Then, not connected to this problem, I minimized LFS and noticed this:



Translated:
"The specified key was not present in the dictionary" or "Specified key not found in the dictionary".

What can it be?


Edit: I am driving @ Westhill+BF1, and I have the impression that my PB is cleared each time...I mean, I was driving slower than last time, still I made my "new" PB...

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(I started my own server)

Something with that i guess. Is it working fine if you join another server?

I am in the middle of formatting/restoring my lousy pc...
I'll report when finished.

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fail
I used a 00:00 time to display all the players on the server when test. It is strange that you told me about it just now.
P.S. add show button "last lap".

What is strange at my description (dedi hosts) about "standings"?

What do you mean with "add show button"? Where?

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What is strange at my description (dedi hosts) about "standings"?

The table should not be a player with time 00:00, it is illogical)
I used it to test the table, but forgot to remove before the release.

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What do you mean with "add show button"? Where?

I fulfilled your request about that:

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Is it possible to display "Last lap" bigger in the upper but center screen Position

Ripley
I'll try to reproduce your error and correct it

Make the connection time out longer, before LFS starts and I can make it open insim, LS stops connecting and I think it did not shutdown either.

Giving it a try, though I rather prefer to drive and see the road than read while racing

Is slow car ahead just a copy of yellow flag?

Add a readme, there is nothing about configuration if it's needed or not and neither I see where and how to connect so it works with default 29999 but nothing else?
Yes something gets printed into console but I'm likely to have that on background and LFS in fullscreen and not notice some special commands printed into console. But would read a readme in advance to see what to do and how clearly at any time, not only after connecting to LFS.

Make the buttons "save&close" and "cancel".

The default positions of GUI are over mirrors! I don't know how about others but I do use them.

Moving the GUI from left to right is a nightmare of 1000 clicks. Make it more easy to move around. Or allow arrow keys for movement, just hold a key and move it. Ok found it, CTRL+Click and it jumps a lot, could be a little less.

Also I'm driving first after start in XRT, others have STDs so are behind quite a bit. Approaching first corner and I hear loud slow car in front blah blah and text flashing at least 2 times. While there is nobody in front obviously.

Is there volume control?

Don't we get these split times and such already from server Airio on those that have it?

Is the GUI configurable per car?

Turned off sounds but cross a finish line and hear voice again, no idea what it says though. Not understandable.

Diffline does not show with semi-transparent background.

Standings with time 0 show on top instead of bottom or rather being omitted from the results.

GUI is kind of confusing, good, awesome etc. when I drive pretty crappy laps. Guess it's not comparing to laptimes of others but to mine?
WE1 RAC, first in race, nobody near and nobody even near after u turn, crossing finish line it yells at me car in front car in front etc. like every lap it reports some fake yellow stuff. There is no yellow flag yet the system yells there is a car, slow, in front, etc.

standings and relative contains cars that do not race, shows them on top, should be removed alltogether.

What is Opt under the PBs?

Wasn't there already a LFSSpotter? This does reports cars nearby ok, but the fake collision prevention reports are annoying.
Relative and standings can be handy, though I would probably like them to be visible after key press not always.

Spotter seems ok, though it's hard to tell without any close racing how accurate it is.

Last lap? Is that necessary? Does it work with time based races?

Does this all work in qualification and practice reasonably?

When switching to another driver via the provided GUI it does not show laps etc. as in it does not collect these and only start collecting from that point = useless half the time. Does not change this following based on what car you're viewing with an optional lock.

Looking at a replay, the spotter tells it late, after I have 1/3 of a car on side already overlapped. Thus if I had steered we would already collide before the spotter reporting. It could be handy to have this for rights in a corner though where an overlap is needed to have a right. Relying on it seems risky though.

And I think I just crashed it while browsing a replay and trying to get to SHIFT+B again. It closed, no idea what error since the console closed as well with it.

Just some notes, take it as my opinion

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Add a readme, there is nothing about configuration if it's needed or not and neither I see where and how to connect so it works with default 29999 but nothing else?
Yes something gets printed into console but I'm likely to have that on background and LFS in fullscreen and not notice some special commands printed into console. But would read a readme in advance to see what to do and how clearly at any time, not only after connecting to LFS.

I agree with you, but Lexanom is not that good in English, so he'd need a Russian translator who could translate the readme into English first.

The default positions of GUI are over mirrors! I don't know how about others but I do use them.

Just move them wherever you want! :P But I guess it wouldn't be a problem for Lexanom to change the default position.

Don't we get these split times and such already from server Airio on those that have it?

There is a pitboard which shows you how far ahead/behind are your closest opponents. It also shows the PB difference on splits at the top. But it doesn't have the difference meter or how much you gained on people around you at each split.

GUI is kind of confusing, good, awesome etc. when I drive pretty crappy laps. Guess it's not comparing to laptimes of others but to mine?

It says it whenever you set a new PB.

What is Opt under the PBs?

Optimal sectors (the best you've done?)

Last lap? Is that necessary? Does it work with time based races?

Sometimes I forget it's the last lap, when I am in a big fight and I am not focused on the lap counter. Could be made optional (ability to turn it off), though.

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I agree with you, but Lexanom is not that good in English, so he'd need a Russian translator who could translate the readme into English first.

Even a Russian one would be at least something (we can Google translate, just put it there)

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There is a pitboard which shows you how far ahead/behind are your closest opponents. It also shows the PB difference on splits at the top. But it doesn't have the difference meter or how much you gained on people around you at each split.

LFS has a board that shows distance to others though it only shows the time when you cross the split or so, I think it does not show it always, only on split updates of you and your opponents.
That difference meter on top reminds me of Rally games
Like CMR and RBR.

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Last lap? Is that necessary? Does it work with time based races?

Sometimes I forget it's the last lap, when I am in a big fight and I am not focused on the lap counter. Could be made optional (ability to turn it off), though.

Ah true. It would be neat if it could say last lap when you get lapped. As you will not have time to drive all lets say 40 laps but only 39 so it would tell you in 39th that it's your last.

Guess for those who like to see overload of laps and split times it can be useful. I prefer to check those afterwards. During race what I find useful is to know how much time/laps to catch up somebody or how much time/laps before somebody catches up with me.

Lets say car behind is driving faster and will get close to overtaking based on previous progress in last few laps in 6 laps. Drives 1s faster and the gap is 6s, so 6 laps to catch.
Comes handy to do in endurance races. If it's worth it to speed up and catch somebody, speed up to not get caught or to drive a little more safer and bring the position home.

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Even a Russian one would be at least something (we can Google translate, just put it there)

There is one, called ReadMe_RU.htm.

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There is one, called ReadMe_RU.htm.

I appologize but I am blind, where is it?

That's the contents of 0.99b:

for so many sound options though, so it does not seem repetitive.


Apart from the false positives it gives and bugs it's nice, a good addition if one wants some of the features.

Great Insim
Very customizable options, intuitive and useful Very good work on this app

Can it be done that it reads own PB from lfsw? Right now i have to make PB with LFSStats opened before it knows what my PB is.

Amazing insim. Thank You!

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Can it be done that it reads own PB from lfsw? Right now i have to make PB with LFSStats opened before it knows what my PB is.

This is possible, but he wants to have it program saved mainly because of diffline ( he needs to know nodes times )

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...Right now i have to make PB with LFSStats opened before it knows what my PB is.

LFS "Stats" or "State"? Isn't that a typo?

Ups, it's LFS State indeed. Not to be confused with other LFSStats application (which is also great btw)
Grazie Fisico

LFSState forget my last PB.

Today I was racing a new track PB (2:27...). LFSState shows this time too. I only jump in the box and came back (same track, same car, without LFSState restart and without LFS restart), LFSState shows me now the old PB of 2:28... HLVC is disabled/off btw.

Is this a known issue?

Is it a limitation of LFS UI that it's impossible to move some tables e.g. "Standings" to the left or right screen in a multi-screen configuration?

By the way/feature request:
A own log directory will be usefull (for the UpdateWR logs).

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LFSState forget my last PB.

Today I was racing a new track PB (2:27...). LFSState shows this time too. But after race restart (same track, same car, without LFSState restart and without LFS restart), LFSState shows me now the old PB of 2:28... HLVC is disabled/off btw.

Is this a known issue?

The same for me on AA Blackwood demo in XFG Stuck at 1:34.04(one of the firsts laps with this program) I made hundreds better laps, and it still shows me this time. It remembers new PB for one lap.
At any other track/car it's ok.

I had some PB problems, too.
From some posts above this:

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...I am driving @ Westhill+BF1, and I have the impression that my PB is cleared each time...I mean, I was driving slower than last time, still I made my "new" PB...

Workaround for wrong PBs: Clear your current PB with the command !clear (twice; second command confirm first one)

But I found an other bug:
Charset encoding for string clpb_2 is wrong (see screenshot -> red circle). The other strings clpb_1 and clpb_3 contain also "umlaute ä" but are correctly encoded in LFS.

Ripley
SpliTF1
Pasci
Describe the problem from PB as detailed as possible, attach your Data file and say your configuration car+track, I can repeat your lap and find out what is the reason. The program console have error messages?

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Is it a limitation of LFS UI that it's impossible to move some tables e.g. "Standings" to the left or right screen in a multi-screen configuration?

LFS limited area for interface button, if you move it outside the permitted zone - it just disappears. This area is limited to a single screen, unfortunately.

Bottom row in splitter - Optimal, not Optional - its sum best split, theoretical fastest lap.

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Charset encoding for string clpb_2 is wrong (see screenshot -> red circle)

Use prefix ^L before text:
clpb_2 = ^LZur Bestätigung das Kommando nochmals eingeben
Let this be a temporary solution, i try to not forget to fix in next update.

P.S. I've not thought that someone else uses this program, as time passes, I understand that this program is very raw and needs some work. I have many ideas for improvement, but I do not have enough time now.

@Lexanom:
Thank you for this amazing InSim tool.
I found it last year and since that we used it every time we play LFS.
I normally don't drive alone and only one time per week with a friend.
We switched after 10 laps and most of the time we do training or Qualy.
Since we used your tool this makes more fun because we can drive against the PB from one of us. This gives the game a more valuable for us, Thank you very much for that.
I hope you will continue working on it...

We thought about the possibility to add a ghost car. With the exception of the position of the car with graphics it's already pretty close to that (from the view of someone that don't know how this was done).

I don't know how many people download this and used it, but I want to tell you that here are two guys that you have made very happy with it.