Texture resolution is a good option. Deactivating shadows is also one but that is quite unsatisfactory as it would look worse than the old LFS. Maybe instead there could be options to reduce the range of the shadows or switch to a shadow method that accesses less shadow texture memory. There could be an option to avoid the specular highlights or skip the exponential fog. How much any of these options would help I really don't know as I have not got to that stage. But I think there are ways to improve frame rate without making things look too bad.

It may be possible for it to run on a really old graphics card that does not support shader model 3 but in that case I think it really would have the shadows switched off and no specular highlights.

NOTE: This option may or may not be a possibility and none of these are promised!

All sounds very promissing

Can't wait

Quote from RC-Maus :

All sounds very promissing

Can't wait

"NOTE: This option may or may not be a possibility and none of these are promised!"

Don't jump the gun already though! ( EDIT: Yeah, a clumsy joke, but you get it for sure )

Sounds very promised... (/joke)

friends needed your opinion, because I'm really afraid that I'll be one of those who will not be able to play LFS with future updates
I'm already in a laptop (I still can not find means to get a tower) and my laptop is like this

Intel P6100 @ 2.00 GHz
Memory 4.00 GB
AMD Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series


Do you think it's hard to cope with these new updates? is that I am really worried about this because so soon I think that I will not be able to have a fixed pc ready, maybe it will take even longer than two Months and until I still walk with this one that I can handle the LFS perfectly

even if it is at least for example (that he is currently at maximum)

Quote from joaopaulopt :

friends needed your opinion, because I'm really afraid that I'll be one of those who will not be able to play LFS with future updates
I'm already in a laptop (I still can not find means to get a tower) and my laptop is like this

Intel P6100 @ 2.00 GHz
Memory 4.00 GB
AMD Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series


Do you think it's hard to cope with these new updates? is that I am really worried about this because so soon I think that I will not be able to have a fixed pc ready, maybe it will take even longer than two Months and until I still walk with this one that I can handle the LFS perfectly

I think you are safe with your setup still for some time as Scawen has not given any estimation when even test patch stage can be achieved. Optimist is expecting it to be reached during this year, realist during next year and pessimist by the end of year 2020. And of course backup solution for possible performance issues if Scawen somehow get things super fast to mature stage for releasing test patches would be to stick with older LFS version.

off: promise/promised and promising have a different meaning
@joaopaulopt, yes, don't worry, @jkat is right.

Thank you guys

I know it is not the right place to ask, but i have a little question about the physics-engine frequency being locked at 100 Hz:

@Rotareneg: "LFS "runs" at 100 Hz, so you're going to end up with a little stuttering if your display is locked at 60 Hz."

I've heard that BeamNG.drive is running at 2000 Hz, but it looks completely smooth no matter the frequency of your monitor 50/60 Hz or 100+ Hz.

In my videos i'm forced to use a fps conversion program (InterFrame) to convert the smooth 50 Hz / 50 FPS captured content to 60 FPS so it can look smooth like the other games with vsync-on played on 60 Hz displays.

So my question is this going to be improved somehow with the new graphics / physics update? Thanks!

Quote from Evolution_R :

..."LFS "runs" at 100 Hz, so you're going to end up with a little stuttering if your display is locked at 60 Hz."
...
So my question is this going to be improved somehow with the new graphics / physics update? Thanks!

It's a good question. If I can get the graphics ready to a condition that is suitable for this release and could then get back on the physics so that is suitable in time for Eric to have finished the tracks, then this opens the possibility of working on separate physics and graphics threads. That would be a great help and the plan would be to combine this with some means of producing visual frames at the correct visual frequency for the monitor. That would either be by using a high frequency physics update that can be interrupted at any point for a graphical frame, or by using a lower frequency physics update that can be interpolated to produce graphical frames.

Obviously the graphics needs to be done then that would make it releasable, even with the current physics and it's possible this may happen. But I really hope I can sort out the new physics so we can move on.

Higher frequency physics plus an improved sidewall model sounds like nirvana

I have often thought that a "small" increase of physics clock to 180Hz would work well for VR users at half that as well as dividing well for the rest of us are 60Hz but maybe this is an over-simplification!

hi . i can't join to some hosts. lfs when go on waiting for ok . did stop . and that error is .did not receive ok . why i can't join to some server ?. pls help me

Quote from Scawen :

... then this opens the possibility of working on separate physics and graphics threads.

Probably a stupid question, but I have no experience in programming threads:

More threads means not multi-core support. Threads are (only) sub processes of the main process? Correct?

Will multi-core be supported by LFS in the future? What are your plans for multi-core or is this already one of the items on your work list?

The background of this question is that currently my CPU or their clock limits the performance with a big AI (>20) field. Not really critical at the moment but perhaps after the graphic/shadow system update? No idea if that could be related. Do I just have to be patient when you release the next version or should I look for a higher-clocked, newer CPU (anyway)? ;-) Currently I'm using an (old) i7-2600K with 3.4 GHz.

BTW: Thanks for the two screenshots. I am very much looking forward to further pictures.

Quote from alireza d1 :

hi . i can't join to some hosts. lfs when go on waiting for ok . did stop . and that error is .did not receive ok . why i can't join to some server ?. pls help me

It's usually internet connected issue and it doesn't last long. You can also look into this topic https://www.lfs.net/forum/thread/75460

Also, this is a wrong topic to ask this question, better post it in "Technical Assistance" section , where people will be more than happy to help you.

Quote from sermilan :

It's usually internet connected issue and it doesn't last long. You can also look into this topic https://www.lfs.net/forum/thread/75460

Also, this is a wrong topic to ask this question, better post it in "Technical Assistance" section , where people will be more than happy to help you.

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ok very thanks.

Scawen, I applaud all three of you for your dedication to LFS. I haven't played for many years now, but I occasionally come back to check on progress. And progressed it has. Can't believe it's been 14 years since I first downloaded it. I can't wait to see what S3 brings. May it continue to prosper. And perhaps one of these days i'll get back into it...

On a side note, I remember in S1 as you went down the straight on Blackwood, there was a small cloud of dust that got kicked up behind the car just before the bridge. I always thought that was a nice touch and wondered why it got omitted in later versions?

Quote from joaopaulopt :

friends needed your opinion, because I'm really afraid that I'll be one of those who will not be able to play LFS with future updates
I'm already in a laptop (I still can not find means to get a tower) and my laptop is like this

Intel P6100 @ 2.00 GHz
Memory 4.00 GB
AMD Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series


Do you think it's hard to cope with these new updates? is that I am really worried about this because so soon I think that I will not be able to have a fixed pc ready, maybe it will take even longer than two Months and until I still walk with this one that I can handle the LFS perfectly

If your pc is capable of playing any other game released later than 2014 then you should be fine IF the LFS update is released today......

It won't be, nor will it be released for 'a while', (enter time period here.)

As LFS has spent a lot of time developing VR, which does not run on a potato, then when the graphics, followed by physics update is 'actually' released you will have had enough time to enter the 21st century and actually have a pc that is capable of dealing with 2014 minimum graphics requirements.

Seriously, if you want to play 'current' games on a pc, spend some money on putting together a gaming pc. Or, just play on your playstation or xbox.

LFS has run on a potato for many, many, many years. It would be nice to actually see some product that has moved on from it's current state, which has not developed or changed for many years.

Sorry, there have been developments in DoS protection........
No further comment on this.......

EDIT: FFS, I can put together a decent gaming PC for NZ$600 that will run any current gen game at 60 FPS, it isn't hard to do. This will also run LFS with VR. Do try to get your **** together if you want to play 'current' games on pc.

News Flash - technology does in fact move on, and, at 'some' stage, so will LFS min requirements.

Quote from Pasci :

More threads means not multi-core support. Threads are (only) sub processes of the main process? Correct?

First, a thread is not a process. A process is what you would see in the Windows Task Manager. One of the hidden-by-default columns in Task Manager is the number of threads that a process is using.

It is very possible to have multi-core support by using multiple threads working in parallel, however just having multiple threads doesn't mean that you would get any benefit by running them across multiple cores. They must be able to perform tasks in parallel, somewhat independently.

One of the easiest ways of doing this for games is to split different tasks that do not depend on eachother (in the current tick at any rate) - splitting off AI, graphics and physics into their own threads is probably a good example, though there are some complications.
Alternatively, having a thread per car (or a small number of cars) would be another way to relieve the single-core burden of physics and AI, as - apart from car to car collision detection - the different cars are independent from eachother, which allows the different threads to easily work in parallel.

Depending on how the different threads are used and interact, there will be various limits on how many CPU cores can be effectively utilised.


Contrary to what many web browser developers would have you believe, you do not need multiple processes to have multi-core support. In fact, having multiple processes is usually less efficient than multiple threads in a single process.

Quote from Pasci :

Will multi-core be supported by LFS in the future? What are your plans for multi-core or is this already one of the items on your work list?

I believe Scawen has said that multi-core support is already on the list of things to do, but I can't find the quote. I did find this one:

Quote from Scawen :

So now, these "cores", which are basically multiple CPUs on a chip, must follow their own sections of code (threads) which are quite independent from each other. And so the only way to speed up a program on a multi core CPU is to split the code up into separate threads.

The obvious separation for LFS would be physics on one thread, graphics on another. The operating system can then run one thread on one core and the other thread on another core. It's quite a rewrite but as so many computers are dual core, this one seems like it would be quite a good idea. It's quite a change though, the physics system needs to provide a "snapshot" of the position and orientation of every object, so that the graphics renderer can render a picture of this snapshot while the physics system is generating the next frame.

Then it seems to me if you had things like dynamically changing weather, you could generate some of the effects on yet another thread, possibly doing those effects in more detail on a more powerful computer. That kind of thing would always be at a lower priority though. While dual cores are common, that would be the target, unless there were obvious tasks for a third core.

Hey Scawen
And what about being made a trailer of the new version as they did with some old ones on the official LFS channel on youtube

Bet a little more on your channel to help promote more LiveForSpeed
Everything can be a great help to promote your work even more

Of course it would be awsome, but doing trailers and other media stuffs are time consumming ... so it is more difficult for the few people doing LFS to do these ...

Could we get PMO_GET_Z to work with dedi host in future update?

Also before 0.6T it was possible to place an object using IS_AXM with UCID of a player that is not an admin, in 0.6T we get "IS_AXM (PMO_ADD_OBJECTS) - UCID is not an admin" error.

Was this change intended?

I know we can set UCID of an admin or host to place an object but for example LFSLapper addon was using UCID from AXM info to detect which player placed the object. So this is no longer possible since AXM info would return "fake" UCID.

Quote from Scawen :

NOTE: I'm just thinking out loud, these thoughts are how I imagine things going, not how it will actually happen, and they are not promises.

Need to get Vic to bring back signatures so you can just keep this on all messages XD

Quote from LakynVonLegendaus :

Could we get PMO_GET_Z to work with dedi host in future update?

The dedi host doesn't load the track model, it doesn't know where the ground is.