Hello racers,
As the mods test is coming soon, I think a lot of old racers and new racers may need to install a new version of LFS, before installing the test patch.
But the current full version (0.6V) has one important bug, that we identified in this thread.
Short version: A lot of modern wheels and game controllers are reported through the drivers as "GAMEPAD". LFS previously automatically assigned "Look Heading" and "Look Pitch" in that case. But this was a problem on these modern game controllers, as these functions were really assigned to the wrong axes. The common symptom is that the view ends up looking left all the time.
In fact, you just have to unassign Look Heading and Look Pitch in the controller axes, but that isn't really obvious or easy to find if you aren't quite familiar with LFS controller setup.
I thought it would be good to upload a full version "V3" that doesn't have this issue. So I've made a new V3 LFS.exe which is almost the same as V but doesn't automatically assign those axes.
So it's not the most exciting test patch, but here is is, for anyone who does want to try it!
Download:
https://www.lfs.net/file_lfs.php?name=LFS_PATCH_6V_TO_6V3.exe (1 MB)
Installation:
1) Move or save the patch into your main LFS folder
2) Double click the patch to extract it to that folder
3) When you see "Confirm File Replace" select "Yes to All"
4) Now you can start LFS in the normal way
As the mods test is coming soon, I think a lot of old racers and new racers may need to install a new version of LFS, before installing the test patch.
But the current full version (0.6V) has one important bug, that we identified in this thread.
Short version: A lot of modern wheels and game controllers are reported through the drivers as "GAMEPAD". LFS previously automatically assigned "Look Heading" and "Look Pitch" in that case. But this was a problem on these modern game controllers, as these functions were really assigned to the wrong axes. The common symptom is that the view ends up looking left all the time.
In fact, you just have to unassign Look Heading and Look Pitch in the controller axes, but that isn't really obvious or easy to find if you aren't quite familiar with LFS controller setup.
I thought it would be good to upload a full version "V3" that doesn't have this issue. So I've made a new V3 LFS.exe which is almost the same as V but doesn't automatically assign those axes.
So it's not the most exciting test patch, but here is is, for anyone who does want to try it!
Download:
https://www.lfs.net/file_lfs.php?name=LFS_PATCH_6V_TO_6V3.exe (1 MB)
Installation:
1) Move or save the patch into your main LFS folder
2) Double click the patch to extract it to that folder
3) When you see "Confirm File Replace" select "Yes to All"
4) Now you can start LFS in the normal way