I'm lost on this one.

Trying to customize some stuff (wheels, cockpit..etc)

Copied the DDS files where they needed to be. (backed up old ones, overwrote originals.)

Opened the game, no effect...

Ok, maybe its just me.. After a few tries, i pulled the files I was working with completely from the DDS dir. Load the game, still have default stuff. I thought maybe I have 2 copies of lfs and im editing the wrong one. I can delete the WHOLE data dir, and the only effect is losing config options...everything else still loads..

There are no other dirs with LFS stuff in the at on on my system...wth is going on?

Very strange, you're certainly doing it somehow wrong.. Doublecheck that you're editing the right LFS. And deleting the data folder shouldnt't delete your config options (apart from Players) deleting cfg.cfg should.. Very strange problem.

You lost all the options because you deleted the whole /data folder. That includes the data of the player, etc...

DDS. Are you sure you saved the edited .dds file correctly?

Toki, I know. I intentionally deleted the whole data folder to verify that I was working in teh right install and that there was no chance that I had another LFS install somewhere else interfereing. The wierd part was that the options /config changed, but the game still worked (all tracks and cars loaded)

As for the dds, its someone else's DDS files (hi-res FOX interior) and others used it with no problem. I also downloaded a few others (hi res wheels, and steering wheel) ... all to no effect, overwriting the files...

Its def. weird. I'm a developer, so I'm far from PC illiterate...but thsi is confusing me. Im just going to re-download S2, completely remove it, and get a fresh copy of it going.