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Last edited by meanjeans, Fri, 11 Dec 2020 22:25.

98/meanjeans/Josh Gant/USA

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Last edited by meanjeans, Fri, 11 Dec 2020 21:56.

Well... I did a fresh install of X and it worked fine. Then I went back into my fresh install of Y (for the 10th time) and it worked fine there too.

Disregard.

Anyone else? LFS can see me shifting through the gears when I go to ESC -> Options -> Controls. Clutch is working fine too. When I Shift+G to "shift" the car will not select any of the gears when I shift into them.

This behavior started today when I did a full install of Y. Thoughts?

Quote from CodieMorgan :

Setups should be filtered by track... (BF1-WE1 Sets only visible when on WE1, clean up garage clutter)

The problem with this is I may want to create a new setup based on another similar track. I'd like to see and choose all my setups, but I want to know what track I am currently at!

Hi,

When I am playing single player or online, I will enter the garage and choose a car and a setup. Setups typically are named with the abbreviated track name (Westhill = WE1). Nowhere in the interface is this abbreviation used or displayed.

Eventually someone may begin to remember each track name and corresponding abbreviation but I would suggest that this information is made available in the garage so that setup selection is a little more straight forward.

There is currently nothing at the top/center of the garage screen. It could simply read: Current Track: Westhill (WE1)

Thanks for hearing me out!

- Josh

Hi,

This is the first skin I've spent much time on. This is based on pictures from the Bahrain race. Enjoy.

Thanks. Will I have to restart my LFS hosts for it to take affect?

If there is a link or a wiki that will answer these types of questions let me know.

TIA.

Hi,

How do I set up my LFS hosts to use the ban.ban file?

Quote from Eldanor :

Argh, not again, I mean, I really don't understand some people point of view.

"LFS doesn't need real tracks": What? Of course you don't need a real track to make great races, but anyone who likes motorsports (and I think we are a lot here) would like to have some real tarmac to race on.

I'm starting to think it's a pretty fanboy attitude, just because other games have real tracks, they say LFS doesn't need them, and the same happens with sound, eyecandy, etc.

Come on, are you really saying to me you don't want to take the FZ5 out for a lap at Spa? Or the BF1 at Silverstone? (or whatever your favourite track is) I don't believe it

I agree completely. It seems a bit fanboy for someone who enjoys motorsports to suggest that they don't want real cars and tracks to be in the sim. I've read through several threads with these types of opinions.

I think LFS is a better product than rFactor and GTR but I can still recognize that it would be AWESOME to take a 911 GT3 out on the nurb within LFS. More awesome (if that is possible.. ) than a FZR at one of the Aston circuits because it's a real car and a real place!

We all like this sim because it attempts to model vehicle dynamics as realistic as possible and is currently more realistic than other offerings. Why do we then stop short with regards to realistic cars and tracks? If the ideal is realism then cars and tracks are part of it.

That doesn't address licensing and workload but an open LFS would distribute that to the community.

Either way this an awesome piece of software! $0.02.

Last edited by meanjeans, Sun, 18 Mar 2007 16:34.

Hello,

I would like to enter this series. I see that I have to send in a pb. Do I just need to drive some laps on your server or do I need to send in a recording of my lap or something? I have not entered a league/series yet so I'm sorry for the seemingly dumb questions.

Quote from JJ72 :

If I were you I will stay away from the computer now and do the dishes.

LOL! Indeed.

Quote from filur :

One 20-slot server should need from about ~1mbit upload speed at 3 pps to ~2mbit at 6 pps.

What is that information based on? The server is essentially reflecting vehicle positions on the track from what I can tell. Each client reports their position a few times a second and the server sends that data back out to all the other clients. Each update is very small so that seems like way more bandwidth than would be necessary.

Do you have a link to some more detailed information on bandwidth consumption for LFS servers?

All,

I just troubleshot some of my own FPS issues and I thought I'd share my solution.

P4 2.4
1.5 GB RAM
Nvidia 6600 GT 128MB

I am running 1600x1000 16bit but I turned down many of the effects (mirrors off, LOD, trees, flags, etc). When I start the game I would get 120 fps but before I finished a lap it would be down to 40. It would stay at 40 from then on out and if I added 2 AI cars it would drop to 20.

I installed speedfan on my machine and noticed the CPU was at 82C. I took my heatsink/fan out of the machine and noticed that there was a think layer of dust between the heatsink and the fan. The thermal grease was basically rubber.

Cleaned the sink/fan/chip, put some new grease on there and now I am running 60C and constant 120 fps with one car.

I might even turn my mirrors back on!

HTH

Quote from Davo :

Sadly none of this aplies since you're a demo user. You need to be S2 Licenced to race the GTRs.

I have a license on the way. Purchasing in the US with Paypal takes a few days apparently. I am probably going to start with some shorter races. It didn't register with me earlier that "Masters Of Endurance" meant crazy long races. I have a couple young kids and I don't know when I could possibly carve out 6 hours...

Anyway, thanks for the replies. That should get me going.

All.

I am new to LFS (I've been driving in FIA GTR for a while) and I am facinated by this online league racing concept. Is there a FAQ somewhere that describes this in more detail? I have several questions that will likely be answered in a FAQ:

1. What are the common race lengths, and how much total time does that typically take up? (Race is 3 hours but you log in a half hour early, etc.)
2. What time are these races typically scheduled?
3. How would I get myself on a team and into a race?
4. How many cars are in a race? (I may need to upgrade my machine - 3 or 4 cars and things get a bit choppy.)

I've read through the Clean Racers Club Race Rules at the LFS Manual. Thanks for any additional info or links. This looks like it will be a lot of fun!