I think the guys have a chance to change the development model with the release of S3.

They should receive a lump of cash from this launch that would allow them to employ a slightly larger team (possibly just designers) to give us a steady output of track and car updates.

At that stage I would be happy to switch to a monthly/yearly payment, that would allow them to continue to grow steadily.

Just please dont go down the route of iRacing and charge for the cars/tracks AND a monthly subscription... its one way or the other.

I bought mine from pixmania too.... its £159 at the moment.

Love the new design, love the service, love being a customer !

You mention dedicated LFS servers are coming soon, do you have any idea of price and the number of LFS servers that would run on the dedicated machine ?

Hi guys,

I now have a huge PB.txt file for one of the demo servers.

I would like to remove all times that are above a certain time to reduce the file size.

I understand that I can open it in a text editor, but doing the above manually (and regularly) will take hours.

Is there any software out there that will allow me to do this quickly ?

I have searched the forum for a while, but cant find anything.

I have msExcel or msAccess, if its possible to import and edit the file in these programmes ?

I feel sure someone has had to do this in the past.

Many thanks

Clio

Just to confirm that your method works great, I linked 3 LFS server together on one box and they syncronised perfectly.

Thanks for all you help

Clio

Quote from Gai-Luron :

You can use what you want.

I use this for my server for each Lapper on two directory

SyncDir=../synchrolapper;

main (Directory)
--- Lapper01 (Directory under main)
--- Lapper02 (Directory under main)
--- synchrolapper (Directory under main)

I don't test it, but this can be absolute. You do what you want. slash work, i don't try \ (antislash)

Gai-Luron

Thanks Gai, it will try this tonight and let you know if it works.

Clio

Quote from Gai-Luron :

Hello,

SyncDir=synchro;


Two different pb file, one pb file for one lapper
Lapper can be or not on two different directory, but "synchro" must be the same directory for the two instance of Lapper.

Bye

Gai-Luron

Gai,

Thanks for the reply.

SyncDir=synchro;

Can I make this reference relative:

SyncDir=/server1/synchro (not sure which way the slashes go)

or does it need to be absolute

SyncDir=C:\windows\system\etc\server1\synchro

This is a brilliant feature by the way Gai !

Clio

Quote from Yisc[NL] :

Make sure of a couple of things:

-Both servers should write to their own pb.txt (pb1.tx and pb2.txt for example)
-Both instances of lapper should be started from the same directory with their own config-file

So they are using the same lapper.exe with their own config-file. Write two batch-files (or edit on if you like to) to make lapper start. The rest of the settings should work perfectly.

Thanks for the feedback, I will see if our LFS host can arrange this, they have been brilliant so far.

I will let you know how we get on.

Quote from Gai-Luron :

Hello,

It's so easy to config sync option.

Each server have an instance of Lapper
Each server have his Lapper config file

In LApper config file, each server have an unique name ID.
Exemple:

For server A
SyncID=servA;

For Server B
SyncID=servB;

Then you set the same directory for the sync action, must be the same for server A and B
Exemple

For server A
SyncDir=synchro;

For Server B
SyncDir=synchro;

And last you specify for each Lapper, the SyncID of all Lapper to be Sync. If more than one server separate with |
Exemple

For server A
SyncIDsToSync=servB;

For Server B
SyncIDsToSync=servA;

You config file look like this after configuration

For server A

SyncID=servA;
SyncDir=synchro;
SyncIDsToSync=servB;

For server B

SyncID=servB;
SyncDir=synchro;
SyncIDsToSync=servA;

Any have an idea about creating a wiki for LFSLapper. I try wikipedia but my article was erased. It will be a good idea to do this for share our experience on LFSLapper.

Bye

Gai-Luron

Hi Gai (or anyone who has linked 2 lfslapper databases together)

I have rented 2 LFS server accounts from one of the specialist LFS hosting companies.

Both accounts are on the same machine and share the same IP address, with different port and insim numbers.

Both are running the very latest versions of LFSlapper downloaded yesterday and both are having no problems with any other features of LFSlapper.

There are 2 instances of LFSlapper running on different insim port numbers.

I have set them up as described above, only using different names:

SERVER 1:

SyncID=frh48;
SyncDir=synchro;
SyncIDsToSync=frh84;

restarting SERVER 1 lapper generated the folder 'synchro' and two sub-folders:

--- synchro
----------- frh48 (this folder is empty)
----------- frh84 (this folder now has lots of .sync files in it)



SERVER 2

SyncID=frh84;
SyncDir=synchro;
SyncIDsToSync=frh48;

restarting SERVER 2 lapper generated the folder 'synchro' and two sub-folders:

--- synchro
----------- frh48 (this folder now has lots of .sync files in it)
----------- frh84 (this folder empty)



To make it clear (in case this is the problem), SERVER 1 and SERVER 2 have their own folders (because I am renting them from an LFS hosting provider), so I have two completely seperate SYNCHRO folders. But, they are on the same physical machine.

server1 (lfs.exe file is in here)
------- bin (lfslapper.exe file is in here)
-----------synchro
server2 (lfs.exe file is in here)
------- bin (lfslapper.exe file is in here)
-----------synchro

Hopefully this explanation makes sense ?

Could you please let me know what I need to change to get this to work please ?

Thanks

Clio

I have been running one of these servers for a couple of weeks now and (from UK) get a ping of about 80 pretty much all of the time.

We are running the server in demo mode (so max 15 people on the server), but we have been constantly busy during the evenings and have had no problems with the server lagging or going offline.

We have had a very small number of racers complaining about lag, but that was because of their distance from the server (or because they were downloading something at the same time), rather than the server its-self.

We needed a little support when we first signed up, and Storm were very quick and had us up and running within the hour.

The free LFSlapper add-on, is great too !

In summary, we have had no reasons to complain about the performance or aftersales service of this server and thats before considering the amazing price.

We are getting a second server from '500' this weekend, so we will soon be able to compare the performance of both side by side.

Franky500,

Thanks for introducing this great offer, I would like to try one of your UK LFS servers.

Could you please tell me if I go for monthly billing, how long this half-price offer lasts... 1 month, 3 months, 1 year... forever ?

Many thanks

Clio

Simply stunning... it made me want to buy my S2 license all over again !

Well done guys.