Please bring back the hand on the wheel! I feel a bit disoriented without it while driving this car.

This is the first skins I made for LFS.

Last edited by bowst, Mon, 22 Nov 2021 15:48.

Quote from BeNoM :

It's a nice mod, but that's a bit disingenuous to all the VOB modders througout the years.

These VOB mods are ripped from other AAA games, not created from scratch. what you say is a bit disingenuous to Aleksandr who create this mod from the very beginning all by himself.

Wow! Many car configurations and color customizations too. This is gonna be the most detailed car on LFS. Great work!

Great news! With mod support and graphics & physics updates i can't wait to see the revival of LFS in the racing sims world.

Quote from rane_nbg :

What if I would like to emulate a simulator like LFS?

Would it technically be a simulator? just kidding

It'll called as a rip-off

Quote from JuanLee :

Hello everyone,
Live For Speed is an emulator so we can simulate racing on F1 track. I am very passionate about speed, but the actual conditions do not allow so I can only satisfy my passion through Live For Speed. I currently want to install a Live For Speed emulator in my entertainment room, so I want to ask if anyone can tell me what the cost of a simulation system is? And is it possible to earn a discount code to be able to buy it at a more reasonable price?
Thanks everyone.

Little bit correction. Live for speed is a racing simulation, not emulator.

You can read the difference between simulation and emulator on Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emulator
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation

Quote from JuanLee :

Can you tell me the name of a website that can be played online?

Just browsing some LFS videos on youtube when i found this video about a current Formula One driver playing LFS back in the past.

It's Valtteri Bottas(lfsw: vale)





From a random teenager having fun playing LFS to driving for the best team in motorsport history. What a man!

Quote from Vale :

Thanks all for congratulating me!

I played LFS for fun many years but unfortunately last 2 of my racing seasons has been so busy that I have not have time really to play.. but I'm sure I will play sometimes still in the future as LFS is a really fun game and you get really tight nice races online

Have a nice races and maybe we see online some day!


Valtteri Bottas

Well if he even remember this game ...

I would like to see him online again, althought maybe for one race only or even just revisiting this forum.


Anyway good luck to him for his Formula One campaign.

Quote from Van Sterberkt :

Thanks for uploading @bowst. I've attached another config file, can you try this? Simply replace your config.edn file with the one in the attached zip.

This new config file works for me, Thanks. But a new problem occurs ...

When i type "!career road" command, it only return with "Unknown career, try:". I can't join any races with any car at all.

LFS installed in default location. I don't change anything in config file.

Try to run it from cmd but it return with this error :

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: Unsupported escape character: \L
at clojure.lang.Util.runtimeException(Util.java:221)
at clojure.lang.EdnReader$StringReader.invoke(EdnReader.java:457)
at clojure.lang.EdnReader.readDelimitedList(EdnReader.java:757)
at clojure.lang.EdnReader$MapReader.invoke(EdnReader.java:680)
at clojure.lang.EdnReader.read(EdnReader.java:145)
at clojure.lang.EdnReader.read(EdnReader.java:111)
at clojure.lang.EdnReader.readString(EdnReader.java:67)
at clojure.edn$read_string.invokeStatic(edn.clj:46)
at clojure.edn$read_string.invokeStatic(edn.clj:37)
at clojure.edn$read_string.invoke(edn.clj:37)
at lfs_career.core$get_config.invokeStatic(core.clj:35)
at lfs_career.core$get_config.invoke(core.clj:34)
at lfs_career.core$_main.invokeStatic(core.clj:202)
at lfs_career.core$_main.invoke(core.clj:201)
at clojure.lang.AFn.applyToHelper(AFn.java:152)
at clojure.lang.AFn.applyTo(AFn.java:144)
at lfs_career.core.main(Unknown Source)

Quote from Xenix74 :

The problem lies entirely elsewhere. In Turkey there are shops and stores everywhere that seem to sell pirated films and games with impunity. This creates the impression that games and films are very inexpensive. There is a social acceptance of the cheap acquisition of such goods. It should perhaps be mentioned that games and films are a "luxury good" and not a livelihood. This is especially true for simulations with steering wheels and the like. I have often met children and schoolchildren on Turkish servers and I think they are only complaining about here. Because someone who works so hard must have completely different problems to deal with than thinking about the prices of a computer game. In my opinion, students here complain about their pocket money.

Best comment in this thread. This also describe the situation in my country as well.

I do all the steps above, it didn't work.

Also i don't quite understand what the step 2 mean. I just rename it to config.edn, copy to my lfs folder, and change the setup dir. Is this correct ?

Thank you so much kristofferandersen

And good luck for others in the future giveaways. Just race more and your lucky day will coming.

Last edited by bowst, Thu, 11 Mar 2021 23:36.

Hi Mattt, glad to know it worked

You can use dxvk, or d9vk for LFS since it's still using directx 9 to greatly increase frame rate close to the native windows environment.

Enable dxvk(also included d9vk) on lutris : https://www.linuxuprising.com/2018/09/how-to-use-lutris-to-play-windows-games.html?m=1

Also welcome back to LFS, hope to see you online soon

Last edited by bowst, Thu, 11 Mar 2021 03:44.

I'm not an expert for this. But I used to play LFS on Ubuntu. Try install LFS using lutris and enable d9vk from lutris settings. Maybe it'll works.

https://lutris.net/games/live-for-speed/

Last edited by bowst, Wed, 10 Mar 2021 04:34.

I'm just discovered GPL last year with the launch of GPL 2020 demo and now it's one of my favourite pc racing games in addition to LFS.

I'm in. Thanks for the opportunity

I know this sounds silly but does anybody play this game with mouse steering ?

I remember few years ago when I discovered LFS while looking for nice games to play on linux. At first glance I thought it's just a typical bad browser game with ripoff name from NFS so I ignored it. Then a year ago I decided to try this game and ... wow, such a driving & racing experience I never feel at another racing games. A year later and now LFS is my most often played pc game. Definitely worth to play even on demo servers.

Quote from Evolution_R :

I'm very active - working on mods every day 7+ hours and LFS is 24/7 opened on my computer.

But you're not racing. Your last racing online is three years ago.

Asetto Corsa is Race Setup, Live for Speed is speeding for living.

Unfortunately Scawen don't have enough money to sue them.

Last edited by bowst, Mon, 11 May 2020 12:27.

I found this interesting reply comments from a guy on Youtube :


"I mean they're kind of like sports games no? Same repetitive shit with maybe a few new vehicles? Lol if you like em hey but I'm with yong on this one aha"

"lol well yes of course but especially so with racing. Like battlefield for example. Core gameplay is a fps right? But with every game comes new weapons, gear, vehicles etc, time periods that all can drastically change gameplay match per match. You can play a sniper sticking to stealth and long range engagements, more chaotic assult, stealth cqb, knife only, helicopter only, jet only, medic only reviving team without even using a gun etc. Different modes that change the gameplay to all out action or hardcore that forces you to play much slower paced and tactical. You switch to BR and suddenly its not about team with most kills or best coordination but about lasting as long as you can and surviving. You can play the same fps for years and have vastly different experiences every match. For most racing games the core gameplay is being as fast as possible right? That hardly opens up any room for sandbox style gameplay other than maybe what kind of car vehicle/parts and what kind of track/terrain right? What other changeable factors are there? Everyone is essential doing the same races the same way. Not hating just saying the core loop of racing games is alot more shallow than that of different genres. They are not bad games just extremely repetitive."

"will even then id have to disagree a little. With sports games the gameplay can drastically change depending on the kind of sport, what position of that sport, (offense is very different than defense in football the same way a goalie would be different than other hockey positions, striker very different than defender in soccer etc) the team you play on also makes a difference to how you play running different strategies or playbooks depending on the strengths and weaknesses of your team. Injuries could happen that could cripple your season and force you to completely change tactics, etc the gameplay sandbox offers more variety from game to game season to season. Where as the main things with racing are track, weather conditions, car. Depending on the game maybe oncoming traffic or jumps if its arcade. For a game like forza You're essentially doing the same thing on the same maps memorizing the same turns, with different vehicles and weather or not its off road or not. The end of the day its all about the fastest time pretty much yea? You can play 100 matches online and they'll all pretty much be 9 or so vehicles all doing the same thing, driving the same way, all competing for the best time with who crashes or messes up each race being the primary thing changing and the choice of vehicle. With a football game one match i could slaughter a team easily, the next my recievers could be outmatched greatly changing my strategy to mainly running, my qb could be injured meaning ill have to play way more conservatively and avoid big plays he can't handle it also means my chances of messing up are higher and adds stress, the weather is messing with my accuracy and mobility changing how I want to play and get open. I can player lock to any position greatly changing my role and overall gameplay etc. Racing games just don't offer the same sandbox that other games do. There's nothing wrong with that at all and racing is cool for thoes who enjoy it but saying its not extremely repetitive is just silly."

"haha good sports games most definitely have a skill heights/ gaps and it can be very obvious and embarrassing when people with very different skill levels play. Go play any fight night, ufc, 2k, fifa, against the top ranks and see how quickly you get destroyed lol and most sports games most definitely have assists that can be turned off or are automatically off when online or harder difficulties. The new maddens are trash but play any decent one and the skill difference between vets and rookies are huge. Play calling, formations, the actual moves you can pull off, strategies etc. Vets would stomp you all day. To say there's no skill level In sports game is absurd. And what you people don't seem to understand is that the SANDBOX is much smaller in racing games than any other kind of games for the most part. Again not hating its just fact. 100 matches in a racing game will all end up being more repetitive than 100 matches in any other kind of game. Your racing thats it. 100 matches of who's the fastest. Different track, cars wheather but same shit.100 matches in sports games can vary by position played, roster, injuries, the teams, weather, etc. Playing receiver is nothing like playing qb, the same way sniping in an fps is vastly different from being in a tank or stealthing with a knife. With racing you're literally just racing. Again I'm not dissing it or saying that racing is bad its just the most repetitive gameplay loop their is. Its not insulting its just fact lol. Something you people don't seem to get. Chess offers more variety in matches than racing"

"bruh clearly you people in this thread are slow. Racing is repetitive. Which is what I said and all I said. 100 matches in a BR would statistically bring way more variety than 100 races. 100 matches in any other kind of game be it chess would have more variety than a racing game. That's what they are. There is nothing wrong with it at all its just fact. People are trying to defend them for not being repetitive when describing said repetition in their defense haha."

another guy who supports his opinion : "Racing games are boring"


What do you guys think about it ?