Round 1 VOD:

I'm in the club. I don't know how to feel about this.

Quote from gaboteam :

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I really wonder how much they would charge for the scan data.

Livestream link for tonight's stream featuring this mod. Thanks for the great work!

Quote from GreatSpirit :

Logitech Driving Force EX

What a classic, I had one of those way back when

Quote from Scawen :

you were taking it as attack and accusations.

I'm sorry, but how else are we meant to interpret the following other than as an accusation/attack:

Quote from Scawen :

It's an ugly thing you have created.

Quote from Scawen :

you are recreating many ugly aspects of capitalism in a game world and supporting a license rental trade in direct contravention of our license agreement

Quote from Scawen :

If you can't understand this, the only explanation is that you don't want to understand. If you do understand but think this is fine, then we have a different point of view that cannot be reconciled.

The only thing we accused you of was in response to you potentially thinking we did any of this to deliberately enable account sharing, which, as Chris has explained, we realise you did not intend.

All any of us is trying to do here is help. That's all we've ever tried to do.

Quote from Scawen :

but I'd like to mention that I have felt under attack all year so far

You can't fight fire with fire, especially towards people who are on your side.

The account rental/account hacking problems are the result of illegal activity by a small minority, not [TC].

Most of the online racing currently uses S3 content, so most of the active community would recommend an S3 license to new players.

You are correct however in assuming that if you start with S1, you only have to pay an extra £12 for S2 and then another £12 for S3, £36 in total.

Quote from Facu23 :

Found this one at my work. I'll make random races and give that as a prize for the winner

A police monster truck is so apt right now

Sector lines and S/F would be useful, but turn numbers are a point of contention. Nevertheless, this is, in part, a good suggestion.

I'd say rendering sector times on the map is too much.

Round 2 VOD:

Quote from rayman95 :

https://clips.twitch.tv/PopularTenuousLEDKeyboardCat-rxGQ1MU0DNlCRtOT

We were rendering 40 x Maximum (and as Scawen eluded to, over-maximum) cars with an NVidia T4 GPU and look at what that did to the frame rate. The collision mesh of this mod is also extremely detailed and LFS was never designed to cope with that level of detail, especially with such a huge pile-up.

This is the first time we've experienced this level of lock-up in 351 broadcasts, and there's very little anyone (except mod creators) can do to improve the performance. Game engines like UE5 would struggle with this problem. The mod is just far too detailed.

Quote from marijamopleenjoyer :

Yes, the freezes occur when someone is leaving pits, usually when it's downloading a skin.

That's because LFS is currently single-threaded. LFS normally waits until you're stationary before loading a skin to avoid issues associated with loading the texture. Hopefully loading cars/skins gets moved to another thread in the proposed multi-threading update.

Quote from Scawen :

Another thing on this model, a problem that N.400S does not have - the middle LOD is way too high at 8104 triangles. The maximum is 8192 triangles but middle LODs should really be less than 1000 in my opinion.

100% agree. Could that be enforced somehow in the editor?

Quote from Bokujishin :

I'm not sure what the threshold is where the problem appears, I know some people talked about it after the NDR GT4 Sprint Cup with the N.400S GT4 (there were 35 cars racing + safety car and rescue vehicles), I didn't personally notice any stuttering but I do have a rather powerful computer (Ryzen 7900X, AMD 7900XT, 32GB of RAM, NVMe SSD).

We (Sim Broadcasts) also noticed some frame drops during our broadcast of round 1 last Sunday. We'll be trialling a new AMD CPU with a 50% higher clock speed for round 2 to try and combat this (3 cheers for AWS ) - Your experience would have been smoother than ours because you were driving, not observing 35 cars at full LOD all at once.

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Quote from Eric :

Thanks Pete!

The links in the OP do work, you just need to right click > copy link address. For some reason (in Chrome at least), clicking the links directly does not trigger a download.

EDIT: Those links didn't have HTTPS on, which is why they didn't trigger a download. They work now.

Quote from Eric :

Any MPR's available of both action packed events?

Peter and Travis did an excellent job keeping up with the action, but it wasn't possible to cover everything!

Not sure why the replays aren't in the OP, but here are the broadcast box MPRs in the meantime from our broadcast archive:

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/2/folders/1NHpji8JjMFwaw7c3DbiSi3Oqi8Bjk5AG

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Livestream for round 1

Hey Lars, hope you're keeping well! See you in the track

Round 1 Highlights will premiere at 7pm UTC. Video by Victor Paulo:

A highlight video by Arce (maganabr45): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Stf0UNFJJw8

Quote from Eclipsed :

Server is now online!
Unfortunatelly Airio tends to corrupt the stats files when using mods,only solution is to clear them - that means the top chart is empty once again...

Oh no, my time!

Quote from Snoop.DriftEra :

Firt of all, Thank you Scawen, LFS team. You did a big job!
I don't want to bother you but I noticed that something changed with wheels in LFSE 07E. The edge of tire itself and sidewall now look different and the edge is more noticeable. I know I use custom textures, but anyway. Same exact textures look different in new version.
IMO previous version looked much smooth and real.
Just wanted to point it out.

Which side of your screenshot is which version?

We're taking booking requests for 2024! If you're planning an event or a series, please get in touch with us as we'd love to work with you in the new year.

Watch this space for our 2024 preview show where we'll announce upcoming championship coverage!

In the meantime have a happy holiday!

Quote from durmazz :

Is 0.7E compatible with 0.7D?

No, this patch is incompatible with previous versions.

It was getting pretty frustrating, thanks Vic!

The 2020 update for the New Dimension Racing logos are available here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1HHi08NwIskxuL0GdSkQXXQSeR_XxQZl_?usp=sharing

The high resolution logo download and usage guide for Sim Broadcasts is here: https://simbroadcasts.tv/media

As this is quite a bump, I wonder if there are more logos that need to be refreshed/added.

Broadcast VOD:

Quote from Eric :

OK, I'll add 6 more slots to the grid and watch the last 2 corner starters spinout!

No complaints from me.