If a filter is introduced, don't forget the drifters and the draggers and the whatnot to get their own group. I don't mind the non-racing servers to be many, but looking for a racing server with an FZ5 for example is quite a tedious task. With the filter, I'd just know that there isn't any ...
The only thing needed is a category when starting a server.
Look for a little proggie called joy2key, you can assign letter c to keypressesand thats your clutch, as long as you hold the lever (or gearshift button). No programming, just findind the right button.
Must be in the forum somewhere, this was discussed long before. The only downside is if you shift too quick, you'll miss the shift.
it has been mentioned before, while in car type T/edit_eng and after that press shift-A, and you see a lot of sliders and load on top. click there to load the eng-file
No, you dont have to type it everytime you change car or track. Save changes with another filename, it will be stored in the player-file
This is an engine file with modified sample (aston martin,btw). I have been fiddling with the editor since a few days and if you like it, please let me know.
I'd find it practical, if the hosts list could be sorted by e.g. track name or racers on that server. It is already done in the hotlaps overview (click on the table header to sort).
just a minor inconvenience: Whenever i just installed a new patch and start it for the first time, zone alarm recognizes the altered program and comes up with a pop-up. Unfortunately when i forget to minimize the LFS window before selecting hotlapping, lfs stops and i cant get to the ZA window, no shift f4, no alt tab, no clicking on desktop (on the second monitor). The only way to move forward is to send the pc to standy and switch on again....
Dont know if it was that way with previous versions.
Apart from that, cheers for the u30 version. it seems to me that i have much better fps than with u28 on my ageing system
I would rather see this feature to stay in this game. It isn't something absolutely necessary, but the interface is not my problem at all. I think it is less important for driving, but can be useful as an quick camera angle when recording.
an analytical approach would be to use F1 Perfview or analyse for speed (links also provided on the liveforspeed site). With those, you can take a WR replay, save the telemetry and do the same for your own hotlap. Then you load the telemetry files into the analysers and you can see the two laps side by side in every datail and exactly see, where you loose the time.
It wont make you faster immediately, just a little inaccuracy cost tenths of seconds and it all adds up to a few or more seconds depending on the length of the track. so it is pretty easy to find out why you loose time but really hard to change your driving.
Sorry for any inconvinience racing on d-r-t servers. Someone just forgot to reactivate it after vot-ban was disabled for a reason I don't know. It's on again....let's hope bans will be rarely necessary, but sometimes it seems the only way to drive a decent race.
Do yourself a favour and buy a FF wheel. Forget about the cheapest or try to buy a usb FF Microsoft sidewinder on e-bay. Driving force pro or Logitech MOMO is already a bit more expensive, but are decent wheels if there werent the crappy pedals (you'll read about that). After 2 Moszo repairs Mine are fine now, though and I have one set spare they sent to me with no hassle. Most expensive is ECCI Wheels(which are rock-solid, but non-FF) and pedals or Virtual Performance Parts pedals. A new BRD Speed 7 was announced a while ago with a price of like 750 pounds....illepall
seems to me that a minority of racers wants tuning, and the majority doesn't want to be bothered about engine tuning or aftermarket parts. Right now, it IS possible to tweak the cars (mechanik or LSF tweak in near future) for offline. Online shouldn't be allowed, because most people would be put off to know about the best tuning, they just want to race on equal conditions and improve their skills.
So, seems to me, the situation we have is the best solution we could get....
Maybe an accuracy of 2 Digits is enough, because you wont even notice a difference of 0.001 in gear ratio....but I like the feature to tune the gearbox exactly to what you want it. And about realism...these are mostly fictional cars, so who can say, that there is no aftermarket gearbox with all ratios possible? I don't have the slightest problem with the way things are right now...
So, pro-lawyer, why is it you dont sue them then? Explain the jury, why you think you have a right to install alarm-clocks in scawen bedroom and force them to work even harder...ridiculous....illepall
I also paid my money for the license, and even if it was just for the alpha, I wouldn't have regretted buying it, when I think of the countless hours I spend with it....and I am not even a fanboy. I would have bought GTL, if i had a machine to handle that, I played GPL, I tried the F1C mods, and thats a nice change to have the Norschleife in a simulator. I'd really love to see that track in LFS, but buying that license does NOT give me the right to demand the devs to put it in or anything that i would wish to be in. As a customer, you have the right to choose products or to return them, if they are defective!!
I appreciate what they have already given to us, and what is coming is just something on top. I can fully understand the devs way to have their indi-project and not following the rat race...wished we had more people with some values and goals other than just ever more money.
So Scawen, Eric and Victor, burn your calendars, trash your alarm-clocks and take care of friends and your own mental and physical health, and I will patiently wait for patches, new releases, track addons and raylle packs, whenever you feel like throwing them out.
You could use a second analogue Gamepad controller and attach it to your wheel. With the additional axes, you could map one of them (rotation) to look around. With the standard calibration, you have 360° look angle, but this is tweakable with DXTweak. Funny thing is, if you map X and Y axis to the second controller, the buttons won't work anymore, but if you just map the sideways direction, they still work.
isn't it possible to have the administation (Change of Cars Track etc.) done by a weekly schedule with inSim Protocol? I am not the man to do this, but is it possible? Would be a nice goodie for a lot of people i guess...
One of our teammates is hosting servers on Linux machines under Wine, I think its 20 Eur a month...check www.powie.de
tristan: I had a similar screen when I overclocked the card too much. After a reboot and setting clocks back to normal, everything is fine again, so maybe you won't have to buy a new card....well, just maybe..
Catalyst Control center does the job with one big surface spanned across 2 monitors, but I tried it, and it wasn't very cool without the fresnel lenses due to the turning. The perspective doesn't feel right like that. Kegetys managed to find a solution, but that was kinda slow.
There was a thread at RSC, I think, with photos showing a rig with two fresnel lenses arranged in a way so that the middle bar wasn#t visible anymore.
big fresnel lenses are sometimes sold as TV magnifiers (TV LUPE in german) for old ppl in specialized shops, prices i have seen were like 40-60 Eur depending on the size.