Thats definitely a bit weird. No seriously. I'm sure mine runs fine. I launch stats.exe after lfs.exe and it picks up when i do a Shift+R or a /RESTART no problems. I'll double check but I'm sure it was OK. I had a couple of AI's on track when i did the testing so I'd have some vaguely interesting data.
Here my stats.xml:
<StatsConfig>
<ConnectionMethod>server</ConnectionMethod> <!-- server | relay -->
<ServerAdminPassword>1234</ServerAdminPassword>
<ListenPort>64999</ListenPort>
<ServerConfig> <!-- direct server connection -->
<ServerIPAddress>127.0.0.1</ServerIPAddress> <!-- LFS Server address -->
<ServerPort>44444</ServerPort> <!-- LFS Server port -->
</ServerConfig>
<RelayConfig> <!-- server via relay connection -->
<RelayServerHostName>isrelay.liveforspeed.net</RelayServerHostName>
<RelayServerPort>47474</RelayServerPort>
<ServerName>My Server Name</ServerName> <!-- LFS Server name to connect to (FM) OvaL V8 XSIV-->
<SpectatorPassword></SpectatorPassword>
<ReceiveMCIpackets>false</ReceiveMCIpackets> <!-- (true|false) disabling saves traffic -->
</RelayConfig>
<DisplayIngameMessages>false</DisplayIngameMessages>
<LogIngameMessages>false</LogIngameMessages>
<SprDemoCheck>true</SprDemoCheck>
<AtLeastOneFinishedCheck>true</AtLeastOneFinishedCheck>
<DedicatedMode>true</DedicatedMode> <!-- infinite loop running mode -->
<ResultsTemplate>templates/english.tpl</ResultsTemplate>
<GenerateRaceResultsCSV>true</GenerateRaceResultsCSV>
<GenerateRaceDataTSV>true</GenerateRaceDataTSV>
<OutputDirectory>c:/Server/htdocs/lfs-stats/</OutputDirectory> <!-- note the trailing slash -->
</StatsConfig>
I run stats.exe on the same machine as the lfs server. Did you say you run stats.exe on a seperate machine? Note I don't actualy use 65000 as my <ServerPort> if u want the port i actually use, YIM me.