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I also made a new LFS account, still registering it, along with 1 more for each player.

This SimulatorRental.com is my old user, but I never really used this as my website name before I changed over to VirtualRaceways.com
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Getting the "CreateEffect failed (1 axis)" error.

I have tried ever combination of ghub, game software, both, usb ports etc, even different wheels etc...

What software and version is it supose to be working with?

G29 PC/PS4 version
ButtKicker HaptiConnect Software
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Has anyone gotten the new buttkicker HaptiConnect software working with LFS?

I have not tried it myself yet...
But from what I understand it allows more control over the buttkicker device, or even multiple, so your not just using the sound output anymore. Thus quiet road bumps and vibrations can be felt, etc... Maybe future LFS could make use of it...
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How frequent are servers down?

If I rebuilt my business, and was doing an event, and a server went down, am I basically SOL during that event? Are there dedicated server options, that would be hidden servers?

I am about to, but maybe it might not be worth it to invest more cash into my LFS event business.
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WIP Rating Idea:
Let them expire after 6 or 12 months.
Let the most recent 10 persist beyond expire date.
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I would have to pay for bandwidth for 3 to 10 hours of non stop racing... however many days a month. Depending on the event. So the monthly data plan was the concern.

I guess I would just have to PRE-LOAD any graphics... so I guess it is not really a factor.

Its too bad a local server could not be setup that has to constantly ping a remote server in intervals for permission to operate, and have THAT code be what is not distributed.

It is just going to really suck when the connection is lost, and the whole race is shut down on the last lap, especially if its some sort of $1000 prize race.
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Scawen....

Have you measured how much bandwidth the new LFS will use?

Trying to guestimate if a Cell HotSpot would work... although having 8+ computers hooked up to it, may be a bit laggy.

It just sucks to have put so much time and money in this, just to have it killed by the very thing I was trying to support... LFS.

Also pondering the StarLink Phone: Model Pi
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Quote from KevinRacer :Chance is most of those problems are not getting fixed as this "just" adds mods support, unless you mean that you wanted more cars.

Mostly things that only effect large lan games. Game controller compatibility issues, starting the whole thing up, and graphics would have been nice in the future... no reason to continue using it, if there is no hope for future improvements.
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There are many issues the OLD/Current version has, that I was waiting to be fixed in next version... so its not really an option.
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OK then.... I guess I am out of business then.

Anyone in USA want to buy some race simulators?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/192941551897
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Hosting...

No downloadable server code at all.
No LAN mode at all.

What about commercial ventures that are mobile and require the local server and lan mode?

I will NOT connect my server/player machines to other peoples networks.

And using a hot spot or whatever, Going online at all for the server, totally defeats the purpose of what I am doing, trying to play locally multiplayer to get around online lag etc...

Been trying to decide if I am going to spend 10K to buy new computers to re-open the mobile race simulator trailer in 2022. These new changes to LFS may be making the decision for me......
Help Promoting a GoFundMe to help a friend acquire a off-road wheelchair
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VirtualRaceways has been shut down due to the cooties.
I have spent the time riding my new 3 wheeled bike, in an attempt to lose weight... need to ride it more for that to work.

Jess, a friend of mine has also been trying to acquire a bike that he can ride.
He has been taking on many health issues his whole life, that have taken his legs.

His current wheel chair was getting run down, so he had been trying to get it replaced for the last few months. Insurance changes, caused that to be rejected. That chair has since burned up, and died, so he has a temporary loaner chair, that is limited.

He likes to fly fish, and hunt for ants, this loaner chair, just gets stuck when going off road, leaving him stranded, potentially for hours, until someone shows up and helps him. He got so frustrated he started his own GoFundMe page, in an attempt to acquire an off road chair, because many people on a forum, and YouTube, told him they would donate... so far, none of those people have actually donated anything.

He needs to take his normal chair with him in the car, for times when he needs to get out of car to pump gas, or go into a store. So, he also needs to have a cargo hitch device installed on his car so he can take both with him.

This is his go fund me page:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-jess-regain-independance

If you cannot donate, please share the link with as many as you can.
People sharing links is the only way these gofundme projects can succeed.
Every 1000 or so shares, 1 person donates...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuMg0QwKAGI
This is The Rig he intends to acquire, it is far more affordable then other off road wheel chairs, and is actually a bike, so it gets around some other insurance complications that could cause him to lose ALL of his medicine funding if he buys a medical device on his own.

While I have known him for a couple decades, I have never met jess in person, however I intend to drive from Michigan to California, with my trike, to go on a ride with him, if he can get his hands on this thing.
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While the race was intended to get locals interested in Live For Speed, no locals showed up.

However a few racers around the world did, these are the results.
Corona 500, Points Race, Virtual Raceways, Sat May 23, 4PM EST
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I was putting this together for local facebook groups, however only 2 or 3 people showed any interest.
The intent was to give locals something to do while at home, while advertising LFS, and Virtual Raceways.
It is setup on a DEMO server, so they can all get in for free.
This is tomorrow, so only 24 Hours remaining for them to practice. (4pm EST, USA)

I have been trying to setup a live stream of practice and the race here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PodK5XVWUxs
This url will change if I have to reset sometime over the next 24 hours.

If a few of you on here want to show up, go for it, it will fill the grid a little.
It is very likely NO ONE shows up anyway.

I am doing signups through facebook events/tournaments, this will let me know how many are showing up. But you do not have to use this, just show up on the server.
https://www.facebook.com/events/3323980427613069/
http://www.virtualraceways.com/___OnlineRacing.html

I will be bias to those with good connections, and mods are not permitted, I want the new users to have good experiences not disconnects.
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I think it should return to the way it was, and go back to modded cars being NOT allowed. Due to the likely hood of crashing physics and preventing cheating. If you allow any party of it, then it will ALL be considered allowed, even the parts you do not want allowed...

Instead, custom created cars should only be added through the game itself. This would require some sort of car editor to be added to LFS.

It should be implemented in a way that makes it easier to create and share car files made within LFS, than it is to do the hack method.
Similar to the way skins are shared.

If it is more difficult to hack one in, then people will be too lazy to do it in the clunky unstable manner.
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I am thinking all that would be needed, is have a single input text box for host to input an url to a standard discord link.

This would pop up, when first logging into the lfs server, and ppl would just click it and start talking... as it would load discord in browser or the discord program itself. This way everyone on that server would be talking together, using their own discord server, or a just a channel on an existing one.
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Without Internet? Kind of hard to hack remotely, without internet.

Anyone in the same building, laughing? Do they have a second wireless mouse and keyboard connected to your computer? Smile Look for extra dongles.
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If I was the one working on south city... I would have hidden secret under ground tunnel roads.

That one scenery car, seems to have an interior... but its not very race car looking, so doubt it will be drivable Wink
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I do not think its interference, as that would be so random and rare it would likely go unnoticed, what I am dealing with is more definite.

I have been testing...

Found out that it is indeed, LFS code that causes the ESC/BACKSPACE keys to be pressed.

This is the #1 wheel that is programed for the first LFS instance, interfering with the host and spectator screens, or any other instance on the same PC that does NOT have a wheel programed to it. It is using some sort of default key presses on the wheel, even when the buttons are programed for something else.

When NO WHEEL is programed to an instance (pressing "other controllers" on all instances), the #1 wheel still controls them all by default, this is when it inputs the esc/backspace.

To fix it, these screens that are programed to mouse/keyboard, need to just ignore controller input altogether. Although it may be difficult if the controller is by default sending keyboard presses...




I cannot get it to recreate the disabled buttons/wheel, but now that I know the above, it may have something to do with that, the disabled wheels may have become un-programed somehow, and that's why I THOUGHT they were still working, due to the default control of that particular #1 seat.
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Quote from bobloblaw :I’m pretty sure LFS uses device ID as reported by the device to identify wheels, so it’s strange that you’re having that problem. I would take a long look at your config files, possibly back then up and start from scratch.

When using more than one wheel on the same computer, LFS will detect all of the buttons from all of the wheels, as if they are buttons on the other wheels, for example I can press all the buttons on the first wheel, and they register on the first seat, as buttons 1-20-something. If I press all of the buttons on another seat they will continue to register on the first seat as well, as a buttons 20-40 something... and so on through any wheel attached to the machine.

While scawen fixed this in the beginning, so it sorts out all the buttons correctly, I suspect there is still a subroutine, or line of code that is passing button commands to the wrong seat/instance.


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I would hold off on planning upgrades, as the system requirements will change with the next lighting update.

This is also why I am waiting... lack of cash is just primary reason.



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Have you ever considered running one or two motion platform rigs, possibly with VR? Lots of upfront costs but probably less headaches and more interest and $.

Yes, but if I cannot afford $6k of new PCs there is no way I can afford $10-$30K of motion sim and vr equipment. And then I have to redo the inside of the trailer, and find and pay for new storage location for the stuff I remove from the trailer...
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I just did another corporate event, and had issues resulting in a request for a partial refund.

I had 2 cockpits down for a good portion of the event, due to the wheels not responding correctly.
This happened previously, and I thought I solved it, but obviously not.

Until I solve this issue, I am dead in the water, and will not be doing any events with my simulators.
I have already pulled all the wheels off of the cockpits, and brought them all inside, and currently trying to set them all up on tables so I can diagnose the issue.

I suspect a few possible causes. From an issues with LFS itself, to windows, to broken wheels, to bad usb cables.

When I first set things up, all wheels work fine, and it stays working fine, until I actually get people racing. Then 1 of the wheels on each machine just take a crap and stop working. Sometimes its the whole wheel, sometimes it is just the buttons. It seems like random button presses on the other machines is somehow disabling that one wheel. I restart all of the LFS instances, and set it up again, and it just happens again.

This event was the first time it happened on both machines, usual it is just the one with the host instance running, on the host instance itself. So it has so far always been the same wheel, which makes me think broken cables/wires/wheels but there is no sign that is the case.

Possible damage from being left in trailer over 2 winters?

As I type this, I am leaning to it being LFS itself that is causing this. As it also does other weird stuff that I assume is due to using lfs with multiple wheels on the same computer. Like the wheel on machine 3 will press buttons on machine 1 every now and then... or it will cause the ESC or BACKSPACE button to be pressed on the host screen, pushing the menu or virtual keyboard to pop up on the screen and go away randomly. NO BUTTONS are programed for ESC or BACKSPACE, and it happens when no one is near or touching the keyboard.

I do not really know when it started doing this, and it may just be coincidence, but I did not really notice this much, if at all, before installing the version I am currently using (0.6U6), and maybe a version or two before that... I skipped around a few versions, so don't know what last one was.

Also, at odd times, players will be kicked out randomly. It has even happened now, while I was standing there trying to get their car off the wall... or fix their upside down car. I grab the wheel, and poof they are spectated. I have even been running the game allowing wrong way driving, thinking that had something to do with it, but it does not.

Also, it is still a pain, to setup the multiple wheels and speakers, which I have to keep redoing, each time the wheels stop working. So... to resolve all of this, I may be forced to go with separate computers now, and even if I got the minimum spec machine, I am looking at more money than I am actually making ($6k to $12K USD), so it just does not seem like it is worth it to invest that much more, when I am not making enough. I am currently pondering 8 to 10 Asrock DeskMINI with Ryzen 3400G chips... but that will limit it to the APU graphics on the ryzen chip. I also do not have enough funds to do it ... sigh.
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So almost as soon as I started it up, I pulled the plug on the Racing Facility. Had a few equipment issues, no one was showing up, etc... I just didn't feel like loading it all back into the store, and then paying per month to not do anything. So backing up and regrouping, will try it again later when a few things are resolved.
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Need to see the background sun set reflect off of all the tall building windows.
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I recently posted that the i3 Intel HD graphics on my Tiny Lenovo PC would not run it very good, however I tried it recently, a few patch versions behind current version out. And it runs at a consistent 60FPS at 1080 with 10 AI cars, if you turn everything graphical down/off.
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T-Shirts, want to.. currently cannot afford those. Thinking LFS logos as well Wink need LFS logo for front window.

Music, the coffee shop half has music playing low volume... I was pondering playing video game music recreated on real instruments by various artist.


Planning on having tournaments can be 3 race days a week, players can race in as many races as they wish to pay for (the hussle part), at the end of the day, top 10 race for $100-$200

On the last race day, at the end of the month, the top 10 would then race for the $200-$1000 prize, pending # of entry fees sold that month.

I also intend to have a hot lap winner each week, with diff cars/tracks. Winner takes 50% of entry attempt fees.


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