I had to take a pee break before the finish.

Quote from hawkusa :

Back to the keyboard ?. Are people turning 1:33's...34's at Blackwood with just a mouse and keyboard? If so are they using both together?

There's quite a few that's been using mouse/kb for a while that can do 1:33-34. Really fast keyboarders "only" are rare, but mousers are more common. Most mousers I would think uses a combination of mouse/kb. Like mouse itself for steering, mouse buttons for throttle/brakes, and keyboard for
upshift/downshift/handbrake and maybe clutch. I would suggest lowering mouse sensitivity and remove acceleration in Windows if using mouse, that will make it more easier to drive with. There's some more hints in the following thread: http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=12336

Quote from greg_slideways :

I have a World Record!

Not anymore. But you can beat it easily. I took it really slow at the end.
Go for it!

Quote from Whiskey :

That's not a bug, is a known issue, and Scawen and more people said millions of times that LFS should be run as an administrator in order to could change the exe

Or if your user is in the administrators group, just turn off UAC and it will never bother you again.
http://www.petri.co.il/disable_uac_in_windows_vista.htm

Quote from Boris Lozac :

Can someone post a screenshot of the Solstice interior, i'm curious how it looks compared to LFS cockpits

Here you go.

Quote from Scawen :

I don't know what we will do, it'll probably be best to just say you can only upload hotlaps made in version Z (very soon).

Ok, thanks. Better wait with serious hotlapping until Z is out then.

Quote from chanoman315 :

Scawen, and if we dont download patch Z, but a before test patch can we upload those hotlaps?... i have a crappy internet (52kps) and i wont download Z until like 3 weeks from now

Isn't that basically what I asked? So no, until patch Z is out you can only upload hotlaps made in pre Y30 patches. When patch Z is released, you might be able to upload post Y30 hotlaps, but not hotlaps made in older versions. But since there can still be some physics changes, best bet is to wait until Z is released before you start hotlapping.

Hope that made sense.

Quick question about hotlapping:

Will hotlaps made in Y30-> be valid for upload when patch Z is released?

How do you save a replay? I see an icon of what I think is a floppy, but nothing happens when I click it.

Yiha!

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Could be a defective graphics card. I had those random BSODs and the nvport.sys error for a while, until the graphics card decided to give all up and show funny lines on the screen.

Quote from chanoman315 :

so all my RB4 hl's will be invalid because new physics in suspensions?

I'm afraid so.

Quote from arco :

I actually find the RB4 a tiny bit slower now. I've been hotlapping FE1r a little in my spare time the last days. With Y my best time is 46.04, and I can pretty easily go under 46.20. With Y30, my best time so far is 46.18, and it's quite harder to do the same splits as in Y.

Update: Softening the suspension stiffness seems to help getting it closer to Y lap times, and more consistent similar times. 46.09 as of now.

Quote from danowat :

I have done a little racing on Y30 this morning, and although I am not by any means an XRT master (far from it) the RB4 seems to be quite a bit quicker, even on a track like Blackwood......

I actually find the RB4 a tiny bit slower now. I've been hotlapping FE1r a little in my spare time the last days. With Y my best time is 46.04, and I can pretty easily go under 46.20. With Y30, my best time so far is 46.18, and it's quite harder to do the same splits as in Y.

If they ever get the race going... lot's of swearing and shouting going on.

Quote from Jakg :

I'd like to see a picture of "Arctic Circle Raceway" that's not from Google Earth if you have one - I'd love a track that had severe elevation changes and wasn't in a flat environment, i.e. next to the armco was a giant hilly forest etc.

Some videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sEi1NCMyKg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ... VgFBY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPu8INrShbI

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Quote from Scawen :

I think there are a lot of Chinese, Japanese and Korean people who will be happy about version Z and that can only be a good thing.

And those countries have A LOT of people, and with the improving economy of China it will benefit LFS in the long run.

Now, if we could get the best track in northern Europe, Arctic Circle Raceway, in LFS, that would be awesome! (dreaming...)

Quote from George Kuyumji :

And we all know that corner is hard

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUv2iwFr-7A

Yeah, been there, done that.

Quote from Scawen :

If you have your old folder you can copy your .trs files from the data\knw folder.

Quote from dougie-lampkin :

Let 10 AI BF1s run there for 10 mins, it'll be there again

Aha! So this is something that builds up over time? Didn't know that, but now I do. (learns something new every day, hehe)

After doing a fresh install of Y and then upgrading to Y30, I've noticed that the wear markings on the track is missing. Has this something to do with the new graphics options, and is there any way to get them back?

XRG rims looks quite similar to the rims I had on my old car.
But they need some hub caps I think.

I find it a bit ironic that there's at least two things in iRacing, that was removed in LFS because it was considered not realistic. That is the digital speedometer and throttle blip on downshift. The blip sound when downshifting in the Legend is just awesome!

I'm having some issues with the steering though, can't seem to get the same snappy input as I have in LFS. I struggle with being to late with the steering in corners. And when trying to compensate the inevitable spin comes. There doesn't seem to be any controller fine tuning either, like in LFS.

Good news, although I'm not looking forward to loosing most of the hotlaps. A lot of hard work went into them, but if it's needed, so be it.

Le Scipy, you old hag!

Sretan rođendan!

Quote from Crommi :

Yes, you can run Practise without having to fear for your points.

Cool!

Couldn't wait, so started downloading.
Getting max download speed so far, so that's good.

Received the invite too, but maybe I should wait till tomorrow to install since the download servers must be pretty maxed out now.

A question, is there an option to practice offline before going online? Would be nice to get familiar with the stuff first, instead of going online wrecking everyone.