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FPS drop switching from full screen->windowed and back (Vista)
arco
S2 licensed
I'm running Vista x64 with SP1, and have a GeForce 7300GT using drivers 169.28.

Lately I've discovered that I get a huge frame rate drop if I switch LFS from full screen to windowed mode and back. The only solution to fix it was either to restart LFS, or go into Options/Misc and click the "Full screen vertical sync" a couple times so the LFS screen refreshes. Very annoying since I often switch to windowed mode to run the web browser or something.

After some testing and trying I've found an easier way to fix this. If you disable Aero while LFS is running, you can switch back and forth from full screen to windowed as many times you want without affecting the frame rate. All you need to do is right click your LFS icon, select Properties, go to the Compatibility tab and select the "Disable desktop composition" setting. See the image attachment.

Dunno if there's anyone else experiencing the same thing, if so I'd like to hear it so I know I'm not alone.
arco
S2 licensed
Quote from spankmeyer :Please don't post nonsense on the forums after smoking crack, thank you.

Doh! So much for having a personal opinion...

I've been driving cars for 22 years, and RWD drive ones exclusive for about 18 of those. My previous car was much like the XRT, same horsepower, turbo, same weight and RWD. If my car behaved the same as the XRT, I would be long dead.

And I don't smoke crack, never has and never will. Insinuating I do is what's nonsense.
arco
S2 licensed
To be honest, coming from someone who used to love the FXO in previous patch, I don't think it's that fun to drive anymore. Tyres are too hot after only 1 lap, and it feels kinda weird to drive too - like it's floating on the surface. Despite that, it and the RB4 is still my preferred cars in the TBO class. The XRT, and the other rear wheel drive cars for that matter, I almost never bother with. They're far too unrealistic.
arco
S2 licensed
Turn up the mic volume, or turn down the engine volume, please.
arco
S2 licensed
I have a couple Samsung SP2504C SATA2 disks in RAID0, and also gets 5.9.
arco
S2 licensed
Main Hotlap Rank

The MHR rank, which stands for the Main Hotlap Rank, consists of 18 selected and varied hotlap charts.

Thanks csimpok!
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arco
S2 licensed
Quote from Lotesdelere :The following bars are not loading for me:
cd
renesis
cro
aspec
adaptive
sparko

Error message:

That would be the ones missing.
I've only filled in the code for them, the userbars themselves will have to be made when Arrow is back.
arco
S2 licensed
All userbars have been updated with each teams final position.

Check first post in this thread for the code.

There's some team bars that haven't been made, so I haven't been able to update them. Maybe Arrow will make them when he's back from holidays.

Report any errors if you find.
arco
S2 licensed
Quote from go_carter :Both Hoylaps is cheat.(XFG and XR GT)

Hoy Hoy!

(Btw, they're both removed now)
FE Club / XFG WR cheated?
arco
S2 licensed
I'm pretty sure it is.

Replay gives OOS error and lap time is 1.3 seconds faster than 2nd place.
arco
S2 licensed
Grats to Duck and Mercury. It's indeed a great loss for Fusion. He was the one who brought me into Fusion, and I brought him into S2.

But maybe now finally someone can teach him to race properly.
arco
S2 licensed
Thanks guys!
arco
S2 licensed
Heisann og takk for tilbakemeldingen thd.

Ja, jeg kan godt ta over ansvaret for oppdateringer av oversettelsen. Tror det skal gå rimelig greit. Det meste er jo allerede oversatt, så blir jo mest bare å vedlikeholde og å legge til nye ting.
arco
S2 licensed
A big thanks to all the devs, and have a happy holiday.
arco
S2 licensed
Oh, I'll try to do that then.

Edit: Original was directly from X38.

Edit 2: Added diff file so they more easily can check the changes.
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arco
S2 licensed
I just spent a good hour and a half going through the Norwegian language text file for X38. I fixed a few spelling errors, missing letters and some inconsequent usage of words here and there.
arco
S2 licensed
Had the same problem on our team forum as well. The Skype images wouldn't load. Turned out mystatus.skype.com was down.
arco
S2 licensed
New opportunity's, hopefully. Although a little sad all the hard work won't be up there anymore. I think I'm gonna reupload all the hotlaps I previously deleted, to help my country up on the lists a little, before closure.
arco
S2 licensed
I would also think that it would be in the devs best interest to make a product that sells well. As I understand, LFS is their main form of income. Sure, they can make LFS be whatever they want to, but if no one buys their product, what's the point? That would be the end of LFS as well.
arco
S2 licensed
Quote from Flotch :BTW, maybe it is just me who have to learn how to drive cleanly

You're going insanely fast in the corners, that's why!
When I'm comparing your hotlaps to mine, you seem to be much more aggressive in the corners. Same thing with biggie. My cornering/throttle usage seems more smooth, yet I pull almost the same split times. But then again, we all have different driving styles.

But I agree, I think too they are heating a tad bit too fast.
arco
S2 licensed
Quote from wheel4hummer :A car that would have a Digital speedometer in real life should have it in LFS.

We don't have real life cars in LFS, except for the beemers.
arco
S2 licensed
Try a memory testing tool.

http://www.memtest.org/
arco
S2 licensed
Added any new USB peripherals lately, and then the problems started? Could be they are maxing out the power on the USB ports. Try to borrow an external HUB with it's own power source to see if that fixes it. Try a bios update too.
arco
S2 licensed
Quote from sgt.flippy :A telemetry based setup should be better than reading it off the speedo while testing. And as far as I know, there is a telemetry logger for LFS, isn't there?

Even if we had a datalogger for LFS, I wouldn't know shit how to use it. A digital speedo I can understand though.

In my former car I mounted a digital speedo since the original analog one died. Since we can do that IRL, we should also be able to do it in LFS. I'm just saying...
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arco
S2 licensed
Quote from sgt.flippy :I'm not sure, but in real life.. Would the driver really look at his speed and see how fast he went? I think not. They have data loggers for that, and they analyze the data after the driver completed his test laps. There they can see if the setup squeezes the last few drops out of the machine. And in real life racing, they don't really drive the cars to the limit constantly, but we do that. Isn't right either. So technically, the setup you have that went that km/h faster, would be useless because on a real track you probably wouldn't use that km/h.

So basically, since they use that stuff in real life, but we can't in LFS, we shouldn't have any help at all, since it's not realistic? Some of you seems to think that anything that happens in real life can be done in a computer.

"LFS - so realistic you don't need a real car!"
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