Quote from Leifde :

When joining an online game I just get a black screen. I can click buttons and hear cars but I just can't see anything

Good patch apart from that

Same here

Quote from RaceDoctor :

First of all thanks for your reactions. Some people claimed that they have never had this kind of problems, got me thinking something. Actually I've been thinking about this since I released the wreckers in S2. Where are those good drivers?

I remember the very first time I unlocked my S2. There were like, I don't know, over 400 servers. I was like "Oh wow so many options" but I was so wrong. Later days I released that nearly 300 of 400 are always empty! So I setup my server filter and the thing I saw was the awful truth! Without empty and pravite servers there are just 30-40 servers which I haven't seen a clean race at none of them. I guess the LFS world is like the real world, people only care about themselves and don't know there are the parts which make the main part. Don't know they are making it bad.

I really like this game. It's a better joy than many other sims IMO. I just wish it was like they told us..

If you join an empty server, you will find others will join you

The old "You build it and they will come" syndrome

I have only been racing on LFS for a few weeks and yes there are a few T1 accidents and the fast boys pushing you out of the way but once you get a bit quicker it is no longer a problem.

I raced real cars for several years and wreckers were never a problem but i bet they would have been, if every driver could rebuild his car at the press of a button with no cost involved as per LFS.

When a wreck costs mega bucks its strange how you try not to have one.

One thing that could be done is to not allow people to rejoin races by pressing pits and then going out again. The number of times you see someone wreck themselves and someone else, then pit, go out and wreck themselves and someone else, then pit, and so on.

I think thats fine to do this while you qualify but not during a race.

You should only be allowed to join a race more than once.

Quote from Tweaker :

But your wheel will keep turning past whatever lock the ingame car's wheel uses.

So if I set everything to 720 like you guys say, and choose the MRT5, the amount of rotation matches the DFP and the wheel ingame... but only visually up until I keep turning my DFP wheel. When turning the MRT's wheel to its final locking point ingame, the DFP would still keep turning to its 720 degree range. I don't like that, and I think Birder is trying to explain this too. It needs to STOP when the ingame wheel STOPS.

If LFS can control the DFP's actual degree of rotation from within the game, then everything could be fine, and like the game actually wants to recreate.

I will try again....

If i set my DFP to 720 (FF 100% in the profiler and 20% in LFS) then select MRT,
Then set my DFP so its centered then turn left until it comes up against the FF stop it turns 360 (1/2 720) yet the Wheel on screen on the MRT has only turned 135 (1/2 270)
I can force my DFT past the FF stop to the full 450 (1/2 900) and this does nothing in LFS.

I can only imagine that if you dont use FF and so cant feel the FF stop it would be real weird with the wheel having a load of extra turn that does nothing

I have just tried setting my DFP to 270 and selecting the LX4 and its just the same. I turn lrft from centre 135 yet the LX4 sterring wheel turns 360.

I bet driving the BF1 with the DFP set to 900 is a handfull....

Last edited by birder, Wed, 14 Jun 2006 20:36.

The internal stop i was talking about is just a pressure stop created by the FF which you can go past to the full 900 deg.

The system remembers the last used settings so to test it you need to clear all settings.

If you set the your DFP in the Global Device setting in the control panel or via the profiler to 900 deg and then use a MRT (270deg) the DFT simply turns 900deg while the MRT steering wheel turns just 270.

If you set your DFP to 270 and then use the LX4 its wheel will turn 720

As i always have the wheel showing in LFS i like to match the profiler setting deg's to the Car's in LFS so the turns match.

I always start LFS using the profiler as i have some of the buttons set so i dont have to use the keyboard such as Shift+S and the POV switch set to left and right look and up and down to change FF settings.

I am not sure if you can assign buttons to keys without using the profiler

Anyway its still a great wheel

Quote from szyszek :

Set it to 900 degrees both in the Logitech Profiler and LFS. The game will automatically adjust, so you'll be able to turn 720 in the GTI and 270 in the MRT. No need to do it manually.

I find that this does not work. What you set in the Profiler sets how many degrees your DFP will turn before in gets to the internal stops.

The setting in the game does not seem to change the wheel at all.

So on a FZ50 GTR if i set the Profiler to 540 and set 900 (or 540 or 200) in the game the wheel matches the wheel on the screen at 540.

It seems that on my system the profiler sets the setting to be used and the game setting does nothing.

What about making the demo have a limit of, say 1000 laps before it stops?

I have tried Logitech for a replacement wheel for both a Momo Black and DFP but they have none and have no idea when they will get any.

The supplier who was off the net when i purchased then first said they would do nothing and i would have to wait till Logitech get some then they said i must send them back to them at my cost and they will return them to Logitech for any warranty claim which will take at least 5 weeks

I have a problem getting Ghostcar to run.

I have been through every post and found several people saying they get Insim::Initialise:: Bind Failed when they run it. Yet there never seems to be an answer.

I get the same.

Can anyone help?

What gets me is that I start a race with 20 others (with me in my normal place at the back) i dont pass anyone and after 3 laps of the 5, i am in 3rd as all the others have used the "beam me up scotty button" on their cars to get to the pits by magic. And now they return on track a lap down but force me off passing me again

or

For once i get a storming start and get up to 2nd watching the mayhem behind me. Then votes to restart flash up and whoosh i have my great start taken away. WTF is that all about.

Many drivers shift-s because they didnt get a good start or have had an off in T1 but then cannot be bothered to try to catch up, yet in a real race this is not possible.

Remember the old saying: To finish first you, first have to finish.

If a car has an off it should get back on track and then go back to the pits or stop where it is until the race is over even if the driver leaves the server.

As to the yellow flag, if this is a real sim rather than a game we should use normal flag rules including a black flag to ban someone.

Last week i did 7 laps on AS4 and a BF1 was still standing on the grid where it was at the start, it was strange to see how many people hit it in the air on the last lap as they crossed the finish line.

Oh, please dis-regard all I have said as the only 1st places i have to my name are when all the others Shift-s and i was the only one who finished all the laps as per a real race

Last edited by birder, Tue, 2 May 2006 18:34.

I have seen the answer to this question but cannot find it now i want it.

When working on a skin for LFS its 2048 x 2048, however if i place a logo on the skin that is a true circle it looks oval on the car

By making the template 2048 x ???? you can skin with true logos and then convert it back to proper size before uploading it

Can anyone tell what value i should use for the ???? ?

illepall Thanks

Added: I have just been playing in Photoshop and 2048 x 3048 is correct on the body and sides but that does not work in other places so i think STROBE is right that its easiest to sqush to fit

Last edited by birder, Sun, 23 Apr 2006 14:37.

Hi

Thanks Danowat.

I think other may be interested in the reason. Until Danowat wrote the instructions looking through the forums several people said the first run a server so i found dedi_s2 server and was trying to run that not realising that LFS is a server in its own right when not connecting via the net.

Yes it was rather stupid but its so easy when someone take the time to write out step by step instructions.

Now all we have to do is learn to drive

Does it make a difference running the server and lfs on the same machine.

As soon as out net connection is cut off, and i run the server i just get a ? then 30 seconds later i get "Could not connect to master server"

As soon as the net connection runs its all ok

Thanks

my server system is 192.168.0.172 and the other machines are 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.2

If i connect to the internet it works but if the connection is closed (Lunch time) the server says no master server

I have looked through every thread and it seems to be a regular problem with some saying it should work and some saying it will not.

Hi

I have purchased a licence to use S2 and setup a server so i can race against work mates.

We are not allowed to use the internet connection during lunch so my question is can LFS S2 be used without having to connect to the master server

Thanks