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dawesdust_12
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Quote from cargame.nl :Worse then this is not really possible. So if Iracing can use Steam as propaganda then LFS maybe could do it too but nobody has any idea what going on 'underneath the hood'. Maybe Iracing is paying for this way of advertising. It's unclear what demands Steam/Valve have of gamedevs, they want money, I guess.

Well, I'm pretty sure that 95% of people who have purchased iRacing through Steam were existing brainwashed iRacing fanboys who wanted to spam "THIS IS GREAT" reviews to deceive people.
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Quote from dawesdust_12 :"We" can't add LFS to Steam, as we're not the developers.

o sorry i was referring us as a whole, but you are right ( for once Razz ), scavier should add lfs to steam

as i see it, more ppl, more servers, more activity or is my idea bad?

Steam doesn't ensure activity, it just ensures more eyes will see it.

It can equally be "bad" press as people will buy it, try it, realize that the graphics are quite outdated/content is non-real/other general complaint, and leave a bad review, dissuading any future purchases and actually reducing any potential chance after a large scale update of LFS gaining any significant traction on a platform like Steam.
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"We" can't add LFS to Steam, as we're not the developers.
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Quote from colcob :I can only hope that this work was done to enable significant graphical improvements in the future. Otherwise it seems a little pointless to spend time doubling the frame rate of a piece of software that ran fine on computers we threw away nearly a decade ago.

In this thread: People who don't realise there is very little point having a frame rate higher that the refresh rate on their display device.

I think it's more to optimize Westhill to run on a suitable size of the player bases' computers, as I would expect Westhill to be indicative of the detail level for the "next gen" of LFS tracks.
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TIL: The truth is "attacking".
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Quote from cargame.nl :Oh, I missed that event...

Funny review though: http://steamcommunity.com/id/eobet/recommended/266410/

So Iracing uses Steam for commercial purposes. Alright, interesting.

Not really. It's just the ability to buy a voucher into their extortion subscrption. Not actual integration into the rest of the exortion
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Quote from Eclipsed :Why so many think that LFS devs wants to share their not that big profits with some multibillion company? They have already proved that they want stay indipendent. Also popularity would mean increase of player quantity,but quality will heavily suffer - ever been in public AC servers?

Nearly any developer that has produced even a somewhat successful game has reported immense success with Steam. Garry of Garry's Mod fame has probably done some of the more detailed articles about it, and how things like 50% and 75% sales of games on Steam rewards with extremely high percentages of actual sales income.

If LFS was "complete" (S3 content, rework of current S1 and S2 content to increase texture resolution and poly detail) I think Steam would be a good idea. Until that point, it's not worth putting in the effort.

As for public AC servers, I've had nothing but good experiences. The newer multiplayer model (without booking system) has worked fairly well for getting into a server and driving. It's not ideal, but it's usable.
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Quote from MousemanLV :Don't think lord Gabe will allow that.

Of course not, as Valve makes their money through a percentage of all sales (and a boatload of TF2, CSGO and DOTA items).

The way to do it would be to allow people to purchase (just) a S2 voucher, which then would give them a voucher code to use on the website when creating their account.

That said, I think Steam is incorrect for LFS as LFS already integrates the required features for licensing. Given LFS' current state, more marketing isn't always a good thing.
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Quote from Eclipsed :
Anyway - tried that F12,it shows lfs.net first and then 2 facebook and 1 apis.google.com links. What the hell? :o

LFS has FB and G+ Share buttons at the bottom of the page.
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I think that we could also exploit borderless window to do multi-screen support as well.
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Quote from cargame.nl :And then what? We get another 5 trillion topics abouts whats missing, should be different, stuff about cars and blabla? Would expect we are past that stage after six years now.

Like Steam is going to speed up development.

Unbelievable how repetitive people can be. I think the same topics appear here in 2020.

steam would means more people buying, more cash for more adding some coders rather than one person puttings in a few hours every so often when the mood strikes, so you know, maybe we could get a finished game by 2020, which i highly doubt it.
at current development speed, we will have a man on mars before S3 is released.

More programmers != more work accomplished.
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Quote from Racer X NZ :http://www.komando.com/happening-now/319964/how-to-use-godmode-on-windows-10/all

I still don't think any of the above sorts this issue out
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/even-when-told-not-to-windows-10-just-cant-stop-talking-to-microsoft/

And again, if you love sharing everthing, there is no (present) problem. Go for it and have fun.

For anyone who has info that needs to be actually private, run a version of Linux, with other precautions, and no problem.

As long as you understand with 10 how much of your info is shared without your knowledge or agreement, and you are happy with this lack of informed consent, then you can make a (semi) informed descision regarding your privacy and data security.....
(This is more a business issue than a personal issue, cus no one has private personal information you are not happy being in the public domain, do you ????....)

Your link doesn't make sense. The 2014 photo hack was because of weak passwords, not because of data collection.
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I'm sure we just need to look through your post history to see a comprehensive example of paranoia.
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Quote from Matrixi :I do have a volume roll on my Corsair K70, but that's not enough when separate music volume is required. Razz

Doesn't WinAmp do global hotkeys?
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sij: nouveau is the open source nVidia driver. What GPU do you have? It's possible the install DVD you're trying to use doesn't support the GPU yet. The closed source nVidia drivers have good support for the "newer" GPUs, my 970 works like a dream.

Try a different distribution, and then install the offical drivers afterwards. I used Ubuntu 14.04 (old version) but a newer version should work better.
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Quote from Jakg :I installed it on my laptop last night.

It's better than Windows 8 - but that's not hard.

Not for me, thanks.

EDIT - I'm sure there are a whole boatload of kernel improvements over 7 / 8, but the UI leaves me cold. I hate the inconsistency between the fact each "bit" has a settings section, but then control panel seems to contain most of it anyway and works better. And that theres a whole bunch of crap you can't (easily) turn off.

What do you mean. The UI is perfectly consistent.

dawesdust_12
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I don't know why anyone tries to converse with you. It's consistently an essay of irrelevant, uninformed bullshit.
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My account is a local account, and there are some things that I couldn't disable.

I don't care that much about Windows as I just use it to play certain games like AC anymore. The linux versions of DOTA, CSGO and others have become good enough that Linux can be my "default" OS on machines where OS X isn't available.
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Quote from Matrixi :V-sync doesn't seem to be working on wine, can anyone else confirm? Testing H5 with OSX 10.11 and if I switch v-sync on, LFS still runs at 100 FPS.

OS X is weird as everything is "V-Sync". I'm not sure if games override it either.

The window manager vsync's everything by default. You can disable it on a per-boot basis. The feature in Quartz is "BeamSync".
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Never mind that in some cases, you can't disable it unless you have an enterprise version of Windows.
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Quote from elpopu :Help please?


Reinstall GPU drivers. Windows 10 tries to reinstall your GPU drivers from Windows Update but in almost all cases fails to do so, leaving you with the stock Windows VGA driver

Also, who can forget this:

Still the same in release version too.
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Quote from AJS :I paid 25 Euro for Project Crap and when i signed up it said 25 Euro discount on full game. Then it was 50% discount on full game.

Steam discout coupon expired 60 days after game lunch.

Ask in forum for refund and you get flamed. Now they close forums and move on to project cars 2.

Nice way to make business...

They ban you for disagreeing as well.
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Quote from troy :How about you stop digging your hole and just put ubuntu on a usb stick and boot it for a try?

http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/create-a-usb-stick-on-windows

It's easier to be ignorant and appear stupid, than to educate yourself and bite your tongue.
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That doesn't make sense. vsync forces the process occasionally to "hold" a frame until the next refresh occurs, which means that frame could be many miliseconds old. Thats how input lag occurs.

Without vsync, you're always getting the newest frame possible because there's a surplus of frames, without any having to wait.
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