yeah, its not hard. on the pubstats url, you just put &idk=you_id_key_that_you_generated_for_free_on_lfsworld.net at the end.

ie,
http://www.lfsworld.net/pubstat/get_stat2.php?version=1.3&action=<your_action_here>&idk=<Your_Ident_Key_Here>

he said months and months ago that this was going to happen eventually, then again almost 2 weeks ago that it was about to implemented. The notification was there. you don't have the techinical skills to do this, then you should have asked for help.

sorry, but this is all on you.

what in the world are you talking about?

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this is already in the game. can't disable it per se, but you can set a time limit that the race can't be restarted after the race starts, and set another limit that the race can't be restarted before the race ends...default for both is 1 minute i think.

Quote from Meanie :

Yeah, i think those are better limits.
Also i think that if you could set some ammount of time, say whe there's only 20% of the total laps left, as some ground where restart isn't allowed it would be pretty sweet.

you can set a back-limit...its no restarts within n minutes of end of race. since i haven't had a problem with this one, i've left it at the default of 1 min.

haha, i have the restart limit set at 3 minutes, and 5 minutes for longer races

yes the Pentium D is a dual core (that's what the D stands for ), and yes, LFS only utilizes 1 of the processors. And the patch won't make LFS use both cores, it just fixes a bug that causes reduced performance when only using one core, as compared to a single core cpu (if that makes any sense)

from cheapest to most expensive (and slower to faster)
Radeon X800 GTO 256mb ~55£
Geforce 7600 GT ~90£
Radeon X1950 PRO/Geforce 7900 GS ~120£
Geforce 7900 GTO/Radeon X1900 XT ~170£

personally, i'd go with the x800. its a great card. but you won't go wrong with any of the cards that Jakg or I listed here. If you want to go cheaper than 50£, then we'll come up with some suggestions for you

http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=983781

here you go. several links to the patch, and steps for the registry edit. its "Fix #3 - The Microsoft Hotfix".

i only tried the first link, but it worked as of the time of writing this.

for the question about how to hotspot without flat spotting.

easiest explaination...ever try doing a burnout? the wheels are spinning, and the slippage of the rubber over the pavement increases temperatures more than a rolling tire, and overheats the tires.

sliding, as in drifting, will also hotspot the tires without flatspotting them, unless it is an ebrake initiated drift, then there might be minimal flatspotting...but that is over complicating this

flatspotting is an uneven wear on tire tread from a locked tire sliding across the pavement, which shaves that spot of the tire flat, and causes the tire to not be round any longer.

hotspotting is basically an overheated tire. it can happen in a specific spot of the tire, or across the whole tire. what could cause it to happen in one spot and not another?

tire pressure for one. all things being equal, an over inflated tires will hotspot in the center because the tread surface has become convex and the edges of the tire have less contact with the pavement, which causes them to experience less friction, and heat less. the opposite is true for under inflated tires.

another setup issue that can cause hotspotting on a tire edge is camber. basically the same concept as tire inflation, but the camber affects the left/right tilt of the tire and can excessive camber can cause one of the tire edges to be lifted off the ground.

hotspotting typically accompanies flatspotting, but the reverse is not necessarily true...and if a flatspotted tire is allowed to cool, it will still be flatspotted but not hotspotted. so it is very much possible to have one without the other.

images exagerated to illustrate point.

crazy...it was working yesterday. sorry.

and you're new box is a very good box for desktop applications that support multiprocessors (such as photoshop, 3d apps, some games), its just that LFS isn't such a game...and in typical compaq fashion, the installed video card is junk, but that's easy enough to fix

for ~50£ (or a little less) you can a very good video card that will help out a ton over the 7500le.

and don't feel bad about the computer. just find another use for it when you aren't using it for LFS...like video production, audio production, 3d graphics, photomanipulation...there's undoubedly other apps out there that support multi-cpus, it just i'm most familiar with multimedia apps

i never said 4 cpus. that was a different poster.

and LFS performance results from the OP, which equal graphic settings
AMD/9500 - 70-80fps and 25fps at race start
P4D/7500le - 60fps and 15fps at race start

the 9600xt is a 128-bit card and the 7950 is a 256-bit card, so that just supports my claim that the older/"slower" 128-bit 9550 is a better performing card than the newer/"faster" 64-bit 7500le. bus width makes a huge impact on performance.

windows treats dual cores as dual processors, the 940 is a dual core, so essentially 2 cpus.

i can't find any technical info on the 7500LE other than it's based off the g72, same as the 7300LE. The 7300LE is a 64-bit card, and if (basis of my comments) the 7500LE is a 64-bit card, it will be slower than a radeon 9550 (a 128-bit card), desite the fact that the 7500le has higher clock speeds.

there is more to determining a cards performance than clock speed, and bus width is very much an important factor in determining performance.

if the 7500 is in fact a 128-bit card, then it would likely be faster than the 9550, but as the OP has stated that the old system with the 9550 gets better frame rate than the new system with the 7500, evidence points very strongly to the 7500 being a 64-bit card (and is slower).

patch: http://server.counter-strike.n ... P-KB896256-v3-x86-ENU.exe

you'll also need this link for the modify registry settings part:
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=896256

– Install Patch – Reboot Computer – Modify Registry Settings – Reboot Computer

the file is not hosted on my webspace, and therefore i have not verified the link to the patch, so you should definately scan it for viruses. i just found a link to the file.

if you don't want to deal with that, in the microsoft link that i supplied, there is instructions for contacting microsoft and they will send the file to you.

also, probably don't want to hear it, but your old video card is much better than the new one, and all you needed to do to increase the performance on the one box was upgrade the video card.

i've got the same cpu as you, but have a ati x1600xt (not a great card, but faster than what i had and got a good price for it), and depending on the track and number of cars, i get between 60fps and 130fps (usually around 80), at 1440x900 with 4xAA and 8xAF.

Also, since LFS isn't multithreaded, dual processors isn't going to help out much (if at all), although the microsoft patch is supposed to help with that.

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the operating system that comes installed on the xbox that allows one to play xbox games

this shouldn't affect anything in-game.

this is soley for using the statistics on a webpage or outside application.

then they should make it mandantory before you can take delivery of the car...but that is still rather pointless because if the car is sold 2nd hand, then there would be no such opportunity, and the new person would end up wrecking it in ~15 minutes.

the car is pretty, and its got gobs of power, but its kind of a piece.

Quote from Misko :

You were spectating, thats why there was no SS button. Thats normal. You have to be in the car on the track to be able to send your setup.

d'oh! don't i feel stupid

i have to agree with tristan's comments on the additional rotation...except my old DF only had 180deg, but i've still adjusted pretty nicely. the only area that is still a bit of a problem is catching slides.

to be more precise, i can catch the slide just fine, it's coming out of the slide that i have a problem with...i can't get the wheel turned back in time and end up with a snap oversteer in the other direction. but i'm sort of getting better at correcting that problem, and he's right, the extra precision does help in avoiding that situation in the first place.

Quote from banshee56 :

Hmmm....I've been running U30 on my machine while racing on U20 server for a day or so, and never noticed it missing.

Is this a new option?

Nope, not a new option. If you look at the screenshot i attached, in the connection list on the bottom right there is a column that has a "T" in it, then a blank column to the right of it. In previous versions there was an "SS" there, and when you clicked on that, it would send your current setup to that person.

it appears that send setup has vanished...

i'm on U30, the server is U20. This was in a 60min qualifying on a private server.
here's the screenshot...

yup...fat32 has a 4g limit, and avi has a 2g limit.

you could give virtual dub a try. it can be used to work with avis larger than that file size...but it doesn't always work. its free, so its worth a try.

after seeing the ccx on top gear, i wouldn't drive one until they address the stability issues with the car.