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gu3st
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Quote from Gutholz :I looked at some random profiles and none had any forum postings...

People are also notoriously bad for sharing credentials across sites. Just takes someone bored enough to wire up a script to see what matches against here.
gu3st
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There's also a lot of good work being done with the Asahi Linux project where modern AAA windows games are being run successfully on Linux with a "home grown" graphics driver for Apple has been written from scratch and even implements newer OpenGL and Vulkan.

For me I see that as the "path" for playing more games on the ARM Macs. Linux driver support for wheels is fairly mature with decent tools to adjust rotation and other settings as well.

The latest demo shows Control and Ghostrunner running at playable frame rates which is very interesting!
gu3st
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Quote from mcmustang :This evening a certain image surfaced on LFS discord server. It was an image of text file containing the following syntax
https://www.lfs.net/login:username:password

and
https://www.lfs.net/loginreset/uniqueHash

. It is unknown what the author wanted to achieve with that however I can recommend the following to the players. Have the habit of changing your passwords every 6 months or at the very least every 2 years.

There is no need for panic, just ensure that you still maintain control over your account and change the password.

Neither of those do anything...
gu3st
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The visual groove on track where cars have driven.

It doesn't do anything to affect grip levels (it used to forever ago). That option just dictates whether or not your car or all cars change the visual rubbered in line
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gu3st
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1 dev + 1 artist can only produce things at a certain rate. Made worse by said dev being distracted from working on the sim by improvements to mod system, dealing with blowback from DDoSes and other maintainence tasks.
gu3st
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Quote from Flame CZE :LFS already uses CloudFlare for the website. I think it gets more complex when...

Heck, Valve's whole solution to DDoS with DOTA2/CS was to literally go and create their own private network that game servers live inside and you authenticate and connect through Gateway endpoints that then deliver your traffic to the game server. In theory, if LFS did have a Steam version, Scawen could actually place all of LFS' gameservers inside of Steam's private network and allow non-Steam users to access those servers but it's also a lot of work + Steam version.

https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/multiplayer/steamdatagramrelay
gu3st
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Quote from Epicproes :Hello, as t300rs prices are very expensive, i planed too buy g29. Do you...

I would very much try to get a T300 or similar if possible. The difference between gear vs belt driven wheel is significant in terms of feel and enjoyment.

On PC, you can also mix and match so you don't need to get the G29 shifter (which is a separate purchase anyways AFAIK), you could look at a Thrustmaster or one of the cheap Aliexpress shifters instead which will be higher quality.
gu3st
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Could be GameInput which the latest (2024) T300 driver should fix. Without that driver, Windows 10/11 installed a runtime that proceeded to take priority of the FFB from other games (affected all wheel vendors and games). Most vendors released new drivers that addressed it or you can disable the GameInput Runtime service in Windows.
gu3st
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Quote from MicroSpecV :I think LFS isn't supported on Linux officially? Someone please correct me if I'm mistaken.

It should work fine in Linux, especially considering it's DX9, although at this point even DX11/DX12 support in Wine (via DXVK) is fairly mature and stable for even the newest AAA titles.
gu3st
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Just Z-fighting. Not much that can be done with that
gu3st
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Quote from Yisc[NL :;2098388"]Last couple of days we see an increased number of questions about Lapper that are all coming from Turkish players that haven't been online at all or in ages.

In this case - Last online : Sat 26 Mar 2022, 21:38

Still they are talking about server, have requests and so on.
Something fishy is probably going on here.

Yeah.. I've just assumed that some of them are using old pirated versions. Especially as I think 1 of them specifically needed info for an older version of Lapper
gu3st
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Quote from Silverracer :It is my understanding that these sort of interactions do not go well in the...

The groove is purely visual. It's only updated on our client side and we all have our own version of the "groove", which we can even setup to be updated by only our car or by all cars on track. There should be consistent grip be it lap 1 or lap 101 with the only variance from surface types (assuming asphalt vs concrete have different grip). Additionally, the track has a constant temperature (although I can't seem to find what the LFS temperature is).
gu3st
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Quote from Scawen :I don't want to get involved in a conversation but I'll say a few things then...

Unplanned work really is the worst. A few times I've been in the thick of having to run off and spend months rewriting systems where a flaw was discovered was big enough to need to drop everything and address it. People always seem to think that because features stalled that work wasn't being done but if they ever knew the half of it they'd change their tune.
gu3st
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Quote from RealistAdam :It might be the current post I found. It's been a year, but it gives an update on Eric's work.

It would be nice if an article and information were shared with the players about the work done.

I think we are not a minority demanding this. It is exciting to even look at the work done years ago. Who knows how nice it would be to see current works.

https://www.lfs.net/forum/post/2052625#post2052625

It also doesn't help that recently Scawen has needed to take more web development tasks on either. There's enough PHP knowledge in the community that I think a trusted group might be able to help directly or at least give some informed advice. I'm not really a PHP dev anymore (outside of some contract work on a popular livery sharing site), but I do have many many years of knowledge and expertise with web dev.
gu3st
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It'll be interesting with the day/night cycle if there'll be even a rudementary implementation of dynamic track temps. Making the track hotter in the afternoon versus night would make longer races a bit more dynamic (in the absense of rain or other shenaingans).
gu3st
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For #1 I'm already reminded of old cheats that used negative handbrake force to act as a turbo boost
gu3st
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Quote from Aleksandr_124rus :In my opinion, you are making the same mistake as the authors of this mail, and same that many other people are making in thinking in categories of collective responsibility.

Think about it, did Germany or Hitler start WWII? Germany is a country where there were many different people with different opinions. And I am against equating all people of one country with what the leadership of the country does.

But this is not the topic of this thread, those who want to discuss it, please reply to me in this thread - https://www.lfs.net/forum/thread/100249-Do-you-hate-Russians%3F-Russian-Ukrainian-military-conflict-

It's really not as deep as you're trying to make it although you do however have a tendency to try to make every puddle into an ocean.
It's not about hating Russians, it's just the bare minimum compliance to the law and a consequence of violating soverignity.
gu3st
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Just throwing a random thought out there but could your server/local be being blocked by cloudflare?
gu3st
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I mean the "not to russia" shouldn't be a surprise. Invading a soverign country isn't fondly looked upon.
gu3st
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Honestly having an open object library (where things go through a similar process to cars) might be a great way to avoid rights issues/theft from other games.
gu3st
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Hell, a refurb Steam Deck is relatively inexpensive (to me at least) and can run Windows along with many other games at 1080p. Can install the OS to an external drive as well as drive an external monitor.
gu3st
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I mean why wouldn't a simulator want to have dynamic weather? Even ignoring rain, tracks vary in temps based on time of day and usage and the grip levels change. It should be a good thing where racing isn't just hotlap simulator and you need to react to changes in grip levels (or moisture).

Speaking from my own experience, the addition of rain to iRacing has been an incredible thing as it changes everything. Every lap you're seeking the limit as the track wets or dries with real reward/consequence from getting it right or wrong. It makes the experience more enjoyable.

Even in dry, having a track evolve over a 3 hour endurance stint where the lap times get faster or slower based on track temps and tyre wear which is interesting to have happen.
gu3st
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Quote from versiu :Other simulator are widely open to any mods. Only big simaracing databases bans any copyrighted stuff.

As far as we know, Kunos (devs of AC) wanna change that and block copyrighted content in their next game.

Why don't just ban to use whole track models from any source and require to make it all yourself?
The best car mods were made from scrath (mostly in blender)...

Kunos definitely wants to prevent as amny mods as feasible so they can sell all that content as DLC. Only the most obsucre tracks they'll never build will be allowed.

It's gonna be more funny when people realize they bought the exact same nordschleife in both ACC and AC2.
gu3st
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Quote from Silverracer :I'm curious to know how other simulators deal with this. Surely they're in the same situation as LFS if custom tracks are allowed?

They never host the content. Third parties assume the risk of hosting and are generally protected by the DMCA (in the Us) if they honour takedown requests from rights holders.

Of course, that doesn't prevent folks from setting up sites where the DMCA (or similar) laws hold no teeth, and then rights holders don't have much to stand on other than suing the host itself in its country.

Obviously Scawen went a different route for mods with self-hosting to try to prevent piracy of LFS as well.
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