Thanks guys, uninstalled the drivers. Had to get rid of all my profiles on my PC for it to work but got there in the end.

Hi all, I need a little assistance, I've just brought the G25 wheel to update my faithful DFP and I'm getting a message to do with the axes. Here what comes up:
"CreateEffect failed (1 axes)
Could not set up FF steer device"
It seems I'm not getting feed back when on the bumpy bits of the track but there is force on the wheel, meaning it's not limp when turning.
Before you go into the profiler bits and pieces I've double checked all the settings and carried over my DFP setup. I'm using the latest drivers 5.02 and there were no issues on the DFP with these drivers and patch Z. It appears to be within LFS in the controller page and the game is not recognising something.
Thanks for any assistance.

How about the OKA? Aussie tough.


Although I drive a Hilux and I haven't been stopped going anywhere yet.

I have just reloaded rfactor back on my pc, and I think the biggest problem with the game is you can't just jump in and drive and enjoy it.
Without mods and a lot of tweaking to get some feel and feedback this game becomes a chore.
There's a lot of people out there that don't have the patience to frig around with a wheel's ini file or and mods to make the game work well. LFS is a hell of a lot better in this respect. I have a mate who isn't into computers and love his racing but he would have thrown his wheel through the monitor in the first 5 mins if he had to setup this game. IMO they should have got the hands on right so you could enjoy the drive straight out of the box. This is the only grumble I have about the game.

God I'm old, how about Hank Marvin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ... 9C8u0&feature=related

Thanks Rdcranno, I have used the setup from CTRA which I started with, now I'm trying to squeeze more out of it.

Hi all is there a rule of thumb in setting up the gearing with the 45% restriction on the car. I seem to be just a couple of seconds off the fastest pace, the overall feel of the car is good in the handling department but the gearing doesn't feel smooth especially in down shifting.
Any ideas on how to approach the problem, I tried Bob's setup program but get a little lost in the technical stuff.
Thx

The one thing I agree on is there has been a decline on australian servers for racing. The drift scene seems to gaining momentum with plenty of people doing their thing. And although I can get away with racing in 200-300 ping servers I do get a little laggy which must hinder the fellow racers. When I first come on the LFS scene there was at least 10 or so servers, now I'll be lucky to get 2 or 3 for racing. I'll still love the game but it would be nice to have more home grown racing. And credit for those that can drift, because I can't and don't wish to, but I would like to see things turn around and have the drifters disappear and the racing grow.

I don't want to upset the drifters, the last comment was tougue in cheek.

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This is not a bug, it's just that there is no autoclutch on gearchange for the FBM. You must pull on the gear lever and while still pulling, momentarily lift the throttle for a near instant clutchless gearchange. Same thing in real life.

Ok thanks Scawen, then the only bug I've found so far after trying this out is my bad driving and lack of auto knowledge

Here's my report. DFP and logitech 2.4 joystick connected to xp pc.
driving the FBM at blackwood I get trouble shifting up from 4th gear up and cannot get it into 6th using the paddles on the wheel. the car red lines and it takes a couple of tries to get it the shift up from 3rd to 4th and the same from then on. Down shifting is not a problem as with the rest of the controls. Took out the FOX and no problems at all. Back to the FBM and shifting up is still there. I haven't tried it with the flight stick disconneted to see if this is upsetting things.

Can I recommend rFactor? No. I gave this game a fair go be it only in off line mode, but the feed back to the wheel was very poor I spent a week and a lot of forum searching plus downloads to try and get the wheel to feel right with no luck. Then when going back to LFS it took awhile to tweak my setting back to the way they were. Apart from that it could have been a lot of fun, so maybe it's just me but it was just to much hard work to make it work.

Australian Rules all the way, and as one eyed Western Bulldogs fan you'll find. I used to like Soccer many years ago and enjoyed the english league we got on television late at night in the 80's. But now days I can't stand the woosies that fall over holding their leg when a gust of wind goes by, so it lost it for me and the hooligans don't give it a good name either. we don't have any high fences around our ovals. As for the grid iron, well it's like chess on grass. too slow too boring. Sorry guy's but I did say I was one eyed. But I do like sporting movies about any football.

No Aussie have joined yet, must be lost for words

Played it today, very pretty. I had fun shooting crabs under the water and watching them float to the surface. But on a serious note, I always play games on the hardest level, and these buggers are hard to kill. I was point blank range with a semi-auto and it took 2 or 3 direct shots to the head to kill him, they must all be wearing body armour because the suckers won't stay down. Maybe it's the demo but also had some graphic glitiches while playing, and what's with the 2 dudes in the single toilet that jumped out at me, I was scared I was gunna be bitch slapped. So I empited a mag into them to keep them at bay. It was a lot of fun but I think my money will go to COD 4.

I run a Quad 6600 with the 320mb 8800 gts, I get around 160-180 fps with a grid of about 8-12 cars I don't think I've raced in anythink bigger since I upgraded. This is just of the top of my head as I was getting 30 fps with my old P4 2.8 with the same sort of cars, also with the old system if I had a full grid of AI cars I would get 1-2 fps, so I'm very happy. Thats with all the eye candy on max with the new setup. Interesting to note how the frames can drop in spots around the track, must be the added details.

Go Holden, but wouldn't be nice to have toyota v8's. BMW v8 keep the v8 supercars but some varity would be nice it's getting hard to tell the difference between holdens and Fords now days..LOL

If I go back to the dark ages, pole position on the Atari. Then something like it on Intelevision, Then it got serious with playstation one and GT. Many other racing titles came with PS1 but GT couldn't be beaten, I went right though the GT series and I had to buy a PS2 to keep it going but at GT4 it had lost something. Useless gimmicks using up memory space that could have been used for better racing. And from there I tried many PC demos and then stumbled on LFS and haven't found anything yet to beat it and I have tried the other titles out there but they lack the ease of use and the feel back to the wheel. Bring on S3, and I'll be glued to the screen for Bathurst.

Hi, I have just had a go at rfactor and it could be a lot of fun but for my DFP, it's hard to use. The visuals don't sync, with all the F buttons off it seems as though steering assist is still on, has a strange loose floaty feel around the centre position and you can't use wingman to assign the buttons. if some could post a fix for this it would be great as I'm not to flash on modifing ini files.
LFS was so much easier with the hardware. At the moment there's no driving pleasure.
Help please.

I like the jump start penalty in the new patch but after just racing with a large grid I can see a downside to it.
The car behind me had a falsh start and cannoned into me and I then had the misfourtune in having to pit for a jump start which I didn't do. Hence my race of 10 laps was over before it began. I don't blame the racer as these things happen but it would be nice if I didn't have pay the price as well.
Anyway love the new patch keep up the good work

SD, the desktop display is 1920x1200 @ 60hz. The display adapter will let me select a resolution up tp 2048x1536. Also note the the graphics card is a second hand workstation card for CAD work and not a dedicated gaming card with the 9500 chipset on board.

Word. specs on my card of the net indicate that this card has Dual DVI-I supports any combination of digital and analog displays.

But please I'm happy with what I have at the moment so close the thread unless someone else has a simular problem, and I will be upgrading soon.

SD, the monitor is a Sumsung 240T. I got it second hand without any extras. downloaded the latest drivers from Samsung when I install it. The monitor is around 5 years old but the display is still very good, after clicking a few options in CCC I now have my desktop running at 1920x1200 @ 75hz 32 bit, but LFS will still only default to 1024x768 @ 75hz with the max being 1280x1024 @ 60hz. Now the good thing is that my desktop doesn't change when I go out of the game, this is using the digital cable. If I was using the analog signal there's no problem in game and out.
Devil, I appreciate your efforts but don't take up too much of your time on this, unless you enjoy the challenge

Ok, just to close the thread off. I bought a dual link DVI-D cable and no luck on the resolution. I still had better screen size with the analog cable. So it must be the limatations of the monitor or adapter or a combination of both. Which I'm not going to the expense of replacing because of upgrading the whole system latter on.

Well I used the adapter and success, LFS will display 1920x1200 at 60hz 32 bit. But the down side is the analog single is no where near as crisp as the DVI digital. So I think I'll give the Dual DVI cable a go, it's only $15.00AU and a small price to pay if it works if not I'll go back to the adapter.
Thanks again for your all your help Devil and to the other members for their advice.

Devil, thanks very much for all your help, the DVI cable might be the problem. I have the DVI-D Single Link I might see if I can get a Dual Link if not I'll use an adapter and use VGA.