Quote from Scawen :

Stray pixels at texture edges increased by AA / AF
Dedicated host does not display double byte characters
Name of active Chinese input method is not shown in Vista

Probably related.

Can also be due to overheating of the card...

Quote from apollo1600 :

i slide out at a good angle but then just spin any tips???????

Easiest way is to get it sideways, and then hold the revs at about 7x.

Use force feedback to feel what the car is doing, if you can

Quote from flymike91 :

Man you guys have it rough! My family has 7 cars and pay $2800 combined for all of them. I'm 17 and my sister is 18. 5 of those cars are V8's with 300+ HP. I've said it before but maybe if you went and burned down a few brokers you could negotiate a more fair price? The fact that you pay a little less than I do for one 1L engine car is absolutely ridiculous.

But US is only straights, how can you possibly crash?

I'll see what I can throw together.

Gotta fit time in with work, and working on LTC, but, I'm sure I can find some time!

Quote from Nathan_French_14 :

Wow! YES! OF COURSE! Then i have an invalid warranty! HORAY!

Quote from Nathan_French_14 :

If you have the money, then go for a G25. Overall, its a much better wheel. I've had mine for about a year now, and apart from problems with the shifter, its been great.

Isn't it already out of warranty?

It's not so much about the price of the car, or its worth.

Its to do with its danger level, and what the percentages are of the crashes in your age range with that car.

Remember, most insurance (lets face it, most our age can't afford fully comprehensive), only covers the cars/objects that you hit :P.

Quote from Nathan_French_14 :

If you have the money, then go for a G25. Overall, its a much better wheel. I've had mine for about a year now, and apart from problems with the shifter, its been great.

But you only need a screw driver, an allan key, soulder and a solourdering iron, and you're sorted! :P

Or just press your middle mouse button in *shrugs*

Quote from the_angry_angel :

Ahem

I really should stop scan reading things

You'd need to get a server, which you can either run yourself if you have a good connection, or a server that you have access to. Or, you could rent one from a server provider, 500servers.com and storm-servers are two good ones, so i've heard.

You would then need to talk to them about running LFSLapper, as this would probably be the easiest way.

I know that LFSLapper can detect this & can output this into the public chat history, so I should imagine that it would be able to restrict such thing.

Only trouble is - you cannot tell the difference between a wheel & a gamepad.... as they are both "controllers" and that is the way that they are publically known.

However you can detect if they're using manual clutch & blip, and what gearing type that they are using.

If LFS Lapper does not permit this kind of usage, then I could create a small insim application that would do this for you.

Let me know either way .

Hope this helped!
- Mark

You could always create a PHP file called LFSWParse.php (output from the required request called by javascript via a _GET variable :P, and then get the javascript to parse that.

Unsure, it seems to create an EOF on the connection... So, could be just dropping the connection.

I think I need to sort out LCS's autoreload system - it kinda reloads, but not quite :P

edit: I think thats that sorted - could do with a full server test, but meh - also made "renters" "safe" on the reload

Last edited by Krammeh, Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:04.

Quote from mcgas001 :

If InSim applications are now becoming unstable and are starting to crash on a regular basis, Then this is an issue. I don't beleive many people know how to corupt the TCP packets but it seems only a matter of time. I also don't beleive this will be fixed anytime soon.

I guess all you can do is make your own protection, or just suffer the crash's.

I'm going to add something into LCS that kicks the person after X amount of TCP packet requests.

And also kick for X amount of flood - well, LCS already does this after 9 messages (3 LTC spam alerts)

Quote from mcgas001 :

Could it be that its the MSO spam killing the InSim connection, or are you sure its a funked up TCP packet? There have been known issues with too many messages between client and server creating the INSIM ERROR : WOULDBLOCK.

LCS creates graph information about how large buffers are, and it does not go up anymore than 3% while thats going on - so I doubt it

I think its related to LFS Relay.... *shrugs*.

Yeah it is - maybe its cause it requires more TCP information to obtain the cars positions.

I was unable to crash it *shrugs* perhaps it was when the server has having a good day

Quote from elmohellno :

I believe this is caused from the backlog becoming too big. So only dedicated servers with a slower connection or slower performance are effected?

Also Krammeh what are the differences between your server1 and server2?

Same server box, same insim app. Why?

I know you caused one of them to crash, but, how?

At the end of the day - everybody bought their licence, and they should be able to use it how ever the hell they want.

.

Tried with two on a server with about 14 people on earlier.

Will try with a full server later on tonight .

I beleive this exploit was used against the LTC servers earlier this morning.

I do have a username of who caused it.

I will get the LTC gang to test our for it tonight - and will post my findings!

Let me know if you find anything out Jason mate

Quote from aroX123 :

good idea but, no!
What if new players see the section and start play that, i want people to race.
It's ok having fun with drift and cruise but, this game = racing

Why is it called
live for speed
not
live for speedlimit

Okay, if thats the way that you put it. Then motor racing sports are also using vehicles in a way that was not intended.

At the end of the day, they were created as a means of transportation, and moving goods. Why race those?

Just because something is being used in a way that it was not intended for does not mean thta it is wrong, nor is it something that should not be commended .

Quote from Bob Smith :

Sorry, no cruising on track.

Nah seriously, you're more than welcome to join in. I'll add you to that list.

I was quite expecting that.

And every single person that I overtake I will proudly shout "Who says Cruise can't f'n race!!!". Which I will then probably hit a barrier, lets hope I wont fly as high as I would if I were playing LFS

Put me under the possibles.

If I have passed my driving test & gotten myself a run around, i'll make it :P