There you go: klick.

It's 12$, but from what I read it seems to be worth the price as it's really detailed and once you've finished it you'll have a real pressure sensitive brake-pedal that operates on a load cell (you'll also have to spend a considerable large amount of money -- apparently around 150$-230$ -- on the needed parts, too, though).

Yeah, I see what you mean. But how about taking the lfs-benchmark approach and applying it to your situation? Meaning: Post a couple of mpr's, each on a different track, with a full grid and state the max-settings used and the min-settings used (you could even post the corresponding cfg-files) as well as the car one should switch to. Everybody who wants to compare could then dl the mpr's and run them at the same settings (once on max, once on min). Than we'd have something to compare and see if those 40 fps which seem to be prevalent on the start are down to coincidence or in fact might be an LFS-inherent issue. The way I see it, it is very well possible that many people adjust their graphic settings to a level that just leads to those 40 fps accidentally.

Edit: This was to Zyber's post #21 of course.

Maybe it's just me, but I'm finding these comparisons not really meaningful, as there are so many different parameters that affect fps. The only way to really get comparable results would be if everyone used the same settings (resolution, AA and AF etc.) and the same replay to test it. Personally I found the unofficial lfs-benchmark rather helpful to compare my systems performance to others.

Well, I suppose it can be fun, but when I spent a considerable amount of time with that combo on the STCC-server, those occasions were very rare. I was among the top 6 or 7 for some races and after we were through T1 and the tighter chicane, all of us were mainly racing away at very similar speeds (just a few 10th between us give and take) with a little room inbetween. It almost became a running gag that someone would type "zzzzzzzzzzzz" half way through the race . I guess, consistency can be a curse if it just happens so, that the field is spread out just enough after the first few turns, that people are not close enough to each other to apply pressure.

Edit: On the shorter tracks, however, the occasional backmarkers made it really interesting, as lapping and the amount of time you lost due to that became an important factor. So, hooray for backmarkers .

No, that's not possible. The only way you can play with your brother would be via a Local Network (See the End-user license agreement 3.1).

And welcome to LFS .

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I thought the AI couldn't deal with banked turns ... Or is the FOX not fast enough for this deficit to come into effect?

Well, I checked it last night and found out that the AI does in fact come fairly close to the KY1 WR after 80 laps, or so. They actually don't lift the throttle any more and are really good on tires (left front dropped to about 50°, which is 30° below the default temperature ).

I agree, the UF1 is a bunch of fun on the really short tracks. However, on a track like As club, with a total of 2 braking points, it can be one of the most boring cars in LFS. At least when you're racing with other fairly consistent drivers.

That really depends on what other hardware you have and on the power supply itself. But I don't think that a 7300GT should be too hungry, so I wouldn't give too much about what it says on the box. Afaik, you won't damge your system by trying it, but you better wait for someone more knowledgable than me to confirm that.

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Hm, that's strange, the shift+F9 - shift+F12 thing works for me, but I have an nvidia card, maybe that makes a difference?

Quote from [RCG]Boosted :

depends on the track of course
my FOX AI does on the oval (AI's PB) 45.65, WR is 45.46

I thought the AI couldn't deal with banked turns ... Or is the FOX not fast enough for this deficit to come into effect?

Uhm, yeah deleting the cookies works in a way. Only problem is that I'm logged out then and as soon as I log in, I'm getting the same message again and can't post. Probably has to do with the fact that my account has not been validated -- which is another problem. I'm not getting a validation e-mail for some reason .

I'll try contacting the admins.

Edit: problem solved.

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Is it just me or is there something wrong with the LFS-section at ASS? I'm getting this when trying to view the section:

"No topics were found. This is either because there are no topics in this forum, or the topics are older than the current age cut-off."

Good point, Soundcrash, I didn't even notice that he had only one post.

So, just to make this clear: It's all meant in good humour. Welcome to the forum .

But still, -1 for the Track Editor, sorry.

And you probably want that editor to be available in demo mode, too .

Seriously, I doubt that it's gonna happen any time in the near future.

It's pronounced Liv (Tyler) for Speed.

I believe there used to be a little app that achieved that, but I don't know if that still exists or if it works with patch V.

(and keep in mind that having your headlights on increases fuel consumption )

Quote from Nard :

Race car interiors should look like race car interiors, and road cars should have road car interiors.

This might be a truism, but I guess it has to be said every once in a while . I agree wholehartedly and am waiting for the next incomp patch to finally see the GTR-interiors fixed.

Nice stuff. A very similar program on german tv with Vykos showing LFS got me to playing LFS back in 2004. Things like those are perfect advertising .

Why don't you get S2 in the meantime? If you're planning to buy S3 anyway, you might as well get the most out of your money.

Even though I would rather not have this conversation about the STCC going on here, I want to make two points:
1. The article by Magnus is clearly marked as a "comment" (in bold red letters) and therefore is by definition supposed to be very opinionated (biased if you will). Nothing wrong with that.
2. What Becky said was in context of explaing where the idea for the tiered servers came from and how popular they've become. It is imo not misleading, as it's just a factual statement that's true -- whether or not all of those 5000 were actively seeking to become platinum licensed or not does not matter in that context. Others may read something into that, but oh well, opinions differ.

And could we please stop this now?

Edit: forgot to mention that the preface is indeed wrong and thus misleading.

Lol, stevewhite, this is the second time you got people confused .

Sadly, I can't help you with this one either, but next time you might wanna state that you are making a random combo generator, and that you want it to be able to start up LFS with the generated combo loading on start up .

So, did you figure out how to get the track changed?

Relax, Albieg, what Jiminee wrote was clearly an exaggeration, you really shouldn't feel offended by such a statement. I mean, I would rather be racing in real life, but I'm not frustrated either -- I hope

I still don't see the benefit of a thread like this.

But anyway, to the OP: Best thing you could do imho is get in contact with the server owner, send him the replay, if you have one, and see if he feels like taking action towards the people who made racist remarks. He could always ban them for what they did (although, your position would have been a lot stronger, if you hadn't snapped back at them).

I'm out of here.

Hello? Mods, please, could you stop this, before it's getting ugly?

It really shouldn't be that important, how many pictures who sent and why they were not in the magazine :sigh: It's really not that big a deal, imho, and I would find it rather sad, if this thread would now go back to the state which I thought we had overcome in the last posts . Let's try to keep this constructive.

Edit: I guess the above can be disregarded now, as we seem to be on track again after that's been cleared up .

@Jiminee: I like the idea of an article about how sim racing is a substitute act for real racing. Actually, that's probably a rather large portion of what sim racing is about for me: The lack of money and opportunity to race in real Life (If I won a ton of money in the lottery tomorrow, I would probably soon only be racing LFS to cater for my racing needs during off season). ASS had a couple of articles that went in that direction already (a racer who switched from sim racing to real racing, the self-test whether sim racing helps for real racing, just to name the two I noticed), so I think that would be a nice addition to that theme.