Hi Seniecka,
Thanks for the kind words. What I love about LFS movie making it's this total freedom and control over the camera's movement. If one wishes to hone his skills in movie making (auto themed), LFS's a great enviroment.

A short movie with moments from our league's season III ..which happened back in 2011, the capture happened in 2012 and finally the editing and making the video in a "free" afternoon in 2014.. .
^^ And some complain about tyre physics taking too long..

http://youtu.be/S0emEl69ILE

PS: thank you in advance for the constructive criticism

I've always loved the freedom and the posibilities for movie making in lfs environment. It's only up to the "director's" creativity. Great stuff Jens . It made me wanting to jump in a race imediately.

Reading with lots of interest every update. Keep going .
Maybe this will spark a new breed of AI

Hypothetical question (..and unrelated to the new update):

IF I'd start building (from scratch, not ripping) LFS's Aston for AC, would that be "illegal" ?

Quote from Scawen :

Is there any crash address? Although I'm guessing it's not in the LFS module anyway so I might not be able to fix it. Does LFS crash if you use SHIFT+F4 to go to a window?

I don't really know what that means, what is the 1.08 version?

Is there a version of SoftTH that uses an edited version of the DX9_43.dll that LFS seems to use? As far as I understand it, LFS uses DX9_43.dll rather than DX9.dll because I have used the latest version of DX9, the June 2010 version. I have assumed this is the best one to use and although some people will have to update their DirectX runtime, it's really the version to have because a lot of games will require DX9_43.dll.

My knowledge about this is sketchy and full of assumptions, so if anyone knows better, please do let me know.

Quote from dawesdust_12 :

Best person to ask would be Kegetys as he created SoftTH.

For the record:

Quote from Kegetys :

[..]SoftTH does not modify or care about the D3DX utility library dlls, it only uses D3D9 itself (d3d9.dll). Switching to windowed mode crashing is likely the same issue as "alt-tabbing" crashing, it is a known limitation...[..]

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LOVE the AA mirrors

Last edited by luchian, Fri 31 Jan 2014, 20:08.

Quote from DANIEL-CRO :

So to sum it all up, question for Scawen.
Is it possible to use VSYNC (e.g. 60FPS), without affecting to physics loop. Like physics run at 100Hz (or more?), but graphics 60FPS?

I'd be surprised if it didn't already ! (Yup, I have read all it has been written). But I'll let the man himself answer .

Quick test, AS6, me+20AI at start (Win 7 x64, 5760x1080):
DX8: 88-90 FPS
DX9: 117-118 FPS

Thank you xTc,
Actually my wheel does work (after unplugging the G27); I am currently looking for a solution regarding the use of G27 shifter with it, and how/if I need to use profiles.

Offtopic-ish: I did find out something new though - didn't know about the Cronusmax . Does it really works plugging your T500 / G27 into an xbox360 ? Would be cool

Thanks for your replys. It looks that just unplugging the G27 solves most of the problem. Afterwards, it's just finding the good balance in forces. It's a pitty though, that I cannot use my H-shifter anymore .

What about "profiles" ? Is it possible to create/manage ? Are they needed ? (I was using them a lot with logitech profiler, because of the "recommended" settings in different games: rF, LFS, AC, ...). Is there a solution for t500 ?

Hi,
Could a owner of a T500RS give me some pointers to set this thing up, pls ? I just upgraded from G27, and I can't yet find the same/better feeling. There's basically no FFB resistance in game..

Also, is there a way to handle different settings for different games ? (like the Logitech Profiler does).

I am using tthe T500, but I have also kept the G27 connected in order to use the H-shifter.
Thank you.

PS:I have used the search function, but it's very difficult to find the informations.. every thread is either unanswered either a me vs you war..

Quote from Chriship :

Its better to grow up a bit and stop making stupid replies which arent helping anyone. Theres no need for stupid comments like his and many other ones. And yes Fordman, freedom has a limit, and when you use freedom to disrespect someome you are going a little bit too far.

Everyone has a limit, and when he or other user spends all the time messing out in the forums, theres always an end. Tbh, happy that they start setting everyone in their place.

Quote from sicotange :

The forum is way to often a hostile place. I welcome any initiative to get rid of the obvious rotten apples who find joy in being destructive anytime they post something.

I know I would have less patience with these partycrashers than Scawen.

Quote from lfsrm :

it's clearly not just about racism, I read lfs forum daily and IMO bose posted too many "make others stupid" especially with new players questions or whatever.

and too much member are reacting like him, is sad but this forum becoming more and more hostile[..]

^These^

I don't post very often, but I read the forum almost daily. Sometimes it seems like it has been taken under assault by just a few (same) people with name calling going in all directions. Even if some of the forumers feel like home here, even if you may be knowing each other very well to be able to cross the "polite" line, this remains a public forum and those kind of posts still create an unwelcome feeling "from the outside".

Sure, the forum itself and the moderation will not solve the problems in the world (being racism or other) BUT it sure can encourage keeping a civilized atmosphere. With apologies in advance, I really don't care how you are in the real life, as long as in here it's possible to stay polite and decent. It's all I'd like to see.

Of course, we can all go philosophical about the subject, for the love of arguing, but in the essence I think everybody can understand Scawen's point. And I for one, I concur.

PS: Too bad the forum's engine doesn't have a "Like Post" feature, would be easier

Hi there.
I am ashamed to admit that I have just discovered the option to enable the "full screen" view for TV Cam and Heli Cam, even when playing in 3 screens.. I have regretted many times (for the last 6 months or so) that this is not available, only to find that the option was always there..

Even if the chances are small, in case someone else shares the same "regret" here's the solution.
You have to previously select the desired view (Heli, or TV) in order to have the option available.

Thank you.
The equivalent seems to be around 60 in LFS (58 more precisely). I was running on 70 so not that far off.

Anyone knows to corespondence between LFS FOV and AC FOV ?

I have used the ingame app to congifure my view for AC and it gave me a 35 deg FOV.. very strange at first.. but after some getting use to it, I kinda like it.. seems more real, and definitely can see curves better.
So, was thinking to try an equivalent in LFS and see how it is.

If you need some moral support during these hard times, I'm here.. :P

Kiddin', had some great times on your server, hope you'll be back soon

It's definitely that, had the same problem at some point, especially on Fern Bay.

I'll join the party and wish the birthday boy to have the power and determination to (always) make the things his way.

Happy birthday Scawen and thank you for the great piece of software you have created.

Quote from Flame CZE :

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Edit: Damn Daniel :|

..even with screenshot included

PS: sorry for off-topic : )

Quote from The Moose :

If low 51's are possible I'm giving up sim racing.

54.4 my best so far. Need to do more laps but so many good combos to try i'm not getting enough laps in with a single combo yet.

Quote from Kristi :

I agree. If 1.51s are even imaginable on that track, I'm saying goodbye to my 11-ish years of sim experience and burn my G25 in public... I went tryhard mode and rarely got 1.53.8

http://rank.gtr-masters.hu/rankpage/acbeta/Imo/ferrari_458

Have no idea in which conditions though.

Quote from luchian :

teamName: Racing League Romania
teamManager: {luchian, Lucian Chirvase}
teamViceManagers:
- {Dominic-V, Cosmin Popa}
drivers:
- {luchian, Lucian Chirvase, Romania}
- {Dominic-V, Cosmin Popa, Romania}
- {elfoanse, Andrei Penghis, Romania}
- {DaggerXS, Dragos Trancan, Romania}
- {tDiesel, Adrian Solom, Romania}
- {dan.bordei, Dan Bordei, Romania}
- {ady_romania, Adi Oita, Romania}
- {joe_nambaruan, George Stamate, Romania}

# Team Car 1
class: GT1
car: FZR
number: 19

DELETE Entry for Racing League Romania Team Car 1.

Finally decided to withdraw and leave the spot open for someone else. The competition is just too strong for our level at this point.
Have fun with the rest of the series (and thanks NDR for the organization).

If your Win7 PC config allows you, maybe it would be easier running a XP VM ?

LE: and directly to your question, maybe this could be a solution ? (don't really code 3d applications myself).

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C'mon guys, it's enough that LFS, generally speaking, is not at its prime. No need to go against each other additionally..

It's true that there were some issues at some point, but everythins seems to be sorted out.
Services are running fine, and communication during "the storm" was ok. So one satisfied customer here.

Good luck RackService.

Quote from luchian :

Actually I did a quick test yesterday evening. I have a 3screen setup and a nvidia 670 GTX, on Win7 x64. I couldn't setup surround with only 2 screens, it was 3 or nothing.
I underline quick test though, as I haven't had time to try to physically disconnect the 3rd screen and see if it behaves the same. Shall come back with the info after work.

Quote from Matrixi :

Well that's strange, because I tested dual screen surround (Edit: actually, it was propably on eyefinity now that I think of it) with my old 20" dells and it worked just fine. It was un-usable in gaming due to the bezels being in the middle of where you're looking at, but it did work.

I can confirm (if still needed) that on nvidia you cannot enable surround for only 2 monitors. I have just tried on my sistem, by phisically disconecting one of the screens (I've tried all combinations) and the surround config option is greyed out. So you'll have to pass to something like SoftTH to get a game working, should you be interested to do it.

Anyways, this is only for clearing out this doubt; regarding DX version, I would assume that DX9 at this point would be enough. The visual difference will be more than noticeable. Nothing will block finally making the step to DX11 later, at some point in time, when the context will be appropriate.

Quote from Scawen :

[..]something that graphics card manufacturers or MS could easily support if they weren't more interested in sabotaging perfectly good functions in order to force you to buy the latest devices.[..]

^^THIS ^^

Sorry for the no-added value post, but had to express my frustration..
It is also true for 3D.. with nvidia hardware one has to purchase additional software..