Welcome to LFS!

At first, LFS can be quite overwhelming with all its options, so if you have any questions about it, feel free to ask here on the forums, or on the LFS Community Discord server: https://discord.gg/wZrUTJN. You usually can get near-instant replies there, as there are more than 1,6k members on the server now

The LFS Community Discord server is now publicly searchable via the Discord server discovery tab, which means new users no longer need an invitation link to join!
This should help us grow the LFS community on Discord, allowing people to find and join it more easily.

If you prefer, you can still join using the invitation link: https://discord.com/invite/wZrUTJN

Meanwhile, the server is growing big: there are more than 1,500 of us!

Hi! Try pressing Backspace. That's the hotkey for the on-screen virtual keyboard (for VR, mainly).

Nice to hear you got it sorted out! Have fun with your new license!

Unfortunately, the official LFS merchandise shop was shut down in 2016: https://www.lfs.net/news/1070

Welcome!

Quote from Thespeed10 :

You can join us at our official (Unofficial) discord here: https://discord.gg/liveforspeed

If that invite link doesn't work for you, this sure will!: https://discord.com/invite/wZrUTJN

Quote from guimoreira13 :

Thanks mate i worked really hard at the start, i enjoyed too much and i am really happy to win

Congrats

LFSW name: MandulAA
In-game name: RG^Mandula
Full team name: Race Green Autosports
Nation: Hungary

Session: Race
MPR timecode of incident: 1:23.14.00
Driver(s) involved: pianomen, mandulaa
Brief Description of Incident: unnecessary crashing after chequered flag, made it really hard for me to drive the damaged car back to the s/f line for Top 3

Congrats!

Quote from Bradley Esau :

Hi, I am new to LFS. I am just getting back into sim racing after a long absence and needed something I could play online through my not particularly powerful laptop. I am thrilled to have found this site after searching through all the options I could. Far and away the best value on the internet as far as I could see. After getting a feel for things on the demo over a few days I bought the S2 license and so far am very pleased and having a great time learning the cars and tracks available to me - it's everything I was looking for.

Just to clarify the flag beside my name, I am a Canadian living in the Philippines.

Welcome to LFS!

LFS can be quite overwhelming with all its options, so if you have any questions about it, feel free to ask here on the forums, or on the LFS Community Discord server: https://discord.gg/wZrUTJN. You usually can get near-instant replies there, as there are more than 1,4k members on the server now

Quote from BiG JeRmZ :

We need a good cruise server in LFS and I don't see any. I've been away from LFS for a while but I miss it. I can host a server on a high end machine and gigabit internet connection if someone with a good insim is interested.

What do you define as a "good cruise server"? I'm more of a racer type, probably did under 10 kms on cruise servers overall throughout the years, so not an expert in the field, but the TC CityDriving servers are really popular, as I always see them on the top of the servers list. Do you count them as not-good-enough cruise servers?

Hi. If not you, someone else surely used your account to unlock LFS. Those unlocks don't just evaporate. More info about unlocks and when you'll get your next one: https://www.lfs.net/faq/33

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How often can I unlock?
Initially you will be granted 3 unlocks. In addition, you get an additional unlock available every friday, provided you do not already have 2 unlocks available. So unless you are having severe problems with your computer, you should be fine and always able to unlock LFS again after a reinstallation of Windows for example, or when you buy new computer parts or a whole new computer.

Could it be that your disk, where you are installing LFS to, is full?

Having a brief look, I think you should be able to play LFS in VR. Purely from performance point of view, the weaker link is definitely your CPU (passmark avg score: 4641), but your GPU (passmark: 8008) seems fine.

For reference, I was able to run LFS with Oculus Rift CV1 perfectly, using an i7-6700k (passmark: 8970) and an EVGA GTX 1060 3GB (passmark: 9659).

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LFSW name: MandulAA
In-game name: RG^Mandula
Full team name: Race Green Autosports
Nation: Hungary

Quote from theproman :

Hi! I am a new player.
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Slightly irrelevant, but i like to do graphic work, and want to design some skins as well.

Welcome!
For skinning, one shouldn't miss using CMX Viewer, which is a standalone app for loading skins on the car models. Download here, on the right panel: https://www.lfs.net/downloads

Quote from erko987 :

Has someone tried it recently, does the old patch still work ?

Yes.

Quote from joaopaulopt :

We would like to know if it is possible to have one more member in the team without us being the 3 as we can only have 3 drivers.

If you can only have 3 drivers, I would like to know if it is possible to register a team 2 (for example FordRallyeSportTeam 2) with 2 more members (if it is not possible to register another team member we can see if another member would be available to run).

Your #55 entry is okay, if you add the chosen car later.
For the #55 car you just registered, you have the 3 spots filled up and can't add more (rule: you can only have a maximum of 3 drivers per car/entry). Any additional drivers will have to be registered in another entry, like you said, a FordRallyeSportTeam 2 for example. That will be a separate car with those drivers you add there. So yes, it is possible to register a second team.

Quote from joaopaulopt :

How do we register team?

You just simply do a single entry with the drivers:

Quote from Eclipsed :

* In case of multi-driver entry,copy the 4th line as many times as needed!

So your entry will look like this:

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Entry number :
Entry name :
Car:
Entered driver (Ingame name / LFSW name / Country) :
Entered driver (Ingame name / LFSW name / Country) :
Entered driver (Ingame name / LFSW name / Country) :

Quote from mailliw :

i entered the pit right before TJ (at the same lap "41"), like 1 sec ahead of him and exited right after him like 1 sec after. IF he didn't get a time penalty why i got funny huh?

Yes, i made a mistake and gave a little touch to the throtle before the 10 sec (because of the message of "pit stop done" on the sim trolled me xD), but I KNEW THE RULE and stayed more than 10 sec altough the SYSTEM doesn't count. i did this to be fair and to not gain advantage on others. I accept the results. i'm only writing this just to make clear we knew the rules.

Unfortunately, it's what LFS recognizes as a pitstop, that is time from the stop and until the first movement, and that's right. It's what gets stored in the .mpr and that's what Rony runs the analyzer on. I messed up my pits too, at 8 seconds work finished and I instantly moved a little. There wasn't even an Airio confirmation of my pitstop time (Airio bug, I guess), but I knew it would be useless that I stay there any longer, as the pitstop was completed already. I just did another pitstop to account for that messed-up pitstop of mine, so that my overall recognized pitstop time is 10s+.
It's just how it works, and I think it's the right way, no need to argue about that

Last edited by MandulAA, Thu, 22 Apr 2021 19:47.

Name : RG^Mandula
Racing Number : 43
LFSusername : MandulAA

Quote from David 96 :

Only thing keeping this game alive is people with poor PCs, drifters, demo players and people who crack/mod the game. What I'm saying is that there's no wrong in liking this game over other options, but you have to admit that, for the price, it's not even remotely worth it.

I somehow don't feel I'd be part of any of the groups of people you mentioned, yet still here I am, racing every day online in events that have full, packed grids every week (40+ players trying to qualify for a a race, weekly). Sometimes I also join the public pick-up style multiclass server, and have fun with quite a few people. For me, I'd rather not do the maths, but was worth every penny I spent on LFS, especially when spread over 10+ years, and I'm still looking forward enjoy it whenever my time allows in the future. Sorry, but you won't be able to convince me about what you just said

43 for me, but I have no cool story about it