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

#51 rga

Quote from MandulAA :

teamName: Race Green Autosports
teamManager: {Eclipsed, Rony Kronpušs}
teamViceManagers:
- {MandulAA, Dániel Balla}
drivers:
- {FalconBridge, Patrick Hall, Canada}
- {redbot_, Jefin Jacob, India}
- {jackson93, Maciej Klimczyk, Poland}
- {MandulAA, Dániel Balla, Hungary}
car: XRR
number: 51

CHANGE car FROM TBA to XRR

teamName: Race Green Autosports
teamManager: {Eclipsed, Rony Kronpušs}
teamViceManagers:
- {MandulAA, Dániel Balla}
drivers:
- {FalconBridge, Patrick Hall, Canada}
- {redbot_, Jefin Jacob, India}
- {jackson93, Maciej Klimczyk, Poland}
- {MandulAA, Dániel Balla, Hungary}
car: XRR
number: 51

Last edited by MandulAA, Fri 2 Apr 2021, 16:26.

Hi! I have this with an Oculus Rift CV1 as well. Here is my way of reproducing it:
- set LFS to 3D mode, that automatically launches Oculus software in the background. Works fine, can drive fine with the headset
- exit LFS
- disconnect Rift (I unplugged both headset and sensor USB cables, left HDMI in)
- open LFS, red "Could not initialise Oculus Rift headset" message, but seemingly it defaults to 2D mode (confirmed that in Options)
- exit the still running Oculus software, confirming closing a "running VR app"
- LFS crashes after ~15-20 seconds, regardless of being on-track or staying still in menu

Additional note, when running LFS again after the crash, it still tries to enable 3D mode, and if Rift is still disconnected, the red "Could not initialise Oculus Rift headset" error appears. It still automatically launches the Oculus software, and when I close that, the crash happens again after some seconds. I can loop this many times.

The only way to stop LFS crashing, is to Close LFS the way it's supposed to be closed (by clicking Exit in-game) while it's in 2D mode. Based on this, the constant crashing might be related to settings not being saved (since it crashes and misses the usual exit of LFS, when settings are saved, I guess), that way LFS always tries to start in 3D mode, and launches Oculus sw as well.

(attached deb.log in .txt format, but I found nothing there, only traces of the startup)
(if you need any more help debugging, I have the CV1 here and can try out things)

Last edited by MandulAA, Wed 31 Mar 2021, 16:40.

Update 0.8.2
This small patch contains fixes and user experience improvements, also a crash fix.

New version can be downloaded in the attachments of original post.

Please try it out, and as always, if there are any crashes, please post feedback here. I hope you enjoy the update and the app overall.

Changes:

Quote from PitlaneRacer :

Could someone give a replay of race? Thanks

http://mrc.rackservice.org/mpr ... /GTRMON/s2/s2gtr_02_r.mpr

^ What Flame said. Do that to get online in LFS

Not that we couldn't help you here on the forums, but if you have more questions about how to start and would like to have answers faster, I recommend joining the LFS Community Discord Server Most of the time you can get near-instant replies for your questions there. You can join the Discord server by clicking this invite link: https://discord.com/invite/wZrUTJN

yes/43/mandulaa

You already posted about this here: https://www.lfs.net/forum/thread/95119
There is no need to create multiple threads about the same topic.

I tried it myself on your server:
- when closing the base, empty !times panel, it went away fine (in 0,5s I guess)
- when I had times on screen (I opened times of Stage 1), it took like 2 seconds for all elements to gradually disappear