I think the most fun is in joining a league right now. You can practice a little and then have your race where most people show up.

If you live in a studenthouse it's difficult, but in a family house you could arrange other people don't use the full download. It's also what i use to keep my phone (sip) working correctly while downloading.

In the DDWRT firmware you can give priority to a port or macadress. You could try that as well. Only problem is that the router doesn't know the actual bandwith, so you have to test what it is by downloading something big and then configure that speed as max speed in DDWRT. The problem then still exists when your ISP can't give you your whole bandwith (overbooked lines) your QOS won't work, but if you have a good ISP that won't happen to often.

Quote from danthebangerboy :

Yes, if you horrifically shorten the gear ratios then of course you can hit the limiter, but then top gear will run out of revs too early, i can make an rb4 redline in 5th gear at 20mph if i wanted to, which is pretty pointless.

I think the point here is finding how fast a car can actually get to in top gear with the ratios as they should be.

That was my point. It's pretty pointless to setup the car for highest topspeed in a straight line too.

Quote from h3adbang3r :

I would recommend that everyone installs LFSRelax and uses the Pitspotter feature. 3 wide racing on an oval with no spotter to help you know who's next to you is a tedious job. Lighten the mental load up on yourself by using the PitSpotter.

It would be nice if they implanted the spotter somehow in the game. I don't use it because it makes LFS unstable.

Quote from auch_enne :

Sorry for digging up an "old" thread


But this rocks!! Took me a few minutes to get it setup but having a blast already, and haven't even got proper leds mounted yet

Just the feeling you get when looking through the turn like you do naturally, it's just great! (Prolly due to the widescreen tft I already lean abit into the turn when turning, so this translates perfectly in FreeTrack)

Had a Wii, just got me a bluetooth dongle. Fixed some thick metalwire in a shape so it "mounts" at the back of my tft with the wiimote on top.

Just tried it out with one IR source (lol a candle) think the headphoneclip will be in the mail tomorrow. I'm amazed at how easy it is, just connect the wiimote via bluetooth, start FreeTrack, start LFS and GO


So next time you see me racing, you'll prolly notice me headbanging on my music

I can recommend this to anyone who already had a wiimote or webcam. And since FreeTrack saved me lots of $ spending on the evil TrackIr monopolists I'll make a donation with a big

greetz SMOKE

(sorry if this sound so much like a commercial but I'm just happy with the result)

Seriously can you drive races with it? I was enthusiast at first that you can look around. But then the trouble comes calibrating your head to look right ahead again. I gave it up and now use buttons to look left and right. I guess it only works when you sit still in the same position for the race.

Quote from SAEZYPC :

im yet to get any car to hit limiter in top gear on any track except the BF1 ( without moding gear ratio)

Then change your gear settings. You will be hitting the revlimiter easy on the blackwood straight.

I'll stick to XP for now. Don't want to reinstall and it still does the job.

Quote from Fordman :

Trust me, I am not bitchin and moaning, just heavly surprised thats all, and just woundered what other LFS people thought about it. If I found this in 1-2 days, what on earth do you guys think that have stuck with it since day dot?

Isn't this what you are supposed to do as an oldy? Saying things where better in the past?

I have it the wrong way. Witch i noticed when i geared back instead of up in my mom's car trying to use the shifter instead of letting the car choose gear

Most of the time i use the shifters on the wheel.

Quote from shiny_red_cobra :

I'm sure Vic can find a place for it, I mean we even have info on lfs.net where it shows "number of racers online", right? I'd put it in the empty space between the LFS Forum logo and the advertisement at the top, though that's probably not the best place.

I think it is relevant info, who wouldn't want to be the best racer at a particular point in time? That's why I think it should be put here, instead of being hidden away on LFSW. And every time I visit LFSW the home page never pops up (and I like it that way so I don't have to close it every time) because it keeps me logged in permanently.

That amount of space depends heavenly on the resolution you use. I don't think i will have much place when i check the boards on my 9" netbook.

It's not a bad idea, but i dont know what it means to be the best racer of LFSW. If it's true that it is the racer who has driven the most races and not lost one it's worthless. Then it will be indeed only racers who have just joined.

Quote from Bob Smith :

Agreed. There's no reason a PC can't ever be as fast and responsive as the day you bought it, so long as you don't try and do something silly like run a more modern operating system than it can handle. If I hadn't thrown out my old P166, I'm sure it could run Win98SE and Word2000 just fine. Almost wish I hadn't now, as I can't easily run all my old DOS games. It had a VLB graphics card, SB AWE32, the works.

It will probably run smoother then Windows 95 or 98 on a modern computer. It will just crash because of hardware the OS does not expect.

What is better compared to Ubuntu? From what i've red it's based on Mandrake. I've always liked Debian and Ubuntu because of the easy use of Apt.

Yes, i could activate it with the "IEEEEEEEH" sound of the tires from the cars around me. I'm not sure if it will give a big advantage.

I was also thinking about the blower. If i put that behind my chair i always have the wind in the back and cars will drive a few mph faster. I hope it won't give OOS errors in the replays when people who view the replay don't have the blower.

Last edited by marzman, Fri 5 Jun 2009, 12:01.

I've found something else. It's sound activated. Only problem is that you will be blind for the first 30 seconds during the start. It is also very good for the "driving out of a tunnel effect".

Quote from The Very End :

The easiest sollution to this would be to have a fan on your room, with 3 levels of speed. (3 buttons from 1-3 that tells what speed the fan will go at). Now when racing use the option 1 for the slowest S1 cars, 2 for the faster S1 cars, slower S2 cars, and 3 for BF1 and the GTR's.
Now that would somewhat solve the wind issue

vs.
In Toca the light also function as the startinglight for a race. How do you make a do-it-yourself ambilight? Change lightbulbs rapidly before the race?

Last edited by marzman, Thu 4 Jun 2009, 08:33.

Quote from bbman :

amBX has to be the most useless gadget in racing games... When wind is blowing into your eyes, there is something wrong with your windshield or your helmet... Or you've been too dumb to close the lid...

Maybe you are right. It sounds like a nice touch for the open wheelers or the Rac , but if you still like after that thing is blowing in your face for an hour. I don't know. But it would be nice if someone could make this work with LFS.

But i did order one. I need new speakers and today it's on Ibood for 89.95 and I like the ambilight function (don't know if i like the rumbler and fans can come in handy in the summer )

Quote from hazaky :

Alright, its good to know because i know alot of people who still use Win98 and those oldschool windows. Mostly for programming.

Apparentlythe didn't vote But i guess they don't programm for the consumer market since almost nobody uses or supports Windows XP anymore.

The challenges in Top Gear are scripted, so it's possible this about the toyota pick up is too. But it's great entertainment

Quote from ColeusRattus :

Looks rather like an artifact of an overheated gpu. Try if it also appears in otther games.

I had this when I overclocked my old videocard after playing for some time, only there came more then just this one in the screenshot. But since he says it does not become more it could just as well be something else.

He could try to cool his pc more (open the case and put an table ventilator in front of it). If it doesn't happen then it's overheating.

Quote from TypeRacing :

umm, what that R means then ?

Rice? Ok, you have a point there

Quote from DevilDare :

I am sorry, but as i said RAP isnt music to me.... I fail to see how some people can listen to it. But I also know those listeners say the same about Rock/Techno guys. Basically every person to himself.

There are people that have a wider view and are more open. I think you can find a good song in every genre (but in some more then others because of personal interests )

Quote from The Very End :

Thanks!
Hopefully we can get rid of our winner from first page newspapers now, I am so Ctired of him hehe!

Congrats, just watched his song. I think we should send in Andre Rieu next year

Last edited by marzman, Mon 18 May 2009, 08:46.

Quote from TypeRacing :

Wroom-wroom

So what is your nick? Type Racing like you type really fast or Type R Acing, like you think Type R's are nice cars and with poker you allways have the Aces? Or where you drunk when you thought of you nick and forget an R? (now I think of it, it could also be you like erasing typ. I'm not sure what that is, I think something with the backspace)

I use it on more places. It's part of my name and i'm a man. Actually i wanted marsman, but that name is always taken

Quote from Scawen :

The only file you need is your LFS.exe from version Z.

I hope you kept that, because in the first post I wrote this :

Please keep a backup of your LFS.exe from version Z so you can go back to Z if there are any problems.

He could redownload Patch Z (or update to patch Z) and only use the file lfs.exe from it.

Quote from Bluebird B B :

I really dislike windows-os, but i will run into a lot more problems in trying to run windows apps(games lol) on other operating systems then just running an recent microsoft OS. Also because it is nearly always unsupported and for small software developers really a waste of time to support platforms for which the software was not written or intented.

My opinion is, if you run an windows application on linux you are on your own if there are problems.

I agree with that. Running Windows applications is one of the things Windows is best in.

Last edited by marzman, Fri 15 May 2009, 19:24.

Quote from Aid :

i also use win7. it is a but i see no reason why my rear and front springs/dampers should be repaired when all i want to do is change wing 1deg... what one has to do with another?! and do you think real F1 teams change/repair 5% damaged components where all driver wants is simple 2 turns on front wing? forget about it.. time is to precious to do silly things when they don't affect handling and simple wing adjustments can improve it a lot. b-u-g BUG

In real F1 your wing will just break off. No way you can effect handling by setting up a wing that lays on the ground somewhere on the racetrack I think this is a good thing.