Also replace A.Shiro with me please.

M. Miljkovic; Misko; Serbia

Just letting you know that this thing is still alive and kicking and slowly getting better. We are producing some kind of show about LFS every week. If we dont have live OPS races, there are race reviews, drivers interviews, other short presentations etc... Everything is replayed few times during the week, and we are very lucky to have this much time and space on TV for LFS.

Quote from deggis :

here's is some old engine file for BF1, I don't know from which U3x it is... I think ajp71 posted this here few days ago.

Thats from U35 and I also like it best. Problem with it is lot of clipping when wind kicks in and with lots of cars in sight, so we have to lower car sound volume to something like 4-5 and even wind a little bit.

I would vote for "slower" but I only used G25 with H shifter for two days, and now I had to return it. Heel-toeing was great fun, 3 times more work than with 2 pedals and paddles and autoclutch, so it was very difficult to get really used to it at least in this short time.

I'm very interested if it is indeed possible to drive at "WR pace" like this. I suppose it is with ehough practice and dedication.

Otvoreno Prvenstvo Srbije (Serbian Open Champioship) is our new national LFS league open to all people who can speak the language, currently gathering 46 drivers from Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Macedonia etc, living home or abroad. Race 2 out of 10, South City Long rev in XRG, is next this Sunday 10th December at 21h CET and will be broadcasted live with commentators in the studio and driver interviews via TeamSpeak on AutoPlus TV, new TV channel of reputable Serbian car magazine Auto. AutoPlus TV is available on cable networks in Serbia, but also on satelite over Europe in TotalTV package.

Announcements for this event are currently broadcasted regularily.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuK-CADFxjs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfB4cWj63oo

Or in better quality:
http://lfs-srbija.byethost17.c ... Plus/LigaNajava1_xvid.avi
http://lfs-srbija.byethost17.c ... Plus/LigaNajava2_xvid.avi

Amazing thing that people on AutoPlus are open to this kind of virtual racing, and willing to let us show all our races till end of the season live, and other things about racing sims, to general public of car nutters.

I posted the same thing in the sticky thread, but this new one is more suitable for comments and other questions...

Otvoreno Prvenstvo Srbije (Serbian Open Champioship) is our new national LFS league open to all people who can speak the language, currently gathering 46 drivers from Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Macedonia etc, living home or abroad. Race 2 out of 10, South City Long rev in XRG, is next this Sunday 10th December at 21h CET and will be broadcasted live with commentators in the studio and driver interviews via TeamSpeak on AutoPlus TV, new TV channel of reputable Serbian car magazine Auto. AutoPlus TV is available on cable networks in Serbia, but also on satelite over Europe in TotalTV package.

Announcements for this event are currently broadcasted regularily.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuK-CADFxjs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfB4cWj63oo

Or in better quality:
http://lfs-srbija.byethost17.c ... Plus/LigaNajava1_xvid.avi
http://lfs-srbija.byethost17.c ... Plus/LigaNajava2_xvid.avi

Amazing thing that people on AutoPlus are open to this kind of virtual racing, and willing to let us show all our races till end of the season live, and other things about racing sims, to general public of car nutters.

Just read the readme and the big

Quote :

WARNING : your controls will not be correctly assigned due to the new way the controls are stored in a special file in the data\misc folder. There is a default file included for the Red Momo and the Microsoft FF Wheel so they should be reasonably set up if you have one of those. We will be providing default files for many wheels. We will make a special announcement when we need help supporting more wheels.

Just have to assign them again. But for every next patch they will stay assigned.

Yes, I was updating our calendar with many leagues, at one time it was really useful and filled with lots of info, but it proved to be a lot of work, and I can't update it regulary anymore. It's great to see that LFS News is planning to make this with help of leagues admins, and that it can be done in forums calendar too.

I do the same as Tristan and few others that posted here, but my buddy list has grown over the years to ~380 people. I've been adding not only my mates and people I met and raced with, but also people I don't know and would like to race with. For example, Odd Combo Club regulars, people who will be racing in same leagues as me so I can see when they practice and join them, people I see around that are good in the not so popular cars like FO8 or LRF or BF1 so I can get some good races if I see them online, or just somebody I'd like to meet for whatever reason, etc. Eventualy I got to know those other people too, and generaly LFSWorld and Live Alert window became much more lively and enjoyable place, and I can see whats going on at a glance. I really don't just browse servers anymore, there's always somebody interesting online.

I wish they do make a deal for new improved RAC as it would get just enough performance boost to make it closer to FZ50. If that proves to be too much then FZ50 could get a bit of improvement too (suspesion?) and both cars could match LX6 bit better.

About RAC vs FZ5 comparison I'm talking from league experience: www.racelfs.co.uk. With Vince in FZ5 and Hannu in RAC, and other good drivers, those results are as good as they could be. FZ5 is currently better on every track except South City.

I think I found the way to reproduce DI : FFDevice - DIERR_HANDLEEXISTS.

Start LFS, and while its starting, before main menu/title screen appears, switch task / click on other window (gotta be done quick enough with quick start), error message appears when you switch back to LFS, or you can see it appear while LFS loads while its not in focus. Easier to be done when LFS starts windowed, but behaves the same when it starts in fullscreen too (alt+tab during initial loading).

I don't know if this helps, I just reproduced it many times during starts. I don't remember if it was happening later during normal use for me.

Quote from glyphon :

Nope, not a new option. If you look at the screenshot i attached, in the connection list on the bottom right there is a column that has a "T" in it, then a blank column to the right of it. In previous versions there was an "SS" there, and when you clicked on that, it would send your current setup to that person.

You were spectating, thats why there was no SS button. Thats normal. You have to be in the car on the track to be able to send your setup.

I've noticed since U28 that sound is a bit different, it has more phasing/flanging when echo is heard, or when other cars are close. Now I have to turn echo volume to minimum to reduce the effect, at least to me is kinda distracting. Just driving normally, with my old settings of about 1.7 for echo, in FZR in Aston GP I was hearing all sorts of changing phasing/flanging as I was passing walls that are closer or bit further away from the track edges. Maybe you actualy fixed something (delay time or filtering of echoes?) so this phasing effect is pronounced now, but I think it sounded better before in this regard. Otherwise, everything works great and smooth.

That was the first thing I noticed in U28 when I installed it last saturday, and Im a bit surprised nobody else wrote about it. Since then I got used to it, so I guess its not a big issue, I'm just wondering why it is different now.

It was indeed an enjoyable race. We entered it since XRR is my favourite of GTR cars, and this was nice opportunity to have a little endurance race, and also to try to win something useful by doing what we like. A bit of a shame that more drivers didn't enter to make it more interesting but I'm sure it was nice experience for everybody, and it seems like this was first ever longer race for many people that drove on Sunday.

The prize was, of course, another motiv to race here, and we intend to use it for a new Serbian LFS community site and new league we are planning, so thank you very much to the organizers.

Btw, to be fair, Casper also used reset button on the very final lap, but I guess it wouldn't affect the standings since other team also used it, and if looking stricly by the rules we both finished with only one car at the line.

Quote from De Hongaar :

The replay function doesn't work. (it worked the first 2 or 3 times). I only get a gray screen and nothing happens...am i missing something?

Press P to unpause?

What combo was it this time?

Quote from nesrulz :

@tristancliffe, "example" like MIDI Vs. Wav.

You mean sythesizer vs sampler. MIDI is just a controller for both.

What I find cool about CSR since it uses OutGauge for input is that, if you could get the sensors on your real car on throttle and brake pedal positions, rpm and speedo gauges, you could hook it up with CSR on a laptop and drive your real (bad sounding) car with the sound of anything you wanted (meaty powerful engine) on your cars sound system or headphones. How strange and disconnected would that feel.

And only best 3 from the same country from top 10 on one combo get counted for points, and only their handycaps are added in nations rank (German EPS combos for exmaple ).

Quote from SamH :

...In other words, Teamspeak diminishes the very thing that the STCC is trying to achieve, with its commentary.

Thats right, and I'd recommend you try using Skype for next time. Its ridiculously easy to setup and use, sound quality is really great and there is virtually no lag at all, so you can really talk normaly, almost like being in the same room.

I really admire the huge effort Becky and Co. put into these broadcasts. So much that I don't check your forums so that I only see in video for the first time what happened in the races. I just sat and watched just like its a race on TV and cheered for Hannu when I saw he's on the grid.

We just had a XRT race, 35 laps in demo, although on BL rev. It requires even more smoothnes then in normal direction but more on corner entry rather on exit. Its not a common combo but its great.

Its a MPR so its bit harder to see driving inputs well but here it is anyway, hope you find it useful: http://ultrashare.net/hosting/fl/32ce24f155/

Setup I used (and others too) is the same as for standard, just with less brake force and balance. You just have to be calm and drive relaxed and good laptimes with come without trying. If you push hard... well you already saw whats that like.

Last edited by Misko, Sun, 15 Oct 2006 03:48.

Done too.

Yes yes, we will.

Team: Cyber Racing
Drivers: casper88 / Misko

It's the MoE weekend, so for many people it's not so convenient, but it's doable.

Quote from Scawen :

1) Do you get lag (delay when pressing throttle) or skipping (gaps in sound)
2) Can it be solved by changing Options/Misc/Sound Blocks setting
3) What operating system do you have, 98, XP, Vista32, Vista64
4) What hardware : sound card + drivers if you can find that info

To fill up the form to make it more clear after trying bit more.

1) No sound lag (delay), occasional skipping/popping with Sound Blocks 1, much more so when viewing MP replays with lots of cars close in view
2) Yes, Sound Blocks 2 always works without any skipping/popping
3) Win XP SP1
4) Sound Blaster Live! with newest kX drivers (version 3573)

Tweaker, the problem you have with levels is a widespread "loudness war" in pop music production, and they use expensive multiband compressors and limiters to achieve those high levels without distortion, so I wouldn't worry about music being louder on average than dynamic LFS sound. Thats just normal. If LFS was to acheve those levels (and destroy dynamic variations btw) Scawen would need to hook some kind of limiter at the final stage of internal LFS sound mixer. Which is not impossible since he already put a simple echo in there. I'd like to see boost in LFS to be limited to something like 14 or even less. I'm quite appaled to hear many LFSers just crank that up and yet say that it sounds better. Don't they have any ears. Sorry for the slight off-topic, working with sound is my job, so I notice more.

I just tested U22 breifly. I have Win XP SP1, SB Live with kX drivers, and it works well, even with Sound Blocks set to 1. There are very occasional pops and crackles and much more of them when echo is heard. Especially noticable in quieter road cars. Default Sound Blocks on 2 works better, of course, but still crackles close to walls. (if 1 block is 1/20th of a second then 2 blocks is old minimal setting of 0.10s, and 1 block would be 0.05s, right?) Btw, I never had any hearable sound lag in U20 and U22, in both I used 0.10s without problems.

Also, like someone else wrote, BF1 engine sound is notably kinda out of sync within itself: shifts and TC sounds different, sometimes sharper sometimes softer. Seems like little parts of sound get lost and skipped at the edges of those sound blocks. I think same thing happens in all the cars, like when revs go down in next gear after flat shifting in RAC for example, just that is less noticable because BF1 sound is most complex and things change very quickly in it.

Actually, Niki is asking for someone to take over the league as he doesn't have time to organize it anymore: http://nationscup.7.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=717

We need something/someone to get things started again. Finals are left to be driven, and then start next season, improved from past experience. It would be a shame to let it die down as it was great fun, and different kind of thing racing for your nations.

Yes, go for it either way, take over or a completely new thing.