Yow old buddy, old pal
I miss reading your thoughts in the chatbox together with my morning coffee & cookies... What's a man without his rituals
Hi to the ppl on the list too. Over the years i got to know a few of em Bit hard to recognize their names not written in the mirror tho

I'm having the same problem as our distinctive-difference-between-username-and-racename polish mate here. Specifically, the sparingly used copy/paste question marks which i always presumed was caused by my substantial registry fixes in that area for another Win XP unrelated problem . So thanks for the info
And to add a little something - it is same crappo procedure in win7, only the tab is name far less intuitive. Just like the entire OS is for that matter.

Edit: After some fiddling about with settings and stuff i found the procedure that works without the need for a restart every time. First, find out what is your key bind setting for switching between input languages under regional and language options... Default should be Left Alt + Shift. I recommend you put Language bar on the taskbar (right click on taskbar - toolbars). Press key combo and you should see the change now, real-time. This ony works for the programs in the active window, unless you change it on the desktop without an active window - then programs are started with active input language selected. That is way i recommended that you put lang bar on the taskbar - to avoid confusion which is active. Change should be visible as you switch between windows with different set languages. Now for the actual procedure:

Win7: do same as Scawen mentioned, select Russian but don't reboot. Run LFS, alt+shift until Cyrillic appears. Done deal. If not, try reboot. If still not then wait few moments... That's all i did when i went to test it on my main PC with XP!

WinXP: Here in LFS i had only Central European and Latin 1 so i went to add Russian like i did on win7 but to my suprise there was a whole array of Russian this, Russian that, Cyrillic this and whatnot. So i selected a few to be able to select them in LFS but it required not only a reboot but install CD as well. Fek that i said and leave it for you to try

Don't know if this will work with copy/paste ???s yet, but typing is OK.

Last edited by Nilex, Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:00. Reason : the solution

Only one i can think of. It's complicated, illogical, definitely not for casual pc user, high chance you will lose your setups and all settings if u don't follow what i say to the letter, will cost you up to 3 unlocks at the worst, and probably won't work. Luckily windows don't care about logic so we have a fighting chance
Should i continue, cause too lazy to type in vain

EDIT - Few chocolate bars later:
1. Firstly, copy both lfs folders someplace else. Name them so you know which is which (e.g.: lfs unlocking; lfs fu'ed). This backup ensures your data stays safe. We don't need every single file to backup but it's so much easier for me to type it . Delete lfs.exe (EDIT 2: and the uninstall.exe) from both backup lfs folders. Delete the misc folder from the backup of the non-unlocking lfs folder.
2. Get the installation file for 0.6E.
3. Uninstall LFS, if it asks to keep this or that say no. Uninstall it ALL.
4. Guess what, you still have one intact original lfs folder. Uninstall that too, ALL. If the uninstall.exe is missing then just del the crap out of the folder. And del the other original folder if it is still there.

Now you're left with two backup lfs folders but without any registry info about them. And this part you're going to do again little later as i suspect is the culprit of the problem.

5. Install LFS from that exe you got. This install is your main LFS from now, the one you play the most, the one files are associated to. Name it nicely, thick all options. This time you want it ALL.
6. Now you will install lfs the second time but this time you don't want to 'install' it, just extract all the files. Untick all the file associations and what else there is, keep only your vanilla game. This isn't actually installation but extraction. Like extracting an archive. Name the folder what you wish and on to the next step.
7. Don't run the game yet. First copy all the files from the backups. I hope you named them so you know which one goes where, and deleted the exes' (from the backups eh)
8. Run working folder. Should be same as before if not better. I put my hand in fire if it ain't so...
9. Run non-unlocking one and unlock it. This time it should stay unlocked. At worst it will be same as before. To get your driver names back copy over the *.ply files from the misc folder of the first lfs.

Resoning behind all of this is that i think you installed the game twice before, posibly making multiple registry entries for the same thing. And it somehow got screwed up.
This time you'll install it once, and extract the other. For example i have four working LFS folders, only of which one is installed, the latest version.
Del the backups when you're sure you will not need them anymore.

Last edited by Nilex, Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:03. Reason : Dorina chockolate, 100 grams. Brain lag for E2.

Guy with same issue here:
https://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=82305

After few answers from us he went silent, i figure we helped him. Suggest you also try possible solutions from that thread.

I'm also in favor of the old separate lists system. It was one of those changes that happened without anyone wanted, demanded or complained about, still it happened. Reason for it was psychological: so people don't feel separated from one another in a way, if i remember correctly. Nevermind that we are separated by servers, that's cool
Hate to base this post solely on my memory because that potentially arises problems, though i'm confident that was more or less the main reason.

Even tho i suspect your reason for this thread is slightly different then what you're actually complaining about I'm going to go forward with my two ideas to bring old system back:
First is because it makes browsing server list much more practical, faster and intuitive. Confining lists to Demo/Licensed instead Demo/S1/S2 only would be a slight improvement in my opinion for the same reasons.
Second is psychological (yeah, i'm doing it). Getting to the licensed list feels like an achievement no matter how u look at it (or how mature you are). That feeling there is more than meets the eye. Popel would want to get on that list, aka ching-ching for further development (cba subtlety atm).

No to mention lack of server/buddy favorites, which would greatly contribute to any kind of server list. And so on and so forth...

Even autoclutch aid is unfair vs axis+shifter combo, let alone button cl. It's just that Yorap is that good, one of only three of all the fast guys in lfs using that combo that i find trustworthy (along with troy and Fox 2). Respectomundo dudes
Now, to add something more then just my subjective attitude, Yorap in XRG accelerates same as me in XRG with autocl while in comparison a guy with button accelerates noticeably faster.
So if you care about fair you know what not to do again

p.s. sry for polluting ur topic Rony
enjoying reading ur race resumes as always!

Somebody call this syn into f1, hate my pb's looking like 30sumfin yr old mouser made em ants:

Happy easter everyone btw

p.s. Be careful not to choke on em egg shells Harvey

Try this:
go into lfs g27/data/misc folder and copy these three files
f1.xyz
f2.xyz
f3.xyz
into lfs mouse/data/misc folder, replace em. Those 3 files alone contain unlock info. The reasoning is to put working unlock in place of broken one.
If that don't work then check if all three files from mouse folder aren't perhaps set to read-only. In fact, before everything else check if lfs mouse folder and all sub-folders and all files aren't read-only. If they are remove that.

If only i asked earlier . 365 Thankses

Nice, tnx

After i login to LFSW and select windows i want to have opened and their position i log off. So next time i login all is nice and well just like i left it with the added benefit that from now on i don't have to log off. Instead i just close the tab or Opera itself and next time i go to lfsw i'm loged in automatically and windows are all nicely positioned - really nice overview of whats going on, quick and easily accessible.
Problem is that it stays that way only about a week or so, without my intervention whatsoever. On the 8th day i'm greeted with only 'Home' window. All others are lost until i open & reposition them again, log off then login. Thats hits hard for a lazy guy like myself
I can intervene for example on the 6th day (if i'm lucky to remember) by moving one of the windows by a pixel, log off then login back again. I'm safe for another week. So that is what i did long time until i happily found i can manually change each cookie's own expiration date. But that didn't work. It seem only to show expiration date and editing it is just for show.
Is it possible to prolong this from 1 week? Maybe is built-in security feature. I kidna made my peace with it until i read cookie expiration date phrase and i had to give it a shoot!
Windows i have opened are: Live alert, online racers stats & s2 hotlaps. Those give me 4 cookies total to edit. One thing i noticed among it all is that the 'S2 hotlaps' -> 'Hotlap uploading log - displaying:' info stays remembered which gave me hope

Try checking site preferences. Same path as Victor's up to Advanced, after its: -> Content -> Manage Site Prefs. If this site is customized in any way it should list there. You know what to do from there i think. If it's not listed then i don't know.
Btw, you can shortcut to Site Prefs by right-clicking on an empty space then select it. F12 is also cool shortcut.

Vic, would you mind if i ask you about specific lfsw cookie expiration issue i have (also on Opera) in this thread. It's uber obscure that i'm positive it only bothers meyself and noone would be able to help me. I thought if i make a new thread it would go unnoticed but since you read this... pls

Same as Hub. Siema btw

I only get micro-stutters if HDD is working hard at writing something in the background, e.g. letting HD youtube vid load in the background - but not play since that would put a load on CPU with inevitable FPS drop and possible stutter which would be expected and normal.

When you press Prt Scr on the other hand, a single stream of data is stored into system memory - image of the entire screen in BMP format. Afterwards you can paste it into an image program. Size of data is resolution dependent so it's about 5.05 MB for 1680x1050. Now, i don't know if HDD plays a role in reading the screen info and then writing it into memory but if so then then you can imagine what's the reason for the stutter. I jut don't know why. It's like LFS wants the HDD all to itself . On my system anyway.

It would explain the pit exit stutter tho: new skin of other driver gets written to skin folder and if your LFS folder structure is filled with many skin and set files it will take some time for your HDD to write it and finally load the skin file - only first time for first skin after lfs is loaded, cause folder structure gets written into system memory as well

http://www.lfs.net/?page=contactus
First link on the page gives you some general information about unlocks. If you ran out either be patient until friday, or write an e-mail to the devs asking for an additional unlock.

After installing LFS to a new comp it will always be locked, even if it was unlocked on your previous comp. This is because unlock information tied to your license is hardware locked. Meaning, if you change some hardware component LFS will have to be unlocked again (if my memory still serves me). Same goes when a significant update to LFS is released. Only then, devs usually give everyone 3 free unlocks to avoid people running out of them.

The new instant join system really is instant For example Daniel disconnected and the reconnected immediately after and it all took less then one second from my guest perspective, with about us ~10 on that server at a time. I can't tell exactly but it feels ~1-2 second faster then before (that beeing with all textures and other info cached into memory already). On first time connection, while the track is loading, skins are downloading, recieving all the packets etc. it's harder to notice (now client perspective).

I like that Hector brought up the connection message appearance because if there's more of us then it isn't nitpicking eh?
It's harder to tell when a person has connected for me and i hate to miss to greet a person i know, or even when he start talking to me and i didn't even note he is there. That can be scary

Saw your suggestions and an 'invite' for us see if we like it, so here are mine:

Nickname connected (username)
Nickname - light gray unless color coded (same as before);
connected - blue for visibility (same as before);
(username) - purposely light gray to be less visible, connected already stands out with it's blue color since it's unique shade of blue. There are no other insim stuff using this blue to my knowlege, even if i'm wrong it is very rare. Using two words for blue on connect would be too much of a light show in my opinon.

Nickname disconnected (username)
Nickname - light gray unless color coded (same as before);
the rest should stay as it were even if it is harder to read. Few reasons for that. It's not harder to read It stands out less when it appears at first but if you decide to read it it reads normal - it ain't THAT dark. Secondly, it stands out with it's less visible appearance, creating a hole in the chat field. Lastly it stands out with it's unique dark gray shade (except maybe while shift+f8, also no other insim... u know the rest).

That's how i like it

A little heads-up: since it's XFG and people love it (no exceptions, else they be lieing) there will be near full server and i don't think we can all 'fit' on this small track's starting grid

Driver status says 'in pits' while is actually spec'ing (pink bar). Happens only when clicking spectate from garage screen.

Making the ping numbers in the connection list appear right indented would make them more easily distinguishable, like in main menu for example.

'Did not receive track info' message now appears in chat field after failing to connect to a full host - B11 client and host.

If draw rubber is set to main (options - graphics), it will be drawn in the mirrors as well if show racing line if pressed (4 btn).

One of favorite combos of mine - alarm clock has been wound

I can only support this each time it is mentioned
It mighty annoying having to reconnect to be able to save another replay.

Tnx fellas