With an re-install no config file will be overwritten! If an config file (for which app ever) exist, this file while be skipped.
Be all setups the uninstall remove folders, shortcuts and registry keys correctly. Only the Ghostcar uninstall doesn't. I think, I will recreate the setup file again later.
I did not plan this CD as a luxury version. The installation of LFS should be as simple as possible.
You don't need WinRAR to uncompress the archiv. I'm using FilZip (it's free).
Know but still unfixed bugs:
Movie player
At the moment I can't locate the problem (movies are playing - I hear sound - but see no picture; if I skip to the next movie and go back, I hear sound and see also the picture). All movies are in Windows Media Player Format. But I don't know which codecs are used. If have tried on a clean WinXP installation with all Updates (still Media Player 9). wmp.dll is needed/player is based on. Works also with Media Player 10. Older: I don't know!
Ghostcar Uninstall
I'm going crazy! The menu link to the readme file will not deleted while uninstall. I don't no why.
All other parts of the CD (should be) work fine. I have installed all tools and mods (without DeserMod/SnowMod). Needs up to 558 MB harddisc space.
But please: be patient - The upload take also I while!
I will create a new thread for questions, problems and of course the download links to the iso file - asap.
Now I'm testing the setups/autorun. All setups are done. So I think, at the end of this week or at beginning of the next week the first release should be done and will published.
Would like someone in the testing of the Autorun help me? Previously I tested it only on Windows XP. It would be also yet helpful if someone could look at the partially "lousy" English texts.
Please use the forum private message function to contact me - thanks!
PS: Look at the new install buttons (all are changed now). I think, it's better readable!
A new little release status report (should be the last before final release):
The new autorun is done. Some changes are still possible, but will be small (I hope). Please look at the pics! (I publish the pictures of the Autorun yet before the actual publication appointment. )
Some setup programs are done (for example: the core simulation). I hope, the final version becomes until the end of January finished... under circumstances also first on the end of February! My goal is natural the end of january!
Last but not least: My provider allow me to publish the ISO on my domain! So, two download servers are available therefore (the other is still 4players.de).
Feedback to the new autorun screenshots are welcome.
All this programs, mods, tools and skins/textures will be on this CD (of course including setup programs):
Core programs
- Live for Speed S2 0.5Q (incl. cmx files for analyzer tools)
- Live for Speed Additional Music Tracks
- Live for Speed S2 Dedicated Host
Mods (visual)
- DesertMod (no uninstall; possible in the next cd release)
- SnowMod (no uninstall; possible in the next cd release)
- HiRes Sky Textures and others
Tools
- Join2LFS
- mates@track II
- InSim Race Analyzer
- F1 PerfView
- Analyze for Speed
- Gear Ratio Calculator
Skins
- Car Skins from 4players.de, Gobby, Master Skinnerz and others
- Car Skins Austra Racing
Show room
- All S1/S2 cars
- All S1/S2 tracks (but without S2 track layouts)
- S2 Movies (Just Racing, Drift LT, Drift Fury, Drift Fury 2, This is S2)
Documentation
- unofficial S2 Manul (from CD; without installation)
- Keyboard commands (from CD; without installation) -> Other guides, they not already included in S2 Manual, are welcome (only PDF please)! Please contact me!
The new layout of my next auto run program looks like the layout of the liveforspeed.net web site. At the moment it's not perfect and so I won't publish any new screenshots, before I finish the whole project!
But the result will be much better then the first release of my auto run GUI. I promise!!!
My next steps:
Soon I'll create the setup scripts/files, test them, test them again, again and again, still hoping everything will work how it should. If it does, I will create a new handsome ISO image you can work with.
By the way: Thanks to all devs for your great works!
VERY GOOD NEWS
4players.de / GP4Flo will host the image on his server @4players.de! :bannana_p
Many, many thanks to you, GP4Flo!
For a smaller image size some movies will be removed from the CD (like the good, but old S1 movies). The final size and also the final release date I publish asap; also the URL to the download site @4players.de - but this take still some days - be patience
Yes, the distribution is via torrent... infos are available, if the image is released (with all modifications; additional licenses infos and so on) and I have all permissions.
Replay Analyzer and F1PerfView I don't know. But, I will see, I can also include it on the cd.
Movies on CD are:
AAL S2 demo series 1
Adrenaline show drifting S1
Crashes and Stunts 3
Drift LT S2
Drift Fury 1 S2
Drift Fury 2 S2
Just Racing S2
Saiko D demo movie S1
This is S2
Skins
Skins from 4players.de
Skins from Gobby (FO8)
The High Res Sky Textures are also part of Skins/Texture setup program.
Do you have other content (track layout) to publish on the cd?
This is the unofficial LFS S2 Manual, right? Yes, this is also included. Directly readable from the CD (button on the main view of autorun). So you can read it without installation. With the installation of Live for Speed, this is an option to install the manual too. A shortcut in the windows menu to the PDF document is also created, if this install option is selected.
Some tools do have points in the license agreement , so I NEED permission to publish it elsewhere !
It's a complet CD. The setup routine for LFS writes the path to LFS.exe in the registry, so I can check this entry with the other setups and can define this value as an default path for the installation. So the installation of all other data (add music, textures, cars, tools, mods and so on) is simpler and faster, else I must browse to the right path manually (where the LFS.exe is).
My idea behind this little project: The setup of all tools on the cd should be so easy as possible... so, REALLY EVERYBODY can install Live for Speed on his PC! That's what I want! At the moment, most racers they use/drive LFS have good PC knowledge, I think?
Habe gerade heute mit nem Freund darüber geplaudert, warum wir noch kein Team gemacht haben. Ähm... wo erstellt man überhaupt Teams. Wüsste nicht mal wie!
Permission request to the devs of lfs is pending... If I got the permission, then I ask the devs of the tools and mods - else, if I don't get the permission of any dev (lfs nor tools/mods), I don't publish the ISO (not via HTTP/FTP and not via Torrent)
Your right, that I don't get money, but I don't want also any law problems - so, I ask the devs first
1. I have to ask all devs of the tools and, of course, the live for speed devs too if I'm allowed to publish they programs on a CD (image).
2. Where I can host an nero image of 685 MB?! Ok, an image without the movies have a size of 336 MB - but the question is the same! I think my hosting provider isn't lucky if a host this image on his (shared) server!
sorry, can't confirm - all tools (ghostcar, smokemod, mates@track2, race analyzer, join2lfs and pitspotter) i'm using works fine with s2 0.5Q or what do you mean ?
I have created an autorun for my LFS install CD. With the DVD cover from KNAPPO (http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=3381) and some tools (Ghostcar, Spotter, Join2LFS, Graphic Mods... -> http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=2928) it looks very cool (positiv feedback from my friends - with s2 license too; they have get a CD as a little christmas gift from me :nod. See the pics!
CD content:
- Setup versions of LFS, LFS Dedicated Host, LFS Music Add-On
- Setup version for additional Skins/Textures (including clean uninstall!)
- Setup versions for Tools and Mods (also uninstall)
- Setup versions for Graphic Mods (without uninstall but warn message! :eek: )
- Show room for all cars, tracks (without S2 track details) and movies
- PDF versions of Keyboard commands and the (unofficial) S2 Manual
Have anybody else create his own LFS CD? (not only covers)
PS: Sorry, but english isn't my prefered language.
thanks for all your feedbacks - and, to the dev, also your great explentations of program background information ( ) - I will/must wait for later releases of lfs