Quote from Barroso :

have you tried to join the server and save the layout? shift+u and you can save it afaik.

LOL Stupid me!

As stated in title, I'm in desperate need for SWAIN drift layout. Original one, not modifications. I just love that layout, it's such a great drift layout that it "hurts" It has everything that a drift layout should have, fast long corners, tight ones, 90 degree... And it is almost perfectly combined so some very attractive drift can be done, fast drift AND show drift! That cannot be easily done!

Like the title says, how to read LFSWorld pubstat data using ASP?
Currently I have some code and I am able to read data but there must be some more advanced or optimized way to read data. I'm using ASPTear to retrieve data, save it to .txt file and than parsing out data to database.
Problem? ASPTear sometimes breaks and data is gathered wrong and I have no idea how to cache data properly.
If anyone is interested I can put my code here.

Not sure it has been posted, but today received an error while viewing spr replay.
Replay just halted saying "Replay OOS error" blinking in the middle of the screen. Happens all the time but noticed in this particular replay.
Replay is AS2 XFR WR (dime_miki http://www.lfsworld.net/get_spr.php?file=5173 ). Replay is recorded in U patch, viewed in W41 test patch.
Sry if posted before.

EDIT: in W patch all normal, works fine. Viewing in W patch I noticed that at the moment where W41 says "replay OOS error" guy has reseted the car.

Last edited by s1m0n, Mon 4 Jun 2007, 19:15.

Today I first tried W24 test patch and was stunned by the new car balancing.
I have small amount of experience, but... Maybe there is just a bit too much weight on FXO.
Let me put it this way:
Pre W17: FXO: 209HP/ton, RB4: 201HP/ton, XRT: 206HP/ton
With W24: FXO: 193HP/ton, RB4: 201HP/ton, XRT: 198HP/ton
And this does not include 3% air intake restriction on FXO!
RB4 is now the strongest car to drive!
I agree it is the easiest to drive and should be penalized for that, but this much? RB4 isn't that much heavier to drive, and now it has the best HP/ton ratio.
And also adding weight isn't the right way for balancing. With extra weight car uses more fuel, wears more tires, driver has to break earlier, acceleration is slower and overall handling is ruined. Putting thiner tires would do pretty much the same except fuel usage.
My thoughts: all cars should have pretty much the same HP/ton ration. Maybe 2HP difference but should be limited by another way than adding weight. XRT should be the strongest and with that adding that small advantage because it is the hardest to drive. RB4 should be in the middle and FXO should have smallest HP/ton ration because it is the easiest to drive. How to do that and not to use extra weight? Don't know. You say how...

I'm running 3 LFS servers, SQLServer 2005 Express and a web site on P4 1.7 with 512Mb RAM with two NIC's, one for LFS servers and other for web site. LFS servers work like a charm, but SQL is memory hungry and sometimes it can eat up almost everything but LFS server continue to work like nothing is happening.

32 cars?! OMG!!!! Unbeliveable!
8 TCP conn's? WOW. This is the best thing that could happen! And qual starts from garage! Unbeliveable!
This is such a great news I'm going to get drunk and then try out W17!

Quote from Victor :

a dual xeon 2.4ghz system with 4gigs of mem and scsi hd.
This runs lfs.net, lfsworld.net (including pubstats / isonline), hosts skins, runs mysql, runs background stats-processing, insim relay, and all the other stuff a server does

and linux for all the reasons TAA stated. And I like how you can install a whole OS exactly the way you want it to. Ie. just the things you need and nothing more.

Wow! That is enough to run all that?! Just one box? I imagined at least two boxes, one for web and one for database. Your code must be very very optimized

Quote from Blaeza :

I'm waiting for S1m0n to blow up the servers now...

Never, I have way too much respect for LFS!

Thank you for software info, but you haven't mentioned hardware...
BTW, why linux and not Win2003? I have been administering hardware and software for over 12 years and always on Win. Only one thing I have respect for when talking about linux is routing. There are couple of great linux dists for routing, much better then win2003 routing. But when talking about web server and SQL server, IMHO MS beats linux every single time, especially now when MSSQL2005 has free version. Little OT, I'm sorry.

Last edited by s1m0n, Thu 19 Apr 2007, 16:34.

No special reason... Just want to know...

Maybe OT....
What is behind LFSWorld? I mean what machines are running that? What OS? What database is behind all that?
Just curious...

...what happened?
I can't see it anymore

Problem solved.
Funny thing this LFS... It refuses to work when port is lower then default port (63392). My config's were both lower than default port and neither were visible in the game. You could connect to demo host but not S2.
Using ports higher then default solved my problem. Why? Don't know.

Good work?!
You can't be serious tih is good work.
You don't know what /pps and /dedicated commands are!
And let's not forget, you haven't mentioned at all fot ingame commands for host admin.

Anyone? Please?
I don't have time to crate my own, so if you have some camerasets for noobTV please post...

Tnx in advance

It is not mine movie, somebodey else made this one, but it's so good it should be intro for LFS!

Anyway here is the link! Vote for it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqml_NK30c8

Edit: credit for this movie goes to Kraniwani from ocr Team!

Tnx

Maybe OT, but it has to do with programming (web site for LFS)

Is there anyone who has or knows where to find car & track pictures from LFSWorld (those little pictures in S2 Hotlapps in Hotlap Charts).
Also, I need logo and other stuff related to LFS.

Tnx

Very nice! Finally, I was starting to vory are you ever going to get to that... Few baseball caps and wool caps would be nice.
But the best of all would be racaing shoes and gloves with LFS logo!!! Sweet!!!

Quote from Davo :

Well I'm surprised you're having problems with 12 years pc experience. I'm acomputer noob in comparison and can get a server running smoothly through my firewall.

I'm having problems with the game, not my firewall... Read earlier posts.

Both servers are private, sharing pass here wouldn't make much sens illepall
Try to connect to either of those without password and the same thing will happen even if you have pass. Tryed, believe me.
BTW, IRL I'm system admin and programmer with more than 12 years of experience (currently developing InSim app and LFS team and league manager) so I know thing or two

DEMO server: CROTeam LFS Demo
S2 server: CROTeam LFS S2

Demo server is currently not listed on LFSWorld because LFSWorld is not yet listing V patch servers.

All ports opened as I mentioned earlyer.

I'm running two dedicated games on one box (PC) with one NIC.
I'm connecting to them via Internet form different PC's.
Both DEMO and S2 hosts are listed on www.lfsworld.net, but are not visible in servers list in LFS.

When connecting to DEMO, I can only connect via "Joining game on: local network" and inputing IP (public, not local) and port. When trying to connect via "Joining game on: internet" and inputing DEMO name (like "LFS Demo server") LFS Client refuses to connect, it doesn's say anything (no error, nothing) and just returns to previous screen.

When connecting to S2, if LFS Client connect's via "Joining game on: internet" and then inputs S2 server name (like "LFS S2 server") it doesn't say anything just returns to previous screen. When trying to connect via "Joining game on: local network" and inputing IP (public, not local) and port LFS Client says "you must enter a valid local network IP address".

Why DEMO can connect when inputing public IP and S2 can't?
Why my games are not listed in LFS Client servers list?