really nice proof of concept indeed!

Now if the "common DLL" thingy is finished, you have something nice to work on

Quote from Becky Rose :

Using DX Tunneling it would, ideal for live broadcast leagues. For me as a non-live post-edited broadcast league organiser it was better to use AVI. I just havn't got it working. I dont know how to do DX tunnelling anyway.

What about asking Kegetys if he would support this project (i.e. send us his tunneling library)?

I find the concept interesting and would like to see it done. hell, I would even learn C# or C++ to be able to help

Quote from MadCatX :

You might try to enable MipMapping and upgrade to the latest patch(but i suppose you did it already). 50 fps is max value I can push out from it when on Blackwood. LFS is still playable when there are 10 car on the grid. I have Sky and Fog enabled also, because it doesn't affect performance.

Maybe increasing sound lag and installng official Catalyst drivers can help also. Make sure that there is no unwanted background process running on your system, a screenshot of TaskManager Processes tab would be helpful...

I tried the official catalysts earlier ago, the OMEGA Drivers give a lot more FPS to me.
And about the unwanted tasks...

Quote from me :

I have all the stuff in my traybar that is not essentially needed (that is, everything except virus scanner and firewall) turned off, and also disabled all unneeded services running in the background.

Thanks for your advice!

cool down people

Quote from ans7812 :

i would join this race if it wasn't reverse. There is no way you can make it regular blackwood? it has to be reverse? if you made it regular i would race. also, what time is it eastern united states time?

should be GMT - 5, so 10 o'clock in the morning at your's... one hour to go.

I cant participate

Sorry, but no time

Quote from undertech :

I guess this means a goodbye then.

So long, LFS community. It's been nice.

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Quote from MadCatX :

The best way of improving your FPS is to get nearly ANY graphics card with HVS support(Full DX 8.1 compilant). In my waaaaay old P3 1GHz does crappy GeForce FX 5200 pretty good job, no problem to get 50 fps on patch W.

Now you have to tell us how. *sorry for threadjack*. I have an P4 with 1.4 GHz and an Excalibur Radeon 9800 PRO, and 1GB SDRAM. I only get like 5 FPS with full starter field, 30 whem I am alone. I have all the stuff in my traybar that is not essentially needed (that is, everything except virus scanner and firewall) turned off, and also disabled all unneeded services running in the background.

In the attachments you find some screenshots of my current Graphics and Misc settings.

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Quote from felplacerad :

Refer to the UTC clock in LFS FFS It's in the garage. And oh, top left @ LFS World as well.

thanks

sorry for my blindness

EDIT: See my post below

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Quote from Woz :

Before the release of the BF1 we got the "but who needs a minute?" teaser. It had a view of BL from above in a thick fog. If this was generated in game can we get fog enabled in the sim.

Racing in 50m visibility or less anyone

it is a photoshop.

Nope, I can still post.

:inq:

err... wait... wrong picture...


:feedtroll

now that's what I'm talking about

Quote from v4forlife :

Piss off and dont come back. We dont need your type round here.

*LMAO*

Welcome to the community deepcscuba. Finally, someone new here who does not troll the forums and ask for more cars, more tracks and better graphics in his first post. I think theres nothing more to say than

Welcome to S2, Welcome to this great community!

As I can see, you are german. Head over to the german reseller, www.live-for-speed.de. There you can also pay via bank transfer.

Quote from faster111 :

LCD ? i have a medion flat screen.

LCD, TFT, Flat Screen... all the same.

Quote from hackerx :

It's quite obviously FR = front, RE = rear, LE = left, RI = right.

you enlighted me^^ Thanks

got a bit of a problem with the pitstop flags. could someone explain them?

Quote from AndroidXP :

@St4Lk3R: Now, I don't know much about InSim, but how is the car name consistent throughout a connection lifetime? How has the car anything to do with identifying a player at all? As far as I understand, Scawen wants to shorten the full car name ("RaceAbout") to the short prefix used for skins ("RAC"), thus saving a few bytes to make space for other flags in the packet.

Sorry if I'm talking complete rubbish here, your answer just seemed odd to me

May really be that my answer IS complete rubbish. I just do not know what is meant by the term "skin prefix" so I guessed it's a unique prefix for every user. If I am mistaken, please correct me

Quote from Scawen :

No one has yet objected to what I said in this post :

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=366808#post366808

I am suggesting a change from 32 byte car name to a 4 byte car name (skin prefix) in the NPL and LAP packets, to allow some more space while leaving it nearly compatible with existing software.

I haven't really left much time for anyone to reply but I will get on with this this afternoon, because it's InSim day for me - I don't want to spend much longer on V3...

If I got you right, then the skin prefix should be something that is consistent all the time the racer is connected to the host or even consistent through the whole lifetime of the account. If it's like that, then I think it would be really REALLY useful to do the change, this makes life so much easier for developers

I now play LFS for about... wait... one year and a half altogether, and I am still totally impressed about it and cant imagine playing anything else. sounds pathetic, but its like that. And I think if nothing will go terribly wrong I will be one of the last men standing until the master server will finally and ultimately be shut down. I really love this sim, and it hurts me every time when I see a new flamer coming up on the forums, because I simply _know_ Scawen, Victor and Eric simply do not deserve the treatment they experience by some individuals on these forums.

Greetings, Stalker

I'd also like to participate

Quote from BurnOut69 :

How do you plan to deal with disconnections?

I think they will use a system similar to the MoEs.

@ORION: Of course its difficult for some teams to organize a 6-drivers-team, but its also difficult for some teams to drive this huge race with only 4 drivers. I would suggest that you tell us a minimum and maximum amout of drivers, for example "a team can consist of 2 to 6 racers". Then everyone will be happy, the teams that only want to drive with 2 or 3 or 4 drivers as well as those teams that want to race with 6 people. This is not an advantage or disadvantage to anyone, and everyone can decide on his/her own how much racers they want to take to that race.

Sounds good eh?

Greets, Stalker

Quote from Tweaker :

Wasn't talking about 4 'drivers', was talking about the # of cars for each class

Definitely would need 6 drivers for a 24 hour race

You weren't, but ORION did:

Quote from Orion :

A team can have up to 4 racers, who will move one car.

And as I already said (and you support me there), 4 drivers is definitely too less for a 24h-race.

EDIT: in the german forums, another one said that 6 drivers should be maximum... I think this 24h-race is well worth an own section in the "events" category, and there, a vote about that issue should take place.

a 4 drivers maximum is definitely too less for a 24-hours-race. 4 drivers is OK for a 6-hours-race like team Vitex currently organizes it in germany, but for a 24-hours-race, the maximum number of drivers should be at least six.

Especially for us "rookie"-teams its simply unmasterable to drive 24 hours with only 4 drivers, and if you want to make it free for all, then please also create conditions that allow "rookie"-teams to participate.

EDIT: As announced in the german forums, the race will take part on as much servers as needed, AFAIK.

you want a programmer to publish his/her own work under the name of ZWR? that does in fact not sound like a good offer.

Or do you already have a programmer in your team and just want another one? then we can of course talk about it, but more informations would be very appreciated. Including:

• In what programming language did you program your (unfinished) tools until now?
  
• What do you think of as reward for the programmer? Webspace? Banners? Servers? Money?
  
• What InSim/OutSim tools do you want the programmer to write?
  

Thanks for answering in advance
Greets, Stalker