I can't believe you seriously consider supporting a company that fracked over an entire modding community? Ok, so they changed their name from First to iRacing, but that doesn't fool anyone. Or does it?

Quote from DodgeRacer :

I'm still a diehard nascar 2003 player, mostly road course racing though. I own/run a site dedicated to track making for it and thats what really keeps me interested, I really enjoy that part.

And what about Nascar Heat, and especially mods for it. That sim keeps me just as busy as LFS does. And it's a heck of a lot better than anything coming from EA

Oh please continue. This is the pefect tool for a league admin. Lot's of stats in an easy to read fashion. Plus... I like that it lists what aids people are using.

I don't hate rFactor. In fact, I think the entire idea of rFactor is great. Release a working mod platform. They hoped that rFactor might just be the next Sportscar GT.
I am however very disapointed in the mod community. There are a a precious few mods for rFactor that stands out as quality, but the most is plain and utter crap.
If the modders get their act together and stop rushing out their projects and then infest the community with patches here and there, it could become so much better.

1) Formula 1 Grand Prix - My first contact with racing sims ever.
2) Sportscar GT - The "Wow" feeling was incredible.
3) Nascar Heat - The most underestimated sim ever.

Welcome

Quote from tristancliffe :

That's opening it through 7-zip. Have you tried just double clicking the exe?

No, that's what I get when double clicking the .EXE.

Quote from AndroidXP :

Good call, but I just tried it and I can open the exe files even with 7zip itself, so it's really something on his system screwing up

Well I installed the latest 7-Zip and tried to open it with the program, but I do get the same message then.

The file I get when downloading is 2 189 201 bytes (2.08Mb) big, is this right?

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maybe we should have a 7-Zip troubles spinoff thread instead of clogging up the patch thread?

Last edited by X-Ter, Thu, 29 Mar 2007 19:22.

Thankyou very much

@ JTbo
I know how it should work but it doesn't. It keeps giving me error messages, no matter what. And yes, I've deleted and redownloaded (several times) to rule out the possibility of a corrup download. And yes, I did empty the temporary internet files folder. Still, I get the same error message. The same I've gotten with every 7-Zip archive I've downloaded from here. It just doesn't work on my system.

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Diagnostic message attached.

Last edited by X-Ter, Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:41.

grr.... I still can't get the 7-Zip stuff to work

Quote from Jertje :

Well, either you're lying about your system, or your system is lying to you.
I have a 'mere' 3400+ with 1gb ram and an X800GTO2, and it runs at maxed out framerates with every graphical option maxed out

Nope, no lies (why would I?). It just seems as there is an issue with what I got on my system or the settings I use.

I like the idea but...
It's slow as heck. 8FPS on an Dual Core AMD 5200+ with 2Gb RAM and a GeForce 7900, with the default settings (medium everything). That's to slow. It's not even funny. For this to sell, I'd say it needs to look as good as LFS and run as smooth.
So I give it A for originality but F for quality. If you get the FPS up along with much better image quality, and perhaps get a few roadcourse races (Grand-Am anyone?) in there, I'd say it's a winner.

I get a "memory access violation" message and then it shuts down.
AMD Dual Core 5200+ / 2Gb RAM / nVidia GeForce 7900 GTX

Thanks guys. I'll try those programs one by one

Quote from dawesdust_12 :

Windows Movie Maker probably isn't multi-threaded,

Is this why it freezes up?

As many others I use fraps to capture video from LFS and then import it into Moviemaker. With my old AMD 2400+, this worked like a charm, but with my new AMD Dual Core 5200+ it hangs and stops responding. Same version fraps, same version WindowsXP and same resolution.

Anyone has any idea what causes this? Is there another (free) tool to turn videos captured with fraps into useable size and formats?

Quote from tristancliffe :

And THEY put this nose on me, and the hat.

But you turned me into a newt

Back on topic.
Both knees ache after 20 minutes and my neck stiffens and starts to hurt after about 40 minutes. And if I'm not carefull, I get aching wrists as well after a while. Dangerous stuff being a sim racer

Many thanks

four quick tries later and I still get the same
I had the same problem with an earlier test patch as well...

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refference to earlier problems. I was not alone...
http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=350118#post350118

File I get to disk this time is 1540776 byte big, is this right? I do not think it's corrupted...

Last edited by X-Ter, Sat, 24 Mar 2007 09:46.

hmm... could someone please pack up the files as a normal .ZIP or .RAR archive for me? This 7-zip exe doesn't work for me. I get a "is not supported archive" message when I try to run it

Oh don't worry... One of these years now, the Swedish group "After Dark" will finally win and repressent Sweden in ESC. Then you will see an entire stage full of drag queens over 45 years old

I think that's a great idea.
I use a countdown timer to the next race on SCORE just ot make sure poeople from different timezones doesn't calculate wrong. Works like a charm, even for those leaving/entering DST.

Of course I watch it. I'm from Sweden and we usually do great music in this country

This one works, but is not free. And, you need a camera you can lock to 30 FPS
http://www.mousevision.com/game/index.htm

"There is no excuse not to..." and then the LFS logo on the right.

Even bigger vehicles here

http://truckpol.republika.pl/index.html