Yes they were probably. They were leftovers from my X-Fi Elite, didnt uninstall properly. LFS now runs fine on my regulat windows 7.

OK i solved it. Fresh win7 install worked fine, then got back to my old win7 install, got very mad and deinstalled everything i did not need. Did a drivercleaner sweep of all old drivers, threw it all out.

The problem was either:

Acronis True Image Home
nVidia Physx (came with 3dmark vantage)
3dmark Vantage
Creative sound drivers (leftovers)

Threw that out plus some other stuff, and now it works fine.

Thanks foor all the suggestions!

Well it seems like i have found at least one culprit.. APPLE. Damn them.

I did not go deep enough when shutting down all non-essentials. So I disabled all i could disable without crashing windows, and after that the game ran alot smoother. It's still minor glitches, but playable at least. After that, I began a search on eliminating the process by shutting stuff down one by one.

Turns out, all those iTunes and apple helpers, bonjour service, mobile device service, seem to screw things up. Threw them out, and voila stuff worked. I'm now going to delete all Apple stuff I can find.

Does anybody have any explanation as to why oh why Apple can have such effect on LFS? I can honestly not see any connection whatsoever.

EDIT//

No sorry I was wrong. It's not the Apple helpers on their own. The game ONLY becomes playable if i shut down everything else. Like EVERYTHING, antivirus, soundcard managers, controller managers (including G25 profiler), lots of services, EVERYTHING. This is obviously not a solution, but at least a cause has been found. Maybe somebody can come up with a solution, other than having to install 1 perfectly clean windows just for LFS?

Last edited by Boxman90, Wed 28 Jul 2010, 13:44.

The windows XP was 32 bit. I'll see if i can make an extra partition for another windows 7 installation. Or maybe I'll install it on another windows 7 x64 rig, see if the windows -> hardware combination makes any difference.

Ok i'm back on Windows 7, and tried what you said. I set affinity to core 0 (and after that i also tried 1, 2 and 3 subsequently), also tried the priority, set it to real-time. This didn't help, but more frankly, there are no spikes whatsoever when playing the game. It only asks for maybe 10% of total cpu power, so roughly 40% of the one core. On the minifreezes, no irregular behaviour can be noted. It's clear that only 1 core shows a changing graph, but it never reaches 0 or 100, it stays between 30~50%.

Posting from my WinXP now, installed 10.7 drivers, and works like a CHARM, even on my crippled XP.

So this is now officially a Windows 7 problem. All we need now, is to pinpoint what the culprit is in win7... Any suggestions?

Oh, and from now on, I offer a reward of $10 directly to the paypal account of the person who can provide the solution for this mystery.

Last edited by Boxman90, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 19:14.

I paid for it when it worked, then upgraded my PC, then the game wasn't playable anymore. As i said, in the end it didn't pay off. The game - when playable - is great.

But let's not get offtopic. I want this problem resolved, badly.

I've actually got a windows XP version still installed on another partition, but it's quite crippled. I'll see if i can fix it, will report back later.

I've got a Samsung 2443BW. I'll try the refresh rates, but honestly, the sound glitches too when I it something, so i doubt that it's the monitor.

I think it's just the game. I paid for it, but the game didn't pay off in the end. It is unplayable this way.

OK, I tried Alpha P, and the exact same thing happens. Whenever i hit anything, shit happens. So apparently it's a new and unique problem. I'll now try to downgrade my drivers, and if that doesn't work I need some new suggestions.

Edit: 10.1 drivers didn't work, I even flashed a new bios in my HD5970, but to no avail. I'm out of ideas, i think the game is just not future proof yet.

Last edited by Boxman90, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 16:47.

Ok, will do so, but honestly, wouldn't that mean that my problem will be fixed only after several months from now?

Well I'll try that, but wouldn't that mean that I can't drive on online servers?

Quote from hazaky :

Check directx version and such stuff, do a diagnosis @ Run>Type"dxdiag".

Also, check for allkinds of .NET framework versions, for some reasons this kind of problem leads me to such thing. What if u try to run LFS X?

I updated DirectX and did DxDiag, nothing came up and it didn't help. Will check the .NET framework, haven't done that yet.

I also did a full reinstall of LFS, that didn't help. I dont think there are any missing files.

I updated soundcard drivers, didn't help. I shut down all non-necessary programs, like antivirus and MSN, didn't help either.

Oh and could you tell me what you mean by "Try to run LFS X"?

OK, it is not a sound problem. I disabled all my sound devices altogether, and the problem still persists.
Still weird though, when I hit Shift-A to see the sound setup, and start driving, it says "CLIPPING" in red in the right top corner whenever I hit a wall and the game locks up.
EDIT// Doesn't show "CLIPPING" when sound card is disabled, so still not a sound problem.

Last edited by Boxman90, Mon 26 Jul 2010, 11:39.

I do have a somewhat less-known sound card, Asus Xonar Essence STX. Just updated the drivers for that, but that didn't help at all really.

Will read the topic you posted, thanks.

3600MHz, 24/7 prime95 stable. I've never had issues before, neither any instability, so I doubt that it's my overclock.

HD5970 runs at stock speeds.

Honestly, lowering the settings when I have the best GFX card available to date? No sorry, my HD3870 pulled it off at the same settings.

The framerate is fine, normally above 160fps, but only when I actually HIT something (wall, tires, whatever), the whole thing locks up for a short moment, and then continues.

I tried disabling the ATi AI, as that is known to cause compatibility problems, but to no avail. The 3D settings are on "let the application decide".

There is now a $10 reward for the one giving me the fixing tip!

I'm having a problem with the new LFS Z28 under Win7 x64.

The game has overall become very laggy. When I'm just out of the pits, and look around, it's immediately stuttering. Once I take a good look around, it's okay and the next time I look around its all fine without stuttering.

The real problem is, however, that whenever I hit something like a stack of tires head on, the whole game freezes up for about 0.5 seconds, then it resumes again. Everytime another car comes in visual range, I'm again experiencing micro freezes of about 0.2 seconds. It is very annoying.

Is it a setting I've missed? Is anybody else having this problem?

The specs surely arent the problem:

- AMD Phenom II 940
- 4GB DDR2-800
- HD5970
- DFI AM2+ motherboard
- G25 racing wheel.

Please help me.

Last edited by Boxman90, Tue 27 Jul 2010, 21:22.