good point jason

my knowledge is probably about the same as you, but less :-p
how do i check the ports?
i use stupid telecom in kiwi land. unfortunately there's no decent competion for telecom so the broadband product is crap compare to ozzie and us

i tried the tune up utlities with no success, but helped to speed up my pc cheers for the link Sapient

thanks for that advice Sapient. i normally try and keep those things current and sorted, but i'll do a fresh one and try it

cheers

Quote from Sapient :

www.mondaynightracing.com is an Aussie/NZ based league you might want to try.... we run full servers (23 slots currently) every monday night with very very few lag issues.

I might suggest your ISP is doing something screwy with particular ports that LFS uses?

cheers Sapient. i'm always keen for some fast close racing

unfortunately i'm not that technically minded, so i'm unsure which port lfs is using.

i find that other popular car racing games don't suffer from this lag.

i'm so jealous of your lag-free lfs gaming jason, especially on dialup

i recommend rfactor. i've played gtr, gtr2, netkar pro, and race. i played gtr2 for a while, but then went back to rfactor. great selection of mods and great netcode. hopefully netkar pro will get a lobby

yes, i know how lag is measured but thanks anyway

unfortunately all the servers have a high ping and even the low pings with only 2 people still slightly lags. rfactor and GTR2 work fine on oversea servers. i only play online, so i'm hoping this problem can be fixed and minic rfactor's and gtr2's online code.....fingers crossed

Cheers for the advice.
I must admit the connection for most servers are 200ms and above. Still, I can race on rfactor with someone lagging at over 800ms yet its still smooth.

stuttering or lag, its a pain.

Hey guys,

I've had this problem since I downloaded Live for Speed in 2005. It only occurs online, while offline is fine and smooth.

Here is the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU498eu7oiY

I've been reading the forums for a solution, but with no success. There are other stuttering problems so I thought I would post a video with my problem I'm experiencing. In the video the framerate maintains above 20 fps, so it's not a lack of hardware power and I use broadband. I've tried the minium sleep option, but with little success.

GTR, GTR2 and rfactor run fine and smooth online with no stuttering at all. It only appears on LFS. This problem is frustrating and stops me from playing online.

I'm not here to put down the LFS netcode, just merely to rasie awareness of this problem and hope there's a solution or the development team could solve this problem with the next patch.
I think LFS is a great game and would love to play it online. Until this problem is solved, its GTR2 and rfactor in the meantime.

Any positive comments and help is welcome

Cheers