I have a home made welded racing seat frame with places for:

Wheel
Keyboard
Mouse
Pedals (adjustable for leg length)
shifter (G25)

seat is electric adjustable (seat from an old vauxhall calibra)

It needs to be collected from Oxford.

If you're interested, e mail me at info @ david-goode.com

FE Gold / XRT

Shame that Victor wiped the other thread instead of editing out the offensive stuff. There was a lot of posts lamenting the loss of the STCC and praising the programmers for all their hard work. I hope those who posted will post again on this thread to show what a huge number of grateful supporters STCC has.

So again...Thank you Becky and co, Good luck with whatever you do now, and come back soon!

And to all the other STCC racers left floundering in the dust.......
Where shall we race now? Any suggestions? Anyone got a server we could race TBOs on?

I understand why the thread was closed but many people will have come home from work / school / whatever and found the STCC closed and the only thread discussing the closure closed also. STCC is a huge deal to many in the LFS community and I think those who were involved at least deserve somewhere to write a final comment. So providing that this thread does not involve the 'issue', please can it be kept open?

I like the STCC system and while I don't (any more) think it should be a mandatory part of LFS, I would like it to be more visible to beginners. I had been playing LFS for well over a year before I found it. It revolutionised my very narrow view of LFS (must get a better lap time at BLGP in the fox) It would be nice if there was an option within the GUI to join or not join an LFS endorsed progression system. Some people can race endlessly for no other reward than getting a good position. I think anything that makes you want to overtake the guy in front more has to be a good thing. In real life there is a whole lot of motivation to get a better position. In LFS there is more points towards that next license. I know it's a fictional prize...but it's a fictional race environment! Some guy got his gold license the other night. He was clearly over the moon and other racers were congratulating him. I liked that.

Well done Becky and co. Keep up the good work, it's much appreciated.

There's a physics card on the market http://www.ageia.com/physx/. I was wondering whether this would have any effect on LFS, or does the application need to be programmed to make use of the card?

Quote from thisnameistaken :

It's too understeery with the default preload value in W10/17, so yeah I've been messing with it a bit since the new test patches, but I haven't come up with anything I really like yet. (Pssst! I don't really know what I'm doing!).

Just had a quick look, and I've got the power locking at 50%, coast at 60%, preload at 110Nm. I've also upped the rear ARB to 50, Front is at 55. Not sure what they used to be at but I know I messed with them (rightly or wrongly!)

Just had a 20 lap race with this set (not modified)and burst the front left tyre on final lap! (still got 3rd though!)

Quote from thisnameistaken :

It looks like a Vauxhall! Who gets excited looking at Vauxhalls? Nobody!



Attached a couple of different ones that I remember using recently. The one labeled "SO4R" has a clutch pack diff and it's quite twitchy but sublime once you get the hang of it, the "SO5R" one has a locked diff and it understeers like a swine but it's easier to be fast.

Thanks very much for that. I've been using the SO4R one for a while now. I use it on all tracks as I'm not sure how to mod it for different tracks so I'd probably spend a lot of time and end up messing it up. Are you still as happy with this set or have you made changes that make it better?

LFS is so good that it would be more honest if my racername was 'sim racer'

Quote from AndroidXP :

Set it up like this. All the other settings should be turned to 0%, because they are Logitech effects which have nothing to do with what LFS calculates. On the contrary, they interfere with LFS' calculations, severely changing the feel from the way it was intended.

Very helpful reply! Thanks!

Quote from Gimpster :

Anyone that does not allow some margin for error is a wreckless driver

HA HA! I liked this one! I think you meant reckless!

Quote from NikLaw :

I changed my wheel settings to 100/0/0/0/540 in the CP and to 20 % in LFS and I have to admit that I seem to have more car control because of more feedback. But I have to use the soft FF (Select-R3-L1). So I learned something and this thread wasn´t useless!

Why do you have these other sliders set to 0/0/0/? I've always had mine set to 100% but I don't really know what they do.

Congratulations! What a great event!....Just begs the question...when is the UK going to have a similar event? PR for LFS would be enormous, bringing many more racers on-board.

Quote from need :

Back left - I think it's 'goode400', and not sure but I'm fairly sure it was Dave.

Not me! I'm third from right

Thanks Bob! Had a great time. Didn't expect to win a race but....I did! (ok, so it was only first place in the duffers race but it felt good anyway!)
Great to meet some LFS fans in real life.

Congratulations to the trophy winners. That last race was great to watch!

Bob - you didn't take off your shoes before getting in my car. I had to vacuum the passenger side carpet when I got back.

Quote from DragonCommando :

I still think you'r not getting what I'm saying, The real world is 3d, no matter what each eye sees it as.

your monitor image is FLAT no matter what each of your eyes see.

You can not get the same depth with an imageing trick as you can with the real world.

If you had the glasses you'd see it, some things still seem flat, they just look layered with gaps in between, thats all.

I don't have them, but I' heard alot about them. Don't get me wrong they work, but they still can't give you that true 3d realisim that you experiance every day. No matter the detail of the game, it's still rendered as a flat image.

FYI I have a 3D projection system and I can honestly say that the 3D is EXACTLY the same as real life 3D. The only difference is the graphical quality and the resolution. There is no sense of being infront of a 2D screen whatsoever. The dashboard is right behind my wheel and the next bend is 300 meters away through a wide bright hole in my living room.

Quote from srdsprinter :

Welcome to LFS!

It really is refreshing to see someone new here really enjoying what he/she has stumbled upon. Makes me think back to when I found lfs...

As far as word-of-mouth advertising, everyone's too busy racing LFS to communicate with the oudside world...

No, I've tried...I bet loads of us have. You know, you sit your mate in the drivers seat thinking 'he's going to love this!'. He floors it and spins at the start. Then he screams off down the straight and piles it into the barrier at T1..takes ages to get back on the track...into the gravel at T2 and gets stuck...then (his male driving ego wounded) declares it a crap game and goes back to killing stuff on his favourite first person shooter...Very depressing. There must be a better way to introduce newcomers to LFS.

Welcome! We've all been where you are today. Thanks for the reminder!

See you online.

Quote from Ricou :

Kegetys has just released the version 1.05 of SoftTH, which implements cylindrical correction !

Unluckily, I don't have a 2nd graphic card to test it on my 3 screens...

By 'cylindrical correction', do you mean that the image can be adjusted to look right on three screens that are not in a line on the desk but a front, left and right views?

Welcome Funnybone! Being a young pup, you'll be near the front of the pack in no time!

Thumbs up to the philanthropists!

Quote from Becky Rose :

There is a balancing method in of sorts, FXO drivers have to do their own throttle blipping on downshift and throttle cutting (unless they use manual clutch) - but it isn't enough to redress all of their advantage.

Nothing else is possible to detect at the moment.

Becky > Why do you allow dips and blips at all in any car? surely total realism is the goal.

Quote from thisnameistaken :

Attached a couple of different ones that I remember using recently. The one labeled "SO4R" has a clutch pack diff and it's quite twitchy but sublime once you get the hang of it, the "SO5R" one has a locked diff and it understeers like a swine but it's easier to be fast.

Thanks for those....although from your discription, neither sound like particularly good 'beginners' sets. But perhaps it's better to start off with a good but tricky set and get used to it than an easy set which will have to be dumped later on in favour of a competetive one.

Ok, I'll try the XRT then. Would some kind soul post a stable XRT set?

I've just got my silver license. Being a noob to this class, I would be interested to know why people have chosen the car they drive out of the three available.

Thanks.

I don't think I'm addicted...but my wife has re-named me 'back of head'...so maybe I am just a little addicted.