ah... that's probably right. thanks

how do you know if this has happened to you? yesterday i thought i was on the grid and ready, but when we actually went on track i wasn't in the race. i don't know if i accidentally did something or if i was victim of this, is there a way to tell?

i've noticed a blueish tint on the cars at fern bay. i assume it's in the reflection as when i turned it down in cfg (as the installer recommended, i just wanted to see what it looked like before) it was less noticeable, but still there.

here is what my target line reads for the lfs shortcut:

C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /c start "runhigh" /high "C:\LFS\LFS.exe"

just be sure you point to the right locations for your machine, they may be different than mine. the last location should point to your lfs.exe, where your shortcut currently points to. this edit changes the icon to the cmd.exe icon, but you can change it back to the lfs one so it will look better at the same place you changed the target line (right click the shortcut -> properties. there should be a "change icon" button. just browse for your lfs.exe).

but if running in high priority didn't fix your problem, it may be beneficial to not run such a high priority as it can take away from the rest of your system.

Quote from Woz :

Just CTRL-ALT-DEL and in the process list right click LFS. You can set the priority there. Dont set too high as you need the OS to breath

omg thank you, my problem is finally solved.

Quote from W1ldPort75 :

@ JMacari ,
did that prog really work for you ? I can´t see why a prog like that should work as both my cpu´s really never had a prob with other intense games . I guess i´ll give it a try , who knows

other games i play are fine too, it's only lfs. and the above ctrl alt del method works perfect. give it a try, hope you find that it works for you like it did for me.

edit: i just now started up n2003 (a game i haven't had problems with) to see it's priority, and it was already set to high. maybe that's why lfs was the only thing having problems, other games are already at high while lfs by default is normal.

Last edited by JMacari, Sat, 2 Feb 2008 07:13.

Quote from smove :

Sounds interesting ... but ... what is a BOV sound?

blow off valve i assume.

but i do not see dump valve volume in the shift + a menu

i was messing around with this program called uniblue speedupmypc. in it there is a cpu optimization wher eyou can like prioritize processes. i raised the priority to lfs and the problem is gone. i don't like this solution because i'd rather not have anything else running in the background, but it at least narrows the problem down to something definitely taking cycles from the cpu. is there a way to do this in windows (not using a 3rd party app)?

Quote from BYN :

You said you thought you'd solved it by disabling your antivirus.
What anti-virus, spyware or internet security programs are you using?

i disable all these and turn them off before playing any games now... there is no process related to them remaining in task manager.

Quote from Takumi_lfs :

The game is running fine on a 6600GT with 128mb on a AMD 3500. I usually had 80-130fps alone.

So, What CPU do you have and how much RAM?

amd 3000+ 2.0 ghz w 1 gb of ram. i get the same fps you mentioned but with the stutter.

Quote from lil chris :

Before i Upgraded I had a 6600 and 6800 GT and this happened sometimes. You are absolutley you have not other prgrams running at same time? Mine was down to windows media player as I liked to play music as I drive. weird thing was some songs would cause lfs to fps drop, dunno ifIi was imagining it though. But Windows media play does lag LFS for sure.

there are a couple processes i don't know what they are in task manager, but as far as i know everything that would take cycles is closed.

i do not have vsync on. i have experimented with it but the problem still occurs. same with setting a max fps.

i have a 6600gt w 128 mb of memory. where is this option to view its memory usage? at first i thought it was something using the cpu, but i closed everything... what might cause the gpu memory to be used? because i have good fps and it'll flash down ~25 fps just for an instant when it stutters, i feel as though it probably is something external using up memory or something like that but i have no idea how to determine what that might be.

this is getting very frustrating

it was installed on my external, so i tried installing it on my normal hard drive but there is no difference.

well, it happens offline as well.

i thought that too, so i tried exiting it and it seemed to make no difference.

bump

back when this thread was alive i noticed this problem wasn't actually gone, but i wasn't really playing often enough to bother with it anymore. recently i've been playing quite a bit again. lfs is one of the least taxing games i play, yet it has this stutter while others (cs:s, n2003) have no problems at all. the game looks great, and i get better fps than the other games i mentioned. however, this stutter happens several times a lap and is very annoying and sometimes causes me to miss my marks. it does not happen at specific points on the track. i close out of everything from task manager that is not needed so i have minimal memory and cpu usage. i'm really lost as to why this is happening. i have uninstalled and reinstalled with no luck. thanks for any help.

Quote from tristancliffe :

I will never stoop to something as unrealistic and arcadey as pitspotter.

care to explain? spotters are used and are important in real life racing.

yep it does the same for me.

well that worked, not sure why i had such a problem lol. thanks

the pitspotter seems to be a bit misleading, it told me a car was right when i could clearly see the car was not via mirrors. just me or has this been common?

i'm sorry, but i'm a super n00b here... what exactly is insim? the features of this lfsrelax seem very neat, but i have been unsuccessful at setting it up and thought if i better understood what insim was i could figure it out?

i ran enditall to kill everything and it still happens... i run spyware and virus searches on a regular basis.

fixed. i disabled my antivirus instead of killing it and it seems to work find. thanks for all the responses

full screen

my game just randomly stutters in game. it shows consistant fps at ~92 but when it stutters it jumps to ~40 for a split second. i hadn't played LFS in a while, and i used to get no stutter whatsoever. because of this i don feel my specs are very important. my audio also crackles a little bit at the same time it stutters. i play many other games and they run fine. any help would be appreciated

hahah... "power everything (except the engine)"

thats hilarious