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Leprekaun
21st January 2006, 21:42
Hey! I've been wondering for a while about how the XFR vid around BL that was released before S2 came out. I just wanted to say, how can I get the game to look like it did in the video because I loved the way the car's windows were shining and the little cool fine details. Thanks! :D
Ball Bearing Turbo
21st January 2006, 21:55
... Turn up all the graphics details in the options menu....

Assuming you have the required hardware, namely a videocard manufactured within the last decade or so, it will look just like that video!
iHomer
21st January 2006, 22:27
What video? I'd like to see that video... where can I get it from?
Kuba_m
21st January 2006, 22:33
Leprekaun write something more about your hardware - CPU, GPU etc.
XCNuse
21st January 2006, 22:33
www.liveforspeed.net


take a screenshot of what your LFS looks like .. because it should look like it does in that video
MadCatX
21st January 2006, 22:36
I noticed that some LFS videos looks better than LFS in real. It can be only my feeling, it can be caused by some picture retouch during videoediting... dunno. Are you sure you have AA and AF on if your GFX driver settings?
Don
21st January 2006, 22:46
the windows were shining (reflecting?) the sky more, because it had obviously different envmap, but i dunno what you mean with "little cool details"...?
Leprekaun
30th May 2006, 14:14
Well, my pc specs are:

AMD Athlon XP 1800+
ATi Radeon 9250
Galthar
30th May 2006, 15:06
:shy: lol lol and lol
Lible
30th May 2006, 15:08
With a computer like that, you're not going to get good graphics. I had a Athlon 1700+ and some integrated card... i talk from experience.
af3blue
30th May 2006, 15:29
I've been wondering the same - hope you don't mind if I thread hijack! I have a heavily clocked 9800Pro (256Mb) and a 3700+ O'cd to FX-57 speeds. I can get about 100fps with everything maxed, what else can I do to make lfs look lovely? I'm using ATi tray tools to put everything on max, and it seems to be maxed on the options menu. Any good texture replacements about?
Vain
30th May 2006, 15:32
Yes, you can find better textures in the "Unofficial Addons" and "Miscellaneous Addons" sections of this forum.

Vain
tinvek
30th May 2006, 15:36
nice collection of main mods here

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=7174&highlight=mods

the reflection texture mod
http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=6753

makes things looks very shiny :)
Jakg
30th May 2006, 15:45
Well, my pc specs are:

AMD Athlon XP 1800+
ATi Radeon 9250rofl

Welcome to the 21st century, what fps you get with that l33t rig?

in all seriousness, turning up all the options is about all you can expect to do without your fps going as low as president bush's IQ
Qurpiz
30th May 2006, 16:42
With a computer like that, you're not going to get good graphics. I had a Athlon 1700+ and some integrated card... i talk from experience.

Same here. Except I had Intel 1700+, and I had LFS back then (S2 Demo) in 1024x768 with medium options, and even so got 30-40 FPS.
DEVIL 007
30th May 2006, 17:15
I've been wondering the same - hope you don't mind if I thread hijack! I have a heavily clocked 9800Pro (256Mb) and a 3700+ O'cd to FX-57 speeds. I can get about 100fps with everything maxed, what else can I do to make lfs look lovely? I'm using ATi tray tools to put everything on max, and it seems to be maxed on the options menu. Any good texture replacements about?
Buy a NVIDIA card to get 16XAA:D .Seriously it work and looks nice.
There are unofficial track hi-res textures and sky hi-res texture here in the forum.Just use search function ;)
J.Gent
30th May 2006, 17:49
http://lfsbench.iron.eu.org/?c=completemax

You may find some typical performance stats for machine there, if you look at the max section.
LeeLee
30th May 2006, 18:16
http://lfsbench.iron.eu.org/?c=completemax

You may find some typical performance stats for machine there, if you look at the max section.

Thanks, I'm going to take a look at this.
Phill
30th May 2006, 18:35
more hijacking..

where do i find an ATi Smartshader?! :D tried google, came up with nothing.
J.Gent
30th May 2006, 18:40
Smartshader is an option in the ati driver options panel, you can access them through display properties..........

Have they removed it or moved it in the later driver versions, I can't find it now........


Well that is where it used to be i'm sure.. so you could start by looking there.
Phill
30th May 2006, 18:45
found this: http://www.driverheaven.net/smartshader

allthough im not getting anything out of it with LFS.. :) it even says on the page that its only openGL applications, well, LFS sure is an openGL application "WORK!!" but it wont.. :)

any help!? what drivers do i want? catalyst? my current driver dosn't have smartshader options.. maybe up-to-date drivers has?
MAGGOT
30th May 2006, 19:29
LFS uses DirectX doesnt it?
sweetreid
30th May 2006, 19:42
found this: http://www.driverheaven.net/smartshader

allthough im not getting anything out of it with LFS.. :) it even says on the page that its only openGL applications, well, LFS sure is an openGL application "WORK!!" but it wont.. :)

any help!? what drivers do i want? catalyst? my current driver dosn't have smartshader options.. maybe up-to-date drivers has?
As Maggot says, it's directx (direct3d), not opengl.
MAGGOT
30th May 2006, 20:10
woohoo I was right for a change! :D
Phill
30th May 2006, 21:15
haha that explains it! :D

w00t w00t.. wait.. in this screenshot thread/topic whatever, there was a guy who said he had added the effects using smartshader.. hmmmm i wonder what version he was using then! :(

he had a few effects on, among others, "bloom" and "hdtv" it was called, i believe..
S14 DRIFT
30th May 2006, 23:48
Upon the purchase of an ATI X800xl I decided to test the graphics compared to the lame attempts of my old Nvidia 6200.
After settting AA at 6x (max on this card) and AF at 16x (also max) I decided to race , and while noticing the FPS skyrocket , I didnt really notice that much of an increase in terms of graphics

Take a look
Is that the best LFS will look like??
**please note that slight reduction of picture quality is resultant of the .jpeg format**
***Also it was taken at 1280*1024 with in in game setting at max***
Rtsbasic
31st May 2006, 00:26
Aside from the silly red smoke mod, looks similar to mine, which is a similar setup, but 8xS AA.

If you look in the Unoffical mods section, some people have released high res textures for signs etc, and others have released enhanced textures which have been played with to make look sharper and clearer. Becky Rose & bo-kristiansen have both done this, and the results are nice compared to standard textures.

Also install the Reflection mod, makes the cars look a *lot* better.
Jakg
31st May 2006, 10:17
^ what he said ^

plus use higher res skins!
af3blue
31st May 2006, 10:56
Ok, so here's a screenie of my LFS at the moment. Please ignore the wallpaper to the right- I'm minus a hard drive at the moment so don't have photoshop to cut it off.

So what can I improve? Any options you think I've missed in tray tools? Any better textures available?

By the way, sorry about the mashed front wing.
DEVIL 007
31st May 2006, 11:05
Aside from the silly red smoke mod, looks similar to mine, which is a similar setup, but 8xS AA.


Well not really true,but you can set up on NVIDIA cards(i think from 6xxx series and up) 16x AA !!!.

I notice 6xAA on ATI is not enough for nice screenshots unless you have resolution at least 1280*960/1280*1024 and up.

And yes,the only wqay now to improve LFS graphic is to install customer texture mods which can be find:

here - http://www.lfsforum.net/forumdisplay.php?f=25
and
here - http://www.lfsforum.net/forumdisplay.php?f=39

Also using hi-res(1024*1024 or 2048*2048) car skins can improve the screenshots in a nice way.
Wix
31st May 2006, 11:12
Some LFS Team movies on the web are rendered movies. they have nothing to do with the game it selves.

Tough LFS look the worls in real time tough .
Im running a Dual core AMD 4800+ with a ATO EAX1900XTX and i have to say that LFS is the best looking Sim out there. specially the fisical movements .
DEVIL 007
31st May 2006, 11:40
Some LFS Team movies on the web are rendered movies. they have nothing to do with the game it selves.

???...Show my any of these rendered movies.So far I saw(and I saw hundres of them)they were all produced based on LFS replays.
joen
31st May 2006, 11:48
???...Show my any of these rendered movies.So far I saw(and I saw hundres of them)they were all produced based on LFS replays.
I have seen some rendered clips in the 3D section like these for example: http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=8418

But the movies you see in the movies section are not rendered and are ingame. Some use special effects added to it though.
DEVIL 007
31st May 2006, 20:28
I have seen some rendered clips in the 3D section like these for example: http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=8418

But the movies you see in the movies section are not rendered and are ingame. Some use special effects added to it though.
These are not promo LFS movies.These are just test.
All other videos are ingame made.

Here is the link for some RAW screenshots from LFS.Not edited.LFS can looks quite nice.
LFS pictures (http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=134276#post134276)
joen
31st May 2006, 20:54
These are not promo LFS movies.These are just test.
All other videos are ingame made.

Here is the link for some RAW screenshots from LFS.Not edited.LFS can looks quite nice.
LFS pictures (http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=134276#post134276)

that's what I was trying to say :)
DEVIL 007
31st May 2006, 21:37
that's what I was trying to say :)
Yeh,you are right.
Just have been working from 9 till 19:30 today:shrug: