Installation problems!

[CoYLeZ]

hey,

i am new. i am having problems installing the S 2 Alpha version of LFS. how the hell do i install this. its a bunch of .ban, jpeg, .Isn, .Lyt, and .RAW files?!

[yozzer]

:really: just unzip it...

clicketieclick on the exe and your away

:razz: easy huh

[XRRoy]

the only thing you have to do in extract the .zip file somewhere in a folder :D

yozzer was faster :thumb:

[CoYLeZ]

is that tha LFS Application thingy? cos it says could not write to data folder - is LFS correctly installed on hard drive?

do i need LFS S 1 or sumfink?

or can i just have s 2 installed wifout s 1?

[HRT SHAUN]

you can have s2 installed without s1, can you please learn how to spell properly, THANK YOU!

[CoYLeZ]

so y's it saying that i havnt installed to harddrive!

btw, from melbourne HRT SHAUN

[the_angry_angel]

First of all download the LFS zip file.
Next extract the entire Zip to its own directory (mines in E:\Games\LiveForSpeed, but anything will do).
Now go into the directory where you unzipped LFS. Double click on "LFS.exe" to run.

Depending on what operating system you run on, and what software you have installed, will affect how you unzip a file.

Edit:
Make sure you havent downloaded the Patch (which is only about 2mb). The whole install of LFS is about 130mb-ish, if I remember.

[CoYLeZ]

First of all download the LFS zip file.
Next extract the entire Zip to its own directory (mines in E:\Games\LiveForSpeed, but anything will do).
Now go into the directory where you unzipped LFS. Double click on "LFS.exe" to run.

Depending on what operating system you run on, and what software you have installed, will affect how you unzip a file.

Edit:
Make sure you havent downloaded the Patch (which is only about 2mb). The whole install of LFS is about 130mb-ish, if I remember.


hey, can u send me your LFS.exe, cos i think mine aint workin n shit. thankx

[CoYLeZ]

First of all download the LFS zip file.
Next extract the entire Zip to its own directory (mines in E:\Games\LiveForSpeed, but anything will do).
Now go into the directory where you unzipped LFS. Double click on "LFS.exe" to run.

Depending on what operating system you run on, and what software you have installed, will affect how you unzip a file.

Edit:
Make sure you havent downloaded the Patch (which is only about 2mb). The whole install of LFS is about 130mb-ish, if I remember.


hey, can u send me your LFS.exe, cos i think mine aint workin n shit. thankx, if possible. like upload it to this forum or sumfink

[Pabs(Sco)]

No Swearing please.

Have you downloaded the full version? and not just the patch? (as the_angry_angel said earlier)

Edit:
Download the full version here http://www.liveforspeed.net/?page=downloads

[CoYLeZ]

No Swearing please.

Have you downloaded the full version? and not just the patch? (as the_angry_angel said earlier)

yer

[Pabs(Sco)]

Can you explain the steps you took to "install" the game?

[CoYLeZ]

Can you explain the steps you took to "install" the game?

i unzip'd the LFS_S2_ALPHA_P game, and then i got all these files like .ban, jpeg, .Isn, .Lyt, and .RAW files, and one application, but i tryed to open that and it sed "could not write to data folder - is LFS correctly installed on hard drive"

[Pabs(Sco)]

where those files inside folders?

you should have a folder structure containing these files

[CoYLeZ]

where those files inside folders?

you should have a folder structure containing these files

nope no folders

[Pabs(Sco)]

It looks like you unziped the files without the folder structure :s

[Pabs(Sco)]

I am not at home just now so I cant post the folder structure, but you should have a data folder and withing hte data folder there are several folders containing several files.

What program did you use to unzip?

[avih]

@Pabs(Sco): man, you have endless patience. I envy you ;) don't worry, it can't take MUCH longer till he manages the "task".

@CoYLeZ: I trust Pabs to guide you to a safe shore. Just follow his advice closely.

[Pabs(Sco)]

Well he needs help to get this great game working :D I can only do what I can.

[(SaM)]

Easy as 1,2,3..
Unzip the contents of the patch zip into the folder where you unpacked S2 onto. In other words the patch files have to replace the S2 files.

[Pabs(Sco)]

He could have used some "other" zip utility that did not extract the files with the directory structure. It would be nice to know what utitlity he used.

Remember people, some users may not be very PC literate but still play games. Most games guide the user through the instalation.

LFS is different from 90% of games on the market, its installation is strange when compared to most other games so it can be confusing.

[dUmAsS]

did we discuss if an installer was needed to S2? ;)

i guess we were proved wrong

[ORION]

dammit, this is all Vykos' fault :rofl:

[GeForz]

dammit, this is all Vykos' fault :rofl:
Well... "Vykos" is providing a S2 verison with installer for the racing-challenge ^^

[ORION]

omg really? :D
I was rather referring to the GC btw :)

But seriously - Vykos is doing an awesome job there, and there will always be noobs, whereever you go :)

[CoYLeZ]

ey guys and girls. i used winzip to extract the files to a folder, but there was no folders in the winzip file. Pabs(Sco), can u send a pic of ur folder structure. thankz....

[the_angry_angel]

Check out http://images.theangryangel.is-a-geek.com/LFS/filestruct.gif for the file structure.

[ColeusRattus]

In Winzip you see no folder structure like in explorer, but you see the path behind the filename.

So, here i have two pics, which should help you:

[CoYLeZ]

hey!!!! thanks everyone especially the_angry_angel and ColeusRattus. i extracted it rong the first time i did it. i highlighted all of the files, and put em into one folder. so i did wat use told me and i extracted em propably and it works. thankz playaz

[avih]

Good. welcome ;)

[dUmAsS]

wow, winzip sucks :really:

[ColeusRattus]

wow, winzip sucks :really:
yeah, dled it so i could make those screenies ;) Prefer WinRAR

[dUmAsS]

woo. go winrar! :D

[the_angry_angel]

7zip++; //it rocks.

[Pabs(Sco)]

Sorry I wasn't around, glad to see you got it working :bg:

[bobbfwed]

There hasn't been an installer provided. But I have created one. There's no way for me to post it to the forums here. But if anyone needs it, they can download it off my site (45KBps). Just leave me a message here/or private chat in the LFS Mailbox (in the LFS desktop). I don't have much bandwidth on my cable modem, so I don't want to give it out to too many people, but ask me and I'll likely let you download it.

It has an actual installer UI.
It has both the game and the quick skin viewer.
It has a real uninstaller.
It writes the correct registries so Windows knows it exists.
It shows up in "add/remove programs".
It takes all the guesswork out of extracting a .zip file.
It creates desktop and/or start menu shotcuts (optional).
It is a "real" installer!
With all this, it is also 16MB smaller than the .zip file provided from the LFS site.

[(SaM)]

There hasn't been an installer provided. But I have created one. There's no way for me to post it to the forums ..

Great job, I'm sure alot of people will love to have that when they install S2. If it wasn't that I already have S2 installed the way I want it, I would've asked you for it as well.

[bobbfwed]

The installer .EXEs are being hosted by another LFS member (ORION -- thanks!). Here are the links (they are both the same file, just different servers):
http://www.zt-racing.com/downloads/files/Live_For_Speed_S2-ALPHA-Q_Install.exe
http://zt.racenetwork.de/zt-files/Live_For_Speed_S2-ALPHA-Q_Install.exe

This will install LFS like a real program. It also has the skin viewer packaged with it.