About LFS

Physics Engine

The outer loop of the physics and environment checks run at 100 Hz, but with 20 uninterruptable sub-updates inside that (tight loop on each car) so in one sense it's 2000 Hz physics.

History of LFS

An early development version of LFS

• Sometime in 1999: Working on Lionhead's Black & White, Scawen starts to write a small stunt simulator with mouse steering in his free time
• Spring 2001: After the release of Black & White, Scawen and Eric leave Lionhead to work fulltime on LFS
• 18.08.2002: A user of the West Racing forum finds the demo test 0.04k on the internet and spreads the word about LFS: http://www.west-racing.com/forums/index.php?&act=ST&f=1&t=958&st=0
• 19.09.2002: The official LFS forum starts at Race Sim Central: http://forum.rscnet.org/forumdisplay.php?f=205
• 17.07.2003: Release of Live for Speed S1, the first full LFS release
• 29.07.2003: The LFSWorld website goes online http://www.lfsworld.net/
• 25.06.2005: Release of the Live for Speed S2 Alpha
• 10.08.2005: The new official LFS forum goes online: http://www.lfsforum.net

Major LFS Releases

The GT Turbo in LFS v0.1 at an unpublished city track in Miami.

• 18.08.2002: 0.04k - The first public LFS version ever
• 06.09.2002: 0.1B - Demo test with added reversed track configs
• 22.03.2003: 0.2A - Demo test, similar to S1 but without the new cars & tracks
• 17.07.2003: 0.3A - S1
• 05.04.2005: 0.5K - S2 Demo Alpha, features work-in-progress S2 physics but with only demo content
• 25.06.2005: 0.5P - S2 Alpha, physics improved sine 0.5K but still in development, full S2 content available

The Development Team

The dev team presenting the S2 Alpha in Denmark 2004.

Scawen Roberts, Eric Bailey, Victor van Vlaardingen.