Nooooooooo you kept the track. 
By the way congrats for the achievements!
By the way congrats for the achievements!
Hi.
I quite like it! Fancy cameras, relaxing song that matches the action.
I quite like it! Fancy cameras, relaxing song that matches the action.
It makes sense actually. The way I see it, it's used to describe the american countries that speak latin-originated languages - spanish and portuguese. That's how we use it around here anyway (I'm sure other countries use it in a much worse way).
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But then, honestly, I can't understand clearly what someone from Portugal speaks. They speak too fast and the accent is too different, a lot of words are completely different (and don't exist in the other part), and we use different conjugations. The question is: is that the case with the spanish variations?
On a side note, I can understand my team mates with (almost) no problems, and one of them is british while the other is american. And they understand each other pretty well too. I'd say the differences in pt-pt and pt-br are deeper, but then it could be because we (I) don't have much contact with them?
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I'm sure you're helping a lot more than interfering
(at least I hope so, because I'm doing the same here :schwitzBut you can't speak for everyone. I know I'd be disappointed if there isn't a brazilian portuguese, even though I use the english myself. It's good to have a translation to your own language, and much better if people are willing to give local populations the attention they need.
I'll agree the problem is a bit bigger here though, as there's a lot of countries with their own variations. But I'm sure a lot of people are looking forward to this.
After some break it's time to report on my race.
Shame it happened but was funny though, I was desperately trying to point the car in the right direction while spinning at the grass. I managed, but the car was going too fast, I feared I would play bowling in T1 with Zeug's RB4
but it all went fairly well in the end.
The TBOs were all packed for the first laps, wich made things interesting. I made some passes and got passed a couple of times as well. After the field spread a little, there was two FXOs ahead - fastwalker and predrag, wich I couldn't bother because they were so much faster - and Zeug on my arse. For some good ~40 minutes my race consisted in cursing his RB4 because I couldn't pull away. Eventually Salama came and passed us both at the same time in a small traffic jam involving GTRs as well.
The first hour ended, and people began to make pitstops. As I started with 100% fuel (had no idea how much I would use so filled it) I decided to keep on track for a few more minutes, considering I wouldn't need refuelling and the tyres were ok. In fact, I think that gave me a considerable advantage as the track was cleaner and I could push a little harder. Well the car was felling so good I ended up pitting only with 30min left and would even try to cover the full race without pitting if it was allowed. I was second at the time.
Since I had to pit, I changed the tyres to be on the safe side. I thought I had a considerable gap to the third (Adam) to make a full pit stop and stuff and try some battle for forth or maybe third place. What surprised me is that I was still in second place when I left the pits, 20s ahead of Adam! All I had to do is keep driving untill the checkered flag and that's what I did.
Congrats to fastwalker for the convincing win... and the same for the 3id guys.
On a side note, I'd like to compliment the GTRs drivers. I had a few not so nice moments while being lapped, but you were cleaner than I expected, wich is always good. A special one to Bont and Niall, that apart from going very fast (wich is scary at times), were always respectful and knew exactly what their car and mine were capable of doing.
But there's a bad side as well. The Panasonic FXR (I think it's the same one you guys are complaining), and specially Kenneth for me. Very ruthless everytime, dive bombing everywhere when there was no room, pushing me out of the racing line by contact. And that nasty block exactly at my T3 braking point, what were you thinking? :/ Absolutely unnecessary. I don't really care if you were battling for the win with your super fast FZR, I have a race myself and you got to realize that! You can't go far with that attitude, and I hope you take this as an advice. 
Oh and thanks for the organizers, you did a very good job.
Sorry for the long post, I'm off to watch the broadcast now.
Shame it happened but was funny though, I was desperately trying to point the car in the right direction while spinning at the grass. I managed, but the car was going too fast, I feared I would play bowling in T1 with Zeug's RB4
but it all went fairly well in the end.The TBOs were all packed for the first laps, wich made things interesting. I made some passes and got passed a couple of times as well. After the field spread a little, there was two FXOs ahead - fastwalker and predrag, wich I couldn't bother because they were so much faster - and Zeug on my arse. For some good ~40 minutes my race consisted in cursing his RB4 because I couldn't pull away. Eventually Salama came and passed us both at the same time in a small traffic jam involving GTRs as well.
The first hour ended, and people began to make pitstops. As I started with 100% fuel (had no idea how much I would use so filled it) I decided to keep on track for a few more minutes, considering I wouldn't need refuelling and the tyres were ok. In fact, I think that gave me a considerable advantage as the track was cleaner and I could push a little harder. Well the car was felling so good I ended up pitting only with 30min left and would even try to cover the full race without pitting if it was allowed. I was second at the time.
Since I had to pit, I changed the tyres to be on the safe side. I thought I had a considerable gap to the third (Adam) to make a full pit stop and stuff and try some battle for forth or maybe third place. What surprised me is that I was still in second place when I left the pits, 20s ahead of Adam! All I had to do is keep driving untill the checkered flag and that's what I did.
Congrats to fastwalker for the convincing win... and the same for the 3id guys.On a side note, I'd like to compliment the GTRs drivers. I had a few not so nice moments while being lapped, but you were cleaner than I expected, wich is always good. A special one to Bont and Niall, that apart from going very fast (wich is scary at times
), were always respectful and knew exactly what their car and mine were capable of doing.But there's a bad side as well. The Panasonic FXR (I think it's the same one you guys are complaining), and specially Kenneth for me.
Very ruthless everytime, dive bombing everywhere when there was no room, pushing me out of the racing line by contact. And that nasty block exactly at my T3 braking point, what were you thinking? :/ Absolutely unnecessary. I don't really care if you were battling for the win with your super fast FZR, I have a race myself and you got to realize that! You can't go far with that attitude, and I hope you take this as an advice. Oh and thanks for the organizers, you did a very good job.
Sorry for the long post, I'm off to watch the broadcast now.
Oh noes, pick a decent track!
Wow I still finished forth in the championship, that's incredible. At least it ended with a win.
Gratz to the winners.
Gratz to the winners.
Good stuff Mr. Passingham, looks like you had a busy year!
It's nice to have you in the team, I had a really enjoyable year as well. Now, let's do the 24h alone? :hyper:
It's nice to have you in the team, I had a really enjoyable year as well. Now, let's do the 24h alone? :hyper:
Filefront never has available servers for me... 
Exceptionally bad start, then driver error, then damage. WTF.
The shadow extensions seem to be fixed for me.
Hmm I'm not really into GTRs but as far as I know in a race they are better with fairly high tyre pressures - I could be talking rubbish though.
If you can't find a way to keep your tyres around optimum temperature it might be time to change their compound. R2s are softer (faster) but will overheat easily, complicating things. R3s are the mid-term, usually the best for races and last for a long time. R4s are so hard that it's almost impossible to reach a good temperature, so you might want to avoid this one.
You can also go with different compounds in front and rear tyres, and that - softer compounds on the rear tyres - seems to work pretty well with the FXR.
Keep in mind that tyres slightly over the optimum temperature at the first laps is a good thing. As they wear, you'll notice they start cooling down. On this subject you'll have to find a compromise in your driving style, setup options and race lenght (high pressures and agressive driving since the start? Keep it smooth at the first laps and push harder later when tyres allow? Is tyre wear even noticeable in that race?) that works better for you in each situation.
Either way, be sure to practice full race stints and test different things to have a better understanding on how things work in LFS (if you have the time, obviously).
Hope this helps.
If you can't find a way to keep your tyres around optimum temperature it might be time to change their compound. R2s are softer (faster) but will overheat easily, complicating things. R3s are the mid-term, usually the best for races and last for a long time. R4s are so hard that it's almost impossible to reach a good temperature, so you might want to avoid this one.
You can also go with different compounds in front and rear tyres, and that - softer compounds on the rear tyres - seems to work pretty well with the FXR.
Keep in mind that tyres slightly over the optimum temperature at the first laps is a good thing. As they wear, you'll notice they start cooling down. On this subject you'll have to find a compromise in your driving style, setup options and race lenght (high pressures and agressive driving since the start? Keep it smooth at the first laps and push harder later when tyres allow? Is tyre wear even noticeable in that race?) that works better for you in each situation.
Either way, be sure to practice full race stints and test different things to have a better understanding on how things work in LFS (if you have the time, obviously).
Hope this helps.
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Just an update on my own post: when using the "in car" view I don't see my own shadow problems, but I still see the other cars'.
On custom view, the Y offset must be lower than -1604 (-1605 and so on) for it to manifest on the car I'm looking (with the XRT anyway).
On custom view, the Y offset must be lower than -1604 (-1605 and so on) for it to manifest on the car I'm looking (with the XRT anyway).
I'm getting some weird shadows "extensions" here, see attachment. The shadows seem to work alright and are very nice, but there's those things as well. Seems to happen with all cars and tracks (can check all possibilities if wanted). Also I get the same problem LiveForBoobs reported.
Radeon 9600 Pro on Omega 3.8.442 here (should I update? :shrug.
Edit: hmm Banshee has those as well....
Radeon 9600 Pro on Omega 3.8.442 here (should I update? :shrug
.Edit: hmm Banshee has those as well....
Hm I don't know what modern graphic cards look like (still using a Radeon 9600 Pro), but I'd say setting the AA/AF in the driver to "application controled" and using the ingame settings instead is the best option. I know doing your way used to screw things in Richard Burns Rally for me. Also switch to 32bit, there isn't any difference in performance as far as I know.
Other than that I don't really see a problem, you should be getting much better frames/second.
Edit: I take it you tried without anti-aliasing already?
Other than that I don't really see a problem, you should be getting much better frames/second.
Edit: I take it you tried without anti-aliasing already?
Sounds good enough to play at constant 60+fps. At what resolution are you playing, and level of details/textures/etc.?
I loved "The Departed" as well! And last saturday I found that Body of Lies was actually pretty good.
The usual good performance in practice/qualify, the usual crap stuff at the race... I bet.
Another fine piece of 3D modelling, thanks for that. 
What the hell... I didn't have a clean race yet! I know I'm not a lucky guy, but come on this is getting personal...
Yeah me too, but I'm useless for that. 
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