OK, after some futzing about I got the BIOS open and the boot order was wrong. I've reorganized it and things seem to be running well.

Only problem is that the Windows 7 installer seems unable to create a partition in the hard drive for some reason. I'm in the process of adding one manually via command prompt, so hopefully this works.

I finally pulled the trigger on a new PC when a good deal popped up on eBay. Respectable seller had put together $870 worth of parts for a customer that pulled out at the last minute, so he wanted to cut his losses and I got it for $600.

It arrived today, but upon booting I got a "Bootmgr not found - press Ctrl+alt+delete to restart" error message. Restarting results in the same error and I am unable to access BIOS for some reason. Troubleshooting online indicated that the hard drive might be faulty, which seems probable because it had come loose from it's clipping and probably got bounced around during shipping.

After removing the hard drive and booting without one, everything seemed to be working normally. My question is whether or not this is definitely an issue with the hard drive. Is there any way that it could be something caused by the boot order (haven't had a chance to check yet) or faulty wiring? Just want to know before I go out and purchase another hard drive.

I'm delighted that Westhill is getting an update, but I also love the current model.

Eric may say that it doesn't fit the current/newer physics packages, but that's almost why I like it. The track is unique because, even as a road course, the racing is close and fueled by drafting battles. The speeds are high, so even the slowest drivers feel fast. While you spend most of the lap trying to optimize your line to take corners full throttle, the few braking zones are perfect for overtaking.

I really wonder how Eric knew how to create good overtaking spots with hilly left-right chicanes and downhill opening-radius corners, while Hermann Tilke can't create a pass unless there's a widened track with a 150 degree hairpin.

I get having it on corner entry, but around the whole corner sucks. Ruined the challenge of the Parabolica exit.

For those who don't know, the ChampCar name was apparently purchased by Mark Plourde. He continues to update the series website with results from races that may or may not have taken place in another dimension.

He's either completely delusional or just taking a piss.

You have to realize that Americans like to bastardize sport in favor of spectacle. Look at football and hockey. Racing is no exception. Promotors know that drama draws crowds, so they don't actively try to avoid it.

I mean, holy hell, a few years ago NASCAR tried to draw fans with "rubbin's racin'" and that ended up being validation for the drivers to do anything on the track. We saw guys Brad Keslowski get spun and flipped into the fence over a grudge. The organization has reversed it's position slightly since then, but there is still a strong sentiment for that style of racing.

If you want more examples, just look up Bowman Grey stadium. There's hardly a weekend where they don't have a brawl or serious revenge wreck.

IMO one of two things happened.

There's a clear engine rev in the video before Stewart is shown sliding into Ward, which suggest that Tony for some reason floored it. Thing is, there's really no way of telling where the engine rev came from. It could have been any other car on track. If it is Stewart revving his engine, however, then it seems like it was kinda done as intimidation. Even in such a case, I don't think you can completely blame Stewart. This would be a series of poor decisions by both parties that led to the incident.

Second possibility Tony didn't see him until it was too late. He was just behind another car that just barely missed Ward. That car dove to the inside of Ward, so it could easily have blocked Stewart's view up right up until it passed Ward. Even if Stewart had gotten a good look ahead of the other car earlier in the corner, when it wasn't obstructing Ward, Stewart would've had to spot a black suited driver on a dark brown surface.

Anyway, it's a damn shame.

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That video actually does great justice. Really smooth compared to other people's head movements, plus showing both lens allows us to see how they are slightly offset.

And it's actually quite fun to watch cross eyed.

Just want to say, great move by Scawen to fully support VR headsets so quickly. I've been watching the forum's visitor count all day and even right now, at a pretty off hour, there's over 160 guests here. Although VR support may only affect a fraction of the players currently, adding it has proven a crucial step towards reviving Live For Speed's popularity.

It's been a while since we got a taste of Scawen's visionary thinking, but I think this may be our best taste yet.

Best photo of me in years.

As happy as I am that we got the FBM, its a shame that it essentially killed off all the good FOX racing. It use to be that there would be 2 popular servers on any given night. One was a multi-class GT server and the other was a FOX only server with cycling tracks. Now its just one popular S2 server and a boatload of demo servers running the FBM.

Massa, what are you doing?

Lewis is apparently going to start from the pitlane. He usually runs Carbone Industries brakes, but switched to Brembo today. Since they failed he is now switching back.

I love Jack's rift videos. First one I saw was with Mirror's Edge. I must have any easy time visualizing what the experience is like because when he was doing a tightrope walking bit it gave me vertigo.

Turned on the truck race to Timothy Peters get turned into the wall by Rom Hornaday when Peters came up the track. Amazingly, there was no yellow, but then Peters intentionally spun Hornaday 1/2 a lap later in the middle of a pack. Interesting to see what MASCAR says about this.

Bottas made passing look easy today. Alonso and Vettel made it look difficult.

Great race all around.

The butter sword and iPad were funny, but I've seen some slightly less ridiculous iteration of all the others in real life.

Quote from Anthoop :

How so?
I see a bad car.
Two good drivers.
One is younger and has more current experience with the team than the other....no?

Not to mention the fact that Alonso is almost certainly getting preferential treatment.

Quote from Mysho :

I did so too, but the "old" community died a long time ago so you do not have that challenge here anymore.

Shhhh, some of us are still here, just lurking.

Seriously, this is a historic F1 track. Maybe not to the levels of the Monza, Monaco, and the likes, but it is. They couldn't have had a nice traditional looking trophy?

Technically, I believe Forza 5 is the first game to feature a laser scanned Nurburgring. IMO it shows. Some of the kerbs seem oddly wide, as they have in previous Forza's, but for the most part it seems spot on. The trees are are really shitty, two dimensional things, but there's so damn many of them and you're moving so fast that you'll never notice. The whole thing is very impressive.

So far I've only done one lap of it, in the Brabham BT24, and it was absolutely terrifying.

I like the arcade tank physics. When I played arcade I would run full speed at the enemy and then drift circles around their tank.

Quote from [RF]-art555 :

It can only deal with planes and light vehicles, it has no armor-piercing ammo, 45mm high-explosives are useless even against Pz 2.

Crap, the it must be the Yak-9t I am thinking about. The 37 mm on that has armor piercing ammo.

2014 Indianapolis 500 coverage in full.

What you need to do is get the Yak-9K before the start doing combined tanks/aircraft again. It's got a 45mm that the call the fridge launcher and it absolutely annihilates tanks.