do you even know what lag is? Theres is certainly bucketloads in lfs.

yeah 16bit will cause coour change including smoke to green.

its not hard to give yourself a name, if you like the game, the least yo could do is make yourself identifiable to other players.

lighten up dude jeez, its abit of fun.

well i played for years at 5-15fps so i revel in the luxury of capping it at 60

i seet his whenever i spec another player online.

^^ I do the same

new computer? Something made this century perhaps?

Hmm, i found the best way wa to gain experience in RL, which i had before discovering lfs. If you drive, find a dirt road or a paddock and drive a rwd car around for a while and feel how it responds.

If you dont drive, start very slowly, and if you ise the keyboard to steer dont, usea mouse if you can. Then speed up until you get to the limit.

I could write a guide, and might one day, but why not explain what exactly your problem is.

I assume your trying to drive it like a fwd, so your having trouble with oversteer, then like people said, putting power down through a corner, after a certain limit, will cause the rear wheels to spin, this will cause the car to slide ("drift") to remedy this, you must take the power off, or steer away from the turn, sometimes both, and sometimes the opposite of one with the other.

It takes time to understand how the car is going to react to certain inputs and forces, but when you do its very satisfying.

For me fr/mr and rr are the only way to drive, fwd is boring and without passion, and 4wd, while it has its advantages, on a dry racetrack, a rwd is the way to go, imo.

Quote from wheel4hummer :

I don't think I have ever seen a woman driving a Miata before.

yeah they drive em all the time here. That said my guitarist has one and it goes alright, for a girl car.

Obviously its possible to get these figures out of a 1.4. But whether theyre realistic for a standard road car is a little different.

Anyone whos tried to rev a ~1.4L L4 to 10k will tell you its pretty unreasonable, and not only sue to the limiter, valve bounce wil occur before then in most road cars.

Quote from Resound :

Assuming you're running Windows, start in safe mode which will drop it back to 800x600 so the monitor will cope and then you can reset thte resolution. That's assuming you haven't killed it utterly of course.

Haha yeah i fixed it by plugging the computer into my tv and running it off that to adjust the res.

How do i start in safe mode?

Quote from Fabri91 :

How are fps now?
Sadly, you bought a low end gfx card, a 7600 might have been a much better choice.
As long as you play only lfs and not next gen games you should be fine.

Well basically i dont have mych money, the card i bought was a stretch as is.

Frankly I have more important things to spend my money on, so this will suffice. FPS are now around 40-45 online with 20-25 racers. Im happy with that, the graphics are a major improvement, and im still getting more fps than i was before i got the card.

Quote from Jakg :

Perhaps the AA your trying to use isn't supported at that resolution? I HAVE to use 4xAA because it's the highest that's supported for 1680*1050

@ Post above - that looks fine, although High Spec Laptop is a contradiction in terms - Quad Core + 8800 = High spec for me :P

Wanna swap computers? I'll pay postage?

Quote from The Moose :

That FPS still sounds to low, Have you got V-sync tuned on? if so turn it off.

yes its on, now its off!

Ive found that the best my system can do is about 2xAA 16xAF and set at High Quality. Thats very smooth and great looking.

The gfx card cost me $60 and was well worth it, can expect too much for that price.

Quote from Jakg :

tried using Less AA? Put it to "Quality" rather than High Quality? You might have to just admit defeat

Never!

yeah i had a mojor problem today. I set my desktop res to 2000*1600 or something ridiculous like that, and the screen (some 15" 50 year old thing) couldnt take it, and it wouldnt revert back, so i was stuck with a blank screen and no way to revert it haahhah good times I LOVE COMPUTERS. All fixed now though.

Anyway, yeah, i need a new monitor... Woah off topic, i tried to bring it back but alas, it was too far gone...

heres a basic one at the specs jakg specified, unfortunately this is slightly too much for my system, running at about 25-30 in hotlapping mode.

Whats the best thing to do to up the fps, with out losing too much quality?

so. how do you take screen shots?

Awesome work Jakg, im on it, will post a screenshot when I'm done

FPA is around 30-35 online with those settings and 12-- resolution. Put AA to 4x and fps didnt seem to drop but it was extrememly choppy.

ok thanks a lot, ive got AF set to 16x, but what about AA? it has these options: None, application controlled 2x, 2xQ, and 4x.

And what about things likeanisotrpic mip filter optimization, and Anisotrpic sample optimization? Tranparency AA? Vertical sync? Threaded optimization? Negative LOB Bias? Extension LImit? Hardware Acceleration?

Sorry but Ive got no idea what these do.

Ok just for reference the rest of the system is:

Intel Core2Duo 1.8Ghz
1GB DDR2 RAM
320GB SATAII HDD

500W PSU

And the graphics card is PCI-E 256MB with 512MB with Turbo Cache (dont know if i have to turn that on manually or not?)

Well i got a graphics card today, forst time ive ever had one. Its a Nvidia 7300GS and sems to be alright. But theres about 20 -30 different setting and I havent a clue what to set them at for optimum perfeormance.

Its at 60fps at the moment and it looks real good. But is there anything I can do to improve it even more?