Some driving - still no mufflers, straight pipe ends under the cabin. Video doesn't represent how loud it really is.

I've always wanted a Mercedes W124 3.0 Turbo Diesel with manual transmision, but Mercedes never sold them in such configuration. So last year I bought a W124 with 3.0 naturally aspirated diesel and 5-speed manual - only 500000 km on the clock. It was kinda nice, but one thing was clearly missing - turbo.

So 2 months ago I bought the OM603.960 turbo engine (326000km) and last week I put it in the car.

NA engine out:


After half a milion km the clutch and dual-mass are still in fine condition:


Custom made oil cooler mounts:





Engine in the bay:




Super safe 1cm clearance between air filter and fan:


First start:


Exhaust sound without mufflers:


Sounds ridiculous while driving, but makes my ear hurt after driving with windown down for a while

Quote from jonmrbean :

Oh NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ginger tosser will front the new Top Gear......http://www.topgear.com/uk/car- ... p-Gear-line-up-2016-06-16

Even cat got his devkit:


Lets hope you will be chosen for the next wave.

Blog post: https://www.oculus.com/blog/powering-the-rift/

Quote :

On the raw rendering costs: a traditional 1080p game at 60Hz requires 124 million shaded pixels per second. In contrast, the Rift runs at 2160×1200 at 90Hz split over dual displays, consuming 233 million pixels per second. At the default eye-target scale, the Rift’s rendering requirements go much higher: around 400 million shaded pixels per second. This means that by raw rendering costs alone, a VR game will require approximately 3x the GPU power of 1080p rendering.

So CV1 will have the exact same resolution and refresh rate as HTC Vive. That's rather disapointing, I was expecting the resolution to be as good as Gear VR (2560x1440) or better.

It will be hard to choose between Vive and Rift

Quote from Texpelt88 :

1) Improve the AI line. So that new drivers learn the proper line.

Scawen actually did some improvements for the AI, but it's designed to work with new tyre physics so it won't be released before the new tyre physics patch is out.
(Source: https://www.lfs.net/forum/post/1454911)

OM603.960
03.1989
325000km

Q1 2016 was my guess, but I'm more curious about technical specs and there are none so far.

At least LFS doesn't have potato physics.

Quote from Scawen :

Thanks, I've applied for a Vive. There wasn't much space to write anything. I could just give our web address and two short lines of description. And contact details. We'll see if we get selected.

There is a 128 characters limit to be exact, that's hardly enough to mention name of the game and genre. It's a pity for the people working on some innovative and complex VR projects. You probably didn't even have enough space to mention that LFS is one of the top rated games on Oculus Share.

Well, good luck. Let us know if you are choosen or not.

New Westhill is fantastic. It took a bit longer than initialy planed, but it was worth the wait.
Thank you devs!

Quote from Sobis :

Were you stalking him Amynue?

He is too fast to be stalked.

Quote from brataccas :

few hours ago I saw the actual Scawen online a server with others thought he was fake at first haha, he was in a UF1 going to cherish this (rare?) replay .-) cant belive its 9 years ive waited to see a dev ingame

I've saved some replays

Quote from cargame.nl :

Like Troy already mentioned LFS for some reason now can get the GPU into power saving mode

I'm also having problems with my GTX 780. It has 1021mhz base clock, but when I start LFS it stays at idle speed which is 324mhz. If I minimize and maximize the LFS window it will bump the clocks to 666mhz and stay there as long as I'm playing. If I'll change the track or go to the pits for a few seconds it will go back to 324mhz and stay there untill I minimize and maximize the game window. See the attachment.

Was fun racing with Scawen. I liked that layout, great for road cars.

Quote from McGherkin :

Why has Scawen got just a bog-standard green name?

He's one of the three people who made LFS and he can't even change his name to white?

Even better question would be - why names aren't white by default?

Quote from Sobis :

Ummm... May I ask why?

I couldn't make my mind so bought them all.

Quote from Bose321 :

Ummm... May I ask why you got a reference cooler?

This is the Ferrari of reference coolers, Titan X ($999 card) uses the same cooler. It's whole made out of aluminium, it's very quiet and efficient. Can handle 1500Mhz OC on GPU without problems.

From left - Gigabyte GTX 980 4Gb - Gigabyte GTX 780 Ghz Edition 3Gb - ASUS GTX 780 DirectCU II OC 3Gb - MSI GTX 780 Gaming OC 3Gb - Gigabyte GTX 770 OC 2Gb

At the beggining of the video it looks like the game is running at ~15fps. Is the new Westhill so much more demanding? Video would be much nicer if recorded at 1080p 60fps.

The track itself is looking great, can't wait to test it!

As I expected they will be offering the devkits for free:
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/03/valve-to-offer-htc-vive-developer-edition-for-free/

So I think you should sign up Scawen. You get ~$500 worth of hardware for free and LFS could be one of the few games compatible with Vive at launch day, which would attract ALOT of new players who would potentialy buy a license.

Hey, Victor - sorry to go off-topic again, but Racer X NZ have reminded me about the fact that the new forum is missing one important feature - ignore list. Could you please implement that?

Quote from Scawen :

No worries.

We are at full power getting this finished at the moment.

Can we expect a test patch by the end of this week?