Hi,

I know that there are better forums to ask this question, by I don't want to register there so I'll ask you guys here instead:

I have an ASUS A6VM notebook, cca. 3 years old. Everything was fine until suddenly about a week ago the screen wouldn't show anything since boot. The LCD's backlight turns on, but there is no pixels lit, no picture, nothing, rien, nada.

After a few restarts the screen got some sense into it and started working again.

Today however, it wouldn't start at all. I tried the usual "knock on it" solution to no success. I unscrewed the hinge through witch the cables from GPU go to the LCD and found nothing suspicious.

My external monitor plugged through the analog VGA (D-SUB) connector works just fine. The GPU is fine then. The internal LCD doesn't seem to be recognized by Windows 7 (which it did a week ago).

Also, I cannot get to BIOS to check things out. If I press any button during boot, the comp freezes.

WTF?

Almost none of the options suit me
What a shame, I always wanted to be like Monty.

I have a little of the typical hard Bratislava accent. When I have a presentation at school people say that I bore them to death I'm working on improving that.

I think that there is some misunderstanding.

I was being sarcastic. What I meant to say is: Lots of people, mainly kids, play Need for Speed for hours and then they think that they are the best drifters in the world. These same kids then somehow get sat behind a G25 and LFS and start to complain about it being a shitty game, because you need to do too much stuff at a time to achieve a 2-second drift.

I was the same. I remember yelling: "Why doesn't the f...ing car brake better? Why do I oversteer all the time? Why do I have to go so slow through every corner? This LFS game sucks!"

Then I got the hang of it and after some time I nostalgically returned to playing NFS and I must say I was amazed how bad, and I mean BAAAD (as in PowerGlove baaad) the arcadey physics are.

Quote from bavorak :

I like the name - "Life for speed" - it nicely defines the game and my feeling while playing it but it is really confusing for people who hear the name for the first time and I also hate the whole explaining that no, I am not a 10-year old child playing nfs... this is something far different...
I remember only one time that a friend of mine asked me what I was playing on the wheel and I said Live for speed and I automatically started explaining and he stopped me that he knew the game

and the other problem is...when I explain it is a great simulator and they want to try it, majority of them cant make one corner properly which seems like it is very far from reality but I think the problem is they dont feel the speed because going 80kph in lfs is like going 30kph in a real car...if you dont feel the forces it really degrades feeling of speed

The problem is that they are mostly used to taking a corner doing 160mph. I hardly ever used brakes in NFS. Better yet, LFS is a shitty game because you cannot drift properly, you need to use too many inputs at the same time, which sucks.

I remember playing NFS again after a long period of LFS-ing and I just couldn't believe how wrong this POS game is. How could have I thought back then that I was a good driver? I was speeding (massively) in a Gallardo through a downtown, handbrake turns everywhere, nitrous blazing through the engine and humongous motion blur all around your head, YEAH!

Oh and sorry for going offtopic, but since it is my thread, I am excused :P

Quote from Mysho :

A lot of my RL friends are always pronouncing it as "Life" for Speed, but I guess it's at least better than Need for Speed.

Same here actually.

As for the relation between NFS and LFS, my theory is...
Need for Speed is just that - the need for speed. The urge to go fast, nothing more.
Live for Speed means that you have to live to be fast, it means dedication, concentration, hours of training and experience.

Why was this name chosen in the beginning? Not that I don't like it, but everytime some friend of mine asks what's my favorite game and I say "Live for Speed", they respond in confusion: "You mean Need for Speed, right?"

And then I have to explain that LFS is a racing simulator and they go on: "Yes, then you mean Need for Speed". After explaining what a racing simulator is, they finally understand that it's a different game, but still can't get their heads around the similar name.

My question is then, what lead to the name "Live for Speed" ? Was the similarity intentional? Was it a sort of "marketing" strategy in the beginning? Or was it just the developers' way of life? You know...for Speed?

I feel like shit and I'd rather not post a pic of that.

Nobody on the internet can make me hate him or even angry at him, unless it's a person I know in real life.

Quote from Nadeo4441 :

Dvetisícdesať :P

This.

If I had no other option, I would gladly pay it that way. But I prefer the pay-once/play-forever option.

However, if I was paying monthly or yearly, I would probably want a little more that just being able to play the game. It's a psychological things I guess so I don't blame other people for thinking the same.

I have recently had time to watch a few movies:

• Paranormal Activity - watched this at night alone and I almost crapped my pants and I couldn't fall asleep for two hours. I don't believe in ghosts and demons but this film made me think twice
• Zombieland - great comedy and some gruesome shots...I like. Also Woody F****g Harrelson
• Surrogates - I, Robot and Matrix combined. I watched it for Bruce Willis and Ving Rhames. Mediocre movie, but if you were as bored as I was back then, you'd like it too
• Ice Age 3 - a kiddy comedy with lots of humour also for adults, I recommend to watch this with a girl. A good film to laugh through, but you won't miss much if you two get on it in the middle of the movie, so it's a win win
• Groundhog Day - an older one but the best of the bunch. Bill Murray is just incredible, both as an **** and also as a good guy. Oh yeah and Andie MacDowell is hot!
  

In some polls (outside LFS), you can vote for, against or not vote at all. Our parliament members vote this way for example.

In practice, I don't think it would be much of a success since there is usually not too many people on a server to make a difference. As it was said before, not voting in this case is equivalent to voting against and for me it's much easier (especially during a race) not to press a button instead of pressing it.

I am father saviour, the tragic meme, destined to annihilate all children.

Sounds quite logical

W.A.S.P. - Hot Rods to Hell

In fact, I listen to W.A.S.P. all the time for the last few months.
Cocaine cowboys FTW!

Quote from morpha :

Paired with the port that would actually work

Yes, forgot about the port number. In fact, there could be even more parameters in the url that LFS would parse and use. Or some info in the url itself like allowed cars so that you know what cars and options are used before you even attempt to connect.

Example: [url]lfs://192.168.10.1:12345-XRT-FZ5-LX6-F[/url] (for Forced cockpit view)

I appologise in advance for not reading the whole thread, but I have seen Victor and other guys having some issues with certain characters in lfs:// urls. Victor, wouldn't it be possible (and perhaps easier) if you wouldn't put the server's name in the url, but rather its IP address?

Quote from teedot :

I think you mean Champagne.
And hate to break it to you, but many real life races are concluded with a "shampagne ceremony" to congratulate the winner/podium.

This idea gets a +1 from me, although the description is a little bit arcadish
TVE, the trackmania thing came to mind as soon as i saw this thread's title hehe

That's why you play LFS in a full racing overall, right?

Quote from Bose321 :

Heya,

I have this problem, since Z25, don't know about ealier patches; my screen flickers.
My native resolution is 1360x768. But for the purpose of screenshots and video's I always used 1920x1080. Normally the screen just got other color (which is normal for this one if you go in an 'strange' resolution). But now the screen keeps flickering, black>background>black>etc.

I have tried with Z version, and I do not have this problem. Is it patch Z25 fault, or some kind of setting, because I want to use a higher resolution for some pictures etc.

Appreciate if you guys maybe can explain/help.

Donny, you are out of your element!
What size is your screen? If you have an LCD/plasma screen, then the native resolusion is the max resolution. If you somehow managed to use a higher resolution than your screen's max resolution, then no wonder it flickers. I wouldn't even wonder if it blew up

Quote from Flame CZE :

Could you please reply me to the question, please?

Oh no, it's the LFS PD, hide everybody

Quote from benjamen50 :

The Pedals i mean in the car Interior i don't mean the Pedals for controller or that. When ever you brake your feet should push the brake pedal down.
OR when you Accerelerate (Throttle) your leg should be pushing the pedal on the right side. I'd like to see the pedals actully move and the feet move and push both of the pedals.
I'd also like to see a clutch pedal as well. Like when you change to manual the clutch pedal pops up in the Interior.

These suggestions make the car look more realistic to cars in real life.
½ Thanks for reading this topic. Have fun racing in Live for speed!

You just wanted to come up with something, didn't you?

Quote from kirmy :

wow!!! , still no hendrix though :P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxZXHStulr4

This over and over and over...

Your graphics card might be overheatig. Try cleaning the inside of your PC with a vacuum cleaner.

And can't you people learn to differ between 'have' and 'of'?

Hi,

can anyone please recommend a book about life in prison?
I am not going to prison or anything like that, but I am curious about what's life in prison like.

Preferably a real-life account of an inmate/convict (whatever they like to call themselves) who is doing some very long time or even life in a high security prison. Everyday life stories about what's it like to live behind bars. Have you seen American History X or Shawshank Redemption? Then something like that but recent, not from 50 years ago.

I don't want to read about political prisoners or Iraqi "terrorists" being abused by authorities. Just stories like "Today at chow was a huge fight between the inmates and guards" and stuff like that. Something like what you'd see in a TV documentary on NGC or Discovery. Less law and politics, more everyday situations.

The most important condition is: NO FICTION PLEASE.

If anyone has read such a book (in english), then please recommend. I'd buy you a beer

Thanks a lot.