you do know that you don'T HAVE to put techno music in a video at all, do you?
if you have nothing better than techno, just use the engine sounds 
hah, just saw the end "credits", in member of SChumacher? Niki either learn proper english (at least google the expression) or just stop writing at all, especially BS 
i wish it had only engine sounds. that "song" really sucks big time and I am quite certain Schumacher is ashamed of it as well
to be honest I wouldn'T go with that motherboard as it only supports up to 533 mhz ddr2 memory and it is VIA chipset based. I guess it is very cheap, but if you want a decent MB with potential to overclock you should go with the ASUS P5B series. it is up to you to decide how much fits into your budget, but depending on your needs you'll be better off with any model out of the P5B series. the basic p5b model is quite cheap as well and performance wise it is right up there with the more expensive models, however it is missing out on the accessory side and like less SATA ports? no firewire and so on, just check out the specifications on the ASUS homepage for the various boards and see what you need.
Also buying 800mhz ddr2 memory would be wiser, as the price is not that much higher and again you have more potential for OC or future upgrades and you can run CPU and memory in asynchronous
(spelling? word exists?
)mode, which can give you a fair bit of performance boost if you use it at 800 mhz instead of 667.about the videocards. from the Nvidia side I would only recommend the new 8800 series as the cards before didn't have a good AA/AF quality, therefore the ATI cards produced a better (sharper - for me) image quality when AA and AF were used. If you want a decent DX9 card, you could select from the ATI cards as well, the x1900 XT with 256 MB is an excellent choice, but the x1950pro would also rock and is cheaper.
edit: definitely the e6300 instead of the x2 4200 AMD. Also try to squeeze in 2x1gb-s of memory, or 2x512mb to take advantage of dual channel mode.
nah, it was because he forgot to put in enough fuel for the feature race.
edit: but he might know better
isn't there already an Apex Racing Team? one of the oldest teams actually?
well I was driving this car in the stcc for a couple of months now and I disagree with your point. if you are pushing the car hard enough the front tyres overheat about the same amount as the rears, so I would say the tyre overheating is very balanced.
awesome! and it shows basically everyone who took part in the event, and we had like what, 26 racers?
theoretically, or in your LFS version? if so, show us a replay of the 4wd locking up as welll...
Vykos, this thread is not about the league, this is about the public servers, which don't belong to the league subforum in any way.
It was because of similar posts to Hoellsen and yours that this thread (and the ones before) has included stuff related to the stcc league itself and now you are starting to moan about why it is being discussed here? open a thread about it in the league section then
when there were stcc league related things, like a movie, the broadcast or a qualification event, they were posted in the appropriate forum section. Until we have a general public servers subforum, threads as these will be created in the general LFS discussion section, and they should be in my opinion.
@ your first paragraph: sure, people have to think and take into account the circumstances, not everybody can do that, as it requires thinking and some people just don't know how to do that
@ your question: when I am in the position of a lap behind and catching up to slower drivers I always stick behind until I can make a safe pass without hindering him/her, it is just a mentality question, no way your fault. But if you meet someone who is lapped, faster and close behind, it is much safer to let him go to avoid a possible accident.
you can save multiplayer replays when you press "2", or did you mean when you are not IN the server? in this case the answer is no
the reason for this might be that they are not experienced in public racing. They are used to driving in leagues against guys with similar pace, who won't take a corner unexpectedly slow.
no, I am not defending them.
I enjoy racing on public servers, though usually I am able to pull away up front once I got there and if no accidents happen or no alien is there, but I really enjoy the process of getting to the front when I have a lower place on the grid. Anticipation is very important on public servers, I always expect the worse from fellow racers unknown to me, this makes me extra cautious, leaving enough space in the turns and braking earlier than usual when close behind someone. in the end I either had a good race, or everyone had an accident or made a mistake and I end up winning
you are just being paranoid, I have never seen anything on the servers where a driver was punished despite not doing anything wrong. if it was a mistake ban, it has been rectified later after a discussion.
and you know, this isn't something that necessarily has to please you, you can go to other public servers if you don't like it, this is not something you have payed for and has to meet your needs and expectations (people seem to forget about this), there is no place for complaints, just suggestions, in a decent manner.
for me the silver and gold server has achieved a more competitive field, populated by the cars I want to race and as a side effect it is also free of noobs, who always manage to ruin the race in T1. there are some overambitious drivers still, but you can deal with them if you are careful enough. so I am all satisfied.
I was talking about clean racers, who give you just enough room to have a fun race, I could name 50 if I had to and I am not that much online either, except for the past weeks to get my platinum on stcc
anyways what you are describing are fast guys, it doesn't need to be a fast guy to have racecraft! also, most of the aliens lack racecraft due to the simple fact that they are just pulling away and have no challenge, so they don'T have that much experience in such situations.
i would say racecraft also has to do with your behaviour, whatever the circumstances, I could hardly say he has racecraft, when he wrecks intentionally. but that's from the past, I am sure he wishes now that it had never happened in the first place...and probably he has never done it since, but one bad day can just change everything.
that's only because you haven't raced with a lot of other people, and by the way, listing arrechee there must be a mistake. calling someone smart who after disconnecting rejoins the at that time most prominent league race and tries to ram off some other drivers in the race, sounds a bit...strange to say the least.
I had some bad moves in the past, but I never wrecked anyone intentionally ,and now the only thing I am aiming for on the race track is a clean pass and a good battle.
I remember that one, it was Lajoosh I think (or a couple more oooo-s
), try pm-ing him.90% percent of people here is what, like 15? (considering multiple posts). how many people race lfs on a daily basis? like 1000? I wouldn't call this thread representative
also most of the posts were telling about several applications running in the background, even downloading stg in the background, which I find ridiculous. If you want to play online, close everything except your firewall, everything takes up a little cpu time, a little bandwidth, whatever. you are also messing up other people's races, who cared enough to shut down unnecessary applications.
the only things running besides lfs for me are a firewall and the antivirus software, which has autoscan turned off of course
the only thing bothering me is like mentioned above, when someone is connecting you cannot enter/exit pits, which is annoying as it is usually associated with a lag as well and takes like 5-10 seconds. otherwise LFS's online play is flawless for me.
also, turn on compressed skins, might help reduce stutters.
there was something similar to this back in S1, namely the credits.
however it was nowhere near as complex and relatively hard to achieve to drive your chosen car as the stcc system, and of course you could get credits for offline racing as well.
the concept is similar, but the stcc system serves the purpose much better.
well I am waiting for other replies on this issue, but based on this experiment, max pressure is not that unrealistic (anymore, remember S1?
), as it reduces grip considerably.I would say what was mentioned before already: no tyre sidewall damage.
until that is simulated there will be no reason not to run low pressures to achieve maximum grip.
to be honest I don't think LFS tyre heat model is (that much) off, it is just the sidewall damage simulation that is lacking, which results in these unrealistic pressures. I am always trying to get optimum tyre temperatures across the surface of the tyre, but with camber changes you cannot achieve that as the pressures are way too low, even when using 1.9-2.0 bars the outside and the middle of the tyre are almost even, whereas the inside is a lot hotter, I guess 2.3-4 would do ok for street cars (TBO class especially), but that would reduce grip significantly and would make you really slow, and would take 5-6 or even more laps to get the tyres to optimum temps.
edit: on the high tyre pressure thing: I only saw that with the fox and on oval setups. the fox has downforce and it is easy to drive, however those high tyre pressures do result in very nervous handling. on the oval it is simple: higher pressures=less rolling resistance, thus higher top speed and that is what's needed for ovals.
I dunno but would too high pressures result in the tyre exploding, due to creating too much pressure inside? then it is another thing left to be simulated so it can be avoided
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this only makes sense if you are driving like 400-500 km-s, but for the general pick-up racer or non masters of endurance league racer this is of no importance.
and did anyone at all try racing for 6 hours or more twice, with different tyre pressures to see if it was already implemented?
meaning how many downloads then?
and did the interest grow compared to the previous rounds, or you cannot decide due to the various mirror sites?well I am not into this RAID stuff, so I wouldn't know, but maybe someone does if this is a problem or not, we'll see.
is the game folder and the raw avi destination folder on a different physical disc? I heard that this would also cause lower fps, I just thought maybe this could be the reason why you cannot capture in 32bit mode.
anways, the broadcast is great as always, and even better 'cause now I featured on it as well
when you said you wonder what I would be up to in an fxo, perhaps even lapping half of the field was funny it's supposed to be a lot more than that: http://ask.yahoo.com/20040121.html
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