Well? Hamilton on Pole again! What do we think?

I think Alonso could have taken it, if he didn't take so much curb on the 2nd slow hairpin before the final corner in the infield, causing oversteer and losing himself traction...

Quote from Moonclaw :

I think this is a lot of fail, because real night onboard videos actually have video instead of random darkness.

Most of all this one is basically audio with black background. Everyone should go make videos with 100% darkness, "realistic night onboard". Anyone who's seen real footage of night racing will concur this is a load of fake and fail. Play LFS with monitor brightness and contrast set to zero and you have "a dream".

I think his editing is slightly more advanced than "audio with black background"..

Quote from Greboth :

How awesome would that be to play lfs like that *dreams*
Nice video too, I liked it alot.

Off topic - Is that a dubbed over sound or a different sound for the fxr because it sounds sooo good.

Default sounds, but mega distortion / clipping through recording with fraps I believe.

Edit: Oops, a bit slow...

When you are running LFS, are there any other processes running in task manager which are using CPU power?

If I were to guess, the motor is direct drive (no gears), so to go from 0 to 130 mph in one gear is probably stretching the rpm range of the motor.

Quote from Boris Lozac :

This guy just begs for a photoshop!

LMAO

Quote from sgt.flippy :

Here's my 5 minutes of work:

This one made me LOL.

He said 0.25 in the opening post.

I'm not comparing him to Senna either, but I am extremely impressed.

Yeah I think a lot of you guys are being overly unimpressed by Hamilton's performances..

I mean, not off the podium this season, any gap he has seen he has got himself in, pole position at a track he has never seen before (or does it show that simulator really works Tristan :razz, keeps his head in ANY situation he has been in so far, NO mistakes, superb driving style, and thrashing his highly experienced opponents in the world championship in his rookie F1 year.

Like someone said, I think if Hamilton won every race from now on, you guys would still be unimpressed.

Quote from J.B. :

Here's Hamilton's full pole lap from onboard. I wonder if he builds that turn-in oversteer into his setup on purpose? It looks fast.

http://rapidshare.com/files/36 ... ton_pole_onboard.avi.html

Awesome! Thanks for the link

I think hamilton is absolutely great, I don't care if the media go OTT, he is superb, his driving style is awesome, always on the brink of losing the car but somehow always keeps it moving forwards.

Good video, but bbman has a point. Gentlefoot, what he is TRYING to say, is that driving over huge curbs, such as the ones in fern bay, as one drives over them to get a fast time in LFS would not be plausable in real life, as you would be sure to significantly damage the suspension. In LFS the suspension's are not damaged by shocks or sudden impacts as significantly as in real life, therefore the style of driving in LFS looks unrealistic, and this is reflected in the video.

Quote from bbman :

Who is the biggest CO2-producer, you may ask? Mother nature herself with all her plants and wildlife! Should we go round and shoot every animal on the planet, cut every plant?

What the hell?? Plants ABSORB CO2, WE PRODUCE CO2....

Anyway my take on it is this: Whether or not CO2 is a major global warming contributor, I really don't know. But what I do know, is that breathing in what cars give out is not good, cutting down trees is not good (AS THEY ABSORB CO2 AND GIVE US OXYGEN), filling land with waste is not good, and using up the worlds oil resources is not good.

So either way, WE STILL NEED TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. And better be safe than sorry.

P.S. I agree that the quoted guy in the first post is a prat, but he does have some points, however I DO NOT WANT MOTORSPORT BANNED as it is not a major factor.

Edit: Bloody hell this thread is fast

Bloody hell.. Well done Niko, you said something useful..

I think it has been suggested before, and I would think the only way to do it is for LFS to apply max countering FFB when you reach max lock in a particular car.

Not sure how difficult this would be to impliment, but a +1 from me.

However, this should be 1000th place on Scawen's priority list IMO.

I think my PC is the main problem, but anyway I'll explain.

If I try hotlapping offline, and I leave the car standing still, I get 60 + fps. The moment I turn my wheel / use the pedals, the fps drops to anything between 20 - 40 fps, and this only happens when operating the controller. With a mouse for steering this doesn't happen. So on the straights I'm getting 60 + fps, and in the corners (when I'm steering) I'm getting as low as 20 fps (especially if I rapidly steer - countersteering). Bizarre.

To make things worse, online I get huge fps drops with a few cars near me. So basically with 10 cars around me, during a corner, when I'm sliding and catching a slide, I'm getting about 5 fps.

I think my PC is the problem, the motherboard and ram are from the dark ages.

- Fresh XP install
- Intel P4 2.0 Ghz
- TriGem Dublin Motherboard !!!
- 512 MB PC133 SDRAM !!!
- 40GB Maxtor 4W040H2
- ATI Radeon 9600 XT 256 mb

So, do I need a new motherboard and RAM?

P.S. Its so old it still uses 1.0 usb, and 4 x AGP max.

Edit: OS

Last edited by DaveWS, Mon, 28 May 2007 18:00.

I see no one has any opinions on my suggestion a few posts above?

This topic reminded me of something. I don't think steering resistance is modelled, or rather, the friction in the steering mechanism.

I think if this was modelled it may cut out some of the unwanted oscillations you get with a FFB wheel.

Photographer spots suprising lifestyle for racing driver out of the car...

Quote from Poffter :

It's okay but honestly, why not record your own sounds and instructions? Ripping it of the real one, a copywrited, is by all means wrong!

It's not as if he is charging people to watch it though is he?

Quote from amp88 :

Massa illustrates the size of his Brazil(ian) nuts.

Winner. (still think you guys could have come up with something better)

Apart from Tristan's (he's won too many) this was the only one to make me chuckle.

Com'on keep trying, there has been a few amusing ones but no one has stood out..

Yay I won!!

"Why oh why didn't I go to the toilet before the race.."

Quote from deathracer1923 :

okies will try tonite......how outdated is 0.5U??

Instead of using versions which cracks have been made for, get patch W (on www.liveforspeed.net) and buy S2 like you should do.