With the new voting system, sometimes it is still inconvenient to vote. There is a time limit till you can vote for restart, and before that moment all the votes are cancelled.
I think, it is better to make it another way: drivers can vote, but voting makes effect only after a specified time. For example, now before a restart you see "Race restarts : 3, 2, 1". Maybe let people vote before "no-restart" period, and if 1/2 votes for restart, show a message like "Race restarts: 67, 66, 65..."
I think, it is better to make it another way: drivers can vote, but voting makes effect only after a specified time. For example, now before a restart you see "Race restarts : 3, 2, 1". Maybe let people vote before "no-restart" period, and if 1/2 votes for restart, show a message like "Race restarts: 67, 66, 65..."
Actually, InSim allows now making a floating button with text, but customizing the available gauges would also be fun.
I've recently tried to overclock my CPU, incrementing serial bus frequency in CMOS, and unexpectedly it worked! First time, LFS crashed in two minutes, the second time, 5 minutes in-game, PC switched off automatically due to reaching the temperature threshold. Hehe, had to switch back to normal frq.
I've recently tried to overclock my CPU, incrementing serial bus frequency in CMOS, and unexpectedly it worked! First time, LFS crashed in two minutes, the second time, 5 minutes in-game, PC switched off automatically due to reaching the temperature threshold. Hehe, had to switch back to normal frq.
I think, feeling the car going sideways is a matter of habbit. Of course, one can't feel tyres approaching the limit, as IRL, but with experience you can get an understanding of where the limit actually is.
To improve the visual component, the in-game FOV should be closer to the FOV of the screen in your eyes. Try a big monitor or a fresnel lens, which was discussed in this forum. A very different feeling: like everything is of real size.
Also, of course, the real world is full of very small details. Aircraft pilots say, when they land, the eyes catch very small things on or near the runway: flowers, grass, features of asphalt. Sims still really lack this.
To improve the visual component, the in-game FOV should be closer to the FOV of the screen in your eyes. Try a big monitor or a fresnel lens, which was discussed in this forum. A very different feeling: like everything is of real size.
Also, of course, the real world is full of very small details. Aircraft pilots say, when they land, the eyes catch very small things on or near the runway: flowers, grass, features of asphalt. Sims still really lack this.
Does your psycological state change from race situation?
I think, many of us noticed very different feelings in different situations when racing. For example, someone may be nervous when having a lot to lose, for example leading in the end of a race, or someone may be very cautious/careless when fighting for position.
Would be interesting to read observations and solutions: what to do to do better.
To begin with,
When fighting for position(s), I start driving beyond the limits. It feels like I can do anything, and I start braking too late and missing the hairpins, flooring too early in a turn, which leads to going too wide in AWD or spinning in RWD. I noticed myself losing much time when fighting: more than just because of going in 2 lanes or crossing the racelines. Don't know what to do. Excercises?
Another thing is that sometimes I drive alone and start feeling that I can do anything, for which I drive jauntily. This can be very dangerous in rallyX: you need to make a car slide, but you do this jauntily, and it goes too wide or too narrow in a turn, slips on grass or hits the inside wall...
Instead of solutions I'll write an observation regarding concentration. I noticed this at IFRS lectures recently: when I started feeling sleepy because of monotonous speech (coffee was almost useless in this case), I could think in a special way, which made my brain concentrate, start thinking and stop wanting to sleep. Hard to describe. It is like trying to induce a feeling like something is happening, like you need to solve a task right away, like "what? what is happening, i'm missing something!"
Would be interesting to read observations and solutions: what to do to do better.
To begin with,
When fighting for position(s), I start driving beyond the limits. It feels like I can do anything, and I start braking too late and missing the hairpins, flooring too early in a turn, which leads to going too wide in AWD or spinning in RWD. I noticed myself losing much time when fighting: more than just because of going in 2 lanes or crossing the racelines. Don't know what to do. Excercises?
Another thing is that sometimes I drive alone and start feeling that I can do anything, for which I drive jauntily. This can be very dangerous in rallyX: you need to make a car slide, but you do this jauntily, and it goes too wide or too narrow in a turn, slips on grass or hits the inside wall...
Instead of solutions I'll write an observation regarding concentration. I noticed this at IFRS lectures recently: when I started feeling sleepy because of monotonous speech (coffee was almost useless in this case), I could think in a special way, which made my brain concentrate, start thinking and stop wanting to sleep. Hard to describe. It is like trying to induce a feeling like something is happening, like you need to solve a task right away, like "what? what is happening, i'm missing something!"
Yep, privateers, that's what I wanted to say.
As I understand, LMP1 and LMGT1 classes are for professional teams, I mean backed by big corporations. LMP2+LMGT2 are designed for private and "amateur" teams and rent-a-drivers. Small private teams have less reliability margin than professionals, that's it.
Congratulations to Audi & Aston fans. Good luck to everyone!
I drive with mouse, and though I can't show all the 7 (?) entering techniques, I rarely need a handbrake to enter drift. If you feel your car, you know each moment what you need to do to make it go sideways: add throttle, lift off, how much to steer, feint, and so on.
I was skating in childhood. That time I could only accelerate, keep balance, but didn't bother even to learn to brake. Last winter I started it again. Just in few minutes I learned again to keep balance and not to fall on my back as many do. I always see people standing in a wrong way (vertically, on straight legs instead of bending a bit forward), with hands flapping back, trying to hold by air. Looks terrible.
So, I'm above the average amateur, but much beyond anyone who studied in hockey/figure skating groups.
I figured out a good scheme how to skate. It doesn't matter how often, but more frequency will improve the progress, of course. 2 hours of skating. The 1st out I just heat up and adjust to skating (even if I go skating as often as once a week), steadily remember all I can do and don't dare doing tricks that are extreme for me. Just slowly, carefully and not agressively. Then, as the machine restores the ice, I have a coffee brake. The second hour I try doing new things.
Last time we went skatign with friends in the end of may, we were in 10 and there were 5 among us who skated few times in their life. I made a special signs for them (for a joke). In English you say "dummy", in Russian we say "chAineek" (teapot). The sign was a black teapot in a red triangle. Some of them put it on with proudness.
Last winter I started it again. Just in few minutes I learned again to keep balance and not to fall on my back as many do. I always see people standing in a wrong way (vertically, on straight legs instead of bending a bit forward), with hands flapping back, trying to hold by air. Looks terrible.So, I'm above the average amateur, but much beyond anyone who studied in hockey/figure skating groups.
I figured out a good scheme how to skate. It doesn't matter how often, but more frequency will improve the progress, of course. 2 hours of skating. The 1st out I just heat up and adjust to skating (even if I go skating as often as once a week), steadily remember all I can do and don't dare doing tricks that are extreme for me. Just slowly, carefully and not agressively. Then, as the machine restores the ice, I have a coffee brake. The second hour I try doing new things.
Last time we went skatign with friends in the end of may, we were in 10 and there were 5 among us who skated few times in their life. I made a special signs for them (for a joke). In English you say "dummy", in Russian we say "chAineek" (teapot). The sign was a black teapot in a red triangle. Some of them put it on with proudness.
I have Le Mans live on a usual TV channel :P
I've beaten the target PB, but still not among licensed. Waiting for the next license update.
This chaos is just annoying. Not in a single race I could avoid crashes on L1. Few times I drove into a wall myself, but usually there was always someone to push, hit, lag-explode me, brake into me in the hairpin, and then the best I can do is to drive to the 10th place and have hopes again for the next race. But this happens every time!
This chaos is just annoying. Not in a single race I could avoid crashes on L1. Few times I drove into a wall myself, but usually there was always someone to push, hit, lag-explode me, brake into me in the hairpin, and then the best I can do is to drive to the 10th place and have hopes again for the next race. But this happens every time!
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Yes, it does. I like it, and the small visit-card-lenses are cool thingies.
Not that soon as I thought. We had issues with Oracle BPM system in the office, had to have all hands to the pump. 
Came home at 23:00.
So, here is my temporary fast solution. Look, this is why one should read a lot. I usually sit close to the table, with hands on kbd under the desk, and the monitor stands at the other side, in 1 m from the eyes. In this case I had to move it close to me. Driving with mouse won't lead you to many wins, but in this case it is convenient.
In the second picture, this is a medium-size lens, 260*180mm. In the third, a visit-card lens. Makes crooked picture on high magnifying rate (as in the photo), but still does magnify, and can be a nice souvenir, if you can't find this in a store in your area.
Discovery #1: look through the center of the lens.
I supposed something of this kind, but couldn't imagine it would be such a problem. So, I had to rise the center of the lens (and monitor as well) up to the level of eyes. Still, these books in the picture were not enough. I didn't want to risk to raise things higher, and instead took an old small stool.
Not a discovery #2: you can look into the lens as close as you want, if there is enough magnifying and depth.
Discovery #3: the monitor looks very different. Things look like real-life-size! And the screen covers large FOV, which changes perception a lot! You can percept your car shaking with a different sense: if you roll over, it "feels" like you are rolling and hitting the ground. (You need "1g head move" parameters to be >0, about 0.03 m)
Discovery #4, not good: the picture is a bit blurry. Colours "leak" a bit, and the picture is not as shar as without the lens. Reduce the distance between the lens and monitor to reduce magnifying factor and also draw back from the lens, to reduce the angles of refraction. So, again a trade-off: FOV vs sharpness.
Discovery #5: it is better to use the lens in a dark room. I'll make a box, black lustreless inside, but still the light in the room will make glares.
Came home at 23:00.So, here is my temporary fast solution. Look, this is why one should read a lot.
I usually sit close to the table, with hands on kbd under the desk, and the monitor stands at the other side, in 1 m from the eyes. In this case I had to move it close to me. Driving with mouse won't lead you to many wins, but in this case it is convenient.In the second picture, this is a medium-size lens, 260*180mm. In the third, a visit-card lens. Makes crooked picture on high magnifying rate (as in the photo), but still does magnify, and can be a nice souvenir, if you can't find this in a store in your area.
Discovery #1: look through the center of the lens.
I supposed something of this kind, but couldn't imagine it would be such a problem. So, I had to rise the center of the lens (and monitor as well) up to the level of eyes. Still, these books in the picture were not enough. I didn't want to risk to raise things higher, and instead took an old small stool.
Not a discovery #2: you can look into the lens as close as you want, if there is enough magnifying and depth.
Discovery #3: the monitor looks very different. Things look like real-life-size! And the screen covers large FOV, which changes perception a lot! You can percept your car shaking with a different sense: if you roll over, it "feels" like you are rolling and hitting the ground. (You need "1g head move" parameters to be >0, about 0.03 m)
Discovery #4, not good: the picture is a bit blurry. Colours "leak" a bit, and the picture is not as shar as without the lens. Reduce the distance between the lens and monitor to reduce magnifying factor and also draw back from the lens, to reduce the angles of refraction. So, again a trade-off: FOV vs sharpness.
Discovery #5: it is better to use the lens in a dark room. I'll make a box, black lustreless inside, but still the light in the room will make glares.
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Finally, I've got my package: F330, 2 200x160mm lens (don't know where to use thoug ), and 10 visit-card lenses as a presents for friends. In 2005-2006 I had a different debit card, which was not accepted by some payment systems. Now the new one worked well, and I've bough some lenses.
First, I took my own lens depth calculator and reconsidered carefully the focal length and dimensions. Conclusions:
1. The main thing in the lens is large real FOV to involve peripherial vision, and monitor width improves your results a lot. 19" makes real FOV significantly more than 17", 20" is even more advantageous, and so on. Though, according to my tests, even 17" monitor works good.
2. 330 mm is the best length for gaming. 3dlens.com wrote "for gaming" in the description of F330, but not in F280's, and they're absolutely right. F280 is a bit short and makes not enough visible depth.
3. Significantly longer or shorter focal length makes lens very hard to use. Longer = less visible FOV; shorter = less depth, hence tires your eyes.
I'll make a box to attach the lens to the monitor and will post the pictures tonight.
), and 10 visit-card lenses as a presents for friends. In 2005-2006 I had a different debit card, which was not accepted by some payment systems. Now the new one worked well, and I've bough some lenses.First, I took my own lens depth calculator and reconsidered carefully the focal length and dimensions. Conclusions:
1. The main thing in the lens is large real FOV to involve peripherial vision, and monitor width improves your results a lot. 19" makes real FOV significantly more than 17", 20" is even more advantageous, and so on. Though, according to my tests, even 17" monitor works good.
2. 330 mm is the best length for gaming. 3dlens.com wrote "for gaming" in the description of F330, but not in F280's, and they're absolutely right. F280 is a bit short and makes not enough visible depth.
3. Significantly longer or shorter focal length makes lens very hard to use. Longer = less visible FOV; shorter = less depth, hence tires your eyes.
I'll make a box to attach the lens to the monitor and will post the pictures tonight.
I've seen this one. The player's body can hide beyond cars on the track, if you look with TV cam, depending on the FOV.
Compulsory pitstop: time penalty or DQ?
Had a 5-lap race with compulsory pitstop today. I forgot to pit, and when the leader finished, I saw a message "30 seconds penalty for late pit-stop". I didn't pit on last lap and was DQed. But the message "30 seconds penalty for late pitstop" remained on screen.
I think, when you are dq, the penalty should be erased as irrelevant. Even though it is not a bug, it looks like 1.
I think, when you are dq, the penalty should be erased as irrelevant. Even though it is not a bug, it looks like 1.
Then those who have expensive connection just do not play them. When I paid for external traffic, I sticked to the LAN, got everything from there and thinking twice before downloading anything heavy.
The update system is a bad news for those who have expensive internet at home (LAN w/ payment for traffic or even a modem) and use to download things in the workplace. Now you can't use the khalyava.
Not a bug, but doesn't look well anyway: in the credits screen, messages history (already unnecessary) is shown.
WTCC. Best racing you can watch. Very interesting racing, different cars, tough fight through all the distance.
Seat Leon Cup and VW Polo Cup are quite interesting, though the cars are the same. Especially VW Polo Cup looks like XF GTi: often they drive quite crazily.
Formel 3 is also interesting, though not through all the distance. Race 1 always has an interesting 1st lap, but then the drivers are sorted according to their speed and nothing interesting happens. In Race 2 the first 8 is reversed, and this makes it interesting.
MotoGP 125 and 250 classes are interesting. GP class is boring.
I've watched a bit of Australian V8 championship. That's pretty cool, especially the race #2, when the grid is reversed.
I was very enthusiastic about DTM, but now it seems not that interesting. Probably it is really like F1.
IndyCar looks nice on road tracks. Though the safety car is unrestrained.
NASCAR looks interesting when a race is compressed into 25-minutes review.
Renault WS - unfortunately now it is shown in a general sports channel, we see the 3.5 class only, not 2.0, not Megane. I prefer to check Aleshin's results on the internet.
Porsche Carrera doesn't let them fight for positions, it is quite capricious.
F1 - Quit watching it in 2003. Trains racing, positions are won at the switches. Boring. Period.
Seat Leon Cup and VW Polo Cup are quite interesting, though the cars are the same. Especially VW Polo Cup looks like XF GTi: often they drive quite crazily.
Formel 3 is also interesting, though not through all the distance. Race 1 always has an interesting 1st lap, but then the drivers are sorted according to their speed and nothing interesting happens. In Race 2 the first 8 is reversed, and this makes it interesting.
MotoGP 125 and 250 classes are interesting. GP class is boring.
I've watched a bit of Australian V8 championship. That's pretty cool, especially the race #2, when the grid is reversed.
I was very enthusiastic about DTM, but now it seems not that interesting. Probably it is really like F1.
IndyCar looks nice on road tracks. Though the safety car is unrestrained.
NASCAR looks interesting when a race is compressed into 25-minutes review.
Renault WS - unfortunately now it is shown in a general sports channel, we see the 3.5 class only, not 2.0, not Megane. I prefer to check Aleshin's results on the internet.
Porsche Carrera doesn't let them fight for positions, it is quite capricious.
F1 - Quit watching it in 2003. Trains racing, positions are won at the switches. Boring. Period.
Yep, they are gay and funny
It is fun, so let it be. I wish 3d engine allowed branching of roads to make a small city. It is a great challenge to keep rules when you can go crazy being safe
Ask flight simulators fans why do they play the simulation. Why do people fly Cessnas, B737 or A320 online or offline? One could say "Airliners in X-Plane steal people from playing Red Bull Air Race [in X-Plane as well]".
If someone likes LFS, but is tired of competitions (doesn't matter if he's bored with winning or gets only negative emotions from his own bad driving). That person may go to CityDriving and just drive the way he/she likes.
Unfortunately, currently there is a complete chaos there. Everyone speeding, not keeping their lane, drifting, etc.
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It's rather easier to make LCD hi-res glasses and put them on your head.
It happened all the time (before this patch) on long circuits (FE Black, KY GP Long). When they pass the finish line, LFS stores their knowledge in memory.
Due to turbolag you'll get low power if you keep it in the max torque range. You'd better rev the charger as much as possible, which means 100% throttle.
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