There are exceptions to the £400 5.1 rule. I've spent a sum total of €40 on my 5.1 setup, and it is just as good as anything I've heard before. I have two sets of stereo speakers for front and rear taken from hi-fis, and then a T3200 for sub and front. The sub is small enough, but my room is fairly small anyway

Actually the difference in gaming between an expensive stereo setup and a cheap 5.1 setup is amazing. Playing Crysis earlier, I could pinpoint enemies in any direction, and nearby grenades going off made me physically jump. If you're into lots of games or music or movies, get the speakers. But if it's going to be just racing, get the G25, it's amazing too

E: Just saw, you got the speakers. Nice

I got a nice one that looks like the PS3's background. Doesn't change colour though (Not yet at least, planning to make a program to set a different colour every hour ) Only bad side is that it's a good 90MB. Could take up to a GB if I do change colour every hour

Just restart the PC, and mash F8 when the BIOS screen comes up. That brings up a list of options (Safe mode, safe mode with networking, command prompt or start normally), and just select normal safe mode. Or if you're feeling particularly 1337, go for the command prompt option. Really impresses the ladies

NFS sounds do sound cool, but to have them in LFS would get annoying after a very short time. Keep them in NFS, that suits them

Sorry I'm just tired of people complaining about it, yet not improving it or fixing it. I made it open source for this reason, to give everyone a chance of running a fully stable program

Bump!

Just picked up a Creative T3200 sub + satellites. The difference is amazing! Even at low levels, you can really make out the bass, without it dominating. And when it's turned up, it can be heard down the whole house, with no distortion even beside it! Haven't tried the satellites yet, but they look fairly small and I don't have anywhere to put them

Have you tried fiddling with the combined axis setting in the profiler? Maybe it's something to do with that

InSim can already do all of these

Try Marco Mark's Grid Order to re-order the grid, or you could request a custom program to save results of qualifying sessions/previous races and re-order the grid as needed. I know having it in InSim isn't the same as having a button to do it in LFS, but it can still be done

It's open source. By all means, feel free to fix it, rather than hinting that "someone else do it"

Bah, it crashes on Vista x64, nothing I can see to fix it...good job I didn't risk the full version

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I let this stay for 30 sec then removing it, for the ones that looks this, you have been enlightened.

What the hell?

Hi

You need to do the fix detailed here, or you could switch to this cruise server. (Not even going to try and translate that, sorry. Any online translation would probably just make things even worse )

Downloading the demo now, it looks like a good tool for learning rather than cruising Is it possible to use LHD roads too?

Did you set up a virtual network or DNS? Worked straight off for me after choosing DNS, and it's not part of my home network, so it's safe

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even as a diagnosed dyslexic, still funny and i was makin fun of other disorders to be fair

Just shows that those extra years of grammar class didnt help me mind the chasm

All hail spell check!

In all fairness, you did spell it right. It's just a different word

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OCD is a terrible distorter isnt it

So is dyslexia (Sorry :shy

Unsuccessful troll has just failed his science exam

When a standard jump leave you falling short, switch your nanotech suit to "strength" mode, and fly

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I came

Oh dear :rolleyes:

This patch sounds relative to my interests

Sorry to interrupt the talk of all the Croft womens, but I did the first level, which is entirely underwater The sharks are actually really tame, they only became interested in me when I started firing harpoons at them, and even them started swimming away rather than trying to eat me

(Yes they are dead sharks :razz

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But you always get the feeling, and I speak from a fairly proficient PC 'power user', that you are fighting AGAINST the OS. XP is the best of the 'modern' MS OSs because it IS fairly invisible.

They seem to be making each one more "user-friendly", to the point where you feel like shouting at the OS to leave you alone. That's what I loved about XP, unless you needed help, it did leave you alone. When I first turned on 7, it showed me an "action man centre" or something, where it told me I had 8 new messages, like no A/V installed, and no scan done. I freaking know, I've just installed the bloody OS. Besides, it's supposed to have a built in A/V, so why are they bugging me to get one

And there was none of this poxy "glass" crap either. For example, the thingy on Vista where it cycles through all of your open windows in 3D. I think I used that once, when I first installed Vista. And no more, because it's a waste of time. Vista looks nice, but 7 takes it too far IMO I'm not even worried about the performance to be saved by not using the glass and aero settings, as it makes next to no difference on my system. But I just think if they worked on giving the user what they want, rather than forcing a stupid shiny new UI on them and calling it a new OS, it'd be far better

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Windows 7 does seem faster than Vista. The system rating cap is still too low though :P. On vista my gfx card was capped at 5.9 and now it is at 7.9

Heh, it rates my 9800GTX+ at 1.0, even though it scores 5.9 in Vista (and should easily top the charts in 7 :shrug...

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how about you give up on video games? virtual water scares you, playing Portal makes you sick?
you get motion sickness in LFS too?

Nah, LFS is OK for me (although I am fairly crap at it ). Seriously though, that water traumatised me as a little kid (And Portal is OK again, I think it was the long stint combined with no breakfast or lunch :shrug

I dunno, I played Resi on the PS1 just fine, I got to about half way through and gave up on a puzzle (plus that had water with a HUGE shark and I was fine :shrug. It's just something about TR. Epic games though