Tested Win7. Catastrophic fail. Spent the last two days trying to recover the data from the corruption it caused on my harddisk...
It was really strange, after a few minutes of usage a popup would tell be to run chkdsk because my system drive was corrupted. A boot to XP (including chkdsk) would always fix it for a while and XP itself had zero problems. Then on one reboot it just completely destroyed the partition table, all recovery tools refused to even try anything, except "Active@ Partition Recovery".
My only explanation is that the Uli/Ali chipset driver Win7 comes with is broken. So be warned.
I liked the desktop slideshow and the fact that it can play divx, xvid, avc and mpeg-2 out of the box, without extra codecs but all in all it felt more like some buggy open source project than a usable OS. Lot's of small bugs like not remembering settings, desktop gadgets only work if UAC is on none of the automatically downloaded drivers actually worked (TV cards) etc.
It was really strange, after a few minutes of usage a popup would tell be to run chkdsk because my system drive was corrupted. A boot to XP (including chkdsk) would always fix it for a while and XP itself had zero problems. Then on one reboot it just completely destroyed the partition table, all recovery tools refused to even try anything, except "Active@ Partition Recovery".
My only explanation is that the Uli/Ali chipset driver Win7 comes with is broken. So be warned.
I liked the desktop slideshow and the fact that it can play divx, xvid, avc and mpeg-2 out of the box, without extra codecs but all in all it felt more like some buggy open source project than a usable OS. Lot's of small bugs like not remembering settings, desktop gadgets only work if UAC is on none of the automatically downloaded drivers actually worked (TV cards) etc.
So he only got 55 Miles out of a full charge while thrashing it around a track all day? I've never heard them mention any MPG values during their usual track test. And then they even faked a scene where it ran it of juice which it didn't do in reality: http://www.autobloggreen.com/2 ... ars-mischaracterizations/
Also disappointed by James May who later in the show goes on about Hydrogen being the most abundant element in the universe instead of pointing out that a fuel cell is just a very complicated and inefficient battery whose only advantage is that it can be fueled up in a shorter time than a standard battery.
Your're asking the devs to compromise their software protection scheme for you. I think they'll need a better reason to consider such a thing than to enable you to burn through thousands of pounds of hardware every month.
I'm not saying I know a solution for your problem but I can't see how you would possibly think that your request was reasonable if you had given it some thought.
BTW, I seriously hope you aren't paying for all that hardware as paying to be a beta tester for the buggy crap that PC hardware/driver companies are well known for, would really be a sucky hobby.
I'm not saying I know a solution for your problem but I can't see how you would possibly think that your request was reasonable if you had given it some thought.
BTW, I seriously hope you aren't paying for all that hardware as paying to be a beta tester for the buggy crap that PC hardware/driver companies are well known for, would really be a sucky hobby.
I just tested the demo and there is no weirdness with zero roll bar on the FF1600. So you're right, it's because of the monoshock. Since making the bellevilles on a real monoshock infinately soft would indeed be physically impossible I guess nkp is right to display some funkyness in this case. As shot said, it actually shows that we're talking about a real physical model here.
Apart from that I thought the demo was okish. OS feels acceptable now but there are still too many WTF moments like all of a sudden being snapped in the opposite direction of a slide that has already been dealt with (after applying opposite lock, not during).
Also I couldn't get my wheel to behave around the centre, no matter what settings I tried.
Oh. Was just about to try the demo. Not interested anymore. Running without an an arb doesn't mean that all of a sudden there is zero roll stiffness. In fact it isn't uncommon to run no rear arb in the rain on some cars.
Is there similar weirdness when removing the rear arb or is this a problem with the monoshock simulation?
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etals:]Wrong, in both series I know of where ABS was used (DTM and F1), the laptimes came down thanks to ABS allowing deeper, harder braking. Your statement may be true for slower Roadcar ABS but I can't say for sure what the current state of development is for typical roadcar ABS.
Ha ha. Nice reference!
While non-racing cars don't exite me much these days, it will be interesting to see what effect the VW data support will have on the handling. Judging by the video it could be the new reference for road car sim physics. In fact I wonder if tyres have been worked on in general.
Nice idea but I can't help thinking it's quite a bit too large? You could hide in one of the sidepods. If you need some specs google "Lola B02".
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That's more like it. See how much better it looks even though the bitrate isn't much higher than youtube "HD".
I'm not asking for bigger files, just better quality -> same bitrate -> lower resolution -> more details -> no blocks.
But that's exactly what I was talking about:.
It seems that if you watch enough Flash video you don't see the blocks anymore and you forget what normal TV looks like (or tbh nowadays I might have to say "looked like" considering some of the ultra low bitrate broudcasts that are out there).
Although you do make another good point. x264 works very well on anime and animated content, as it has much less detail, so your link does look quite good, yes, even at 2000 kb/s.
Most content would look mich nicer at the same bitrate with a resolution of 576p or 576i.
I didn't say it's worse than Blu-Ray, I said it's worse than SD. Or more technically, the bits per pixel rate is far too low.
Technically you're probably right. Semantics aside though I don't see how anything that looks terrible when compared to DVD can be called "High Definition".
I'll put it like this. Do you think that the DVD version of "Army of Darkness" is covered with 16x16 blocks like this youtube "HD" version is?
Of course it isn't, which means that, while the quality is okish for an online streaming system, it is by no means amazing or great, and most certainly not HD. If it were HD it would have to better than SD which it isn't as DVDs aren't a blocky mess.
What I'm saying is that I would prefer lower resolution in decent quality than high resolution in poor quality.
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I meant 720x576i50 but you're right that the compression can vary. It was more a general comment about the fact that a 2000 kb/s video can never hold as much information as a TV broadcasting technology that we have been using since the 60s of the last century.
I love how the Internet has conditioned people to believe that video that isn't even PAL quality is "HD".
Have a look at the rpm in the data recordings to see if revs are matched properly. You can do that here: http://www.lfsworld.net/rafa/
The seagate tool is just a rebranded trueimage and I think it only works on Seagate drives. Acronis Disk Director Suite uses a slightly different set of tools, that seem to work much better in my experience.
You need to try to recover the files, not just copy them. The data is still there (unless your problem is reality a hardware failure) but some information may be gone like folder and file names.
Try Acronis Disk Director Suite and PC Iinspector File Recovery.
BTW, using repartitioning tools on non backuped data is just asking for it.
Try Acronis Disk Director Suite and PC Iinspector File Recovery.
BTW, using repartitioning tools on non backuped data is just asking for it.
Which is exactly why people shouldn't use Antivirus programs. From my experience the chances of an Antivirus program severely damaging a system or data is a lot higher than the risk of actually losing data due to viruses. Most viruses don't really do anything noteworthy, and the bad ones don't get caught by antivirus anyway because they're already all over the place before the antivirus has been updated to detect it.
If there's stuff running on your system that shouldn't be, just track down the files yourself and use safe mode and unlocker to get rid of them.
My guess is that you can't make any generalizations as tyre properties differ a lot depending on the use. Examples:
Road Tyre, hard compound, high walls, tread.
Road performance tyre, hard compound, low walls, tread.
Single Seater Racing Tyres, soft compound, high walls, slick.
F1 Tyres, soft compound, high walls, tread.
Touring Car tyres, soft compound, low walls, slick.
These differences in spec will definately influence where the heat goes. And even if all tyres were the same, I think both high and low pressures will cause overheating at the extreme ends of the scale.
Road Tyre, hard compound, high walls, tread.
Road performance tyre, hard compound, low walls, tread.
Single Seater Racing Tyres, soft compound, high walls, slick.
F1 Tyres, soft compound, high walls, tread.
Touring Car tyres, soft compound, low walls, slick.
These differences in spec will definately influence where the heat goes. And even if all tyres were the same, I think both high and low pressures will cause overheating at the extreme ends of the scale.
Locked up computer is always hardware or driver error. Try some newer GPU drivers or return the card.
Scart can do both RGB and YPbPr Components. Check the settings of your player to see if it can output one of these, then there's no need for new cables.
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