Well two things:
-The artifacts still haven't reappeared since I removed one of the RAM sticks.
-The RAM I removed does indeed fail memtest!
So by the looks of it these artefacts were caused bay faulty RAM. I wouldn't have thought this to be possible myself. Thanks for the help guys, if anything new happens I'll report.
-The artifacts still haven't reappeared since I removed one of the RAM sticks.
-The RAM I removed does indeed fail memtest!
So by the looks of it these artefacts were caused bay faulty RAM. I wouldn't have thought this to be possible myself. Thanks for the help guys, if anything new happens I'll report.
Does anyone think that these kind of artifacts could be caused by faulty RAM? I removed a stick and haven't had any problems since. 
frokki:
What exactly would I be trying to fix by heating up the card with a hot air gun?
frokki:
What exactly would I be trying to fix by heating up the card with a hot air gun?
Only took 5 minutes: I just got artifacting when there wasn't even a driver installed, with the standard Windows driver.
Already done that, temp is 60°C, which is very low for a 6600 GT.
Time to check the warranty, methinks.
Not yet, no. I'll try drivercleaner next. Will take a couple of days before I can confirm if it did anything though.
What are these artifacts on my desktop?
For the last couple of days I'm seeing strange artifacts on my PC. You'll easily spot them on the screenshots. 
They appear all of a sudden while doing nothing special on the desktop and they go away when I reboot. Happens about once or twice a day. If I start LFS after the artifacting has started it looks like on screenshot 2. It hasn't actually happened while playing LFS though, so it's not GPU temp related.
Anyone seen this before? My GPU's broken, right?
Screenshots:
They appear all of a sudden while doing nothing special on the desktop and they go away when I reboot. Happens about once or twice a day. If I start LFS after the artifacting has started it looks like on screenshot 2. It hasn't actually happened while playing LFS though, so it's not GPU temp related.Anyone seen this before? My GPU's broken, right?
Screenshots:
Good Stuff. I hope there will be a translation.
BTW, what is Den Blå Avis? When I just saw it in your sig I recognized it as a sponsor that Jason Watt used to have on his F3000.
Just in case you aren't aware of it, thrustmaster makes some wheels with analog paddles.
BTW, what is Den Blå Avis? When I just saw it in your sig I recognized it as a sponsor that Jason Watt used to have on his F3000.
Just in case you aren't aware of it, thrustmaster makes some wheels with analog paddles.
Oh my. I just spent over an hour on the phone with a friend (patch U) trying to troubleshoot the reason he couldn't get a full serverlist. 
Trying to navigate him through his router menu to check firewall settings etc...
Trying to navigate him through his router menu to check firewall settings etc...ASS is always full of these kind of comments. I remember sentences like "netkar will be using an online payment system as has been proven to be very successful with rfactor" or "netkar doesn't yet have a statistics website like rfactor's raceworld" as if rfactor were some kind of great innovator of simracing. That's either plain cluelessness or intentional omission. Either way, this kind of writing put me off reading ASS a long time ago.
And I don't see why any LFS'ers should worry about LFS not being in ASS. I mean ASS tries to make money by attracting simracers as readers and yet they ignore the most popular current sim and it's many leagues. Maybe it's ASS that should worry? With more income they could maybe even pay people who know how to write interesting articles.
Most are just too long or sound like advertisments.The best I've ever seen was a guy who got a new screen, said the colours were too dark in some areas of the screen and then posted a screenshot to show what he meant.
Interesting thread BTW, including the Xbit article.
I definately noticed, before seeing this data, that rfactor and RBR quickly become undriveable at low frame rates but I had never thought about it in terms of input lag but more in terms of a low physics frame rate. In LFS you can drive just as fast at 25 fps as you can at 60 fps once you get used to it. I think that this difference in the way physics/input/graphics loops relate to each other might be the reason why the shape of the graphs in the second table can clearly be divided into two groups: LFS/NASCAR and NKP/RBR/rFactor.
Oh, and why didn't you include DR? Seems unlikely you would have forgotten it.
I tink 3 works teams would be enough to create exitement if they were all actually on the same kind of pace. But Citroen has brought a new car that has been immediately faster than the old one. Subaru has switched to the same tyres as Citroen for this year and Atkinson did manage to set a few fastest stage times. So there's hope that once Subaru gets it's new car for Mexico and as they gain experience with the new tyres that they will be able to close the gap. Or maybe Sordo will regularly put Loeb under pressure.
But if Loeb does go on winning like this then my interest will fade fast, like it did last season. And that has nothing to do with not liking Loeb, I'm actually quite a fan, it's just that there's no exitement when one driver/car is so dominant.
But if Loeb does go on winning like this then my interest will fade fast, like it did last season. And that has nothing to do with not liking Loeb, I'm actually quite a fan, it's just that there's no exitement when one driver/car is so dominant.
OK, doesn't change my opinion but it's still interesting to see other points of view.
You're right Tristan, JPM would've probably just stayed in there and after the huge crash at least MS would've known not to do it to him again. Mika's way was indeed more successful at the end of the day but I think that incidents like this are also part of the reason why Mika was the only main rival of MS that he was friendly with: he knew he could mistreat Mika on the track and get away with it.
You're right Tristan, JPM would've probably just stayed in there and after the huge crash at least MS would've known not to do it to him again. Mika's way was indeed more successful at the end of the day but I think that incidents like this are also part of the reason why Mika was the only main rival of MS that he was friendly with: he knew he could mistreat Mika on the track and get away with it.
C'mon guys. I at least tried to explain my view. With comments like "everything's fine" I don't know how you come to your conclusions. Is it "yes, you can force someone to brake on a straight as long as it's once per straight" or is it "he left enough room but Hakkinen chickened" or is something else. Do tell.
I'd be interested in why you think so. My view is that he scared Hakkinen into lifting off on the straight to avoid a collision at 320 km/h. What's your view?
What I think the rule should be: On straights a driver cannot drive in a manner that forces another driver to either leave the track, lift off the throttle or brake to avoid a collision.
Much simpler than the one-lane-change rule that was invented in 1995 when Damon Hill was fed up with Schumi's antics and demanded a rules clarification. Ironically it was exactly this new rule that, from then on, allowed Schumi to chop other people and then say: "hey, the rules allow me to chop once!" Before the rule, everyone knew it was dirty.
Much simpler than the one-lane-change rule that was invented in 1995 when Damon Hill was fed up with Schumi's antics and demanded a rules clarification. Ironically it was exactly this new rule that, from then on, allowed Schumi to chop other people and then say: "hey, the rules allow me to chop once!" Before the rule, everyone knew it was dirty.
Nice work indeed. I look forward to using it "in anger" next time I'm fiddling with making setups. Are you doing this project for Uni or is it pure free time work?
NIce. It's not up on your site yet, is it?
EDIT: just found the thread about your new tool (looking at it now). I'll watch out there for updates.
EDIT: just found the thread about your new tool (looking at it now). I'll watch out there for updates.
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Woah, the bike dude at 00:57 roxx. Some of the other crashes are really scary: Flipping over from nothing but changing direction quickly and being thrown out by not having the seatbelts on.
Thx. I remember the requests for this feature by you and Colcob (where is he these days?) but completely missed it's inclusion and your tool even though I love reading patch logs. Will look into it.
Will look into it.Yeah, he definately was cooler than a guy in pink tights.
Wow, you must be even more evil than Skeletor.
(for the uninformed: Ali G quote)Ah, good stuff. Do you also have data to do this for for the wingless cars? What exactly is LFS .bin output?
FGED GREDG RDFGDR GSFDG