Just one more question - where's the best place to buy wheels in the UK? (!)

Sorry Bob

Drift_0k - Yes, could take the steering wheel from one of my cars, but that would make driving them a tad tricky ...

I'm now curious about the Momo LED mod too, does it put a shift light on the wheel? (would help a lot when playing with the sound off)

Anywho, thanks for the tips Being a techie I'm happy to strip anything down and rebuild, Black Momo is in the lead at the minute!

200 Euros is a bit rich for my blood!

Quote from Ball Bearing Turbo :

Depends what temperature the wind is

There's a joke about hot air in there somewhere ...

Quote from Sternendaal :

Its a lot of simulator for the money Has consistent gravity, traction etc ...

I played the demo for a couple of days, alongside the competition. Now I've bought LFS I've uninstalled the other demos.

Quote from jayhawk :

Please list for me other PC based racing simulator demo that gives you online racing for no charge, 4 track combinations, 2 track configurations, 1 car park for 10 year olds to smash into each other, 3 vehicle choices and a forum to vent your discontent.

Go on! Start listing all of them!








I am waiting!!

Trackmania Nations - about 20,000 tracks, 50 or so cars, free online play. Its full of freeloading whingers, too.

Thanks, think I'll keep 'em peeled for a 2nd hand one of the nicer wheels rather than get a new el-cheapo one

Dfp?

ok, without emptying the bank account to get a G25, whats the best of the rest?

I've got a Saitek XBox wheel thats good, but a native PC one would be better (especially with pedals!).

No option for something else then, lol ... at the mo I play on a laptop on my lap, with an XBox 1 controller. Works fine for the most part, except for being stuck with digital accellerator/brake due to driver issues; when I have space I'll be trying out my Saitec XBox wheel with it.

Also, flags appear affected by the wind

To be honest, you can save a bit of money by getting a motherboard and processor bundle - for £100 on ebay I've just bought a P4 3GHz with MB that has on board graphics and an AGP slot, 400MHz FSB etc, and 512Mb of ram. Yes its last year's technology, but you have to cut your coat to suit your means

Quote from Gunn :

You should see a massive improvement with that new CPU.

I was going on its performance in my son's machine, 1.6GHz P4 with a 5200 - its ok in 1024x768 but can get well choppy in MP ... his new MB should be here tomorrow, 3.0GHz P4, might see what difference that makes.

Ditto that big time - the STCC racing has improved my technique no end, and I'm happy to be mid-field when in such fierce competition!

Last edited by JamesK, Mon 19 Feb 2007, 22:30.

Hi James,

The FX5200 is great ... if you have a budget of £5 for your graphics card. I'd guess on low graphical detail it could be useable at 1024x768 in 16bit colour, in multiplayer you might have to drop down to 800x600 if there's a lot of cars on track.

Using software routing with on board and AGP cards would just slow things down - its not like most FX5200s suffer from a lack of Ram, they're just slow.

ok then, Stock cars, but you have to go right down to the NASCAR bullring series such as 'sport compact' etc until you get non-scratchbuilt cars competing.

Thats a point, LFS could use a 1/4 mile dirt bullring/oval ... and a BRiSCA F1 style car

NASCARS are scratch built, thats the biggest difference compared to Touring cars. I used to enjoy NASCAR, but since most all of the old school stock car racers left it lost its appeal.

Whats to enjoy in watching cars go round in a circle? They cover a greater distance (Petit LeMans notwithstanding) at a higher speed, and often overtake and get overtaken more than once on a lap (unlike F1 where overtaking a car is a big deal). Crashing is to be expected, especially at the 1/2 mile tracks and Talladega. The cars often touch and nudge each other, and on the restrictor plate races they bump-draft up at 200mph. Sometimes there's a punch up in the pits (sometimes between whole pit crews). Often the drivers talk to the commentators while they're driving. In car cameras (usually 10 in each car) get up close and personal and you can get real time telemetry data with it (which I love). Aaand so on ...

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Looking for a team

Have you tried the L.A. underground?

On a related note, is there any way to make the map/finishing positions part of the HUD appear on the left so it doesn't obscure the mirror? (I can't find a setting for it )

I'd agree with that.

SCCA Solo 2 competition (often referred to as Autocross in the US for some reason) is different from Drifting. I always think of Drifting as the synchronised swiming of motorsport - very skilled but you get points for style; so to a regular olympiad its seen as the soft option. I don't agree, but I think thats what many think.

The XR series and Starion both also share a lot of styling cues with the '87 to '91 Dodge Daytona ... probably not a coincidence since Mitsubishi and Chrysler corp were doing a lot of colaboration at the time.



The earlier '84 to '86 Daytonas were designed in the same studio as the Porsche 928, park them next to each other and you see the little similarities ...

Quote from Anarchi-H :

I mean seriously, if that dude were to go to a club and start dancing like that anywhere near any other blokes, he would have his ass handed to him.

In some nightclubs that might be a good thing ...

Quote from LFSn00b :

Just download them and put them to LFSTweak folder

Thanks

EDIT: Thanks for making this - its let me set up the XR-GT just like my real car (it looks similar anyway, lol)

Last edited by JamesK, Sat 17 Feb 2007, 13:53.

Quote from Stage D :

... and a city with ai cars as civilians and cops...

Sounds like you're after Grand Theft Auto or something