I think the black with blue is the best combo

Quote from Mrlyrical :

Hey,
This is my second render, but there is something wrong with the second car, can someone tell me what i've done wrong?

Seems to be a lighting issue. Do you use a self illuminating plane for the lighting? Does the second car have one?

Ok, I finally decided it's time for me to build a new PC. My current PC is not really upgradeable properly anymore.
I've always built my own and other people's systems. But during the last years I've been quite out of the loop on developments so I'd like some help and advice from you lot.

My goal is to build a new PC with a pricetag of around the €500 mark. I'm not looking for the latest and greatest, just a nicely balanced system that will be good for several years of use / upgrading. I'm not a hardcore gamer. I don't play as much games as I used to, except for LFS ofcourse. Yet, when I do play a game I want it to be smooth and looking good. I'm picky like that.
I'm what you would call a poweruser I guess. I do a lot of different things on my PC. Graphics and webdev, 3D modeling/rendering, video editing, basically anything that captures my interest. So I need an allround balanced system, not especially excelling in one aspect. Also, I would like it to be reasonably quiet without much hassle. At least less noisy than my current system, which is like an Airbus taking off (although that's probably mainly because my PSU isn't what it used to be)

This is what I have come up with until now:

Cooler Master Centurion 5 (Retail, Zwart/Zilver)
http://www.alternate.nl/html/p ... 306&showTechData=true
€59
(A friend of mine recently got this, seems pretty nice and solid) I like a clean, simple look no FnF cases.

Asus P5K (Retail, FireWire, RAID, Gb-LAN, Sound, ATX)
http://www.alternate.nl/html/p ... 054&showTechData=true
€99

Intel® Core™ 2 Quad Q6600 (Boxed, FC-LGA4)
http://www.alternate.nl/html/p ... 045&showTechData=true
€239

GeiL 1 GB DDR2-800 Kit (Retail, GX21GB6400UDC)
http://www.alternate.nl/html/p ... 054&showTechData=true
€29

Western Digital Caviar SE16 (Bulk, WD5000AAKS)
http://www.alternate.nl/html/p ... 259&showTechData=true
€89

A DVD rewriter, not sure yet
around €30

The links point to a dutch site, but the specs are clear I assume.
I'll keep using the speaker set, monitor, keyboard and such that I currently have.
I've had good experiences with Asus and WD, so these are my brands of preference. I'll be keeping one of my IDE hard drives, so an IDE channel is a must.
The hardest part is the videocard. There's so much I can't see the trees through the forest anymore.

The main questions are:

• Which graphics card would you recommend for this system?
  
• Is what I have until now pretty balanced or are there big bottlenecks, is the quad core overkill? (With a videocard I'll be exceeding my aimed price, if it's overkill I might just take a dualcore)
  
• What PSU would you recommend? Mainly in regard to noise production and power?

Thanks for reading, I would like to hear people's opinions

note: I don't know if there's a big difference in pricing compared to other countries.

Last edited by joen, Wed 9 Jan 2008, 13:02.

Quote from Polyracer :

So now I'm curious, are the tyre makes purely cosmetic? or are there any actual performance differences between the makes?

see post #14
But I believe the plan is to make them have different characteristics in the future.

Hehe, cool
Now work on animation and make Cars II

Evostar FTW
Unless I'm using a skin that uses a different brand, then I'll use that.

I don't care much about brands and copies of RL cars. Not even about how the cars look.
There are cons. Like version hell, a lot of crap mods, scattering of players over too much mods, etc.
Read up on older threads about modding.
I didn't mention anything about sales.
If (I want to stress the if) there's going to be open modding in LFS it's not going to be before S3, you can be sure about that.

Last edited by joen, Tue 8 Jan 2008, 23:52.

Quote from atlantian :

Hm.... it's kinda stupid that people would go through all that trouble to get a file opener for the directory and be able to mod it but never bother to share it...

They don't share it because it is against the wishes of the developers not because they can't be bothered.
Anyway, if it would or could be as simple as you describe it would have happened already. This has been discussed many many times already. It has a lot of cons and not just pros.

.

get teh crack for patch Y here

Last edited by joen, Tue 8 Jan 2008, 23:34.

Quote from atlantian :

the source code is on the main website...

where?

Quote from Migz :

Oooh, i also remember reading somewhere 2 of them used to work for lionhead?
which 2 was this, and did the third developer work anywhere "big"?

Scawen and Eric worked on "Black & White", Scawen also worked on "Total Immersion Racing"

edit:
some more info:
http://www.mobygames.com/devel ... t/view/developerId,36680/
http://www.mobygames.com/devel ... t/view/developerId,36682/
Victor's background has been more into music than game developing.

Last edited by joen, Tue 8 Jan 2008, 17:42.

Quote from Svilen-BG :

Does anyone have a crack for the Y version? I don't want to buy it. It's too much .

bye

How dare you pollute this thread of LFS´ greatest team with your freeloading attitude.

shoosh! away!

Quote from h3adbang3r :

What I meant was after the U.S. has a socailist governemnt for a while, communisim may end up kicking in with some crazed, biased dictator running the place.

socialism and communism are primarily economic systems. Still no explanation what it has to do with dictatorship.

Quote from Cue-Ball :

The rest of the world can, frankly, go piss up a rope.

I guess that's the American mentality?

Quote :

If you all want to give up your natural rights then go right ahead.

Natural right? How so? Are we all born with guns and then taken away from it? I really fail to see how there's anything natural about it. I haven't given up anything if I didn't have it in the first place. And no, I have never felt the need to have it.

Quote :

However, I am not about to. History has shown that an unarmed populace is one of the first steps towards tyrannical government.

lmao, that's just too much bullshit for me to take. Then how come my government is not tyrannical or anywhere near heading to tyrannic?
I'll tell you one thing though, Americans state they have guns to defend themselves against other americans. Yet statistics show that gun related crimes are way higher in the US then western europe.

Quote :

The police cannot protect you, nor are they required to.

What are they for then? I thought it was to serve and protect?

Last edited by joen, Mon 7 Jan 2008, 23:10.

Quote from swisscosmo :

ok i will try to get S2 please just hope that i get it oh is getting S1 then upgrading to S2 cheaper than getting just S2?

No, every "S" is 12 pounds, so it will cost exactly the same.

Quote from Jordan2007 :

Rain falling from the sky

Where else would it be falling from?

:jawdrop:
that's pretty amazing

if you like the demo you will love S2

I'm not ready for wiggers in LFS.

I find it quite amusing how someone that is sexist, homophobic and illiterate has the nerve to start a thread about how he feels offended by being called a wigger.

Last edited by joen, Mon 7 Jan 2008, 18:40.

BTW I think it would be pretty easy to have some kart tracks in LFS without the need to create completely new environments.
Many race RL racetracks have kart tracks on the terrain just next to the track or at the infield of the track. I think it would be a nice solution to create LFS kart tracks in the already existing environments. Just picture a kart track at the Blackwood infield for instance

I think the chances of getting karts in LFS are pretty big. I certainly would love them as well

the physics simulation is lacking elements that prevent proper karts simulation at the moment.
And we need kart tracks for it as well, no sense in driving a kart around blackwood. And there's only so much you can do with autocross.
+1 though, but suggested many times already.

Calling people gay and fags, but feeling offended by being called a wigger...classy

Quote from N1Te :

I like your idea, but I don't know for sure if any of my friends, or friends family have one, and i feel bad asking them, or getting them to ask. Because then they feel they'll get scammed or something.

What is it with people being scared about paying on the internet? Jeez.
Besides, if you already paid someone the money, how would they be at risk of being scammed?

Quote from NitroNitrous :

All single seaters are ugly

You forgot the "I think" part at the beginning of that sentence.

The Ferrari is hideous though. Most F1 cars these days are ugly, but this one takes the cake.

Quote from N1Te :

I don't have a credit card, paypal, and I can't afford a cell phone.

I don't have a credit card either. I didn't have a paypal account either. Then I got the latter and paid for LFS.