Quote from deggis :

Like this was the first time some thread here goes offtopic?

And just to keep it there: I would sure like to have the possibility to edit the gui a little more. afaik, all we can do right now is changing the text- and button-colours. And even though it's not very high on my priorities list, editing the used fonts (type and size) as well as the button shape and size would be really neat. I don't know how easy that would be to implement, though, and if it would take more than, say, a day, I would pass.

I'm pretty sure that people who have actually taken all the lessons are the exception. I mean, I think it's great when people new to LFS actually go through that trouble, but I sure wouldn't hold it against anyone if he didn't take the lessons. I'm not sure what I would have done if the tests had been there when I started to play LFS - I might have taken them, but it's also possible that I would have been very bored very quickly.

Not sure if I'm getting this right: Evereything is fine when you start out and the wheel later discalibrates itself in the sense that when you hold your FF GP straight the car in LFS will steer to one side?

I'm using the same wheel but this never happened to me. Sounds like a hardware problem, though. Maybe there's something loose in the wheel?

Edit: Just remembered that there was a "Wheel Centering Fix" on the wingmanteam website. This fix is actually for the Momo and afaik usually does not apply to the FF GP. But you might wanna give it a shot anyway. Who knows maybe it'll help.
Link.

Last edited by Linsen, Sun, 14 Jan 2007 16:06.

Thx guys. I think I'll be ordering it right now .

Quote from Rtsbasic :

bear in mind the DFP was the most commonly recommended wheel for LFS.

Very good point. I didn't even think about it that way, lol.

Also, I would expect that I probably won't need to catch as many slides with a 900° steering wheel, because it's less likely to "over-steer"? With my current wheel I constantly get into slides around tight corners because of the non-linearity which makes it really hard to judge the right angle of steering.

Hi there,

I'm currently still using the Formula Force GP and I feel that it really hinders my racing because it has so much play/slackness to it that it's sometimes really hard to hit the optimal racing line. It feels just very sloppy overall. So, since the G25 is not really an option for me, due to price and due to the fact that I don't see myself practicing hours on end to adjust to a 3-pedal setup, I'm thinking about getting the DFP. What I would like to know is, how slow it is compared to the G25. I'm planning to make use of 720° rotation and I suppose that speed is an issue with that much rotation. Also, could someone tell me how big the DFP wheel is in diameter (G25 is 28cm afaik and FF GP seems to be ca. 24.5cm)?

Thx,

Linsen

I'll just quote myself and leave it at that, as it is a little OT for this thread:

Quote from Linsen :

And, btw, speedfan is not necessarily reliable.

Quote from fujiwara :

Should i review my racing behavior?

Not really, imho. And I don't think it was meant literally. I mean, think about it: Say you're coming onto the bl straight with some guy close in front. What you'll do is, you'll try to stay as close as possible in order to use his slipstream and overtake on the straight and/or outbreak him in the next turn (preferably on the inside ). When this guy now brakes at around 250m before the turn, it's surely not acceptable, as there is a rule (somewhere) stating that braking for no reason is not allowed. and surely there's no reason for braking at the 250m mark on the bl straight. However, if I personnally follow somebody and see that he's obviously not the safest driver out there (and say I'm not close enough after the esses to use his slipstream but very close shortly before the next turn), I would probably move out of his slipstream a fair distance before the turn and try to pass him through the turn. Which might actually work, considering he's not very fast

Quote from Dajmin :

According to the STCC website it's not done yet.

But according to the forum broadcast 5 is "On Schedule". And at the end of the last broadcast it said that it will come out at the end of january.

Quote from SamH :

The way it works now, each time our server is asked for an image (eg. SamH.gif), it checks the database and calculates the current licence status of the username in the image name. It then serves up the correct graphic for that driver.

PHP could dynamically add text to that graphic (we're using ASP, though - mostly to see if we could), but using PHP we could serve up much more information from the database, ON TO the graphic, than we can (so far) with ASP. The graphic would only exist as you SEE it, ethereally, when it's being requested from the server.. so there'd be no need for thousands of individual images, one for each STCC racer

Ah, I see.

It reminds a little of the philosophical question: If a tree falls over in some wood, and nobody is there to hear it falling, does it still make a sound? Applying this question to the license tag showing up in some place on the internet if nobody's there to see it, the answer would nt only be "no" then, but the license tag would not even exist if nobody's there to see it .

(yeah, a little off-topic, I know)

Quote from Davo :

Speedfan has always been reliable for me and the new versions even more so with on die temperature monitoring. Since there's a lot of temps my guess is you were looking at the wrong one. You just have to use some common sense in seeing which temp corressponds to which sensor. That problem no longer applies with on die measurements though.

Well, congratulations! But: Just because it has been reliable for you does not mean that it's also reliable for others. I know my way around speedfan and know exactly which temperature does what. Not only are them labeled correctly in speedfan, I also did some extensive testing to determine the perfect settings for my fan monitoring which is done by speedfan on my machine. And I repeat: On a german hardwareforum where I sometimes hang out, there are many people getting weird or impossible cpu temperature readings from speedfan. Do you think it's likely that all those hardwaregeeks are looking at the wrong temperature? And besides: for which temperature would it be realistic to be below room temperature if the machine is 100% air-cooled? So, please use some common sense before advising others to do so.

Quote from z3r0c00l :

Perhaps you could add a "User Name" on the image as well?

Don't know much about the technical side of it, but wouldn't there have to be some 4,500 different images stored somewhere instead of 6 or 7 as it is now?

lol, no wonder your temps were that high. There was obviously hardly any air getting into the case. Yuk .

And, no, speedfan is not necessarily reliable. I know many people from a german hardware forum who get weird or impossible temperatures. And I am getting a cpu temperature of 15° C with room temperature being at 20° C. Would you call that realistic, considering that my machine is 100% air-cooled?

I'm strongly against the driving tests to become mandatory, they're dull and don't keep wreckers or reckless drivers away, imho. Personally I have taken a few tests when they were first introduced and soon stopped because I got so bored. If the devs however should really implement that sort of thing in the future, I guess we'll have to live with it and can only hope that they find a sensible solution. As it is now, I'm perfectly content with what we have, namely a whole bunch of freely accessible public servers and some STCC-servers. And I hope Becky's is right, when she expects more tiered servers in the future (are there any news, btw, or was that just a wild guess, Becky?).

Quote from Lacroix :

I've only been playing for a couple of weeks now, and I just got through all the training courses.

Should I now pick a car/circuit and start hotlapping to improve my times/driving, or are therer servers I can go to? ie. newbie servers where you can learn and don't get hammered into the ground if you end up hitting someone... :-)

Welcome!

The fact that you actually took all the training lessons just tells me, that you're probably a very considerate person and are ready for just about any server. It's likely that you'll be hit more than actually hitting someone yourself. So, take Kev's advice and go for it .

Quote from teaz-R :

good stuff stcc

fixed it for you

Edit: I swear teaz-R's image tag was screwed up before!?
How did you do that, teaz-R, without the "last edited"-line showing up in your post? This makes me look stupid

Last edited by Linsen, Thu, 11 Jan 2007 23:07.

Nice



(nothing to brag about, I know )

Wow, what a difference! Have you tried playing LFS with the new temps?

And, btw, speedfan is not necessarily reliable. I don't know which would be the best program to actually read core-temperatures for an AMD-processor, but you should try and find something else, as it is possible that the temps speedfan shows are too low (or too high, for that matter).

Thx for the info.

I'll probably wait for that .

Quote from Jakg :

Limited, but the "standard" ones will come out, afterwards, chances are without the Leather

Is that for fact and do you have any more info about that? Like: Are there supposed to be any other differences besides the leather? When is it due? Price?

Don't know if it's of any help, but it seems to be a lot easier to get one in Germany. At geizhals.at it shows up as in stock in about 30 shops, the cheapest is 210 €, the most expensive one sells at 268 €.

While I can perfectly understand the frustration about people who are interfering with other peoples race, I still don't see how bumping someone intentionally=wrecking could possibly solve the problem!? All it does is, it creates more frustration and thus anger which in turn usually leads to more wrecking. So, if you feel someone has unrightfully obstructed you or your race, talk to him afterwards, try to tell him what he's done wrong, explain why a late-joiner is not entitled to fight for position etc. That's the only way they learn.

And just for the record: Currently 25 % of the people who've participated in this poll at least think wrecking is justified under certain circumstances illepall

Quote from Bob Smith :

Are they even intending to sell it (at this stage)?

If they do, I would hope that it doesn't drive like the RA in LFS does. Too dangerous .

Never, ever bump anyone (n00b, experienced racer or Alien) on purpose, is all I can say. That's wrecking and nothing justifies it. Period.

(Geez, it always amazes me that there are so many people around thinking they actually have the "right" to wreck for whatever reason illepall.)