F9 brings tyre wear and a simple but functional G-Force meter.

Now hand me that S2 license, I deserve it more than you.



EDIT: Oh and by the way:

"By the way, Nissan Skyline R34 GT-R, the real car, has this on its dashboard computer. This was for those who may think a G-Meter is something arcade-ish".

The Skyline is an arcade-ish car.

Quote from Dygear :

BF2 is not happy untill it get's 2GB of ram. In sane.

Damn, that's for real??

It isn't happy with 2 GB on RAM on the highest settings, with AA and AF and all the bling bling... right?

Hey everyone.

Yesterday I (finally!) got a wheel for my PC, a cheap Acteck (I know, nothng fancy but I ain't too rich nowadays so...)

The thing is, I installed it's drivers, plugged it, configured it on LFS, and since then not only my FPS got a massive chop (Around 10 FPS maybe) but it's stuttering a lot! It makes for a constant warping feeling that sucks. A lot.

What should I check for? I've never had a PC wheel before so I'm a bit puzzled.

Thanks!

Chuck Norris doesn't sleep. He's waiting.

My head hurts.

Quote from tristancliffe :

If Kimi, Robert, Fernando, Nico, Jenson, Mark, Heikki et al all play fair and be nice to each other, not only will F1 be boring (controversy is always a good thing), but none of them will become greats. There is no great F1 driver in the last, what, 50 years, that has been entirely 'above board'.

Being optimistic, Kimi will probably (hopefully!) leave McLaren. And we all know how Coulthard changed when he left Macca for Red Bull... from a PR robot to the biggest, loudest mouth on the grid! Maybe Kimi will develop a bigger mouth too. Same about Mark Webber, who will partner DC at Red Bull next year and is quite outspoken already.

Did I mention Webber and Coulthard don't like each other? That's gonna be a cool rivalry.

Besides, the epicenter of controversy has almost always been Schumacher, because he's been at the front for a long time. Now whoever gets in front will be flamed... and more controversy will come.

Quote from nutty boy :

It would be fun to get the Tyrell.

The six wheeler? illepall

6 tyres to configure pressure, camber, compound... no thanks!

Can I send a mail asking him to leave ASAP?

A historic F1 car would probably be very very hard to drive!

Those things didn't have much aero grip, and were much more understeery than nowadays. I recall Gilles Villeneuve calling his Ferrari: "A hopeless red Cadillac. Fast on the straight but it turns like an elephant!" Plus no traction control, laggy turbo and longer braking... not to mention the crazy HP figures!

In 1987, the BMW engine (by those days powering the Brabham cars) had around 1400 HP in qualy and 1100 HP in race...

I'd love to see those figures in a car in Live for Speed.

Or maybe you meant the sausage-like cars from the 60s?

I think the engine modelation is fine on LFS.

I tried LFSTweak on a old version the other day and started doing my own engines.

I built a V8 5.7, like those found on Vettes. It sounded HUGE! Meaty and stuff, but it still lacked something. Still, it was cool.

Then I went for something crazier... a V10 3.0 with redline around 18.000 RPM. (Those were the F1 engines specs until 2005) It sounded exactly like them, but it had some weird frequency responses here and there, especially when redlining. Like it was choking.

The thing is, the V8 sounded like a V8 should, but with some distortion. I don't know how to put it on words. Same about the V10.
The engine modeling is really good, but it does need some 'aesthetic' makeup, and then it will be perfect.

I'm pretty sure the devs have that on sight, though.

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Rest in Peace, Dave.

I bet he'll be racing with Ayrton Senna, Gilles Villeneuve and other greats somewhere up there.

Quote from keiran :

When did he flip anyone, yet alone Coulthard ... Is that slang for flipping out at Coulthard for overtaking him under yellow flags or what ever the offence was?

Actually, Scott Speed got a penalty after the race (he had to pay some cash) because he insulted David Coulthard while both were being interrogated by the stewards on the yellow flag overtaking issue at Melbourne.

As far as I know, F1 cars can pull 5 Gs in turns, and 6G at high speed braking (due to the downforce)

Ouch.illepall

Quote from filur :

Quite large, bit weird, but hey.

WHAAAAT!?

How the hell do you pull out such a donut? That seems taken straight from those crazy Japanese drift contests...

AMD Athlon 64 3000+ at stock speed (1.8 Ghz)
1 Gb RAM
ATI Radeon X1300 PCI-e 256 MB. (lowest of the low end of DX9 cards)

Around 40 fps in a full grid with 1280x960x32, 2xAA and 8xAF.

If a bit more lonely down the road, maybe 60 or 70 fps. I don't complain for a cheap ass video card!

Last edited by Marty502, Sat 26 Aug 2006, 01:44.

Eh, Kyoto oval flat-out? Maybe on a car with downforce, or with a mildly powerful engine.

But with a Nextel cup car? 850 HP, 1500 Kg, a heavy-ass engine on the front and no downforce?

Try doing Kyoto Oval flat out without stuffing your car in a wall on that car.

Quote from antman2006 :

Confuses me someone people are so dedicated an love game that much, but still play demo.

24 pounds might look like lunch change to you, but in other regions of the world, like here, it isn't so little. That, and other minor reasons, have kept me away from the S2 license. God knows I want one.

Well, I recall quite a few drivers spinning out on the formation lap while heating their tyres on Formula1 races...

Juan Pablo Montoya and Pedro de la Rosa this year, and no other than Michael Schumacher last year at China. So could it be that TC actually DOES work on the edge of losing grip at low speeds...? Maybe they turned off the TC on that lap, but it's a thought I had to share anyway.

I exclusively drive the XFG, XR GT and XRT.

Wait...

Yeah, for Mark Webber and most unfairly bashed underdogs! I like them all.

You just wait, Webber's gonna kick some arse next year!

Quote from Burnzoire :

Nice video, but should I point out that the guy you overtook had locked his brakes and was sliding when you made the move, or should I not take your video seriously?

You the same Burnzoire from PlanetF1?

It's probably the stupidiest reason I could come up with, but it works.

See the balcony up on the garage? You're supposed to see the guys working on the car from there.

As it is now (according to the posted picture) they can't see the pitcrew doing their work because the stopping area it's right under their feet! If they moved them where the picture also suggested, then they'd be in front of them... where it should be.

Just another reason to back up the initial request, which I find to be absolutely correct.

I fukn h8 2 c thereads writtn liek this.

Wanna see another cool drift pass?

Check this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHdItAr2Ssw

Nelson Piquet (Renault, yellow-white) overtakes Ayrton Senna (Lotus, black) at Hungary '86. Piquet fails the first time, but the second... see it for yourself. This is a Formula 1 race, BTW.

On the words of Jackie Stewart: "It was like doing a loop with a Boeing 747".