Quote from SHIFT_ :

Looks like a good setup to me, mine is pretty similar to that except my motherboard and PSU are a bit beefier, only for OC'ing though.

Going to Conroe will cost you more in the end, you need new RAM, videocard, motherboard, it's a whole other way of going about building your rig. For now, the AMD64 s939 is the most cost effective if you want to uprage right now. Since your 6800GT is still pretty well up-to-date, I wouldn't worry about it, and the 3500+ isn't going anywhere, either. That setup will keep you safe for a couple of years, at least.

Basically, just build that system and enjoy it. Don't worry about it too much.

Agree, agree and agree. I just upgraded my old PC to a Socket 939 setup (AMD 64 3000+, 1 GB RAM, DFI NF4 motherboard) and it's the most cost-effective solution nowadays by FAR! And since, like me, you aren't a hardcore gamer, I fully recommend you to do the same and go for a Socket 939 computer. Yeah ,it will won't be top notch soon, but it will be a strong performer for a long time anyway. And I bet that buck for buck, it will be better than a Conroe or whatever new processor comes out.

Good luck!

You say you turned AA to 8x? No wonder your performance went so low, that's a crazy figure... I didn't even know you could go that high.

Try this setting: 1024x768 at 32 bits, AA 4x and AF 8x. Or if you can, 1280x1024x32 bits, AA 2x and AF 8x. Great visual quality, at what should be a good framerate. Good luck!

I used to play on a Pentium 3, and suffer with ugly ass framerate and N64 like graphics. Not anymore!

I upgraded my computer! Behold! (not really )

Athlon 64 3000+ @ 1800 Mhz (had it up to 2500 Mhz but stock it does just fine. )
DFI NF4 motherboard.
2 x 512 MB RAM - Buffalo Value, PC3200, dual channel.
Radeon X1300 256 PCI-e graphics card.
Same old 40 GB IDE drive. Again, don't need more.

Great performance, good enough for me.

Still no wheel though... waiting for that kickass Logitech wheel to come out!

Quote from BigDave2967 :

I started doing that advice *before it was described by Jackie Stewart* and it really does help, I was able to shed times off my pb, and save tyres for another couple of laps.

In fact, most quick guys (if not all of them) handle these principles of racing like the ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ.

That's why I posted them on this forum, because slower (like me) or new guys (like most who drop around here) will make good use of them.

Ok, I'm not the fastest man in the world precisely. But I came across a handy tool that made me improve my times by almost 2 seconds a lap. Wanna know what it is?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCmJ3Ugmrro

It's an extract from a recent Top Gear episode. On the video, Sir Jackie Stewart (Three times Formula 1 champion) teaches James May (the slowest driver on the show) some important principles about competitive driving, while testing a TVR on a track. It's a master driving lesson I'd give ANYTHING to have for myself. At the end of the day, James May's time around the track got a massive chop. So did my times around Blackwood on the XFG... Stewart gives some great examples about smooth driving and proper corner exit.

Take a good look at the video, it helped me a LOT! And I'm pretty sure it will help you improve too.

Good luck!

You'll have another S2 user... soon.

I'll rather get off the line and do the turn by the outside/inside than 'bumping a bit'.

Demo servers can be the closest thing to Destruction Derby sometimes.

My T1 usually is very agressive, but taking care of my car and others'. Most guys usually leave the inside of T1 unused, so I brake aiming to the apex, usually late braking rather than early, and suddenly I'm alone, jumping from 7th to 3rd, while the pack is fighting to stay on the track by the outside.

This seems to be what most 'idiots' tend to do, but I rarely get involved in a crash... like some F1 driver I can't remember said, you just don't win races at the first corner.

Quote from mkinnov8 :

Havent read the whole thread, dont need to.

There is ONLY ONE driver in F1.

Michael Schumacher.

:doh::dnfnoob:

Quote from Bosse :

Doesn't the FZR use more fuel than XRR and FXR? I think someone said something like that when we had a race a few days ago..

(But I don't know how much difference it makes but.. A pitstop takes time.)

It kind of makes a difference, but when your car's 2 seconds a lap faster than everyone else you can stop for lunch while doing the pitspot and being still ahead.

Just ask Michael Schumacher and Ferrari.

Toyota could pull a surprise next year, given that their development keeps consistant. Remember that next year everyone will be using Bridgestone tyres, and Toyota already made the switch this year. It could be a huge advantage to them.

I'm not too keen on Jarno Trulli or Ralf Schumacher, anyway. Trulli seems solid but unimpressive, and Ralf is getting old.

What's with Toyota and their driver choices? It's mostly like an assylum for old drivers (Da Matta and Zonta don't count) to end their careers: Mika Salo, Olivier Panis, Allan McNish... and it's seems to be going that way for Ralf Schumacher. Trulli does have a few years on him.

Quote from Vendetta :

definatly was another vendetta :P

anyway, forgot to mention ive had a few good races with Richard Towler in the UF1

Oh ok.

I think I drove with Vendetta on a demo server once. Very decent folk.

There's no way in hell Honda will win at Monaco.

They can't even deal with McLaren, let alone Ferrari or Renault. There's two Michelin teams ahead of them at the moment, besides their pace has been less than impressive as of late, they couldn't even fight for a podium at Barcelona.

They have way too much work to do if they want to fight for a win.

They should say mission accomplished if they can beat both McLarens.

Quote from Infiniti :

Probably I'm guessing by how many G's the driver sustains = death. I don't think it models vital organs in the driver But you can get a great idea that the organs turn into a milk shake of the body cavity after a certain amount of G's the driver is put through

It is said that some Indy drivers have survived +100Gs in some crashes, uninjured... I wonder how much of a role safety plays there, and how much luck does for you.

As far as I'm concerned, there's no way in hell someone can get into multiplayer servers with cracked versions of LFS... right?

I've always called it Live as in Live from Washington DC... just because it is easier to say. Makes you wonder if you're really bilingual

I don't meet up with gringos anywhere anyway, so it hasn't been much of a problem.

About Schumacher... yeah, I don't think he's the greatest either. Let's just have a look against the drivers he's had to fight:

·Mika Hakkinen, clearly the best of the rest so far.
·Jacques Villeneuve, Damon Hill. Nothing to write home about, unless they had a dominant car.
·Fernando Alonso... seems to be pretty good. He won't be a one-off, that's for sure.
·Raikkonen, Montoya, Coulthard, Berger, Alesi (well, against the hype of Alesi... lol illepall), and a bunch of one-offs who won some races but not WDC, or not yet at least.

Now let's check the late 80s, early 90s. Who did you have to race against if you were, say, Ayrton Senna?

·Alain Prost... Oh dear.
·Nigel Mansell. Only won the WDC with a dominant car, but the man had balls the size of NYC.
·Nelson Piquet. Three times WDC, very agressive driving and a very controversial guy.
·Ricardo Patrese, and a bunch of others who usually snatched some points, wins and whatnot here and there.

Senna was never as spoiled on his team as Schumacher has been in Ferrari, either.

Quote from 96 GTS :

What you forget is
"Salazaar joined the spectators"
"Vote Cancelled"

"Salazar has changed his name to [IDi]Salazar"
"[IDi]Salazar: LOL! FAKKIN PWND! LOOOOOOOOOL!!11111"
"Nelson Piquet: Bug off, f*ckin IDiot! You screwed my race!"
"[IDi]Salazar: JOIN IDI CRASHER TEAM"
"[IDi]Salazar: JOIN IDI CRASHER TEAM"
"[IDi]Salazar: JOIN IDI CRASHER TEAM"
"[IDi]Salazar: JOIN IDI CRASHER TEAM"
"[IDi]Salazar: JOIN IDI CRASHER TEAM"
"[IDi]Salazar: JOIN IDI CRASHER TEAM"
"[IDi]Salazar: JOIN IDI CRASHER TEAM"
"[IDi]Salazar: JOIN IDI CRASHER TEAM"
"[IDi]Salazar: JOIN IDI CRASHER TEAM"
"[IDi]Salazar: JOIN IDI CRASHER TEAM"
"[IDi]Salazar: JOIN IDI CRASHER TEAM"
"Alan Jones has voted to kick [IDi]Salazar (1/6)"
"[IDi]Salazar: JOIN IDI CRASHER TEAM"
"[IDi]Salazar: JOIN IDI CRASHER TEAM"
"[IDi]Salazar: JOIN IDI CRASHER TEAM"
"Gilles Villeneuve has voted to kick [IDi]Salazar (2/6)
"Gilles Villeneuve: n00b"
"[IDi]Salazar: JOIN IDI CRASHER TEAM"
"[IDi]Salazar: JOIN IDI CRASHER TEAM"
"[IDi]Salazar: JOIN IDI CRASHER TEAM"
"[IDi]Salazar: JOIN IDI CRASHER TEAM"
"Carlos Reutermann has voted to kick [IDi]Salazar (3/6)
"[IDi]Salazar: JOIN IDI CRASHER TEAM"
"[IDi]Salazar: JOIN IDI CRASHER TEAM"
"[IDi]Salazar: JOIN IDI CRASHER TEAM"
"[IDi]Salazar: JOIN IDI CRASHER TEAM"
"Alan Jones has voted to kick [IDi]Salazar (4/6)
"Alan Jones: LOL".
"[IDi]Salazar: JOIN IDI CRASHER TEAM"
"[IDi]Salazar: JOIN IDI CRASHER TEAM"
"[IDi]Salazar: JOIN IDI CRASHER TEAM"
"[IDi]Salazar: JOIN IDI CRASHER TEAM"
"Derek Daly has voted to kick [IDi]Salazar (5/6)
"Derek Daly: And I thought I was bad..."
"[IDi]Salazar: JOIN IDI CRASHER TEAM"
"[IDi]Salazar: JOIN IDI CRASHER TEAM"
"Gilles Villeneuve: :-)"
"[IDi]Salazar: JOIN IDI CRASHER TEAM"
"[IDi]Salazar: JOIN IDI CRASHER TEAM"
"Nelson Piquet completed the vote"

Quote from col :

damn
next you're going to tell us the real Santa Clause doesn't have a big white beard ?

He might not have known it was Heikki. In 2004 it could have been Alonso, Trulli, Villeneuve...

Quote from 96 GTS :

If the Stig can get 59 seconds, I want to see what Alonso could do.

It wasn't The Stig, Heikki Kovalainen drove it with the Stig suit.

Quote from DejaVu :

Funny how they risk the safety of stewards and other drivers, by removing a car right on the track side (montoya beached on the kerb) under yellow flags.

Any other race track, a safety car would have been called. But spanish gp, spanish leader, knowing schumi would catch if safety car came out........hmm

Yup. FIArrari at it's best.

Actually, thinking twice about it... Schumi would have lost big time if the safety car had come out, because in that exact moment (when Monty spun out) Schumacher was very very light on fuel and Alonso had just come out from pits, heavy tank and cold tyres, Schumacher HAD to go as fast as possible in order to overtake Fisichella at the pits. So... even worse!

Last edited by Marty502, Mon 15 May 2006, 22:24.

Quote from Gabkicks :

ah, that explains why he is so pissed then

Oh, did I mention Nelson was LEADING the race?

This is what happens when you use a track meant for TESTING as a racing track: Boring races.

Quote from Gabkicks :

who's fault was it in that incident?

If you mean the Piquet/Salazar incident, I think it was Salazar's. He was being blue flagged all over the place, and should have left Nelson overtake him at the chicane. Piquet's engine was about to blow up anyway, so no harm done.