You're not alone, my now empty bank account hates me too.

Atleast this finally arrived today from Japan, best sequential stick I've tried so far. Might machine a small plastic sleeve to reduce the freeplay a bit at some point though.

Quote from Lampost22 :

What could have been the reason on the 21st of November 2013 to attract so many people that this day holds the most-people-ever-online-record? Am I missing something?

Most likely traffic from Reddit/other sites because of Oculus Rift test patches around that time.

Been planning to do it for over a year, finally pulled the trigger on Obutto R3volution. Can't wait for it to ship out.

8800GT is only DX10, so that'll need to be upgraded along with the CPU, RAM and mobo for AC too.

650 Ti is pretty much equal to 7790. GTX 660 is about twice as fast.

400W will be enough for that setup even with a more powerful GPU.

That GPU propably won't last you very long, also 8GB RAM would be preferrable. Get a used GTX 660 instead of a 7790 for more bang for buck.

Same here, I always disable any faked cockpit motion immediately.

Next patch on the 17th supposedly has AI enabled, atleast for some challenges, so there's that to look forward to.

That Reddit thread is pretty obviously made by a troll.

Steam workshop for compatibility and auto-downloading for MP, if they do it right.

Worrying about getting a virus from sim mods? U wot m8?

Quote from Ball Bearing Turbo :

And here, we see, the early effects of mod-ability in a good sim. Listen, I'm not one to dwell and harp on the deficiencies of the LFS development model, but honestly, now that we have a fine sim that doesn't discourage and vehemently protect this sort of release, look how little time it took to have so much fun. This does leave me with food for thought wondering how much fun was wasted on years of LFS protectionism when the community was begging for the simple, simple opportunity to do what was done here with, so far, one ported track on an early access sim. Personally I see it as a great waste of time and opportunity, but this is all rapidly becoming a moot point as a culturally sensitive developer aims to deliver everything the community; which they've clearly been watching for years and actively listen & respond to, churns out much wanted hype, communication, licenses, content, physics, graphics, and the freedom to make what we want to make. It seems the niche sim-racing community is finally getting our holy grail

Totally agree. And yet we still have people on this forum "defending" LFS from filthy third party mods.

I concur, used GTX 660 hover around the 100€ area nowadays. That'd have all the power you'd need to run 1080p with very high settings with the rest of your system.

Quote from HenkkaWRC :

G-sync isn't going to help you to achive any higher framerates? It just smoothens the picture magicially.

I'm not gonna write a novel telling how. Read it from Nvidia site.

G-sync uses 144Hz monitors (with a special scaler board) to render an image without the tearing of v-sync off and the input lag increase that v-sync on typically causes, it's the best of both worlds. I've gamed on current non G-sync 144Hz TN panels, and I'd rather a standard 60Hz IPS screen any day.

Once there are 144Hz IPS screens with G-sync then it's going to be very good, but until then it's a technology that only competetive FPS players with high performance computers can really make any use of.

In Tristans case, I suspect a 144Hz monitor to be a complete waste of money, unless he's rolling on something like a GTX 780 to make his games run fast enough to get 100+ FPS everywhere. Not to mention, such high refresh rate screens are WAY out of the price range we're talking about here.

And you might want to educate yourself with this article instead.

Buying a 120/144Hz monitor now isn't a very good idea, as G-sync is about to change everything in the ultra high refresh rate segment soon enough. Without G-sync, you'd also need a high performance graphics card to reach those high framerates to make full use of the refresh rates. And as shot said, they're primarily all on terribad TN panels.

Quote from tristancliffe :

Would like to spend as little as possible, but £120 is probably all I can justify.

That won't get you a whole lot really. Decent IPS panel is right out of the question atleast, or anything with a nice stand.

If you put a bit more money in, you'd be looking at something like Dell P2214H/P2314H or U2312HM, then again all those are 16:9 panels, which aren't very good for PC usage.

I wouldn't personally go with anything less than U2414M which is a proper 16:10 panel like your previous screen, but it's also more expensive.

Well the Hydra is a completely different beast to TIR, Hydra doesn't use very limiting infrared for tracking like TIR does.

Anyway, the consumer Rift version is planned to have 6DOF, better to just wait for that than make some glitchy temporary hack for the dev kit.

TIR doesn't really help the Rift, because it can't keep track of your head after 150 or so degrees.

Quote from troy :

Kegetys made his Joux Plane Track public, all hail to the Finns!

Most fun I've had since ever. Tried to learn drifting it, not much progress in an hour but recorded a clip anyhow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrGVkRrrCFU

It's going on the T500, not an actual car.

Not sure about the airbag laws here though, friend swapped a Nardi wheel to his Supra and the MOT inspector didn't seem to mind.

Some more sim rig bits and bobs:


TH8 short throw plate


TH8 short throw shaft custom threaded for...


OEM Type-R Integra DC5 shift knob


DSD 70mm PCD T500 adapter for...


Momo Mod 08 wheel.

AX (up to 850W) HX (up to 850W) and RM (ONLY up to 650W) are good.

Having played the "actual" game now rather than just the tech demos, I think the potential of the engine is being wasted in just plain racing, atleast in the current state.

Since the game is obviously more arcade than sim, it would have been much more fun if the mechanics had been more Twisted Metal/Vigilante 8-like with silly powerups and weapons and such. That would have made it possible to have so much more fun with the destruction engine, blowing up buildings in front of you and driving through them etc.

Plain Flatout like racing just seems like... a horrible waste, knowing what the game engine is really capable of. Oh well, I've gotten my moneys worth just screwing around in the tech demos.

Finally got my Stinger GT today, haven't been playing for over a month.

Never buy a Corsair CX series. The ripple on those is catastrophic and the build quality is cheap, all you're doing is paying for the brand with them.

Quote from ATHome :

It's ridiculous that a company which is estimated to have more than a billion dollars on their side can't afford a server architecture which will not break down, just because there is an free game.

To be fair, their servers did take a sudden hit like never before.
http://store.steampowered.com/stats/content/

This wasn't a very smart move by Valve though. Their servers had already been stretching due to the ongoing winter sale, and then they release a game for free for a very limited time, at peak hour. And not only that, but apparently you had to actually start the download to add the game to your library... such stupid, much idiocy, wow.

I didn't think free L4D2 would cause such a ruckus though, I mean the damn thing has been on sale for like 2 euros all the freaking time. I thought EVERYONE and their grandmother had it by now.

You REALLY don't want to be using any damper or spring effects. All it does is kill the natural feedback from games.