Quote from tristancliffe :

What you should ask is who is quickest over a lap. And then you go to LFSW. And THEN you can watch the replays and see what speeds the aliens gets at this point.

Well NO not really, as that would be another thread!

The purpose of this meaningless thread is a simple question of how fast your setup gets you down the straight and around the corner in control.


Meaningless.....maybe, but so what!

meanwhile......back on topic

how fast can you go down blackwood straight AND still make the corner?

Bit of a strange one this.....

Does your mood or style of driving change when you switch between different skins for the same car? illepall

Quote from mrbogeyman :

it probably does do it everywhere else, but the effect is not noticable. try it on KY GP Long to check?

sounds possible, i'll try it!

Quote from the_angry_angel :

I have a theory, but I dont know how accurate it is.

As I understand it, the FE tracks are close to their object limit (this includes all parts of the track, as well as user place-able objects). It could be on lower spec machines that this, combined with the extra culling required, having to do the extra physics calculations, and driving line calculations for the next lap is too much for the system to take.

To be honest, I've never really noticed...

what do you call lower spec machine, i'm running athlon 3000xp 512mb ram and fx5900 128mb graphic card

Quote from bbman :

That will be most likely the AI learning the track...

Thats what i first thought, but why then does it not do it anywhere else?

Last night was practicing offline on the longest Fern Bay configuration and came across a stuttering effect everytime the AI crossed the start / finish line!

It happens very quickly but is enough to throw you slighly off line when cornering. As far as i'm aware it only happens on the Fern Bay tracks.

Has anyone else experienced this?

Quote from SamH :

If someone were willing (and I just know they would) to obsess about reproducing an accurate representation of a real track, why prevent? First on my list would definitely be the Monaco GP track. Street circuit = no licence to pay, surely, and would be a good test of feasibility. LONG term, of course.

Is that true?

Well done Devs!!!

Slightly off topic

Page 24, half way through the last paragraph made me chuckle!!

Quote from Gener_AL (UK) :

erm

o/t

love that avatar!!!!
pity you can't hear the tune that goes with it

Paddy goes in to a bar and orders 3 pints.
The bar man pulls his pints and Paddy goes and sits in the corner and drinks them.
When finished, Paddy goes back to the bar and orders another 3 pints.
The bar man does but is a bit confused by it all and says "why don't you just have one at a time, then they will be fresh and cold."
"Ah" Paddy says "you don't understand, I have 2 brothers, 1 in america and 1 in australia and we made a promise that if we were out having a drink we would order 1 drink for each of us, so that makes 3 drinks!"
"I understand" says the bar man "that makes sense!"
This continues for many weeks till one day Paddy comes in and only orders 2 pints.
The bar man, being a quick thinker, steps up and says "My condolenses Paddy, something must have happened to one of your brothers"
"Nah" says Paddy "I've given up the booze!!"

How about this one?

Last edited by mrfell, Tue 25 Mar 2008, 18:27.

Quote from xaotik :

Your post was terrible - but you probably had left your butler unattended so he improvised, quite understandable.

rofl

Quote from xaotik :

I seem to remember that, when running the stock creative labs drivers, if you run dxdiag and go to the sound tab of your EAX-enabled device and set the "hardware sound acceleration" slider under "directX features" to "standard" instead of "full" then EAX is disabled. Not sure what else is disabled in the process though.

Many thanks XAOTIK, I have the same problem so will try this later.

Before every one jumps on the band wagon and slags this game off, let me just have my 5mins of fame..

I've read over the months how TOCA3, rFactor and the like do not match the driving experience of LFS (and I would agree). However I have recently downloaded the TOCA3 and GT Legends demos as I had a few spare megs of download to use up.

TOCA didn't impress me at all, nor did the driving experience of GTL

BUT

One thing did in GTL and that was the ability of a false start!!!

EG you cant sit at the start line in gear, clutch out and flat out on the gas pedal waiting for the light to go green!



Something which has always taken a bit away from the driving experience in LFS.

Does anyone know if the devs are looking to create this, or is it widely agreed that they are not needed?

Thanks!!

EDIT!!!

The reason i posted this was because the search facility didn't find anything or didn't work properly, now i've found a couple of posts already ELSEWHERE!!!

Last edited by mrfell, Wed 7 Dec 2005, 12:27.

Quote from Fordman :

The first stig was Perry McCarthy, the new white Stig is a dude called 'Dennis Fitch'. He is actually credited as a mini cam operator, but this is just a cover so that he can be credited to the show.

What a cracking day job!!

Quote from axus :

:sigh:
Please use the OT forum.
I doubt its anyone famous too... just some local racing driver or something...

:sigh

sorry about that, could the moderators of this forum please move this to the o/t section, Axus, sorry I would be most gratefull!

Quote from Fordman :

We know who it is. Well if you was at the MPH Show you know who it is

did he have a go at lfs?

Who ever he is, he was giving that diesel astra big licks around castle coombe on sunday night!!

Any idea who the Stig is?

Tiff Needel
Damon Hill.........?

Quote from P5YcHoM4N :

Yeah, who'd want to lose the a three year old. What a blow to selfesteam.

rofl

Quote from AndroidXP :

As long as you don't let him go online...

at least he can keep it in a straight line, not like some drivers i've come across!!
still thats another thread!

so we are the youngest here so far!

I'm officially 33..........

but i'm training my lad who is 3 to play LFS!!!

Quote from al heeley :

Which 3, out of interest?

gtr
nfs underground
toca rd2


i cant believe it but got £20 for the 3!!!!

Quote from (SaM) :

It is actually better normally to put the LFS viewer in the S2Alpha folder, because then the viewer just views the skins folder and you wont have to drag skins back n forth while skinning. You just save the skin and start up the viewer.
But yea, if the abc file is different, it needs a place of its own I'm afraid. But once the viewer gets updated with the newest abc, it's going back to where it was for me.

thats exactly what i did and will do in the future

Quote from the_angry_angel :

Both the viewer and LFS use the abc file.

If you put them in the same directory now that the test patch uses a different file, the viewer doesnt know how to read it (because its a different format, now theres more than 1 language).

Blimey, thats a bit rambly. But nevermind.

makes sense....
cheers