Sounds like the end result could be pretty big, best of luck. Out of curiosity what language are you writing this in?

Indicator tick would be cool. To sync it up with the flashing, all you need to know is the time interval for the light? Then just loop a sample thats the same length.

I like to have a drink or two while racing sometimes..my driving seems to peak after a couple, if I'm pretty focused. After that it starts to go a bit downhill and I end up taking a dodgy pass here and there. My laptimes don't get much worse but my tyres suffer and so do the people around me.

I've set quite a few of my pb's after a couple. I smoke but can never smoke while racing. In the slower road cars I sometimes roll them on the straights though for after the race

Nice sounds. Could still do with a bit more tweaking, but almost there

Sounds good. If theres no checkpoints set (e.g. cops & robbers) it just won't say anything?

narcisism..now theres a useful word to remeber

Lol @ the potential court case, bit silly. Right mouse button would work well. Would be nice if you could use the scroll wheel when hovering over it to make finer adjustments, if possible.

Couple more things I noticed - when starting a 5 lap race, it runs the "only 5 more laps to go" sample, which sounds a tad silly just before the race starts. Can you catch when its the 1st lap of a race and exclude it from lap announcements?

Some sort of hotkey to disable it for autocross would be nice as well..espically with the popularity of cops & robbers at the min.

Excellent update, works very nicely, just run a few races and it does help immerse you in a bit more.

There were a couple of bugs I noticed - not to knock your work, but at this stage I figure bug reports are good, in brief:

• Have to go all the way up the volume to go down? Almost blew my ears out I think
  

• When Shift-F4'ing to it to change volumes, the ui takes a very long time to update. Same after exiting LFS
  

• Doesn't save settings, this I think is the biggie.
  

• Maybe make the ingame message text colour adjustable?
  

Btw I ended up with these volume settings:

Car Sounds: 12
Radio: 10%
Backfire: 30%

Very nicely balanced, all I get with the car sounds volume any higher is extra interference and distortion.

Will be nice when there is a couple of radio profiles to choose from, and if you get the time to tweak the backfire part a bit Very nice work though, thanks.

This mod is great, i didn't know it was possible to do this with LFS, been using it all evening and it sounds like what i'd expect, much more immersive than normal. My only complaint is with the car sounds turned up to 20x so its balanced i get a lot of distortion, so can't wait for the next version so I can turn the volume down and use my normal 12x volume ingame.

Very good work, thanks. What your planning on creating eventually sounds even more impressive, I had no idea until recently this was even possible. Works flawlessly on my machine.

Do you have anti aliasing enabled, if your card is powerful enough to use it?

Note: This post is heavily biased.

I'm not a big fan of EMA. Nor of them bonuses they give some students for simply passing their GCSE's at some schools. It teaches them the wrong values and makes money the prime motivator illepall Of course it does genuinely help a lot of people out, but more often than not it gets pissed away on cheap cider or PS2 games. A lot of colleges have a seperate transportation/lunch help system anyway.

Its like, if your going to give a couple of quid to someone homeless sitting on the corner of a shopping centre, what will do them better, buying them bits that are actually useful to them, or giving them a couple of quid that they're almost gaunteed to go waste on cheap booze?

Of course, this is backed up by the fact I worked my arse off to pay for college fees and transportation, and still am, at 19 I get no EMA or silly bonuses, only £1,400 in fees + £45/month transportation when I only earn £90 a week. But at least I can feel good about it. Although I think I may be a bit biased

Had a good bit of fun in GTR2..you can feel whats going on better than the 1st one, still doesn't have the same feel of LFS..but I was impressed. Graphics are okay, bit too cartooney here and there but overall quite nice. Sounds reminded me of the 1st one, didn't really sound any different. Until LFS cars start sounding like cars personally I perfer GTR2's engine sound, even if it doesn't sound dynamic, mostly becuase it isn't.

It thermalled my computer after an hour or so of driving..hit the 70C cutoff on my cpu. Time to clean it out a bit me thinks.

Now try getting FF to work under Wine I still don't think it can be done.

Btw you should be able to force 900 degrees by pressing Select, R3, Right paddle, at the same time. The software probably won't recognise it but works well for me in PS2 games that get stuck in 200 degree like GT3.

Why? Any demo racer visiting this forum will most likely be coming here for information or to see what the community behind the game is like. So what would be the point in seperating it?

I couldn't care less if its sampled or generated on the fly, if it sounds better than the already okay sounding engines, i'll happily switch to it.

Wow, that sounds very impressive. Please don't tell me its a fake Would love to see this mod released.

I've recently started learning to drive proper, before I've messed around quite a lot in private car parks and the like, and a bit on the backroads where I used to live. The actual driving you will likely pick up very quick, the operation of a car is dead simple once you learn the basics. Its being aware of everything happening around you and how to react to it that takes time to learn. And whoever said expect every other driver to be a complete idiot is 100% right, you can never be too careful when trying to anticipate what other drivers are going to do.

Well as long as the voltage and connector match up, and it can supply enough amps, any generic power supply will work. A 24v laptop one might work as well.

thisnameistaken, sorry I missed your post.

Just wanted to add, having recently had my wheel in several peices (got a bit curious), they're very simple things to work with and to repair. Think I need to add a heatsink to the motor in mine since I put a bigger wheel on, gets a bit warm after heavy use.

You get used to it being on the right, I never really gave it a 2nd thought after the first 10 mins of usage. These days I use it just for handbrake, but still as a shifter in GT4.

I have the PC and PS2 version - mostly use the PS2 for convinence but the PC one does run better and look sharper. The PS2 version of NFSU2 feels pretty laggy.

ShannonN, thats pretty lame, like others have said, you stand to loose nothing except a bit of your time by installing it, and ultimately, it is a good bit of fun, 90% of the time I play it with a gamepad and not a wheel - bouncing off other cars and cutting people up very agressively doesn't feel right on a wheel

Whats wrong with bling bling arcade games? They're good fun when you can't be bothered with anything serious, as long as you don't try to take them for anything more than a game. And lets be honest, whats more fun when you've had a few drinks with a couple of mates, hotlapping LFS or racing NFSU on the big tv with the comfortable sofas?

Btw, I thought the FnF films weren't so good. Espically the 2nd one. I didn't like NFSU2 that much either, preferred the first one, took less time to jump into a race, or make a car look stupid.

Depends. Using only two pedals with autoclutch on, I left foot brake. I don't do it IRL on the rare occation I drive auto, otherwise I instictively think its a clutch. In LFS it just feels natural illepall

But for everything except single seaters, I use 3 pedals, and a H shifter. I almost always right foot brake with this setup, but use my left foot sometimes, mostly on the turbo'd cars when a gearchange is not necessary.

I've delt with Logitech support a few times. When the wheel is broke, if you phone up their tech support, and explain its broke and the symptoms, explain how it doesn't work in gran turismo 4 and on a friends PS2 with the same game (because this is the game it was designed for, the pc stuff was an afterthought for the wingman team, and they'll tell you to try it with gt4 on another ps2 if you say you haven't), they'll ask for its serial number, and send you a whole new unit, no need to return the old one. For the UK it takes typically 2 weeks for delivery, my 1st one was via Parcelforce, 2nd was via UPS.

They'll ask you to cut off and post them all the plugs, but they do not follow up on this. The support person I last spoke with advised me to leave the pedals intact as a spare unit. I fixed my old wheel after taking it apart last time, so I forgot to send the plugs in

I have one of them. Used it for a couple of years before buying a DFP. Works nice, better for drifting than an FF wheel, the spring snaps back faster than a FF motor. The pedals are nice as well, I believe they use optical pots, so wear free?