Try This:

SuperPiByHand -> Get a stopwatch, and a pen and paper. Start the stopwatch, and then get to work. Stop when you get 1M digits of pi.... mmmm... pi. Then stop the watch, report your time. Way more impressive than having a pc do it and about as obscure as your method.

Seriously though. While its nice to include multicore support, SuperPi is pretty much the gold standard of the Pi calcs.

Free Fight Night Live on Spike January 23rd. Should be pretty good, and its hard to argue with the price

Quote from Gil07 :

It's a bit strange that, when the class was well balanced with patch X, suddenly they've made it uneven again in Y

Despite using the Global Balancing as dictated by LFS, there was no shortage of FXR's last season, througout the balancing process (even when not ultimately competive). Ultimately I believe your team picks the car they most like/can do the best in. In MOE, that mostly rules out the FXR. In IGTC, many teams could compete at their best with a slightly slower car. Just my $.02

Punctuation is your Friend. Please become better friends, soon.

Ok... but AFAIK you shouldn't see much of a jump from a 3.1 E2200, to a 3.2-3.5 (what are you taking it to?) E6420.

How did the 3.1 E2200 fail to impress you?

900 isn't a bad amount of vertical IMO. I game at 1050 vertical, and aside from not knowing what gear my MRT is in, I've no troubles with it.

I do have trouble ensuring I'm clear left and right, and only having two wheel mounted buttons on my G25 sort of limits my options.

That said, I would wish it was at least 1080 just for HD's sake.

Quote from Tweaker :

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The way I play LFS is with a narrow FOV on my 22" WS. This gives the most detail I can get down the course, where I'm focusing. Unfortunately it almost always cuts off my mirrors. So for me, this would be the best of both worlds.

I'm not hoping for true 180 degree vision (i don't believe this claims to do), or anything close to it. I just believe it would allow me to maintain my LFS FOV, but to be able to really use the mirrors. Would it make me faster? Almost certainly not, but I believe the immersion gain would be far more palpable than getting a larger standard lcd.

different strokes for different folks i guess.

Quote from Electrik Kar :

Looks interesting, but I wouldn't call it teh sex- it just looks too wide and a bit too geeky. It would pwn for 2D platform jumping games though

Honestly a bit less geeky than a Triple Head 2 Go setup, you concede?

And for LFS it would be really nice to get a good view with all your mirrors in it while maintaining the high level of down track detail.

Quote from thisnameistaken :

Surely if the screen is curved, you'd need a special graphics driver to render an image to fit it properly? Otherwise you'll get perspective issues at the edges, won't you?

Please let me know how I'm doing at pretending to understand stuff!

I believe you may be correct. I'm not sure though.

I believe some games (like LFS?) are actually doing this already, in that your FOV is a slice of pie if you will, but its relatively small enough not to need curvature.

I doubt the curvature is extreme enough to necessitate any major reworking of the current systems.

BTW, you sounded quite like you know what you were doing.

Quote from Tweaker :

Yeah I read about this last night... was pretty amazed that finally more seamless displays are being made.

And this one is pure sex . But it's by Alienware, and price will make me ignore this.

Hopefully a Dell version might be out in a few years. 27" at that resolution... I would dish out a 'G' for... OLED's might be affordable in a year or 2.

The appeal of that screen (to me) is far far higher than a 30" 2560x1600.

Quote from Dennisjr13 :

I bet it would be annoying when you are watching a movie..

Chances are, if you want to buy this, you already have a dedicated tv for the movies, but i don't know, its actually 3.2 width/height, which is a bit closer to the ~2.3-2.5 the movies have... i think


Anywho, it certainly is impressive. I hope it catches on, that resolution would be the shizzie for lfs.

2880x900 resolution, double DLP? Ultra fast response time, plus its freaking sweet.

http://www.engadget.com/2008/0 ... cks-crysis-at-2880-x-900/

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Don't get all frothed up quite yet because it's still only a prototype, but this sweet doublewide curved DLP display with OLED illumination from Alienware will reportedly be available in the second half of '08. The curvature of the 2880 x 900 rez screen mimics peripheral vision, and in action the performance seemed pretty flawless to our Crysis-dazzled eyes (official specs report less than .02-millisecond response time). We did notice three faint vertical dividing lines that appeared to indicate four sub-panels making up this screen, but we may be willing to suspend disbelief in exchange for the potential of indulgent wrap-around immersion. There's not even an inkling of an MSRP on this thing yet, but you know we're gonna be keeping our eyes on this sucker for ya. Pics below and don't miss our video footage

I think this would pwn for LFS...

EDIT 2 -> 2.59 megapixels, i.e. just higher in total resolution than a 1920x1200 1080p monitor.

That could be the Ugliest Ferrari F1 car i've ever seen

Quote from thisnameistaken :

Random guess: Set "Texture Filtering - Negative LOD bias" to "Clamp".

That made my LFS suddenly look nice on my nVidia card.

Crap dudes. I updated my drivers to 169.21 and lost my LFS settings.

Naturally now LFS looks crap, no AA/AF. Worse yet, the Negative LOD bias Clamp trick does Not work.

If anybody has any thoughts or settings, i'd appreciate it.

Thanks,
|||Stu

EDIT -> Wierd. I changed my Control Panel settings to use maximum quality on all applications and LFS shows AA/AF. But if I try and specify LFS individually, it doesn't. So fixed I guess, but not really?

Last edited by srdsprinter, Sun 6 Jan 2008, 04:03.

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

We're discussing this at the moment. I'm going to be keeping a close eye on how it goes in the 24hr MoE race that's coming up on the 19th, as that should be a pretty definitive test of how well balanced the cars are.

After that, if it looks good we'll roll with it. If not, we'll look into balancing.

Haha, that's what our team's been doing as well. You know what they say about great minds don't you.

Anyway, good luck to you guys in the 24, and look forwards to hear what you guys come up with.

Hi guys

quick Q: Will the LFS Global Balancing of the GTR's still be the IGTC balance a la 2007?

Thanks

|||Stu

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S3R Stu

or

|||S.Duff

Sad laugh at Harjun accussing others at spamming.

I saw the dell deal here in the states as well. Nice CPU, but DDR2-667 crap RAM, Crap Motherboard, and Crap integrated Graphics. And the CPU will spend its entire life at <2/3s its potential assuming almost all Q6600s can do 3.2 w/out too much stress.

Congrats! Looking forwards to seeing you guys at the IGTC.

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

Stu, you guys thought about putting together a GT2 effort?

Thought, yes. Feasibility, somewhat... We're not quite at the manpower needed to comfortably hit MOE with our best efforts. MOE is a team goal, and I think I may revive our investigations to an entry.

Quote from shiny_red_cobra :

I think this brodcast should be mentioned in the general discussion area too, because casual racers don't visit the leagues section of the forum, and they will never know about this brodcast.

Definately a BIG +1

Last edited by srdsprinter, Fri 4 Jan 2008, 14:54.

That sucks big time, but it probbably is the right thing to do.

Dakar is the best...

Quote from niall09 :

when you have "Forced Cockpit" on, the player cannot use the racing line.

Cool beans dude.

I figured Scawen backdoored it somehow to prevent it when desired.

Mechanical Engineer. \o/

Don't know if this has been brought up, but I was wondering if anyone else hoped that the racing line ('4') was a server side option (is it?).

For me, it makes being consistent easier, getting repeatable quick laps. Not really faster on a single lap, but probably over the course of race.

The problem could arise with leagues IMO, mainly where such an aide would really be out of place.

Personally I'd just like to not have the option of using it some times. It's tempting, and feels a little silly.

Anyone else feel this way?

That's awesome. As a non-MOE competitor, I'll really look forward to seeing/hearing this, and watching a lot of the guys I've raced with.

I'd love the sound to be bumped up when you whack a kerb, and some more feedback might be nice.

Welcome, and glad to hear you like LFS!

(Bring your GTR friends )