Quote from Scrabby :

I'm gonna preorder the Jetta, wich tracks will they be running?

http://members.iracing.com/ifo ... readID=43517&tstart=0

try the link again Scabby... changed

Last edited by StableX, Mon, 3 Aug 2009 18:25.

Quote from Scrabby :

How can I promote? I've met my MPR for Road and Oval...?

at 10pm UK time, the system will go down for a few hours while licenses are upgraded ready for the start of the new season

well done on getting the SR and MPR Scrabby

Beware everyone... Struan's back posting

Quote from AlienT. :

Promotions will be Monday August 3rd, and it should happen automatically.

Quote from Crommi :

I'll focus completely on Pro Series, DP turns out to be quite difficult car to adapt after racing openwheelers through most of my simracing "career".

true... I'm incredibly sad that the PRO races wont be streamed to watch

Quote from UncleBenny :

I'm going to focus on Impala B for the most part. I'll probably also hop in the Trucks when I like the track they're racing, and the modifieds for a quick race when I have the time.

I might have a go at a Silver Crown race if its Lowes or Atlanta or a big track.

What's everyone racing this season?

I'm going to give the Mazda a go and the Jetta

Quote from eddie_brunette :

I managed to sort mine too, but not sound related though

I reinstalled Win7(64bit), run LFS excactly same probs

I then tried WinServer2008 (32bit), and it worked fantastic, but had prob with AVG on server.

So I thought it might be 32/64 bit related. Installed XP 32bit S3, and had sound problems with S3, but LFS played very smooth.

SO I reinstall XP 32bit S2 and *BAM* my LFS S2 unlocks are done for the week biiiggggg bummer

My PC is just about two years old, and all my hardware came with 32bit software, so it might have been the 64bit software that i was using. LFS plays perfectly now, but only blackwood and 12 cars(aaaggghhhhh), but sending mail to "headoffice" regarding my prob, they just might unlock it before friday
2 x AMD Athlon 2.55gHZ
2 GiG Ram
NviDia GT 8600.

edd

great news indeed.... are you using an onboard soundcard though?

Quote from buck77 :

thank you very much!

Pleasure... I have a Q... do you ever go to Picinguaba. The most beautiful beach in the World

Well, I am a little shocked but I've managed to sort the issue, thanks to all your help.........

It turned out to be using the onboard soundcard. What I don't get is how the graphics can be so messed up in a game as a result of a soundcard.

Anyway, I added my old creative soundcard and everything is fixed......

Thanks again all

Quote from buck77 :

i have two n00b questions!!

1 - this is a setup attached, right?!
2 - if so, where can i save it? don't know the way! [im quite new at iracing ]

what I do when I get a new car is go in to a practise or test on track and save any setup...... that will then make a folder for that car.

then as said above go to your :

my documents/iracing/setups and you'll find your cars in there

add any setup extra to that car folder .

Quote from richard dk :

Ohh yes..Last year in season 2 I drove many races there..it`s a great track..especially in the Mazda..

On lap 1 in T1 1/3 of the field went off there...and then a lot in T2... Was easy to get a good result there...start last or almost last...keep out of danger and let the others do the bad stuff...and you are up there in the end..
Ok things has changed i guess...but cya there from time to time in the new season..

too right mate. A couple of us RSR are going for the Mazda season It starts with Road America so I hope the T1 and T2 blunders work for me

Well, after listening to my team mate rave on about Road America today since he bought it this morning, I had to use up some of my iRacing vouchers and buy the track.

My god, I thought Sebring was fantastic to drive until I got on track in the Mazda......... simply brilliant. Thankfully I remembered the track from Forza2 days and its even better here!

Anyone else tried that combo? It's quite a beast in the Lotus too...

Quote from DaveWS :

I've had a big fiddle with most settings, and I've got it to feel much more to my liking, although it's still by no means easy to drive. No more understeer, and it turns in on the throttle so you need to be careful, but I've attached it if anyone wants a go and gives me some feedback.

I've only tested it on the free tracks and infineon, as well as the skid pan.



Yup, I noticed that, awesomeness.

thanks Dave...... managed a 1.32 with it

Quote from DaveWS :

'I've attached it if anyone wants a go and gives me some feedback.

It better be good or I'm contacting support to recommend you go back to rookie license

In Vista do you have to run LFS as admin? have you tried running from an admin account? I have tried running in administrator as well as other. Have also tried running it from different drives.

Have you tried in 16bit and 32bit graphics modes? I have not tried 16 bit mode but then again, wouldn't want to either.....

Does this happen in all screen resolutions? yes, have tried in all sorts of modes. Interestingly, on my really old machine I could shift-F4 easily from full screen to windows mode. If I try it now it takes about 20 seconds to do and its glitchy until it actually gets there. On going back to full screen, its never right and needs to be restarted.

Have you tried running singleplayer full grid with all same (or none) skins on? ( I would try high res vs low res too). I have tried full grids with basic skins and custom with the same issues if I try to make the AI crash or they just do when in view of me in the rear view or in front.

Happens in windowed and full screen modes? When in window mode its as if the graphics never quite catch up and it looks like its only showing every second frame Also it seems even worse when someone joins the server and a message pops up to say joined. I get a gfx type glitch then too. It's worse in window mode.

Have you tried dissabling the sound from device manager? I haven't tried that actually. I will do. I use onboard Realtek. Just tried that and no difference.

Do you have any Cool & Quiet throttling software installed? No idea what that is actually...... Ok, I thought you might have meant ASUS cooler fan management software. Deleted that and no change either.


SD.

Last edited by StableX, Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:43.

Quote from Crommi :

Try recording it on different hard-drive, Fraps footage at 1280x960 resolution already takes up 1,5Gb per minute which means running game can stutter if HDD can't keep up.

Might have to buy a new HD then.. ty

Quote from Crommi :

Yes, that's the resolution I use ingame and I config fraps to record in "Full-size".

I tried at 1900 x 1200 in iRacing and my machine went slow......

Quote from Bose321 :

I have the same on my laptop. 32bit vista.

Victor mentioned that LFS uses some features that most other games don't use. It's weird that I have a top end machine and it just wont run right. I'm sure it's a gfx thing somewhere as its only on collisions and sometimes with messages that show, like when someone joins a server....

Quote from Crommi :

I capture all my videos in 4:3 format with 1280x960 resolution and they appear as "HD" on Youtube and black bars are only visible on fullscreen with different aspect ratios.

does that mean you put your game to that resolution too?

Quote from spanks :

heh try mid 28's on a mostly default high df set by Ben Corronet (sp?)

thats pretty fast!

Quote from DaveWS :

Well my first impression of the Lotus is pretty good.

The handling is definately very knife edge, but I love it TBH. You can catch slides with some success, and the grip the thing produces at high speed is awesome. Go above 120 mph and the thing is just glued to the road. You can even feel the steering load increase, and it genuinely conveys what I'd expect ground effect to feel like, even if it's botched a bit. At low speed though it's very very slippery and you need to be very precise. One thing I do like, is being able to setup up the differential properly, NO MORE lift off oversteer!!!

The sound is more aggressive than it seemed on the preview video, but it's very thin and there ain't much low midrange meat which I'd expect. It sounds like a 500 cc version of the same engine.

sort me out a nice few sets please Dave

I was doing Silverstone in the Lotus at about 1.33 but the aliens were doing low 1.30's - bastards!!!!!

Quote from AjRose :

The lotus is a bit slower than i imagined. It feels slower than the mazda. Either way it feels awesome to drive it. And the new Linear brakes feel amazing.

What are the lap time differences to the Mazda on any track..... Any idea?

Quote from spanks :

I managed to buy the lotus, jetta and NHMP...and then it went down

I got to 41% of the update then it went down again. Not even got to buying anything!

Quote from DaveWS :

Internal server error for me atm. How does the lotus compare handling wise to say the Mazda? (Should be quite different onbviously)

Sorry to say it Dave but I was joking

the new Lotus is awesome..... what do you think?

I think I'll wait a bit now... bored