Yeah - and while I found the setup works very well, it was still a big buggy (e.g. it's hard to perform the right action on an icon in the correct hotspot a lot of times.)
I would think that it would be Vista preventing it if anything, since support for this feature was only possible after installing nVidia drivers, so the only explanation is that people can't seem to get the card-maker's drivers working right with Vista...
...yet another reason I fear upgrading.
I tried that program. It's REALLY cool, but it get's annoying as an everyday thing. Fun to fool around with though.
Horizontal span is exactly what you think it is. I have two screens, and it basically shows up as one giant screen to the computer. Using nVidia utilities you can then set extra things that it handles, such as snapping windows to either monitor, or limiting the taskbar to one screen and other stuff like setting which screen dialogue boxes come up on. But yes - horizontal span means one giant <---> monitor.
That's typical after reentry to the atmosphere. Little known to most people, the LX4 body is actually fairly aerodynamic at specific degrees of incline, acting like a lifting body and allowing for high speed sub-orbital flight. Of course, looks like he came in with a bit of yaw to the right, exposing the left front tire to the extreme effects of atmospheric drag during the heavy reentry phase.
This only proves the limitation of the LFS physics engine. At those temperatures, the car, and everything immediately nearby SHOULD spontaneously burst into flame. I guess it's a bug that's been overlooked?
After seeing that video, I honestly would put that at almost the very top of things I want changed in LFS. It would add incredible realism when the car in front of you jumped in the air as a result. It will be lots of fun when grass is actually bumpy grass and not smooth ice.
Here's the one I use. Here's also a bunch of icons so you can customize the default icons. Personally I find that the colored circles go well with this minimalist skin.
You can see how it looks in the screenshot of my wallpaper - page 49 of this thread - second post.
So you'd rather spend three times the cash and get the computer a week sooner? 
I don't understand.
I don't understand. Frank Sinatra - Love and Marriage
That seems a bit expensive for what you're getting.. (1.8 Ghz... 1 Gb of RAM?!) Hardly a thousand dollar computer. BUILD YOUR OWN!!!
I plan on doing just that sometime in the near future. Get some cheap-o car. Cover windows with translucent projector screen - mount projectors outside vehicle pointing at all 4 sides, and project LFS onto the windows all around. Then just place a G25 in the car, and a computer in the trunk, and you've got your own personal LFS rig. I've already got three projectors that I could try it with
@Forbin: Well, wait a minute, contrast ratio is directly related to what you just said. Contrast ratio is the measure of the darkest dark to the whitest white that the monitor can produce - so it would be important to you because that's what you just stated you think is important.
@DHRammstein: This measure is important because any monitor can only get to a certain brightness before the light bleeds all over the black areas. You don't usually notice any difference (as you didn't) during the day. At night, or in a dark room, is when it really jumps out at you. If you go into a dark room and turn on your screen and display a black image, you'll notice that obviously the screen is nowhere near black (a bright black). Screen with REALLY HIGH contrast ratios tend to be able to produce a very dark black. That's what the major difference is. HDTV's and such emphasize this because when you are watching a movie, it really makes the movie look better in darker scenes if the TV isn't bleeding light all over the dark bits.
I'm waiting for Tristan to come on here and tell you that it's a racing SIM, and that in real life, people wouldn't be able to afford to replace the dash gauges with versions that had bigger numbers. Or at least, he doesn't - so therefor no-one else does.
Sorry Tristan - I had to
Feel free to :bananadea me now!
Sorry Tristan - I had to
Feel free to :bananadea me now!
When I was a kid, we always inherited my dad's old laptops (and he always got the top of the line models with the new high-res screens.) The result of that is that I'm spoiled with super-fine resolutions. I cannot bear anything low res. I was so glad when the week before I ordered my laptop, they made available a 1440x1050 screen.
If I were getting a 22" screen, I wouldn't settle for anything less than 1920x1200 - only because 1680x1050 would be too low resolution for me. I'm used to VERY sharp screens.
If I were getting a 22" screen, I wouldn't settle for anything less than 1920x1200 - only because 1680x1050 would be too low resolution for me. I'm used to VERY sharp screens.
True. Personally I find it's more dangerous to do that anyway than to just stay in your own lane.
To quote Jeremy Clarkson: "I've always had a bit of a beef about that. If you pass someone on the inside, there was room to do that; there was room for them to have gotten out of the way in the first place!"
Yeah, but isn't the main difference when all you are doing is changing the screen resolutions at those higher settings, the graphics card? I know the game is mostly CPU intensive, but I would still think that the difference between 2560 and 3560 res would be solely up to the card to handle...
...what are your framerates anyway and what res exactly are you running?
Yeah, that looks like a hardware issue to me. Try reseating the CPU, RAM and GPU, if it's not onboard graphics, and see what happens. Also check that all the fans in the case are working (including the GPU) and that there aren't any massive amounts of dust anywhere that could be blocking airflow (between fans and heatsinks for example.)
Obviously if TRISTAN wouldn't spend $300 on some datalogging equipment, I'm fairly certain any serious trackday racer wouldn't either.
Well then good for you. I did 30 on a road with a speed limit of 35, and went into a turn that was unexpectedly wet, slid over the line (oil mixed with water I guess?) and clipped the rear end of a pickup going the other way. Had I known the road was wet, I'd have gone even slower around the turn, but the fact remains that I was going UNDER the speed limit, and yet I had trouble because of the wet road.
99% of the time you can go 95 on a straight, flat, perfect wet road without issue, but that ONE day, there will be something in the middle of the road, and your tires will not be able to bring you to a stop that quickly in the wet.
Funny, usually it's people telling ME this stuff on this forum because they see my age and immediately start assuming I don't know anything...
The obvious solution is for everyone here to pool ALL our money, take out a multi-billion dollar loan, build a miniature city in (x) location, and invite anyone to live there, but they can't unless they pass a driving test - and we'll be the driving instructors.
I maintain that generally, only fairly intelligent people with a good deal of common sense can drive at a level that would satisfy our standards, which would likely lead to less crime, and a greater overall level of intelligence. There would be no lawyers, or Britney Spears's or EVEN an member of the Bush family - I hope. It would be like a perfect world!
Actually, maybe not, as there'd also be NO teenage girls, or people over 65, or children under 15, or...
I maintain that generally, only fairly intelligent people with a good deal of common sense can drive at a level that would satisfy our standards, which would likely lead to less crime, and a greater overall level of intelligence. There would be no lawyers, or Britney Spears's or EVEN an member of the Bush family - I hope. It would be like a perfect world!
Actually, maybe not, as there'd also be NO teenage girls, or people over 65, or children under 15, or...
No, they have less grip, which is WHY people go slower on small roads. On the highway, you don't expect to have to brake hard for any reason, or even swerve. On a small road, as you guys mentioned above, there is a lot more to look out for, and going 60 mph on a wet road ensures that if you have to brake hard, you're going for a wild ride. IMO it's not aquaplaning that people worry about, it's braking... which I think makes sense. At least I THINK that's what they're thinking.
I agree with everything else you said though. I absolutely hate people that can't drive... which is like 97.1845% of people on the road. Actually, those 97.1845% probably DON'T think about having to brake or anything. They're probably going 30 because they're too busy talking on cell phones, or eating, or doing their nails, or just being TERRIBLE DRIVERS. The other 2.8155% go slow because of what I said :P
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I should make it clear that I also find that highways are much easier and actually safer to drive on than small roads, but it's just the initial fear (accelerating on the on-ramp and then the first few minutes on the highway) that are scary for a novice driver.
I don't doubt that, but I thought that an 8800GTX would be way more than 3x as powerful as my card... or is that not true?
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