The thing is no one understands WTH you're on about? Are you suggesting those kinds of minimaps in LFS? Is that it? If so, post in the improvement suggestions section first of all, and secondly say so. We can't read your damn mind.
Umm, what exactly do those rubber bands (?) do? I had my mouth all blinged out for years, and I can't remember ever seeing any of those.
Is it possible to have an aneurysm from excessive irony? Because I think I just had one.
If it has an AGP slot (4X and up), anything should work unless I've forgotten something elementary about legacy hardware.
That may be a problem yeah. One of the lower end cards may be able to cope though. The power requirement listed are usually way over on the safe side.
If you're buying anyway I'd go with something newer than those. There are AGP versions of both the Geforce 8 series and the Radeon HD 2/3 series available, and they will be much better than something as old as an 6600GT. I don't see why those wouldn't fit your computer unless it's AGP 2x, in which case all is lost and you really need a new computer. It probably wouldn't run the Lost game anyway, even with a new graphics card.
Ouch. AGP too then I assume? You could have a look for one of the lower end AGP HD3XXX cards from AMD, they cost next to nothing, but still beat the pants off the FX5200.
I have no idea about that particular game, but there are on occation patches made for popular games to run on a lower shader model. Bioshock comes to mind. It's a huge job though. You need to rewrite most of the shaders the game is using, in some cases it can't even be done without major quality og speed regressions (hence why the game is released as SM3 only).
You could give it a search (the game's official forum would be a good start), but I doubt you'll find anything. Buying a new middle to low end card is probably the best solution. They're dirt cheap these days, and are probably still faster than what you've got now (what is it BTW?).
You could give it a search (the game's official forum would be a good start), but I doubt you'll find anything. Buying a new middle to low end card is probably the best solution. They're dirt cheap these days, and are probably still faster than what you've got now (what is it BTW?).
Mastering may not the the whole truth, but this isn't it either. I don't want to make this thread into another one of "those", but any digital signal with sufficient sampling frequency (and dynamic range) is indistinguishable from the original analogue signal. Feel free to argue that CDs have insufficient sampling frequency, but I won't agree with you.
Personally I think the main reason Vinyl often sounds better than CD is that they usually don't get raped by modern mastering processes. There's actual dynamic range on Vinyl, letting sounds that need a bit of headroom (drums for instance) pop out much more easily. I don't think there's an album released on a major label in the last 10 years that hasn't made my head throb after about 10 minutes of listening. I just can't stand it.
A properly mastered CD would kick any piece of vinyl's butt.
A properly mastered CD would kick any piece of vinyl's butt.
Not to sound harsh, but if you have little computer experience programming an insim application will likely be waaay over your head.
Best thing you can do is probably to set the whole insim thing off to the side for the time being and instead look up a few beginner tutorials on C# programming. Focus on the basics of programming before you jump off the deep end with an insim application.
Best thing you can do is probably to set the whole insim thing off to the side for the time being and instead look up a few beginner tutorials on C# programming. Focus on the basics of programming before you jump off the deep end with an insim application.
That's because it isn't. You're the one that brought that issue up. What you're experiencing is a separate issue in which LFS asks the driver "AA and AF please" and the driver goes "what was that?" and ignores those commands. This bug is LFS (or probably DX8) specific, meaning other games may still work, but that does not mean LFS itself is at fault.
With the complexity of drivers these days, and the amount of application detection they do, this kind of application specific problem is not witout precedent.
Pfft. Don't make me laugh. Compared to a modern computer the PS3 doesn't stand a chance.
Oh FFS. It's about time FIA took their ball and went home. First they're making F1 "green", and now this? They're doing more harm than good at this point.
Time to start looking for a new hobby I think. Anyone for gardening? Can you fit turbochargers on petunias?
Time to start looking for a new hobby I think. Anyone for gardening? Can you fit turbochargers on petunias?
Which is why my entire music collection is ripped sans genre onto my computer. I can't label the damn things correctly anyway, so why bother?As far as I'm concerned there's two genres of music. Good music, and bad music. I prefer the former.
Actually the 8th SPE is disabled completely to increase yields in manufacturing. One of the remaining 7 is running background tasks.
Also, the number of MHz they're running at is irrelevant when comparing the console CPUs to normal desktop CPUs. They're completely different beasts. In much the same way a 2GHz Pentium 4 would have its ass handed to it by a 2GHz Core 2, the PPE on the Cell chip would get royally spanked by any moderately recent x86 processor. The fact that is runs at 3GHz+ (it does) doesn't mean much for its actual performance.
Also, the number of MHz they're running at is irrelevant when comparing the console CPUs to normal desktop CPUs. They're completely different beasts. In much the same way a 2GHz Pentium 4 would have its ass handed to it by a 2GHz Core 2, the PPE on the Cell chip would get royally spanked by any moderately recent x86 processor. The fact that is runs at 3GHz+ (it does) doesn't mean much for its actual performance.
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For single thread raw computing power (the kind of load you see in LFS) he's right on the money. Heck, even for multi threaded computing a cheap quad core would murder the Xbox 360 processor. The Cell is a bit better, but requires a complete code rewrite to take properly advantage of. Even then, not all workloads can reasonaby take advantage of its power.
LFS' graphics load should be easily doable on the consoles though, but that doesn't do much good if the processors can't keep up.
Heh, I meant to link to that.
And yeah I understand you all mean well. It's just that I doubt anyone would really take this guy and his "review" seriously anyway. It's quite obvious he's a muppet to anyone with half a brain, so stirring up the good ol' my-sim-of-choice feud does more harm than good I think.
Ah bollocks. Just ignore me. Bad day.
Personally I'm puzzled as to why some random fool on the Internet spouting his ignorance warrants a forum invasion of such epic proportions. I mean who the hell cares? No amount of posts will change this fool's opinion, which should be plainly obvious from the get go, so why even bother?
It may be I'm getting old and cynical, but at this point Internet debates in general are so beyond pointless I'm inclined to say they're downright harmful. People get so caught up in this whole black and white, us vs them, "I'm right, you're wrong" behavior that any trace of rational thought and intelligent discussion has gone completely out the window. It's always been bad, but it seems lately it's reached truly staggering proportions.
Sigh... I need a beer.
It may be I'm getting old and cynical, but at this point Internet debates in general are so beyond pointless I'm inclined to say they're downright harmful. People get so caught up in this whole black and white, us vs them, "I'm right, you're wrong" behavior that any trace of rational thought and intelligent discussion has gone completely out the window. It's always been bad, but it seems lately it's reached truly staggering proportions.
Sigh... I need a beer.
Better stop all those damn heterosexuals while we're ahead then. Before you know it sleeping with young girls will be acceptable.
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Words. I have none.
Not my HD3850 either. Not sure which cards support 32 bit Z-buffers to be honest. Maybe some workstation cards like Quadro/FireGL?
The Z-buffer contains the depth value (Z-axis) of each pixel on screen. It's used along with depth testing to make sure you don't draw a triangle in the back of the scene over the top of a triangle in the front of the scene. (geometry is rarely drawn in order back-to-front) The number of bits used in the depth/Z buffer determines the number of distinct depth values each pixel can have. The more bits, the less chance of triangles appearing in the "wrong order" (often seen with chalk lines flickering in LFS).
Who are you to speak for every woman on earth? How can you completely rule that out? As long as they don't bother anyone else and they are all consenting adults I don't see why we as a society have any business dictating how they live their lives?
Yeah, race_s has a fairly short first gear, so that seems about right. With a first gear similar to the one in Bawbag's replay (108km/h) it takes me 3 full throttle starts to go from a cold clutch to an overheating one using that method. It depends highly on the length of the gear though. It doesn't take many km/h lower to extend it to 4-5 starts.
This is extreme clutch abuse though. Even moderate feathering of the throttle to keep the revs sane completely removes the problem. I can't understand why anyone would just stomp on the throttle while hearing the autoclutch slip like that.
This is extreme clutch abuse though. Even moderate feathering of the throttle to keep the revs sane completely removes the problem. I can't understand why anyone would just stomp on the throttle while hearing the autoclutch slip like that.
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