Antec 900 or 1200

Yeah with a second split of 54:38 you really should be under 1:15 at start/finish line....my bet is your losing time at the right hander just after second split...and also at the final bend which can be tricky to get bang on.....the right hander after 2nd split you should be taking at 85mph or above...last bend 90mph and above.
My split times are slightly faster 24:25 and 54:33...lap time is 1:14:70, so you are definitely losing time at final 2 bends.

Last edited by {CA}Nighthawk, Sat, 30 May 2009 19:55.

@TheFlexican, all the setups at www.setupgrid.net and http://setupfield.teaminferno.hu/ are all good setups......BUT!!! you need to realise that most of those setups are geared specifically for the drivers style who uploaded them. i've tried bawbags and all the other 1:12.xx setups and they fail me very miserably due to my driving style, i use a G25. About a month ago a guy sent me a setup which compliments my driving style and i tinkered with it a little......i never thought i'd get below 1:15, but with my tinkered setup 2 nights ago i got 1:14:74 then right after that i got 1:14:70. last night i couldn't get lower than 1:15:10....lol
You have to realise too that it's like anything else in life....some people are just naturally skilled drivers, others are not.....same as football(soccer) some people are naturally gifted, others have 2 left feet and all the coaching in the world would not make them better.
Another tip is not to try too hard at beating your PB, when i beat my PB it wasn't until last bend at BL1 that i realised a PB time could be broken, yet when i set out with an aim to beat my PB i fail miserably, i find that just relaxing and enjoying the drive seems to produce better lap times, but that is if you have the correct setup for your driving style.
My problem with other setups was like you....always spinning out at corners....then someone send me a setup that suits my driving style and to me is very hard to spin out.....i've set the caster to 5 if that is too sensitive set it back to 6, i also used the gear ratio's from bawbags WR setup.....try it and see if it improves your spinning out. Also another mistake your maybe making (i know i did) is trying loads of different setups.....as i said most setups that are made are specifically made for that drivers style and maybe useless to other drivers style, find a setup that you can drive quite easily and keep to that setup....practice, practice, practice with that setup....get to know it inside out.....then if you feel you have pushed that setup to it's limits then make a copy of that setup and start to tweak little parts of the copy setup.....you might find you get a little more out of it when you tweak it a little. After you have tweaked it so far and you are back to a setup that you can't handle, then i'm afraid i think you have reached your limits as a driver. We can all have aspirations to be a record holder like bawbag, but sadly for many, many, many of us it will remain a dream and we have to accept we will never be that fast, and actually many of us will never even reach 1:13.xx.


Nighthawk.

Last edited by {CA}Nighthawk, Tue, 26 May 2009 18:17.

I had a look at this board......to me the answer you are looking for is most probably a setting in the bios.....maybe when your system is not running graphics intensive programs then the bios might power down your dedicated graphics card and use the onboard chip instead, probably using a software utility program similar to the ones you get for on the fly overclocking without having to go into the bios all the time something like on my board(asus AI suite) only for switching from IGP to dedicated graphics and vice versa.......i'm a PC engineer.....and as far as i know there is no way to do this via a windows option.....apart from what bunder9999 said. If it says it on the box or manual of the motherboard then i'm 99% sure it will be a bios feature.....they are always bringing out new features with every new mobo.

Last edited by {CA}Nighthawk, Sat, 23 May 2009 02:43.

Hi EQ Worry, thanks for the help with colours it's appreciated......as for your second piece of advice....lol, have you been reading my mind......as that was exactly what i did.....deleted all old files except Airio.exe and pdb files and uploaded the newer files from 2.2.4.

Thanks again.....Nighthawk.

i just got my LFS server and running Airio, server had 2.1.3 on it and RaceSIM kindly updated it to 2.2.4, but only replaced the Airio.exe and the Airio.pdb files which i asked them to do in support ticket, but i can't get the !rc messages in colour.....can anyone please explain how to do this....i've seen the messages on airattack server in red at start of race warning drivers to take it easy at T1. I have typed !rc ^1TEST,
but when i type !rc 10 for message to show it shows as ^1TEST in white colour.....but in LFS clours ^1 should be red.
All help appreciated.

Nighthawk.

Last edited by {CA}Nighthawk, Fri, 22 May 2009 22:07.

I too have a server with RaceSIM, very helpful guys.....i would certainly recommend.

I am in a gaming clan and also part of a huge gaming community, and using macros IS regarded as cheating......you guys are not dumb, you all know what a macro is.....script used to activate numerous keystrokes with the press of one button. In our clan, and in the gaming community that we are part of, the golden rule is that if the keystrokes of the macro in question cannot be done naturally without the macro....then it is a CHEAT.
Also i would like to point out that the very good mouse and keyboard drivers DO have an unfair advantage over us wheel and pedal drivers.....why...??? Keyboard and mouse clicks are not progressive, using wheel and pedals are progressive. So taking a bend it is quicker for a keyboard and mouse driver to get full throttle out of the bend than it takes a wheel and pedal driver....press button= quicker to get to full throttle, press pedal= more progressive= slower to get to full throttle.. Pressing button to steer= quicker steering, using wheel= slower steering.
Yes us wheel and pedal drivers have more control over our steering, breaking and throttle, but the mouse and keyboard drivers if they are half decent get quicker reactions because their controls are simply ON/OFF.
Maybe i'm wrong in this assumption, never used keyboard and mouse in LFS or any other driving game......but take a driver with wheel and pedals v's keyboard and mouse driver.....ask the wheel driver to turn the steering from lock to lock 20 times, ask the keyboard and mouse driver to do the same.....question is who would be quickest....no doubt in my mind the keyboard and mouse driver would be faster. Same with using gas or break, ask the driver with pedals to press gas or break pedal 20 times, and ask keyboard and mouse driver to do the same....keyboard and mouse would do the same task faster.
Maybe i'm talking shite....lol but maybe a fair way is having world records for keyboard and mouse drivers, and another one for wheel and pedal drivers......The way i see it is there are some shit hot keyboard and mouse drivers who have this advantage of having instant ON/OFF controls....whereas the wheel and pedal brigade use controls with more progression to get this ON/OFF state.....but we have more control over our driving.
As i said you can all correct me if i'm talking shite...... :-)


Nighthawk.

Last edited by {CA}Nighthawk, Sun, 3 May 2009 19:56.

I find FFB in grid to be ok my settings in the control panel are:
Master= 75%
Static= 75%
Dynamic= 75%
Aggressivity= 100%
Auto Center
by the game (recommended)
Auto center slider at 0%

I agree that LFS does in fact give better FFB than GRID.
As i said in previous post i'm 100% happy with my F430, but since money is not a problem i'm going to buy a G25 in the next few weeks and i'll be doing a comparison of both wheels. I have no doubt you will have many hours of fun with your F430, and as you can see it's very solidly built.


Nighthawk.

Hi, i went from Thrustmaster ferrari GT experience (no force feedback) to the F430.
My first impressions was wow very solidly built, clamping mechanism is very good.
Force feedback is strong especially when set to 100% in profiler and 50% in LFS, my settings are 75% in profiler and 40% in LFS, force feedback is very smooth and is not noisey at all. The only thing in settings i'd recommend is turning auto centering off, it's default of 75% was too strong especially at the chicane on blackwood track, i was losing control of car FBM at chicane because auto centering was hard to fight at 75%, i turned it down to 50% and it was better, but at 0% was better still. the pedals are good quality and very responsive, so is the wheel very responsive.
i've only been playing LFS for just over 3 weeks, first week i used PS2 controller, second week i used the Ferrari GT experience, third week i bought the F430, my fastest lap with GTexperience was 1:16:10, fastest with F430 is 1:15:42 and i'm still basically learning to drive in LFS and with the F430, i feel the more i drive the faster i will get, and the F430 to me is a very very big step up from my last wheel.
Other driving games it works with that i have is Race Driver GRID and RFactor, although in GRID and RFactor it took me about 5-10 minutes to get the in-game settings correct as both games didn't recognise the wheel, but got it working no problems with both games. The F430 is recognised straight away in LFS.
Now to the bad points of the F430......NONE.....before i bought it i knew there was no clutch and gearstick, i knew the wheel only had 270 degrees rotation. Being a driver and owning a car in real life i know that the only time you use a steering wheel lock to lock is when in a narrow street doing a 3 point turn going very slow....lol.....when racing the slightest turn of steering is all you need.
My honest advise is.....if you can't afford, or don't want to spend £150 on a G25, then the F430 is a great wheel, yes it is worth the money. If you really want clutch and gearstick to race with the touring cars then save for a G25. i might actually get a G25 next month.....just to see what all the logitech fanboys are making a fuss about. If i do get the G25 next month i will be posting on LFS an unbaised review comparing both wheels. And seeing i will own both the F430 and G25 i can make my opinion based on what i think is the better wheel.....not just because i own the G25 or the F430. You see when some people review a certain wheel, alot of them say it's great or the best just because they own that particular wheel, me on the other hand will tell it how it is, an honest opinion not based on "just because i own it". If i do in fact buy a G25 and i prefare the F430, then the G25 is going on ebay to get my money back on it....if i prefare the G25 then my F430 will be staying with me as a backup. I'm very happy with the F430, but i really do want to compare it to the G25, maybe i just want to shut up those logitech fanboys......lol


Regards.....Nighthawk

Quote from Flying Squirrel :

Yes.

It's somewhere down in Brazil right now, most likely with someone going vroom vroom, beep beep behind it.

nice one matey....that made me chuckle....lol

Mobo= Asus maximus extrem
CPU= Core2 Duo [email protected]
Ram= 2x1gig Corsairs XMS3 DHX 1600Mhz
Graphics Card= MSI GeForce GTX280 OC 1Gig VRam
Monitor= LG 22" Flatron with widescreen 1680x1050
Sound cards= Creative Audigy 2ZS and M-Audio Delta 410
Hard Drives= 2x500Gig Hitachi Sata2
CD/DVD ROMS= Asus CD/RW + Pioneer DVD/RW
Mouse= Cyber Snipa Stinger 3200 DPI
Keyboard= Logitech G11
Headphones= 2 Pair AKG K181dj + Technics RP-DH1200
Wheel= Thrustmaster Ferrari F430+Logitech G25
Case= Antec 900 with 6 fans running

Last edited by {CA}Nighthawk, Mon, 11 May 2009 18:32.

MSI Geforce GTX280 OC with 1GB of VRam

Hi i'm new to LFS, played demo for a few days then decided to buy an S2 license...my clanmates also have demo.....this is the first racing sim i've played and i love it....i have only one gripe, cheeky, ignorant and very rude players especially on demo servers where i play with my clanmates....i mean c'mon i'm 43 years old and shouldn't have to put up with the abuse recieved on demo servers, plus people ruining races by lining their cars across track to stop people passing......i didn't buy this game to put up with shit like this.
Apart from these few gripes i'm having a good time on most servers.


Nighthawk.