Buy every LFS player a 8800GT, then give us some more RAM and then the devs can do some Fast And Furious smoke. The reason is quite simple; not everyone can support this smoke and that's probably why the devs haven't gone 'too far'.
Use [REQUEST] next time, cuz I bet the 135 peoples that opened this thead are a bit pissed.
in the earlier versions, i replaced a texture, and after that it looked like the known smokemod, but i dunno wich texture i need to replace thus i don't know if this would work either.
+1 for smoke slider. I'd love that. However I dont know if the devs will put this over more important things as in racing usually there isnt that much smoke unless you lose control. It would be good for us drifters and for burnouts after a race or before a drag race .
There comes a point when it needs to be realized that those with 3-4 year old PC's can sit back and not play the game or spend the cash and upgrade. If people want to have a gaming setup last more than 3-4 years they need to move to consoles.
We're still looking at DX8 (at least it looks like it) and very limited visuals when DX10 is a year old.
$200 graphics cards (3850-3870, 8800GT, etc) can play LFS at 1900x1200 with 8xAA and 16xAF with 100-200fps with 20 cars on the grid, and 300-400fps on the track alone. If you can't afford an $80 8600GT or equivalent then its time to stick to older games. With those settings and 20 cars I am using 214MB for LFS and only 1259MB in Vista X64