I think you're looking for the Tire Warmer adjustment.

My gaming rig:

i7-2600K @ 5015MHz
GA-P67A-UD4-B3
2x4GB G.SKILL DDR1600
HIS Radeon HD6990 @ 945/1400
OCZ Vertex 3 120GB SSD
2x WD 74GB Raptor
500GB Seagate Barracuda
1TB Samsung Spinpoint F3
Corsair H70
Silverstone Raven 2
Logitech Z-5500(sub replaced with RE Audio SR10D4 in 2ft^3 tuned to ~27hz)
3x ASUS VE276Q 27" LCD's
Logitech G9x
Logitech G15v2
Logitech G25
Windows 7 HP x64
HRT MusicStreamer II
Musical Fidelity V-CAN MkII
HiFiMAN HE-500
Beyer-Dynamics DT 770 PRO 80 Ohm
Grado SR-125

Mostly using the DT770 for racing, but I race with my HiFiMAN's on occasion when I don't feel like switching.

Laptop(racing on this atm):

MacBook Pro7,1 (Unibody MBP)
17" 1920x1200 Glossy
nVidia GT 330M 512MB
500GB SATA
Core i5 540M @ 2.53GHz
2x2GB DDR1066
Mac OS X 10.6.4 & Windows 7 HP x64

I've owned a G25 roughly since they were released. About a year ago I had a little issue with the shifter, so I decided to pop it open and fix it. I honestly don't remember what the issue was, but a couple months ago I moved to an eyefinity setup of 3 27" screens in landscape and hadn't played a sim in a while so I figured that would be a good time to start racing again.

Long story short it turns out I screwed up my shifter back in the day and tossed it out. So now I'm looking at upgrading my wheel to a Fanatec GT3 RS.

I've read reviews and looked at specs and I think the wheel is a no-brainer for me, but I'm really not sure on what pedals to run. My G25 pedals have always been good to me, and got better with the Nixim mod, but they stayed in the plastic base for all of a month before I made a stand to "hang" them and that stand now needs a major overhaul. I also kind of want to run them the other way around again, but I don't want to do that much work on the old pedal set at this time.

So I'm considering picking up the Clubsport pedals, but I'd like to know how they would compare to a G25 set with the Nixim mod. One problem I need to solve is that currently, due to the enormous space requirements of 3 27" displays I have had to use a white plastic folding table instead of my normal wooden desk and the edge is doesn't let me use my G25.

If you were to feel the edge of the table(~2-2" thick) from my seat, you would feel(on the bottom side of the edge) about and inch of plastic, and against that the steel rim that is just sort of a 1" deep x 2" high hollow tube. Past that steel tube, the table is ~1" thick and only plastic, which makes it quite bendy and really not any good for mounting my G25(probably any wheel). I know this description probably doesn't help much, but I'm curious if the Fanatec wheels might be mountable to this sort of structure.

I hope to get a new desk in the near future that will accommodate my displays and be a solid top of wood so that I can easily mount a wheel, but finding something that fits the bill is proving hard.

Any advice would be appreciated, I gots to get back into a little racing!

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Like this ?

Yeah!

Very clean rig.

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I considered that and much worse.

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Intel C2Q 9550s 4.2Ghz [Waercooled]

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Nice OC, mate.

Can you post a picture of your rig with normal lighting?

My main rig:

Intel Core i7-930 @3563MHz
Zalman CNPS10X Extreme
G.Skill 3x2GB 9-9-9-24 DDR3-1600
GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD3R
HIS Radeon HD 5870 1GB
OCZ Vertex 60GB SSD
2x 74GB WD Raptors
Seagate Barracuda 500GB
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB
Mushkin 650w PSU
Antec Nine-Hundred
Logitech Z5500 Sony Bookshelf front, RE Audio SR10D4 in 2ft^3 tuned to 27Hz
Logitech G9x, G15, G25 with DIY hanging pedal mount.
Toshiba Regza 37" 1080p LCD
2x Dell P2011H
Windows 7 Home Premium x64

Laptop1:
2010 17" Macbook Pro
Intel Core i5 540M(2.53GHz)
2x2GB(Not sure what speed the memory runs stock actually!)
nVidia GeForce GT 330M 512MB
The best part!
1920x1200 Glossy Screen(such a sexy sight on a laptop!)

Laptop2:
2008 15" Macbook Pro
Intel Core 2 Duo T8300 Penryn(2.4GHz)
2x1GB DDR2-800
nVidia 8600M GT 256MB
This laptop was smashed on the driveway of a FORMER female friend. I had to take many screwdrivers, a couple pairs of dikes and some tin snips to the aluminum body of it to reseat components and resurrect it as a desktop computer(it's pretty much just the bottom part of a laptop and looks like crap, but it works pretty damn well.)
Acer AL1916W

Laptop 3:
Asus eeePC 701 4G
I couldn't leave out my little eeePC. It's such a little trooper.

Those are my main machines. I also have a P4 headless server running a stripped down Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon that serves as my household file server and at times my router/gateway and my parents machines(might as well be mine as I built them, maintain them and upgrade them) which are a [email protected] and a E2200. I made the mistake of buying my mom 2 very nice Samsung 22s and giving my dad my BenQ 24". I have to resist the urge when my mom leaves the house to order another Samsung 22 and steal hers to run a 3x1 Eyefinity setup!

Quote from Calzone :

wear shoes, problem solved.

This, honestly, is the truth. Wearings shoes is a great first step, but just as important is what kind of seat you are using and what kind of angle your pedals are at in relation to that seat. In a rolling office chair, the brake pedal can be pretty hard to use.

Though I have to disagree with your opinion, as I'm sure most sim racers will, I think that what you want is quite easy to do.

I don't own a G27, rather a G25, but I assume the pedal design is somewhat similar. I've experimented a bit with the springs in my pedals, they are not difficult to remove or replace. I can't say where you would get a new spring, though. The springs aren't anything exotic, but you need something that has 4-5 inches of travel and is comparable in size.

I suggest taking the brake pedal apart(it's only a few parts) and taking a look at the spring.

Quote from phill1978 :

but it does have awesome graphics.

think about it. what game apart from the very latest forza3 on x360 has anything like these ? im talking pin sharp, realistic look with great resolution. they arent really far off GT5P on PS3. interior is really nice as is exterior ok not as rounded as ps3 but just as detailed texture wise.

im running on a REALLY crap 8600gt gfx card with 256mb. no game i try will really run over 15-20fps with details on, yet im running high settings @ 1080p WAY over 60fps x4 ansi and x2 anti.

can wait to get my new build up and running to get eyefinity on this


the truth is though a pc could do much better gfx than 360 or ps3 now so in that context yes there not state of the art.. but where are the better looking games. NFS shift is great as is Dirt 2 but there is a level of cartoonism to all these games in graphics, including grantourismo

I agree with you on the graphics to a point. It's certainly not the most impressive as far as effects go. But I have yet to play ANY game that pulls off the efficiency that LFS does. With all sorts of high resolution texture packs installed, all settings MAXED and running 1920x1200 or 1920x1080, I have never had any framerate issues even in a packed grid with just a 4870.

I was under the impression that you could run 2DVI monitors and one displayport monitor with Eyefinity.

If that is correct you should have no issues running a simple DP>DVI adapter. I have a box of about 50 of them here at my office, most of the desktops here have DP outputs and DVI monitors.

I think you have to use an active adapter if you want to run more than one monitor from one displayport output.

Stop it! You're endangering my white '07 Jetta. She doesn't deserve to be traded in yet!

My local Best Buy has one for $300USD. If I didn't already have a G25 with no issues I may have picked it up to give it a try.

For gaming use on my desktop:
1. Logitech G9
2. Logitech G5
3. Logitech MX500(It all started here imo)

For my laptop:
1. Logitech VX Nano

Looking at my desk is pretty funny. G9, G15 , G25, VX Nano, Z-5500, Logitech headsets.

Quote from shiny_red_cobra :

If anyone's interested, I did end up upgrading the ram to 2GB. I bought 2 x 1GB PC5400 RAM from OCZ, and it works great. Thank god for backwards compatibility.

Great to hear!

Aww man, too bad you're not in US. Been thinking about trying to build one but don't know if I could make anything usable. Hope somebody enjoys it.

Quote from mcintyrej :

CPU would be a first upgrade for me, since its not all clock speed that makes a CPU faster.

My E2140 Dual Core runs at 1.6Ghz stock, beating my mates 3Ghz dual core by far, because its a new architecture. I'm running my E2140 at 2.9Ghz now, nearly a 100% Overclock, its totally faster than his 3.0Ghz. About 3 times as fast.

True, but I think he is comparing within the same architecture. And C2D's automatically win these arguments. I would put my E6600 against any AMD processor.

Quote from Tweaker :

If you still have XP, best thing to do is never to get any video drivers from the manufacturer anymore.

Install 3rd party drivers that are perfectly stable, and have updated drivers from ATI. Usually the latest driver might not always work, so try older ones until you get desired results.

When I had my laptop, I always installed Omega Drivers. They support a lot of laptop chipsets. Link: http://www.omegadrivers.net/ati/win2k_xp.php

Install VGA drivers from the MFG is usually a waste of time for any gamer. Go straight for ATI's drivers or a good 3rd party. I'm not an ATI guy but I think Omega are the big name for 3rd party. nVidia usually cannot be beaten in the driver department but I'm not sure if the same holds true for ATI.

Quote from Mischief007 :

Small difference? For the sake of playing around with my system I ran 2 GB in single channel and then 2 GB in dual channel. Speed difference was 23% better (Used a program for purely testing RAM). In real world experience, I did notice a noticeable jump in overall performance.

All that needs to be said imo.

Quote from shiny_red_cobra :

It's a laptop, so 240 pin modules are useless as they're for desktops. Don't worry, I know exactly what memory I have/need, but I just wanted an opinion from some of the hardware gurus around here.

In fact, I opened up the memory compartment and the stickers on the ram actually say PC2-4200. Why in the world does CPU-Z detect them as 4300?

I know 240 is useless for a laptop. I was making a point that PC2-4300 does apparently exist but could only find it IN 240 PIN and it is thus less likely that you have it in your laptop.

I would think that you may be able to slice it off at the angle but would lose the Sequential function and would need to run wires from between them.

I understand what you mean and don't see any reason why it wouldn't work as long as the steering wheel itself can be removed and turned 180*. I tried it on my desk and the angle it is pointing downward is pretty extreme. Looks like almost 45* down from perpundicular.

Quote from Crommi :

Based on what I found out on google, Dell Inspiron 1501 comes with one 512MB PC2-4200 DDR2 200pin SO-DIMM memory stick and has total of two memory sockets supporting up to 2Gb of ram.

But before going out shopping, open the panel on the back and take a look at what kind of memory it is just to be 100% sure.

I found some PC2-4300 240pin on newegg. Only two of them, I think it is more likely that you have PC2-4200 which you should be able to find anywhere. I know that Best Buy has PC2-5300 for ~$30/gb this week, but I'm not sure if FutureShop runs the same ads.

What a mockery!

LFS is so good that I can put up with having a large MDF box with sharp edges sitting under my desk taking up foot room and still have the patience to take my wheel and shifter off/on my desk and uplug the pedals and untangle wires almost 4 times a day. All this just to play I game I had to pay $48 to play. To play a game I have spent ~$350 and still BLOW at takes alot of motivation. My motivation, my anti-drug, my anti-MMORPG, my anti-STD and my anti-sleep device rolled into one, the only other game to hold that kind of power over me is Counter-Strike 1.6 and honestly if I didn't have to mess with the steering wheel and shifter to play LFS I wouldn't play anything else. One of these days I'll start building a racing cockpit of sorts. It will be in my office closet where I can shut the door and keep all outside light/noises where they belong, outside! After that project is done, I will begin work on my next project, pasty white skin and morbid obesity(as long as it doesn't slow my lap times of course.)