cool, will try it as soon as i play LFS the next time!

hi there... first... good to hear nothing's really happened.... and as the others said... don't be scared too much...it will make it quite hard for you to start driving again...
I had a similar "situation" like you, but there was some damage to the car, which made my account a little lighter... ;-) but I got on with driving, took it as a expensive lesson and got over it...

Years later I had a stupid crash with a motorcycle, this time no damage at all (appart from scratches which don't matter at all on a Yamaha TT600) and a couple of bruises, I drove the bike home, sold it 2 weeks later and quit riding.. It took me 6 years to get on to a bike again and it was like learning to ride again, but 5 times more scary....

consider it a lesson and learn through it :-)

here's my 2 wheel attempt

Quote from ajp71 :

There are a large number of club racing cars running bike engines with bike boxes (not proper sequential racing boxes) with reverse, how they are modified to do this I'm not sure.

AFAIK they use an extra set of chain and sprocket with a second lever to connect.. this is what I saw once at a kitcar with a bike-engine

Best Motoring videos of Japanese GT Series show, they do use heel&toe..
don't know about FIA GT, though, but I guess, they don't need to kick the clutch for shifting...

nope, sure not it's only you....
since i have to use contactlenses, my time in front of LFS is quite limited.. I seem to quit blinking, while trying to get faster

hehe, sure, I usually prefer weekdays from lets say 20.00 to 22.00 (GMT+1), weekends and earlier is only rarely possible

p.s. racing the fxo gtr on rallyex is with slickmod, right?

though I'm slow, I would be in, if the race/s is/are held at a decent time :-)

saw it on giga-tv, as a game-presentation. after that downloaded the demo...
still playing it...
still being slow....

(S1, that is...)

@ElBoss, wow, now thats a nice one!

Hi, actually I'm suffering under similar symptoms....
I have pretty much the same components as you do...

Last week, my power supply failed... it didn't burn through, but somehow did shut down the system after 3 or 4 secs.. I replaced it after two days running on a 250w unit..and today I tried LFS but it keeps crashing after a few secs in game (crashing = it starts stuttering..then screen goes black, then PC gets stuck. with VPU recovery I can prevent a restart).

I have checked all cables and if all cards are propperly installed (I have dismantled the entire computer to find that the power supply was faulty), removed the installed ATI-drivers, installed the latest ones I knew worked before. I fiddled with the the settings of the graphics card, but with no real result... I can only run LFS a few seconds longer....

i get the feeling, that the faulty power supply somehow damaged the graphics card....

@der_jackal: thanks for the info on the clever uninstall & stuff, managed to improve, but still the game crashes, just as the others...

Last edited by The Dide, Fri, 7 Jul 2006 22:37.

Quote from ThomasSoerensen :

One other thing could be my kerb-riding. It seems like driving on the kerbs reduces grip a lot. Maybe that is realistic.

I did once some laps on the GP circuit in Montreal with a Ford Taurus (ok, not much of a sporty car, but still)...and I was really surprised how strong the car reacted when driven over the curbs... lots of wobbling and other unsporty stuff going on... LFS in my opinion is not that far from RL...

just my thoughts/experience

I agree with Linsen and would like to get one step further...
if the Devs would "outsource" elements of the game,
..they would need to take over responsibility for things they didn't create..
..they would need to to "manage" other teams, than just themselves...(timely aspects, quality....etc)
...and since we are paying for what we get (I feel its an excellent package for us though), maybe they just want to make sure, they have their hands on alle elements, to deliver value for money....

don't get me wrong, I know, that there are a lot of talented guys out there, willing to help, but it ain't easy, i guess...

and as also stated... I also enjoy, watching this sim evolving and getting better...it's something you don't see often....

Last edited by The Dide, Tue, 23 May 2006 14:58.

Quote from bbman :

Already a leaked S3 Alpha?

oops, caught me, it's an ingame screenshot... :jester:

There have been a couple of threads lately why to use camber and to what degree... I found a picture, I think it illustrates nicely...

http://www.motorpix.co.uk/images109/op-32.jpg

the outer tire is pushed with the entire "thread" on the surface, while the inner tire is somehow tilted...

thought to share it in the beginners-forum....

thanks mate!!!

after a race a somebody nice () sent me his setup ingame... how can i receive it? i checked the folders (settings) and i'm not able to find it...

thanks for any hints!

p.s. i didn't ask for the set (verbally at least, only by showing my driving skills :fluffy so i wouldn't know upfront...

oops, thanks!!

after racing looooong time only offline, I started recently to join online races... I try to pick servers which are not full and have a reasonable number of drivers...
Is there a actually a way to be on the last position of the starting grid?

For the time being I'm not to happy to be in the first third of the grid, 'cos I don't (really) want to give space away, as I know the others are faster, but I don't want to block the faster ones either and possibly cause a carnage.... or something.

well, I guess I need to do more races online and get faster anyway... ;o))

Quote from Bramski :

....... if for no other reason than just having seen how that racing enviroment works.. apex's, racing lines, braking zones, drafting, opponent awareness etc..

I agree with above, but I think, no sim prepares one for the g-forces (especially braking), which will work on you during a race. The heat and constant poundering of noise is also something which can stress people out, distracting from the clean racing line.. ;-). Also it can be really unnerving how brutal racing drivers (or wanna-be's) are driving their cars.

Having quite some kilometers offline (and very few and slow online), I don't drive any faster on the road (if situation permits) or feel prepared by racing with LFS, because crashing IRL hurts and is expensive and in LFS you don't really need to care....

p.s. my humble, private opinion ;-)

32 here... well ... .....no...wait wait... 33..ouch.. why is that I always want to loose a year?

thanks for your reply... and oooops...

i guess i have clicked on "never remember pw for this site" in mozilla.... makes it a little bit hard to reconnect..... stupid me...

Hi, i'm trying to logon to lfsworld, but i'm not able to logon correctly all the time... username and pw are correct and on left top my username is displayed, but when i try to access "personal" sites it refuses me to do so..
i have checked my cookie-settings and i'm using firefox (latest version from today)

any hints?

thanks,
The Dide

Quote from AeoIus :

I'm busy accellerating from the crash in the turn before the straight, checking supension damage and tyre temps and contemplating whether I really need to pit this time or if I can survive another crash in the turn after the straight.

That and take a quick sip from a glass of water.

hehe, very good, sounds like the same I do....

I agree here with some points made and disagree with others... but to sum it up (again): Adding electronic devices to supercars spoils the fun for those who could do without and saves the butts of those who can't.

In real life - since i'm able NOT to overrate my driving skills - I'm not to unhappy if i find a "powerful" car to be equipped with TC, it's just....that you can relax a bit and not need to drive with a knife between your teeth at all times...even if its a Alfa 147 (with 150 turbodiesl bhp) on sicilian mountain roads....
I simply dislike the thought having in RL the same crashes as in LFS..

And for all the supercars out there with all that gadgetery.. in the end, the market (i.e. rich customers) decides, what's being added to a car, not us who mostly will never be able to afford it...