When it's been this long between patches, the next one will have a bunch of great stuff. A new track is coming later, along with the Scirocco. Just wait it out patiently and you'll all be rewarded.

When you buy S2, everything leading up to, but not including S3 offered.

I have had my G25 since a few months after they came out. When it was brand new, there was no slack at all, but it's starting to have some now.

Perhaps your wheel was thrashed by the previous owner and it shows as a result. Even the G25 isn't unbreakable. The more and harder you use it, it wears out quicker.

I hardly race at all any more and I just did a 1:38.83 after seven laps. Been around with LFS since the very beginning, I'm just not a very good fast driver.

Find some people who are about your speed and have fun with them. Don't worry about being the fastest, just enjoy it. If you blow away everyone in a race, where's the fun in that? You've got no competition, then.

This is usually some service error, it doesn't mean windows needs to be repaired. Simply restart the related services (BITS, Software Licensing, SL UI Notification, Windows Update) and try again.

Keep going. You're close and just need a few tweaks to your style.

I didn't know they allowed tractor engines in the WTCC...:hidesbehi

Overall I quite like the new patch, the nod to increased realism is fantastic. Now it forces us all to become better drivers.

Wish I'd have seen this earlier.. Make sure not to get any AS past the die of the GPU, it can become capacitive and damage the GPU.

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I'm Finish, Norwegian, German, and English. But since i was born and raised in the US, i'm American. Well, if i'm overseas, i tell people i'm Canadian to avoid hearing yet another bad Bush joke.

I disagree with Shift_, most Americans are morons. Why do you think we have to put "this is not a toy" on all plastic bags.

Can't you see my post was meant as tongue-in-cheek humour? It's the bleeding obvious that most Americans are completely idiotic. American society on the whole, is rubbish.

What you see on telly is stupid Americans, cos it's funny and people will laugh at it. It takes intelligent people to look down on the stupidity and laugh at it. Therefor, more Americans are intelligent than stupid.

Sure, there were some brilliant Americans in past times, but only cos they weren't too far from their European predecessors. Current Americans seem to be rather pathetic, on the whole. Too busy with law suits and eating, to do anything truly worthwhile. Maybe being mostly English descent causes me to be more critial of America, but I think the future for us looks bleak.

All depends on how the case is designed, for example some new Lian-Li cases are made specifically to be quiet and they're aluminium.

Even on a cheaper level, the Tsunami still has rubber grommets to isolate the HDDs, I happen to know they work well. I never hear any vibrations from the HDDs, just their normal operating noises.

I will say that aluminium isn't as tough as steel and it does bend easier, as well. But for consumers and home users, I can't see that being much of an issue. They're not stacking 70lb+ servers on top of each other. I could go on and be really anal about it, but the fact of the matter is this, aluminium is a fine metal to make cases from, for most people.

Thermaltake Tsunami is a decent case, it's the one I use for my main rig. Everything is aluminium except the front bezel behind the door and the cover for the USB/audio ports, which are plastic.

Cooling is pretty good, as well. It typically keeps it just a few degrees over ambient room temperature. Even my powerful X2 and x1950 rig is fine in it. You could keep any system fairly cool in it.

Doubt you could do much damage to the computer by kicking it, on accident. If the thing still works okay, nothing is wrong with it.

Have a play with the graphics options and see if you can get close enough to your original framerate. Perhaps your cfg.txt or one of those other files, the files that store your options, was overwritten during install of patch U25 and they simply need adjusting again.

The card will certainly handle LFS very well at higher resolutions, since it mostly relies on the CPU for graphics work. Only when you start piling on AA/AF does the GPU really come into play.

I use 900 on the road cars, 540 on the GTRs and 200 on the Formulas. I think having to wrestle with the road cars a bit is more characteristic of how they'd be in reality. There's a certain amount of showmanship in there as well.

I just wish I could drive faster.

I haven't even bothered with hotlaps, tbh. Not a very good driver, so there's not point in broadcasting it for the whole internet to see.

Doubtless this will be the most talked about movie this summer, by the "I think my Toyota is awesome cos it has a huge carbon-fibre spoiler on it" crowd.

I've seen the original one, but not wasted my money for a ticket at the cinema, waited until it was on telly instead, for free. Probably the worst thing I'd ever spent my time on upto that point.

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I've noticed this on the nvidia side of things. It's actually happening to me right now. I used to use nHancer and decided to try a new driver. Well, not I cant seem to force AA or AF. I've rebooted (which has fixed this symptop in the past) to no avail. Anyone know of an up to date and reliable nvidia driver remover that they've tried?

DriverCleaner PRO seems to work well enough, get it from www.drivercleaner.net . Go through your standard uninstall procedure and run DC before you reboot to install new drivers. Removes all the registry settings and driver remnants.

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Perhaps, but only due to the fact that new memory (DDR2) and a new video card (PCI-E) are required for Conroe. If that were not the case, the price/performance ratio would definitely be in Conroe's favor. It's that much faster.

As I said above, $300 Conroe = $1000 AMD FX-62.

Not quite that cut and dry, I'm afraid. To run a Conroe chip, he would need to spend more money on motherboard which is $200 give or take some, and a stronger PSU ($100). I'm not denying the Conroe is going to be good value, it's just more than you're thinking of.

Add all of that to the fact that Conroe is brand new technology, Intel is probably still working out bugs from it. AMD is at its peak right now, making some of its best chips right now, it's a simple and trusted choice.

Looks like a good setup to me, mine is pretty similar to that except my motherboard and PSU are a bit beefier, only for OC'ing though.

Going to Conroe will cost you more in the end, you need new RAM, videocard, motherboard, it's a whole other way of going about building your rig. For now, the AMD64 s939 is the most cost effective if you want to uprage right now. Since your 6800GT is still pretty well up-to-date, I wouldn't worry about it, and the 3500+ isn't going anywhere, either. That setup will keep you safe for a couple of years, at least.

Basically, just build that system and enjoy it. Don't worry about it too much.

The main thing here is that LFS doesn't natively support AA/AF, you must force it to work. After some time, I've noticed you just have to go into the graphics control panel and just re-apply the settings without changing anything, strange I know but that seems to work.

I just put it down to driver optimisations really, ATI trying to squeeze out as much as the possibly can from your card. I have the same issue with my X800XT.

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actually it would be much appreciated, because people seem to have problems downloading it from these hosts...

Great! The file is on my server now, at http://racerfiles.net/downloads/Blackwood_rough_V2.rar

Appreciate your work mate, it's fantastic.

This texture mod looks properly good, can't wait to give it a go. Mind if I mirror it on my server at racerfiles.net? I've got a lot of bandwidth to get rid of.

Due to a limit on how the replay system works, you can't rewind the replays.