Provisionally count me in, I might still be out of work on Paternity leave.

Quote from Leprekaun :

UFG!? thats a new car, isn't it? hmm... I think we have a secret LFS beta tester on our hands who let the cat out of the bag

eghh, errr. I ment the UFR, yea

I enjoyed the season, the little I was able to do. Thanks to Niki for finally getting it off the ground.

Ive signed up for LOTA and I might not be able to do any races in the next Irish champ.

Nonetheless, I vote UFG for the car next season!

Quote from Dennis93 :

Yeah lets sing a song : uuuuh You touch my tralala my ding ding dong!!!

I was thinking Angel of Death myself, but anyho.......

You were never called stupid anttt69. It was remarked that you made a stupid comment.

Seriously, put the handbags down girls

Quote from JamesK :

Its probably available for the 'Mame' arcade machine emulator, but I'm afraid thats the extent of my knowledge

It is, however its not stable and can br tricky to configure.

Autobox for LFS -1

Qually went well for me considering all four laps of practice that I had. Got wiped out at T1 which sucked, but had some good battles with Steve-30, shame we were not further up the grid.

Had to skip race two, take the wife to hospital for a follow-up.

slimserver + dyndns is all you need. Slimserver is open source and free as in beer. Been using it for about 3 years.

Quote from lizardfolk :

Well, the reason why there's no women in NASCAR is actually due to lack of funding and proper programs

Article: http://www.nascar.com/2007/new ... .lstjames.indy/index.html

There are female drivers in NASCAR, remember NASCAR is more than just the Nextel Cup Theres at least one female driver in CTS.

Storm in a teacup IMO.

I watched the replay and wasnt sure what the fuss was about. It was an agressive move no doubt, but TBH if you know someone is going for a move like that you either make room or run the risk of contact.

Racing incident, it takes two to tango

Sorry I missed it guys! I didn't get out of work on time.

I vote for the US, purely for selfish reasons

On a serious note, Kiltorcan would be good place to meet. You could have a pi$$up in Kilkenny and then karting at Kiltorcan, the next day of course.

If its around june 20th next year, I could go

The mondello school is pathetic, you'll fall asleep! A rallyschool though would be class.

Quote from matthew1993 :

1st corner , TopGuyTom and I were side by side and he cut stright across the grass to gain 9th place finish. This was not the first time he cut corners. Have a look at the replays and u will see.

I overcooked it into the chicane, I could either try and make the corner, hit the kerb too hard and possibly take both of us out, or cut through the grass. Its not the way I wanted to finish but its was the lesser of two evils IMO.

I didnt gain a place, I was already infront and running quicker, albeit slightly on both counts. On the lap in question I posted a 1:46.38 and you posted a 1:47.82. Theres no way in hell I gained that much of an advantage through that corner.

Quote from matther1993 :

This was not the first time he cut corners

Do tell me more, im not sure what you are referring to.

Quote from nikimere :

Cutting is not permitted and i'll be keeping an eye on TopGuyTom in the next one

Duly noted. Like I said though, I didnt deliberately cut the corner. I tried to make it and figured it was safer to go in the grass. Wasn't really expecting to make it out in front of him TBH.

Last edited by TopGuyTom, Tue 17 Jul 2007, 22:53.

Just realised you changed my reg plate to something more "family friendly".

How long did it take you to get all that done? What software do you use typically?

I think the format as it stands, for a first race I think it went well enough. Once everyone is more familiar with the setup it will be much smoother.

Quote from Leprekaun :

must be daylight savings, tell your PC to wake the f*ck up next time it happens

Nah, its a seperate issue. Im using NTP, looks like I have some debugging to do.


Or I could just put a clock beside the PC

Quote from Leprekaun :

Going crazy

Hmm, I thought I joined the server early, hence the exit from the pits during qualy and the confusion. I think my PC clock went back an hour. Wierd

Did the event start early last night or am I going crazy?

I was pretty surprised with the amount of heavy contact last night. I has some GREAT CLOSE races running up to round 1 during practice. The odd rub and nudge is no biggie, but there was some heavy stuff going on last night.

Quote from theirishnoob :

my firewalls fully allowing lfs and with 400 kbps and a 3.2 ghz pc i should connect first time every time ( like i normally do.... )

Bandwith is actually not that important. Latency is however, ie your pings. Basically its how long it takes for a request from your computer to be replied and delivered to your machine. This is affected bya few things including many "hops" your packets have to take and how long each of the hops take. You could have a 10Mb connection, but if it takes 500ms for a reply the game will be unplayable.

You could try a tracert to the server IP from the command prompt to track where the packets are going and how long its taking to get there. Heres an example of my route to lfsforums:


On the other hand, if things are generally fine for you on this server it may have been a temporary issue with one or more of your "hops". EG if a router went down along your traditional route, the packets may have to be sent through another three routers instead, killing your pings and destroying your gaming. Downloads however would not be majorly affected.

Do you have exclusive access to your internet connection at home or are there others sharing it?

Quote from nikimere :

You PC performance make no difference either

Irishnoob's spec is OK from the looks of things, but I thought id point out that with the bigger-than-ever grids, lower-spec machines will have difficulty maintaining framerate and as a result will lag, irrespective of internet connection.

Last edited by TopGuyTom, Tue 10 Jul 2007, 15:50.

awesome!

+1 for darkness, but cool production!

Quote from Leprekaun :

What does "QFT!" mean?

and well, 60k miles is a lot I suppose but thats because I love the sim soo much .

QFT= Quoted For Truth

Quote from Leprekaun :

Just be gentle with it . I have my MS SideWinder FFB wheel here thats been living with me for over 5 years now and only had to replace the micro switches once . That said, it is coming near to its end so will have to go for something new soon but if you want a good durable wheel and if you can find one, MS SW FFB is the one to go for .

QFT! The sidewinder has optical sensors instead of pots for movement tracking so theoretically it doesnt wear out. Paid 50e for my in Dixons three years ago and have done about 12K miles on it. The rubber the missing from the wheel but it works fine otherwise.


That said, hope to have a G25 in the next couple of weeks, three pedal goodness

/edit lamb-of-holy-jeasus-christ Leprekaun, 60K miles on your LFS profile!

/noob question

What exactly is a lag lap and whats the proceedure? Im sure its self-explanatory, but best to know in advance!

Quote from nikimere :

Of course there will be
I said in the "Calendar" Sticky that i will PM it to all drivers before the 1st race.

Aye, Ive been going directly to this thread and only noticed today that we had our own sub-forum, complete with aformentioned sticky!