*sigh* I give up...

You just bought a set of DDR400 ram, and your other fastest set is DDR333, the DRR400 ram you just got, will be slowed down to DDR333 (or worse if you use the other set). You might aswell just use the two new sticks you got and throw out/sell the rest.

Quote from shrubba :

I was wondering if using 4 sticks, with 2 being slow 133mhz sticks, and 2 being good fast ones, would slow down my load times. So note to self, buy a good fast dual set of memory, and only use that! I have to say, I only plan on playing just LFS for the next 6 months, so 1gb of memory should be fine. After that time, I will have enough money to buy 2x1gb dual set... so a total of 3gb buy then, and a second 7600GT sli gpu. but untill then, 2x512 of fast memory will be better than what I currently use, and plenty for LFS.

Shrubba

If you use the 133 sticks (DDR266) and stick in two faster sticks (DDR400) the DDR400 sticks will most likely be slowed down to DDR266 speeds, thats if they even work together at all.

And you're wasting your time aiming for 3gb of ram, you'd have no use for it unless you were working with giant spreadsheets, encoding or whatever... there are no games that will utilise 3gb of ram.

2gb is plenty.

And as said above, AMD cpu's dont like running 4 sticks of ram. So in the long run, you'd be better off with 2x1gb sticks. 2x512mb may be faster (although im not convinced) you're not gonna see any difference.

1gb sticks can run faster than CAS3, generally the "value" stuff is CAS3, but the more up-market stuff is CAS2-2.5. But the CAS rating isnt gonna make much difference to him, the only real difference you'll see if a couple of seconds faster loading times (if you're lucky) and some extra points in benchmarks.

Personally i'd go for quantity (more mb's) over speed (CAS rating and timings), cause the difference isnt gonna be that noticeable.

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I currently have 2x256 mb cards, and some mis-matched 512 cards in there, both sets of which are only 133mhz so sad. So I am going to get a nice dual 512 memory set, and replace my mismatched 512 set (which then I'll use at work). So I would have a total of 1.5gb ram (2x512 and 2x256) both running in dual mode.

Ya might aswell chuck out the 256mb sticks of RAM if their stock speed is 133mhz, cause all they'll do is slow down your new set... thats if it'll even let your computer boot up.

Last edited by InsaneJeff, Sun 26 Nov 2006, 09:41.

Yes... sometimes you can get away without a Windows reinstall if you're replacing your motherboard with one thats the same brand/model/chipset. I'd say alot of your problems are caused by drivers from your old board conflicting with the new ones. Im actually surprised it booted into Windows.

Reformatting is your friend.

Oh and dont forget to install the Dual Core patch after you're done.

Make sure "Simple Wheels" is turned off in the Video options.

By the way, there's no such thing as a Geforce 9700, it must be an ATI Radeon 9700.

EDIT: Bah! Didnt see your edit. Glad you got it fixed.

1 x 1gb.

Later on down the track you can get another 1gb stick (if you play BF:2 or anything else that needs more ram) and you should be able to run them in dual channel mode... aslong as they're the same brand etc.

You dont need to reinstall Windows on a CPU change, you more than likely would if you changed the motherboard aswell though. You dont need 64bit Windows. You might see an improvement by installing the AMD Dual Core patch... just google for it, you'll find it. Should help with any crashing you get or applications acting weird.

What if there are more cars than pit bays though?

Ok... i am a blind idiot, found it.

Call me a blind idiot, but that's the option i've been looking for, but cant find in the LFS control options. =/

Hey all, i think this is in the right section, if not, feel free to move it.

I recently got myself a MOMO and everything has been sweet (yay), then a friend suggested i should turn off combined axis in the gamepad control panel, basically giving me the option to brake and accelerate at the same time. Which is what i want.

I've done that, and it works fine for GTR 2, but when i use the "seperate" option in LFS for the pedals, the axis' are reversed.


Example:

Feet off brake and accelerator = Both brake and accelerator on

Feet on brake and accelerator = Both brake and accelerator off


I hope you understand what i mean, cause i just confused the hell outta myself.

I went into the wingman driver control setup thing and checked the "report axis seperately" (or whatever it says) and that did nothing at all.

Any help on the matter would be appreciated, thanks.

Quote from dEiCidE :

already have a shifter-H, well.. almost, is 70% complete.
When i finish it will post some pics

How does the H-Shifter work? Surely it'd need some sort of software to tell the game which gear the shifter is in. Or is each gear assigned its own button?

Pretty damn sexy, nice work.

Specs in sig.

Oh, and a Logitech Driving Force Pro... and not that new sexy one either, that crap one that feels like you're gonna rip the wheel off.

Woah! :|

Awesome work, i was wondering how you made them touch sensative, seeing the pots answered that question.

They look heavy, which would be perfect for me, mine keep sliding on the carpet under my desk and i have to pull them back out with my feet, which is a bit scary in the middle of a race.

Might be time to work on a wheel now?

Quote from al heeley :

give the car to the ai and watch it doing a few laps. Somehting may come to mind when you seeit racing. If not, I'd leave it as it is, it looks smart, not always good to cover it in decals (never stopped me though.... )

I gave the car to a guy online to drive, within 2 laps the car was well... wrecked so i didnt get much of a look.

I like how it looks now, but it needs "something", i just dont know what... there's too much blank space, and i dont really wanna fill it with decals cause i think that looks messy.

Hey all,

This is my second skin that i've actually put a decent amount of time into, and i've sort of hit a brickwall and dont know what else to add to it.



Basically the back half of the car is pretty much blank. I know i could just cover it with sponsers, but thats not really my way of doing it, i'd rather the car just had a really good paintjob. And yes, i know the DynoJet logo isnt quite centered on the hood.

I was gonna put a "Mobil [1]" logo on the wing, but everytime i resize them, they just look crap. I've been to MasterSkinnerz (as you can see with the logos on the side), and i didnt find much that would fit with what im doing. I was gonna put some tribal art on the rear fenders (that would follow the line of the wheel arch), but i cant find anything decent, and my drawing skills leave alot to be desired.

So yeah, has anybody got some ideas?

Last edited by InsaneJeff, Wed 12 Jul 2006, 09:22.