Quote from rabidmaddog :

Yes, although I overwrote the previous installation. My next effort will be installation after a complete uninstall of LFS. We shall see. Thanks for the input. I've never had an update do this!

A clean, complete installation resolved the problem. I have no idea where the update went wrong, but it's certainly not the first software update to result in problems. LFS now works flawlessly, just as it did before.

Quote from MandulAA :

Have you tried reinstalling it completely?

Yes, although I overwrote the previous installation. My next effort will be installation after a complete uninstall of LFS. We shall see. Thanks for the input. I've never had an update do this!

I was running my installation of LFS the other day and noticed there was a new update available. Excited to check it out, I installed it. However, LFS now will not run. I've been able to access the setup menu by executing LFS as Administrator, but then it generates a "cannot load car" error. It has always run perfectly when launched from the desktop icon, but now nothing opens. My OS is XP. Please HELP!

I keep trying to use the paddle shifters in our Mercedes C230 which has no paddle shifters. It's an automatic!!!
Fortunately there is a brake pedal in the typical location.

Quote from thisnameistaken :

Well you're not, so you don't have to worry about it. And if I wanted to offend soldiers in Iraq I could do it much better than that.

I wouldn't exactly say that I am worried about it, but I do at least possess some regard and respect for others. For you to assert that small arms battles on the ground are unrealistic is a slap in the face for those who do that very thing. Either you don't understand that, or you simply have no regard for the soldiers in the field. It sounded somewhat disrespectful to me, as did your subsequent response.

I have the 90% throttle issue with my Momo pedals. I recently took the pedals apart to take a look at the problem. What a bunch of plastic crap. Absolute junk. The cheap plastic potentiometers are loosely stuck into little plastic slots. The pedal "bearings" are plastic on plastic with a bunch of grease shot in to collect prodigious amounts of dust and hair. What a mess. I just became aware of my throttle limitation problem, but I suspect it's been present for a long time, perhaps from the beginning.

I am considering the ECCI pedals but I am waiting for reviews of the new Logitech system in October. If that is also junk, I will simply go with an entire ECCI system. Force feedback is certainly nice, but not with the ultra notchy feel of the Momo. I have it set so low to allow smooth steering I might as well not even have FF turned on!

Hopefully the new Logitech wheel and pedals will be done right. We shall see.

I run an AGP 6800GT at high detail settings and 2xAA. I get about 40-60fps (up to 150fps on external replays) @ 1680x1050 resolution. My next system will be PCIe SLI, which will be a huge step up. The game runs great on my current machine though.

Last edited by rabidmaddog, Fri 23 Jun 2006, 18:56.

Quote from dEiCidE :

LOL

here is another pic where the pots are visible

http://img.photobucket.com/alb ... /xmt_deicide/DSCF0001.jpg

Very cool. I like it!

Quote from thisnameistaken :

America's Army is just so unrealistic. It ought to involve standing around doing nothing while giant bombs are dropped on enemy positions and the surrounding 300 mile radius, reducing an entire residential area to dust and rubble in "precision strikes" based on "very good intelligence", but instead you have to actually go shoot at the enemy with a gun. Stupid game.

You are aware that there are foot soldiers, including Special Forces, deployed throughout the world right now who engage in firefights with small arms? Sure GPS guided bombs and stealth aircraft is the safer, far more expensive way to go, but I think AA does a reasonable job simulating small battles involving soldiers on the ground. These do happen in reality quite a bit, so I don’t know exactly where you came up with the view that this is unrealistic. I imagine a number of solders in Iraq would take offence to your comment. I know I certainly would if I were over there being shot at and car bombed.

I have the 90% throttle issue with my Momo pedals. I recently took the pedals apart to take a look at the problem. What a bunch of plastic crap. Absolute junk. The cheap plastic potentiometers are loosely stuck into little plastic slots. The pedal "bearings" are plastic on plastic with a bunch of grease shot in to collect prodigious amounts of dust and hair. What a mess. I just became aware of my throttle limitation problem, but I suspect it's been present for a long time, perhaps from the beginning.

I am considering the ECCI pedals but I am waiting for reviews of the new Logitech system in October. If that is also junk, I will simply go with an entire ECCI system. Force feedback is certainly nice, but not with the ultra notchy feel of the Momo. I have it set so low to allow smooth steering I might as well not even have FF turned on!

Hopefully the new Logitech wheel and pedals will be done right. We shall see.

Quote from bryanviper :

Very Nice

How much do you charge & how do you hook it up to your computer I dont see any cables??

Perhaps they're stand-alone pedals and are only for exercising your feet? LOL

I didn't see any pots or anything either, but I would think it's in there somewhere.

Quote from spankmeyer :

for the LFS luv!

It's actually funny that if extreme realism would be introduced to 3D-shooters, the vast majority of players would most certainly complain for "lack of realism". Reason: the only experience from ballistics and wounding for them comes from movies and games, but real life is very random sometimes.

It's possible that you could score solid hits on someone in the center mass with 7.62 NATO rifle rounds and he might still be able run away or shoot back. With center mass hits, the only way to incapacitate someone instantly is to get a lucky shot and destroy either his aorta or spinal cord (catastrophic blood pressure drop or paralysis).

You might survive .50 cal hit but die from a tiny unfortunate buckshot pellet.

I understand where you're coming from. However, I am not looking for ultra realism where I literally die from blood loss, impact trauma, go deaf from artillery and small arms fire, and suffer from exposure to biological warfare agents. I am simply saying that the accuracy and effectiveness of many of BF2's weapons leave great room for improvement. I should be able to incapacitate or kill a stationary player while I am laying prone 200 meters away for crying out loud! I am lucky to see 20% effectiveness with the 50cal in such scenarios, which is simply ridiculous.

Quote from spankmeyer :

My subtle point was more of like... there was no realism in BF2 in the first place so why complain about it?

Immersion? Sure, but that's based mostly on graphics and sounds. If you want your .50 cal to be as lethal and accurate as its in real life, then I'd like my M1A2 to shoot 120 mm smooth bore, sub-caliber, high-penetration, depleted uranium warheads with muzzle velocity of 1800 m/s from a distance of 4 kilometres right on target. Or maybe my standard issue hand grenade to have potentially lethal blast radius of 50 metres instead of five.

Extreme realism in a war game marketed for pre-teens does not make good gameplay, trust me.

I agree there are a number of other such issues. Many of the weapons should be far more destructive than they are. All I'm saying is that more emphasis on weapon authenticity would be nice. Immersion for me includes accuracy in physics modeling, not just graphics and audio. Gross deficiencies in any of these aspects can kill the immersion factor, at least for me. Hence my love for LFS!!!

Quote from deggis :

Tell your parents that the game includes lots of brutal killing. I think they'll like that.


Unbelievable that it still seems to have the same lame hitpoints damage system. At least what I've seen in the videos. I thought they would finally make the real next-gen BF game (I think BF Vietnam was kind of BF 1½ and BF2 was nearly "2"). So basicly the engine and game is still the same, just with a new theme with new scifi robot models which are of course superduper cool (not). Well, EA knows how to make money with old recycled ideas...

I think it should be called "Battlefield Mechwarrior".

Quote from spankmeyer :

Complaining about a .50 cal military grade munition's ballistic and wounding properties is rather silly in a context of an arcade game suited for kids over 13.

Why do you say that? It's a perfectly valid observation and a frustrating issue while playing the game. It's not silly at all for someone who enjoys the immersion of the game. It's a perfectly rational comparison when they allegedly model a real world weapon.

Quote from Jakg :

I think it was a joke...

I know. I was just playing along
Without any additional apps or the internet, what good is Windows? LOL

Quote from Racer X NZ :

There are 2 simple steps to ensure your windows installation is always snappy & clean

1 - Never install any programs, they just clog up the registry and slow down startup.

2 - Never go on the internet or network, this means you don't have to constantly download patches which slow up your machine ( extra code ) and you don't get virus's, trojans, spyware etc etc etc etc .............

By following these 2 simple steps you can always keep your windows box operating at peak efficency.

Maintaining a fresh installation with no installed programs and no internet connection is certainly effective, but what exactly does one do on that PC?!?!? Paint and Notepad? I guess there is Mine Sweeper, Pinball, and some card games, but I think I would get bored rather quickly with those. LOL.

Quote from Sternendaal :

Me and my dad have been using Windows for...well...a year of 10 already? And we NEVER had a single problem with it.

@RaceDoctor: You talk alot of shit in that post,you know?

If you dont like it,fine,use another. You dont like it,but still use it

Find me an alternative which will run Cakewalk Sonar and all of my VST and DX instruments and plugins and I will happily use it. To what exactly are you referring when you say "use another"? For many of us, there are no other options

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Quote from Taavi(EST) :

http://www.nali.ee/FILES/GALLERY_PICTURES/6812.png
For those who don't have images enabled: VISTA: Viruses, Intruders, Spyware, Trojans and Adware

This is perfect!!! LOL. I love it.

Quote from X-Ter :

We have seen windows CE, windows ME, and windows NT and variations of those for some time. Why not combine the strength from those OS's like this? Windows CE+ME+NT= Windows CEMENT

LOL. That's brilliant!

Quote from P5YcHoM4N :

Well as all I use Windows for is games, and general lazyness (too lazy to restart into *nix for example), that's not an issue. But I use an OS best suited to the task. I use XP for games, CentOS for my webserver/media centre, and my Mac... well, it makes a nice paper weight. I should make better use of it. Currently it's a waste of money and space.


Fresh from box, XP is rather crappy, but after about 30 minutes of toying around, it's fine for what I need it for. Though XP is very newbie friendly, much like Vista is, that's because MS are trying to make Windows more like OSX and very "woo, look at me, shiney clickyness", which is why I can't stand OSX. OS9.x however I do like, nice and clean.

I always thought the default XP GUI looked like it was designed by a preschool toy manufacturer. The first thing I do is change everything to "Windows Classic".

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Quote from Theafro :

Regardless of weather or not you like/use MS software, the important thing is to have a new, derogatory name ready for the release. It's a geek tradition that has existed long before the idea of an OS was even concieved.

I'm not gonna start bashing Vista straight away, i'm gonna wait until they release Vista SE SP2 PLUS.

at least with LFS it's got Alpha written all over it

LOL. See, I knew there are some people out there with a sense of humor

Quote from thisnameistaken :

Can any of the Windows-lovers here tell me why - with every version of Windows I've ever run - the computer's performance gradually degrades over time and nothing short of an OS reinstallation will get that lost performance back?

I've always assumed, in my ignorance, that it's because it's a shit operating system, but I'm guessing one of you guys can tell me it's something else?

One reason is that the registry becomes filled with a bunch of entries over time. Another can be residual driver files which don't get fully uninstalled. Also, if the partition on which the OS is installed is not defragmented periodically, access times for OS files are increased. Those are just a few causes off the top of my head. There are a number of utilities for these issues, although establishing a "ground zero" restore point after a fresh installation for use down the road, or a fresh installation itself is the ultimate cure.


I actually keep a cloned hard drive of my OS in a desk drawer. If a drive or OS catastrophe ensues, I can just plug it in and I'm back up and running on a clean OS.

Last edited by rabidmaddog, Tue 20 Jun 2006, 00:04.