If you have removed the dust from your GPU (can of compressed air works best) and have checked that the GPU fan is still spinning then the GPU is actually broken. Been there.

Quote from arco :

The version of these that I have installed is

Adblock Filterset.G Updater 0.3.1.3
Adblock Plus 0.7.5.5

Ah, I see, so the auto updater isn't getting the newest versions. Which means I'll have to manually update the extensions one by one, or wait until the extension makers have fully updated their stuff.

Edit: up to 10 of 24 supported now.

Quote from ATC Quicksilver :

Its the worst one since Alonso was put back 5 places for holding up Massa in qualifying.

Yeah, forgot about that one.

Quote from zeugnimod :

I think it was a pretty obvious penalty. He got an advantage because of cutting and he just drove on.

Historically there have never been penalties when the driver who leaves the track was in front at the moment he leaves it. Marc Surer is also saying that the Stewards are clueless.

What a disgraceful penalty. Only worse decision I can remember is when Montoya got a dt for getting hit by MS in Malaysia.

Quote from Shotglass :

of course there arent any... but if you put spoiled kids in f1 cars you sure as heck wont end up with a bunch of gentlemen racers

David Coulthard and Nico Rosberg have two of the richest fathers in F1 and yet I would call them decent persons.

Quote from Intrepid :

To get noticed by these intiatives you HAVE to be in EXPENSIVE classes in the first place!!! It's all PR!

That's exactly it. Sponsorship for talent in junior formulas is mostly a myth. There are sponsors but they're not paying for exposure or marketing reasons, people just aren't interested enough in smaller series to make that work. How many people here, on a motorsports based forum, know who the current F3 Euro points leader is? I'd guess less than 5%. So what would be the point of sponsoring half a million € when noone will notice?

The reason sponsors pay is because there are close company/family links or because a guy is so talented that they are speculating on making a profit from his future earnings.

Quote from Shotglass :

mostly because those kind of drivers show time and again that all they are is spoiled rich kids who never had the need to develop any kind of maturity... eg your two examples last race in canada

So name the drivers that got a job at 6 years of age that could pay for their tens of thousands € per season karting. The fact is that nobody who races professionally got there without loads of money from other people. Sometimes it maybe isn't the parents but what does that really change?

Personally I just accept it as a fact of motorsports that a very minuscule percentage of potentially talented people will ever even go one meter in a racing vehicle. Doesn't mean I don't respect the ones competing at the top levels. Although I do feel that the ruling bodies could do a lot more to help young drivers. Just think how many drivers could be funded from karts all the way through to F1 from the 100 million dollars that McLaren were fined.

Last edited by J.B., Sun 22 Jun 2008, 02:16.

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Quote from samjh :

I've been using FF3 since beta 5, and all the plugins and extensions I use(d) work fine.

You're the second one in this thread to make this claim. As I said, only 5 of my 25 extensions were accepted. Do I need to set a "run not updated extensions anyway" flag somewhere? Or is the auto updater perhaps not finding the newer versions?

Quote from ChiShiFu :

Wait wait, just to confirm... it now seems like he didn't actually buy the license plate?
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/68410

Thread fail.

Probably some kind of extension incompatibility.

I just installed it on an old laptop where it doesn't matter if it messes up anything.

-Out of the 25 extensions I use 5 were found to be compatible (after web update)

-the cursor keys no longer work properly for scrolling, they act like pgup/pgdn but not always

-I thought the URL bar was nice at first, until I realized I could neither set it to only search in my bookmarks (and not in history) nor disable it.

I'll try again in about a month.

Quote from master_lfs.5101 :

ye just try to change the isntall path

Are you sure that'll work? Most of the important FF files aren't in the install path but in C:\documents...balabla...

So what do the fanboys say now that always denied FF was a slow system hog? Sounds like a great release but I'm not testing it until there's been some time for the extension makers to make sure their stuff works.

Or can I just install it in parallel to my current FF2 install (without having to jump through hoops!)?

Quote from Jakg :

STFU if you don't have a clue.

Please, tell me how an 8600GT (which isn't that good, btw), is better for playing back movies than an 8800?

Most 8800 have the old version of purevideo which is useless for AVC and VC-1 and not even spec compliant (no deblocking).

No time to read the whole thread right now, two questions:

Is offline driving possible or are the races that are organized every two hours the only way to get on the track?

Which sim does it feel closest to in terms of physics? Judging by the videos I'd say Driver's Republic?

Nice patch! Got me about 10-15 fps which is great for race starts. Although I have to admit that when I read the word "smoother" in the thread title I was hoping for inter-physicsframe interpolation to get rid of the judder inherant to trying to display 100 hz on a 60 hz screen.

Quote from Stigpt :

yeah - if you take the time to look at your speedo when you do a normal corner in RL, you'll see that 90% of them are done at... 30kph. and THAT is usually fast enough to get woman and small children screaming in the back seats... Trust me on that one.
I defy you to do a roundabout (medium sized) @ 50kph.
In south city, the hairpin should be taken at no more than 20kph, and the large long under the highway in SO6 etc... should be done at 50kph maximum.

hmm then i' m really an racing legend on public road That speeds apply are for high suv' s. Hairpin can easily be done at 40kph, but only if the road is closed for normal traffic. Otherwise you might kill people who are coming from the other side.

Most sedans/sportcoupe' s with high performance tyres can handle those speeds easily BUT only if you know what you are doing.

Quote from Shotglass :

vital as in "look at the _blinking_ red light you idiot"?

OK maybe not 100% team fault. But I think Canada is the only track on the calendar where the pitlane exit light is red during the race, due to the short time difference between the pitlane and the track. It's not something a driver would be looking out for during the race, which should be clear by the sheer amount of drivers that have missed the light in Canada (Montoya 2006, Fisichella/Massa 2007, Hamilton/Rosberg 2008).

I can only assume that McLaren and Williams didn't make this special situation clear to their drivers in any of the pre race briefings and/or forgot to remind them via radio. That's why they get the main part of the blame.

100% McLaren and Williams fault for not warning Hamilton/Rosberg. Wth do they have radio for if not to give the driver vital information?

Well if you consider a one ton car cornering so hard that its inside wheel is just about to lose contact to the ground them you have about 6 cm (500kg/8.3kg*mm^-1) of travel due to the ARB. Doesn't seem that stiff to me.

Last edited by J.B., Sat 7 Jun 2008, 22:32.

Anyone know where I can get goals or highlight clips in decent quality? And no I don't mean wmv, xvid, x264 crap, I want MPEG-2 streams.

How long do I have to wait to get ambient temperature tyres? I'd like to give it a test. Will be interesting to see how the warming up of the tyre compares to real life. As a reference in real life series like FRenault or F3 the fastest quali laps are often done on lap 5 or 6.

Why does it matter if GW is man made or not? Shouldn't we be just as worried if the earth was warming up due to farting dolphins or whatever?

I disagree,

If tyrewarmers are banned, tyres compound will be adjusted to make the tyre perform in a wider range of tempatures. They are doing it right now for the coming rule change in F1 !


Maybe remove them only on road cars