1) don't release demos for new games
2) find a way to convince people that free demos are in fact valuable gifts
3) ???
4) profit!

I don't quite get how they solved step 2 but it seems to have worked. Anyone know what step 3 is meant to be? More Steam accounts?

Anyway, still a better move than ATI, who actually include Steam in their friggin drivers!

If Cell is so amazing then where are all the great linux apps for the PS3? Although it could also be that open source devs just aren't capable and focussed enough to make anything innovative rather than the hardware not being good enough.

Don't get it.

Quote from thisnameistaken :

I can't stop listening to that damn song now. I was singing it in the shower this morning.

yeecommo

http://www.mobygames.com/devel ... t/view/developerId,36680/

So what's the story on Rag Doll Kung Fu (2005)?

FX5200! I think you may have been underestimating the progress that GPUs have gone through over the years (much faster than CPUs). A quick google for benchmarks tells me that a 8800 GT is about 18 times faster than your card.

Go Lewis!

richy, maybe you are confused by the difference between downforce and weight. Weight is the "downforce" caused by gravity acting on the mass of the car, downforce is the force that gets added to the weight by aerodynamics, not the net total of the downwards force acting on the car.

And about torque and power. The way I make sense of the common "torque means great low end acceleration" half-knowledge (does that term exist in English?) is that when you are comparing two similar engines with similar max power and you know that one engine has more max torque than the other, then you can assume by probability that the engine with the higher max torque is likely to also have a wider power band, meaning more power than the other one at low revs --> better acceleration.

Looking at it that way catch phrases like the one posted by Rizzo make kinda sense.

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These threads are usually fun, reading now.

Quote from duke_toaster :

*loads Hungarian rapper of mass destruction*

HOLY s***, one of the bestest things I've seen, evar. "Sometimes people make a war", "Business!" lol

For some people the fact that the HD format war is over, with Blu Ray as the winner over HD DVD may make the PS3 more interesting than it was before. AFAIK it's still the only decent Blu Ray player you can buy.

First releases of steam were a disaster. Nowadays it works very good. I don't have to look for keys etc. since it is attachted to my account.

Installed steam and got a nice list of games, some of which i didn't even know i owned them lol

So is lfs goed into steam, fine with me

Applications don't cause BSODs, broken hardware and drivers do. My guess in RAM, run memtest overnight.

Many thanks.

Quote from XCNuse :

What exactly is a Le Mans 24h car?

Do you mean something like an LMP class car?

The audi or something like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche_RS_Spyder

Quote from FlintFredstone :

I know that this is not directly relivent but, in the wet when i stopped my real world car (yes they exist outside our bedrooms ) my tyres were allways steaming a lot and quite warm to the touch, for fun one day i drove the car at 90 banana's per shooping bag (imperial) down the motorway, so no corners or anything left the motorway and gently braked into a parking bay and used the temperature probe from work, to my supprise the temps were 42 C inside and 38 C outside of the front tyre and 36 C and 35 C for the rear.

I suppose my tyres (Bridgestone RE70's) are closest to 'super road' tyres as they are pretty soft and a very hard sidewall and is treaded almost like a cut slick (with the wet performace to-boot )

What im trying to say here is that rolling along at a fair speed is going to stop any rapid cooling down of any 'soft' tyre.



Simon

The tyres of my real world car also had a tendency to get warm, the cause was way too much toe-in on front and rear(0,5 (!) degrees). I got it fixed and my tyres stay cold now with normal driving. On vacation in Luxemburg, last summer, i got the tyres to about 45-50 celcius with enviroment tempature of about 25 celcius. But it took a lot of hairpins and hard braking in the hills to get them so "hot".

Also cheaper tyres will usually get hot sooner. "High performance/sportscar" tyres will stay cooler because they need to or they wont be able to handle speeds of over 240km/h or the high loads of fast cornering.

Anyway, i think tyre tempature is important, but i think lfs is too much about tyre temps now. r2's and r3'2 should not get overheated so fast.

I just tryed patch Y for a few days and today i tested the fo8 on kv long.
With the old (race)setup, i cooked r2 tyres to over 150 celcius within three laps. So i switched to realistic camber and tyre pressure on r3. Now the tyres heat up must slower, but.. they never cool down on straights. So i end up with overheated tyres after 4(long) laps.

I also tested on kv national, reducing camber front and rear dramaticly. one tyre gets overheated within one lap and all tyres are too hot after two laps. The same setup (with a lot more negative camber) i used in patch x which could do 30 laps in patch 'x' and stay close to wr time with over the entire 30 laps(if fuel load is low enough..).

So i agree to that the tyres get overheated too fast now. I think too, the tyres should cool (much) faster on straiths. Or at least, tyre temps in the real world are not as critical as it is in lfs is now.

I do like the other changes though, such as clutch heating and more realistic gearboxes.

In short:

Tcase is the temp that your BIOS and most other software tells you. The maximum for this is what the CPU manufacturers tell you. Usually 70ish.

Tjunction is the same as core temperature and is obviously hotter than than Tcase. The max temp for this is what CoreTemp calls Tjunction and is either 85 or 100 for Intel and unknown for AMD.

Keep Tcase under Tcase max and Tjunction under Tjunction max and you're fine. Many people insist that computer parts should be run at way lower temperatures than the manufacturer specs but there really is no reason to do so if you're not overclocking.

I've been searching for interiors but can't find any for the LX cars? I only drive these two cars, does anyone know of better textures/more detailed interiors for either of these cars?
Thanks.
John

Yeah, that's just ridiculous. I always ask for the actual start time of the movie when I buy the ticket and then I spend my time outside with the people I'm with instead of watching the adverts.

Quote from Shotglass :

btw doesnt a normal windows copy paste with fix mbr from the repair console work just fine ?

That was kind of how simple I was expecting it to be. Couldn't work it out though, copying from Windows will fail on some files that are in use and the Windows boot CD doesn't have the tools to do the copy. It would probably be possible with the right boot CD though. That would have been my next step if Acronis hadn't worked.

Thanks for the help, Acronis Disk Director Suite did the trick. The only problems I had was that Acronis messed up the drive letters and that my Windows XP CD does not support >120 GiB Hard disks. I could fix the drive letters by using compmgmt.msc though and all is fine now.

Same thing I did then.

Crashgate: the link might be useful once I actually manage to get to the stage where I have a broken windows install to repair. I haven't even got that far.

Hmm, did you run from a boot disk or did you just load up Windows normally and then start the clone software?

Quote from tigerboyz :

Anyone have luck getting their LCDs running in 50hz?

If your screen supports 50 Hz input you can force it using Powerstrip. I did and I did get smoother frame steps (checked with fraps) but I think the actual LCD panel hardware is still at 60 Hz so the improved smoothness never got as far as my eyes. But I confirm, LFS looks smoother on a CRT. There was a video in the other thread that shows the irregular framesteps from the 100 Hz physics to 60 Hz screen conversion.