Quote from Private6 :

Nice

Awesomeness!

Quote from pik_d :

It's actually the top speed that would benefit from this most as there would be less time where the engine is not powering the wheels. If you're slower in corners that's either setup or skill. 1.5 seconds is too much to be attributed to button clutch exploits/macros.

The idea in the OP is nice though, giving a physical (well virtual) limit to how fast the clutch can move in H-pattern gearboxes would wash out this form of exploiting.

Depends on track, top speed with the button-clutch-macro should be bit higher. But i tested just on one track as national where the exit out of the last corner is more important. Speed at end of a long straight will not be much different.
BUT exits out of the slow corners, made me check my controller, because you just get a feeling like the other cars have more horsepower. Perfect exit and yet they just pull away and i am not talking what happens normally, normally the car in front will create a gap as speed increases. But the effect is just double that and you wonder.. what?? how can he accelarete so fast, does he has half the downforce?

Now i understand to why often gear-ratio's are radically different, if you can do better than F1-style shifts you wont loose time if you have to change gears more often. With the auto-clutch, you loose time if your gears are not a good compromise between number of times you have to shift and what gears are optimal for the corners.

So being able to use instant shifts also means you got to change your gear-ratio's to make best use of it and gaining even more time versus people without instant shifts. Although the effect is looks small, it is an advantage in any car, mrt5, fox,fo8,bf1 too!

It actually screws any fair competition online! And really made me understand why some drivers looked like they were driving a car from another class: Copy there setup, notice strange gearing which totally sucks for normal shifting and makes me and you a lot slower. Most noticeable is they use weird low gears in corners, costing me a lot of time on corner exit and often hard to control because of the short power-loss during the gear-shift..
why... now i know why, they can flatshift with zero-time-delay and thus get benefits of using more gears but they don't have to pay the price of the extra needed gear-shifts. Just like all F1 cars can do since 2007, shift gear and no power-loss to the wheels.

I still have one question, if you use zero-time shift, the engine will be bumped from higher rev's to lower instantly. This is energy should be converted to short burst of extra power to the wheels and damped by the tyres. Does button-macro guys also gain extra advantage because this energy gets more efficiently sent to the wheels? Or is it lost because it is in 0.000000 seconds the lfs-engine just somehow discards it?

Last edited by Bluebird B B, Fri 19 Mar 2010, 13:13.

Of course master server sends random discos, how else could they sim car failures

O lol :-)
option two: try a laptop cooler :-)

Quote from piggy501 :

Been this temp. for months.

And yes, it takes ages to load up. Surprised it still runs.


Dust free, I tried that.

Modern cpu's throttle down when they overheat. There is a change your systems will be a lot faster if you fix your cooling problem. Since all components are hot, try running your system with all side panels removed and see what happens. Offcourse make sure your system is safe, since without the panels your system is very vulnerable to small children for example

Having said that, your current system is slow compared what you want to buy except for the graphics card so it will still be nice to upgrade. As others suggested, look for a 5xxx series ati card. Guessing from what you tell, suggest etc. i think the 5770 will be the best choice for you. You could buy an comparable nvidia card, but you won't have directx 11 and you wont save any money and it won't be more reliable or less reliable.
My old system is built into a antec 900 gamers case, it is a very good case, cooling is excellent and also is the built-quality. What i don't like, building a complete system into it is very time consuming. Took me 4 hours(!) But it is worth the effort.

note: thx for the compcln.exe suggestion, freed 3gbyte with it on my old system.

Last edited by Bluebird B B, Thu 18 Mar 2010, 18:02.

Quote from viller r :

Hello,

I need for a school to teach a few children and that should be the subject sign. I had the idea to an LFS skin print in color and below your scanner do. and then use LFS skin for 1 car.
Is that possible?

2nd question: is there a good site where you empty LFS skins are then adapt them to one good LFS skin?

I have this tranlated with google translate

Your question is right now very hard to understand.
Please type it in Dutch , I will try to translate. Well as long as not somebody else is quicker to translate

Je vraag is, zoals die er nu staat, is erg moeilijk te begrijpen.
Graag het stukje in het Nederlands typen, dan probeer ik het te vertalen. Tenminste, als niet iemand anders mij voor is met het vertalen

Last edited by Bluebird B B, Thu 18 Mar 2010, 18:12. Reason : change tekst to make it easier to read, but it says the same as before

For playing any gaming a real-graphics card is essential.
Look for a used ati 4890 for example(be sure your power-supply is can handle it!)
Of get a ati 5750 for example.

If you don't have the money to buy such a card(or the nvidia equivalent) and matching power-supply, you just got to save some more money sorry.

Also remember, buying mid-range hardware usually gives by far the best performance for the buck. Just take a look at how expensive those small disks are for example.

Quote from shiny_red_cobra :

Default. The only reason it's so hot is cause the fan spins slowly to keep quiet. If I set the fan to 100% it cools down to 35C within a few seconds, but it's loud as hell. Anyway, these chips are designed to take temperatures of up to 100C. After that, a fuse will blow inside the chip and it will turn into a paperweight.

Maybe try a setting around 36-38% fan-speed and monitor the temperatures?
Running the card consistently at over 70C isn't very nice for the chip.

I did have a 4870 too, i had it run in games around 60-65C with 37% fan-speed. My older pc has now a 4890 which runs a bit cooler, although according to specifications it should not make a difference,

At the topic starter, always try the latest version of catalyst drivers which still supports your video-card.

Although 50-70fps with such an old card doesn't sound bad, just as "shiny_red_cobra" said, check the 3d settings, most likely there are some features enabled which the x800 doesn't even support.

Also double check your agp-settings in your bios, you need at least 4x mode to get maximum performance out of a X1950pro.

Just curious, why didn't you get a ati 4670? That is really a serious big upgrade from an old x800.

It's still several months away...I want it to happen now!! (maybe not here, cause or tracks are still full of snow ) We must have a premeet in april

Quote from zeugnimod :

Sorry, I won't do it again.

Ohh..was way too slow there, was about to write the same

Quote from jasonmatthews :

Someone post me a link to something like google maps thingy where I can add locations and times, then I will ask for arrivals times and update the OP with them. Then we could be really organised and sort out lifts etc that way

omg...organised??!! What is that word?? I've heard it somewhere

Quote from Becky Rose :

I was going to pickup Tor and Fel, but as each are now bringing an extra person and Der Butz is also planning to come in via Stansted this exceeds the capacity of my car, I have a Mondeo not a minibus I think the law here now only lets me have 3 adult passengers, so I wont be able to take everyone that's intending to fly in, but I will take some of you. Exactly who to be sorted once I know what Tor is doing.

u have a few months to use ur hammer from the inside and make more room :P

edit: or i could rent a car with space for 3 Swedes and 2 Norwegians, maybe even a German if it wasn't for his early Sunday flight^^
TVE - come on baby, give us Your flight times....NOW!!! :P

Last edited by Andreas B, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 19:28.

LOL, Yeah we're passing Stansted! You can ride at our backs, especially Mike's, so he's tired when it's time for karting

Quote from Scawen :

At this point in life in am not motivated to sort of sit there and pull my hair out and bang my head against a wall until the solution appears

See, there is were it went wrong We need more :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: for quick developement

nahh, keep up the good work and we'll someday get a nice patch...someday...

oh noes!! no beer challenge(until after karting)
We might get a pie formation from FLP/r Gothenburg department - Mike will prolly get along too, so that would make another challenger

LOL, then it will be uncut, cause both the races were really "actionpacked"

Great movie Jens!

Loved the MRT's too, some advanced team difting there

damn Bob, u killed the thread :P

not just any two Swedes either pie ftw!!!

good suggestion, should be easy to fix?

Although i do realize there are so many other small things in lfs which needs fixing, but this one is relativly important and not too hard to implement??

messy, but doable i guess :P @ Bob Smith - You're the one who can answer if i need more beers or not love to see ya again

Quote from jasonmatthews :

Yes, I had originally planned for the event being for 30 people, which would mean 3 man teams, but if we get 40 signups then that will definitely be the max allowed, so 4 man teams. This will mean a bit less track time, but the price will go down to £45!!

The people who have already paid will get a refund of the difference of course

I can have beers for £10 more, i'm gonna need it (will prolly still pack 1-2 24 packs in my trunk for reserve

I must have sucked up good to my ex-wife - no problem for her taking the kids the weekend this epic event takes place

Will check possiblilties to take my car from Gothenburg to Immingham(by ferry. Tor Line is a big customer to me), in that case i'll bring felplacerad with me, and for turbofreak - if u can take urself to Gothenburg in good time u might fit too

Would like to stay at Jason's place, pm me details for payment and i'll pay in full tomorrow.

i'll check the possibilty for this, if i somehow can switch week when i have the kids i'll be there...

Quote from Flame CZE :

It already does so, when you enter the thread title.

Oh..the irony, it hurts my eyes