how come there aren't 43894389 people asking for the GR Yaris? 🤔

Money shifting it in LFS would be hella cheaper than doing it on the Nurburgring :^)

Quote from Marty_Deslions :

Well yes, but also no.

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Ha, my bad, I have done a brain poop - assumed how all DCT's work based on just a single DCT car that I have ever driven in my life.

Do creepy DCT's creep regardless if they have dry clutches or wet clutches? Wouldn't it cause an extremely fast clutch wear in the first case?

Hi Marty

Cars with automatic gearbox typically don't have a clutch, they have a torque converter which operates it completely different way from a clutch (even though many TCs have a tiny clutch inside for complete lock-up).

Ones that do have a clutch (typically dual-clutch transmissions) usually don't really creep forward, like torque converter automatics do.

Quote from Xenix74 :

"Like Ronnie O'Sullivan leaning on the virtual snooker table in that video I posted, every time I lean to the left I want to put my hand on the passenger seat that I can see but isn't really there!"


Hehe ....

I have a seat next to me and my cockpit is close to the XF GTI. It's always a goosebump moment when I drive backwards out of the garage in Blackwood and hold myself in the passenger seat to turn over ..... and when i touch the cockpit.

Wow - that setup is insanely cool! Which car is that interior from?

Quote from Evolution_R :

It looks amazing!
I hope these white 'edgy' pixels are easy to resolve -

Obviously not a solution, but on a high-DPI monitor (say 4K 22") it won't be nearly as noticeable.

Quote from Scawen :

I hope the Chinese will take strong action, and as many governments as possible will do so. Then finally the USA can help too when Trump is gone. Similar problem with Russia.

Quote from bmwe30m3 :

This is not a dating site...

But it made me fall in love with you though? <3

Don't install LFS into C:\Program Files\ or C:\Program Files (x86)\ unless you know what you're doing.

Quote from BeNoM :

The results are pretty decent with NN, for example:

Or waifu2x, however ridiculous that might sound.

Quote from Ped7g :

But AFAIK airless tires are not a new thing, IIRC BMW did mount them for some time as mandatory choice on some models... IIRC they are considerably more noisy and bump the gasoline usage a tiny bit, but you don't need to have to reserve wheel, so you have more space in trunk.

Run-flat tires that come standard on some BMWs are not airless - they just have reinforced sidewall. They still can deflate due to a puncture or a cut, but afterwards they can get you home (up to 150 km at speeds up to 80 km/h).

Quote from petercollins :

It's called progress. No more petrol

Consider this:

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There are an estimated 1 billion passenger cars in the world.

Even if car makers produced only EVs at today’s pace (~70mil/yr), and every EV sold meant one ICE car destroyed, it would take 14.3 years.

Considering today’s production of ~1mil EVs per year, it would take 1000 years to replace them all. This yearly figure will certainly rise, but even if production magically rose 30 fold, it would take at least 30 years.

With Tesla’s current Gigafactory battery output of approx. 22GWh (theoretical max of 35GWh) of batteries, which is good for about 100 thousand Model 3s annually, it would take 10 thousand years to produce the needed batteries, or someone would have to build 700 Gigafactories within a few decades.

A 70kWh battery consists of 12kg of lithium, among other materials. In 2018, 85 thousand metric tons of litium were produced. 85 milion kgs of lithium is good for about 7 million cars, if used only for car batteries. Yearly production of lithium would have to be at least be 10 fold.

None of this accounts for other types of vehicles, nor does it account for highly populated parts of the world with low median income, where the median age of cars is 20+ years and where a majority of people simply cannot buy a new car, let alone an EV for almost double the price.

No idea about that particular map, but are your AIs using default setup, or your custom one?

Bump of the day!

Got myself a new toy, 2016 Suzuki GSX 650 FA.

How idiotically ironic

Quote from Sobis :

Yeah I know about the terms of commercial use so I did inform the devs when I saw that in the summer .

Surely it's not commercial use if they're not charging people specifically for driving that car?

Does "LFS in museums" count?

Found this in Automuseum Prototyp Hamburg

If your potato PC doesn't support DirectX 9, there's a high chance it's performance would be too low to run LFS anyway.

Btw, how much of a potato are we talking about? I remember having a DirectX 9-capable PC some 15 years ago..

Quote from THE WIZARD DK :

Windows. best OS out there <3

Hey lets blame the OS for everything, instead of the installer that does not ask for elevation before attempting a write to privileged directories~

Why would you assume he uses cracks?

Installer tries to extract RO.lgh (and rest of game contents) regardless of what level of license do you have, there are no separate demo/S1/S2/S3 installers.

Crash Time series, anyone? I remember spending hours pursuing suspects down the autobahn some 7-10 years ago

World Racing 2 was also rather unique for it's time, with decent open-world and hundreds of licensed cars.

Quote from FreeScirocco :

LFS is currently CPU limited it seems, GPU is not that important. This CPU limitation makes LFS a bit undriveable at this point (I am sorry to say).

I can't help but disagree - Core i5-8250U of my $600 laptop handles LFS without no issues whatsoever, it's the Intel IGP that's bottlenecking it a little bit. I get around 60-90 fps, but that's with no antialiasing. CPU usage on a single core never goes above 50%, though, so if I had a dedicated GPU, I reckon it could go well above 120, and that's with a full grid of cars on a laptop.

Quote from BeNoM :

going without one is just silly.

I mean, unless you run random .exe's you grabbed off piratebay, or got in an email attachment from a Nigerian prince, or found on a USB drive dropped near your office, you're probably going to be fine without one

You can't spell "Erdogan" without "dog".

For those with NVidia Optimus on Windows 10 who can't get 0.5F2 to use NVidia dedicated GPU: it's a known `bug` with Optimus not really supporting DirectX 8 properly.

It can be easily solved by copying a DirectX 8 to 9 converter into LFS directory, e.g. this one: https://github.com/crosire/d3d8to9/releases or the one from ENBSeries.