Thanks for the reply....oh and I am going to have a try with VRC it looks very interesting.....you should get together with Bob and give the talented chap a job

Are these the rates that the physics engine updates? and what difference to the end user, just out of interest. thanks.

What I mean is what the heck are these?

They have in-race voice chat in iRacing and I have it turned off like many others, there is nothing worse than listening to someone gibbering when you're trying to race and worse when the inevitable argument brews

I'm not sure if you know mate? you can ask people online for their set ups so you can try out a fast guys, in all my time here I have never been refused a set up (unless its been a team set) so don't be afraid to ask the lovely although ugly racers, in- between races.

There are also lots of very fast setups available at http://setupfield.teaminferno.hu/ that you can use or just study.

If you haven't already, try the online racing it is where the fun is with LFS

Last edited by AlienT., Wed 1 Oct 2008, 22:18. Reason : Android!....he's always bloody right :)

I don't think there is, what I'd do is add an air intake or weight restriction to your car. I would not say that racing the AI is an LFS strongpoint though, infact it is a quite horrid experience and the AI buggers should be on the wreckers barricade list.

Your spec looks good to me mate, I recently built a similar system using the ABIT IP35 pro XE board, for a first time builder like me the Abit board was very easy to work with and using it's own uGuru windows program you can overclock easily if you wanted to play with it. I'm sure other boards are just as good though

Quote from ColeusRattus :

Playing GTR Evo a lot these days (I just can't stop taking the Caterhams to the Nordschleife...), that's not really a valid point because you actually don't need to clutch in Simbin games.

So the point is still valid that your manual gear shifting process is flawed, either by releasing the clutch too early, pressing it too late or not far enough.

Yes, the Caterhams are great fun you can even get some catchable sideways action going which is unusual (for me) in Simbin cars, I had been learning to G25 heel and toe in the Caterham but since trying it out in LFS have realised that LFS is a much better learning tool as you know straight away that you've ballsed a shift, whereas in GTR e you can do whatever you like with the clutch and it still goes easily into gear, anyway to the OP I hope it is technique and not a goosed shifter that you have issues with mate.

Quote from Gaiajohan :

Well, I always really wanted this game very bad, but I had a problem as I don't have a creditcard. But well, as I'm a mod on another site where we had a contest who was the best crew member, I became 2nd and I won a game of my own choice. I chose LFS S2.

Now I can drive all those cars I'm seriously in love. I own a lot of other so called sims, and some people may recognize my game from sites dedicated to these sims.. GTR2, GTL, GTR evolution, RBR, rFactor. But well this is in fact one of the first times I really get the feeling I'm driving a car. However the cars in GTR evo are quite well, and their tyremodel has improved a lot.

But well, now this game, I can finally really drift the car around a corner, you can see and feel the setup differences, where in fopr example GTR2 etc it was less visible. The clutch has been modelled very well, cause in the other games you can shift without the clutch easily. And last but not least, finally the steering wheel IN the car can rotate the same degrees as my wheel. I especially love the XR GT Turbo it drives smooth, you can drift it around corners.. Wow...

I only have a problem with my wheel that the force feedback sometimes disappears for a short while.. But I think that my wheel overheating.. Not sure.. Never had it in another game. It's a Fanatec Porsche 911 Turbo bèta wheel.. I guess they've taken it out of the retail version.

Wish I had this game earlier. LFS IS GREAT:auto:

Glad your liking it....LFS does have that something about it for sure. Your wheel is fine, LFS has just taken the FFB to another level, if you cook your engine it sets your wheel on fire, well we want realism right.

A touring and/or GT type car would be nice, the current Radical is good fun and a bit mad, it's just a pity it's impossible to have a race in it right now.
I strangely feel that i've lost my initial enthusiasm for iRacing right now and am mostly racing the AI in GTR Evo which is actually great fun with no iRacing type pressure hastle involved each race. It was honestly feeling like work having to practise enough to be happy that I am remotely competative It's just nice being able to play with a decent graphics card really, I've never been able to play the Simbin games before as my old laptop wasny the best.
Pick up racing and private servers in iRacing likey LFS style is probably what's needed for me as I am never one for long drawn out practising alone....! Hence why I suck at sim racing

Don't run too close to him in the corner before the straight, this will let you accelarate out of the corner faster without having to slow down for him.....fatser exit speed should let you pass him on the straight?

I know nothing about skinning let alone rimming but you could try here http://en.lfsmanual.net/wiki/3D_Render_Tutorial

Ray, I fully respect your driving....but as for that hair cut oh my!.....how did you get the helmet over the top of that?

Meh my first iRacing race using the Nixim G25 break mod and i've managed to pull my wheel from the bloody table during hard breaking.......not bloody easy to drive with your wheel in mid air
Been playing GTR Evo against the AI as a bit of light relief from iRacing, nice feeling to be able to batter your competitors, run of the track and not be punished Yes iRacing has made me a proud AI wrecker.

Quote from Bawbag :

Took my time in getting around to using my voucher but I phoned up today and booked to drive a single seater this Sunday.

Little bit later than March but hey....

Have fun Ray!. Have you tried the Knockhill track in GTR2/GTL? It is not bad for a bit of familiarisation, Power and Glory is best.
Let us know how you get on and I hope the weather is good ....LOL ...as if!

Well the Nixim piece of rubber has arrived and easily installed. I have so far only tried it with iracing where anyone with a G25 knows the issues with breaking.

At first not sure what to think of it really, somehow I have managed to take .25 secs of my infineon IRL time in the skippy but the break pedal feels well terrible at first anyway. I have taken the castors of my chair and have booked myself in for 100 sessions at the gym with a specialist 'one legged trainer' so I can build up my breaking leg to a suitable level of strength. I'm thinking Roberto Carlos would have trouble pushing the break pedal to the floor now.
Anyway with a bit of playing around with the break pedal calibration and the hire of a hydraulic ram, HPU and the necessary fittings to assist with breaking I seem to have it sorted (only kidding about the hydraulic ram).

Conclusion.
This takes some getting used to, the pressure needed to push the pedal to the floor is probably too much unless you have very well secured pedals and seat to (meh I need a sim cockpit)
It is easier, after much practise and fiddling with calibration, to know when you are reaching threshold breaking. Trail breaking I am finding more difficult at the moment.
FACT...my breaking distances are shorter in iracing.
You could easily make this mod yourself, a piece of high density rubber cut to fit inside the brake pedal spring. I'm sure you could cut a piece from a 'bouncy ball' for instance, I would say it is approximately 15x12x50mm, but unfortunately that is a guess as I forgot to measure mine before I fitted it sorry .
The Nixim website has good fitting guide with pictures.
For the price of a packet of ciggies including postage it's not too bad, but I suppose that is relative, I would rather be racing than buggering around in toy shops looking for a piece of rubber then ending up in hospital because i've sliced my fingers off with a stanley knife while attempting to mould said rubber.

Sold! I will give this a try, much cheaper than a set of uber pedals. Leos pedal thingy makes subtle but noticable difference Gnomie......you know when you move your foot on the pedal during calibration etc how the onscreen pedal indicator bar maybe jerks slightly or appears to very briefly lag well when you move the pedal? well this is much smoother with el Leo gadgit, it's also easier to maintain a more accurate certain ammount of throttle/brake. I would liken the effects of the mod to taking a valium if you were having a fit of the DT's.

Quote from Gnomie :

I have the nixim mod too, and it really made heel&toe much easier than with the stock pedals! So for anyone interested in heel&toe I'd definitely recommend it. However I'm not quite sure that I've installed it correctly.. I read somewhere that the travel distance of the brake should be halved, but in my case it's not. My deadzone is much smaller than that. I also can't really fully depress the pedal, even if I apply full force. This means that when I heel&toe the force on the brake pedal goes down for a split second as I flip my foot over. Which isn't exactly ideal.. Did I do something wrong?

I'd never heard of Leo's mod before, and frankly I'm a little sceptical. How can increasing the resolution in any way help..? I've never considered the pedals to be particularly unsmooth. Could someone say a little more about how they make a difference in actual gameplay?

Quote from CELTIC100 :

Nice rig Alien

See I knew you was a ricer

Hopefully see you soon on track mate like the old times, get hold of Niels for a heads up of the new plans believe it or not he knows more than me now Hehe

Yes mate the new website looks fantastic, I have registered but it won't let me in ...waiting on Andy to sort me out .

I just wish they had the case in Gold... oh well not to worry it sorta matches my ever greying hair and is a mid life crisis soother......:riceboy::eye-poppi:yikes:

Last edited by AlienT., Sat 13 Sep 2008, 00:59.

Sorry for dragging up an old thread, but it was never concluded.
Well its taken me a while from first my first idea to a working PC this due to my inept laziness and the fact that I could use the new 24" screen with my old laptop. The first time I tried to boot it up after the first build it would not even post...meh and has therefore been laying gathering dust until yesterday when I could look at it no more (and my wife could take it no more which is more to the point). I decided to strip it to bits and rebuild and it then booted straight away, yes I have slapped myself.....strange, anyway I am most happy and what a difference from my old laptop set up. GTR Evo which was a dead loss and unplayable my laptop runs amazingly well. Anyway just thought I'd share my excitement on here as my wife doesn't give two hoots!
Not sure about the case tbh it's a bit gay although I can admire myself when I'm racing

Quote from Jakg :

I was interested in Leo's box, was waiting for a review because to me it sounded dodgy - seems if I do ever get into sim-racing again i'll need to pick one up...

I got one of these Jakg, Plugged it in and calibrated it very easily, anyway I can say that it makes the G25 pedals noticably smoother, building up the accelaration out of a corner seems much nicer and easier to control, transition between braking and throttle seems smoother, as well as the braking itself being more consistent. It's not going to make you become a Gregor Huttu or Bawbag though unfortunately......damnit I want my money back . I may try the Nixim pedal mod......but what I'd really like is a mod that makes the pedal lenghts adjustable so I can practise heel and toe, the standard set up makes this very awkward.

Oh and Off Topic Jakg, remember my homebuild PC fetish a couple of months ago? Well it was and still is an effing disaster....it still has never completed POST lol....meh one day soon i will get into fault finding mode....bah...should have bought a ready made

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Quote from tristancliffe :

Racing in a different class next year, so won't be able to defend it! I will, however, be after a new one!

@Kev: Quiet in the cheap seats.

What are you racing in next season? I could suggest Power Boats

Nice one Tristan on winning the championship, I'm not sure i'd like to race in those awfull conditions though.
Damn it I really want to race! I've been down at Knockhill watching the SMRC races (Legends, XR2's, Mini coopers, Saloons and Formula Ford 1600's) and looking into it a bit with regards car, equipment cost, ARDS etc. I'm going to the meet this weekend for some more info. Also there is a chap I bumped into in iRacing who's racing the Legends this weekend so I'm going to hastle him in the paddock .
I wonder how I would go about telling my darling wife that I'm swapping her car for a racecar and that all her future holiday and clothes funds will be spent on tyres muhaha!

Quote from StableX :

At long last, managed to do a skippy race on VIR South with no incidents and a 2nd place

So much fun but got to concentrate a lot!

Nice one Andy , 5th place seems to be my destiny in most races, still not to worry theres always positive iR to be had with a 5th place finish....there's hope yet for this eternal mid packer....
I might give the Mazda a try, last time I took it out I was about 10 seconds behind Huttu's lap times

Quote from spanks :

I think resets are a bit of a band-aide at the moment, but a much needed one.

I do see your point spanks, although accidents are not always inevitable. I still feel that resets should not be allowed whether the incident is your fault or not, but you could argue that yellow flags are not in the sim yet, the pits don't work....hmm! meh fair enough for now I'll let them stay

Pity that:

There is no pitting
There is no flag usage implemented yet
There are RESETS allowed in the races.....wtf?
Tyre modelling and set ups are in their infancy......tyre pressures, temperatures and wear are not best impimented at all, therefore it is a bit crap for the budding sim engineer
There is a severe lack of data available for the cars
Transmission modelling is well not there really, neither is engine damage and such.
It costs a fair bit
You cannot save replays
There is no way to use a data logger for analysing your racing data as yet.
I could go on....!

At least some of the above really should be fundamental to a new sim. Also the LFS CTRA system is not a million miles from the iRacing ratings sytem.....How much have they spent on developing iRacing ????WOW! Sam and his CTRA system and of course LFS in general is very impressive when budgets are concerned.

But anyway....LOL......I am really loving iRacing has the best actual driving experience I have tried in a sim, you can almost feel the yaw angle through the corners, well you know what I mean It will be pretty darned good and when a lot of the above negative stuff is included.

Yep I'm on a break also......over 50k online miles last year and now I have only played once since the last patch. Another sim has my attention right now, but I'll be back sometime I just know it .

Last edited by AlienT., Thu 4 Sep 2008, 01:26. Reason : I'm rather stupid