Quote from kirbz :

When i first played it i could ne even get round the first track before the PC crashed and re booted

So after investigating it looked like a graphics card problem so went out and bought a new 128 mb nvidia 3d graphics cars and its much better but can still crash anywhere from he first lap to a few races which is very frustrating.

My PC spec is

P4 3.4 ghz
1gb Ram
400gb HD
128 mb Nvidia Graphics
On board sound
Belking wireless card and router

Any ideas??
Kirbz

I upgraded to a similar config PC recently also.. and had similar problems at first (PC crashing all the time while in a race)

My specs: P4 3.2GHz, (4x) 512Mb DDR 533 A grade mem in dual channel mode, 160GB SATAII HHD, Intel M/B, Nvidia 6600GT 256MB, on board sound/ Nic, etc, etc

What i found fixed it was changing the default memory timings to be even more conservitive (ie the slowest settings for mem available) the problem has ceased.. but i've still got to get around to gradually bringing the memory timings back up to find where the system will run stable with the optimum settings.. thats time consuming though and will do it on a rainy day when bored as it is even with the slowest settings it plenty fast enough lol

Quote from al heeley :

I'm thinking of starting an 'Old-Gits-Racing-Extremely-Slowly' league, or OGRES. Wonder if there are any takers out there?

I've often thought a 30+ server would be cool, it wouldnt let u join unless ur 30 yrs old or more lol

Quote from Tweaker :

And on a side note. Normally when we get patches for the game, the amount of players online kicks back up again. It takes about 2 months for our playing to die down (as we can see), because we don't have a patch. If we had a patch right now that fixes the main problems, everyone would be very happy and be playing online... something new to try. But as we see now... it doesn't look like a crucial fixer-upper patch is coming :Kick_Can_

I know we waited long enough before S2 was released... S1 started to get boring because there were no patches in that dead-period either. I'd start to get worried if we went on another month here without a patch... :faint:

ROFL sounds like you've got a patch (drug) problem m8, seriously is there a rehab centre for lfs patch adicts in the USA

Quote from Gunn :

Too many cars on the track and not enough variety. Some good racing today though from many drivers.

Must say i agree entirely with you here! Bring back the good old days

Yeah great race as always.. and full of controversy as always which makes it a great specticale i guess good to see Scaife avoid such controversy for a change Im thinking there will be a fair bit of air play about the Murphy/Ambrose incident

We think some of the online events are full of incidents, boy oh boy Bathurst always has its share, I sometimes wonder at the wisdom of so many safty car stop and starts.. always seems to be an incident after a restart

Yeah and I would love to be trackside on year at BATHURST
P.s. imagine bathurst in lfs!

Quote from jmkz :

yes
http://www.tomshardware.com/mo ... html#ten_display_overkill

I know tomshardware site well have been visiting it for years :P that articale doesnt clearly state that they are testing dx9 3d graphic screens (such as an lfs window) stretched across several monitors.. infact in the Benchmark and Settings section of the article you link to it is just mentioning normal resolutions you would expect on a single monitor.

When i do a search at the nvidia site about this it says,

Question
Will NVIDIA SLI™ support surround gaming with 3 or more monitors?

Answer
NVIDIA SLI™ based products can only support a single display within SLI mode. Up to four displays are supported when SLI software mode is disabled.

From this info though im still not convinced that surround gaming can be achieved on three monitors (except the matrox Parhelia), on two yes but three or more its still unclear.. anyway I plan to write some emails to graphic card vendors in the next day or two so will see if i can get a response back from them

Last edited by B2B@300, Sat 8 Oct 2005, 16:00.

Quote from spoop :

Crossfire isn't out yet, probably wont be out for 7234872384772years
Seriously, an sli setup will work for up to 4 monitors (10 actually, but we wont get into that) , either with a traditional 2 card setup or one of gigabyte's gd1 cards (2 cards on one card for sli)

Are you sure sli gives extra monitor support, the reading of done on vendor sites suggests that if u have two dual head cards in sli mode u loose the dual head functionality

Quote from BATOR :

Personally i use my laptop as a second screen when gaming , use a program called Maxivista ( Link ) , 14 day demo then cheap to buy if you like it .

In what way do you use it when gaming? Does it support 3D acceleration? From their website it doesn't appear to.. so do you just use it for multitasking?

At work i used to work on 3 or 4 pc's at a time at home I have two pc's I use all the time and about 4 monitors with others lying around looking for a use Once you've tried a dual monitor setup you cant go back, it's like listening to mono radio

Thx for the heads-up Scawen
I've had three monitors for years, for other purposes other than gaming.. personally I cant understand there mentality in not supporting tripple head cards illepall we now have dual core cpu's which give four virtual cpu processes we have 64bit operating systems capable of many multiple tasks and they think we want to do all our multitasking on one or two monitors max! Jeez in my opinion the more monitors I can have the better So being able to use my extra monitors in a 3d game would be great (I dont at the moment) you have inspired me to write an email to the video card manufacturers..

um what time would that be

Quote from marsden1002 :

I was on another server, and was sorted 1 hour later. Is this a bug, or a minor problem with the hardware they use?>

Im thinking its a bug as ive seen it before on other servers when the master server goes down momentarily.. but dont know for sure

Ps I rent my server so am fairly confident the hardware its on is no problems..

Last edited by B2B@300, Thu 6 Oct 2005, 17:49.

Quote from hemophilia :

Not the case... the server is up. It's searching for games fine, I'm seeing the server list refresh OK. But then if I try to join anything it says 'user name is already online'... and if I search to 'find user online' and punch in my own name, it still shows me on the server I crashed-out of a day ago.

Anyone else have experience with this or know how to fix it?

Thanks.

I apoligise for this happening to u and the others that were on my server at the time.. it appears the master server did have a temporary hickup that messed things up (many servers were affected).. but it seems it required the server admins to reset there servers also and i didnt realise this and went to bed :S then i went to work so theres been a long delay its sorted now though.. my apoligies again..

Last edited by B2B@300, Thu 6 Oct 2005, 17:44.

Happened to me too, master server must be having a problem. Im sure they will sort it out soon if its not done already... but alas its time for me to sleep anyway lol

Quote from Racer Y :

I dunno... Wheels, Mouse K/board even tha ps2 controller is ok by me. But I draw the line with Xbox controllers. Just who do those people think they are anyways?

Dont mock my xbox controller!

Why stop at a wheel?

[Sarcasm] I don't think you should be able to play LFS unless you have a three monitor surround vision setup with a 6 speaker surrond sound system all housed in a $35,000.00 state of the art motion simulator [/Sarcasm]

Seriously we dont need any more at the moment.. there arent enough regular drivers on lfs to find races supporting all the cars we've got at the moment, so more cars will only make the situation worse illepall perhaps when there are 5000 people online 24/7 then some will use other cars other than GTR or FO8 but until then..

Hi Cu-Ball Im on nightshift here in Aus at the moment so if I see you in your server I'll join as I probably am online around the same time as your evening at the moment ...

P.s. I had a blast yesterday doing a 40 lap race, and found that you dont have to be that familar with a track in a 40 lapper cause most drive a little more cautiously at the start so you can ease into it there was only 4 of us that started the race (with no mid race join) but I still found it much more enjoyable than many shorter races :P there's nothing like the feeling of pitting your wit against other human drivers in longer battles - fuel and tyre wear become much more important factors and even if you drop behind at time you have ample opportunity to fight your way back - whish there was more of these longer adhoc races about too :P

Quote from Revzalot :

*Flame suit on*

LOL Your going to need it

Seriously though it wouldnt be effective, even now windows cant tell the difference between a wheel and a gamepad so it would only be a matter of time before someone figured out a way to get a mouse to register as a wheel

Quote from Scawen :

What is it with these words, where the capital letter is the second character?

rFactor
dEmporium
iRacing
iPod

Very confusing, the capital letter should be the first letter of the name!

LOL Good too see you are relaxed and refreshed! enjoy your break

Quote from Tweaker :

Eeek Victor, are you ok? Its just an expression...

He's on holiday and probably out of it at the time :P
Happens to us all LOL I overracted to some small thing yesterday too, some people making a racket at 6:30am next to our house and I went up to them and whent off :P regreted it later..

And LOL you probably wouldnt find Victor's response harsh if you took out the wtf :P .. its just an expression

Last edited by B2B@300, Sat 1 Oct 2005, 01:31.

Quote from Cue-Ball :

That's what I use.

I'm trying to convince my wife that I need a 30" widescreen LCD though. If I get that, I'll ditch my three screen setup.

mm yes that would be a little hard to sneak in the house without the wife knowing..

Quote from Sunday Driver :

I would like to search the forum about "AI" also in other questions, but it isn't accepted, because the term is with 2 letters too short.

Try more refined searches, such as "AI driver" or "AI car" inverted commas included when you search

Quote from Bob Smith :

not a single joiner in an hour, after which I got bored and went out (yes, outdoors).

LOL yes I go outdoors every now and again also :P
Have had it up for about 36 hrs so far and have only been able to be on it myself for about 3hrs on 2 occassions.. both times it was empty when i joined but within 5 - 10 minutes some others joined and we had some good times.. seems people are reluctent to join a server when theres only 1 other in there, but as soon as theres 2 or 3 everyone starts to join, anyway hopefully as more people notice its there it will be made use of..

Hi peops, I feel the same so have done something about it
I've rented a server (US based) and have set it for road car racing.. Its currently set for XFG and XRG with tracks selectable by guests, its only a 10 slot server at the moment but should give lag free play for most countries around the world..
Its called RoadCarRacing .. hope to see you there sometime