Quote from LRB_Aly :

No no, there you're mistaken

Your statements don't contradict anything in the part of my post you quoted.

Just finished the demo (the stuttering problems I mentioned earlier were fixed somewhat by rebooting).

As someone who thinks that FPS games are a useless and incredibly boring waste of time let me say that I am quite impressed by the demo. Can't say much about the gameplay as I don't know s*** about FPS but the amazing graphics do make you feel very immersed into the whole environment. I'm reserving my judgment as to whether the graphics crown has been passed on from Oblivion until the full version is out though. I'm suspecting that Crysis may be a one trick pony as in: look how amazing our leaves and trees are, now please enjoy 20 hours of running through them.

And since this is the the LFS forum be informed that the vehicle physics suck hard. Stay away from them.

Quote from BenjiMC :

For some reason i was under the impression that the high nose cars were because of FIA Safety regs.

You're thinking of a more recent rule change that set a minimum height of the actual front wing off the ground (another example of a clueless FIA decision that is bad for racing without any apparent advantage). The OP meant a chassis design where there is a big gap between the nose part of the tub and the ground.

According to this 9362 x 6622 jpg I've got the first high nose was the 1990 Tyrell and the last low nose was in 1992. Or if you're looking at the actual front tip of the nose cone then it was in 1995.

Here's the file.
http://rapidshare.com/files/65823061/All_F1_Cars.jpg.html
It has all F1 cars up to 2004 on it. Has anyone come across an updated version? Low res preview is attached below.

Holy stuttering Batman! I guess 1 GB RAM + 256 MB GPU isn't enough to even play this game?

Not sure if it's silly. You can't deny that running in front of the F1 teams is great exposure for the young drivers. But it does show that nobody in racing really cares about costs and accessibility.

And of course you're right that a very large part of the racing industry is based in England. But in terms of competitiveness of the series, Hamilton, Rosberg, Kubica, Vettel, Sutil etc. all came through the Euro Series while the last British F3 champions that made it to F1 were Sato and Pizzonia.

Last edited by J.B., Wed 24 Oct 2007, 16:38.

Quote from Madman_CZ :

Surely if they go to such lengths to make the game look as real as possible it would be stupid not include tyre deformation???

Before getting to that stage they would first need an advanced tyre model. From what I've seen of part 5 I don't think they have any intention of going there.

Coming to Europe would be even harder with no experience. I think the Bahrain cup sounds great for his circumstances. And I wouldn't say UK is the place to be anymore. F3 Euro and German BMW have a much higher status nowadays.

And BTW the German and UK BMW championships are merging next year and are appearing with F1 instead of DTM and whatever it was in the UK. Wonder what that will do for costs...

Quote from StewartFisher :

I had thought about that, but the only reason the temperature rises from T1 to T2 is cylinder compression (isentropic compression in that chart), so any drop in T1 should be matched by a drop in T2 and T3, T4, etc... Well, not quite matched, but the ratio of T2/T1 and T3/T4 should be the same. The difference T3-T2 is given by the fuel burning and, unless you've got more air in the cylinder, this will not change.

That's why I added the "maybe". Was too lazy to check if I even knew what I was talking about.

Had a closer look now: Lowering T1 will lower T2. This means the area will stay more or less the same if T3 and T4 also drop. But if we could still reach the same T3 as before we would gain power. But which parameters define how high a T3 is reached? Is it the engine management that detects knocking? I don't know.

Quote from StewartFisher :

Actually, the area inside the curve on a T-s diagram doesn't give you the work output anyway...you're thinking of a p-V diagram The work output from the T-s diagram is effectively equal to cp(T3-T4) - cp(T2-T1) (technically it's (h3-h4) - (h2-h1) on an h-s chart, but for an ideal gas h = cpT).

I also checked this and it works for both p,v and T,s. Which doesn't mean your expression is wrong though.

Last edited by J.B., Mon 22 Oct 2007, 15:17.

Maybe it's just lowering the overall temperature of the mixture. In this diagram if T1 is lower the area enclosed will be bigger. That area is the energy output of a four stroke cycle.

Quote from SamH :

Interested to hear speculation about a reset/diagnostic command sent to Hamilton's engine/gearbox during the race, not from the McLaren garage. That could be an interesting out-of-season discussion on team security.

As far as I can tell Hamilton did the reset with the buttons on his wheel.

Quote from Intrepid :

From what I can recall the FIA could not secure that any

1. Illegal parts were being run on the car

Exactly, none of that stuff would stand a chance in a civil court. Ferrari on the other hand won Australia with a hinged, movable underfloor.

Quote from StewartFisher :

Ron Dennis told ITV that the switch to a three-stop saved them 10 seconds over the original two-stop.

He needs to get real and admit that they f***ed up.

Sad result. The only team that scored points running an illegal car this season wins it due to McLaren's stupidity.

I mean three stops when at the back of the field, WTF!

Quote from deggis :

Some videos, one 10 min video with no aids also:

http://www.gamersyde.com/game_1316.html

Watched it. Physics don't seem to have changed much. No power on oversteer. Weird handling on grass. Exaggerated diving under braking. Silly collisions. Nice graphics.

Agree about the companies. I'm thinking more along the lines of the wealthy benefactor that wants to invest in the long term to make a profit on possible future earnings of the driver.

I think some of you are missing that he isn't in Europe. Maybe he can manage to impress someone who's interested in putting his money behind a guy who can do something no Egyptian has done before. He'll need luck but if he meets the right people and has the talent, who knows.

In Europe of course you wouldn't stand a chance if you are 17 and have no experience or money.

Hamilton looked very strong today. I don't think he's going to hold anything back this weekend unless Alonso somehow manages to get in front of him.

Don't know if it was on British TV:

Interviewer: Will you be influenced by the presence of the FIA inspector in the McLaren garage?

LH: There are so many people in the pits that unless he has a huge afro or a clown costume I wont even notice him.

Quote from Leprekaun :

Thats the pdf document but I have a newer one based on the 07/08 season. J.B. sorry that I didn't answer your PM, I was just very busy.

Ah, OK, was wondering if there was something you didn't like in the PM. Good luck and keep us updated!

Quote from thisnameistaken :

So it's like a limited multiplayer demo version that only has Bahrain?

but it has auto skin download!

Some info: http://66.102.9.104/search?q=c ... l=en&ct=clnk&cd=1

Looks to me that the rookie package is more of a glorified and overpriced license course for than a realistic series for beginners.

I did something similar for VW Lupo Cup a few years ago, paying with self earned money, having been told that only beginners were allowed to take part. In reality I faced people who had experience of full formula ford seasons etc. so I lost my money without being taken seriously.

But things may be very different in Egypt. As I told you in the PM you didn't even answer, you really should try to somehow make the first step before contacting sponsors so that you have at least something to show them. Right know you are about to ask them to pay for your license course. If you can at least get through that stage by yourself you may get some credible feedback from the BMW school that you can show your potential sponsors.

EDIT: hang on, think I got that wrong. The rookie package is a license course + 8 races at Bahrain. That is good value for 8000€!

Last edited by J.B., Fri 19 Oct 2007, 18:59.

Massa could have had him off easily. That's why he was so pissed off when Alonso even complained after the race.

Anyway, they were just examples, let's not get into discussions about specific details.

I agree that LFS racers are in average less aggressive than real life racers.

But we're only talking about averages. In real life a Formula BMW race will have a lot more incidents and harder battles than a GT race. And even within a series different drivers will have different attitudes. Take the first corner of Spa F1 this year for example. Regardless of whether you think what Alonso did was right or wrong, fact is that he was the only driver in the field who decided to force another car off the track even though many others were in positions to do exactly the same move.

Or Alonso vs Massa at Nürburgring. Massa decided to leave Alonso enough room on the outside even though he lost the win by doing so.

And that's just differences between drivers. The are also big differences between the way officials run different series. In DTM there is nowhere near as much tolerance to agressive driving as there is in BTCC or WTCC.

So to answer your question, yes I do think that LFS racers try to behave in a way that complies with their own opinion of what racing should be like. I even agree that this can differ from real life racing in many cases. What I don't agree with is your "karting is t3h only truth" statement because it simply isn't true. There is much more variation in real life as I explained above.

No, it's quite understandable. Williams aren't in the same boat as the other teams. It's the only team that is still run like a classic race team with Frank and Patrick as the owners, Toyota as engine suppliers and all money coming from sponsors. All the other teams are owned, run and financed by massive cooperations that are throwing bucketloads of money at their teams without any hope of making a profit.

In short, Frank hasn't sold out (yet), so his team's situation really isn't comparable to the others.

Last edited by J.B., Wed 10 Oct 2007, 12:42.

Quote from ATC Quicksilver :

....oops

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/63182

Shame for Gary Paffett.

Quote from FC3SCorey :

Also I use it for my 360, and although 1050x1680 isnt supported, it isn't distorted.

Yes it is.

Quote from Boris Lozac :

So, basically if i'm using it's native resolution everything is fine, desktop wise? What about games, is scaling really bad if i put some 1280 resolution or something. I remember that game's looked fine and the same as on CRT if i put 800x600 instead of 1024x768 native..

Yep, that's a big difference between LCD and CRT. In short:

-If you want to use a different resolution than 1680 x 1050 the image will have to be scaled, which is bad due to the poor scalers that PC monitors use.

-If you have an Nvidia card you can get the card to do the scaling which will preserve the aspect ratio and be better quality than monitor scaling.

-If you have an ATI card the image will always be distorted unless it's 16:10.

-If you have a HP w2207 AND the signal has a smaller aspect ratio than 16:10 you can let the monitor do the scaling without AR distortion. This function is broken for AR > 16:10 though.

-Connecting external devices like PS3, Xbox 360, HDTV decoder etc. is a no no for all 22" screens as they will all distort it.

-DScaler will be fine as it doesn't rely on any other hardware to do the scaling. It even has a nice black bar detection setting that will automatically zoom in on widescreen broadcasts.

So basically, if you care about AR, 22" may not be the perfect solution. If you don't give a ff, like most people, the Samsung should be fine.

You will get stretched images with all 22" LCD's if you use a resolution that isn't 16:10. Best are IMO still the Dell 20" and 24". The prices are outrageous outside of the US though.