Quote from Boris Lozac :

Ok, so basically the point is, not to have too low RPM's when i change to a lower gear, but to have the same amount of RPM's like in the previous gear, so that's why you tap a throttle a bit before releasing the clutch..?

No. You want a higher rpm than in the previous gear. That's what gears are for, they change the ratio between car speed and engine speed so it can't be the same rpm before and after shifting.

Yes, except you shouldn't let go off the brakes. You should be finished with downshifting by the time you come off the brakes.

Good post. Here's my version:

When you go from a higher gear ratio to a lower gear ratio your engine speed will increase (because ratio=enginespeed/wheelspeed). This change of engine speed can either be done the "easy" way by using the throttle or the "hard" way by making the tyres transfer braking forces all the way through the drivetrain to speed up the engine.

The disadvantage of the second method is of course the unwanted braking effect and the unnecessary load to drivetrain and engine. In LFS many of the fast drivers actually do like to use the engine for braking (machine-gun-downshifting seems to shorten braking distance) but I've never looked at any RAF data to find out why. Wild guess: they are keeping the brake balance setting further forward for trail-braking stability and then making up for the missing rear braking power by using the gearbox.

Last edited by J.B., Sat 9 Dec 2006, 02:43.

You noobs, that must be fake. Didn't you know that racing cars have ultra unforgiving, ultra low slip angle tyres that cannot be recovered from any visible yaw angle and need the demi-god racing driver skills of a rich, gentleman racer?

Oops, wrong forum.
*wonders off to RSC

Click Start/run and enter "perfmon". This tool enables you to monitor CPU load. Personally I run LFS at 100 fps limit (monitor and LFS physics rate) and vsynch on.

Happy birthday! Hope you get lots of ice cream and cake!

Quote from DanneDA :

While I was testing a new set some days ago LFS frooze at the last turn before the chicane on AS3. Couldn't get to Windows or anything, so I waited for a bit, around 20-25 secs after LFS frooze it got working again. Now every button I had pushed during the freeze was catched by the computer (for lack of better wording, ie Esc brought up the menu in LFS, windows key gave me the start menu).

Sounds a lot like overheating to me. Most CPU's slow down when they get too hot and go back to full speed once they have cooled down. You can use SPEEDFAN to monitor and log your CPU temp.

Quote from tristancliffe :

He is 91, I'm 191.

Watched it again. So you are the guy doing the fancy, Alesi-style counter-steering while your brother spins instead of catching the car. Of course that's because of LFS.

The quality of the video is great, did you record/encode it yourself? And I think the car looks looks really nice, maybe because it doesn't have the crazy amount of downforce that today's F3's have.

So you and your brother are both using the same black helmet, or is there a way to tell which one of you is driving? Anyway, it looks like great fun so please keep us updated in this thread.

Quote from Shotglass :

i dont think ive ever even driven a car with a rev limiter ... do european cars even have them ?

My Renault 5 had one...

A64 CPU's don't support 200MHz/1T timings with 4 RAM sticks, only with two.

CPU upgrade will probably be the best thing to do but you need to tell us more about your computer to be sure.

Jeez, you brits with your F1 coverage bashing. You have F**IN' MARTIN BRUNDLE and you have shorter and less ad-breaks than most other countries! Stop complaining! If more of you could understand other languages than English and could actually compare your coverage to other countries' then you would realize how good it really is. I would PAY to get ITV!

Hehe, almost identical to what I heard about a year ago: Paffett was going to test for a year and McLaren was going to start a B-team in 2007 with Hamilton and Paffett driving. Well maybe the plan has been alive all the time and has just been pushed up a year.

This could be a big one, yes, but I won't get too exited before we have some physics to test drive. They are also going to be trying some other new things like tracks that are only opened during one or two hours of practice, like in real racing (or so rumour has it).

Quote from ATC Quicksilver :

But news is that Gary Paffett is signing a deal with Mercedes to race in the DTM next year, if he accepts he will have a F1 race seat in 2008

Hadn't heard about the bolded part before although I heard similar things before he moved from DTM to McLaren. I hope it works out this time.

I think he's going to be fantastic. And what's really good for him is that he has nothing to lose at all. I fhe's slower than double WDC Alonso nobody is going to criticize him for it and if he's faster on occasion the media are going to go nuts.

And another thing: he sure can race. Specifically I remember him fighting Glock last year for over a lap at Istanbul and him overtaking Sutil in Eau Rouge at Spa 2005.

Woah, if it's adware then why does the game cost 50$? Unbelievable.

And does it have Macau? If yes, I want screens and clips.

So what is a pixelcar template?

I think it wouldn't be too hard for them to get us to pay them more money though, the last time many of us payed them anything would have around June 2005 and if S3 is going to be the next time then that could be years from now.

After S2 is finished something like the rally add-on pack would be perfect for them to increase income before S3. The only problem I see is that many of the planned S3 physics updates would be quite important for rallying (weather, dynamic track properties etc.). But maybe there are other upgrades they could release. Personally I would love real tracks but I'm not sure if there are any that offer liscenses at sensible terms, both in terms of price and in terms of what they actually offer.

There are authorities that deal with judging the legality or illegality of things. Having an S2-license doesn't make you part of any such authority. And forum nick names don't resemble what is known as "evidence" by these authorities.

Quote from Tweaker :

You are a demo racer?

Buy the game. Or if you own a license, please post with your licensed S2 username in these forums. Thanks.

Is there an official policy on this? In my view posts like this are spam.

The only series I'm not interested in are GT/ALMS/Le Mans etc. and of the ones I watch I like GP2 and MotoGP the most. And F1 sometimes but it manages to piss me off quite often.

Quote from Davo :

They don;t because they're already assigned, you need to hold down ctrl I think I read somewhere.

They should still work when I'm using a wheel.

Not 100% sure this is a new bug but haven't noticed it before:

If you assign the left and right arrow keys to steering in mouse/keyboard mode, these arrow keys no longer work in the live settings menus when using wheel/joystick.

I'm also quite sure that at one point they actually did work so maybe there is another step involved to make the keys stop working.