I did a google search for SimCraft.

Saw the 401 product and thought 1 + 1 = 2

but no...

http://www.simcraftproducts.com.au/SimcraftProducts401.html

I lol'ed

Nothing has moved since december 2008?? uh wat?

You realise you posted in a thread about a new patch released after Dec 2008? Get a grip please.

doood! rtfm, the only guy you can unban in LFS is X

Quote from Commands.txt :

/unban X :remove ban on user X

So ALL is basically, screwed

Last edited by JasonJ, Tue, 29 Dec 2009 10:39. Reason : haha

Quote from BoyGTA :

Wow this one sounds cool. I'd like to have it too.

Btw, are there any type r sound for xfg?

You could just take your XFR sounds, copy the folder and rename them to all XFG_xxx files. The XFR in Dave's sound pack sounds like a bee.

Backup your original XFG folder and download this....

http://www.filefront.com/15237729/xfg%20Rtype%20CSR.rar
(That there is Dave_WS's XFR converted to XFG so all credit goes to him please)

Since a majority is required to ban (correct?) Isn't choosing to vote against the ban vote, the same as choosing NOT to press 1 ?





equivalent to the following....


Maybe I am wrong?

Last edited by JasonJ, Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:10.

Quote from JasonJ :

It isn't supported in Win XP in case you are trying that. As far as I can tell.

Update for XP... there is another anaglyph tool/driver pointed out by NikLaw

Works with XP and Vista etc. It supports my nVidia card and I believe it supports ATi cards to.

Works as well as anaglyph can look - http://www.iz3d.com/driver
And the anaglyph portion is free to use.
It does polarising as well. Great tool there.

Quote from NikLaw :

Yesterday I tried my anaglyph glasses with iz3d driver (http://www.iz3d.com/driver ), because the nvidia driver doesn´t work anymore with forceware. I have to say it´s a lot better, because you can adjust the convergence seperately. The "optimized red/cyan" option gives the best result.

You using XP or Vista/w7 ? Can't seem to get anaglyph on XP to work with nvidia software. This web site is for polarised technology. Does it work with an anaglyph pair of glasses? (oh it seems to support that to, what about support for XP ?) cheers

edit: ok read the fine print Vista and XP supported. um wow.

do want.

edit2: Yes it works in XP and does anaglyph as best as it can be - it's a very polished tool and is free.

Last edited by JasonJ, Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:40.

-(ve) 2 people.

I told them NOT to buy it because they would lose their life, friends, family and disposable income.

Thanks very much. I tried that initially, but it kept running the program. Now you said that I tried a bit harder and realised I gotta use extract or open inside. Not used 7zip much and I thought you could open archives inside 7zip by double clicking them like in WinRAR

Cheers

Last edited by JasonJ, Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:39.

Anyone know how to tell what files will be updated BEFORE the patch installer is run? or even preview them. I just like to know so I know which texture mods/interiors will be overwritten. Also so I can check if they are still compatible.

The installer is just an exe, so I can't unzip it separately without pointing it to the actual LFS install and potentially overwriting stuff I want to keep.

I've searched this thread, but no luck. Thanks.

Last edited by JasonJ, Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:43.

Thanks e-Kar for the detailed info,

Does DiRT 2 (PC) have the same two cockpit views as in DiRT one, the low FOV and high FOV? Reason I ask is that only the close up view looks really right on my rig.

Also - how good are the physics in this version? DIRT 1 was sh*t physics untill I modded the hell out of it.

Last edited by JasonJ, Sun, 20 Dec 2009 11:40.

It isn't supported in Win XP in case you are trying that. As far as I can tell.

Quote from meanstreakJR :

hey guys im trying to figger out how to make sounds but not having luck could some one help? add my msn or pm me

im trying to make sounds from these vids

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgFv5XBq07I

It's friggin' hard to get it right.That meaty sound only comes when the skyline's rpms are winding up in the video, making it hard to grab a long enough sample to use in CSR - ughh.

Somewhat attempt at this that sounds okay----ish
The XRT doesn't rev as hard as a skyline, so when you match the rev pitch with CSR it sounds kinda dull. If it's not matched then it sounds like you're driving two cars at once. There are limits with what you can do with this program and LFS default cars.

DOWNLOAD >> http://www.filefront.com/15147 ... kyline-4-meanstreakJR.zip

Last edited by JasonJ, Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:40.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/3D_Vision_Overview.html

Quote from http://www.nvidia.com/object/3D_Vision_Discover_Main.html :

Microsoft Windows 7 or Windows Vista

Last edited by JasonJ, Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:59.

The Amicro brand is cheaper. I had already removed that module and just tried the 2x 1 GB matched pair or Team dark Memory which is a better brand apparently. I thought the unmatched memory differences might have been causing it as well, but the results were the same. I'd added this to my first post

• (edit) Tried Swapping RAM around. Now just using 2GB.
  

Thanks for the suggestion. I'm waiting for the supplier to call me back after the weekend so we can talk about a replacement.

Quote from Nathan_French_14 :

A guy called DaveWS is the one you wan't when sounds come into it. I am trying to find his updated tyre and crash sounds on the LFS-Database, but it seems to be down yet again.

Give me a minute.

E: Dammit. Can't find it. Sorry.

DaveWS made some awesome tyre skid sounds which he updated a few times, the links are in his signature. Awesome because they are in tune with LFS. Ok so here they are. And some scrape and dirt sounds made by Brutalyst.

Here's what I use. I increased the volumes on some sounds to give more intensity when cornering as videos games lack G-Force. If you want them lower, turn down the audio volume slider - Skid volume boost.

File 01
(DaveWS)
SkidRoadHeavyMajor [increased volume]
SkidRoadHeavyMinor [increased volume]
SkidRoadHeavyPre [increased volume]
SkidRoadLight [increased volume]

File 02
(Default)
ScrapeSoft (default)
SkidSand [increased volume]

File 02
(Brutalyst)
ScrapeHard
SkidDirt [increased volume]
SkidGrass [increased volume]

Video Sample of Skids http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbpWFEFa_M4

Last edited by JasonJ, Sun, 13 Dec 2009 14:05.

Thanks shiney.

Not every card is malfunctioning.

n9600GT
I put my n9600GT back in and it worked fine. I know it doesn't use as much power, but it's very stable in my system. Only have a small issue sometimes when I use that bloom mod with LFS since we got Z15, but other people have some problems with bloom to and all other games work really well.

HD4890
The HD4890 worked as far as hardware goes not malfunction and crashing games. I had problems with drivers mostly. This is what would happen:
I'd get it running just fine, seemed a little slower that what I first expected, but meh - my expectations were high. But it worked on the most part. If I switched Shift-F4 to windowed mode in LFS and then back to full screen, LFS would go back to AAxa AFx0. I used to have this the same problem years ago with other ATi cards. Some games couldn't get AA to work and some other games wouldn't respond to Vsync. Sometimes the games just ignored any driver settings I used. I tried ATi Tray Tools to and still didn't get any joy. It (the 4890) never locked up or crashed, just was buggy and I just got fed up with that.

gtx295
You know how they put the Gaphics card inside an antistatic bag inside the box? This one didn't have that and the box wasn't sealed with tape. It's possible someone returned it and they just thought - "Maybe the user's system wasn't compatible so we can try someone else, it might work for them."
I didn't think about it when I first opened the box. Now I have a problem it's making me wonder about that.


I'm going to send it back at my expense. They can try it out if they like at the shop. It crashes even with LFS and 3Dmark06 so I am confident if it's the card, they will pick it up in any testing they do. I don't have access to another computer with PCI-E so I'm kinda limited with my options.

You might be very well right that I may have a bigger problem. I can't really find out without buying a whole new MainBoard. If the card is tested as okay and I get the same gtx295 back, I'll take it to a local PC shop and pay them to test it or something.

Update.

Completed a fresh install of Windows XP Pro 32bit SP3. On another spare HDD. Also used latest mainboard chipset drivers available. Tested stock LFS and I just get the same software freeze after 4 seconds on the start grid.

No choice left, but to send it back now. Thanks very much to all for help. I will update when more news arrives.

Last edited by JasonJ, Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:58.

Quote from amp88 :

Been watching the V8 Supercars for a while now so I know a few of the places they go. You weren't in WA to watch the Barbagallo round, were you?

I missed that weekend by two days, but went there to Barbagello later that week, suited up and drove a race spec'ed V8 Supercar Monaroe (manual 450HP) for 12 laps myself with FastTrackRacing.com Was pretty fun. I'll be writing up the experience after I get my DVD recording in a few weeks

Last edited by JasonJ, Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:20.

heh, you know your way around OZ land. Nah, they only have 5 stores in WA. I am in TAS.

I also forgot to mention in the first post that even 3DMark06 crashes after 1.90 seconds into the first 3D test.

Driver removal question:
I uninstalled ATI drivers and used Driver Cleaner Pro in Safe Mode to clean out the ATI drivers.

I will make another fresh Windows install tonight to be sure on this.

Last edited by JasonJ, Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:53.

Thanks for some quick replies.

Quote from Bose321 :

If you wanted to go to the top, you need to buy a HD5970, not that thing.

Yes probably true, I should have said top of nVidia I bought a HD4890 about 5 weeks ago. Nothing but disaster with software incomaptibilties, driver issues with ATI and very annoyed with it. I tried my best, but gave up now, card is shelved. So very annoyed and frustrated. Don't want another trip down that route of pain so decided to give nVidia a go. I thought a gtx295 might be good enough to try out some newer games, it's been out for a while so I thought I might have less compatibilty problems.

Quote from Scatter :

...try turning down mem clocks. I always found those to be extremely unstable .......

I'm just using the stock clocks as I'm not really keen into overclocking. Is stock 576MHz too much? What should I clock it down to?
edit: I've just tried halving all clocks on both GPUs.
Graphics clock from 576 > 250 MHz
Memory clock from 999 > 500 MHz
Processor clock from 1242 > 600 MHz
Still crashes after less than 30 seconds of game play.

I'll also try removing all other devices and HDDs and see how that goes to. Thanks for the suggestion.
I unplugged everything but the main HDD, GPU, Mouse, KB, and G25. Removing power from 2 HDDs, FDD, DVD.
Still games crashing

Quote from amp88 :

Anyway, on topic it definitely sounds like a faulty card. When you say you bought it on holiday do you mean in another country or in a different part of Australia?

A different part of Australia. It means organising a return via post instead of just walking around to my local computer parts dealer. It's a long distance away to. Two days via immediate-express post But mainly want to try fix it myself in case I have missed something.

Last edited by JasonJ, Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:48.

Quote from pinoykid13 :

im not the crazy computer buff but i know that there are new nvidia drivers 195.62 WHQL http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_195.62_whql.html

Yes you are correct. I was making this post at work and referred to the wrong files I had downloaded the other day, not the files I had downloaded at home. When I got home today I checked and I had indeed tried that driver first. Very sorry for the "typo" I will ammend my first post.

Last edited by JasonJ, Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:53.

Had enough of GPU under-performance and decided to go to the top and just bought myself a ZOTAC GTX 295

Problem is now that pretty much all games are freezing up after a few seconds or few minutes of play. I've been trying for a week to fix it myself and not getting anywhere so I am asking for any help. Perhaps someone has had this happen to them or knows what I must do.

Here's the story as it unfolded.

• Bought and installed the card.
  
• LFS was working okay for a while (maybe 30 mins or so). Good frame rates over 300 etc. on highest settings.
  
• Decided to try out TDU to see if it would get good frame rates to. Was really nice, up near 100 fps, but after playing for a while (10 mins) the game froze and the PC had to be hard reset. This went on again and again.
  
• Installed GRID (which came with the card) to try that out, that was freezing up after less than one lap. Sometimes the display went black, sometimes white, sometimes just showed a single texture blown up to 1000% covering the whole screen, but game was frozen. Sometimes the computer completely froze, sometimes I could eventually get back to desktop and close the crashed app. Event log showed Hung App Grid.
  

Did some research and tried some things to fix it.

• Bios had been recently flashed a couple weeks ago, so no need to here.
  
• Initially was using only one PCI-E power cable from my PSU that had a splitter as part of the PCI-E power cable. One end of the PCI-E cable looks like this. So I decided to use BOTH sets of PCI-E power connector cables from the PSU, each one separately going to each power connector on the GPU. Now each PCI-E connector socket on the card has it's own dedicated cable directly from the PSU. ie, 2 PCI-E cables in use properly.
  
• Installed nvidia performance tools to get some control over the cooling fan. The temps were getting up around 59 degrees when the crash was happening. So I tried forced 100% fan speed while testing to keep it cool as possible. Very noisy :P but still crashing games. Temps were still hovering around the mid 50 degrees anyway.
  
• Disabled PhysX to try lowering power consumption and work done by the GPU
  
• Disabled multi GPU mode. Single GPU mode (I thought maybe the internal SLI was causing issues)
  
• Tried an older driver
  • (edit) 195.62 (newest)
    
  • (edit) 191.07
    
  • 182.50
    
• Tried another recently new Windows installed on another hard drive with nothing installed except for LFS and G25 drivers. So similar to a reformat of Windows.
  
• (edit) Tried resetting Card in main board PCI-E slot.
  
• (edit) Tried lowering clock speeds to half on all GPU clocks
  
• (edit) Tried disconnecting all unecessary hardware, HDDs, FDD, DVD
  
• (edit) Tried Swapping RAM around. Now just using 2GB.
  

But still no closer to fixing the problem. Seems to have become progresively worse. Now if I run LFS it will crash on the starting grid. The game will freeze up, sound looping, then sometimes after maybe 30-60 secs the game will continue, but the textures are messed up, the FFB is gone too stiff and sometime the PC freezes up completely. A total mess. 3DMark06 will start and crash after 1.90 seconds into the first 3D test



Some happy snaps...

At idle everything looks fine


ONCE or TWICE the game crashed and I saw this
wtf? Has one of my cores accidently....?

Game woke up a minute later after a crash, continued to freeze intermittently every 30 seconds or so.


After computer freezes completely and need a hard reset


Closer inspection....


Game was running for about 6 seconds on the start grid. Game started race at Purple vertical line indicator, game froze at blue vertical line indicator. BTW, the GPU Core clock does get to it's peak 576~ MHz when game is running.

System specs..
OS : Windows XP Pro SP3 32bit
CPU : Intel Core 2 Duo e8400 3.0 GHz
RAM : 2x 1GB Team Dark + 1x 2GB AMICRO (3GB visible to WinXP x86)GPU : Zotac GTX 295 1792MB
PSU : Vantec ION2 700W (1 week old)
MB : Gigiabyte GA-EP35-DS3R
SOUND : Onboard Audio
LCD : Samsung 40" 1920x1080 via HDMI cable


My thoughts at this point.... I can't imagine it's a driver issue because the card worked well at first, for about an hour The games ran okay, over time the problem has become worse. Temps seem quite low and using full speed on the cooling fan made no difference and games continue to crash the same. 700W PSU is enough, surely? I was assured when buying the PSU that it would be good enough for this application. I'm thinking the card is a dud from the start. OMG - Has this no Q.A. done on it? It's difficult to return to the store as I bought it while on holiday. I want to try everything I can before the 30 day runs out and before I must resort to a difficult process in returning it.

Thanks in advance for any input or ideas. Sorry for long post, but I've already spent a week trying to diagnose and fix this.

Last edited by JasonJ, Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:35.

Just because you never used a feature once, doesn't mean no-one else does.

Rally games, the sequential stick is quite useful. Also Flappy paddles is useless if you're in it for 720+ degrees of lock. I know V8 supercars have sequential stick to.
? Same for BTCC and DTM ? sorry I don't know for sure.
I use all three, seq, h-gate & flappy where appropriate.

To me however, flappy paddles in anything other than a Single Seater feels ugly. Having the option in the G25 is a big selling point. They removed it because the interior wire plug came off or broke after the user switches it a few times. Simple design flaw fixed by removing a feature. Yay.

Last edited by JasonJ, Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:22.