I'm ready to see some Celebration Servers dedicated to the release of this car.

Detailed question about Rule #6

I have an Auto Hot-Key Script that allows me to press a key one time and it shows the damage to the suspension then 6 secs later it switches back to tire temps. My question is this. Am I in violation of rule #6? It does give me advantage as not having to thumb for multiple buttons during a race. However, it doesn't boost the performance ability of my car. It simply allows me to concentrate more on the race then on the buttons on the wheel. I feel this script allows me to be a safer driver to those around me.

I would hate to think I was in violation of CTRA policy for the past few months. This was brought to my attention when the rules were updated and I re-read them.

Below I have completely divulged my script. Nothing special, but I want to be completely open about that I have been using. F12 is for pit strat. My hope is this is ok and others may use it to assist them with on-screen menus and other non performance enhancing tasks allowing them to drive the car instead of fumble with an assortment of keys. This could be very useful for G25 users given the limited amount of on wheel buttons. You could even have one key to cycle through the different HUDs one after the other with one press at a time. It would cycle them in a rotational manner.


If this is not acceptable then please remove my code and I will go ahead and apologize in advance if this is considered cheating.

Thank you.

Jay [400]

This thread answers the questions I was pondering.

Quote from wtf im nameless :

I'm gonna try 1.08 later today... thanks for the advice so far guys!!

I tried for the first time 1.07 yesterday and then 1.08. FPS seemed about the same. However, I only did a bit of Tweaking.........

I have a 8800gt as my main card doing all the work and in my second slot I have my old 7900gt. Both are in PCI-E x16 slots. Windows XP montors are 1680x1050 main and 1280x1024 sides.

Tweaks i've tried.

I tried different settings with color. The RGB16D worked pretty well. New for version 1.08. I made sure I had Two monitors on my main card.

I also only have two monitors total to test with so I placed a vga cable to my vga input on the back of my lcd so the computer would see another monitor. *Note I am only testing softTH to see if getting a 3x span setup is worth it. 40 to 50 fps sometimes going as high as 55ish.

I went to the config and told softTH not to output the left stream from the secondary card to the left monitor using -1(-1 is the value for off. However, softTH does still create the whole resolution for the span) for left instead of 1 or 2 defining right as 2 so i had both right and middle monitors on one card. Same FPS results. Here is the weird part.... I decided to switch the cable from my right monitor to the secondary card then changed right output in softTH to 1 forcing the right output to go to the secondary card. FPS was 5 to 10 fps better. From what I understand sending output to the secondary card should make things slower since you are interacting more with the PCI-E bus. I did increase the frequency from 100 to 105 on this slot. I did not increase frequency on the slot where my main card is. I may try this though. Anybody know how far you can push the PCI-E bus before POOF!?!?!?

AAx8 and Anso x16 did not hit the FPS that hard at all. Nvidia Span worked well in Frame Rate terms, but the bezels in the middle of the view are just ARGGGG!

I'm really looking for a steady 60fps before I drop some cash on two more displays.

I will probably hook everything up again soon and try some more tweaking. If you guys have anything to add that can be tried I would like to hear it.

Quote from JohnnyFX :

Hmmm, haven't tried yet, but the servers do look pretty empty... as in totally empty.

Edit: What message did you get, jbird? I seem to be stuck in queue.

Even though it is corrected now i had the same problem.

Thanks all.

I can't seem to connect to Race 1. Anybody else having a similar problem?

Is your friend using Vista? If so it seems that you have to run LFS as administrator.

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=45238

Quote from Lateralus :

I noticed today that the FE Green chicane (T1) is different now than last I saw it, which was in patch Y. Did it change in patch Z? Now it's pretty much the normal line, the old one was much slower and tighter.

I noticed this as well.

S14 DRIFT,

If you don't like the chicane now, then you should have seen it previously. It was to be taken at 3rd gear before.

I have no problem with any layout.

A "miata" for the LFS world.

At the moment my goal is to become better at the STD class cars of race 1 then eventually move to the Race 2 and drive the TBO class. A few friends that I actively test/practice/race with have shown interest in the TBO class and have spoken about trying to populate Race 2 in the evenings (U.S. time). This of course once we feel satisfied with our performance in the STD class. I can't comment on the current state of the Race 2 server, because I have never participated on that server before.

The point of my post is to express interest in the TBO class on Race 2 in the very near future. Not to try and persuade change in way the server is currently configure/operated since not experiencing Race 2 gives me no right to such an opinion yet.

EDIT: Changes in TEST PATCH Y30 :
......
Lowered centre of gravity and updated rear suspension of XRT and RB4
......

Wonder how this will effect performance of these cars?

Last edited by jbirdaspec, Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:26. Reason : Appending TEST PATCH Y30 Information Regarding TBO Cars.

I have a DFP. However, If i was in the market for a wheel and couldn't buy the G25 I would get the new Driving Force GT by logitech. The force feedback is far more advanced then the DFP and almost as good as the G25's in some peoples opinions. It is labeled for PS3, but will work with the driving force pro driver on the logitech.com website.

Inside Sim Racing Video Review: Driving Force GT

Quote from MijnWraak :

If anyone is interested in what he is explaining about the FFB, but don't want to go through the hassle of un-installing the profiler, the following usually works for me. Unplug wheel, start LFS, plug wheel in and let it calibrate. Do not shift C! Works for me at least. usually overrides the profiler

WOW. I always find a way to make things harder then they really are. I should have thought of that.

Good find.

I have done a couple different things with my DFP and it's settings.

First Setup was the settings in the LFS manual.

Second was killing the Logitech profiler in task manager after it loads.. this was a great improvement.

Third was installing the Logitech Software, letting DFP install in windows and then removing the Logitech Software, reboot and let the drivers install automatically and using only windows to calibrate the axises and then calibrating the axises in LFS. This is really good too, but i can't change the range of motion (degrees of turn). For some reason, I am stuck around 720 degrees of monition. However, I am way faster in the XFG with 720 degrees and will keep this setting for tin top cars, but I will have to figure out a way to change the range of motion for open wheel cars once I am done racing tin tops.

Too me and several others that I drive with on a daily basis getting rid of the profiler makes the feedback better in LFS. It is smoother and more robust all around. It enabled me to feel the grip of the tires in a way not before possible and dynamically adjust according to the feedback I recieve from the wheel. I think the profiler fights with the feedback from LFS that is interfaced with windows.

This might be worth a try for anyone interested.

Last edited by jbirdaspec, Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:55. Reason : I can't spell and grammer is not one of my strong points.

I use the Left/Right binds on my wheel and I have had Freetrack. I managed to tweak free track pretty well to where it is very responsive and smooth, but I had a mis-hap when gluing some pieces together a few months back and haven't bothered to replace them yet. When I did use Free Track I would use to for slight turns of the head to track a apex or a car if it was very close so I could adjust according to its changes on the line and braking. i use this in conjunction with the wheel binds for quick glances out the side windows. I use the mirrors a lot as well, but I wish that they were more adjustable by being able to change their view angle.

Oh and headphones really help me a good bit too.

TBH i couldn't remember for sure until i fired it up and checked. Something in my brain just said CPU-Z??? When I saw your post and figured A: He knows about this and it isn't exactly what he is looking for or B: Other .

However, I was pretty sure looking at the way you spoke in your posts you had been exposed to this app at some time or another.

Glad I could be of assistance.

Quote from Dark Elite :

Hehe, right

I was really wondering if you'd tracked down a program that can read such detail about hardware, like processor stepping and so on.

Sam

I think this is the kind of program you are referring to.



http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php

Quote from SamH :

Since Jak's probably sleeping off his White Lightning cider or throwing up in his baseball cap, I'll answer for him. He's using SoftTH. Apparently the lag is such that the same things visibly appear in adjascent monitors at the same time. I've wondered if it's actually more of a persistence of vision/visual periphery issue (probably caused by Jak sniffing his own socks).. dunno.

HEHE

I have considered getting a triple setup because I have a 8800gt in my pc now and have another 7900gt in the closet. Even though I can't use the 7900gt for graphics processing, it would still be a good choice since I should be able to put it on my second pci-e 16x expansion on my motherboard.

Do you know it Jak is using

A: pci-e(main) and a pci-e (secondary) setup
B: pci-e and pci
C: AGP and pci

Sorry to be so specific, this is just something I have thought about before, but never really went to in depth with with researching.

jay

Quote from Jakg :

3, but it's not as amazing as I first thought - the second 2 lag a little bit (which is a bit annoying), and also I never consciously look at the other 2 screens.

Interesting.... I would like to know if you are using SoftTH or TH2G?

I could see where SoftTH *might* do something like that.

Quote from Nathan_French_14 :

One?

I know this sounds stupid, but i would'nt actually like TH2G, i dont like the gaps where the monitors stand next to each other, it pisses me off when racing.

If i had more then one monitor or more money, however you want to look at it....... I would just pretend the bezels are the A-pillars of the car.

Quote from SamH :

hehe.. nice coding! The licences are all unsigned integers in MySQL, and you can't go negative (fingers crossed) in the X-System code either.

In VB, you can write

If nValue=1 or nValue=-1 Then
..
Else
..
End If

You're quite right, you don't need to CStr when creating strings in VBScript, but Dustin's learning to code at the moment, so I thought I'd chuck it in as a visual clue. My function, instead of CStr, goes to another function called WithCommas, which just returns the result of VBScript function FormatNumber(nValue,0,,0). I can always remember "WithCommas". I can't ever remember "nValue,0,,0" without looking it up!

Cool.

Good Luck to Dustin as well.

Nice shortcut with the OR operator there btw. You know how to keep those CPU cycles down I see .

Quote from SamH :

Yup! Remember, I work in ASP.. so..


Function DoPlural(nValue,strText)
If nValue=1 Then
DoPlural=CStr(nValue) & " " & strText
Else
DoPlural=CStr(nValue) & " " & strText & "s"
End If
End Function

Then To use it, I just use the code..

<%=DoPlural(nCTRALicence,"point")%>

Returns "1 point" or "2 points" depending on the CTRALicence

I just got done converting a html table at work in a ';' delimited file to import into mysql (in case you are wondering, yes it was a pain in the ass), so i kinda got coding and problem solving on the brain here... So, I got inspired.

**Disclaimer**
I am not a arrogant ass that wants to show anybody up. Just having fun cause I like to try new things and contribute. This is just an idea. I don't know much about ASP, I use PHP. Not that I'm really great at it either. I am in no way/shape/form a web programming god.

Anyways. Here it is.


I remembered my Clubman license stats (still at 0 points btw) and thought that seeing "No Points" there might be fun. I've heard that B n' J can have negative points, but I can't be for sure. I am also not sure if using the CStr Function is needed when defining the variable as "No". TBH I'm not even sure if what I just posted is correct at all and I have no place to test it.

Have fun,

Jay

Here is a fresh review of the Driving Force GT. If I was going to get a wheel today and was counting my pennies, this would be the wheel I buy no question. Even though they say the pedals are not that great, they are still good enough.

Enjoy.

Driving Force GT Review by SRT

It Took a lot of tweaking, but I was able to get Free Track to work very well. I messed with it on and off for the better part on a month. By the time I was done I have almost instant response. I fixed the screen tearing problem by turning on Vertical Sync option in LFS. I haven't used it in a while though. I messed up the molex that clips to my headphones and haven't got back to radio shack to get another yet.

-Willi- I had the same problem with a hat. I used the molex to clip a tube with a LED at the end to fix that issue.

Quote from dawesdust_12 :

... I think we might have ran out of disk space, just judging how our webmail has also taken a dive like a Spanish footballer.

... and with all of the haste of a 400 lb woman in a tutu, Sam's on the case to fix it.

LOL. Cool. Maybe time to delete some reply files?

Sam,

Something is up with the raceauthority.com webserver

Erro