Personally I find it annoying to see Scawen getting so much off-topic requests/incompatible stuff asked about in the `Test Patch` forum area. People complain that they want to know what the devs are up to and when they do it turns out to be wasting more of Scawen's time. I remember people posting things like, "only a little paragraph every so often wouldn't take long."

Well Scawen is keeping everyone well informed and even taking good suggestions into consideration but the amount of people repeating what's already on the list or asking for things that just aren't possible in the compatible patch is crazy.

Keiran

Read previous thread, there is no reason to close threads. Whats the point as people should use the search function and add to it if they have a similar problem. If the mods close them people will search and find it but in the end need to make a whole new topic.

Moderators have lives they don't have time to look at every single thread and decide whether it's in a state the discussion is finished.

So far your problem isn't solved anyway and you seem to continue believing that LFS is at fault ...

Why should it be closed ? In the end if someone searches finds they have a similar problem then they can add to it ...

Just don't go trolling through questions trying to confuse others with a problem which is obviously not the same. You have your own topic where you've ignored all the advice thrown at you. In the end the guy broke the fan off your card, end of story. I wouldn't have accepted it if I witnessed the guy break it, even if he told me.

You think he is going to admit to having damaged it? Sorry but you seem far to gullible and no wander the guy is trying to pull what it seems a quick one.

bah/ Tristan beat me

Last edited by keiran, Sat 12 Aug 2006, 11:44. Reason : Beaten by Tristan

Yellow flags are more than sufficient and probably quicker than the average person having to fetch there keyboard after a crash. If I see a yellow flag I'll usually look at the little map and try get an idea of the accident ahead.

Keiran

The only thing that I can think of being between the fan and the heatsink (guard ?) would be a rubber bushing which is hardly going to fire off into the fan.

Faster111, the guy who has fitted it has broken the fan. Chances are he might have damanged something else while putting strain on the card or fan. You should be getting in contact with him and putting pressure on him to do something about it. Even write a formal letter threatening legal action. Obviously if he fits these things for money then thats what you should do. If he is a friend then thats tricky and I guess you'll end up just having to buy a new graphics card ...

So how long till your back here moaning about it?

The fact is if it's broken you should do something about it. The problem can only get worse and where will that leave you? Well by that time you may have no warranty left at all and will defiantly have no come back against who ever fitted it.

Keiran

As someone has already said fans just don't break themselves. They may stop working in which case they just stop working but they don't snap. In R/C racing we use fans to keep the motors cool and even with stones hitting them at times they will survive others they break.

No way would a wire break a fan in half, it would have to fall into the fan once it had spun up to full speed and even then it's still seems a bit far fetched for me.

Personally I don't think you should have paid him for the component nor the service once he broke the fan. Problem you have is must people like this will have a disclaimer on the recipt stating that any problems must be notified on site.

Quote from faster111 :

well what els could cause dots on lfs motherboard? agh if i ever upgrade it again am going WITH HIM

If your not joking then you deserve to get ripped off. Sorry but it's the truth, I can't stand people who fall for more than one scam/rubbish service more than once and moan about it. If you get ripped off once you learn from it.

Last edited by keiran, Thu 10 Aug 2006, 22:28.

Thats a heat sink if I'm looking at the correct part ...

You really think your going to get help shouting at people ...

OI, trying to edit your posts to make me look silly, tut tut. Teaches me to quote next time

Last edited by keiran, Fri 11 Aug 2006, 22:52.

Quote from faster111 :

how many man 900 players are online how much can the master sever hold?

901

Quote from thisnameistaken :

Well, Pedro De La Rosa passed him at the chicane and Michael cut the corner in order to keep his position and continued to fight Pedro for position, so yeah he should've had a drive-through for that, but he retired a couple of laps later.

Personally I still think Schumacher deserves to get DQ'd and by the sounds of it drivers aren't all that happy with him after all that contact. I've been wandering if Fisi's crash was related to Schumacher hitting his front wing off his rear tyre as it was that corner of the car that forced him to spin.

Quote from Pedro in the press conference

Q: Sorry to go on about this, but the first time it seemed as if he backed off and realised he had taken an advantage and was going let you go and then decided he wasn’t after all?
PDLR: That nearly cost me a crash. I overtook him and then he jumped the chicane, ok, he came back and he backed off and I went into turn eight on the inside just thinking he was giving position away like he should and he suddenly accelerated and so I jumped over the inside kerb and we just crashed wheels and I really didn’t understand it – it was interesting and that was that.

http://nch138.eden2.netclusive.de/F1_2006/00_temp/01_ms.avi < Schumacher putting Nick onto the wet kerb thus ending his own race.

I can't believe that it looks like Schumacher is getting off with all that contact. Alonso nearly hit him while Schumacher was defending under blue flags. Schumacher ran into Fisi a few times by trying to defend too late and to top it off he hit Fisi's rear wheel breaking his own front wing off. He then went onto cut the chicane countless times and nearly took Pedro out when it looked like he was going to let him pass to counter out the advantage he gained.

How many people this year have been given penatly or lost there best time in qualifying for just ignoring blue flags? A lot.

Personally I don't think he deserves the point he gains from the BMW retiring. If he is going to get off with that I can't imagine what he'll do if it goes down to the wire. 97 anyone ...

Quote from ajp71 :

Even hitting the deer at 90 mph he has been incredibly lucky to survive that kind of an impact to his head.

I know he is. 90mph is still some speed to hit anything at.

As far as I'm aware demo users online status isn't shown and no pbs are recorded...

Quote from Mario Toyota Racing :

yes it is great idea also smoke coming from exaust, and when engine boils it makes smoke

How many times do you actually see smoke coming from the exhausts of racing cars, actually even road cars for that matter...

Why are people obssessed with improvement suggestions that involve damage ... personally I'm not aiming to hit the wall at 160km/h. Sure it could be and will be improved in the future but to me it's nothing major ...

Quote from daveb948576 :

when i open the game it sais i am s2 licensed but i cant join into the s1 or s2 servers because my username and password is not recognised its what i entered when i installed the game but it wont work for some reason and even on this forum it sais that i am only a demo user. whats that all about? illepall

You did actually buy the game and aren't just thinking that you can get S2 for free ? i.e just thinking you can enter your login details without buying a license ?

You are using your GAME password rather than your WEB one?

Keiran

Quote from Becky Rose :

Hollywood actors can be extremely dangerous to hit, not just for the damage, but the course cases that follow.

bah, stupid spell checker sea-gull if thats the right spelling ...

Quote from sil3ntwar :

LOL i did the same thing in GTR2.


But why would they include the BMW in the demo?

LFS has only ever had 3 demo cars and can you imagine what it would be like if you gave them the BF1. I can't see a company like Intel & BMW being fussed if it's included in a demo or not. They aren't there to promote the game in the end, they are just putting on a show for the fans and trying to make them think `BMW` for there next car.

I think it's just ISI trying to appeal to a wider audience now that they have a real car to place in the demo. They really need it in there as well, that small car is just terrible in my opinion.

I still maintain that the FFB gives little information on what the car is actually doing. I locked both the BMWs fronts when I just touched the pedal and didn't notice till the car was unstable on the screen.

Also don't press F :/ seems to put the game in fast forward mode :o I hit it by accident and found myself flying into a wall

Quote :

Im guessing the LFS devs didnt want to give the BMW Sauber away for free and thats the difference between the deals. But give the demo a shot it can be fun at times.

My guess on the whole deal is that Eric didn't want to model every car update which ISI seems to have done.

It should be an option if it's implemented. When servers are busy I don't want to join the vMax server and find people constantly asking me to kick or ban so and so.

Quote from MAGGOT :

The head injuries were most definately from the deer because the body of it hit him in the head doing ~180 MPH. I'm sure he sustained some other more minor injuries from the impact with the wall, though. The only information released is about the head injury, no other information has been given (AFAIK).

Telementary and skid marks show that he saw the deer and made an attempt to brake. He brought the car down to 90mphs according to the team before he hit the deer.

Quote :

Don't they have marshals working the track during test days? I know a deer could easily jump over the crowd fence and the track walls... But I just woulda figured a marshal would have seen it.

They do, but it's just one of these things. The marshals might have been a good bit away and just seen it as it jumped the wall onto the track into Da Matta's path.

Quote from DodgeRacer :

Yeah, that is almost what it feels like, Although I really love that force feedback and cockpit movement, which is in my humble opinion where LFS is most lacking, feel for the car on the road, I've played R facotor and a lot of its mods and they have even less feel than LFS and is nowhere close to what i felt in GTR, and the external view is so so as well, LFS definatly has the best external visual, it really looks like the car is on the track, NR2003/papy games do that area very well too, along with the internal and FF..


In short, if LFS could raise the bar in those areas a bit, I see no reason why it couldnt become more mainstream, its the best sim but it takes some of that other visual aid to really get some peoples attention.

I don't want the random effects in LFS that GTR2 has. They mean nothing and are there purely for the immersion factor. The whole idea behind the physics driven FFB is to give an accurate representation of what the car is actually doing. ISI just throw together an event driven FFB, if understeer play this understeer effect etc. Many of the things you feel in ISI sims are things which you wouldn't really feel through the wheel but through your body.

Keiran

Hopefully he makes a full recovery.

Animals are hard things to keep off tracks. You need holes in the walls etc for marshals to access the track so it's not hard for them to find a way onto it.

This reminded me of my near miss with a segal. What a scare that gave me. Was probably doing 70 odd mph in a kart and this segal was about to land on the bit of track in front of me. It must have been such a close call, naturally I closed my eyes.

You can get off with touching, it's only huge crashes where things go wrong.

Define what you mean by `bump`

As Senna says, I'd check your not lagging.

Quote from AUDI S2 :

Hello. My cousin has s2 license and i play LFS on his computer. And when i race with RB4, i think that it doesn t have power to drift or to accelerate. So, could u make some new cars like Subaru Impreza, Mitsubishi Lancer Evo or Audi S2? Car which has 300 HP and 400 NM?

My RB4 has enough power to accelerate, thats how it moves