Quote from B2B@300 :

... This would be a totally different disgin and electironic package (and most likely more expensive) Historicaly digital signal processing lags behind analog signal processing in its development cycle, so its just probably a matter of time, which probably would be proportional to the demand for the TripleHead2Go

Indeed designing an input interface for DVI, that can handle all those high resolution modes, is quite some tricky and costly as the frequencies involved go beyond 1 GHz. I'm not sure, but I think Matrox don't have one yet in any of their products and I doubt it would be profitable to design one just for this little non-mass market, low-cost box... so I don't expect a DVI version, at least not from Matrox, but let's see, maybe I'm wrong.

Was really a pleasure to watch this! Well done Vykos, convincing and bright comments, you got precisely to the points that make this game so thrilling and special...

Quote from danowat :

It seems to affect a particular combination, that being an Intel HT P4, or a dual core AMD, and an ATI card.

Thanks for the info. This matches my setup exactly. So I'll stay with the 5.11 drivers for the time being...

As the problem has been found in the driver code, can it be specified in more detail what sort of hardware is affected? Is it all ATI cards in general? Thx...

Quote from tristancliffe :

Indeedy - apparent the PMB is Progressive Modulated Braking. The pedal gets much harder the further you press it. It's not clear from their websites or reviews I've found if the pressure or the distance is measured. At the end of the day, it's not necessarily how you measure it, it's the final outcome. (this is me justifying the expense of ECCI when a better option might have presented itself).

I'm happy to own a set of those ECCI pedals. Indeed, they do not have a force sensor but a second spring, that is compressed in a non-linear way in correlation to the pedal range. Anyway, it feels very very good! Of course I haven't tried out a system yet that is using a force sensor as proposed in this thread, so might be that this feels even better...

It's not exactly what you want and a bit laborios, but what I do to achieve this is to keep 'c' pressed (clutch) while switching back to N using the paddles. By this I can skip the lower gears for example when running out of fuel at high speed in order to reach the finish line by coasting...

I know, it's not the point. Would be nice if it worked with the position list as well for reasons as stated above...

A small feature that I would find pretty useful: A click on a racer's name in the connection list will open the chat window and copy the name into it. However, usually the connection list is not active and mostly I want to talk to people I've just raced against. So would be nice if this worked also with a click on the name in the race final positions list. As the cursor is disabled during standard display mode, one would have to type 't', click on name, type message...

ECCI connected to Momo Black... work like a charm

People outside US considering to order should note, however, that there are additional shipping, tax and duty costs, that are significant! (for germans almost $200 extra)

Quote from Don Merino :

I see a lot of people flatshifting ...

Can you really see that? Actually I've been puzzled about that a long time already. When I watch replays of my own it looks as if I was flat-shifting too, but I don't. When watching others in spectating mode, it seems sort of arbitrary if the revs go max or not when shifting. I can't believe that this is how people really drive...

As for the throttle cut on up-shift: To my experience it does make a difference (at least for XFG). You can do the throttle cut manually, but far less intensive than the automatic does. Just have a look at the speed vs distance diagram in the performance analyser to see the significant difference when accelerating on a long straight line...

By the way: Having a look at the current hotlaps times at OLFSL reveals a pretty suspicious gap at 2:20. Actually this is exactly the region I jumped over when changing from a "standard" setup to the "exploiting" one. Can be a casual coincidence of course, but maybe it separates those two ways of setting up the car...?! :detective

Quote from colcob :

... if you set your car with the nose up in the air, the wings actually impose a forward component of force on the car as well as slightly reduced downforce. This gives you greater acceleration and speed...

This explains a lot indeed. Actually I feel a bit like cheating now that I know it, when using such degenerated setups in order to gain from irregular forces...

Hi all. I do not consider me being an expert with setups, but I'm a bit puzzled about the following: In face of the upcoming OLFSL event I did quite some racing on Kyoto GP with the FOX and a setup of my own, which was actually a race_1 with less downforce and stiffer antirolls. My lap times settled around 2:21.xx and I didn't see any way to get below 2:20. So I asked for some setups from those nice guys passing me all the time and had a look at the settings. While downforce was the same as I had used before already, the suspension settings have been very extreme for all of them: Front height max, back height almost min (looks pretty strange btw), all stiffness and bumper settings max or near to it, one had even tyre pressure to max. I gave it a try on track and it felt - no surprise - pretty much uncomfortable and less authentic. Car was somewhat bouncing around due to the extremely stiff setup. But... it cost me two laps only to improve my pb by almost 2 secs. So it worked definitly. Back to the initial question: Is this realistic? I'm missing a bit the aspect of "well-balanced" here. Also I would have expected, that at least you can't cut the curbs any longer without taking off now and then with such a setup, but that was still easily possible. But maybe I'm totally wrong and you guys will tell me now...

The more laps driven the more meaningful a pb is. One can see the number of laps in a tooltip window, however, would be nice also if the times were painted in some colors, that indicate for example less than 10, < 100, < 500, < 1000 laps driven or whatever in detail. Would help to spot a drivers prefered car/track combos at a glance....

My experience with the Momo pedals is the following: I tried really a lot of all those fixes proposed all over the internet... in terms of software, hardware, configuration, whatever. Some of them changed nothing, others worked temporarily, however, problems came back after a few month and even worse then (decalibration, spikes, etc.). These pedals simply suffer from intensive usage.

The only fix that really helped finally was to throw them on the rubbish dump and to replace them by a plug-compatible pedal set from ECCI. Very expensive though, but I didn't see another way...

Cockpit view with wheel and arms. Actually I have a wheel and arms in front of the screen myself like everyone else here, however, if I turn off the wheel I'm suffering sort of paranoia that my real-world wheel movements are not translated correctly into the virtual world (especially when doing a bad lap ;-). This may result from some bad experience with controlers in the past (decalibration, spikes, etc...). Why arms then? Well, a wheel without arms does look even more strange than two wheels both with arms to my sense :-)

Thanks a lot for testing it, that's good news! Think I'll give the DFP a try then... (or maybe better wait for the new FF wheel from BRD? )

Steve, if you own all those wheels, you can most probably answer this question : Are the pedals of Momo black and DFP plug compatible? The reason I ask is, that I've got ECCI pedals for my Momo and (of course) would like to reuse them for a DFP without buying a separate USB interface then.
Thx, Roland