Quote from Gentlefoot :

Where can I get one of these infinately variable anti roll bars? How do they work. Mine works by changing the position of the droplinks to make the bar effectively longer or shorter. Shorter it is the higher the rate.

They work the same, you just don't have predefined positions (holes) but you slide the droplinks via a clamp. If you can change them from the drivers seat, same priciple you change the lenght of the lever arm. Where you buy them depends on your car :-) Usaly a manufacturer who is into racing can help, like Eibach or H&R. Heres something for Porsche http://www.albertweb.de/Porsche/Fahrwerk/Stabbi.htm
The first two sets you'll see there are adjustable from the drivers seat. F.ing expensive ;-)

Edit. To cover the hole range like in lfs, you have to replace the ARB rod with a different diameter size. Like this. Of course you can only change the lever arm lenght while driving not the rod diameter. So the range coverd in LFS from incar is not realistic.

Last edited by M.Mos, Thu 26 Oct 2006, 16:52.

Quote from Gentlefoot :

I'll go with that. For example, infinately adjustable ARBs? What's that all about? My track car has an adjustable rear bar. 3 settings.

Your's has 3 settings others are infinitely variable. Even infinitely variable while driving is not wrong or bad magic.

Quote from Rtsbasic :

Your using a £200 wheel, with £10 speakers? You need to get that fixed

Wait a sec. what about that, your using a £200 Wheel with a £24 sim

Quote from Tanpax :

http://www.paperboots.net/wp-c ... oads/2006/09/img_0524.jpg

it seems that the wheel needs some fresh air

Looks more like a ricers air intake

Quote from bbman :

Just curious: Did you get it as a normal customer or did you pull some strings (to get it sooner)?

They are in stock in his country. For example here

Do they have the same Powersupply like in Germany 230V?

Quote from Tweaker :

That price has to be bogus.

I don't live in the UK, but here in Germany the retailer buy price is about 175,-€ (+16%Vat) when buying a single unit from a distributor.

Tweaker can you give more details about axis resolution, ffb resolution, USB update rate etc... ?

Quote from Tweaker :

Exit a corner and you sometimes won't feel any rumble or vibrations when your outside tires get on a curb. If you drive on the curb straight you can feel a much more noticeable vibration.

Thats exactly what happends when the force strenght in LFS is set up to high. Simply because with a high strenght setting lfs reachs the maximum possible force value much to soon. i.e with a high setting your force is at maximum when entering the corner , its at maximum while cornering , and it is at maximum when you exit the corner. Driving over bumbs or curbs while the FF is already at maximum don't "play" simply because you can't add to something what is already maxed out.

Quote :

FF just dissapears sometimes for the small effects because it seems the FF for loads on the wheels has a much higher priority (which is a good thing to help you stay in control).

That is just speculation, well what i said about the force strenght in lfs is a fact and i can prove it respectively you can prove it to yourself by using Yoda2 and just by looking at the magnitude value. Like in the picture below, whenever magnitude seems to be fixed at +/-10000 it's bad.

Quote from Tweaker :

Also, some force feedback effects don't happen while you are turning. This is only in LFS as far as I know.

LFS use only one effect type. If lfs don't play effects while turning, your Force strenght is set to high. And yep that only happends in LFS because the force strenght slider is crap Btw. if you wanna display FF send by LFS use Yoda2.

Quote from Bob Smith :

Progressive springs are a bit of a headache, don't think they are often used in racing? Often in road cars though.

No progressive road car springs! Didn't say that. Said dual spring system.
Guess why its called ERS - Eibach Race spring system.

But you can be sure that F1 cars don't have liniear single springs like in LFS. So that needs to be fixed also. Most common is a dual spring system where you combine two springs to get a progressive characteristic. The only sim i know which has dual springs is RBR , there they are called helper spring afaik. But they are also called tender springs depending on the function they should provide.

Here is an example with some calcs. Looks like it would be pretty easy to implement. And if the numbers from this list would be taken , then we had would had more realistic setup options.

I like BMW, but i don't need more Road Cars in LFS. If BMW then actually race cars. Like DTM E30 M3 , that would be great.

All M Cars up to E46 Nice vid about M's

http://www.bmwpower.cz/magazin/m3-e30/image013.jpg

This might be intressting for cockpit builders. Leo Bodnar (developer of the BBU863) come up with a USB car instrument cluster controller. The idea is to use an unmodified car cluster, currently Audi is supported BMW is on the way. Well ppl did something simillar before, but in very complicated way with rc-servos and stuff illepalland by RS232.

Heres a video showing the cluster and rfactor, and the thread at RSC.
LFS cant supply the needed datas, can it?

nothing

Last edited by M.Mos, Fri 14 Apr 2006, 23:47.

Well i needed about half an hour to get the car moving
I had a problem with my pedals. I used a wingman profile for netKar PRO.exe , but i had to create a wingman profile for nks.exe aswell. Cause thats what nkpro runs when you click on 'race' .

Same for Nvidia profiles you have to create a profile for nks.exe not netKar PRO.exe.

Shift-F , shows a FPS display
Runs very nice got about 200fps 1280x960x32 with all details max.
And about 110FPS with AAx8 AFx16.

Bulild your own USB-Controller. Mjoy16 is free for private use, its a 8x10bit axes controller +64 Pushbuttons +rotary switches +hatswitch.
Rewrite the Firmware and you can turn it into a buttonbox without axes and even more buttons, well i've did it without having a clue about programming. If you etch the PCB on your own it will cost you about 15,-€.

MJoy16 http://www.mindaugas.com/projects/MJoy16/

Quote from Eldanor :

I think it would be easier if the wheels were pre-warmed, at least for the slick cars. What the hell, in hotlap sessions the wheels should be pre warmed in every car, maybe with an option to turn off for extremely purist ones. IMHO

All tyres in LFS are pre-heated to 20°C less then their optimum temerature. I Guess you mean pre-heated to their optimum temperature.

Like Vari said ,it's just about teeths.

Transparancy aa definitly shows this artifacts when set to "supersampling" , "multisampling" works without errors. But the differences are so small(if there are any) in LFS you can disable it.

A 7800gtx overheating with LFS is very unlikely. LFS barely uses the Cards power. The Card temperature and fanspeed is lower when playing LFS then with any other 3D Game i got.

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Quote from ATHome :

But that doesn't really mean it's nice if someone decides to to this in LFS with you and take you out due to lag

No i didn't say it's nice. Of course its not nice if someone put you out by bumpdrafting.

@w4h
you can't say that you don't lag just becouse you have broadband. Even if you don't see any lag on your side, other people racing with you might see your car lagging. And you don't have the "right" to bumpdraft someone, by definition Motorsport is a non-contact sport anyway If people are mad at you becouse you bumpdrafted them unasked then don't come here and wonder why Some people like it some hate it, for me it's okay.

Your pics doesn't realy show much and the 2nd pic looks like ingame !?
Here's a better example you just have to watch the whole clip .

Last edited by M.Mos, Thu 29 Dec 2005, 18:28.

Quote from ATHome :

And I've never seeing anyone doing this in real life.

You don't saw it in RL, so what? It exists in RL , fact.

Quote from Michel 4AGE :

http://20832.com/?rubrik=impressum&lang=eng

I searched a bit there , and there is one guy posting , that he has made a 3D Ring. Maybe its just another conversion of a conversion ....

Quote from TagForce :

156000 different types of writing on that asphalt

It's not that video , but nice too Click

Quote from Shotglass :

1t command rate vs 2t ... makes up for quite a few frames as seen in a recent review of a new dfo mobo on anandtech

and for an a64 you should set the rams to 1t with x-x-x-8 or someting else in the 8-10 range

Yeah sure but, i have higher frames with 2GB CL3 3-3-6 2T then i had with 1GB CL2.5 3-3-6 2T ... explain that

Yeah , i had 1GB CL2.5 3-3-6 2T. Later i set them to CL2 2-3-5 1T in the bios. And had a boost by about 10Fps (LFSbench max.qual. max. FPS CL2.5 92fps, CL2 104fps). But now i got 2GB CL3 3-3-6 ! and just had a minor performance loss (LFS Bench max. fps=101 FPS) and i can't explain why ?!

What kind of CPU do you have?

Mip Bias AFAIK Mip bias doesn't affect distant textures only. Close textures in the screenshoot are clear. Looks more like Mip mapping forced by the vga driver.

In your Nforce driver. Try set 'Negative LOD bias' to 'Clamp' , this way LFS can't change the Mip bias anymore (the mip bias slider in LFS has no affect). Giving you best Mip bias always. And make sure you don't have 'force mipmaps' enabled.

AFAIK the driver settings below are for best image quality.

You should get the best possible grafik quality with a 7800gtx. I've just tested a x1800xt today and ATi still looks worse then Nvidia (have to admit that i don't had the time to go through all Ati options). AAx6(Ati) vs AAx8s(Nvidia) is realy a good difference.

Last edited by M.Mos, Wed 21 Dec 2005, 18:17.