Yup same here, athlon 3000 with a 5900xt card. Its gonna have to go soon. There is on way I can go online with a full grid of FBMW at SO7.

Quote from JTbo :

It is well worth it, when you get it set properly (need to install projector upside down to make it correct height) it helps in realism HUGE amount as you can use good fov setting, 80 in that pic I attached.

Going to set it up again tomorrow!!
Unfortunately we cant get as close as your photo as we dont have any where to put the projector. It needs to be on the ceiling, or have a proper projector stand which is at least higher than head height when we're sat down.

BTW slightly O/T, the dfp seems so dinky and toy like after a g25

Quote from jibber :

When will people learn...

When you're using a projector (and it's not an uber expensive one), turn off the lights! FTW!

They were off, believe it or not, might be the flash though....

Quote from sgt.flippy :

You bumm, get to work

How the hell did you get to do that?

Back in a minute.
There is a couple of us that play LFS regularly and we joked about bringing in his dfp as Santa had bought him a G25....so he did!!!!

We've had a couple of collegues having a go in FBMW round BL1 and its been a laugh trying to coach people!!

Just a one off treat for today and tomorrow at lunchtime!!

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Quote from Eldanor :

I've never seen TrackIr in action, so maybe this is only another way of achieving the same thing:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/

"Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the Wii Remote"

The cool thing is that it's an open source project, and if I understood it well, you don't need a Wii, only the Wiimote and IR sensor. (~50€)

Just imagine this plus a three display rig

I don't have the time to take a look to the project right now but I wonder if it could be used as an input for the viewpoint in LFS.

WOW he's a clever bloke!!!!

Quote from danowat :

Pretty sure all V60 (Rotax 1000cc V-twin) Aprilias have them, they are not foolproof though, I can remember backing my bike into the esses at Snetterton quite a few times when the slipper clutch didn't want to do it's thing

Sideeeeeways on opposite lock?

My wife bought me a BMX, so I can mess about with my sons, 3 & 5!
Going to buy a new power kite in the sales, probably a 5m pansh ace

Quote from danowat :

Can easily change down without a clutch on my bike, infact, on the track I rarely use the clutch at all.

Mind you, my bike does have a slipper clutch, I wonder if the FBM would have such a thing?, I don't think the MRT does though.

OOOHHHH, my trx 850 and zx7r didnt have such luxuries, so i would never have dreamt of doing that.!!!

Quote from JTbo :

With FBM and MRT, perhaps, but it still would be possible to shift without clutch, as far as I know. It would just upset car a bit more as gear would change suddenly.

Fair enough, i've had motorbikes, so know a tad about sequential gear changes, but have never changed down with out using the clutch, but I can understand what you're saying!!

Nevermind, not the end of the world.....
Thanks

Andrew

Quote from JTbo :

I don't think so, those don't use clutch in gear changes even with auto clutch on, only with FBM and MRT there is no ECU that would cut/blip engine when shifting so you need to make those manually, but auto clutch does not affect to that, only situation it affects is when you spin and when you start.

Would it be a correct assumption, IRL, that you should clutch on the downshifts, rather than just pushing the shifter without clutching....?

Please forgive my ignorance here, but I thought if I turned off Auto Clutch in the Sequential gear change cars, MRT FBMW FXR & GTT, that I would need to use the clutch to change down the gears?
Is this the way it should be?

Andrew

Quote from scania :

+1, but...
LYTe can do that....

Sorry, but what is that?

Quote from MAGGOT :

That's a pretty good idea, actually. Either a certainly-named jpg file of fixed dimensions defined by the creator or an automatic screen cap done by the game upon saving would be pretty nifty and remove a lot of headaches for some people.

+1

Thats exactly what i'm on about!!

Just wondered if it was possible to have a preview window for the autocross layouts. I dont have that many but can not remember what each one looks like. It sounds incredibly lazy, but seeing as we have a screen capture in LFS it could be used as a preview for the layout?

Any thoughts or am I too bone idle to try each one till I get to the layout I want.......

Quote from batteryy :

Why the f*ck u are complaining about? you all say something like this ''clutch burns too early'' and things like that, i think its pecause you cant drive! I have played with the formula and clutch doesnt burn, its because i dont burn it. If u do good shifting your clutch doesnt burn. My point is, that learn to drive!

Way to go mate, a future S2 driver. If you're enjoying the demo, wait till you get yer hands on the full version

Quote from JTbo :

As I did wrote earlier:

you following me.....?

in the main lfs start screen, there should be a huge orange unlock button, click on that, it will then ask you for you account details

dont worry, you get 1 extra unlock every week i think, upto 3

Enjoy....

it restarts you back in demo mode, you need to unlock to get back into s2

I have to agree with the title of this thread.
This Patch is REALLY bad. I'm going to get MAJOR ear ache from the wife from constantly playing LFS instead of doing the family thing over christmas

Have a good un

Still getting crazy pitting in bl2, X38 and a mixed grid

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NOT A BUG, just a question

I tried racing online at redline racing last night for the first time since the latest round of patches, it was the FBMW at South City Chicane.
All of a sudden, my FPS is struggling to get over 30 whereas before at any other SO track it was very playable at 50+. Is this because of the latest texture updates in SO?

more odd xfg bl2 behaviour whilst pitting very early in a 20 lap race, its quality viewing.

edit: x36 btw

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