My bad i suppose

Edit: While i'm at it, is there anything esle i'm missing? I'm still having to run audio through the PC I'm going Maplins again tonight for a Phono to Phono cable for the pc to the "DVI Audio input" plug in back of the TV - Hopefully this will allow sound (in stereo) to come from the 5.1 Surround wired in the the TV output yeah?

OMFGSH the confusion for just a TV lol

Last edited by peterules, Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:45.

I had a bit of a brainstorm yesterday and went Maplin for a DVI to HDMI cable and WOW! I'm pretty pleased with the result. There was some kind of lag from the old wire that was causing the snappy effects. I didn't realise that it was a bit blocky/laggy until i swapped them back to compare the difference. Also there was some kind of shadow coming from the old wire which the new one sorted out. so the result is that the snappyness (if that's a word) had gone!!!

Anyways, i had to fiddle with the views again after resetting the resolution to the highest and thinking about the Steering wheel sizes mentioned earlier worked out that 120 FOV is the best for a 47 inch screen. I have put all my wheel setting back to what thay was with the 22" too!!

Also, with the new HDMI leads, i have a lot more settings to play around with in the LFS Graphics section. Woohoo!

Quote from JasonJ :

............which is nice


Try this for yourself, take a big square of cardboard 46" size. Overlay it on your screen and cut out a 22" "window hole" in the centre. Then adjust LFS so it looks as it did before on your old setup and just use the 22" hole as your screen. Then after you are used to that, take away the bordering cardboard. All the extra peripheral vision is flattened out on the sides of you ,which can give a sort of tunnel-vision effect which makes the car feel like it's snapping. I think it's more of an optical illusion. A curved screen or dome screen would feel better at these higher FOVs. Personally I use about 110 degrees (40" series 5 Samsung). It looks best to me when I make the ingame virtual wheel the same size as the G25 wheel.

Actually that experiment would require you use 130 FOV or something. Makes you realise how much of a huge step you have taken by going to 46"

Thanks for that. I've already thrown away the box and cba to try and find some more cardboard lol. The idea about making the wheel the same size kinda makes sense though. I'm glad i'm not going mad with the 110+ FOV too lol
I've managed to get some kind of consistancy back but after a few years playing it on the 22", I think i got too used to it and now have to change every car's view to match the screen... Sigh! lol

Cool, well i've had a fiddle with the views tonight and got it half way back to normal thank god! The FOV's are around 110-115 depending on the car and in car view seems to work better than custom. I also had to up the LOD setting which i should have done anyway and there is a major improvement already.

Still a bit of a git to hold a slide if u lose control (the rFactor effect) but should be up to speed again in no time

Quote from GFresh :

Well unfortunately, when things like this are multi purpose, compromises have to be made...
If that setup were mine, i would remove the tall section of the desk which the TV is stood on, and put the TV on the main part of the desk. You should still be able to fit your SkyHD box to the side and underneath of the TV, then you just have the inconvenient part of removing and replacing the wheel when you switch from tv/movie watching back to racing and vice versa.
You are getting the best possible of both worlds with that solution, but unfortunately it's not perfect...

EDIT: Is that a series 5 btw?

Yeah - LE46B554M2

Oops its 46 not 47 :P

That kinda helps, I thought i was going a bit crazy when i turned the FOV up so high. I'll have a fiddle with it more and see if i can find a view that helps.

As for the screen being too high, I would agree. But the problem is if i have it any lower the wheel gets in the way of the screen when i'm on the sofa behind the Desk chair.. I know, you don't have to tell me i'm weird. lol Even though the TV is about a foot too high there's not a lot of difference when i was playing last night and i got used to it quite quickly. It was just the Massive FOV and snapy steering i thought was a bit strange.

Maybe i just can't have my cake and eat it

Quote from Mp3 Astra :

It looks like your monitor is sitting very high up, which probably isn't helping. Can you lower it, or make the chair taller?

It isn't the height i think. It was doing the same thing when i had the TV a bit lower too. I'm thinking a fresh instal of LFS might help

It's just strange how i had to change the FOV when i got the new screen. and having normal FOV just don't work now

I know that! But it was not just simple plug and play. I had to change the FOV higher to make it back to normal which was a quick fix but there's a problem somewhere. It just don't work with 47 inches without changing something. I don't know what it is, that's why i'm asking for advice.

Hey guys,

Not sure if anyone has tried this but i'm running a 47inch Samsung on LFS and having mega trouble keeping the cars in track. At first i changed the FOV in LFS to 115 which is a quick fix but I'm still having trouble with the cars snapping when i'm steering. When i set it back to 95 FOV which i was using on my old 22" monitor it's just too close and horrible.

Any advice on how to get a natural feeling back to the cars with a giant monitor?

Thanks,
Pete

Quote from boothy :

You mean reversed!

Yeah that too :P

BTW Boothy, at first i didn't believe you but now i've slept on it "I BELIEVE"

In the mean time just play KY2 and pretend it's Rockingham.

I think we deserve at least €400 euros as 2nd place runners up

Who cares? i know that quite a few people put a lot on hours racing into CTRA and to see your name up there after all this time is quite satisfying. Especially coz no one can catch up

Good old memories :P

First Name: Pete
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You currently hold: 37 lap records

Quote from 5haz :

You should do the meet at Lakeside Karting some time, then I can walk there.

15 minute drive away for me!

...and for the rich, a nice warm hotel

They did fix it again for the last 2 20min stints. Krs & Macker was out in it and we managed to get that extra lap in so we didn't come dead last (again)

Quote from boothy :

I remember Mackie in the #44 kart being timed at high 28, and Dru did a 29 right behind him. Definitely have to get proper timing for next year!

Yeah! Also that #44 kart was probably the quickest in the fleet. So quick, everytime it was on track the number flew off lol

The club owner told us that the lap record was about 21 secs in a good kart. I'm not sure how fast all us lot was going around there but it was probably 30secs or something

That's Awesome! I really wanna take that tight right turn again after the long straight

Live for speed! Live for speed!! lol!

Ok I think i'm spamming too much now! eeeek

Quote from mcgas001 :

I wasnt too far from home when you took that pic too. Was a great day tho...had such a laugh..

Urrff!! We still had to go through London and that stupid bus lane on the motorway... arrgghh! haha! It was a good day! Maybe we should do a mini kart meet for the londoners and surrounding counties

It would have been a fun journy back if i still had my civic with the same engine! But still Lisa's Micra did the trick ok

Quote from mcgas001 :

Damn you! lol

lol Maybe this one you might like better....

The old guy is Jasons dad macker. I've tagged the 4 people in our team for the day.