Quote from sil3ntwar :

so what happened to this renault simulator?

Aint been in it yet, read the letter and its Thursday coming . This weeks going to fly becasue of this, for me anyways.

THere are flag wavers now, they are just extremely hard to see.

Reset your BIOS and try that, but im honestly tempted to say its the CPU. I had exacly this problem when my XP 2400 died.

Me and my dad have been invited to an 'exciting evening of racing with Renault F1'. Basically, we have been asked if we want to have a shot in their F1 simulator.

Should be a good comparison to the BF1

Time limited demo i would agree with, if you dont want it after say 50 days then your not going to want it at all.

Dell have a tendancy to use back to front parts, or they used to. Thier power supplies were specifically designed for their motherboards as the connections were reversed on the 20 pin connector. I used to read a lot of people eplacing thier Dell motherboard and wondering why their new one fried, because they didnt know Dells PSUs were back to front. Dont know whether its still the case.

My PC is totally built by myself, and always will be as its cheaper and a PC is relatively simple to set up, and its a lot cheaper. I cant help but laugh when i walk into PC World and the guy says than an X400 GFX card will run any game on full settings, show the Crysis and they will retract that statement

My PCs:

-486, bought for £80 from my mams work
-AMD K6-2 550MHz, built by my dad as i was about 14 at the time
-AMD 2000, 512mb 2100 RAM, GeForce 4 MX420 GFX, built by me, my first PC i ever built
-AMD XP 2400, 1GB 3200 RAM, GeForce 4 Ti4200 128mb Done by me
-AMD 2800 Sempron, 6800, 1GB 3200 RAM, my 2400 fried and this was the only readily available chip
-AMD A64 3200 Venice, 1GB 3200, 6800 GFX Card, current rig, probably get a new GFX card when i start uni in Sept.

ooooooo, look at it, its all shiny

Bah, LFS>Rfactor in my opinion, although it will provide a good comparison.

Quote from Jakg :

i (still!) have a 9600 Xt 256 mb version, and it runs lfs (and quite a few other games) fine!

Yes, but for the price that a 9700pro goes for these days you might as well pay the extra £10 and get that as its a fair bit quicker.

What XP is it, and what A64 chip is it?

LFS is very heavy on the CPU due to all the physics etc, and it only runs on DirectX 8 i think?

For me its 50/50 as ive heard that the 9600s return decent performance, but due to the 6100 being a newer chip i dont know how it will perfom in comparison.

Quote from thisnameistaken :

Although I wouldn't buy a card as old as that now.

Agreed, if your paying for a card id advise startign at about a 9700pro, anything lower is pretty pointless as itll struggle with anything other than LFS.

Last edited by Stellios, Tue, 9 May 2006 22:19.

Im not too bothered about this to be honest, i just use mediamonley for my player and i have the play/pause/skip etc controls on my keyboard.

All the same though, it would be nice to have for those that want it

This again

No to nitrous at all, this is a racing game not NFS. and in real life you wouldnt use nitrous on track.

Didnt know that, thanks

Ive just been in a bit of a race with the AI in the BF1, and it was really good fun, all the cars started to spread out after 30 laps and it got to the point that you were constantly in traffic. However, 43 laps passed and i was still enjoying myself, then all the AI cars ran out of fuel :banghead::banghead:

Im not asking for improvements to on track AI at all, but it would be nice if they were smart enough to jump in the pits when they were low on fuel to allow for a longer race. I wanted to do an F1 style 70 laps or so.

I kept getting random lockups, or what seemed random anyways and after about 30-45 seconds my PC would return back to normal. Installing different graphics drivers solved it, and all seems fine now, might be worth a shot.

For me, the FZ50 is the easiest car to drift, its the easiest to get into one and the easiest to hold there.

That is almost definately not LFS, to me that looks like the memory on your graphics card.

-Lower any overclocks or unlocks you may have on the card

-Check your cards temperatures incase its overheating. If your card wont read temperatures then remove the side of your case to let air flow freely and see if it still happens


-If you have AA or AF forced on in the game through your ATi/Nvidia control panel then lower those

-Update your graphics drivers to non-official forceware ones if you wish, im using the Nvidia 84.37s and they are amazing, ATi cards i cannot comment on drivers

Try turning off your sounds hardware acceleration, ive had this on a few games and this solved it.

If you download from the LFS website and are playing the dome then you should have no problems. If your unsure scan it with a virus scanner. If you installed a crack to try and get the game for free, then i hope you did get a virus (im nto saying you did)

-Traction control on all cars

-A loss of 'feel' of the game

have a drink, scratch my nuts, grab a sweet, change TV channel, change music track

nout interesting really

I have been getting this since the latest patch, installing newer graphics drivers seems to have sorted it.

Quote from Mikkomattic :

That makes sense. What about a NASCAR vehicle then? Oval racing is pretty popular on LFS, maybe it's time they added something like that to please that crowd? I hear those cars are good at 'wrestling'. lol

I am extremely surprised one hasnt been released to be honest, the ring and FO8/BF1 isa popular combination.

Yeah, some better cockpits would be nice, and maybe differing cockpits. The FOX, FO8 and BF1 look amazing compared to the rest, maybe it would be nice to give differnt cars differnt cockpits, its feels odd flying around in the FXR with a full interior when really it should be a shell with a rollcage.

Its big, its heavy, it goes like stink and i just have a feeling it would make aggressive races better. Cars like the BF1 are good but are too delicate to get into a good scrap as one hit and youve lost it a lot of the time.

-Something like a Ford Lightning pick-up

-An old 80s style car, such as a mustang or charger

-Something like an M3, has big power, is a family saloon and RWD, but will blow your head off. The FZ50 is nice, but is lacking a bit grip in my opinion.

-Anything that doesnt have a turbo, too many of the faster cars in LFS are turbo'd i would like to see some normally aspirated quickish cars.