Quote from Töki (HUN) :

Mine.

I simply LOVE this kind of windows gadgets, where did you get them?

Quote from rc10racer :

ermmmm you could get it from about 2 weeks ago, installed it could not tell the difference from 7000 so i got rid off it, for anyone who has got the RC you might wanna check this feature out.

http://www.vista123.net/conten ... ackage-installer-download

This thread is not about leaked torrent downloads for Windows 7 RC, it's about the official Windows 7 RC download and keys directly from Microsoft, which will be available broadly on May 5 as far as us Beta-testers were informed. Or do you know any other official way to get it (apart from MSDN and TechNet Plus)?

By the way, thanks for sharing this virtual machine, it's amazing

"As with the Beta, the Windows 7 RC Customer Preview Program is a broad public program that offers the RC free to anyone who wants to download it."

It'll be available to download from May 5 (PST) to "at least through June 30, 2009,"

People who download the Windows 7 RC will be able to use it for free until [not publicaly announced].

This page that went up early says the RC will be available until June 1, 2010.
The Beta will be available until August 1, 2009.

There are plenty of changes, and you can check all of them out here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/
I've read through most of them and it sounds good.
Anyway, since it's not-finished software, it's always good to have everything up-to-date to assure everything is working.

Quote from zeugnimod :

www.opera.com

That fixed my problem, thanks

I don't have any problems with HD videos on Opera. Runs pretty smoothly.

Microsoft has announced a few hours ago the preview of the Windows 7 Release Candidate for the beta-testers.

The Release Candidate will be available on this link http://www.microsoft.com/windo ... dows-7/beta-download.aspx on May 5 (PST) via Microsoft's Customer Preview Program for everyone who wants to download it.

Well I use the "bloom mod" too (ENBSeries) and it doesn't crash on any patches (tested from U to Z10)

Open Google Earth and go to 45° 7'25.87"N 123° 6'48.97"W....
Wow, some people are really CRAZY about that

Quote from nesrulz :

Problem with display sleep mode.

It's a known problem and it's not a Test Patch issue, this problem also occurs on other LFS versions. It happens on Windows Vista and Windows 7, both 32bits and 64bits modes. I think it doesn't happen on Windows XP. It doesn't happen with the screensaver. If user touches mouse or keyboard there's no bug. I don't know about pressing wheel or gamepad buttons, but some people said it doesn't work and the monitor is still turned off.

Workaround: touch any key or the mouse every x minutes (where x < time to sleep), or disable sleep while playing.

Quote from chavm481 :

no its not you need sstuff to do. its like me saying lfs is bad. but, yeah, the end of may is the deadline for the relese.

I wonder why I still click "View Post" :doh:
They should remove it when you use the ignore function.

Quote from Bose321 :

Yeah well ok, but I mean, if you're not in such a situation it's weird that you have your mom on msn IMO

My mom, sister and dad have MSN. The whole family lives on the same house. My sister is 9 steps away from me ATM and my dad is 20 steps away from me. Both of them are on MSN on their computers, and I'm talking with them.
Actually it's so much better to talk with my sister on MSN and Steam (she has it and uses it every day) than going to her room and vice-versa.

My mother hates computers though, so I think her having a computer is pretty useless, even though she has. He only uses it to check her emails.

Last edited by Velociround, Sat, 2 May 2009 04:19.

Quote from GrIp DrIvEr :

Funny thing is, Tagforce voted No (thanks a bunch Tagforce! You rock!). Another thing that is funny to me is that soon this will all die off. I have to say this was a pretty good joke people pulled on me, and it carried on! Nice joke people!

TagForce voted "no" just so you'd pay that money for him instead of paying it for mrodgers.

Quote from TagForce :

I'll have $1000 from anyone who can tell me what the hell this is about...

This is about... hold on a sec.. I'm not gonna pay you anything!

Last edited by Velociround, Sat, 2 May 2009 00:00.

If gRIp should pay? HE _MUST_ PAY IT! mrodgers' taken his time to answer for Grip's challenge and he got it right, so he surely needs to receive his money.
Grip, pay him or I'll give you a $1000 fine (hey dawg!), so you can pay $1000 while you pay $1000.

Quote from Krane :

You all quoted above herein have hereby been promoted to the rank of Captain Obvious :laola:

I had already seen the white text anyway, but I simply HAD to post that pic

Quote from Krane :

Why you didn't post the last pic?



Yes it's fake =) ht-tp://www.snopes.com/photos/accident/crane.asp

This 8-ball doesn't know anything...

"Is scirocco going to be released?"
"Definitely!"

"Is scirocco going to be released tomorrow?"
"Definitely!"

"Is scirocco a car?"
"No way!"

"Is scirocco an airplane?"
"My sources say no"

"Is scirocco a boat?"
"No way!"

"Is scirocco a submarine?"
"Yes"

"Are you kidding me?"

Quote from the very end :

avenged sevenfold - scream

Me too

(Disclaimer: post not directed to anyone particularly.)
Come on. It is NOT a licensing problem. Definitely not. It's not even plausible at all. Look at Scawen's post history and see his posts when he talks about the Scirocco.

Quote from Scawen :

VW wanted us to do the car in time for the GC and we made sure we could do it on our terms.

Quote from Scawen :

Just to be clear, we need to take this kind of opportunity when it arises. If we can put a real car in LFS on our terms, that is a good thing.

Quote from Scawen :

We are sorry to have to announce that the VW Scirocco will not be released this week as planned. Unfortunately we are unable to continue working into the following week, and it has turned out impossible to reach the required standard in the time available.

This is for two reasons :

1) The compatible test patches had more bugs than expected. Although the recent graphical improvements had worked very well in private testing, when released to the public and tested by hundreds of people, it turned out that there were problems on some graphics cards. One of these has been solved completely and another has been partially fixed. There is also an issue where LFS sometimes causes a crash - this has not yet been resolved and there are some other minor bugs to sort out before we can release an official version.

2) Refining and finalising the Scirocco is taking longer than expected. Although we have made good improvements recently, up to the date of the previous announcement, there were still outstanding issues that proved harder to fix than expected. This is on the mechanical side and the electronic side. We are trying to make a good simulation of the traction control systems and the stability control systems, well known to be a very good feature of VW cars.

Our aim is to make the Scirocco our first car with very limited setup options. The plan is to make it have only the setup options that are readily available on a real road going Scirocco, for example tyre pressures and toe settings. This will mean that the racing should be closer than usual and rely on driver skill, without the need to search for the best setups. Of course this means we need to get the setup as good as possible so it is comparable with the real car.

We are confident that we can fix all the issues and make the car a really good one to drive in the near future, but as various things that need to be done will take an unknown amount of time, we had to make the decision to postpone the release until next year, rather than release something in a rush that is really not as good as it can be.

We know this will disappoint many of you who have waited a long time for the Scirocco, and we are sorry about that. We plan to fix the bugs and continue developing the Scirocco suspension and electronic control systems, to give you a good patch early in 2009

Anything other than these two reasons or anything that hasn't been said by Scavier is simply someone else's invention for lack of anything better to do.

Quote from Takumi_lfs :

testing bumptop. very cool.

I was a private beta tester and I have all beta releases with full features and no limitations

Amazing video.

Quote from Inouva :

Look at the Rb4 part , The car has 2 shadows insteed of 1

Thats the only "Bug" i see in the vid

Actually, that isn't a bug
It's the new shadow features on TEST Patch 0.5Z10 (ambient shadows)

Quote from mackie the staggie :

http://i486.photobucket.com/albums/rr224/morks_album/worst-console-report.png

ROFL. Never seen so many fails together! :ices_rofl

Quote from Crashgate3 :

http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/1029/garybusey.gif

Lets.. get.. Busey...

I don't get it

Quote from chavm481 :

can they give us a vid showing the problems they have?

Can you read the TEST PATCH threads?
There are videos in these topics, if you're really that interested I think you'd have noticed.

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Quote from S14 DRIFT :

Uhhuh. Well GTA4 works with at 720p HD with no FPS slowdowns except when it's raining... and you blow up 384 cars at once.

Well, I get your point, but GTA4 works at 1080p Full HD with no FPS slowdowns with no exceptions on PC (even with a processor under the minimum requirements)... and you can blow up all of the full(100) traffic density cars at once (console has "20" and cannot be changed), with full(100) detail distance, 7 view distance (but still a lot higher distance than console because of FarClip), high textures on a E5200 + 8800GT 512MB and 3GB RAM

Since my computer is on my bedroom and the full hd tv I mentioned is on the living room (i.e.: not currently available to play), I opened GTA IV and ran a quick benchmark to prove my point (on my monitor's highest res, 1680x1050).
Now I have 8 tabs on Opera, 2 MSN chats, Live for Speed, Vegas 7, Windows Media Player (watching the NFS Shift HD video) and 3 Explorer windows, all of these opened. I play GTA IV on Steam, and I'm talking with 5 people in there ATM. I'll run the benchmark tool just after finishing to write this post (I'm not going to close anything because I'm busy now).

Just finished running the benchmark, and here are the results

Quote :

Statistics
Average FPS: 27.20
Duration: 38.65 sec
CPU Usage: 97%
System memory usage: 91%
Video memory usage: 99%

Graphics Settings
Video Mode: 1680 x 1050 (60 Hz)
Texture Quality: High
Texture Filter Quality: Highest
View Distance: 7
Detail Distance: 100

Hardware
Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate
Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate
Video Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT (Prerelease - WDDM 1.1)
Video Driver version: 181.71
Audio Adapter: Speakers (High Definition Audio Device)
Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU E5200 @ 2.50GHz

File ID: benchmark.cli

My computer: E5200, 2GB RAM DDR2 667MHz, 9800GT 512MB. IMO, it's just a normal computer, nothing new on it and a Core Duo processor which is under the GTA IV minimum requirements.

As said by Rockstar Games, the consoles FPS goes between 25 and 30. I got 27.20 average while not running at normal gaming conditions.

I had already ran the benchmark before (at normal conditions, i.e.: without anything other than Steam open), and even posted on the forum. "Average FPS: 31.49". Well, since this is an average, it's above the console.

I ran the benchmark with the PC full of things open just to point out that the PC is a lot better. Not because you can open anything else, but because graphics on this test (hey, I play with these settings) are more than 3x higher than the consoles', higher resolution and still the same FPS range (or, higher FPS range when on normal gaming conditions). Yet, my processor (most important thing on GTA IV) is well under the minimum requirements: Core 2 Duo or Core 2 Quad (mine is Core Duo E5200 2.5GHz). I don't like overclock, so it's not o'cced.

Rockstar's said the console graphics is low textures too if I'm not mistaken, and everything else Shadowww mentioned.
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Quote from danthebangerboy :

That looks brilliant! From the back i didnt even know what car it was, and if im honest, im still not 100% sure from the front, although it must be an XR of some sort, the body lines look so different.

How did you get it like that, skin and dds files i take it??

Anyway, it looks amazing, i want!

You're not serious, are you?
It's an edited .vob file (completely different car) by Magnot (if I'm not mistaken).