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I really hope it doesn't get even close to prostreet physics. Otherwise, it'll be simply impossible to play.
Well, this one doesn't have many known music (at least for me), but it's very good and lets you choose which music you want and also download it for free.
http://www.unsignedbandweb.com/
There's a desktop gadget for Windows 7 (maybe works with Vista too?) on Microsoft's website.
Well, there are so many styles of music in there that I can say it has ALL music styles
It's very interesting actually. If I ever wanted to speak finnish, I'm now sure I won't
jk. I've been trying to pronounce two words for a while now, one of them being "Hmppf", and the closest thing I've come up to was "humpf", which in portuguese means something in the lines of:*Raining*
"Weather is great today, isn't it?"
"hunf"
Well, how do you pronounce that?
And the other "word" is epäjärjestelmällistyttämättömyydellänsäkäänköhän
The order is different in portuguese too: postal-related pasta is "pasta related postal" in portuguese
Portuguese just looks much more natural to say, by that I mean sentences are much shorter. "Massa relacionada aos correios" instead of "postal-related pasta"
(yeah, actually most sentences are a lot bigger in portuguese)
And also, "Campeão Mundial" (World Champion).
The order of some things (for instance, adjectives) change in portuguese too: Blue Car. Carro Azul.
Portuguese just looks much more natural to say, by that I mean sentences are much shorter. "Massa relacionada aos correios" instead of "postal-related pasta"
(yeah, actually most sentences are a lot bigger in portuguese)And also, "Campeão Mundial" (World Champion).
The order of some things (for instance, adjectives) change in portuguese too: Blue Car. Carro Azul.
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Meter, metre. Favorite, favourite. Lift, elevator. Flat, apartment. Subway, underground. Gas station, petrol station. "I have", "I've got (also gotten)". etc
I prefer AE.
You'll be able to play all of Half-Life games in co-op too! And many of its free mods are also able to play co-op, such as HL2: Riot Act and MINERVA: Metastasis. It's definitely worth it. I'm really thinking of purchasing another The Orange Box now, so I can give it to someone else. It's simply amazing IMO. USD $9.99 or £6 for The Orange Box (5 full games), plus a lot of free (full) mods, co-op and many other bonuses
.I told this to one of my friends on Steam yesterday, and 10 minutes later I received a message from STEAM: "Your friend «§» [√] has just purchased The Orange Box".
Anyone who get this game can add me on STEAM so we can play online: Antonio05
I have just installed it. Let's see how many clicks I get until the end of this post
23 clicks, 230 keys, 0.00 miles travelled.
23 clicks, 230 keys, 0.00 miles travelled.
This command doesn't increase FPS at all, it just synchronizes the physics and graphics to run together. It's more likely to make you have "lower FPS", but it'll surely make it a lot more playable if the person is having physics bugs in the first place. Again I'll choose Pentium D as a example: imagine a PC with a amazing graphics card but a old processor trying to run Crysis. This PC will run it a lot better with sys_physics_cpu 0 because it'll synchronize frames. It'll make you have lower framerates, but it'll be really a lot better and without any bugs.
Yet the PC on the example above:
sys_physics_cpu 1 = explode a house with a grenade and props will fly in slow motion. Get about two explosions at the same time and you'll feel like you're playing a first person shooter on a online game server with 999 ping, because the character will take some time to respond to your commands and will very often skip a few meters depending on how much lag you've got, plus it can get through things and instantly kill yourself in a ridiculous way (such as getting through a car and making it explode with the force of your body just by walking on it lol
).Another example of a bug that may appear is when throwing heavy objects: when they hit something, instead of breaking that thing (e.g.: a wall, wood barriers or something), the object will suddenly stop and fall delicately.
sys_physics_cpu 0 = everything is going to be synchronized, no slow motion, and no single-player character or physics lag, although a bit lower FPS.
Just look at the first 40 seconds of this video and you'll know what I mean:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaHS-y_mapQ
0:16 - very smooth water (graphics), very laggy boxes (physics). Since water is running much more smooth than physics, resulting FPS will be higher.
0:36 - water and boxes synchronized. "Lower FPS", but much more playable on low-end processors.
Important note: this video was rendered, which means it isn't real time gameplay. That's why there are thousands of boxes in there. The synchronized one takes a lot less time to render and the result is also much better. But that's exactly the same thing that happens on real time gameplay, except that you won't have 30fps with 3 thousand boxes.
But remember, this is for low-end processors. It will only help for mid/high-end processors if you're having any weird physics bug (which is very unlikely).
"Cars vibrating" is a physics bug that only happens if the processor isn't capable of running the game smoothly (graphics card calculates graphics faster than processor does on physics, thus not synchronized), or too low FPS. If you somehow manage to make this game run at very low FPS you'll see all cars simply try to fly, or vibrating with very weird physics. The lower the FPS, the more they'll vibrate. But it can happen on very high FPS too, depending on the game.¹
A computer with a very good graphics card and a Pentium D, for example, may run this game at 90fps and still have the cars vibrating at many times. Sometimes the game may even ignore collisions with other cars and walls: you just get through it like it doesn't exist, even with high FPS.
Here's a video I recorded on my PC now using fraps with FPS limited to 10. It demonstrates perfectly what I'm saying above and shows all of the most common bugs² that may appear.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik92SaVFdIc Video is now available on Youtube.
Note: this exact same bug also happens on most, if not all of Simbin games. All you need is a not good enough processor or low fps (about 20~25fps). And it happens to Crysis too when using default settings. But FPS has to be a lot lower on Crysis: about 6~8fps for a good processor (if you limit the FPS, of course), or about 30fps (not limited) with a terrible processor. If you start running with speed mode on rough terrain, you'll randomly die because your legs got through the ground or because you made it through something else. But it can be fixed on Crysis by using a console command that synchronizes it. sys_physics_CPU 0. The default value is 1, where physics have an independent framerate.
¹Physics have an independent framerate, so amount of lag depends on CPU. Most of Simbin games, rFactor, Crash Time 2's engine (includes Ferrari Virtual Race), Crysis and some other game uses independent framerate for physics.
Benefits of using independent framerate for physics: FPS almost always stay at higher values.
²Side effects: lag depends on the processor, and very weird bugs may occur, such as ignoring collisions (other cars, walls or anything else, including the ground), vibrating, graphics and physics not synchronized, excessive grip on racing games (thus causing car to suddenly flip on a turn), etc.
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Reason : video is now available on Youtube
I wonder if that's because this trailer was actually made to show how the camera moves according to G force and damages on the cars?
Well it looks like a crash video for me, not a serious video or something
I played LFS for almost 3 years on a FX5200 128MB, and it never happened to me. Then, a 8600GT 256MB for almost 1 year, and it never happened. And now, on a 9800GT 512MB, this bug hasn't happened too.
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The Wii is also amazingly fun. IMO, it's the best console.
Not that I don't like the PS3 or X360... but if I were to get a console, it'd be Wii.
We never change summer tyres in Brazil here because it's summer all year round
The former has more smooth lines and the latter looks really boxed
I consider it a "upgrade" on the car
The former has more smooth lines and the latter looks really boxed
I consider it a "upgrade" on the car
Guys, it's 3.2GHz only if you have a Pentium 4...
Look at recommended settings: Processor: AMD(r) Athlon 64 x2 4800+ or Intel(r) Core2 2GHz or better
By the way, I didn't know this game was free, thanks for sharing. I have Crash Time 2 as well, and even though graphics seem to be better on the original game, they are great on Ferrari Virtual Race too, and it's pretty fun to check it out even though brakes are terrible on the keyboard.
Look at recommended settings: Processor: AMD(r) Athlon 64 x2 4800+ or Intel(r) Core2 2GHz or better
By the way, I didn't know this game was free, thanks for sharing. I have Crash Time 2 as well, and even though graphics seem to be better on the original game, they are great on Ferrari Virtual Race too, and it's pretty fun to check it out even though brakes are terrible on the keyboard.
Have you tried some coolers (dissipater + fan) for it? They occupy a extra "slot" (not connector, just extra space), but IMO, if you don't have SLI, it's worth it. I have one of the Arctic's and my GPU's temperature used to be 30°C idle (it's 39°C idle now), and 39°C full (it's 45~47°C full now, depending on the game. It's never gotten any higher than 47°C). These VGA coolers are amazing for overclocking, very easy to install and very efficient. Also, they're not noisy at all.
For a comparison: normal temperatures for 9800GT without this VGA Cooling are 54°C idle and about 67°C full. My 9800GT's current temperatures are 39°C idle and 47°C full.
But it won't make a miracle alone, the results depends on how well is your computer ventilated.
http://www.arctic-cooling.com/catalog/main.php?cPath=2
Some overclocking graphics card come with it by default.
Mine is the "Accelero S1 Rev.2" one.
Since my case isn't well ventilated, I can't reach those low temperatures results anymore, but if I organize it I'm pretty sure the temperatures can decrease again.
And I was just joking because every new date posted was later than the one right before it, and since that date was a random speculation of when it would be released, we were basically postponing the patch
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So shall I say 25th December?
Next Christmas
(we're postponing the patch by ourselves
)Yes, you don't need to restore the original files, you can just install it over your current textures. The installers will only replace the textures of the Revolution Pack, and they come with uninstallers in case you want to remove them.
It's cable connection (ADSL or something), not wireless
But I'm wondering what happened to him now, it's been 5 months since he last gone online Maybe it's a problem on his computer or something. But his internet connection is still very bad and most people who use Velox complain a lot about it.
Well, I've been having some problems with my connection lately too (very slow) but I think it's because of a transition they announced they'd do. The former company was sold and the new company is making the transition (it's going to be a lot better than it already was, it seems as we're going to receive better internet connection speeds (from 1.2Mbps to 3Mbps for free, also with the possibility to get 6Mbps, 9Mbps and 12Mbps, as opposed to a maximum of 2Mbps on the other company) and we're also going to receive NET TV Digital (rumours says it'll be full HD, but only time can tell )).
By the way, that's a very nice thing you've done to your neighbor...
But I'm wondering what happened to him now, it's been 5 months since he last gone online
Maybe it's a problem on his computer or something. But his internet connection is still very bad and most people who use Velox complain a lot about it.Well, I've been having some problems with my connection lately too (very slow) but I think it's because of a transition they announced they'd do. The former company was sold and the new company is making the transition (it's going to be a lot better than it already was, it seems as we're going to receive better internet connection speeds (from 1.2Mbps to 3Mbps for free, also with the possibility to get 6Mbps, 9Mbps and 12Mbps, as opposed to a maximum of 2Mbps on the other company) and we're also going to receive NET TV Digital (rumours says it'll be full HD, but only time can tell
)).By the way, that's a very nice thing you've done to your neighbor...
VELOX
Although I've never used it, a friend of mine has it on his house, and believe me, it's terrible. He was supposed to receive a 8Mbps connection but he can't get more than 100KB/s download (when he's lucky, of course). It usually drops to 20kB/s and is very unstable. Every time I create a game server for me and some friends play, everyone that doesn't use VELOX connects perfectly and we play with pings lower than 60ms (some of these people live more than 1,500km from me), but when he joins the server, his ping goes from 300 to 9999ms (it happened twice ), and everyone else's ping goes up to 110~120ms. He lives in a apartment 400m from me
Although I've never used it, a friend of mine has it on his house, and believe me, it's terrible. He was supposed to receive a 8Mbps connection but he can't get more than 100KB/s download (when he's lucky, of course). It usually drops to 20kB/s and is very unstable. Every time I create a game server for me and some friends play, everyone that doesn't use VELOX connects perfectly and we play with pings lower than 60ms (some of these people live more than 1,500km from me), but when he joins the server, his ping goes from 300 to 9999ms (it happened twice
), and everyone else's ping goes up to 110~120ms. He lives in a apartment 400m from me Thanks a lot, I didn't know I could use a pen drive to flash it. It makes it a lot better and easier really.
I restarted the system with the pen drive, quickly went to Q-FLASH and in less than 4 seconds it finished updating. My new BIOS is now F9 version and everything is working perfectly.
Looks like @BIOS hasn't done anything, I think it didn't even start flashing the bios and sent me that message.
I didn't think it would be so easy. It scares me actually
Thank you so much.
I restarted the system with the pen drive, quickly went to Q-FLASH and in less than 4 seconds it finished updating. My new BIOS is now F9 version and everything is working perfectly.
Looks like @BIOS hasn't done anything, I think it didn't even start flashing the bios and sent me that message.
I didn't think it would be so easy. It scares me actually
Thank you so much.
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