Removed cos I dont think my attitude was rway off - Apols to those that read it. - The thread got my back up. Will go back to reading and not posting.

Last edited by Widdowmaker, Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:51.

Yeah - post up some pics

Ahhhhh - Jakg - I see my error - I was typing far to quickly to get my point accross....

Im trying to say that rather than coverclock - Little Dave should set up the profile corrctly and get the best out of the g-card - rather than overclock when its not nessercary.

When I was reffering to overclocking in N tune - I meant..... In the nvidia control panel (and n tune is now part of the nvidia control panel), there is a Performance tab - which is overclocking - through adjust motherboard and GPU setting.

But as I dont know what Im talking about (in relation to overclocking) - Ill leave it there. I just think you really dont need to overclock, with your system...

Last edited by Widdowmaker, Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:09.

OK....

Theres a few tools you can use Dave

Nvidia make a prog called N tune -- freely availible from them to down load. N tune works along side your current operating system and g card. Its designed specifically for your board and card - (Which you happen to have the same mobo as me and G cards)

http://www.nvidia.com/object/ntune_2.00.23.html

If you go into your g card control panel - you can select n tune - and work your way through it - does a cracking job - before starting the overclock process. It also has a built in overclock facility. I would not recommend over clocking if your looking for graphics, I would settle for slight under performance till you get the new g card.

I would also, not rely on external cooling to cool your machine either - Fans are £2 each - (8cm blue LED) even your not that tight. Sure stand it next to the window and allow it to draw cold air in - but make sure its fanned up.

There is another app that works similar to N Tune... mentioned on this forum elsewhere - which I have and use - but it takes a fair bit of reading to get through - Its called N hancer

http://www.nhancer.com/

Its pretty much the same as N tune - but its not made by Nvidia - Works well - but I struggle with all the options and understanding what they mean.

It would be alot easier if there was a g card profile database out there - so we could upload and d/load g card profiles - like LFS setup field - would be awesome.

Hiope that helps , me lil old Scottish (read tight-wad) friend....

Last edited by Widdowmaker, Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:59.

Seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher will come out of retirement to test drive for Ferrari in Barcelona next week, the team said on Tuesday.


http://edition.cnn.com/2007/SP ... umacher/?iref=mpstoryview

I thinik he would make a great Mentor for a younger driver, and to be able to calm and motivate a younger driver, with the ability to score points as well.

Probably the wrong thread to continue this discussion as there is the other one about Macclaren.

What ever Hakkinen does, he made his own significant contribution to motor sport, I just think he left F1 prematurly, and with the abundance of "young" talent that is around at present, he may just be the level head that Maclaren may need at the mo.

Anyone ever considered, thats theres a spare seat at Maclaren. I dont think it would be a strange thing for him to slide back into an F1 seat for a season, with nothing to loose.....

Quote from J.B. :

Agree about the companies. I'm thinking more along the lines of the wealthy benefactor that wants to invest in the long term to make a profit on possible future earnings of the driver.

I can only think of one way a young man, would get a wealthy benefactor to invest money, but you wouldnt be able to sit in the race seat for a while.......

Nobody is going to just hand you an opportunity to go racing, just cos you have written a few letters, and attended a karting session, But that shouldnt dampen your spirits. I know you are very keen, from what Ive read, and discussed with you, you are very competative, but none of that makes a racing driver, with out a drive.

Your going to have to spend your own cash my friend, like everyone else. No one gets a drive handed to them for nothing - unless you are fortunate to have your name drawn out of the hat in a raffle where you win a season drive. The odds are well stacked against you.

I recall from the days I wanted to become a pro cricketer, I wrote the letters, to my county, and the neighbouring county. They were acknowledged, and I was invited to attend a trial. Then for 2 years, I trawled back wards and forwards for nets twice a week, Tuesday and Thursdays - 4 hours travelling for a 2 hour session - at my own cost. Sponsorship - I could only get when I got a regular place in the 1st or 2nd squad..... do you know how hard that is? All I wanted was assistance with travel and equipment. If I left work early to play a match - I lost money, If I went to a match, it cost me money - There was no way I could play, work and live.

I tried and loved it but real life won through. Not raining on your parade bud but - try it, but dont be dissapointed if it dont come off, at least you can say you tried.

Quote from Merc68k :

Well I understand the argument that we don't necessarily want to hear anyone's random idea of a good engine sound -- maybe even an option to send your setting to another player like you can with the skins would be okay.

The sound files are (strangely) big, but to send the state of the sliders in the sound config menu would only require a few bytes -- that wouldn't have any impact on server connect time at all.

And you vould actually limit the extent the sliders could go to for each car type.

Allthough I dont feully agree that this is nessercary - it could certainly work - if customisable cars are planned for the furture.

Quote from Big Daddy :

The problem on track days is that insurance won t cover accidents, so I would have to pay them myself, the controverse is that in open roads I will have insurance, even if one crashes with much more higher speed then allowed.
!!

I dont know where you get your insirance from - but you are missinformed my friend.

When I insure my car for track days, I have 2 choices - I can pay for mechanical, and accident damage.

Sure its expensive.

I pay approximatly - £10 per £1000 of value - for a days track racing for accident damage - I then pay an additional cost for mechanical damage. I have had this quoted from many insurers (Keith Micheals/ A plan/Swinton)- but the best quotes come through specialists. My club - has a insurance group as a sponsour, so making it easy.

A word of warning.
What you are doing is not big or clever. Its all so down right stupid to do what you are doing (or saying you are doing) in public places, no matter what time of day. Take your action to a track. No sympathy from me bud if you wreck it, and Im sure your insurance company wont pay out either, especially when they find out what you have been doing.... just may find your self in prison to boot.

In my experience, currently my track of choice and oponent of choice is the FXR, at the Oval, running full grid races over 10 plus laps. Reverse finish order restarts, With a decent set, the AI will draft, and they will also bump.

OK there are wrecks, like most oval racing, and they do touch and bump a fair bit, both each other and the walls, but with safe passing on your part, they are fairly competative. Not as competative as any human tho.

Its about as good as it gets at this stage of development for me.

Quote from Leprekaun :

Its alright Chano and Phonso, I understand some people are busy but the people I'm talking about are those other people who weren't but don't want to participate. I'm not saying that I'm holding a gun against a person's head and tell them "JOIN OR ELSE!" but I mean there have been 766 views of the thread, there can't be 10 or 20 out of those people can join?

It was good of you to stage the event - and marked a line in the sand for Colin. I could not make your event - like I couldnt make the 2 I should have been at today (work commitments this morning).

My RL car club, were at a Rally show today at Chatsworth House. We were fortunate to have Colins CHampionship winning Subaru on our club stand. (We are affiliated with Prodrive who own his old car). At 4 pm, the Rally demos were halted and the only engine you ould here was his car - running for 1 minute, then applauded by over 150 Subarus "Sounding off". If you want to see the tribute our club paid to him - check the next edition of Fast Car Mag (the car won the FAST CAR best stand award)

The 2nd event I missesd was a run up to Lanark to his funeral - attended by 127 cars (all Subarus of many shapes and sizes). A 2 lane convoy up the M6 - Then down into Lanark for the funeral.

Today was a a sad day, made good by all those who loved colin and what he did. He made many people like me, want to own Subarus, and want to drive them very much like he did.

Getting back to the point.

It did not matter how many turned up - what you all did by being there was enough.



RIP Colin

Response to MAtt from the PM

Im still with Pipex, dont know if I have the issues anymore as I dont do LFS online, as its unplayable - or at least was when I last tried. Will try again after next update.

Cant reply to pm as pm wont post.

Hope your issues get sorted.

Cheers

Since posting this - I have gone online and raced with my team mates.... Pre 9pm - I cant get connected - after 10 pm - I can race for ever.... 9-10 pm seems to be a issue as it used to be. Pipex wont say they do - but they must throttle...

Last edited by Widdowmaker, Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:33.

Quote from Leprekaun :

@Widdow: it has nothing to do with religion .

It may have tho Lep. Got to keep an open mind buddy . Certain people deal with death in different ways, people deal with death in different ways dependant on their beleifs and values.

I poster in this thread feels it ok to "lighten" the mood in grieving by "humourising" the event. There is nothing wrong with that. Ok in the wrong context, it could be misconstrued as "sick", but hey - He knew the guy, theres no one else better to know how to deal with grief other than the person dealing with it.

Its not how they died in this discussion that matters, its the fact they have gone, with no chance of ever saying those things that needed saying, or saying sorry. The one thing you rarely get to say to any one who has died is good bye - and thats the most painfull thing. Even if you do, it still hurts. Its a bloody painfull, hear breaking time, to know you can never wakr to see them again, or discuss the day, things that have happened.

Rmembering the person and paying tribute, is what you were asking, and many will base the way they do that on religious beliefs and teachings - its single minded to say they wont. Funerals in 90% of occasions are a religious act/process.

Regardless....

This is one morbid thread. Cant we pick it up a bit, make it a happy occasion

Quote from Leprekaun :

Hi all! something which I've been thinking about for a long time is that, do tribute skins show respect or do they ridicule the importance of a person?. I have, in the past, raced in a league in which my cousin's son had died the same day of the race where I drove a black car to show respect. After doing the race, I felt that perhaps attempting to show respect only showed disrespect to others. Reason why I think it shows disrespect because I try and look at it from afar. Here I am, playing a sim, in real world (or real life if you prefer) terms, which hardly has any importance so am I showing disrespect to the person I'm attempting to show respect to by using a tribute skin in a sim?

Apart from sim racing, I'm also starting to doubt it being used in real racing as well. Its like combining one of the most important events in a person's life comparing to how much of little importance competition is.

What do you think?

My team has had unfortunatly a number of couple of "sad days" this year - and at every Grand Prix, we show are respect and thoughts to the individual/individuals who have been lost.

There is no disrespect in any shape or sense. A family member found it quite touching. I would urge anyone to show respect in this manner if they feel it is so.

Others opinions may differ, based on religion or similar.

We honour, and celebrate our lost or fallen comrades by wearing our black skins which we create a different skin for the person, and only ever wear it for that person.

We are actually discussing this on TS as I type - There is no issues with this in our team.

Quote from Hyperactive :

I didn't expect anything from this summer from LFS - it's summer and a summer break is surely well deserved to the dev team. It is just the fact that waiting that AI patch for december/januari is not what I wanted to hear. I have no problem with the developing speed, it is the things developed that make no sense to me, to be direct.

Its been explained before as to why the AI are being developed now. Its about time. The progress of LFS, has been slow, but its been good.

I personally think the followiing, if the AI patchs coming in december/ january, then its because its a massive task. (where was that info from?)

The massive task could be due to the fact that the current LFS engine, does not/is not able to generate real AI, that drives with you and against you. In my minds eye, I dont see any other reasons for it to take that long.

You could consider a few other items into the mix - We have been spoilt recently with regular updates and patches, its been an exciting and interesting journey, but at certain times, it will be slow.

Of course I am speculating, with no refference to back this up, but logical thought, that LFS in the next 3 months is getting a massive overhaul, with updates on lots of things.

Theres no rush to get to S2 final, except for 1 thing. Finishing S2 mean S3, and thats the next next "big" pay day. The only reason for the Devs to make quick progress.

There should not be any need for a flame war or moaing thread, when logical discussion and open mindedness, can lead to contructive discussions.

Roll on the next level of development, when ever it is, and lets enjoy LFS as it stands now, because when we go on to the next level, any opportunity to enjoy what we have now is gone forever.

No - I dont use it. I dont use chase view. I treat LFS as a simulator and drive from the "sitting in the drivers seat view", like you would be if driving a real car.

Welcome along - good to hear you found LFS.

Get out on the track and drive....

Ohhhhh Dear.....

Thats the currency market for ya - shame - if ya had got it a year ago - you would have got a good deal. if you had done what I did and got it 2 years ago - it was well cheap.

Nothing you can do about it bud - thats life I am afraid. You are still getting a decent deal - Its LFS - your gonna love it and every cent is worth it.

Quote from harjun :

Some people understand...feel free to thank me

I understand.......................... that you are just a bit of a dipstick.

No need to thank me..................................

Surely it depends on your style of driving, the corner, the setup your on, whether your leading or chasing....

There are far to many to many factors to consider to make such a sweeping statement.

Quote from J.B. :

Hmm, few people are in a position to be picky...

Theres being picky and being somebodys door mat.... nobody deserves that....

But if you want to be treated that way....

Quote from Leprekaun :

Well, actually, he didn't attend. He said that he has some personal responsibilities to take care of back in Cairo and another big guy involved with the team whom I've grown to like, very nice guy and very friendly said that he had organised a fishing trip with some friends of his before hand so he couldn't attend either. Hopefully, there will be another race this weekend and I'm pretty sure they'll show up this time and many more people so its good to know that now I have some experience of the track and can only build on it .

Lep

How about letting us know which team this is? Just for curiosities sake like.

I would be pretty pished off like - if I had driven most of the day to go karting to show I was good - done a few laps - come home - with the vague idea that they will be there next week - maybe?

That would not be the kind of team I would want to drive for, where a fishing trip is more important than a prospective driver. I would be looking elsewhere bud.... unless of course they didnt know you were coming? You were gonna turn up off pat - and impress them with your skillz....

Or..... they already know of you and .... well though you was cwap like... so didnt bother?


Dont be down hearted bud - hopefully they will be there next week (cos I dont think race teams are thick on the ground in Eygpt).

Good luck.

Last edited by Widdowmaker, Sun, 5 Aug 2007 20:57.

Lep

You need to get in touch with Shady Osama..... Hes currently Eygpts No1 Karting champion. Scroll to the very bottom of the page in the link Ive posted.. Shady is obviously a very talented man, with time for all. But I think you know that.

http://cityguides.salsaweb.com/egypt/cairo.htm

Im sure that he will already know of your talent, as you describe that there are very few drivers interested in single seat racing, and you are one of the finest.


Will the event be at the Ghibli Raceway? They do race pro Karts there. The track looks awesome.

http://www.ghibliraceway.com/


I wish you all the best with your dream....

Last edited by Widdowmaker, Thu, 2 Aug 2007 20:17.